Celia Hill's Headin' West

2023-02-10 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Celia Hill
Release : 2023-02-10
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 474/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Celia Hill's Headin' West written by Celia Hill. This book was released on 2023-02-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celia Smith Hill’s journal provides a glimpse of hardscrabble life in far West Texas during the first half of the twentieth century. Hill’s family moved to Texas from Tennessee in the late 1800s. After her death, Bill Wright and Marianne Wood researched the history of the area and interviewed family and friends to provide context for Hill’s colorful tale of endurance in an unforgiving landscape. Hill’s family suffered lean times during the Depression before cinnabar—mercury ore—was discovered on her family’s property. During World War II, the Fresno Mines supplied one tenth of all the mercury produced in the United States. After graduating college, Celia began a peripatetic teaching career that lasted decades, marrying and losing two husbands along the way. Finally, living alone along the most remote western border of Texas, Celia spent her later years selling snacks to the occasional visitor. Bill Wright met Celia at her La Junta General Store in Ruidosa, where she told him about her unfinished journal. With this book Bill fulfills his promise to share her courageous and fascinating life with others.

Stepping into the Sun

2021-08-28 Fiction

Author : Mark Heidenstam
Release : 2021-08-28
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 099/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Stepping into the Sun written by Mark Heidenstam. This book was released on 2021-08-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Hart, a fortysomething Norfolk school teacher, has sought solace in drink as he sees his personal and professional life start to unravel. He suspects, with good reason, he is about to lose out on a promotion to a younger colleague who is assumed to be sleeping with his wife.

B-4: Special Agent

2023-07-20 Fiction

Author : Jack McLaughlin
Release : 2023-07-20
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 15X/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book B-4: Special Agent written by Jack McLaughlin. This book was released on 2023-07-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicknamed B-4 – Big Boobs Bonnie Brown – by her childhood friends, she is the daughter of legendary San Francisco cop Bobby Brown and was raised in Battle Mountain, Nevada after her mother was bussed out of The City to avoid her demise. B-4 grew up in her mother’s foul-mouthed, rowdy, rough, and colorful image. After her mother’s murder, Bobby Brown came to the self-proclaimed armpit or America to see her into adulthood. Her father produced a second daughter unknown to B-4. JJ Wellington is a billionaire widow living in Washington, DC. In Battle Mountain, Bobby Brown runs B-4’s dead mother’s Roadkill Saloon and Lilly’s Bordello. B-4 becomes an ATF Special Agent and her first assignment is Las Vegas where her sharp-shooting skills get her in trouble immediately and the target of a criminal family. Flashbacks of her mother’s and father’s pasts guide her as she faces dire trouble several times. In the end, Joseph Benneschott, who is B-4’s mother’s son, also unknown to B-4, and JJ save Bobby Brown and the “Rookie” from certain death.

All Standing

2014-01-14 History

Author : Kathryn Miles
Release : 2014-01-14
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 157/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book All Standing written by Kathryn Miles. This book was released on 2014-01-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enthralling, true tale of a celebrated “coffin ship” that ran between Ireland and America in the 1840s: “By turns harrowing and heartwarming…All Standing salvages the treasure of a history lost at sea” (J.C. Hallman, author of The Devil Is a Gentleman). More than one million immigrants fled the Irish famine for North America—and more than one hundred thousand of them perished aboard the “coffin ships” that crossed the Atlantic. But one small ship never lost a passenger. All Standing recounts the remarkable tale of the Jeanie Johnston and her ingenious crew, whose eleven voyages are the stuff of legend. Why did these individuals succeed while so many others failed? And what new lives in America were the ship’s passengers seeking? In this deeply researched and powerfully told story, acclaimed author Kathryn Miles re-creates life aboard this amazing vessel, richly depicting the bravery and defiance of its shipwright, captain, and doctor—and one Irish family’s search for the American dream.

Peter West

2007 Domestic fiction

Author : D. E. Stevenson
Release : 2007
Genre : Domestic fiction
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Book Rating : 256/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Peter West written by D. E. Stevenson. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beth Kerr is the daughter of the boatman in the small village of Kintoul. As the years pass, Beth grows into a beautiful young woman, watched over by the quiet Peter West. The owner of Kintoul House, Peter is a lonely man with a weak heart and few family members and friends. They both struggle with their feelings for one another, before being forced to embark on marriages decided upon by their families. But will their lives follow the paths set for them, or will they find their own way?

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