Air Mail

Air Mail

Author: Pam Houston

Publisher: Torrey House Press

Published: 2020-10-13

Total Pages: 95

ISBN-13: 1948814390

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"This book is fierce love in motion." —LIDIA YUKNAVITCH When the state of Colorado ordered its residents to shelter in place in response to the spread of coronavirus, writers Pam Houston and Amy Irvine—who had never met—began a correspondence based on their shared devotion to the rugged, windswept mountains that surround their homes, one on either side of the Continental Divide. As the numbers of infected and dead rose and the nation split dangerously over the crisis, Houston and Irvine found their letters to one another nearly as necessary as breath. Part tribute to wilderness, part indictment against tyranny and greed, Air Mail: Letters of Politics, Pandemics, and Place reveals the evolution of a friendship that galvanizes as it chronicles a strange new world.


The Personal Correspondence of Sam Houston: 1846-1848

The Personal Correspondence of Sam Houston: 1846-1848

Author: Sam Houston

Publisher: University of North Texas Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 9781574410310

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Volume II of Sam Houston's personal correspondence continues the four-volume series of previously unpublished personal letters to and from Sam Houston, covering the time 1846 to 1848. "Writing to people he knew and assuming confidentiality, Houston was unrestrained in his candor in discussing affairs of state and other aspects of his life and career. . . . "--AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN.


Letters to a Young Athlete

Letters to a Young Athlete

Author: Chris Bosh

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2021-06-01

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1984881795

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A legendary NBA player shares his remarkable story, infused with hard-earned wisdom about the journey to self-mastery from a life at the highest level of professional sports Chris Bosh, NBA Hall of Famer, eleven-time All-Star, two-time NBA champion, Olympic gold medalist, and the league’s Global Ambassador, had his playing days cut short at their prime by a freak medical condition. His extraordinary career ended “in a doctor’s office in the middle of the afternoon.” Forced to reckon with moving forward, he found himself looking back over the course he'd taken, to the pinnacle of the NBA and beyond. Reflecting on all he had learned from a long list of basketball legends, from LeBron and Kobe to Pat Riley and Coach K, he saw that his important lessons weren’t about basketball so much as the inner game of success—right attitude, right commitment, right flow within a team. Now he shares that journey, giving us a view from the inside of what greatness feels like and what it takes. Letters to a Young Athlete offers a proven path for taming your inner voice and making it your ally, through the challenges of failure and success alike.


Made for Houston

Made for Houston

Author: Christine Young

Publisher: Rogue Phoenix Press

Published: 2022-03-13

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 1624206891

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Leah Kennedy is as wary of people as she is strikingly beautiful. However, the shocking death of her father that forever changed her girlhood has left her terrified of the very love she desperately longs for. Only in the untamed splendor of the Scottish crags does she feel safe from the feelings she stirs in men and the cruel mockery of Selkirk's villagers. Debonair, well-educated doctor Houston Stuart has turned his back on social privilege along with professional honors to set up a medical practice in the lowlands of Scotland. There, serving those who need him the most, he hopes to forget the bitter memories and disillusionment that disturb his days. Coincidence brings the cultured doctor and this fey mountain girl together. Something as bizarre as destiny disrupts the obstacle of birth and breeding, stubborn pride and fear which has kept them apart...as each seeks to heal the other's wounds with a raw passion neither can deny and all the odds against them cannot defeat.


Sam Houston

Sam Houston

Author: James L. Haley

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 2015-04-10

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 0806152141

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In the decades preceding the Civil War, few figures in the United States were as influential or as controversial as Sam Houston. In Sam Houston, James L. Haley explores Houston’s momentous career and the complex man behind it. Haley’s fifteen years of research and writing have produced possibly the most complete, most personal, and most readable Sam Houston biography ever written. Drawn from personal papers never before available as well as the papers of others in Houston’s circle, this biography will delight anyone intrigued by Sam Houston, Texas history, Civil War history, or America’s tradition of rugged individualism.


