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The Do-Right

Author : Lisa Sandlin

Publisher : Cinco Puntos Press

Page : 302 pages

File Size : 48,87 MB

Release : 2015-10-05

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1941026206

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Winner of the 2015 Dashiell Hammett Prize and 2016 Shamus Award 1959. Delpha Wade killed a man who was raping her. Wanted to kill the other one too, but he got away. Now, after fourteen years in prison, she’s out. It’s 1973, and nobody’s rushing to hire a parolee. Persistence and smarts land her a secretarial job with Tom Phelan, an ex-roughneck turned neophyte private eye. Together these two pry into the dark corners of Beaumont, a blue-collar, Cajun-influenced town dominated by Big Oil. A mysterious client plots mayhem against a small petrochemical company-why? Searching for a teenage boy, Phelan uncovers the weird lair of a serial killer. And Delpha — on a weekend outing — looks into the eyes of her rapist, the one who got away. The novel's conclusion is classic noir, full of surprise, excitement, and karmic justice. Sandlin's elegant prose, twisting through the dark thickets of human passion, allows Delpha to open her heart again to friendship, compassion, and sexuality. Lisa Sandlin's story "Phelan's First Case" was anthologized in Lone Star Noir and was later re-anthologized in Akashic's Best of the Noir series, USA Noir. The Do-Right is her first full-length mystery. Lisa was born in Beaumont, currently lives and teaches in Omaha, Nebraska, and summers in Santa Fe, New Mexico.



Writers and Writings of Texas

Author : Davis Foute Eagleton

Publisher :

Page : 412 pages

File Size : 15,60 MB

Release : 1913

Category : American literature

ISBN :

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Writers and Writings of Texas.



Texas Women Writers

Author : Sylvia Ann Grider

Publisher : Texas A&M University Press

Page : 484 pages

File Size : 33,97 MB

Release : 1997

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 9780890967652

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A critical survey of over 150 years of Texas women writers, including fiction and nonfiction authors, poets, and dramatists.



Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts

Author : Matt Bell

Publisher : Soho Press

Page : 169 pages

File Size : 31,13 MB

Release : 2022-03-08

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1641293411

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They say writing is rewriting. So why does the second part get such short shrift? Refuse To Be Done will guide you through every step of the novel writing process, from getting started on those first pages to the last tips for making your final draft even tighter and stronger. From lauded writer and teacher Matt Bell, Refuse to Be Done is encouraging and intensely practical, focusing always on specific rewriting tasks, techniques, and activities for every stage of the process. You won’t find bromides here about the “the writing Muse.” Instead, Bell breaks down the writing process in three sections. In the first, Bell shares a bounty of tactics, all meant to push you through the initial conception and get words on the page. The second focuses on reworking the narrative through outlining, modeling, and rewriting. The third and final section offers a layered approach to polishing through a checklist of operations, breaking the daunting project of final revisions into many small, achievable tasks. Whether you are a first time novelist or a veteran writer, you will find an abundance of strategies here to help motivate you and shake up your revision process, allowing you to approach your work, day after day and month after month, with fresh eyes and sharp new tools.



Writers And Writings Of Texas

Author : Davis Foute Eagketib (M. A.)

Publisher :

Page : 390 pages

File Size : 40,59 MB

Release : 1913

Category : American literature

ISBN :

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The South and its literary produce; Sidney Lanier, his character and work; progress of literary effort in the Lone Star State.



Writers and Writings of Texas

Author : Anonymous

Publisher : Palala Press

Page : 408 pages

File Size : 10,54 MB

Release : 2016-04-25

Category :

ISBN : 9781354501412

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.



WRITERS & WRITINGS OF TEXAS

Author : Davis Foute Eagleton

Publisher :

Page : 406 pages

File Size : 17,6 MB

Release : 2016-08-27

Category : History

ISBN : 9781371187767

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Hometown Texas

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Publisher : Trinity University Press

Page : 407 pages

File Size : 15,28 MB

Release : 2017-11-07

Category : Photography

ISBN : 1595348085

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Brown and Holley are interested in place and what makes people who they are. With particular interest in how people take the hand they’ve been dealt—fate, family, circumstance, luck—and craft a life for themselves, the authors celebrate the grit and gumption of these Texas originals. Introducing quirky characters and tenacious spirits, Holley’s stories seek out the personality of the small town while Brown’s photographs capture the essence of a changing landscape. Hometown Texas aims not to be nostalgic or sentimental but rather to show readers an unknown Texas—one that, while not vanishing, is certainly on the wane. Organized into five topographical, geographic, and cultural sections—East, West, North, South, and Central—three dozen stories and more than eighty complementary images work to create a parallel narrative to reveal what Brown has described as the “collective, various, remarkably complex soul that makes Texas unique.” Hometown Texas is an exploration across miles and cultures, of well-traveled roads and forgotten byways, deep into the heart of Texas.



God Save Texas

Author : Lawrence Wright

Publisher : Vintage

Page : 307 pages

File Size : 38,49 MB

Release : 2018-04-17

Category : History

ISBN : 0525520112

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NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower—and a Texas native—takes us on a journey through the most controversial state in America. • “Beautifully written…. Essential reading [for] anyone who wants to understand how one state changed the trajectory of the country.” —NPR Texas is a red state, but the cities are blue and among the most diverse in the nation. Oil is still king, but Texas now leads California in technology exports. Low taxes and minimal regulation have produced extraordinary growth, but also striking income disparities. Texas looks a lot like the America that Donald Trump wants to create. Bringing together the historical and the contemporary, the political and the personal, Texas native Lawrence Wright gives us a colorful, wide-ranging portrait of a state that not only reflects our country as it is, but as it may become—and shows how the battle for Texas’s soul encompasses us all.



The Enchilada Queen Cookbook

Author : Sylvia Casares

Publisher : Macmillan

Page : 243 pages

File Size : 44,55 MB

Release : 2016-11

Category : Cooking

ISBN : 1250082919

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Simple, flavor-changing tricks and 80 recipes for enchiladas, fajitas and classic side dishes for the home cook, by Silvia Casares, founder and chef of Texas' favorite Sylvia's Enchilada Kitchen.