Outback Wedding/Single Dad, Outback Wife/Wedding at Sunday Creek/At the Cattleman's Command


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Single Dad, Outback Wife - Amy Andrews Distinguished city surgeon Andrew Montgomery is the new doctor in a small town, and the new guardian to his young nephew, Cory. Out of his depth in his role as a single dad, he turns to beautiful nurse Georgina Lewis for help. Andrew is enchanted by Georgina — she is wonderful with Cory, devoted to her patients and absolutely perfect for Andrew. He never envisaged staying in the Australian Outback, but now he’s not sure he wants his old life back. His future is here, in the town that has become his home...with the woman who has captured his heart. Wedding At Sunday Creek - Leah Martyn Medical director Jack Cassidy doesn’t expect a red carpet when he arrives at Sunday Creek’s Outback hospital, but he’s taken aback by English doctor Darcie Drummond’s frosty reception! Darcie knows she needs to make up for their shaky start, but she’s flustered by Jack’s absurdly good looks and wild masculinity. Still recovering from her last relationship, she can’t be tempted into another. But could this Australian doc be the man to soothe away Darcie’s past hurts and help her love again? At The Cattleman’s Command - Lindsay Armstrong Rugged Australian Tom Hocking’s reputationis legendary throughout the Outback — as a breaker of horses and a wooer of women. So wedding planner Chas has made up her mind to keep out of his way while she organises his sister’s wedding. But there’s nowhere to hide at the Hocking homestead. And from the get-go theirs is a love/hate relationship as Chas tries to resist Tom’s intoxicating good looks. She’s got far too much to lose to place herself at this cattleman’s command!




Fast Food Nation


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An exploration of the fast food industry in the United States, from its roots to its long-term consequences.




Historic McLennan County


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Folklore in Motion


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The adventurous spirit of Texans has led to much travel lore, from stories of how ancestors first came to the state to reflections of how technology has affected the customs, language, and stories of life "on the go." This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society features articles from beloved storytellers like John O. West, Kenneth W. Davis, and F. E. Abernethy as well as new voices like Janet Simonds. Chapters contain traditional "Gone to Texas" accounts and articles about people or methods of travel from days gone by. Others are dedicated to trains and cars and the lore associated with two-wheeled machines, machines that fly, and machines that scream across the land at dangerous speeds. The volume concludes with articles that consider how we fuel our machines and ourselves, and the rituals we engage in when we're on our way from here to there.




I Recall: Collections and Recollections


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I Recall: Collections and Recollections is a memoir by Robert Henderson Croll. Croll was an Australian author, lyricist, bushwalker, and civic servant. Excerpt: "Central Australia, where I have now been five times, was long a place of desire. When my Sister Elizabeth and her husband, Albert Watts, went to live at Quorn, a township sitting at the foot of the Flinders Range in South Australia, I paid her two visits. They quickened my wish to see more of the remarkable country on the edge of which Quorn is placed. That was some forty years ago. The first, a Spring journey, left two vivid memories. One is of the seemingly endless fields of young wheat which made much of South Australia so beautiful just then; the other is of a shooting trip to which we were invited. Our hosts were two young men of the district, tall and powerful, sons of a German settler. The conveyance was a light open cart with one fixed seat which held the two brothers. Behind them, a board rested its ends on the sides of the cart and was secured to the front seat by a stout rope."




A History of Wayne County


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The Apache Diaries


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In 1930, four decades after the surrender of Geronimo, anthropologist Grenville Goodwin headed south in search of a rumored band of "wild" Apaches in the Sierra Madre. Goodwin's journals chronicling his epic search have been edited and annotated by his son, Neil, who was born three months before his father's tragic death at the age of thirty-three. Neil Goodwin uses the journals to engage in a dialogue with the father he never knew.




Icon, Brand, Myth


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This book investigates the meanings and iconography of the Stampede: an invented tradition that takes over the city of Calgary for ten days every July. Since 1912, archetypal "Cowboys and Indians" are seen again at the chuckwagon races, on the midway, and throughout Calgary. Each essay in this collection examines a facet of the experience – from the images on advertising posters to the ritual of the annual parade. This study of the Calgary Stampede as a social phenomenon reveals the history and sociology of the city of Calgary and a component of the social construction of identity for western Canada as a whole.




Collected Prose (Esprios Classics)


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Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson, CBE (17 February 1864 - 5 February 1941) was an Australian bush poet, journalist and author. He wrote many ballads and poems about Australian life, focusing particularly on the rural and outback areas, including the district around Binalong, New South Wales, where he spent much of his childhood. Paterson was a law clerk with a Sydney-based firm headed by Herbert Salwey, and was admitted as a solicitor in 1886. In the years he practised as a solicitor, he also started writing. Paterson's more notable poems include "Clancy of the Overflow" (1889), "The Man from Snowy River" (1890) and "Waltzing Matilda" (1895), regarded widely as Australia's unofficial national anthem.




Stone on Stone


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