Author: Kathie Truitt
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Chaos once again reigns supreme as the zany cast of characters from 'The Hillbilly Debutante Cafe' return for the second and final chapter of the series. The regulars at the Hillbilly Debutante Cafe are none too happy when owner Molly McCarty decides to change the cafe to a mercantile and pie shoppe. Struggles in her own personal life which threaten her lifelong friendship with Jennifer, are exacerbated when ex-mayor Roland Thurman is released from prison. Out on 'good behavior' for trying to kill Molly a few years earlier, Molly suspects that Roland hasn't changed a bit. and soon discovers he is up to his old tricks. When one of their own is found brutally murdered in the mercantile everyone - including Roland - is a suspect. But the plot takes a quick turn when a prominent figure and someone close to the victim is arrested. With all the lovable characters (and a few new ones), resident ghost Ashley Hunter returns as narrator for this cozy mystery 'The Hillbilly Debutante Mercantile and Pie Shoppe'. This is Kathie (Pixie) Truitt's third novel, and the sequel to 'The Hillbilly Debutante Cafe.' When she's not writing she loves to travel and divides her time between Dallas, Texas and Alexandria, Virginia.
The Hillbilly Debutante Mercantile & Pie Shoppe
Author: Kathie Truitt
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Chaos once again reigns supreme as the zany cast of characters from 'The Hillbilly Debutante Cafe' return for the second and final chapter of the series. The regulars at the Hillbilly Debutante Cafe are none too happy when owner Molly McCarty decides to change the cafe to a mercantile and pie shoppe. Struggles in her own personal life which threaten her lifelong friendship with Jennifer, are exacerbated when ex-mayor Roland Thurman is released from prison. Out on 'good behavior' for trying to kill Molly a few years earlier, Molly suspects that Roland hasn't changed a bit. and soon discovers he is up to his old tricks. When one of their own is found brutally murdered in the mercantile everyone - including Roland - is a suspect. But the plot takes a quick turn when a prominent figure and someone close to the victim is arrested. With all the lovable characters (and a few new ones), resident ghost Ashley Hunter returns as narrator for this cozy mystery 'The Hillbilly Debutante Mercantile and Pie Shoppe'. This is Kathie (Pixie) Truitt's third novel, and the sequel to 'The Hillbilly Debutante Cafe.' When she's not writing she loves to travel and divides her time between Dallas, Texas and Alexandria, Virginia.
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Chaos once again reigns supreme as the zany cast of characters from 'The Hillbilly Debutante Cafe' return for the second and final chapter of the series. The regulars at the Hillbilly Debutante Cafe are none too happy when owner Molly McCarty decides to change the cafe to a mercantile and pie shoppe. Struggles in her own personal life which threaten her lifelong friendship with Jennifer, are exacerbated when ex-mayor Roland Thurman is released from prison. Out on 'good behavior' for trying to kill Molly a few years earlier, Molly suspects that Roland hasn't changed a bit. and soon discovers he is up to his old tricks. When one of their own is found brutally murdered in the mercantile everyone - including Roland - is a suspect. But the plot takes a quick turn when a prominent figure and someone close to the victim is arrested. With all the lovable characters (and a few new ones), resident ghost Ashley Hunter returns as narrator for this cozy mystery 'The Hillbilly Debutante Mercantile and Pie Shoppe'. This is Kathie (Pixie) Truitt's third novel, and the sequel to 'The Hillbilly Debutante Cafe.' When she's not writing she loves to travel and divides her time between Dallas, Texas and Alexandria, Virginia.
