The Dirty Shame Hotel
The Dirty Shame Hotel

Author: Ron Block

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13:

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A man witnesses the aftermath of animal slaughter while taking his daughter pumpkin-picking on a farm; two men plot the death of a Hank Williams wannabe; a lonely young man develops roundworm from exposure to old books - these are some of the stories in Ron Block's original and hilarious debut collection of stories. Block has a fierce range as a writer, the stories riding the spectrum from quiet poignancy to the bizarre and raucous. THE DIRTY SHAME HOTEL is a darkly comic, unflinching, and unsettling account of the lives of the disenfranchised. - Laurie Foos, author of EX UTERO. Ron Block is a writer with nerve and verve, a high wire artist whose stunning leaps of fancy balance us on the thin edge where the fantastic and the ordinary meet. - Lee Martin, author of THE LEAST YOU KNEED TO KNOW.

A Dirty Shame
A Dirty Shame

Author: Liliana Hart

Publisher: 7th Press

Published: 2012-10-26

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1480191558

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J.J. Graves is back in Bloody Mary, but she's a long way from feeling at home. Between her bodily scars from being the target of a murderer and the emotional scars left by her parents, she doesn't know who she can trust. But death doesn't stop for anyone. The first murder is grisly. The second even more so. And though things are shaky between them, she and her best friend, Jack, have no choice but to join forces and find the killer. Because the life of someone they love dearly hangs in the balance.

Trials and Tribulations of Dirty Shame, Oklahoma
Trials and Tribulations of Dirty Shame, Oklahoma

Author: Sy Hoahwah

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Published: 2024-02-15

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 0826365957

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Trials and Tribulations of Dirty Shame, Oklahoma beautifully showcases Comanche gothic literature, a new genre in Indigenous literature, at its creative best. In the tradition of The Iliad and Paradise Lost, this book is an epic poem of heroic and biblical proportions. Three Indigenous young people discover that the Holy Grail has been on the North American continent for centuries, and in Oklahoma for the last two. Battling both human and supernatural enemies, Velroy, Mia, and Stoney struggle to get the Holy Grail out of Indian Country to save their families and community and bring true peace back to their ordinary, Dirty Shame lives.

The Big Empty
The Big Empty

Author: Ladette Randolph

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2007-12-01

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 0803207409

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The gruesome story of the devastation of buffalo herds in the late nineteenth century has become uncomfortably familiar. A less familiar story, but a hopeful one for the future, is Ken Zonteks account of Native peoples efforts to repopulate the Plains with a healthy, viable bison population.

A Different Plain
A Different Plain

Author: Ladette Randolph

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9780803239586

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O Pioneers! was oh so long ago, and yet Willa Cather's masterpiece has proven to be an enduring template for readers' notions of Nebraska writing. The short stories collected here, so richly various in style, theme, and subject matter, should put an end to any such plain thinking about writing from this anything-but-plain state. Nebraska writers all, the authors explore the Midwest, a vastness of small towns, corn, cattle, football, and family businesses. They also venture far afield, to desolate western lives, crowded urban relationships, poignant couplings, comic families, and the worldly idiosyncrasies of characters everywhere. Whether about aging or coming-of-age, leave-taking or coming home, falling apart or finding love, these stories represent contemporary fiction at its best, from the high style of Richard Dooling's "Immortal Man" to Kent Haruf's soft-spoken "Dancing," from Ron Hansen's "My Communist" to Jonis Agee's earthy, offbeat "Binding the Devil." Original, spirited, and surprising, these contemporary writings depict a modern world on the move and extend the tradition of great fiction from Nebraska into the twenty-first century.

Lifeline
Lifeline

Author: M. V. Branch

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2008-05

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 143435475X

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"Corey McAlister was amazed to see a man in a black wetsuit crawl from the surf onto the beach in front of her cottage on the Gulf of Mexico. Mystery surrounds the injured stranger and his unknown enemies. This does not dissuade Corey from helping the man into her cabin and safety. 'Don't call anyone ... especially the authorities, ' he pleads. 'They'll kill me!' he cries out before managing to give her a number ... his lifeline. Then he lapses into a coma. In the excitement, Corey forgets the last three digits of the number. Only a few months earlier, Corey fled to her vacation home after witnessing the fatal, fiery death of her famous husband, the veteran race car driver, Charlie McAlister, who won the Indy 500 several times. Memories haunted her and nightmares stole her sleep. The atmosphere of Gulf Shores with its white sand, brilliant sunshine and salt air has been healing, but now this sought-after peace is shattered by the stranger's appearance. The added responsbilitiy of his care while learning she has a fight ahead to save her beach property seems overwhleming."--Back cover

Montana Watering Holes
Montana Watering Holes

Author: Joan Melcher

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2009-10-14

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 0762761628

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In many small towns across Montana, the local bar is also the only restaurant and is an important part of community life. In larger towns and cities, gems from Montana’s Wild West past are still found. This book celebrates the quirky, unusual, and downright fun and entertaining saloons across the state. Montana Watering Holes features more than fifty of the best spots to stop for a drink (or a burger) scattered across Montana. From big-city spots like the Rhino in Missoula (with its 150 beers on tap) to the famous cheeseburgers at the bar in Pony (pop. 50), community spirit and tradition abound in the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century buildings that have served as saloons, restaurants, and gathering places throughout the Treasure State. This book describes the best of the best, offering geographic diversity, anecdotes, and sidebars on local characters from the past. It is illustrated with archival and contemporary black-and-white photographs.

The Snowflake
The Snowflake

Author: George Turrell

Publisher: Trafford Publishing

Published: 2016-08-10

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 149077582X

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Where to go from here? What to do? The answers are often dictated by chance, sometimes by ones own ambitions and, too often, by the decisions of others. Thus it is that the future of the young scientist in this story is determined. At each juncture, the die is cast. He is led to three continents, with other cultures and societies, in his quest of intellectual freedom and happiness.