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He Ain't No Bum-CC
Author: Munsey's Magazine for ...
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 836
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Spurs
Author: Robert Burns ClarkPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1524550566
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
This is the tale of two boys who lied their way into the army when they were only fourteen. McLain fought for the North, C. C. for the south. They meet four years later on the last day of the fighting. They have nothing to go home to, so they throw in with General Jo Shelby and go to fight in the Mexican Civil War, where they are promised good pay and land. McLain falls in love with the daughter of a powerful Mexican aristocrat, who forbids the marriage. Heartbroken, she takes her own life, breaking McLains heart. The boys have known nothing but violence in their young lives, so they solve the problem by killing the father and running for their lives. The story follows them for the rest of their days, which are filled with more killing and heartache. They kill over a hundred men in one day at a railway camp in Colorado, where the railroads thugs are torturing and killing conscripted Chinese laborers. They are old, in their sixties, when they fight their last fight and discover, at long last, peace and redemption.
Solomon Grant Returns to Earth
Author: Eligah BoykinPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1524585343
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Solomon Grant began as a one-man show the author used to perform at coffeehouses and on university campuses. Here you will find him in all his youthful and venerable glory as he regales you with his travels through time and space, stumbling into the underworld, and floating out of the overworld to take questions and give answers. Whether you accept all that he says in faith or take it with a grain of salt, you are advised to check your reality at the door. You are entering the never-ending universe of Solomon Grant. We trust that you will leave with more questions than you came with.
A Mission Into the Wilderness and Memoirs of A Campaigning Trooper
Author: Harold Cheney, Jr.Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595475612
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Our Jack of Tabbyshire is now full grown. No longer a kitten, he is the acknowledged heir of Lord Wallingford. Further, as Viscount Jack, he governs Tabbyshire as his Grandfather's Regent. Jack is troubled by an unexplained increase in ferocious forays by the Wild Cats of the Northern Hills into Tabbyshire. To discover their cause, he embarks on a Mission Into the Wilderness. Jack will restore peace by bringing the message of the Great Cat-the Mother of all Cats-to these Wild Cats. In this tale Jack and his friend, Tootoo, meet the leader of the Wild Cats, Long Claw. They also meet Golden Fur, also a Wild Cat-or is he? Can our Jack prevail over these wild and hardened fighters in the Northern Hills? To this task our Jack must bring every skill of a Campaigning Trooper-and more. In his Memoirs of a Campaigning Trooper, Captain Sam, rescuer of Jack in our previous tale, describes his rise from a humble tenant of Tabbyshire to Knight Commander of the Troop that guards the Shire.
Peter Olaf
Author: Richard H. GrabmeierPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595157440
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
America is a land of promise, filled with adventure and overflowing with riches, thought young Peter Olaf. So in 1895, at the age of seventeen, he left his family and girlfriend to board a ship for the new world. In the next ten years Peter mutated from a naive, young, Swedish immigrant, swinging an axe in a logging camp, to a man of wealth and prestige. Along the way he encountered and overcame fearsome challenges and tragedies and the deepest personal losses and betrayals. But he also built wonderfully strong friendships and family relationships. He experienced loves that were sometimes intensely passionate, sometimes gentle or bittersweet, but only one would last a lifetime. Peter Olaf engages a rich blend of characters to carry Peter’s story from Sweden to Minnesota and back, and even to a Louisiana prison. The personalities are vivid and strong, from lumberjack to Indian healer, flirtatious boss’s daughter to gentle half-breed girl, businessman mentor to formidable police inspector. Peter Olaf is an account of a young immigrant’s early life, but it is also a study of the hardy people who worked and loved in an earlier time of our nation.
A Sourcebook on African-American Performance
Author: Annemarie BeanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134673930
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
A Sourcebook on African-American Performance is the first volume to consider African-American performance between and beyond the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and the New Black Renaissance of the 1990s. As with all titles in the Worlds of Performance series, the Sourcebook consists of classic texts as well as newly commissioned pieces by notable scholars, writers and performers. It includes the plays 'Sally's Rape' by Robbie McCauley and 'The American Play' by Suzan-Lori Parks, and comes complete with a substantial, historical introduction by Annemarie Bean. Articles, essays, manifestos and interviews included cover topics such as: * theatre on the professional, revolutionary and college stages * concert dance * community activism * step shows * performance art. Contributors include Annemarie Bean, Ed Bullins, Barbara Lewis, John O'Neal, Glenda Dickersun, James V. Hatch, Warren Budine Jr. and Eugene Nesmith.
The Idlers of March
Author: Christopher ForrestPublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1456769642
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
During the National Hockey League lockout in early 2005, Toronto-based sports journalist David Timmins has little to write about until baseball player Jose Canseco releases his book on steroid abuse, and Timmins boss sends him on a steroid scandal of his own to spring training in Florida. He receives a romantic surprise on the plane ride; absorbs a career shock on the Ides of March; requires his sisters New York condo couch for a night; spends Easter in a rural Ontario town he has never been in before; and yes, he solves the NHL lockout problem with the aid of an inspired cheese maker- of course.
The Making of a Teenage Service Class
Author: Ranita RayPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520292065
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
"Stereotypes of economically marginalized black and brown youth focus on drugs, gangs, violence, and teen parenthood. Families, schools, nonprofit organizations, and institutions in poor urban neighborhoods emphasize preventing such "risk behaviors." In The Making of a Teenage Service Class, Ranita Ray uncovers the pernicious consequences of concentrating on risk behaviors as key to targeting poverty. Having spent three years among sixteen black and Latina/o youth, Ray shares their stories of trying to beat the odds of living in poverty. Their struggles of hunger, homelessness, and untreated illnesses are juxtaposed with the perseverance of completing homework, finding jobs, and spending long hours traveling from work to school to home. By focusing on the lives of youth who largely avoid drugs, gangs, violence, and teen parenthood, the book challenges the idea that targeting these "risk behaviors" is key to breaking the cycle of poverty. Ray compellingly demonstrates how the disproportionate emphasis on risk behaviors reinforces class and race hierarchies and diverts resources that could support marginalized youth's basic necessities and educational and occupational goals."--Provided by publisher.
A Good Dude
Author: Keith Thomas WalkerPublisher: Genesis Press, Inc.
ISBN: 1585715042
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Candace should've listened to her father. He warned her about gangster rappers and forbade her to go to Rilla's concert, but his strong guidance only fueled her defiance. Candace sneaked to the show anyway, and, at seventeen, she got the thrill of her life when Rilla invited her onstage for a special serenade. Candace gave herself to him that night and turned her back on everyone she knew when Rilla asked her to run away with him. Six months later Candace finds herself in Overbrook Meadows, Texas; a world away from the beautiful home and family she left behind in New York. Rilla has been dropped from his record label, and he's a fulltime dope man now. Candace's stomach is getting bigger, and she can't say for sure who the baby's father is. She thinks things are as bad as they can get, but she's wrong about that. Candace has not yet experienced the real pain her new life has in store.
