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A Bride for the Texas Cowboy

Author : Sinclair Jayne

Publisher : Tule Publishing

Page : 221 pages

File Size : 36,15 MB

Release : 2019-09-26

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 195119019X

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She names an impossible price... August Wolf is back home on his family’s Texas ranch for good this time, and he has a lot to prove. He’s taken his inherited portion of the ranch as far from the family’s famed longhorn legacy as possible, but a devastating accident throws his plans and his life in jeopardy. August doesn’t have the word 'quit' in his vocabulary even when he has to reach out and beg for help from the woman least likely to answer his call – his furious and broken-hearted ex. Last Stand is the last town winemaker Catalina Clemmens wants to return to, and August Wolf is the last man she wants to see. And work for him? Never. But when an injured August stands before her and begs, Cat sees a chance to finally have some closure on their long, fraught history, the soul searing lust and her love that still burns brightly. She names a price she knows he’ll never pay. But August says yes… and then he ups the ante



The Texas Cowboy Cookbook

Author : Robb Walsh

Publisher : Ten Speed Press

Page : 274 pages

File Size : 37,78 MB

Release : 2007-04-10

Category : Cooking

ISBN : 0767921496

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Texas cowboys are the stuff of legend — immortalized in ruggedly picturesque images from Madison Avenue to Hollywood. Cowboy cooking has the same romanticized mythology, with the same oversimplified reputation (think campfire coffee, cowboy steaks, and ranch dressing). In reality, the food of the Texas cattle raisers came from a wide variety of ethnicities and spans four centuries. Robb Walsh digs deep into the culinary culture of the Texas cowpunchers, beginning with the Mexican vaqueros and their chile-based cuisine. Walsh gives overdue credit to the largely unsung black cowboys (one in four cowboys was black, and many of those were cooks). Cowgirls also played a role, and there is even a chapter on Urban Cowboys and an interview with the owner of Gilley’s, setting for the John Travolta--Debra Winger film. Here are a mouthwatering variety of recipes that include campfire and chuckwagon favorites as well as the sophisticated creations of the New Cowboy Cuisine: • Meats and poultry: sirloin guisada, cinnamon chicken, coffee-rubbed tenderloin • Stews and one-pot meals: chili, gumbo, fideo con carne • Sides: scalloped potatoes, onion rings, pole beans, field peas • Desserts and breads: peach cobbler, sourdough biscuits, old-fashioned preserves Through over a hundred evocative photos and a hundred recipes, historical sources, and the words of the cowboys (and cowgirls) themselves, the food lore of the Lone Star cowboy is brought vividly to life.



The Texas Cowboy Kitchen

Author : Grady Spears

Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing

Page : 656 pages

File Size : 20,90 MB

Release : 2007-10-01

Category : Cooking

ISBN : 0740793284

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A cookbook with essays, photos and innovative recipes celebrating the mythology, culture and food of the American cowboy. As at home on the coffee table as it is on the kitchen counter, this definitive cowboy cookbook features historical essays and photographs depicting life on the Chisholm Trail alongside fresh takes on cowboy cuisine. Cowboy-turned-chef Grady Spears reinvents chuckwagon dishes from Barbecued Quail Tamales to Pork Tenderloin with Watermelon Salsa to Butterscotch Pie by elevating them to haute cowboy cuisine. Equal parts cookbook, history lesson, and photographic essay, The Texas Cowboy Kitchen blends Spears's distinctive culinary recipes with June Naylor's narrative of life on the Chisholm Trail and Erwin E. Smith's award-winning black-and-white cowboy photography and four-color culinary shots. Divided into 10 chapters ranging from “Campfire Cocktails” to “Things You Don't Rope” to “Chuckwagon Secrets,” The Texas Cowboy Kitchen contains 100 original recipes perfected at Spears's renowned former restaurants, the Chisholm Club in Fort Worth, Texas, and the Nutt House Restaurant in Granbury, Texas—both of which satisfied wags of hungry customers. “Grady's probably the only guy I know who could dress up a Frito pie and make it look pretty, and the only cook who'd think of marinating skirt steak in Dr. Pepper. . . . [He is equally] at ease in a worn pair of leather chaps as he is wielding a saute pan..” —Nolan Ryan, Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher and lifelong cowboy



The Mystery of the Tuscan Hills

Author : Morris M. Weiss M. D.

