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Author : Laurence Parent
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762763132
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (627 download)
Download or read book Scenic Driving Texas, 2nd written by Laurence Parent and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marion Quednau
Publisher : Harbour Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0889713995
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (897 download)
Download or read book Sunday Drive to Gun Club Road written by Marion Quednau and published by Harbour Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her debut short story collection, Quednau offers unsettling examinations of “what really happened” with rich, complex characters that might equally arouse our suspicions or sympathy: we pay attention. She gives voice to the interludes between actions, what almost occurred, or might yet, the skewed time of “before” and acute reckoning of “afterward.” Seemingly innocent gestures leave their marks in comeuppance: the blurt of an intimate nickname becoming an ad hoc striptease in a public place, a parked car leading to a woman flailing in a dunk tank, a garage sale with no early birds ending in vengeance, the redemptive act of shucking corn with an ex-husband’s new lover transforming into greater loss. These stories attest to Quednau’s belief that the most significant moments in our lives—the things that alter us—lie in the margins, just out of sight of what was once presumed or predicted. In these short fictions timing is everything, the rusted twentieth-century myths of ownership or conquest are set against the incoming reality of pandemic, our separate notions of love or of courage, of painful transformation, yet to be believed.
Author : Tom Poland
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439668523
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book The Last Sunday Drive written by Tom Poland and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-18 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sunday drive. Mom, dad and the kids would head out to see the countryside. An ice cream treat usually waited at day's end. Back in the Burma-Shave days, mom-and-pop drive-ins and gas station biscuits fed folks. Cheap gas filled cars, and people made Sunday drives through a land where See Rock City barns, sawdust piles and trains and junkyards gave them plenty to see. Men in seersucker suits ran old stores with oscillating fans, and if the kids ate too much penny candy, grandma had a home remedy for them. It was a time for dinner on church grounds, yard art and old-fashioned petunias. Join author Tom Poland as he revisits disappearing traditions.
Author : Virginia Bernhard
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1625110219
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (251 download)
Download or read book The Hoggs of Texas written by Virginia Bernhard and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Hoggs of Texas: Letters and Memoirs of an Extraordinary Family, 1887–1906, Virginia Bernhard delves into the unpublished letters of one of Texas’s most extraordinarily families and tells their story. In their own words, which are published here for the first time. Rich in details, the more than four hundred letters in this volume begin in 1887 in 1906, following the family through the hurly-burly of Texas politics and the ups-and-downs of their own lives. The letters illuminate the little-known private life of one of Texas’s most famous families. Like all families, the Hoggs were far from perfect. Governor James Stephen Hogg (sometimes called "Stupendous" for his 6'3", 300-plus pound frame), who lived and breathed politics, did his best to balance his career with the needs of his wife and children. His frequent travels were hard on his wife and children. Wife Sallie’s years of illness casted a pall over the household. Son Will and his father were not close. Sons Mike and Tom did poorly in school. Daughter Ima may have had a secret romance. Hogg’s sister, “Aunt Fannie,” was a domestic tyrant. The letters in this volume, often poignant and amusing, are interspersed liberally with portions of Ima Hogg's personal memoir and informative commentary from historian Virginia Bernhard. They show the Hoggs as their world changed, as Texas and the nation left horse-and-buggy days and entered the twentieth century.
Author : Bill Cannon
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1461712998
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)
Download or read book Tales From Toadsuck Texas written by Bill Cannon and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 2000-12-07 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humor and trivia author Bill Cannon discovered there really was a Toadsuck, Texas, and he has collected a series of delightfully funny stories about folks he imagined might have lived in a town with such a comical name.
