Tumbleweeds Burning A Novel

Author : Milt Ost
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781499037302

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Tumbleweeds Burning a Novel by Milt Ost Pdf

Heinrich and Anna Marie Oster are invited by the Czar to move to Russia. Their excitement runs high when a son of their family is selected to serve in the Czar's elite body guard, the Imperial Hussars, and life is good. Life next to the Royals is full of thrills and color, but before long the corruption and greed in high places are exposed, and soon bitter persecution of the family makes their days difficult. Their children flee to America and accept the government's offer of free homestead acres on the great prairies of the heartland. The free land, however, extracts a heavy price. As they wrestle their sod house out of the stubborn buffalo grasses, they discover that their new "palace on the prairies" is only three miles from the Native sons of the warriors who scalped George Armstrong Custer. It leaves their days uneasy, their nights uncertain. At every turn, Nature confronts them with immense battles, from killing blizzards and sweeping fires, to plagues of grasshoppers. From years of deathdealing drought where nothing grows but tumbleweeds and biting flies, to international conflicts that drastically change their lives. Through it all they come together in faith and turn their little spot of earth into the breadbasket of the world.

Author : Milt Ost
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781503530447

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Tumbleweeds Burning by Milt Ost Pdf

Life for the Osters, immigrant Germans in Russia, started out well enough. But then persecution began and life turned sour. Their children flee to America and accept the government’s offer of free homestead acres on the great prairies of the heartland. The free land, however, extracts a heavy price. As they wrestle their sod house out of the stubborn buffalo grasses, they discover that their new “palace on the prairies” is only three miles from the Native sons of the warriors who removed the golden tresses of George Armstrong Custer. It leaves their days uneasy, their nights uncertain. But events bring a twist that adds an entirely new dimension. At every turn, Nature confronts them with immense battles, from killing blizzards and raging fires, to biblical plagues of grasshoppers. From years of paralyzing drought where nothing grows, to tumbleweeds and early death. Violent dust storms threaten to choke all of life around them. They deal with witchcraft and murder, and international conflicts that drastically change their lives. Through it all they come together in faith and turn their little spot of earth into the breadbasket of the world.

Author : Leila Meacham
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781455509256

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Tumbleweeds by Leila Meacham Pdf

A recently orphaned girl moves to the Texas panhandle and struggles to forge new friendships in a town of football glory in this unforgettable novel of surprising plot twists and unexpected beginnings. Recently orphaned, eleven-year-old Cathy Benson feels she has been dropped into a cultural and intellectual wasteland when she is forced to move from her academically privileged life in California to the small town of Kersey in the Texas Panhandle where the sport of football reigns supreme. She is quickly taken under the unlikely wings of up-and-coming gridiron stars and classmates John Caldwell and Trey Don Hall, orphans like herself, with whom she forms a friendship and eventual love triangle that will determine the course of the rest of their lives. Taking the three friends through their growing up years until their high school graduations when several tragic events uproot and break them apart, the novel expands to follow their careers and futures until they reunite in Kersey at forty years of age. Told with all of Meacham's signature drama, unforgettable characters, and plot twists, readers will be turning the pages, desperate to learn how it all plays out.

Author : Bernie Keating
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496909794

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Chasing Tumbleweeds by Bernie Keating Pdf

The sagebrush prairie passed by outside the bus window and the landscape grew dim in the fading sunset, leaving his hometown far behind. Maybe the tumbleweeds swirling in the wind alongside the bus were an omen; time would scatter bad memories just like wind chasing tumbleweeds

Author : Caroline B. Cooney
Publisher : Laurel Leaf
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780440226871

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Burning Up by Caroline B. Cooney Pdf

When a girl she had met at an innercity church is murdered, fifteen-year-old Macey channels her grief into a school project that leads her to uncover prejudice she had not imagined in her grandparents and their wealthy Connecticut community. An ALA Quick Pick. Reissue.

Author : Jane Candia Coleman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Earp, Allie
ISBN : OCLC:1300687373

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Tumbleweed by Jane Candia Coleman Pdf

Author : Alejo A Rodriguez
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781647019761

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Bad Poetry by Alejo A Rodriguez Pdf

Can you be vulnerable? People have a hard enough time being vulnerable with their friends and family. Now imagine that vulnerability cast upon the world. This collection was created without pretentiousness, never assuming its publishing would ever see the light of day. The deepest fear had to be overcome in order for light to shine on Bad Poetry. Sometimes you’re just lost—lost in love, lost in tragedy, lost in confusion... The list is endless, but the one element that remains constant is emotion. Tumbleweed shows you’re not alone on this journey. Bad Poetry, Vol. 1: Tumbleweed is the first installment in this poetry series. Just like a tumbleweed moving freely without direction throughout the desert, the poems in this book were written the same manner.

