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Author: Harlan Frank Pollmann Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1479711985 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 153
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This is where I ve spent most of my life, in the greatest place in the world, my heaven! My parents moved from here. I ve been on my own ever since I was fourteen years old. If it wasn t for football, I would not have graduated from high school. I joined the navy in June 1951, honorably discharged, June 1955. I then started at the University of Montana, graduated in June 1958, with a BS in biology. In 1959, I ended up in VA mental ward, Long Beach, California. In 1963, I went into golf-course construction. I returned to Montana and worked many low-paying jobs. In 1986, I started Pollmann Turf Technology, landscaping successfully. In 1988, I retired to fishing. Even though I was married eight times and divorced six times and suffered from numerous physical ailments, I m a very happy eighty-year-old living in Montana on Flathead Lake, just seventy air miles from Glacier National Park.
Author: Harlan Frank Pollmann Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1479711985 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 153
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This is where I ve spent most of my life, in the greatest place in the world, my heaven! My parents moved from here. I ve been on my own ever since I was fourteen years old. If it wasn t for football, I would not have graduated from high school. I joined the navy in June 1951, honorably discharged, June 1955. I then started at the University of Montana, graduated in June 1958, with a BS in biology. In 1959, I ended up in VA mental ward, Long Beach, California. In 1963, I went into golf-course construction. I returned to Montana and worked many low-paying jobs. In 1986, I started Pollmann Turf Technology, landscaping successfully. In 1988, I retired to fishing. Even though I was married eight times and divorced six times and suffered from numerous physical ailments, I m a very happy eighty-year-old living in Montana on Flathead Lake, just seventy air miles from Glacier National Park.
Author: Helene Staley Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 140109287X Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 485
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To Escape Into Dreams by Hélène Hinson Staley is a three-volume collection To Escape Into Dreams by Hélène Hinson Staley is a three-volume collection. To Escape Into Dreams echoes my voice and those of ancestors, the author says on the back cover of volume I. "IT IS ABOUT dreams and family histories. It is about those significant to me. To Escape Into Dreams is filled with photo-heirlooms, commentaries, documentations, stories, observations and speculations. It models and preserves family history and reflects struggles immigrants to America persevered and endured. It reflects the struggles of early American-born generations. This book is a summation-combination heirloom-scrapbook, genealogical-compilation-history book. If you are interested in genealogy or currently tr
Author: Ash Davidson Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1982144416 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 464
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER Named a Best Book of 2021 by Newsweek, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times “A glorious book—an assured novel that’s gorgeously told.” —The New York Times Book Review “An incredibly moving epic about an unforgettable family.” —CBS Sunday Morning “[An] absorbing novel…I felt both grateful to have known these people and bereft at the prospect of leaving them behind.” —The Washington Post A stunning novel about love, work, and marriage that asks how far one family and one community will go to protect their future. Colleen and Rich Gundersen are raising their young son, Chub, on the rugged California coast. It’s 1977, and life in this Pacific Northwest logging town isn’t what it used to be. For generations, the community has lived and breathed timber; now that way of life is threatened. Colleen is an amateur midwife. Rich is a tree-topper. It’s a dangerous job that requires him to scale trees hundreds of feet tall—a job that both his father and grandfather died doing. Colleen and Rich want a better life for their son—and they take steps to assure their future. Rich secretly spends their savings on a swath of ancient redwoods. But when Colleen, grieving the loss of a recent pregnancy and desperate to have a second child, challenges the logging company’s use of the herbicides she believes are responsible for the many miscarriages in the community, Colleen and Rich find themselves on opposite sides of a budding conflict. As tensions in the town rise, they threaten the very thing the Gundersens are trying to protect: their family. Told in prose as clear as a spring-fed creek, Damnation Spring is an intimate, compassionate portrait of a family whose bonds are tested and a community clinging to a vanishing way of life. An extraordinary story of the transcendent, enduring power of love—between husband and wife, mother and child, and longtime neighbors. An essential novel for our times.