Letters to Asher

Letters to Asher

Author: John Houston

Publisher:

Published: 2020-11-15

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780578797540

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Letters to Asher is a personal and poignant collection of a grandfather's advice, counsel and wisdom to his grandson, who is on the daunting journey to becoming a man. The letters encourage him to consider and define early decisions critical to successfully transitioning from childhood to adulthood. Key topics include personal integrity, spirituality, education, sexuality, appearance, relationships, controlled substances, marriage and health.Letters to Asher challenges teens and young adults, men and women, to face life-defining choices, to examine why they make them, to establish their own values and to assume ownership of them. This rational approach empowers the critical thinking steps necessary to understanding the wisdom of making choices in advance rather than on impulse.Letters to Asher also serves as a powerful tool to foster meaningful conversations with mentors and parents, grandparents, teachers, counselors, coaches, youth leaders, pastors and anyone investing in the lives of future generations.Letters to Asher reflects a Christian worldview.


Willie Nelson's Letters to America

Willie Nelson's Letters to America

Author: Willie Nelson

Publisher: Harper Horizon

Published: 2021-06-29

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0785241558

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Following his bestselling memoir, It’s a Long Story, Willie Nelson now delivers his most intimate thoughts and stories in Willie Nelson's Letters to America. A New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestseller! From his opening letter “Dear America” to his “Dear Willie” epilogue, Willie digs deep into his heart and soul--and his music catalog--to lift us up in difficult times, and to remind us of the endless promise and continuous obligations of all Americans--to themselves, to one another, and to their nation. In a series of letters straight from the heart, Willie sends his thanks and his thoughts to: Americans past, present, and future, his closest family members, andhis parents, sister, and children, his other family members his guitar “Trigger”, his hero Gene Autry, the US founding fathers, his personal heroes, from our founding fathers to the leaders of future generations and to young songwriters as well as leaders of our future generations. Willie’s letters are rounded out with the moving lyrics to some of his most famous and insightful songs, including “Let Me Be a Man,” “Family Bible,” “Summer of Roses,” “Me and Paul,” “A Horse called Music,” “Healing Hands of Time,” and “Yesterday's Wine.”


The Letters and Times of the Tylers

The Letters and Times of the Tylers

Author: Lyon Gardiner Tyler

Publisher:

Published: 1885

Total Pages: 778

ISBN-13:

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A biography of John Tyler, tenth President of the United States, and a "...review [of] the general history of the country through an interval of nearly a hundred years...".


Standard Catalog of United States Paper Money

Standard Catalog of United States Paper Money

Author: Maggie Judkins

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2016-10-04

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 1440247080

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Fully updated and vetted by industry leaders, the Standard Catalog of United States Paper Money, 35th Edition, is an indispensable reference to U.S. currency, offering complete coverage in an easy-to-use format. The new edition of this invaluable catalog features more than 1,000 color notes, essential descriptions and real-world values provided by experts in up to four grades for: • Large and Small Size Currency since 1861 • Gold and Silver Certificates • National Bank Notes by type • Pre-Civil War Treasury Notes • Postage and Fractional Currency • Military Payment Certificates • Error Notes • And much more! The Standard Catalog of U.S. Paper Money stands alone. No other reference contains the vast amount of images, type listings, and price values as found here.


Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country

Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country

Author: Pam Houston

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2019-01-29

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 0393285499

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Winner of the 2020 Reading the West Advocacy Award Winner of the 2020 Colorado Book Award for Creative Nonfiction "This is a book for all of us, right now." —Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures drop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000-acre wildfire, threatening her century-old barn and all its inhabitants. Through her travels from the Gulf of Mexico to Alaska, she explores what ties her to the earth, the ranch most of all. Alongside her devoted Irish wolfhounds and a spirited troupe of horses, donkeys, and Icelandic sheep, the ranch becomes Houston’s sanctuary, a place where she discovers how the natural world has mothered and healed her after a childhood of horrific parental abuse and neglect. In essays as lucid and invigorating as mountain air, Deep Creek delivers Houston’s most profound meditations yet on how “to live simultaneously inside the wonder and the grief… to love the damaged world and do what I can to help it thrive.”