Author : Mark Conkling
Publisher : Sunstone Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780865348776

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Dog Shelter Blues by Mark Conkling Pdf

"This hard-hitting story lights up the world of animal rescue with engaging characters and their pets, bringing hope out of personal tragedies. Danny Sandoval, a character from Prairie Dog Blues, joins up with his friends to take on Norma Jean Lawson and her Safe Sanctuary No-Kill Rescue Center in Albuquerque. Danny accuses Safe Sanctuary of negligent animal care, claiming they do more harm than good. Norma Jean puts up a fierce fight through her attorney Ray, and sues Danny for libel and slander, seeking $500,000 in damages. Danny's friends all rise to his defense: a veterinarian friend, Virgil Hummel, his AA friends Mark and Dave, and his lover Ida. In the midst of the legal battle, Danny and Norma Jean also struggle with internal demons as they attempt to rescue dogs and cats, innocent creatures that sometimes bring a mysterious transforming power to broken lives. As Danny recovers from burns from a fire, he faces his childhood grief and begins to heal in the warmth of people who care. Norma Jean endures psychological abuse, and then rises up to face the evil of her lover William Redfield, finding that bad motives often end in darkness, and that animals and a clean heart can reveal pathways to God's healing. Dog Shelter Blues takes these beaten, everyday people on a breathtaking journey that ends with an astonishing triumph of good over evil."--

Author : Goldberry Long
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002-07-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0743222113

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Juniper Tree Burning by Goldberry Long Pdf

Juniper Tree Burning is a dazzling meditation on legacy and legend, rebellion and renewal. When Jennie Braverman, formerly known as Juniper Tree Burning, gets news of her brother Sunny Boy Blue's suicide, she flees her new husband and embarks upon a mad dash across the American West toward the site of Sunny's death. Forced to confront the past, Jennie must face the shame of the childhood name she has been so happy to shed. Only after she weaves her way through a tapestry of family sorrows -- poverty, a spider-infested adobe house, and the legacy of her hippie parents -- will Jennie be able to take on her greatest challenge: accepting love.

Author : Dusty Richards
Publisher : Galway Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1633733785

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Waltzing With Tumbleweeds by Dusty Richards Pdf

From the dusty streets of Dodge City, to the rocky arroyos of Arizona's Verde Valley, to the early summer green of the Little Bighorn Valley, get to know the men and women of the American West in WALTZING WITH TUMBLEWEEDS, the definitive collection of short stories from legendary Western author Dusty Richards.

Author : Maurice Gee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0143573764

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The Burning Boy by Maurice Gee Pdf

"A picture of life in a provincial town in times of disturbance and change. Certainties collapse in the face of violence. People start along strange ways, some to loss or ruin, others to unexpected happiness"--Publisher information.

Author : Margaret Lane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:67000099

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A Smell of Burning by Margaret Lane Pdf

Author : C. A. Blintzion
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 1734306521

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The Smoke is Me, Burning by C. A. Blintzion Pdf

Blake and Jamie Ackerman grew up on the lip of a pinewood in Harmswood, Arkansas. Raised by an alcoholic mother and a Vietnam-War veteran uncle, they have grown up believing in gods beyond the chicken wire fence that steal children from their beds. After an accident in the pines that leaves Blake blind in one eye, the boys' lives change. They grow up and drift apart until the memories of their childhood force the contents of Blake's blind spot out into the light. "A sort of scrapbook of place magic. Almost told by ecology itself, The Smoke is Me, Burning has a reliable cyclical power that is often the mark of good art." -Jonathan McAloon, journalist for the BBC, The Guardian, and TLS "The lore, the blood mythology, the whole thing crackling with meaning, insight, lyric energy." -Eoin McNamee, author of Resurrection Man, Orchid Blue, and The Blue Tango "The Smoke is me, Burning continues the Southern Gothic tradition while re-imagining it at the same time. Themes made familiar by William Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy and William Gay run through the narrative, but they are transformed by Blintzios' language and the singularity of his vision. From the first scene to the last, this is a compelling novel, one that will haunt a reader the way the gods haunt the ill-fated brothers." - Patrick Parks, author of Tucumcari

Author : Aaron Latham
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781416595908

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The Cowboy with the Tiffany Gun by Aaron Latham Pdf

The cowboy is the American knight, so it would follow that tales of knighthood can provide the inspiration for stories about cowboys and the basis for this grand and dazzlingly innovative epic of the old American West by the celebrated author and screenwriter of Urban Cowboy. Inspired by Sir Percival's great quest for the Holy Grail, Aaron Latham has crafted a classic adventure story set among the tumbleweeds of the American West at the twilight of the nineteenth century. It is first and foremost the coming-of-age story of an innocent -- a fledgling cowboy, that singularly American update on the archetypal knight of old. Featuring characters from Latham's acclaimed Code of the West, The Cowboy with the Tiffany Gun is his most exhilarating performance yet. Our young hero is Percy -- but he prefers his nickname, Pyg, short for Percy York Goodnight. When he learns that the man called Loving has been shot and is near death, Percy and his mother, Revelie, rush away to be by Loving's side in Texas. Long ago, Revelie shared with Loving a bond of great passion. Mother and son arrive to find Loving gravely ill -- and to discover that an heirloom ax has disappeared from the ranch. According to Western lore, this was the very ax that Jimmy Goodnight, Percy's presumed father, once pulled out of an anvil. The ax was stolen from the cemetery, where it had been imbedded in Goodnight's tombstone. The stone is gone, too. Latham's historically authentic narrative takes off on a rousing gallop here as Pyg vows to find the ax and must face trials and calamities of a Biblical scale -- flood, fire, gunfights, and the devastating pestilence that changed the course of frontier history. Of Code of the West, James M. McPherson wrote that "Latham has pulled off the seemingly impossible." With The Cowboy with the Tiffany Gun, he has done it again.

Author : M. Little
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1104033100

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At the Sign of the Burning Bush by M. Little Pdf

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.