Giant Country

Giant Country
Title Giant Country PDF eBook
Author Don Graham
Publisher Texas A&M University Press
Pages 303
Release 2013-05-31
Genre History
ISBN 0875654878

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In Giant Country Don Graham brings together a collection of lively, absorbing essays written over the past two decades. The collection begins with a twist on book introductions that sets the tone for the essays to come—a self-interview conducted poolside at an eccentric Houston motel favored by regional rock bands. Over piña coladas the author works on his tan and discusses timeless Texas themes: the transition of the state from a rural to an urban world, the sense of a vanishing era, and the way that artists in literature and film represent a state both infectiously grand and too big for its britches. In “Fildelphia Story,” Graham remembers his Ivy League professorial stint in a city the small-town Texan who rented him a moving van looked up under “F.” In “Doing England” the Lone Star Yankee courts Oxford University and returns with a veddy British education. In “The Ground Sense Necessary” a native son journeys inward to explore the dry ceremonies of frontier Protestantism and to recount movingly his father's funeral in Collin County. With his wide-ranging knowledge of classic regional works, Graham unerringly traces the style and substance of local literary giants and offers a sometimes irreverent but always entertaining look at the Texas triumvirate of Dobie, Webb and Bedichek. Other essays look at such Texas greats as Katherine Anne Porter, George Sessions Perry, William Humphrey and John Graves. In a section he calls “Polemics,” Graham includes his best known essays, “Palefaces vs. Redskins,” a sardonic survey of the Texas literary landscape, and “Anything for Larry,” a tour de force that has already become a minor classic. The essay weighs the puny financial achievements of Graham against those of mega-author Larry McMurtry and never fails to bring down the house when Graham gives a public reading. A recognized authority on celluloid Texas, Graham provides a rich sampling of his knowledge of Texas movies in pieces that blanket the territory from moo-cow cattle-drive epics to soggy Alamo sagas to urban cowboy melodramas. In the larger-than-life state that is Texas, nobody sizes up the Lone-Star mythos, its interpreters, boosters and detractors better than Don Graham.

Giant Country

Giant Country
Title Giant Country PDF eBook
Author Emory Frie
Publisher
Pages 284
Release 2019-01-25
Genre
ISBN 9780997435443

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Gold makes you suffer.Fear kills you.Giant Country is a land torn by giant and man and the destruction between them. It's a land fueled by that which glitters, built on metal and stone. It's a land where Jack Caldwell found adventure, escape, excitement. But too much has happened since then. Now, he's the Giant Slayer. Now, he has gold in his blood. Now, he's lost a friend.He is bound to a world he despises.Jack has returned at last, and with his friends at his heels, they are thrust into fast-paced adventure, gut-wrenching revelations, and characters who crawl from childhood nursery rhymes. In a place where gold is poison or cure, and fear is dangerously tangible, Jack will do anything to save the friend he long ago left behind-even as the Master's identity is finally exposed.This isn't a game anymore.

The BFG (Colour Edition)

The BFG (Colour Edition)
Title The BFG (Colour Edition) PDF eBook
Author Roald Dahl
Publisher Penguin UK
Pages 232
Release 2016-09-13
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 0141378573

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'Human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human beans is not thinking we exist.' On a dark, silvery moonlit night, Sophie is snatched from her bed by a giant. Luckily it is the Big Friendly Giant, the BFG, who only eats snozzcumbers and glugs frobscottle. But there are other giants in Giant Country. Fifty foot brutes who gallop far and wide every night to find human beans to eat. Can Sophie and her friend the BFG stop them?

The Giant Country Piano Sheet Music Collection

The Giant Country Piano Sheet Music Collection
Title The Giant Country Piano Sheet Music Collection PDF eBook
Author
Publisher Giant Book of Sheet Music
Pages 0
Release 2013
Genre Music
ISBN 9780739094877

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This easy piano collection features the most popular country songs of today. It includes famous songs in a variety of styles--from ballads to up-tempo rockers. Lyrics and basic chord symbols are included along with helpful fingering and phrasing indications. Each arrangement is fun and easy to play, and great for solo performance or sing-alongs.

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Library of Congress Subject Headings
Title Library of Congress Subject Headings PDF eBook
Author Library of Congress
Publisher
Pages 1480
Release 2013
Genre Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN

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Library of Congress Subject Headings

Library of Congress Subject Headings
Title Library of Congress Subject Headings PDF eBook
Author Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy
Publisher
Pages 1622
Release 1990
Genre Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN

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Billboard

Billboard
Title Billboard PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 80
Release 1994-05-28
Genre
ISBN

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In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.