Publisher : AuthorHouse

Page : 134 pages

File Size : 35,42 MB

Release : 2006-12

Category : Etruscans

ISBN : 1425930603

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Dean Daniel Allen''s Friday afternoon trip to Jackson''s Hardware in downtown Jeffreysville for the mundane purchase of a deadbolt lock for his kitchen door becomes the prelude to ten days of momentous events. Several members of the faculty as well as a number of students at DeMott University will never be the same after Dean Allen finds the beautiful Jeanette de Lorien in a piano practice room in the tower of the University Library, finds her very dead indeed. An unlikely detective, only Dean Allen''s sense of duty will keep him cooperating with the Campus Security and the Jeffreysville police. Sometimes he will find himself caught in the crossfire between these two unacknowledged rivals in enforcement of the law. At other times he will seem almost to be thwarting the police investigation when his loyalty to his faculty colleagues prevents him from telling the whole truth. He also will find himself going out on his own in questionable attempts to follow his secretary''s advice to solve a crime by "knowing your victim." Not only will he end up knowing the victim, but he will learn a great deal about the lives of a number of the suspects, and there are a surprising number of these in the quiet Midwestern town and on the conservative campus of DeMott University! He also will find out a bit about himself, leaving him surprised and quite pleased. This book is not so much a typical murder mystery as it is a study of the people encountered in the story. The basic premise of the author is that people''s behavior is the result of the totality of the experiences of their lives. Such behavior may not be condoned, but it can be understood. And a campus in a small Midwestern town can be the scene of just as much irrational, aberrant, or immoral behavior as may a more urban environment. The setting gives the author opportunity to give the reader some insights into academic life on such a campus.



From My Tuscan Window

Author : George H. Russell

Publisher : Xlibris Corporation

Page : 507 pages

File Size : 48,89 MB

Release : 2010-12-10

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1453538461

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In the fall of 1973, George, his wife, Sue, and their Italian-born two-year-old daughter Anne noticed a bent-over sign that read Gioviano and, on a whim, decided to see what lay at the end of the road. After twenty-eight hairpin turns up the side of a mountain on the flanks of the Apuanian Alps overlooking the Serchio Valley some twenty miles north of the city of Lucca, the Russell family arrived at one of the most charming and unspoiled villages left in Italy. That little adventure would change their lives forever and perhaps even the lives and future of the little hill town itself. from My Tuscan Window chronicles the experiences of the Russell family over the course of thirty-seven years in the little Tuscan hill town of Gioviano.



Summer in Tuscany

Author : Elizabeth Adler

Publisher : Macmillan

Page : 372 pages

File Size : 43,58 MB

Release : 2009-04-14

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9780312537081

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An American woman discovers the magic of Tuscany in this delightful novel from the acclaimed author of "The Last Time I Saw Paris."



Cowboy Tough

Author : Joanne Kennedy

Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.

Page : 386 pages

File Size : 45,59 MB

Release : 2013-02-05

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1402265549

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She's hardly a cowgirl... Cat Crendall left a successful advertising job in New York to teach art workshops in the wild west. The Boyd Ranch is hardly her dream destination, but if the outing's a success, the company will send her to more exotic locations. But once a cowboy... Mack Boyd was in the middle of the best bronc-riding season of his life when his mother asked for help with an artists' retreat at the ranch. Mack might be able to ride a wild stallion to a standstill but he can't say no to his family. Cat and Mack are complete opposites...but when the ranch is threatened financially, can they set aside their differences and work together?



