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Big Wonderful Thing

Author : Stephen Harrigan
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292759517
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Big Wonderful Thing written by Stephen Harrigan and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Texas is the story of struggle and triumph in a land of extremes. It is a story of drought and flood, invasion and war, boom and bust, and of the myriad peoples who, over centuries of conflict, gave rise to a place that has helped shape the identity of the United States and the destiny of the world. “I couldn’t believe Texas was real,” the painter Georgia O’Keeffe remembered of her first encounter with the Lone Star State. It was, for her, “the same big wonderful thing that oceans and the highest mountains are.” Big Wonderful Thing invites us to walk in the footsteps of ancient as well as modern people along the path of Texas’s evolution. Blending action and atmosphere with impeccable research, New York Times best-selling author Stephen Harrigan brings to life with novelistic immediacy the generations of driven men and women who shaped Texas, including Spanish explorers, American filibusters, Comanche warriors, wildcatters, Tejano activists, and spellbinding artists—all of them taking their part in the creation of a place that became not just a nation, not just a state, but an indelible idea. Written in fast-paced prose, rich with personal observation and a passionate sense of place, Big Wonderful Thing calls to mind the literary spirit of Robert Hughes writing about Australia or Shelby Foote about the Civil War. Like those volumes it is a big book about a big subject, a book that dares to tell the whole glorious, gruesome, epically sprawling story of Texas.

What a Wonderful World

Author : Marcus Chown
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571278426
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book What a Wonderful World written by Marcus Chown and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With wit, colour and clarity, What A Wonderful World quickly and painlessly brings us up to speed on how the world of the 21st century works. From economics to physics and biology to philosophy, Marcus Chown explains the complex forces that shape our universe. Why do we breathe? What is money? How does the brain work? Why did life invent sex? Does time really exist? How does capitalism work - or not, as the case may be? Where do mountains come from? How do computers work? How did humans get to dominate the Earth? Why is there something rather than nothing? In What a Wonderful World, Marcus Chown, bestselling author of Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You and the Solar System app, uses his vast scientific knowledge and deep understanding of extremely complex processes to answer simple questions about the workings of our everyday lives. Lucid, witty and hugely entertaining, it explains the basics of our essential existence, stopping along the way to show us why the Atlantic is widening by a thumbs' length each year, how money permits trade to time travel why the crucial advantage humans had over Neanderthals was sewing and why we are all living in a giant hologram.

The Gates of the Alamo

Author : Stephen Harrigan
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525431810
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (254 download)

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Download or read book The Gates of the Alamo written by Stephen Harrigan and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestselling novel, modern historical classic, and winner of the TCU Texas Book Award, The Spur Award and the Wrangler Award for Outstanding Western Novel It’s 1836, and the Mexican province of Texas is in revolt. As General Santa Anna’s forces move closer to the small fort that will soon be legend, three people’s fates will become intrinsically tied to the coming battle: Edmund McGowan, a proud and gifted naturalist; the widowed innkeeper Mary Mott; and her sixteen-year-old son, Terrell, whose first shattering experience with love has led him into the line of fire. Filled with dramatic scenes, and abounding in fictional and historical personalities—among them James Bowie, David Crockett, William Travis, and Stephen Austin—The Gates of the Alamo is a faithful and compelling look at a riveting chapter in American history.

Jacob's Well

Author : Stephen Harrigan
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292758154
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Jacob's Well written by Stephen Harrigan and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1984, Stephen Harrigan's passionate, emotionally intense second novel takes readers deep into the mysterious passageways of a Central Texas aquifer—and of the human heart. This edition includes a new afterword by the author.

All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

Author : Bryn Greenwood
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466885807
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book All the Ugly and Wonderful Things written by Bryn Greenwood and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - A New York Times and USA Today bestseller - Book of the Month Club 2016 Book of the Year - Second Place Goodreads Best Fiction of 2016 A beautiful and provocative love story between two unlikely people and the hard-won relationship that elevates them above the Midwestern meth lab backdrop of their lives. As the daughter of a drug dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. It's safer to keep her mouth shut and stay out of sight. Struggling to raise her little brother, Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. Obsessed with the constellations, she finds peace in the starry night sky above the fields behind her house, until one night her star gazing causes an accident. After witnessing his motorcycle wreck, she forms an unusual friendship with one of her father's thugs, Kellen, a tattooed ex-con with a heart of gold. By the time Wavy is a teenager, her relationship with Kellen is the only tender thing in a brutal world of addicts and debauchery. When tragedy rips Wavy's family apart, a well-meaning aunt steps in, and what is beautiful to Wavy looks ugly under the scrutiny of the outside world. A powerful novel you won’t soon forget, Bryn Greenwood's All the Ugly and Wonderful Things challenges all we know and believe about love. 31 Books Bringing the Heat this Summer —Bustle Top Ten Hottest Reads of 2016 —New York Daily News Best Books of 2016 —St. Louis Post Dispatch

