Hailey's Hacienda

Hailey's Hacienda

Author: Katie Andrews

Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.

Published: 2023-12-06

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13:

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Running from danger, Hailey finds herself in a strange town with only a no-nonsense man to give her temporary shelter. Will Hailey ever find home and happiness? Or will an egotistical stalker find her first?


Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!: The Story of Pop Music from Bill Haley to Beyoncé

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!: The Story of Pop Music from Bill Haley to Beyoncé

Author: Bob Stanley

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2014-07-14

Total Pages: 547

ISBN-13: 0393242706

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"[Stanley is] as clear-eyed about music as he is crazy in love with it." —Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times A monumental work of musical history, Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! traces the story of pop music through songs, bands, musical scenes, and styles from Bill Haley and the Comets’ “Rock around the Clock” (1954) to Beyoncé’s first megahit, “Crazy in Love” (2003). Bob Stanley—himself a musician, music critic, and fan—teases out the connections and tensions that animated the pop charts for decades, and ranges across the birth of rock, soul, R&B, punk, hip hop, indie, house, techno, and more. Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! is a vital guide to the rich soundtrack of the second half of the twentieth century and a book as much fun to argue with as to quote.


Devils River

Devils River

Author: Patrick Dearen

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

Published: 2022-08-16

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0875654509

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In his newest book, Devils River, Patrick Dearen traces the 400-year history of the notorious river from the time of the first Spanish explorers to the modernization of southwestern Texas and the coming of the railroad. He vividly retells stories of Indian encounters, train robberies, and other horrific events that prove just how the name “Devils River” was coined. With his inimitable style, the author weaves together a variety of themes--military events, including the Civil War and stories about the Texas Rangers; the development of the first mail lines; and the introduction of cattle and sheep raising--into a comprehensive account of the violence and bloodshed surrounding the Devils River. The nature of the river’s history is such that very few anecdotes have happy endings, but Devils River contains stories of triumphs as well as disasters. Although this is an excellent account for historians studying the west, it is also very accessible to others with little or no background in early western history.


Texas Women Writers

Texas Women Writers

Author: Sylvia Ann Grider

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9780890967652

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A critical survey of over 150 years of Texas women writers, including fiction and nonfiction authors, poets, and dramatists.


The Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery

The Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery

Author: B. Murphy

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1999-12-09

Total Pages: 553

ISBN-13: 0230107354

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Bruce Murphy's Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery is a comprehensive guide to the genre of the murder mystery that catalogues thousands of items in a broad range of categories: authors, titles, plots, characters, weapons, methods of killing, movie and theatrical adaptations. What distinguishes this encyclopedia from the others in the field is its critical stance.