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Pub. Date
2022
Description
The 1920s and 1930s brought many exciting and true adventures to the three Hazelwood brothers, Chester, Loren, and Melvin, on their family's ranch outside Pagosa Springs, Colorado. They had many of the adventures of those earlier pioneers of the 1880s and 1890s. There were Native Americans and mountain men, terrible snow storms and severe accidents, outlaws and crooked horse traders, and narrow escapes with locomotives. Trapping brought in much of...
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Pub. Date
2010.
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In a series of tales set mainly in the West, a man is trapped inside a restaurant where an endless loop of Shania Twain songs is playing, an actor recounts his teenage debaucheries with an old friend, and a squabbling family remains oblivious to their Yucatán vacation.
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Pub. Date
c2002
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A collection of stories includes "The Moon is down," which details the transformation of ordinary life under Nazi rule in an unnamed Scandinavian country under German occupation, as well as "Cannery Row," "The Pearl," and "East of Eden."
"The Moon Is Down (1942), set in an unnamed Scandinavian country under German occupation, dramatizes the transformation of ordinary life under totalitarian rule and the underground struggle against the Nazi invaders....
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Pub. Date
2022.
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In this examination of landscape and memory, four sites of American history are revealed as places where historical truth was written over by oppressive fiction—with profound repercussions for politics past and present. Popular narratives of American history conceal as much as they reveal. They present a national identity based on harvesting the treasures that lay in wait for European colonization.This book, in contrast, winds through the US landscape,...
Pub. Date
2006
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Discover how the West was wacky with the bumbling men of F Troop: soldiers who made jokes, not war. The captain is an accident-prone straight arrow, the sergeant is a quick-buck artist, the corporal is his hapless henchman, the purtiest gal in town is a hard-ridin' sharpshooter and the local Indians are peaceable souls firmly committed to free-market capitalism.
230) Horses don't fly
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Pub. Date
[2000]
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From breaking wild horses in Colorado to battling the Red Baron's squadrons in France, here is the true story of Frederick Libby, an American hero: the cowboy who became a World War I ace and the first pilot to fly the American colors over enemy lines. of photos.
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p2003
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Provides an overview of Christianity, the world's largest religion, and discusses why, in addition to being vast and popular, it is also extremely complex and often highly contradictory. Explains why the central figures, elements, and creeds of Christianity are hard to fathom yet give Christianity its distinctive character. Covers topics such as Christianity's birth and expansion across the Mediterranean world, the development of its doctrine, its...
232) Australia
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In northern Australia at the beginning of World War II, an English aristocrat inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier....
Pub. Date
[1996]
Description
Moving roughly chronologically, An Anthology of Chinese Literature gathers texts according to genres, themes, forms, and other groupings to show the way essential texts build off one another and how the tradition echoes itself. Including a range of forms - songs, letters, anecdotes, stories, plays, political oratory, traditional literary theory, and more - the anthology's innovative structure breaks new ground by providing a previously unavailable...
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