Author : Michelle Obama
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307956024
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)
Download or read book American Grown written by Michelle Obama and published by Crown. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The former First Lady, author of Becoming, and producer and star of Waffles + Mochi tells the inspirational story of the White House Kitchen Garden and how gardens can transform our lives and the health of our communities. Early in her tenure as First Lady, despite being a novice gardener, Michelle Obama planted a kitchen garden on the White House’s South Lawn. To her delight, she watched as fresh vegetables, fruit, and herbs sprouted from the ground. Soon the White House Kitchen Garden inspired a new conversation all across the country about the food we feed our families and the impact it has on the nutrition and well-being of our children. In American Grown, Mrs. Obama invites you inside the White House Kitchen Garden, from the first planting to the satisfaction of the seasonal harvest. She reveals her early worries and struggles—would the new plants even grow?—and her joy as lettuce, corn, tomatoes, collards and kale, sweet potatoes and rhubarb flourished in the freshly tilled soil. She shares the stories of other gardens that have moved and inspired her on her journey across the nation. And she offers what she learned about planting your own backyard, school, or community garden. American Grown features: • a behind-the-scenes look at every season of the garden’s growth • unique recipes created by White House chefs • striking original photographs that bring the White House garden to life • a fascinating history of community gardens in the United States From a modern-day vegetable truck that brings fresh produce to underserved communities in Chicago, to Houston office workers who make the sidewalk bloom, to a New York City school that created a scented garden for the visually impaired, to a garden in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, that devotes its entire harvest to those less fortunate, American Grown isn’t just the story of a single garden. It’s a celebration of the bounty of our nation and a reminder of what we can all grow together.
Author : Katherine Garbera
Publisher : Tule Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1951190335
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Full Texas Throttle written by Katherine Garbera and published by Tule Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-26 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He's always left small towns and women in his rearview mirror... until he meets her NASCAR driver Finn Delaney has cultivated a bad boy image and rakish charm that has served him well on the track and with the media. But now sidelined by a wreck that may have ended his career, Finn feels lost and vulnerable. A quick hook up with sexy military hero Lancey Maverick seems like a perfect opportunity to press his reset button and regain his mojo. Finn lights more than a spark with his sexy smile and arrogant confidence, but Lancey’s had her fill of boy-men who don’t take life or their responsibilities seriously. She’s only in town to settle her brother’s affairs. A hook up with Finn, no matter how hot, is ill advised. But Lancey’s never played it safe. Both Finn and Lancey are at a career and life crossroads. A summer fling looks like it could lead to something more, but can Finn learn to stay when life gets hard, and can Lancey learn to trust and accept the feelings of a man who lives in the fast lane?
Author : Michael J. Rosen
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 9780763621407
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (214 download)
Download or read book A Drive in the Country written by Michael J. Rosen and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2007-08-28 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates the adventures of a family and their dog on a Sunday drive to the country.
Author : Janelle Meraz Hooper
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595243754
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)
Download or read book A Three-Turtle Summer written by Janelle Meraz Hooper and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-09-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Three-Turtle Summer By Janelle Meraz Hooper Fort Sill, Oklahoma, 1949...Grace and her five-year-old daughter Glory are living through A Three-Turtle Summer-a summer so hot that the turtles are dying. It's also the summer that Grace's mother and sisters join forces with Grace to help her dump Dwayne, her abusive husband, whom her sister describes as meaner than a rattlesnake and dumber than adobe. Besides her Hispanic family, a rich list of characters also assist her escape, including: Sako, an American-born Japanese neighbor whose former home was the internment camp at Poston, Arizona; two gay dance instructors; a Negro gospel singer who sells Lip-Smackin' Barbecue out of the trunk of her new orange Cadillac convertible; and Rudolf, her older sister's husband who's a colonel in the Army. A Three-Turtle Summer was a first place fiction winner in the 2002 Bold Media Awards.
Author : Jeff Campbell
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439675252
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Murder & Mayhem on the Texas Rails written by Jeff Campbell and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-30 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texas has a long, romantic history when it comes to railroads. But even though steam engines and streetcars offer nonstop service to Nostalgia City, there's a dark side to Texas rail. The Black Widow of Fort Worth engineered a fatal double-cross at a railroad crossing. The Mountaineer Madman brought death to the Texas Electric Railway, while the Trolley Bandit terrorized the citizens of El Paso. From a freak accident involving a banana peel to a tragic trip to see Santa Claus, Jeff Campbell and the staff of the Interurban Railway Museum cross the Lone Star State on trains derailed by murder and mayhem.