The Hillbilly Debutante Cafe
Author: Kathie Truitt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692134382
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Welcome to El Dorado Springs, Missouri, Population 3,021. It doesn't look like much from the outside, but it doesn't take long-any time at all, really-to realize there's much more than meets the eye. That's how Molly McCarty feels, anyway. After deciding she's had enough of the big-city life as a politician's wife in Washington, Molly moves back to her hometown and buys the abandoned Serenity Farm. Molly acclimates herself to life in a small town with the help of her best friend, Jennifer Papula, who is only too happy to share the town's most recent juicy gossip. For one thing, there's Jerry Ray Turner, the town's best mechanic, who came out of the closet as a cross-dresser. And then there's crazy old Ollie Griffin, still living inside his '69 Thunderbird and occasionally showering in the park's fountain. But the biggest uproar is Roy Bob Benson, who is trying to buy the old Hacker's Jewelry building and turn it into a "girly" bar. That's just the beginning of the news, and as Molly tries to help the newly formed revitalization committee think of a way to stop Roy Bob, a vandal threatens the town's sense of security. Who is doing this and why? Full of wit, intrigue, and a cast of memorable characters, The Hillbilly Debutante Café is sure to keep you coming back time and time again!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692134382
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Welcome to El Dorado Springs, Missouri, Population 3,021. It doesn't look like much from the outside, but it doesn't take long-any time at all, really-to realize there's much more than meets the eye. That's how Molly McCarty feels, anyway. After deciding she's had enough of the big-city life as a politician's wife in Washington, Molly moves back to her hometown and buys the abandoned Serenity Farm. Molly acclimates herself to life in a small town with the help of her best friend, Jennifer Papula, who is only too happy to share the town's most recent juicy gossip. For one thing, there's Jerry Ray Turner, the town's best mechanic, who came out of the closet as a cross-dresser. And then there's crazy old Ollie Griffin, still living inside his '69 Thunderbird and occasionally showering in the park's fountain. But the biggest uproar is Roy Bob Benson, who is trying to buy the old Hacker's Jewelry building and turn it into a "girly" bar. That's just the beginning of the news, and as Molly tries to help the newly formed revitalization committee think of a way to stop Roy Bob, a vandal threatens the town's sense of security. Who is doing this and why? Full of wit, intrigue, and a cast of memorable characters, The Hillbilly Debutante Café is sure to keep you coming back time and time again!
False Victim
Author: Kathie Truitt
Publisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 1616633522
Category : Friendship
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Julie Patterson is a former Miss Mississippi with a successful husband, two wonderful children, and the lavish life that many can only dream about. Her life becomes even better when her husband receives a long-awaited promotion and the family moves to a neighborhood near Washington DC. Julie quickly makes friends with neighbors, except for the woman who lives behind her, who simply stares without acknowledgment of Julie. After a while, though, the woman, Lynn, warms up to Julie, and the two form a fast friendship. But this friendship quickly turns strange as Julie learns of Lynn's propensity to lie for attention. She and her family also notice that Lynn has gotten the same car as Julie, has begun to dress like Julie, is getting a pool just like Julie, and is consistently attempting to one-up Julie. At first everyone brushes it off, but when one lie threatens Julie's family, she begins to realize Lynn has some unknown agenda, and Julie is her target. No one else takes it seriously, and many neighbors side with Lynn, even as the situation begins to spiral out of control, until one is found on the stand for attempted murder. Is Lynn a False Victim, or could Julie be guilty? Is there an end to the madness? Will the story end happily? You'll be on the edge of your seat as you await the answers in this gripping, psychological thriller based on a true story.
Publisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 1616633522
Category : Friendship
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Julie Patterson is a former Miss Mississippi with a successful husband, two wonderful children, and the lavish life that many can only dream about. Her life becomes even better when her husband receives a long-awaited promotion and the family moves to a neighborhood near Washington DC. Julie quickly makes friends with neighbors, except for the woman who lives behind her, who simply stares without acknowledgment of Julie. After a while, though, the woman, Lynn, warms up to Julie, and the two form a fast friendship. But this friendship quickly turns strange as Julie learns of Lynn's propensity to lie for attention. She and her family also notice that Lynn has gotten the same car as Julie, has begun to dress like Julie, is getting a pool just like Julie, and is consistently attempting to one-up Julie. At first everyone brushes it off, but when one lie threatens Julie's family, she begins to realize Lynn has some unknown agenda, and Julie is her target. No one else takes it seriously, and many neighbors side with Lynn, even as the situation begins to spiral out of control, until one is found on the stand for attempted murder. Is Lynn a False Victim, or could Julie be guilty? Is there an end to the madness? Will the story end happily? You'll be on the edge of your seat as you await the answers in this gripping, psychological thriller based on a true story.
