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Some legacies are carved in stone. Others are soaked in oil, blood, and regret. Spanning five generations of the Chiswell family—from 1845 to the modern day—The Gospel According to Texas is a haunting, literary saga of land, sin, and redemption. When Elias Chiswell abandons everything to chase a new life on the Texas frontier, he believes he’s outrunning his past. But the land he claims has a voice—and a memory. Told in part by Texas itself, this Southern Gothic novel weaves journal entries, confessions, and mythic narration into a sweeping story of faith, failure, and family legacy...

Across the nation’s history, American writers have produced a compelling and diverse body of literary expression, which joins the great literatures of other cultures to create unique perspectives on human life flowing from America’s trailblazing political system, innovative spirit, and history of immigration. In A Literary Tour of the United States, you’ll take an epic excursion across America, from the wide expanse of the continental states to Alaska, Hawaii, and beyond, delving into the jewels of writing that distinguish our nation’s literature across three centuries.

Since Bailey Rae Rigby’s adoptive aunt Winnie passed, Bent Oak, South Carolina, doesn’t have much of a hold on her anymore. So it seems. Bailey Rae aims to settle the small estate and, armed with her aunt’s inspiring personal cookbook, buy a food truck with an ocean view in Myrtle Beach. Everything goes awry when a distraught young mother arrives in town clutching a copy of that same cookbook. Embedded inside is a code that promises a safe place in Bent Oak for desperate women on the run. For Bailey Rae it opens up a world of questions.

In a small town where gossip flows, bedridden Mary Ruth McCready reigns supreme, doling out wisdom and meddling in everyone's business with a fervor that would make a matchmaker blush. When her best friend has her world rocked by a scandalous revelation from her dying husband, Mary Ruth kicks into high gear, commandeering the help of her favorite granddaughter, Sarah Elizabeth, in tracking down the truth. Finding clues in funeral condolence cards and decades-old gossip dredged up at the Blue Moon Beauty Emporium, the two stir up trouble faster than you can say "pecan pie."

When Greta Molina’s old friend Tiller offered her the job, a ten-day cattle drive across the Wyoming prairie from the ranching town of Ten Sleep, it sounded like a well-paid break. Three hundred and twenty cows and calves, two guys her age she’s known since college, and a few long days on an ATV will give her time to sort out the mess in her head. The canyon along the trail has a history, sure, but nature has a tendency toward violence. Greta can accept that, even if it makes her insides squirm.

Lucy Evans has been dangerously depressed for months. At the beginning of summer, she revealed her love for her best friend, Garrett, but he didn’t reciprocate. He responded by putting more space between them until finally, he started seeing someone and cut Lucy out of his life completely. Concerned about her health, Lucy’s great-aunt suggests she come live with her in Gulf Shores, Alabama, in hopes that the change of atmosphere may help her find joy in life again. At first, she still finds reminders of Garrett everywhere, even so far away from her home near Pickwick Lake in Tennessee.

SHERLOCK AND BARACK. This is NOT a New Sherlock Holmes Mystery. It is a research paper contributing to the amateur academic discipline known as Sherlockian studies. Also known as The Great Game. If the reader are not familiar with this discipline then you could start by googling "(Sherlock) The Great Game" and then indulge your imagination, employ skills of scientific deduction, and enjoy yourself. The particular study inquires into the questions - Why did Barack Obama win in November 2012? Why did Mitt Romney lose? Pundits and political scientists have offered countless reasons. This study...

J.D. Salinger spent several months in Vienna in 1937, living with a Jewish family, going ice skating and wearing a green Tyrolean hat. Details about the family, with whom he remained in contact for the rest of his life, have recently been unearthed.

Life changes in ways you can't predict. Could she be responsible for it all?... As a middle child, Boston native Kathryn Moore has always struggled to fit into her nouveau riche family and would rather do anything than carry on with the family business. Her aspirations lie in more artistic pursuits: to become a writer like her uncle, which strains her already turbulent relationship with her mother. After Kathryn’s uncle, her mentor and confidante, dies tragically in a car accident, she learns he has bequeathed his Charleston home to her, and life changes in ways she never could have ...

LA CORTE DEL CRISANTEMO. Novela llena de sorpresas y aventuras, en una época convulsa donde la vida de la mujer culta se desarrollaba al abrigo del emperador y la emperatriz. Por el contrario, en los poblados más pobres, la injusticia y el hambre asolan a todos aquellos desgraciados que malviven buscando su lugar en el mundo. La Corte del Crisantemo es una fascinante novela de aventuras que trasporta al lector al Japón milenario, sumergiéndolo en un mundo fantástico, con monstruosos enemigos y dioses llenos de gracia o terribles en su venganza. Conoce a Akane y a Hiroshi y déjate ...

