Foundations
Author: Barb Geer
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 768
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Author: Janet Choplick
Publisher: Publishamerica Incorporated
Published: 2010-03
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9781448955084
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWelcome to Milroy, a true small-town where history and friendships grow strong. In the first of this series, Sarah has been gone a long while living in a big city. She returns to breathe new life into the old Malacourts and start a new life with her children. Sarah is reunited with her childhood sweetheart Johnny Hanover and romance is in the air. Sarah rediscovers childhood friends and the way a small town works. Sarah will need to rediscover where she belongs and who she is. But every small town has secrets and Milroy is no exception. Someone is not happy Sarah has returned and she soon realizes she is in danger. Will small-town grudges and secrets destroy her, or will she find new hope in this small town?
Author: Janet Choplick
Publisher: America Star Books
Published: 2010-11
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781451208047
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jim W. Corder
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9781603449885
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"I want to hear about such folks as my father and how he knows how to make cement, not by recipe, but by something in his bones. I want to hear how my grandfather learned to plow a straight furrow and why even older men always called him Mister. I want to know all of the reasons why, those years ago, my mother cried when the tomatoes in her garden twisted and died." Trying to find out such things, Jim Corder leads us through the ravines of the Croton Breaks, around to the back side of the Double Mountains, and through the streets of Jayton and Spur, as they are and as they used to be. He takes us right up to gaze at the Big Rock Candy Mountain, which, however, he can't tell us how to find since the day in 1937 when the State Highway Department made it into gravel. Fort Concho and Fort Phantom Hill, outhouses and feed mills, Col. Ranald Mackenzie and a lone Comanche brave, high school athletes and desperately lonely teachers, all come under his scrutiny and are hauntingly considered for their stories, their limitations, and the sense of place they afford. Nostalgia, wonderment, and a healthy and imaginative provincialism color the pages of this book, which is well illustrated with the author's own pen-and-ink sketches of the places and things he remembers. The vibrantly concrete details of daily existence in a bygone time in a remote and desolate area of Texas are startlingly juxtaposed with philosophical musings about the limitations all of us face in comprehending even that little bit of life we live. "Can poetry, or water, be found in West Texas?" Corder asks at one point. His answer—if such it be—makes it worth our getting lost with him in this journey of the heart and mind.
Author: Thomas Perry
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2019-12-17
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 0802148077
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA small-town cop seeks vengeance on twelve escaped inmates in this novel of “jaw-dropping twists . . . crisp in execution and thrilling until the very end” (The Wall Street Journal). When twelve inmates pull off an audacious prison break, it liberates more than a thousand convicts into the nearby small town. The newly freed prisoners rape, murder, and destroy the quiet community—burning down homes and businesses. An immense search ensues, but the twelve who plotted it all get away. After two years, the local and federal police agencies have yet to find them. Then, the mayor calls in Leah Hawkins, a local cop who lost a loved one that terrible night. She’s placed on sabbatical to travel across the country learning advanced police procedures. But the sabbatical is merely a ruse. Her real job is to track down the infamous twelve—and kill them. Leah’s mission takes her from Florida to New York and from the beaches of California to an anti-government settlement deep in the Ozarks. But when the surviving fugitives realize what she’s up to, a race to kill or be killed ensues in this nonstop tale of vengeance from the Edgar Award–winning author of The Butcher’s Boy. “Leah proves to be both a brilliant detective and a cunning predator.” —Associated Press “Perry is an expert storyteller . . . A Small Town unfolds like a 1950s film noir.” —Wall Street Journal
Author: Jason Headley
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2004-10-07
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780811845366
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHaving abandoned plans for college, twenty-four-year-old Eric is living in an excruciatingly small town in West Virginia, working two part-time jobs, taking care of his daughter, getting arrested, and seeking -- and avoiding -- romance.
Author: James Oliver Robertson
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 540
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1967, the Robertsons bought an old house in Connecticut, where they found papers written by a family who had lived in the house since the 1790s and had kept incredibly complete records of their lives. Their history reflects how this nation grew and was shaped by the morals and aspirations of families like the Taintors.
Author: Art Cullen
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2018-10-02
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0525558888
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A reminder that even the smallest newspapers can hold the most powerful among us accountable."—The New York Times Book Review Watch the documentary Storm Lake on PBS. Iowa plays an outsize role in national politics. Iowa introduced Barack Obama and voted bigly for Donald Trump. But is it a bellwether for America, a harbinger of its future? Art Cullen’s answer is complicated and honest. In truth, Iowa is losing ground. The Trump trade wars are hammering farmers and manufacturers. Health insurance premiums and drug prices are soaring. That’s what Iowans are dealing with, and the problems they face are the problems of the heartland. In this candid and timely book, Art Cullen—the Storm Lake Times newspaperman who won a Pulitzer Prize for taking on big corporate agri-industry and its poisoning of local rivers—describes how the heartland has changed dramatically over his career. In a story where politics, agriculture, the environment, and immigration all converge, Cullen offers an unsentimental ode to rural America and to the resilient people of a vibrant community of fifteen thousand in Northwest Iowa, as much survivors as their town.
Author: Gilbert Sandler
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2002-10-10
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780801870699
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This "album of memories" introduces the reader to the people and places - neighborhoods, restaurants, department stores, parks, hotels, night clubs, racetracks, and theaters - that once put the charm in Charm City."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: John le Carré
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2013-03-05
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 1101603046
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the New York Times bestselling author of A Legacy of Spies. "Haven't you realized that only appearances matter?" The British Embassy in Bonn is up in arms. Her Majesty's financially troubled government is seeking admission to Europe's Common Market just as anti-British factions are rising to power in Germany. Rioters are demanding reunification, and the last thing the Crown can afford is a scandal. Then Leo Harting—an embassy nobody—goes missing with a case full of confidential files. London sends Alan Turner to control the damage, but he soon realizes that neither side really wants Leo found—alive. Set against the threat of a German-Soviet alliance, John le Carré's A Small Town in Germany is a superb chronicle of Cold War paranoia and political compromise. With an introduction by the author.