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The simplicity of rural life appears in vivid detail in this account of German Texas heritage as it was lived in the early 1900s. Gilbert Jordan describes a way of life familiar to much of rural Texas at that time, but he also gives a heartwarming and fascinating look at the special ways and separate culture of Mason County's German Methodists.
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Hoyle, a girl with a sharp mind and a weakness for bourbon, finds herself on the trail of a reclusive genius. But her work takes a series of unforeseen twists as events around her grow increasingly fragmented... disconnected... surreal. With a sexy lounge singer and a loyal partner as her only allies, Hoyle is plunged into a dark world of intrigue and earth-shattering cosmological secrets.
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Prison life in the 1930s featuring a white man incarcerated for robbery. The novel is based on the experience of its black author and deals with violence and male love. This edition is the unpublished original, a sanitized version having been published in 1953 under the title, Cast the First Stone.
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Yesterday's Train starts from a twisted tree at the shore near Veracruz - where according to local legend Cortes first chained his ships in 1519 - a place where the earth itself seems in protest. From there, Pindell and collaborator Lourdes Ramirez Mallis travel to the stunning extremes of Mexico's landscape while casting back through its past. From ancient Toltec myth and Aztec ritual to the recent crisis in Chiapas and the halls of Mexico City power,...
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In 1919, two World War I flying aces climbed into the open cockpit of a converted Vicker's Vimy and embarked on the world's first non-stop transatlantic flight, touching down after 16 grueling hours on the west coast of Ireland. Their story is interwoven with the story of two modern-day pilots who retrace Alcock and Brown's pioneering flight in a modern Diamond DA42 Twin Star.
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