The Leopard Is Loose

Author : Stephen Harrigan
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0525655778
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book The Leopard Is Loose written by Stephen Harrigan and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fragile, 1952 postwar tranquility of a young boy’s world explodes one summer day when a leopard escapes from the Oklahoma City zoo, throwing all the local residents into dangerous excitement, in this evocative story of a child’s confrontation with his deepest fears For Grady McClarty, an ever-watchful but bewildered five-year-old boy, World War II is only a troubling, ungraspable event that occurred before he was born. But he feels its effects all around him. He and his older brother Danny are fatherless, and their mother, Bethie, is still grieving for her fighter-pilot husband. Most of all, Grady senses it in his two uncles: young combat veterans determined to step into a fatherhood role for their nephews, even as they struggle with the psychological scars they carry from the war. When news breaks that a leopard has escaped from the Oklahoma City Zoo, the playthings and imagined fears of Grady’s childhood begin to give way to real-world terrors, most imminently the dangerous jungle cat itself. The Leopard Is Loose is a stunning encapsulation of America in the 1950s, and a moving portrait of a boy’s struggle to find his place in the world.

They Came from the Sky

Author : Stephen Harrigan
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781477312940
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book They Came from the Sky written by Stephen Harrigan and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fall of 2018, the University of Texas Press will publish the inaugural volume of the Texas Bookshelf, a major new history of Texas by Stephen Harrigan, the New York Times best-selling author. The Texas Bookshelf promises to be the most ambitious and comprehensive publishing endeavor about the culture and history of one state ever undertaken. Comprised of in-depth general-interest histories of a range of Texas subjects—politics, music, film, business, architecture, and sports, among many others—the Bookshelf volumes will be written by the state's brightest authors, scholars, and intellectuals, all affiliated with the University of Texas at Austin. Published in a signed edition, They Came from the Sky offers an exciting preview of Harrigan's sweeping, full-length history. This tantalizing "short" begins with the earliest native inhabitants over ten thousand years ago and continues through the ill-fated Spanish explorations of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. In its pages, we encounter the prehistoric flint producers and traders who were Texas's first entrepreneurs; Spanish castaways and would-be conquerors; the Karankawas, Querechos (Apaches), and Caddos, whose lifeways were forever changed by contact with Europeans; and the "Lady in Blue," an abbess who mysteriously claimed to have visited the "Quivira and the Jumanas" in Texas while remaining within her Spanish cloister. Bringing Stephen Harrigan's formidable narrative talent to the founding story of Texas, They Came from the Sky constitutes the vanguard of a major publishing event.

Great Texas Birds

Author : John P. O'Neill
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292760531
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Great Texas Birds written by John P. O'Neill and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents color reproductions of forty-eight Texas birds selected as the personal favorites of illustrator John O'Neill and editor Suzanne Winckler, each accompanied by a personal, scientific, or literary observation by a well-known Texas birder or nature writer.

The Wonderful Things You Will Be

Author : Emily Winfield Martin
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0375982183
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (759 download)

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Download or read book The Wonderful Things You Will Be written by Emily Winfield Martin and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestseller that celebrates the dreams, acceptance, and love that parents have for their children . . . now and forever. This is the perfect heartfelt gift for any special occasion, from birthdays to graduations, and celebrating new babies and other new beginnings. From brave and bold to creative and clever, Emily Winfield Martin's rhythmic rhyme expresses all the loving things that parents think of when they look at their children. With beautiful, lush illustrations and a stunning gatefold that opens at the end, this is a book that families will love reading over and over. The Wonderful Things You Will Be has a loving and truthful message that will endure for lifetimes and makes a great gift to the ones you love for any occasion.

Texas Got it Right!

Author : Sam Wyly
Publisher : None
ISBN 13 : 9781595910745
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Texas Got it Right! written by Sam Wyly and published by None. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this astute and provocative look at Texan policies, history, and culture, Sam and Andrew Wyly unpack the secrets behind the swagger. Discover how the Lone Star State has become an economic powerhouse and the number-one place to move in the country.

Bob Books

Author : Bobby Lynn Maslen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780439145039
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Bob Books written by Bobby Lynn Maslen and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories and pictures to make learning alphabet sounds enjoyable.

Texas Alphabet

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781893062177
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (621 download)

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Download or read book Texas Alphabet written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remember the Alamo! That's what we'll say To get our state alphabet book underway... Thus begins Texas Alphabet -- a whimsical celebration of what makes Texas such a special state...from A to Z! Through rhymed verse and colorful collages, author and illustrator Laurie Parker presents a delightful alphabetical account of some of the many people, places, and things of which Texans are so proud. Both children and adults will enjoy exploring the state letter by letter through fun-to-read rhymes such as this one for the letter C: C is for COWBOYS on gridiron and saddle,COTTON BOWL, CACTUS, COYOTES, and CATTLE.A tribe called the CADDO gave our state its name,And there are more C words we Texans can claim...Like CADILLAC RANCH, CORPUS CHRISTI, CORRAL,The old CHISHOLM TRAIL and CAMINO REAL.We've CAVERNS and CANYONS and lovely CLEAR LAKE.The CHISOS and CHILI and CHICKEN-FRIED STEAK! Texas Alphabet is a must-have keepsake for all who hold the Lone Star State dear!

