High Desert
Author: Kim Douglas
Publisher: Baha'i Publishing Trust
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781931847599
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDeeply moving memoir with a holistic approach to overcome the effects of growing up in a severely abusive home.
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A Promise of Death
Author: Charles Crandall
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2012-10-09
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 147725840X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe dark, sinister crime novel of a bygone era, portrayed so convincingly in the works of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, has made an impressive resurgence. This novel follows in the footsteps of these trailblazers, featuring a bulldog P.I. out to foil saboteurs in war-time Los Angeles. Based on an actual historic event involving major corporations, the story unravels the probable motivations of the bad guys. Here is all the magic that was Hollywood a few decades ago-- the blondes, the weasels, the innocents and the abusers. In the middle of a war, people squeezed a lot of good times into whatever time they had left. Nick Black, excop turned P.I., got sucked into the maelstrom and found himself playing hide-and-seek with the Grim Reaper.
Past Promises
Author: Jill Marie Landis
Publisher: Bell Bridge Books
Published: 2017-08-01
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 1611948142
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCan a proper lady coax a rugged cowboy into surrendering his heart in this delightful historical romance? Prim and proper Jessica Stanbridge is a brilliant woman who hides her beauty behind a pair of thick, wire-framed spectacles. She travels to the Wild West in search of historical artifacts, but instead finds an ornery--but gorgeous--cowboy who agrees to serve as her guide. Rory Burnett hides his passion in his secret poetry, but he can't disguise his growing desire for the determined young beauty . . . or his fear that Jessica's quest might lead her into deadly danger. As the spark of passion between them flares into an irresistible flame beneath the sizzling kiss of the desert sun, Rory and Jessica must decide if the promises of the past are going to lead them to destruction . . . or to a future in each other's arms . . . Jill Marie Landis is the New York Times bestselling author of Past Promises, Until Tomorrow, The Orchid Hunter, and Jade.
Promises of Hope for Difficult Times
Author: Jane Kirkpatrick
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
Published: 2013-02-01
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 0736949941
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author's personal reflections bring hope and encouragement in the wilderness places of our lives and remind us all that God longs to show compassion and care, rest and refuge to those who hurt.
Then There Was No Mountain
Author: Ellen Waterson
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
Published: 2005-09-06
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 1461626013
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSophie was a brilliant child by anyone's definition. Accomplished athlete, 4-H champion, recognized artist, and Western and English horsewoman. By the age of sixteen she had added one more "achievement" to her resume, this one ignominious: drug addict. Then There Was No Mountain describes the external and internal processes the author, Sophie's mother, experiences in coming to terms with her daughter's addiction, then in seeking and ultimately finding help. Equally important, the author is forthright in examining the role that she, as a single mother, played in perpetuating her daughter's crisis by not coming to terms with her own "drugs of choice": guilt, shame, and denial. A timely and provocative voice in the chorus of firsthand experiences of parents dealing with their childrens' drug use, Then There Was No Mountain is set against the backdrop of the ranching West, where the parallel paths of mother and daughter to healing are illuminated by Waterston's powerful pen. In real time the story covers a period of two years; in "heart time," the author writes, "it takes the reader to places of pain, promise, and wonder." Along the way, the rawness of life—represented by a father wanted on charges of drug possession, selling child pornography, and raping and molesting a minor—is set against the miraculous, an extraordinarily intuitive Montana social worker who helps adolescent girls regain their self-respect through ranch work. This book is not just a "how-to" but what the author calls "a wherefore-and invitation to the reader to look the good, the bad, and the ugly of life in the eye with the same unwavering gaze."
Sweet Promised Land, 50th ed.
Author: Robert Laxalt
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Published: 2007-03-05
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 0874177197
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow long has it been since you fell in love with a book? Dominique Laxalt was sixteen when he left the French Pyrenees for America. He became a sheepherder in the Nevada desert and nearby hills of the Sierra. Like all his fellow Basque immigrants, Dominique dreamed of someday returning to the land of his beginnings. Most Basques never made the journey back, but Dominique finally did return for a visit with family and friends. Sweet Promised Land is the story of that trip, told by his son Robert, who accompanied him to the pastoral mountain village of Tardets in France. Dominique came home victorious, the adventurer who had conquered the unknown and found his fortune in the New World. He told of his life in America, the hardships and challenges, and began to realize that he had changed since his departure from Tardets. By the end of the visit, he knew with certainty where he belonged. During the past fifty years, this book has become a classic in Western American literature, still beloved by the Basque-American community. In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the book’s publication, western literature scholar Ann Ronald wrote a new foreword, discussing the book in the context of American and Nevada literature.
Bertilak Of The High Desert
Author: R.L. Sterup
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2012-10-01
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 1300121467
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBertilak of the High Desert is a largely comic modern day re-telling of the medieval Arthurian fable, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, set in the American Midwest. Gowan Suhr, son of Art Suhr, must travel to the high desert badlands of Western Nebraska to find a man named Green, and in so doing resolve conflicting claims to 2000 acres of Cathar County farmland. Art's Mother pledged the land to Green, only to break her promise before dying. Outraged at the loss of the land, Green and his daughter Morgan interfere with Gowan's plans to marry Gwen, and in so doing force Art to make a new and deadly deal. Only by honoring his Father's promise and surviving Russian roulette can Gowan preserve the family land. Gowan and his friend Forrest set out to find Green, while Morgan and Gwen separately travel west to find a man named Bertilak, transporting as they do an all-white Charolais bull named Mordred.
Walking the High Desert
Author: Ellen Waterston
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2020-06-22
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 029574751X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFormer high desert rancher Ellen Waterston writes of a wild, essentially roadless, starkly beautiful part of the American West. Following the recently created 750-mile Oregon Desert Trail, she embarks on a creative and inquisitive exploration, introducing readers to a “trusting, naïve, earnest, stubbly, grumpy old man of a desert” that is grappling with issues at the forefront of national, if not global, concern: public land use, grazing rights for livestock, protection of sacred Indigenous ground, water rights, and protection of habitat for endangered species. Blending travel writing with memoir and history, Waterston profiles a wide range of people who call the high desert home and offers fresh perspectives on nationally reported regional conflicts such as the Malheur Wildlife Refuge occupation. Walking the High Desert invites readers—wherever they may be—to consider their own beliefs, identities, and surroundings through the optic of the high desert of southeastern Oregon.
Coyote Horny
Author: Ronald V. Micci
Publisher: Independently published
Published: 2017-02-12
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 1520460481
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the mysterious high deserts of New Mexico, the Indian shamans know the secret of the coyote transformation, allowing mortals to shape-shift into shadow coyotes, the better to bring down their prey. Now Katt Hall, a transplanted Southern beauty sexually frustrated by an unwilling and alcoholic husband, has gained those secrets, and her passions are about to lead her into trouble with the law. A riotously funny take on marital frustration, culminating in an unforgettably wild Indian Festival of the Coyote.
Strategies
Author: Charlene Tibbetts
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Longman
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 564
ISBN-13: 9780673980359
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStrategies is the only rhetoric/reader/handbook to include a full discussion of the writer's stance and ethics in writing and reading. Providing practical solutions to students' writing problems, the text includes dozens of examples of student writing, as well as many short pieces by professionals. Divided into three parts, the rhetoric provides writing strategies along with some suggestions about the ethics of composition; the reader supplies rhetorically-organized examples of writers working at their craft; and the handbook gives standard advice on grammar and usage.
