Author : Alan Janney
Publisher :
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 37,44 MB
Release : 1978-07
Category : Los Angeles (Calif.)
ISBN : 9780996229326
High School junior Chase Jackson doesn't know it but he has a rare disease that overproduces and then overwhelms the body. He just believes he got really good at football.The very last thing he should do is pull on a mask and stumble into the glaring Los Angeles spotlight...
Author : Nancy Vo
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 13,24 MB
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1773061909
A small town lives in terror of the Outlaw, but one day, he disappears—and a mysterious stranger rides into town ... In this spare and powerful story set in the Old West, people in a small town live in constant worry of another visit from the Outlaw. Then the Outlaw suddenly and mysteriously disappears. Time passes, and one day a stranger rides into town. He takes it upon himself to fix everything that is in disrepair — the clapboard schoolhouse, the train station platform. He even builds a horse trough. But when someone recognizes him as the Outlaw, the crowd turns on the stranger. It takes the courage of a small boy to change the course of events ... The subtle, beautiful mixed-media art with its nineteenth-century textural references perfectly complements this original story from debut author and illustrator Nancy Vo. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.2 Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.3 Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.6 Distinguish their own point of view from that of the narrator or those of the characters. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.7 Explain how specific aspects of a text's illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a story (e.g., create mood, emphasize aspects of a character or setting)
Author : Jeff Long
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Book Company
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 18,31 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780070386907
Chronicles the life of Claude Dallas, a loner who lived off the land, from the time he killed two game wardens through the two years of his capture, trial, and sentencing
Author : Emerson Hough
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 43,4 MB
Release : 2016-08-20
Category :
ISBN : 9781537180465
The Story of the Outlaw is a classic study of desperadoes and outlaws in the American West, first published in 1905.
Author : Daniel Woodrell
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 48,97 MB
Release : 2011-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0316193399
Twelve timeless Ozarkian tales of those on the fringes of society, by a "stunningly original" American master (Associated Press). Daniel Woodrell is able to lend uncanny logic to harsh, even criminal behavior in this wrenching collection of stories. Desperation-both material and psychological -- motivates his characters. A husband cruelly avenges the killing of his wife's pet; an injured rapist is cared for by a young girl, until she reaches her breaking point; a disturbed veteran of Iraq is murdered for his erratic behavior; an outsider's house is set on fire by an angry neighbor. There is also the tenderness and loyalty of the vulnerable in these stories -- between spouses, parents and children, siblings, and comrades in arms-which brings the troubled, sorely tested cast of characters to vivid, relatable life. And, as ever, "the music coming from Woodrell's banjo cannot be confused with the sounds of any other writer"-Donald Harington, Atlanta Journal Constitution "Twelve timeless Ozarkian tales of those on the fringes of society, by a "stunningly original"-Associated Press, American master.
Author : Ian Urbina
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 41,52 MB
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0451492951
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A riveting, adrenaline-fueled tour of a vast, lawless, and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas. There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world's oceans: too big to police, and under no clear international authority, these immense regions of treacherous water play host to rampant criminality and exploitation. Traffickers and smugglers, pirates and mercenaries, wreck thieves and repo men, vigilante conservationists and elusive poachers, seabound abortion providers, clandestine oil-dumpers, shackled slaves and cast-adrift stowaways—drawing on five years of perilous and intrepid reporting, often hundreds of miles from shore, Ian Urbina introduces us to the inhabitants of this hidden world. Through their stories of astonishing courage and brutality, survival and tragedy, he uncovers a globe-spanning network of crime and exploitation that emanates from the fishing, oil, and shipping industries, and on which the world's economies rely. Both a gripping adventure story and a stunning exposé, this unique work of reportage brings fully into view for the first time the disturbing reality of a floating world that connects us all, a place where anyone can do anything because no one is watching.
Author : Emerson Hough
Publisher : New York : Outing
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 50,95 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Americana
ISBN :
Author : Michael Streissguth
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 47,13 MB
Release : 2013-06-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0062038206
Outlaw by acclaimed author Michael Streissguth follows the stories of three legends as they redefined country music: Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson. Streissguth delves into the country music scene in the late '60s and early '70s, when these rebels found themselves in Music City writing songs and vying for record deals. Channeling the unrest of the times, all three Country Music Hall of Famers resisted the music industry’s unwritten rules and emerged as leaders of the outlaw movement that ultimately changed the recording industry. Outlaw offers a broad portrait of the outlaw movement in Nashville that includes a diverse secondary cast of characters, such as Johnny Cash, Rodney Crowell, Kinky Friedman, and Billy Joe Shaver, among others. With archival photographs throughout, Outlaw is a comprehensive examination of a fascinating shift in country music, and the three unbelievably talented musicians who forged the way.
Author : T. Jefferson Parker
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 17,52 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780451226112
Investigating the latest crime scene of a celebrity thief who has been staging lucrative heists and donating the spoils to charity, rookie deputy Charlie Hood is forced to make an ethics-testing decision when the thief is targeted by a professional killer. Reprint.
Author : Emerson Hough
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 24,9 MB
Release : 2013-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0486320863
Recounted mainly by the outlaws themselves along with eyewitnesses to their deeds, these tales chronicle the lives and crimes of Billy the Kid, Frank and Jesse James, and other legendary figures of the Old West.