Pubblicato nel 1931, San Manuel Bueno martire è un romanzo breve, ma intenso e di straordinaria bellezza, nel quale Unamuno fornisce finalmente una soluzione al problema centrale della sua filosofia—e in fondo della vita di ogni persona: il conflitto tra la ragione e la fede, tra il sentimento che suggerisce una vita immortale e la scienza che mostra la distruzione completa dell'essere umano.

In Too Good to Be Altogether Lost, Wilder expert Pamela Smith Hill dives back into the Little House books, closely examining Wilder's text, her characters, and their stories. Hill reveals that these gritty, emotionally complex novels depict a realistic coming of age for a girl in the American West. This realism in Wilder's novels, once perceived as a fatal flaw, can lead to essential discussions not only about the past but about the present—and the underlying racism young people encounter when reading today.

Joan’s life is a series of unexpected events: she never thought she would live in California, nor did she expect her first marriage to implode—especially as quickly and spectacularly as it did. She definitely did not expect to fall in love with an older, wealthy American man and become his fourth wife and mother to his youngest children. Joan and her children grow older, and one day she makes a drastic change: she opens the Satisfaction Café, a place where customers can find connection through conversation.

Delve into the poems of "Bellowing Thoughts," a poetry collection that offers a glimpse into the author's thoughts, perspectives, and personal experiences. With classic stanzas and rhyme and often realistic language and style that captures the essence of everyday life and the profound, this small yet powerful book invites readers to connect with the raw emotions and genuine reflections within its pages. Through a blend of harsh scrutiny and caring examination, "Bellowing Thoughts" serves as a guide to the complexities of existence, providing viewpoints for introspection, contemplation, and ...

This poetry collection features the epic poem The Sailor Who Lost His Faith In The Sea, which is one-third of the book’s contents. The poem is over a year in the crafting and is told in narrative style in the voice of a mixed-blood Caribbean working-class sailor who personifies the character, memories, and rich heritage of that region. In that setting, he deals with fundamental questions of life and death and the ordinary issues of everyday life in a genuine, unvarnished way. The sailor says, “When I write, each word is soaked in salt water, wrung out, dried in sea air, and hung on the ...

Welcome to Madison, Georgia, where the magnolias bloom, the tea is sweet, and the monsters are real. In this cozy horror anthology, the charming town of Madison hides secrets in its flowerbeds and shadows in its attics. Behind every wrought-iron fence and sun-warmed porch lies something unexpected: a banshee who quilts in the carriage house, a wight who prefers crossword puzzles to haunting, a wendigo who wears sweaters by the fire, and cryptids who just want someone to talk to. But don’t be fooled by the cobblestone streets and Southern charm. The ghouls here are real and love has a ...

Motherless Child consists of the four volumes of my earlier ebook series,Ten Poems for under a Buck arranged in order: Volume One: Afterglow-Poems about relationships that you can use Volume Two: Dying Runs in my Family-Poems about death that you can use Volume Three: Some Day-Poems about love that you can use Volume Four: Hiding-Poems about family that you can use These are poems for people who don't often read poetry. They are easy to read, easy to memorize, and pleasant to recite. They can also be a source of solace when you are troubled by the subject of one of the volumes.These poems ...

A potpourri is a medley, a miscellaneous collection. The present volume is a poetical potpourri, a collection of poems written in different styles, subject matters, forms and tones that I have produced over the last sixty years. I hope you enjoy them

"Brothers bound by blood, torn apart by betrayal. A Southern noir that will leave you breathless and haunted." In the sweltering heat of the Vietnam War, the Bruce brothers live vastly different lives on the Gulf Coast. One, driven by ambition, pursues power in college classrooms. The other, chasing fleeting pleasures, roams the sugar-white beaches of Florida. But when a rigged draft board sends the wrong brother to war, their bond shatters, setting off a chain of events with devastating consequences. From dusty Southern courthouses to storm-soaked swamps thick with corruption, "Perfidious ...

In 2008, a serial killer known as the Cajun Cannibal brutally murders and consumes the flesh of eight people in a small Louisiana parish. With law enforcement closing in on him, he takes his own life before he can face the inside of a courtroom.