Eighteen Bowties and Counting
Eighteen Bowties and Counting

Author: Liz Isaacson

Publisher: AEJ Creative Works

Published: 2024-07-09

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13:

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He's her older brother's best friend and completely off-limits. She's got a way with horses...and a heart condition. Can Beau and Charlotte navigate close quarters to find their happily-ever-after? Beau Peterson has been to seventeen cowboy weddings over the years he's lived and worked at Three Rivers Ranch. And now, his best friend is getting married, making it eighteen. He used to be a real ladies man, and he didn't get serious about dating until a few years ago. Then he couldn't find anyone worth being serious about. Then, as he's conducting interviews for a new Stable Manager at the ranch, he watches as someone faints right there in his kitchen. And not just someone. Someone he's met before and been told to stay away from. Charlotte Wisenhouer. His best friend's younger sister. Charlotte has been nannying for her brother and his wife, but their last child is now in school. She used to train and show horses, and she's desperate to get back into the saddle. Literally. Her heart condition has kept her out of it for years, and everyone around her has kept a close eye on her ever since her diagnosis in her late teens. She's sick of it, and now she's ready to strike out on her own. So she doesn't tell Beau about her health issue, and she's thrilled when she gets the job. However, there's a catch. The cabins at Three Rivers are full, and the only place for her to live is in the foreman's cabin. With her very single, very attractive boss: Beau. He's not sure if God is playing a trick on him or blessing him for his patience and hard work, both in his personal life and around the ranch. Charlotte knows her brother wouldn't approve of her budding relationship with Beau, so she does what she always does: She doesn't tell him. But the truth has a way of always coming out, and when it does, will both Beau and Charlotte get burned? Or will they be able to forge their way forward to a future together? Read this long-awaited novel in the Three Rivers Ranch Romance series and meet old favorites, new friends, and fall in love with the cowboys in this small Texas town!

A Very Cowboy Christmas
A Very Cowboy Christmas

Author: Liz Isaacson

Publisher: AEJ Creative Works

Published: 2023-05-04

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13:

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Garth Ahlstrom has decided to retire from being the foreman at Three Rivers Ranch, and that means one thing: A big party! Kelly Ackerman has been at Squire's side at Three Rivers Ranch for fifteen years, and she's fed a multitude of cowboys. With her son off at college now, she uses her nervous energy over Finn to organize a huge retirement-slash-Christmas party, and she and Squire invite all the other ranch owners from around Three Rivers. With an ugly sweater contest on the docket, as well as multiple Christmas trees, dancing, a plethora of food, and an appearance from both Mrs. and Santa Claus, the cowboys at Three Rivers Ranch brace themselves for the other cowboy families to arrive. Will Bear Glover win with his ugly sweater, which features a hood and a weathervane? With so many cowboys and babies at Shiloh Ridge Ranch now, surely one of them will win... Can Rhett Walker prep for his brother's fiftieth birthday party, decorate Seven Sons Ranch for the holidays, and support his wife as she deals with some difficult family news? No matter what, when Finn shows up a few days early with a girl his parents don't like, this Very Cowboy Christmas is sure to have some surprises on the agenda...including who the new foreman at Three Rivers Ranch will be! Read this brand new Christmas cowboy romance and family saga set in beloved Three Rivers and which leads to more contemporary western romance series yet to come!

Eighteen Roses
Eighteen Roses

Author: Shannon C. F. Rogers

Publisher: Feiwel & Friends

Published: 2024-07-30

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1250845742

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Lucia Cruz may be turning eighteen this year, but she is not the debutante type. Everything about a traditional Filipino debut feels all wrong for her. Besides, custom dictates that eighteen friends attend her for a special ceremony on her birthday, and Lucia only has one friend– Esmé Mares. They've stuck to each other's side all throughout high school, content to be friends with only each other. At least, Lucia thought they were content. As it turns out, Esmé wants something different out of her senior year. And, on top of that, Lucia's mom has planned a debutante ball for her birthday behind her back. She'll be forced to cobble together a court of eighteen “friends” before her beloved lola arrives from the Philippines for this blessed occasion. How far will Lucia stray from her comfort zone in order to play the role of dutiful daughter and granddaughter? Will she do the unthinkable– participating in a school sponsored activity? Will she discover that her sense of humor can be a way to connect with people, not just push them away?

Inside Out & Back Again
Inside Out & Back Again

Author: Thanhha Lai

Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press

Published: 2013-03-01

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 0702251178

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Moving to America turns H&à's life inside out. For all the 10 years of her life, H&à has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, the warmth of her friends close by, and the beauty of her very own papaya tree. But now the Vietnam War has reached her home. H&à and her family are forced to flee as Saigon falls, and they board a ship headed toward hope. In America, H&à discovers the foreign world of Alabama: the coldness of its strangers, the dullness of its food, the strange shape of its landscape, and the strength of her very own family. This is the moving story of one girl's year of change, dreams, grief, and healing as she journeys from one country to another, one life to the next.

