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The World Looks At Texas
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Author : Thornton Wilder
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1936
The World Looks At Texas written by Thornton Wilder and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1936 with Texas categories.
Well-known persons of the day write their impressions of the Lone Star State.
News Of The World
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Author : Paulette Jiles
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2016-10-04
News Of The World written by Paulette Jiles and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-04 with Fiction categories.
Soon to be a Major Motion Picture National Book Award Finalist—Fiction In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust. In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence. In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives in San Antonio. Four years earlier, a band of Kiowa raiders killed Johanna’s parents and sister; sparing the little girl, they raised her as one of their own. Recently rescued by the U.S. army, the ten-year-old has once again been torn away from the only home she knows. Their 400-mile journey south through unsettled territory and unforgiving terrain proves difficult and at times dangerous. Johanna has forgotten the English language, tries to escape at every opportunity, throws away her shoes, and refuses to act “civilized.” Yet as the miles pass, the two lonely survivors tentatively begin to trust each other, forming a bond that marks the difference between life and death in this treacherous land. Arriving in San Antonio, the reunion is neither happy nor welcome. The captain must hand Johanna over to an aunt and uncle she does not remember—strangers who regard her as an unwanted burden. A respectable man, Captain Kidd is faced with a terrible choice: abandon the girl to her fate or become—in the eyes of the law—a kidnapper himself.
God Save Texas
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Author : Lawrence Wright
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2019-03-05
God Save Texas written by Lawrence Wright and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-05 with History categories.
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower—and a Texas native—takes us on a journey through the most controversial state in America. • “Beautifully written…. Essential reading [for] anyone who wants to understand how one state changed the trajectory of the country.” —NPR Texas is a red state, but the cities are blue and among the most diverse in the nation. Oil is still king, but Texas now leads California in technology exports. Low taxes and minimal regulation have produced extraordinary growth, but also striking income disparities. Texas looks a lot like the America that Donald Trump wants to create. Bringing together the historical and the contemporary, the political and the personal, Texas native Lawrence Wright gives us a colorful, wide-ranging portrait of a state that not only reflects our country as it is, but as it may become—and shows how the battle for Texas’s soul encompasses us all.
The New World Looks At Its History
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963
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Texas At The Crossroads A Texas Editor Looks At Changing Europe As It Affects The Southwest
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Author : Victor H. Schoffelmayer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009-07
Texas At The Crossroads A Texas Editor Looks At Changing Europe As It Affects The Southwest written by Victor H. Schoffelmayer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07 with categories.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Texas Outlaw
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Author : James Patterson
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2020-03-30
Texas Outlaw written by James Patterson and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-30 with Fiction categories.
To Rory Yates being a Texas Ranger is about justice, but all of that changes when he is brought to a small southern town to help uncover the mysteries behind a local woman's death—only to discover corruption and lies. Texas Ranger Rory Yates is not keen for hero status. But it's unavoidable once his girlfriend, country singer Willow Dawes, writes a song about his bravery. Rory escapes his newfound fame when he's sent to the remote West Texas town of Rio Lobo, a municipality with two stoplights. And now, according to the Chief of Police, it has one too many Texas Rangers. Rio Lobo Detective Ariana Delgado is the one who requested Rory, and the only person who believes a local councilwoman's seemingly accidental death is a murder. Then Rory begins to uncover a tangle of small-town secrets, favors, and lies as crooked as Texas law is straight. To get to the truth before more people die, Rory is forced to take liberties with the investigation. The next ballad of Rory Yates may not be about a hero, but rather an outlaw song.
The United States Of Soccer
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Author : Phil West
language : en
Publisher: Abrams
Release Date : 2016-11-01
The United States Of Soccer written by Phil West and has been published by Abrams this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-01 with Sports & Recreation categories.
“A brisk and informative look at Major League Soccer’s first twenty years . . . West gives MLS fans a worthy chronicle.” (Booklist). In 1988, FIFA decreed that the 1994 World Cup would be played in the United States – with the condition that the U.S. would start a new professional league. The North American Soccer League had failed just four years prior, and the prospects of launching a new league for Americans, who didn’t share the rest of the world’s love for soccer, were both exciting and daunting. The United States of Soccer is the engaging history of Major League Soccer’s bootstrap origins prior to its 1996 launch, its near-demise in the early 2000s, and its surprising resilience and growth as it won recognition from soccer fans around the world. The book also explores the origin of MLS’s superfans who set the tone within MLS stadiums and defining what it is to be a North American soccer fan. Phil West chronicles those fans’ voices – intermingled with league officials, former players and coaches, journalists, and newspaper accounts – to detail MLS’s remarkable journey.
State Of Minds
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Author : Don Graham
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2011-03-29
State Of Minds written by Don Graham and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-29 with Social Science categories.
John Steinbeck once famously wrote that "Texas is a state of mind." For those who know it well, however, the Lone Star State is more than one mind-set, more than a collection of clichés, more than a static stereotype. There are minds in Texas, Don Graham asserts, and some of the most important are the writers and filmmakers whose words and images have helped define the state to the nation, the world, and the people of Texas themselves. For many years, Graham has been critiquing Texas writers and films in the pages of Texas Monthly and other publications. In State of Minds, he brings together and updates essays he published between 1999 and 2009 to paint a unique, critical picture of Texas culture. In a strong personal voice—wry, humorous, and ironic—Graham offers his take on Texas literary giants ranging from J. Frank Dobie to Larry McMurtry and Cormac McCarthy and on films such as The Alamo, The Last Picture Show, and Brokeback Mountain. He locates the works he discusses in relation to time and place, showing how they sprang (or not) from the soil of Texas and thereby helped to define Texas culture for generations of readers and viewers—including his own younger self growing up on a farm in Collin County. Never shying from controversy and never dull, Graham's essays in State of Minds demolish the notion that "Texas culture" is an oxymoron.
The Texas Gun Club
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Author : Mark Bowlin
language : en
Publisher: BrownBooks.ORM
Release Date : 2009-11-06
The Texas Gun Club written by Mark Bowlin and has been published by BrownBooks.ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-06 with Fiction categories.
Two very different cousins head to Italy to fight in World War II in this absorbing novel, a winner of the Military Writers Society of America Gold Medal. The first novel in the Texas Gun Club series, this is the story of two cousins and their journey from south Texas to the distant shores of wartime Italy. Sam Taft is a rancher, fiercely devoted to his wife, Margaret, and intent on surviving the war and returning to Texas. Each skirmish, every battle, is one step closer to home. His cousin Perkin Berger was a student of history at the University of Texas, and is eager for adventure. The impulsive Berger finds the war a lark, a grand journey—until the harrowing realities of warfare begin to set in. Set against the backdrop of the battle of Salerno, The Texas Gun Club is meticulously researched and faithful to the saga of the soldiers from Texas in 1943 Italy, written with rich authenticity by a retired naval officer.
The New World Looks At Its History
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Author : Archibald R. Lewis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963
The New World Looks At Its History written by Archibald R. Lewis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with History categories.