Sam Houston is working hard to find love, livelihood, and laughter throughout his tumultuous youth. A bartender by night and a student by day, this enigmatic hero encounters the ups and downs of life familiar to many men, including difficulties in romance and the business world. Charlie Frank's debut novel is a humorous love story that will provide readers with hours of enjoyment.
This book is a tribute to "an incomparable triumvirate." "One was a naturalist, one a historian, and one a chronicler, but each of them was each of these. The manly love between them, a handsome thing in times and places blighted by great ugliness and banality, shone from them into their friends and contemporaries, and they shared themselves freely with those younger than they who went to them wishing to learn from them." Most of this collection of writing by friends of Roy Bedichek, Walter Prescott Webb, and J. Frank Dobie originally appeared in special editions of the Texas Observer devoted to each of the three men. Some pieces were, however, written expressly for this volume.
American Sagas: A New Nation takes place in an alternate future of the world. Genesis, a multibillion-dollar corporation specializing in genetics, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology, had an explosion in its Midwest branch out of Cincinnati, releasing a shock wave of unknown origin, causing a chain reaction leading to the downfall of the United States. Starting in the present day, the novel follows Atlas. Originally a man getting along in life, normally his name is not known to the reader, but the reader learns about Atlas’s life before and after Genesis’s explosion known as day zero. Atlas travels the new landscape, looking for answers behind the conspiracy that is Genesis, and begins to rebuild a new society with others that survived day zero with him. Unfortunately, when Genesis fell, so did any security measures for protecting Genesis’s assets or experiments, unleashing creatures and phenomena unknown to the world.
In the secret worlds of organized crime and the independent professional wrestling circuit of the 1990s, no one is immune to the con, the violence, the hunger for power and respect, the lust and the darkness. How far would you go for money and supremacy? Who would you betray? What could you tolerate? How much would you sacrifice? Frank Ponte is about to find out… Night Work, originally published in 2003, is Greg F. Gifune’s first published novel. Hailed as a strong debut from a promising author by both critics and readers alike, it offers a fictional glimpse behind the veil of secrecy that existed in the independent professional wrestling world at the time, and chronicles the descent of a young couple into the depths of darkness and depravity. Part crime novel, part Greek tragedy, Night Work has been out of print for several years, but is once again available in an all-new author’s preferred edition, which includes a new introduction from author/artist Sandy DeLuca, and offers a unique look at the early work of Greg F. Gifune.
The author of The Adventures of Charles Schenck, Nick Noonan, is back with his second published novel, the awaited sequel to his first book, Charles Schenck and The Wrath of the Viprans. This action packed literary adventure promises to be a page turner and will leave you waiting for more from the series. Page after page is jam packed with aliens, a post-apocalyptic world, and godly powers of mass destruction. A man, his family, and his group of friends must brave a world turned upside down by disaster to save what is most important to them. You will be cheering for each of them as they quest to stop the extraterrestrial terrorists and save the world from a terminal fate at any cost.
Rebecca Lawson, a young general-practice attorney in Vermont, expected to expand her practice when she was hired by Allan Richards to investigate a suspicious employee. Instead, she finds herself amidst national and international conspiracies, manipulations, and murder. With the help of an old colleague, Joshua Tameron, she learns that the financial security and innocent citizens of the United States are in imminent danger, and it is up to them to expose the truth. Confidential Communications is a legal thriller that takes the reader on a ride and evaluates the vulnerability of us all while witnessing the downfall of greed.
Focusing on the Musqueam people and a contentious archaeological site in Vancouver, These Mysterious People details the relationship between the Musqueam and researchers from the late-nineteenth century to the present. Susan Roy traces the historical development of competing understandings of the past and reveals how the Musqueam First Nation used information derived from archaeological finds to assist the larger recognition of territorial rights. She also details the ways in which Musqueam legal and cultural expressions of their own history - such as land claim submissions, petitions, cultural displays, and testimonies - have challenged public accounts of Aboriginal occupation and helped to define Aboriginal rights in Canada An important and engaging examination of methods of historical representation, These Mysterious People analyses the ways historical evidence, material culture, and places themselves have acquired legal and community authority.
