Down the Gully
Title | Down the Gully PDF eBook |
Author | James B Zimmerman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 78 |
Release | 2021-10-21 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781684337873 |
Jimmy, known by his friends as Meathead, is struggling to keep a secret. He wets the bed. Together with his dog and his pet ferret, Meathead rides his Big Wheel to misadventures in the gully, a swampy stream that cuts through his neighborhood. Impressing the older kids seems important, but it leads him into trouble. Losing his beloved pets and having his secret exposed, Meathead learns his lessons the hard way.
The Other Side of Christmas
Title | The Other Side of Christmas PDF eBook |
Author | Beth Gully |
Publisher | |
Pages | 28 |
Release | 2014-09-20 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780990726708 |
Ambigram Christmas childrens' book that bridges the gap between the Santa story and the Jesus story. This ambigram book has two stories in one. The first story shares people celebrating this traditional holiday.Then at the last page, readers are directed to turn the book upside down to read the second story of the birth of Jesus on Christmas day.
Down in the gully part song
Title | Down in the gully part song PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1949 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Circular
Title | Circular PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1022 |
Release | 1938 |
Genre | Agriculture |
ISBN |
The Alps
Title | The Alps PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Conway |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 213 |
Release | 2018-09-20 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3734037697 |
Reproduction of the original: The Alps by Martin Conway
Boone's Lick
Title | Boone's Lick PDF eBook |
Author | Larry McMurtry |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2010-06-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1439140936 |
Boone's Lick is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry's return to the kind of story that made him famous -- an enthralling tale of the nineteenth-century west. Like his bestsellers Lonesome Dove, Streets of Laredo, Comanche Moon, and Dead Man's Walk, Boone's Lick transports the reader to the era about which McMurtry writes better and more shrewdly than anyone else. Told with McMurtry's unique blend of historical fact and sheer storytelling genius, the novel follows the Cecil family's arduous journey by riverboat and wagon from Boone's Lick, Missouri, to Fort Phil Kearny in Wyoming. Fifteen-year-old Shay narrates, describing the journey that begins when his Ma, Mary Margaret, decides to hunt down her elusive husband, Dick, to tell him she's leaving him. Without knowing precisely where he is, they set out across the plains in search of him, encountering grizzly bears, stormy weather, and hostile Indians as they go. With them are Shay's siblings, G.T., Neva, and baby Marcy; Shay's uncle, Seth; his Granpa Crackenthorpe; and Mary Margaret's beautiful half-sister, Rose. During their journey they pick up a barefooted priest named Father Villy, and a Snake Indian named Charlie Seven Days, and persuade them to join in their travels. At the heart of the novel, and the adventure, is Mary Margaret, whom we first meet shooting a sheriff's horse out from underneath him in order to feed her family. Forceful, interesting, and determined, she is written with McMurtry's trademark deftness and sympathy for women, and is in every way a match for the worst the west can muster. Boone's Lick abounds with the incidents, the excitements, and the dangers of life on the plains. Its huge cast of characters includes such historical figures as Wild Bill Hickok and the unfortunate Colonel Fetterman (whose arrogance and ineptitude led to one of the U.S. Army's worst and bloodiest defeats at the hands of the Cheyenne and Sioux) as well as the Cecil family (itself based on a real family of nineteenth-century traders and haulers). The story of their trek in pursuit of Dick, and the discovery of his second and third families, is told with brilliance, humor, and overwhelming joie de vivre in a novel that is at once high adventure, a perfect western tale, and a moving love story -- it is, in short, vintage McMurtry, combining his brilliant character portraits, his unerring sense of the west, and his unrivaled eye for the telling detail. Boone's Lick is one of McMurtry's richest works of fiction to date.
Prayers for the Dead
Title | Prayers for the Dead PDF eBook |
Author | Dennis P. Vannatta |
Publisher | White Pine Press |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781877727399 |
The story of the Workman family comes to life in ten interlocking stories covering three generations. "The clarity and purity of Dennis Vannatta's Prayers for the Dead stems from his deep awareness that local history is always the secret history -- and perhaps most telling portrait -- of any era. In creating Sunday's Hollow, Missouri, he aligns himself with the great tradition of rich fictional microcosms, with Winesburg, Spoon River, and Yoknapatawpha, and Vannatta serves his legendary forebears with distinction."-- David Wojahn