Folklore
Author: Kenneth L. Untiedt
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 157441223X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Folklore is everywhere, whether you are aware of it or not. A culture's traditional knowledge is used to remember the past and maintain traditions, to communicate with other members within a community, to learn, to celebrate, and to express creativity. It is what helps distinguish one culture from another. Although folklore is so much a part of our daily lives, we often lose sight of just how integral it is to everything we do. If we look for it, we can find folklore in places where we'd never think it existed. Folklore: In All of Us, In All We Do includes articles on a variety of topics. One chapter looks at how folklore and history complement one another; while historical records provide facts about dates, places and names, folklore brings those events and people to life by making them relevant to us. Several articles examine the cultural roles women fill. Other articles feature folklore of particular groups, including oil field workers, mail carriers, doctors, engineers, police officers, horse traders, and politicians. As a follow-up article to Inside the Classroom (and Out), which focused on folklore in education, there is also an article on how teachers can use writing in the classroom as a means of keeping alive the storytelling tradition. The Texas Folklore Society has been collecting and preserving folklore since its first publication in 1912. Since then, it has published or assisted in the publication of nearly one hundred books on Texas folklore.
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 157441223X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Folklore is everywhere, whether you are aware of it or not. A culture's traditional knowledge is used to remember the past and maintain traditions, to communicate with other members within a community, to learn, to celebrate, and to express creativity. It is what helps distinguish one culture from another. Although folklore is so much a part of our daily lives, we often lose sight of just how integral it is to everything we do. If we look for it, we can find folklore in places where we'd never think it existed. Folklore: In All of Us, In All We Do includes articles on a variety of topics. One chapter looks at how folklore and history complement one another; while historical records provide facts about dates, places and names, folklore brings those events and people to life by making them relevant to us. Several articles examine the cultural roles women fill. Other articles feature folklore of particular groups, including oil field workers, mail carriers, doctors, engineers, police officers, horse traders, and politicians. As a follow-up article to Inside the Classroom (and Out), which focused on folklore in education, there is also an article on how teachers can use writing in the classroom as a means of keeping alive the storytelling tradition. The Texas Folklore Society has been collecting and preserving folklore since its first publication in 1912. Since then, it has published or assisted in the publication of nearly one hundred books on Texas folklore.
Morality in Cormac McCarthy's Fiction
Author: Russell M. Hillier
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319469576
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This book argues that McCarthy’s works convey a profound moral vision, and use intertextuality, moral philosophy, and questions of genre to advance that vision. It focuses upon the ways in which McCarthy’s fiction is in ceaseless conversation with literary and philosophical tradition, examining McCarthy’s investment in influential thinkers from Marcus Aurelius to Hannah Arendt, and poets, playwrights, and novelists from Dante and Shakespeare to Fyodor Dostoevsky and Antonio Machado. The book shows how McCarthy’s fiction grapples with abiding moral and metaphysical issues: the nature and problem of evil; the idea of God or the transcendent; the credibility of heroism in the modern age; the question of moral choice and action; the possibility of faith, hope, love, and goodness; the meaning and limits of civilization; and the definition of what it is to be human. This study will appeal alike to readers, teachers, and scholars of Cormac McCarthy.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319469576
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This book argues that McCarthy’s works convey a profound moral vision, and use intertextuality, moral philosophy, and questions of genre to advance that vision. It focuses upon the ways in which McCarthy’s fiction is in ceaseless conversation with literary and philosophical tradition, examining McCarthy’s investment in influential thinkers from Marcus Aurelius to Hannah Arendt, and poets, playwrights, and novelists from Dante and Shakespeare to Fyodor Dostoevsky and Antonio Machado. The book shows how McCarthy’s fiction grapples with abiding moral and metaphysical issues: the nature and problem of evil; the idea of God or the transcendent; the credibility of heroism in the modern age; the question of moral choice and action; the possibility of faith, hope, love, and goodness; the meaning and limits of civilization; and the definition of what it is to be human. This study will appeal alike to readers, teachers, and scholars of Cormac McCarthy.
