Texas Showdown
Texas Showdown

Author: Elmer Kelton

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2010-04-01

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 142996281X

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Elmer Kelton writes of his beloved home country of West Texas in these two novels of cowmen and cow country. In Pecos Crossing, two young cowboys, Johnny Fristo and Speck Quitman, have been cheated of six months' hard-earned salary by their rancher boss Larramore and intend getting what is due to them. In Shotgun, Texas rancher Blair Bishop has to contend with a rival cowman who is turning his herd loose on Bishop‘s land, and with a mean customer named Macy Modock, who Bishop sent to prison ten years past. Modock is out of the hoosegow and has returned determined to get even with the man who sent him up the river. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Shotgun Showdown
Shotgun Showdown

Author: Trena Redding

Publisher: Tydbyts Media

Published:

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13:

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I’m supposed to be in hiding. The leader of a drug cartel has goons searching for me—and the price on my head is growing. My boss at the DEA wants me to sit still in Shotgun, Colorado, a quirky, podunk mountain town, so I don’t end up dead. Here I am, trying to lay low and mind my own business. Problem is, my new friends keep getting me involved in things like selling toilet artwork and overly potent peach moonshine. They threw me into a fishing tournament—my skills majorly lacking—and I hooked more than I intended. A lot more. Another dead body, and this time I witnessed his demise. I don’t know why these things keep happening when I’m around. Just lucky, I guess. The sexy sheriff isn’t happy with me. If I keep ending up in the wrong place at the wrong time, I might be the one who ends up in jail. Guess I’d better find the killer before anyone else ends up dead. Including me.

Shotgun, Lies & Alibis
Shotgun, Lies & Alibis

Author: Trena Redding

Publisher: Tydbyts Media

Published:

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13:

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I have a secret. Actually, I have a lot more than one, but I figured I’d go easy on you since we just met. My real name isn't Ally Justice. That's the name someone back at headquarters made up--I was sure--to have a good laugh at my expense. I'm not from this small town in Colorado. I'm stuck here until the drug cartel in D.C. takes the price tag off my head. And it's a big number. If I could spend it after I was dead, I'd think about taking the gig myself. Turns out I'm not really excited about the thought of being dead just yet. So here I am, in this unique--they call it quirky--town of Shotgun, Colorado. Totally out of my element. I don't do nature, or animals, or snow. Yet here I am, stuck. I'm supposed to lay low, mind my own business. Blend in. But seriously? Did anyone back home do any ReCon on this town? The Bingo hall is like C.I.A. Headquarters where not one stone--I mean town secret--is left unturned. The mayor's widow thinks the sidewalks are her personal roads because, well, they used to be. And her son, the sheriff, is very nice to look at. Not that I'm looking. I'm settled - sort of. I'm minding my own business. It's not my fault a dead body turned up in my backyard and suddenly I'm the prime suspect. The sheriff could be sexy, coming at me with those handcuffs. He has potential. However, I’m not going to jail for a crime I didn’t commit. Guess there’s nothing left for me to do now but solve this mystery myself.

Skye Stories
Skye Stories

Author: Raymond Moore

Publisher: Libri Publishing Limited

Published: 2021-01-29

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 191296919X

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Five years for an adult, passes in five minutes. Five years for a kid is a lifetime. An attempted bike stealing incident in Glasgow when Raymond Moore was 13 led to him living in Linicro on the Isle of Skye with his Great Granny and Great Aunt. His family stayed in the city whilst his life changed on the island. Skye Stories tells the adventures he had growing up: the girls he fancied, the sheep he worried and the music he loved. Although the book is about Skye and his love for the island, the account of his experiences and emotions will strike a chord with people who have never been near there. Skye changed the author's life forever and for the better. You could say the Isle of Skye saved his life. This book, Volume 1, tells the story of the first two years on Skye - the Linicro years.

True and Incredible Stories of a Horse Vet
True and Incredible Stories of a Horse Vet

Author: Geoff Tucker, DVM

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2013-10-02

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 1312470038

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True & Incredible Stories of a Horse Vet is told in detail by the veterinarian who experienced them first hand. Some are funny while some cause you to share the pain of both the horse and horse owner. All the stories teach an aspect of horse care or describe human traits as Dr. Tucker travels from one horse farm to another.