War, Baby
War, Baby

Author: Kevin Mitchell

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2011-10-31

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 1448112567

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25th February 1995 The Dark Destroyer vs the G-Man Nigel Benn and Gerald McClennan Two men with a reputation to defend - a reputation for brutal, unforgiving combat both in the ring and outside it. Ostensibly, they were fighting for a world title and a lot of money, the stuff of professional boxing. But this fight was different. It was a rare collision of wills, and few present had seen anything like it. After ten of the most gruelling and vicious rounds that the sport of boxing has ever witnessed McClellan finally was defeated. He knelt in his corner on one knee in submission. And he never got up. This is the story of what brought these two men together on the night of 25th February 1995 and how that night changed them forever. It's a story too about those associated with the promotion of public fist-fighting, who bend morality to suit their needs. It's a story that attempts to unravel the glamour of violence. William Hill Sports Book of the Year Finalist.

My Life in Baseball
My Life in Baseball

Author: Ty Cobb

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1993-01-01

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780803263598

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"Highly successful in knitting together this story of the life of a most remarkable and dedicated player--perhaps the most spirited baseball player ever to have graced the diamond."--Library Journal. "I find little comfort in the popular picture of Cobb as a spike-slashing demon of the diamond with a wide streak of cruelty in his nature. The fights and feuds I was in have been steadily slanted to put me in the wrong. . . . My critics have had their innings. I will have mine now."--Ty Cobb "Frank, bitter, trend-setting autobiography."--USA Today Baseball Weekly "One of the most remarkable sports books ever written."--Los Angeles Daily News "The old Tiger still spits and snarls off the pages."--Cooperstown Review "Of Ty Cobb let it be said simply that he was the world's greatest ballplayer."--New York Herald Tribune (1961 editorial on Cobb's death) This Bison Book edition of My Life in Baseball is introduced by Charles C. Alexander, a professor of history at Ohio University, Athens, and the author of a biogrpahy of Ty Cobb.

In Another Life
In Another Life

Author: Howard Felperin

Publisher: Author House

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1491895594

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In 1966, a young Ph.D. fresh from Harvard came down to New Haven to take up a teaching position in the Yale English department, then widely viewed as the best in the world. In Another Life focuses in lucid retrospect on that time, place, and career, and on that moment within it which would define his destiny. Would he succeed, through native wit, hard work, intense ambition, and sheer good luck, in rising through the ranks, pleasing senior colleagues, weathering the shifting winds of critical doctrine and storms of institutional politics, to achieve that most glittering, coveted, and rarely conferred of prizes: tenure at Yale? A campus novel, full of eccentric characters and bizarre twists and turns? Well, like his quest for tenure, it's a case of yes and no. For all this actually happened. Yet it's more than a personal memoir. In Another Life reflects-and reflects on-the so-called 'crisis in English' at a time when new doctrines-'structuralism, ' 'deconstruction, ' 'theory'-were bending literary studies into unaccustomed postures, particularly at Yale. But it also reflects the powerful forces at work on higher education from the wider world outside: the political and economic pressures that were transforming an older 'elitist' culture, with literature and the humanities at its core, into the more 'egalitarian' society-economistic, technological, and bureaucratic-that we all now inhabit. The author, a self-proclaimed 'meritocrat, ' finds himself deeply at odds with both worlds, and without succour or support from either as he staggers between them. But what a good read it is for those prepared to entertain the issues it raises! Trenchantly observed and written, this is the story of one man's effort to work out his separate peace with an institution he finds increasingly alienating and absurd. Its style alone will make any but the most politically correct of readers smile through her tears

China Gate: an International Thriller
China Gate: an International Thriller

Author: Fritz Galt

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2010-02-26

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 0557154979

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One day you're a happily married man with a great job and family. The next day both your job and family are gone, the White House wants you rubbed out, you're broke and on the run in China and terrorists want to capture you...all because you're the key witness in a case against the President. There's nowhere to run when the U.S. President, the Chinese and Islamic terrorists all want to track you down! From Washington to Hollywood to Cuba to China, a diverse group of strong-willed heroes challenges powerful forces in a full-throttle race for life, liberty and justice. As in his other thrillers, Fritz Galt gives us a penetrating glimpse into foreign cultures, throws a glaring spotlight on flaws in our national security and evokes the strength of our national character in a story that will make you lock your doors and read all night!

A Sailor of Austria
A Sailor of Austria

Author: John Biggins

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2005-09-01

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 1590134680

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In this ironic, hilarious, and poignant story, Otto Prohaska is a submarine captain serving the almost-landlocked Austro-Hungarian Empire. He faces a host of unlikely circumstances, from petrol poisoning to exploding lavatories to trigger-happy Turks. All signs point to the total collapse of the bloated empire he serves, but Otto refuses to abandon the Habsburgs in their hour of need.

The Things They Carried
The Things They Carried

Author: Tim O'Brien

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2009-10-13

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 0547420293

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A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. Taught everywhere—from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writing—it has become required reading for any American and continues to challenge readers in their perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, courage and fear and longing. The Things They Carried won France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize; it was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.