Archibald's Next Big Thing

Author : Tony Hale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692229484
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (294 download)

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Download or read book Archibald's Next Big Thing written by Tony Hale and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archibald's Next Big Thing is the extraordinary adventure of an extra-ordinary chicken named Archibald Strutter. His three brothers and one sister have each found their "Big Thing" (including a brother chicken who impressively grows human hair) and the only Big Thing Archibald has planned is what he's eating for lunch. This all changes when he receives a mysterious blue card that reads "YOUR BIG THING IS HERE!" So, accompanied by a friendly bee named BEE, Archibald takes the card and heads off on a fantastic journey in hopes of finding his NEXT BIG THING. It's a story that reminds us that, while looking for the next big thing isn't a bad thing, we should always remember that big and beautiful things are all around us ... right NOW.

Big Wonderful Thing

Author : Stephen Harrigan
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477320040
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Big Wonderful Thing written by Stephen Harrigan and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Harrigan, surveying thousands of years of history that lead to the banh mi restaurants of Houston and the juke joints of Austin, remembering the forgotten as well as the famous, delivers an exhilarating blend of the base and the ignoble, a very human story indeed. [ Big Wonderful Thing is] as good a state history as has ever been written and a must-read for Texas aficionados.”—Kirkus, Starred Review The story of Texas is the story of struggle and triumph in a land of extremes. It is a story of drought and flood, invasion and war, boom and bust, and the myriad peoples who, over centuries of conflict, gave rise to a place that has helped shape the identity of the United States and the destiny of the world. “I couldn’t believe Texas was real,” the painter Georgia O’Keeffe remembered of her first encounter with the Lone Star State. It was, for her, “the same big wonderful thing that oceans and the highest mountains are.” Big Wonderful Thing invites us to walk in the footsteps of ancient as well as modern people along the path of Texas’s evolution. Blending action and atmosphere with impeccable research, New York Times best-selling author Stephen Harrigan brings to life with novelistic immediacy the generations of driven men and women who shaped Texas, including Spanish explorers, American filibusters, Comanche warriors, wildcatters, Tejano activists, and spellbinding artists—all of them taking their part in the creation of a place that became not just a nation, not just a state, but an indelible idea. Written in fast-paced prose, rich with personal observation and a passionate sense of place, Big Wonderful Thing calls to mind the literary spirit of Robert Hughes writing about Australia or Shelby Foote about the Civil War. Like those volumes, it is a big book about a big subject, a book that dares to tell the whole glorious, gruesome, epically sprawling story of Texas.

War on the Border

Author : Jeff Guinn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982128879
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book War on the Border written by Jeff Guinn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From bestselling author Jeff Guinn, the dramatic story of how U.S.-Mexico border tensions erupted into open warfare in 1916, as a U.S. military expedition crossed the border to try to capture Mexican guerrilla Pancho Villa -- a military incursion whose effects still haunt the border region to this day"--

Texas Loud, Proud, and Brash

Author : Rusty Williams
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493064401
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Texas Loud, Proud, and Brash written by Rusty Williams and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of New Texas, the Texas we know today—oil-rich, insufferably loud, and unbearably proud of itself—begins in the late 1920s, when a horned frog wakes from its thirty-one-year nap in a courthouse cornerstone and flabbergasts the nation. In slightly over two decades ten individuals—their words, actions, and accomplishments—come to define the New Texas of the twenty-first century. While the history of Old Texas rests on oft-told legends of Houston, Austin, Travis, Crockett, Rusk, Lamar, and Seguin, today’s New Texas—proud, loud, self-promotional, sports-crazy, and too rich for its own good—is the Texas that percolates throughout the nation’s popular culture. In Texas Loud, Proud, and Brash: How Ten Mavericks Created the Twentieth-Century Lone Star State, author Rusty Williams profiles ten largely unsung men and women responsible for the Texas you love, hate, and (secretly) envy today.

The Rough Guide To Girl Stuff

Author : Kaz Cooke
Publisher : Rough Guides UK
ISBN 13 : 1848362501
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (483 download)

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Download or read book The Rough Guide To Girl Stuff written by Kaz Cooke and published by Rough Guides UK. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rough Guide to Girl Stuff is packed with everything a girl needs to know to get her through the teen years. From friends, body changes, clothes school stress, exercise and sex to smoking, embarrassment, dieting, guys, drinking, drugs and heartbreak. Not to mention how to beat bullies and mean girls, earn money, find new friends and get on with your family. Written by award winning author Kaz Cooke, in extensive consultation with medical, psychological and practical experts; The Rough Guide to Girl Stuff provides a wealth of practical tips and non-judgemental advice for teens (and their parents!) Girl Stuff is split in to four key themes: Body, Head, Heart and On the Go and each chapter includes facts, hints, inspiring lists, hundreds of quotes from real girls, and details of websites and books for useful tips if you want to find out more. Designed to be a friend through the teenage years, The Rough Guide to Girl Stuff will be your best friend through every change and challenge. Girl Stuff is the book I wanted when I was a teenager; a 'best friend' that will honestly answer every question about everything" (Kaz Cooke)