Is It 'Cause It's Cool?
Is It 'Cause It's Cool?

Author: Astrid M. Fellner

Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 3643505531

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Even a global political watershed, such as the end of the Cold War, seems to have left a fundamental characteristic of cultural relations between the US and the rest of the world unchanged: American popular culture still stirs up emotion. American popular culture's products, artifacts, and practices entangle their consumers in affective encounters characterized by feelings of fascination, excitement, or even wholesale rejection. What is it that continues to make 'American' popular culture 'cool?' Which role does 'cool' play in the consumers' affective encounters with 'America?' This volume of essays offers new insights on the post-Cold War dissemination of American popular culture, exploring the manifold ways in which 'cool' has emerged as an elusive, yet determining, factor of an American culture gone global. (Series: American Studies in Austria - Vol. 13)

Malcolm Orange Disappears
Malcolm Orange Disappears

Author: Jan Carson

Publisher: Liberties Press

Published: 2014-06-02

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1909718548

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Eleven-year-old Malcolm Orange has grown up in the backseat of an ancient Volvo station wagon, crisscrossing America with a diminishing collection of grandparents, one good-for-nothing father, an increasingly absent mother, and an unfortunately ordinary brother. Their journey ends abruptly in a pay-by-the-week motel in Portland, Oregon when his father finally abandons the family. Impoverished and alone, the remaining Oranges find themselves living in Chalet 13 of the Baptist Retirement Village. While his mother develops her own strange means of coping with the loss, Malcolm Orange begins to disappear, becoming more perforated each morning - until there is little of the original Malcolm left. Desperate for a cure, he enlists the help of Soren James Blue, her talking cat, Mr Fluff, and the very elderly members of the People's Committee for Remembering Songs. Malcolm and his friends set off on a hilarious and heartbreaking adventure to discover a cure for disappearing. On their way they encounter the flying children of Oklahoma, the dastardly plans of Dr Blue and all the sinister secrets hiding behind the doors of his Treatment Room. As Malcolm Orange wages youthful war on his own small losses, each of his elderly friends must learn how to accept their own peculiar disappearing act. An unforgettable story bursting with heart, imagination, tenderness and humor - a supremely confident debut.

America's 1890s Parachute Queen
America's 1890s Parachute Queen

Author: William D. Kalt III

Publisher: Universal-Publishers

Published: 2022-09-30

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 1627344128

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Death-defying pioneer parachute artist Miss Hazel Keyes earned renown across America, leaping from her balloon in the 1890s. Drawing spectators to her parachuting performances by the thousands for more than a decade jumping with her monkey, Miss Jennie Yan Yan, Hazel endured relentless hardship and injury to earn her living and claim her slice of fame. Suffering assault by friends, family, strangers, and the earth, she survived her perilous occupation for more than a decade. Following her career, the skydiving queen again garnered fame. She blazed a new trail as she battled her husbands, sons, government officials, and "bad actors" to maintain her wealth, sanity, and property. The rock-tough woman persevered despite gunshot wounds, emotional anguish, and betrayal. Her tale of fortitude stands remarkable in the annals of American history. WORDS OF PRAISE A leader in his local history community, award-winning author, historian, and humanitarian, William Kalt III continues to contribute to Western literature and give history a future. Dedicated to sharing factual accounts, his unique stories of long ago earned him a Historic Preservation Award, and his exciting writing style brings the tales to life. I highly recommend anything he writes. Dr. Kenneth V. Karrels, Chairman, Southern Arizona Transportation Museum

According to Hoyle
According to Hoyle

Author: Richard L. Frey

Publisher: Fawcett

Published: 1970

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0449211126

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"A must for anyone who wants to play a game and play it correctly." Charles H. Goren Whether you play card games, dice games, parlor games, word games, chess, checker, backgammon, or solitaire games, here is a comprehensive, up-to-date book with the complete rules of your favorite games of skill and chance. ACCORDING TO HOYLE gives not only the rules but expert advice on winning, too.