Author: David Handler Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 1453259732 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 581
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A witty amateur sleuth deals with a disgraced sitcom star and a deadly mystery: “Great fun” (Publishers Weekly). Lyle Hednut, known to America as Uncle Chubby, has been the top draw in television comedy for three seasons straight. He is three hundred pounds of good humor and wholesome charm, beloved by children and adults alike until the day the police find him enjoying the show at the wrong kind of movie theater in Times Square. The arrest destroys his image, but his sitcom is too popular for the network to shut down. About to start production on the fourth season, he decides to tell his side of the story, and hires Stewart Hoag—failed novelist and ghostwriter for the disgraced—to do the writing. Hoagy quickly sees that Uncle Chubby’s cheer is no more than an act. The comedy icon is thin-skinned, irrational, and prone to rage. With a man like that in charge of a TV show, it won’t be long before comedy violence turns into the real thing.
Author: Randy Noles Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation ISBN: 9781574241044 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 260
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(Book). One of the most bizarre stories in all of popular music is the history of "Orange Blossom Special," arguably the century's best-known fiddle tune. The man credited with its ownership, Ervin T. Rouse, endured tragedy, alcoholism and mental illness. He spent his last years fiddling for tips in isolated taverns at the edge of the Florida Everglades, and died all but unknown. The man who claimed co-ownership, Chubby Wise, achieved fame as the seminal fiddler of the bluegrass genre, but struggled to overcome personal demons and to heal the scars of childhood abandonment and abuse. This fascinating book uncovers how their legacies are forever linked with the legendary diesel streamliner which inspired the tune six decades ago, as it roared through American history, bringing wonder and hope to every stop. Includes a Collector's CD of rare, unreleased original recordings of "Orange Blossom Special" by Bluegrass Etc., Byron Berline, Dennis Caplinger, Buddy Emmons, John Henry Gates, The Hellcasters, Gary Morse, Benny Martin and Mike Stevens. Also features the original Rouse Brothers recording from 1939, a live performance by Chubby Wise, and six vintage bonus tracks. Randy Noles is a publisher of city/regional magazines in Florida. During his 25-year career, he has won awards for investigative reporting, feature writing and commentary. Born in Tuscaloosa, AL, he has lived in Orlando since 1967. He is married and has two children. "If you go back and listen to Ervin and Gordon Rouse's original 1939 recording, it's easy to hear 'Orange Blossom Special''s beauty, elegance and power. It bonds the romance of rambling around on trains with the mystique of a far-away land known as Florida. It is pure country music; it is pure Americana." from the foreword by Marty Stuart
Author: Stanley R. Matthews Publisher: Good Press ISBN: Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 89
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In 'Motor Matt's Race; or, The Last Flight of the Comet' by Stanley R. Matthews, readers are taken on an exhilarating adventure through the world of early 20th-century motor racing. The book is filled with vivid descriptions of high-speed races, daring stunts, and unexpected twists and turns. Written in a fast-paced and engaging style, this novel captures the excitement and danger of the racing scene during that era, making it a thrilling read for anyone interested in adventure and adrenaline-fueled stories. Matthews' attention to detail and atmospheric writing transport the reader back in time, making them feel like they are right there in the midst of the action.Stanley R. Matthews, a prolific writer of adventure stories for young readers, draws on his own fascination with cars and speed to create a compelling narrative that is both entertaining and historically informative. His passion for the subject shines through in every page, making 'Motor Matt's Race' a must-read for fans of both classic adventure tales and vintage racing.I highly recommend 'Motor Matt's Race; or, The Last Flight of the Comet' to anyone looking for a thrilling and well-written story that combines action, history, and a touch of nostalgia. Matthews' storytelling skills and love for the subject matter make this book a standout in the genre.