Midnight at the Tuscany Hotel

Author : James Markert

Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM

Page : 369 pages

File Size : 17,26 MB

Release : 2019-04-09

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0785219080

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A story of the power of memory, Midnight at the Tuscany Hotel explores the mysteries of the mind, the truth behind lore, and the miracle of inspiration. After thirteen months at war, Vittorio Gandy is haunted by memories, and his former life is unrecognizable. Once a gifted painter, now he can’t bear the vivid, bleeding colors on a canvas. His young son doesn’t remember him, and his wife, Valerie, is scared of him. But the most disconcerting change is in Vitto’s father, Robert Gandy, who has fallen from being a larger-than-life sculptor to a man whose heart has been broken by the death of his muse—Vitto’s mother—and whose mind has been taken by Alzheimer’s. When Robert steals away in the night, Valerie, Vitto, and his new acquaintance and fellow veteran John go to the only place Robert might remember—the now-abandoned Tuscany Hotel, where it was once rumored that creatives of all kinds could find inspiration. When they find him there, Robert’s mind is sound and his memories are intact. Before long, word gets out that drinking from the fountain at the hotel can restore the memories of those suffering from Alzheimer’s and dementia. The rooms once again fill up with guests—not artists this time, but people seeking control over their memories and lives. Vitto desperately wants to clear his own mind, but as he learns more about his late mother’s life and her tragic death, he begins to wonder whether drinking the water comes at a price.



The Heartbreak Cowboy

Author : Mina Beckett

Publisher : CurtissLynn Publishing

Page : 436 pages

File Size : 26,90 MB

Release : 2018-10-17

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1732705119

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Experience the power of love, redemption, and second chances in the newly released edition of The Heartbreak Cowboy complete with the heartfelt prequel novella, The Cowboy’s Goodnight Kiss. The story offers a poignant glimpse into the characters’ pasts and the events that set their love story in motion. Fall in love with Eleanor and McCrea as they prove that true love can heal even the most shattered hearts. The Cowboy's Goodnight Kiss For as long as Eleanor Mackenna can remember, her heart has belonged to the irresistible McCrea Coldiron. A cowboy with rugged charm and a devil-may-care attitude, he has always been the embodiment of her deepest desires. But when he offers her a night she’ll never forget, she’s forced to choose between her love for the cowboy and the bitter truth behind his affections. The Heartbreak Cowboy Can an old flame reignite to become a fiery love? Four years ago, McCrea Coldiron was thrust into a heart-wrenching ultimatum that shattered his tender and newly budding romance with Eleanor Mackenna. Settle down and find a wife or lose his inheritance. Divorced and now proprietor of the Promise Point Horse Rescue Ranch, McCrea has no regrets about his decision to choose land over love as he watched Eleanor storm out of his life — until he discovers they made more than love the night he proposed. Eleanor knows all about choices and letting go. The single mom has come back to Santa Camino, Texas to sell her grandparent's ranch and sever all ties to her hometown. The only thing standing in her way is McCrea Coldiron, the man she's loved since childhood. Eleanor knows just how badly McCrea can burn a woman and how persuasive he can be when he wants something. When he asks for a second chance, she's forced to choose between trusting her heart again or running away from the man who has always owned it. keywords: cowboy romance, romance, small town & rural, westerns, contemporary, family saga, cowboy romance book, second chance romance, secret baby, Texas, first love, accidental pregnancy, alpha hero



Cold Tuscan Stone

Author : David P. Wagner

Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.

Page : 214 pages

File Size : 33,73 MB

Release : 2018-08-07

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1464210772

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“Perfect for readers who enjoy a complex puzzle, a bit of humor, and a fairly gentle procedural. Don’t miss this one.” —Library Journal, starred review Rick Montoya has moved from New Mexico to Rome, embracing the life of a translator. He’s settling in to la dolce vita when a school friend who is now senior in the Italian Art Squad recruits Rick for an unofficial undercover role. Armed with a list of galleries, suspects, and an expense account, Rick arrives in Tuscany posing as a buyer for a gallery, ready to spend his days sipping wine and examining Roman artifacts to flush out burial urn traffickers. But before sunset on Rick's first day in Volterra, a gallery employee dies in a brutal fall from a high cliff. The local Commissario and his team suspect Rick in the dead man's murder. While the Volterra squad pursues its leads, Rick investigates his own list of suspects: a museum director, a top gallery owner, a low-profile import/export businessman and his enterprising color-coordinated assistant, and a sensuous heiress with a private art specialty and clientele. But as the murder mystery and the art trafficking heat up, Rick's role makes him the target of both cops and criminals. Praise for Cold Tuscan Stone: “This is a wonderful start to a series, which should have immediate legs, and surely will thrill everyone who has lived in Italy, been to Italy, or would like to visit.” —Joseph Heywood, author of The Woods Cop Mysteries “The intriguing art milieu, mouthwatering cuisine, and the team of the ironic Conti and the bemused but agile Montoya are bound to attract fans.” —Publishers Weekly