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(0)Charles Russell
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Grace Ranker experiences the worst of tragedies and faces many obstacles during a slow and painful recovery. She discovers the challenges that a woman confronts in a man's sport in the late 1960s but receives support from another source that enables her to retain hope for what seems a dismal future.
Luke Ranker is in Vietnam when he learns of his dad's sudden death. He returns to Texas, suffering from the horror and death he has viewed the last...
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Rail interests tried to suppress Russell's muckraking accounts of the industry even before they were published. This 1912 collection of magazine articles about monopoly, financial speculation, mismanagement, price-fixing, and cavalier neglect of worker safety includes "The Romance of Death Avenue," "Speaking of Widows and Orphans," and "What the Law Does for Us."
4) Coming Home
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English
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Sam Colter returns from Korea in 1953 to a small ranch in Texas, that is experiencing the worst drought in history. His dad had died when he was ten and his mother two years ago. The only one to meet him is the loyal ranch hand, Jose. He hopes to leave the memories of battle and death behind him, but the demons follow him home, visiting him in dreams. An illness accelerates his depression and that coupled with trying to restock the ranch, in the continuing...
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The extraordinary life and times of advocate and agitator Wendell Phillips is vividly represented in this comprehensive biography. Tracing Phillips's beginnings in Boston, Russell details the work of the "Soldier of the Common Good" as an abolitionist, his later efforts on behalf of freed slaves, and his advocacy for Native Americans.
7) Poets, prophets, and revolutionaries: the literary avant-garde from Rimbaud through postmodernism
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1985
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English
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English
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Bill Carlisle was the last of the Old West's real outlaws.
But, unlike many of the other famous characters of the early days, Bill was not the gunfighter type. Bill never shot or injured anyone in his hold-ups; further, he never robbed a woman passenger. He had, like most old-time cowboys, a wholesome respect for women-all women.
This story of his life reads like the dime-novel fiction of an earlier day, but every incident of his daring and gripping...
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Allegro Corp
Pub. Date
c2009
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English
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In Scarlet Street a lonely bank clerk is ensnarled in an embezzlement scheme by an alluring streetwalker. In The Red House a reclusive farmer living with his spinster sister and adopted daughter goes to extreme lengths to protect the dark secret of a decaying house on his property. In The Scar a wanted criminal murders a look-alike psychiatrist and assumes his identity, even fooling his lover. In The Stranger a federal agent poses as an antique dealer...