Author: David Handler Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 1453259716 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 632
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A Hollywood ghostwriter and his basset hound explore the deadly world of high-stakes divorce in this hilarious mystery from an Edgar Award–winning author. Matthew Wax is an overgrown kid with a taste for sweets, go-kart racing, and wholesome family comedy. He’s also the most successful director in Hollywood, a golden boy whose films are toothache sweet and spit-shine clean. But when his wife, leading lady Pennyroyal Brim, tires of life in a G-rated wonderland, she brings in the most ruthless lawyer on the West Coast: the notorious Abel Zorch. To win the divorce settlement, Zorch drags Wax through the mud, accusing him of perversion, misogyny, and abuse. So when Pennyroyal announces a tell-all memoir, Wax has only one choice: to call in Stewart “Hoagy” Hoag, ghostwriter to the stars. Working with Wax, Hoagy and his basset hound, Lulu, get closer to the boy wonder than anyone else ever has. But when Zorch turns up dead, Wax is the prime suspect—followed closely by every spurned husband in Beverly Hills—and to clear their client’s name, the amateur sleuth and his canine companion will have to leave La-La Land behind and cross over to the dark side of Los Angeles. From Edgar Award–winning author David Handler, The Boy Who Never Grew Up is a razor-sharp entry in the beloved Stewart Hoag Mysteries, called an “all-time favorite series” by Harlan Coben. The funniest sleuth around, Hoagy knows that quick wit can overcome any obstacle—even murder. The Boy Who Never Grew Up is the 5th book in the Stewart Hoag Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Author: Treasure Blue Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1936399318 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 399
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In the entertainment industry, there is a secret society of women vying for an opportunity to live a lavish lifestyle by snagging a famous young millionaire. Betty Blaise, or Fly Betty to those who truly know her, was not in it to be a wife. She had her sights set higher. While most of these women use sex as their weapon, Betty developed one that proves much more powerful. But when she encounters a man that she would never have anticipated falling for, the very rules Betty once lived and died by are going to be put to the test.
Author: Richard Price Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780312428693 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 292
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This brilliant early work from one of America's finest writers is a soulful and often profane story of working-class life in the Bronx, and one young man's bruising initiation into adulthood.
Author: Ken R. Abell Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers ISBN: 1532676662 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 218
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Outlaw Secrets, the third installment of The Beadle Files, finds LC Beadle embroiled in an investigation of the criminal underworld in Chicago. The intrigues begin at a construction site on the northside where the journalist is to meet with an informant but gets a surprise that is the beginning of a trail of destruction and murder as a hardboiled enforcer goes on a rampage. Meanwhile in Durango, tension develops between CJ Fralick and Katey Rae Wyant, but for Sonny Trego everything is Jake. He’s advancing his newspaper career, making plans for the future, and carrying on a long-distance relationship with a college girl. In a remote box canyon north of the city, Yaz Lightfoot is on a spiritual quest as he awaits the arrival of his wife. He chops wood, reminisces, is visited by a nightmare, prays, meditates, and in all his contemplations, a thriving sense of hopeful anticipation swells in his heart. Near Wagon Wheel Gap, Mandy Kilmer experiences a great disappointment. In the throes of a meltdown, she gets encouragement from Bethsuelo Weitzel that steels her resolve. With the help of her family she schemes and makes plans to seize and take hold of the bright and hopeful future she’s dreamt about since schoolgirl days. In the midst of the violence and maneuvering in Chicago, Jack Whistler, the master of information and proprietor of the Backdoor Vault, tosses out a throwaway remark that defines the web of conspiracy: “I’ve got a thousand rumors, which one do you want to hear?”
Author: Harlan Frank Pollmann
Author: Harlan Frank Pollmann
Author: Helene Staley
Author: Ash Davidson
Author: David Handler
Author: Randy Noles
Author: Stanley R. Matthews
Author: David Handler
Author: Treasure Blue
Author: Richard Price
Author: Ken R. Abell