Download or read book The Alcalde written by and published by . This book was released on 1994-05 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the magazine of the Texas Exes, The Alcalde has united alumni and friends of The University of Texas at Austin for nearly 100 years. The Alcalde serves as an intellectual crossroads where UT's luminaries - artists, engineers, executives, musicians, attorneys, journalists, lawmakers, and professors among them - meet bimonthly to exchange ideas. Its pages also offer a place for Texas Exes to swap stories and share memories of Austin and their alma mater. The magazine's unique name is Spanish for "mayor" or "chief magistrate"; the nickname of the governor who signed UT into existence was "The Old Alcalde."
Author : Alan B. Govenar
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 158544605X
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (854 download)
Download or read book Texas Blues written by Alan B. Govenar and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-09 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texas Blues allows artists to speak in their own words, revealing the dynamics of blues, from its beginnings in cotton fields and shotgun shacks to its migration across boundaries of age and race to seize the musical imagination of the entire world. Fully illustrated with 495 dramatic, high-quality color and black-and-white photographs—many never before published—Texas Blues provides comprehensive and authoritative documentation of a musical tradition that has changed contemporary music. Award-winning documentary filmmaker and author Alan Govenar here builds on his previous groundbreaking work documenting these musicians and their style with the stories of 110 of the most influential artists and their times. From Blind Lemon Jefferson and Aaron “T-Bone” Walker of Dallas, to Delbert McClinton in Fort Worth, Sam “Lightnin’” Hopkins in East Texas, Baldemar (Freddie Fender) Huerta in South Texas, and Stevie Ray Vaughan in Austin, Texas Blues shows the who, what, where, and how of blues in the Lone Star State.
Author : Geralyn Dawson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743453638
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)
Download or read book The Pink Magnolia Club written by Geralyn Dawson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-08 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author Geralyn Dawson brings her signature wit and charm to a contemporary tale of three Southern women who meet at a charity wedding gown sale and forge a friendship that changes their lives forever. MEET THE PINK MAGNOLIA CLUB Holly Weeks, whose boyfriend has lured her to the sale under false pretenses, wants to walk barefoot on a Tahitian beach and read a thousand books for pleasure. There are many other goals on her "Life List, " but getting married isn't one of them. Never mind that she's in love. Now if she could only figure out what's holding her back. Maggie Prescott is lonely in her empty nest. When her husband forgets their twenty-fifth anniversary, she wonders whether she even wants to share a nest with him anymore. Donating her wedding gown seems like the right thing to do. Grace Hardeman, who's volunteering at the sale, wishes for health, happiness, and a party with loved ones to mark fifty years of marriage. But soon she's facing the fight of her life. Together, these three women at turning points in their lives learn there's nothing like friendship to strengthen a heart that's in danger of breaking.
Author : Emily March
Publisher : Emily March Books
ISBN 13 : 194200236X
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Season of Sisters written by Emily March and published by Emily March Books. This book was released on with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary L. Scheer
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574416758
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Eavesdropping on Texas History written by Mary L. Scheer and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most writers and readers of history have at one time or another wished that they could have been at some particular defining event in history. Whether it was a moment of a great decision, a major turning point that changed everything, or simply an intriguing occurrence, many scholars and others have on occasion wished that they “could have been there.” Texas history provides infinite Lone Star episodes to consider, rooted in the widespread assumption that Texas is a colorful, unique, and exceptional place with larger-than-life heroes and narratives. Mary L. Scheer has assembled fifteen contributors to explore special moments in Texas history. The contributors assembled for this anthology represent many of the “all stars” among Texas historians: two State Historians of Texas, two past presidents of TSHA, four current or past presidents of ETHA, two past presidents of WTHA, nine fellows of historical associations, two Fulbright Scholars, and seven award-winning authors. Each is an expert in his or her field and provided in some fashion an answer to the question: At what moment in Texas history would you have liked to have been a “fly on the wall” and why? The choice of an event and the answers were both personal and individual, ranging from familiar topics to less well-known subjects. One wanted to be at the Alamo. Another chose to explore when Sam Houston refused to take a loyalty oath to the Confederacy. One chapter follows the first twenty-four hours of Lyndon Baines Johnson’s presidency after Kennedy’s assassination. Others write about the Dust Bowl coming to Texas, or when Texas Southern University was created. Their respective essays are not written as isolated occurrences or “moments,” but as causal developments presented within the larger social and political context of the period.
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Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Texas Trade Review and Industrial Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Oil and Gas Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