How Sweet it was
Author: Arthur Shulman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780517081358
Category : Television broadcasting
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
One can obtain as many opinions about television as there are people with eyes. No two people see it in exactly the same way. You may not be aware of it, but up there, in that compartment of your brain where memories are stored, all sorts of strange images are stockpiled. The purpose of this book is to coax those memories out of their hiding places and bring them front and center, where you can savor them anew. Although this book is intended to be a comprehensive review of television during the past twenty years-the two decades that have passed since the medium became a commercial reality- it is not to be just a scholarly history. The programs and people represented here were chosen not because they were "good" or "popular" or "successful," but because each contributed, in some large or small way, to the progress of television.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780517081358
Category : Television broadcasting
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
One can obtain as many opinions about television as there are people with eyes. No two people see it in exactly the same way. You may not be aware of it, but up there, in that compartment of your brain where memories are stored, all sorts of strange images are stockpiled. The purpose of this book is to coax those memories out of their hiding places and bring them front and center, where you can savor them anew. Although this book is intended to be a comprehensive review of television during the past twenty years-the two decades that have passed since the medium became a commercial reality- it is not to be just a scholarly history. The programs and people represented here were chosen not because they were "good" or "popular" or "successful," but because each contributed, in some large or small way, to the progress of television.
And the Dead Shall Rise
Author: Steve Oney
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0593687108
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
The definitive account of one of American history’s most repellent and most fascinating moments, combining investigative journalism and sweeping social history "Years later, the tale of murder and revenge in Georgia still has the power to fascinate...Intense, suspenseful.” —The Washington Post Book World In 1913, 13-year-old Mary Phagan was found brutally murdered in the basement of the Atlanta pencil factory where she worked. The factory manager, a college-educated Jew named Leo Frank, was arrested, tried, and convicted in a trial that seized national headlines. When the governor commuted his death sentence, Frank was kidnapped and lynched by a group of prominent local citizens. Steve Oney’s acclaimed account re-creates the entire story for the first time, from the police investigations to the gripping trial to the brutal lynching and its aftermath. Oney vividly renders Atlanta, a city enjoying newfound prosperity a half-century after the Civil War, but still rife with barely hidden prejudices and resentments. He introduces a Dickensian pageant of characters, including zealous policemen, intrepid reporters, Frank’s martyred wife, and a fiery populist who manipulated local anger at Northern newspapers that pushed for Frank’s exoneration.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0593687108
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
The definitive account of one of American history’s most repellent and most fascinating moments, combining investigative journalism and sweeping social history "Years later, the tale of murder and revenge in Georgia still has the power to fascinate...Intense, suspenseful.” —The Washington Post Book World In 1913, 13-year-old Mary Phagan was found brutally murdered in the basement of the Atlanta pencil factory where she worked. The factory manager, a college-educated Jew named Leo Frank, was arrested, tried, and convicted in a trial that seized national headlines. When the governor commuted his death sentence, Frank was kidnapped and lynched by a group of prominent local citizens. Steve Oney’s acclaimed account re-creates the entire story for the first time, from the police investigations to the gripping trial to the brutal lynching and its aftermath. Oney vividly renders Atlanta, a city enjoying newfound prosperity a half-century after the Civil War, but still rife with barely hidden prejudices and resentments. He introduces a Dickensian pageant of characters, including zealous policemen, intrepid reporters, Frank’s martyred wife, and a fiery populist who manipulated local anger at Northern newspapers that pushed for Frank’s exoneration.
The Mighty Music Box
Author: Thomas A. DeLong
Publisher: Sasco Associates
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Publisher: Sasco Associates
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
The Status Seekers
Author: Vance Packard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social classes
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social classes
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers
Author: Lee Server
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438109121
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Provides an introduction to American pulp fiction during the twentieth century with brief author biographies and lists of their works.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438109121
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Provides an introduction to American pulp fiction during the twentieth century with brief author biographies and lists of their works.