Aggie's Double Dollies
Aggie's Double Dollies

Author: Izzy Auld

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2011-06-27

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 1462024971

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Somebody feels threatened by Aggie's commitment to researching and writing the family history. Leaving threatening phone calls, emails, and faxes, the bad guy doesn't give up. Hiring a killer, a neophyte bad guy, this stalker trails Aggie and her double cousin to France, and on a river cruise, and then on a cross-country drive. The problem-what sort of scandal occured in the recent or distant past to send a family member on such a deadly quest? What could Aggie possibly uncover that's so awful as to require murder most foul? Aggie's research takes her and Lisa back to the past on a historical adventure, where we see the settling of the west, particularly Wyoming, through the eyes of the cousins' great-great-grandmothers. Meanwhile, in this day and age, one wonders what in the world possessed another cousin to marry a real loser, a teller turned bank VP after marrying the secretary of state. Also, Aggie's generation of cousins are bent on playing cupid, except they're in conflict about whom and why. Should they push Senator Steve Norman at Cousin Nasty, or devise romantic scenarios for Steve with Nicole, Aggie's granddaughter? These two sub-plots get in the way of Aggie's quest, one of which contributes to her search and her desperate efforts to save her own life, and the other sub-plot of which must inevitably foil the primary plot. (Aggie's Double Dollies, more than any other of the Aggie Morissey mysteries, helps to unravel the family saga)

Aggie's Double Crowns
Aggie's Double Crowns

Author: Izzy Auld

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2011-06-09

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1462023967

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Jerica Davidson, the First Miss, enrolls at her parents' alma mater. Her professor advisor is Joan, daughter of Aggie Morissey, good friend of the President, Jerica's dad. Eager to live a normal life away from the spotlight and the secret service, Jerica falls in with a rough crowd, led by her roommate, Callie, a devious opportunist. Callie introduces Jerica, the girl who longs to win beaty contests, to Butch, a tough guy from Milwaukee. Aggie tries to take Jerica under her wing, but the President's daughter resists, eluding both Aggie and Joan. Now Butch is one step closer to winning Jerica's heart, body, and soul, through her commitment to him, to Callie, and to their cause. Involving Jerica in his terrorist activities would be cool. He convinces Jerica that their cause is "Saving the Trees". When Jerica goes missing just when a building on campus blows up, Butch leaks the news that the First Miss is a member of the eco-terrorist gang responsible for the mayhem. And the press goes wild! Aggie Morissey starts out worrying about President Dominic Davidson's life, but she could be mistaken: right family, wrong person.

Aggie Sees Double
Aggie Sees Double

Author: Izzy Auld

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2011-06-06

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1462015298

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Aggie suspects she was invited to the Vermont retreat because of her friendship with the President. Before leaving home, though, she catches her husband and cousin in bed! She is so enraged, if she had a gun shed shoot them both! Thus overwrought, and convinced she knows what it feels like to contemplate murder, Aggie pursues one red herring after another in her half-hearted attempt to finger a serial killer running amok at the retreat before anybody else dies. Coming under suspicion are several doubles or pairs attending the retreat, people she thinks of now as her friends. Meanwhile, the Holloway brothers plan how to manipulate the scene from their pink canoe on Lake Bomoseen. They have planted a live weapon, a person theyve hypnotized, to take out the President when he and the First Lady arrive at the retreat to visit their good friend, Aggie Morissey, whom the Holloways have been sure got an invitation to this conference on Improving Family Relationships.

Aggie's Broncs
Aggie's Broncs

Author: Izzy Auld

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2011-06-06

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 1462022545

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Bill Taylor dreams of becoming a world champion rodeo cowboy. To raise a stake toward achieving his goal, Billy follows his brother's advice to "find a rich wife to support your dream." Billy persuades Nicole to elope with him and have his baby. He hopes her rich old granddad will die soon and leave her a bundle. Meanwhile, her kinfolk want their princess back home in the bosom of the family who loves her. Nicole struggles to control her temper--vowing to stop beating up on Billy and endangering her child. She changes her mind almost daily about sticking by her man, because she's afraid of losing little Stevie into the foster care service. In a backwater community where nothing much ever happens, an art gallery owner dabbles in art forgeries. Senator Steve Norman and the U.S. President are two hobby artists whose works of art are at risk. And Aggie Morissey seeks to solve a murder before one of her double cousins is arrested. Key players in the story are Nicole Jacquot Taylor and her husband, Cowboy Billy Taylor; Steve Norman, the man Nickee cannot have. And Aggie Morissey, supportive confidante and grandmother. Plus a supporting case of assorted in-laws and outlaws, the art gallery owner, the bartender, the banker, and the President of the United States.

Texas Aggies in Vietnam
Texas Aggies in Vietnam

Author: Michael Lee Lanning

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

Published: 2016-10-25

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1623494702

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From its inception, graduates of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, now Texas A&M University, have marched off to fight in every conflict in which the United States has been involved. The Vietnam War was no different. The Corps of Cadets produced more officers for the conflict in Southeast Asia than any institution other than the US service academies. Michael Lee Lanning, Texas A&M University class of 1968, has now gathered over three dozen recollections from those who served. As Lanning points out, “anytime Aggie Vietnam veterans get together—whether it is two or two hundred of them—war stories begin.” The tales they relate about the paddies, the jungles, the highlands, the waterways, and the airways provide these veterans with an even greater understanding of the war they survived. They also allow glimpses into the frequent dangers of firefights, the camaraderie of patrol, and often humorous responses to inexplicable situations. These revelations provide insight not only into the realities of war but also speak to the character of the graduates of Texas A&M University. As Lanning concludes, “these war stories are as much a part of service as is that old green duffle bag, a few rows of colorful ribbons, and a pride that does not diminish. In reality, there is only one story about the Vietnam War. We all just tell it differently.”

Greetings from Nowhere
Greetings from Nowhere

Author: Barbara O'Connor

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2008-03-18

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0374399379

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In North Carolina's Great Smoky Mountains, a troubled boy and his mother, a happy family seeking adventure, a man and his lonely daughter, and the widow who must sell the run-down motel that has been her home for decades, meet and are transformed by their shared experiences.

The Pride of Polly Perkins
The Pride of Polly Perkins

Author: Joan Jonker

Publisher: Headline

Published: 2012-03-29

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0755390253

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When tragedy strikes a family, their lives are never the same again... The Pride of Polly Perkins is a captivating saga of a warm Liverpudlian family hit by illness, and a nostalgic look back at the communities of yesteryear, from much-loved author Joan Jonker. Perfect for fans of Cathy Sharp and Katie Flynn. At the age of fourteen, happy-go-lucky Polly Perkins faces untold sadness when her beloved father is diagnosed with tuberculosis. As Tommy's stay in hospital turns from weeks into months, Polly's mother, Ada, becomes increasingly anxious as to how she will make ends meet. In an attempt to help out, Polly takes a job as a flowerseller, and when she sells a buttonhole to Charles Denholme, a member of the Liverpool gentry, she sets in motion a chain of events that changes her life forever... What readers are saying about The Pride of Polly Perkins: 'Joan Jonker is the best writer of good, old-fashioned story telling' 'This has to be one of the best books I have ever read. It brings out a mixture of emotions all in one book: tears, joy and above all laughter. I could not put it down. I would recommend it to anyone'