Desert Town

Author : Bonnie Geisert
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547562160
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desert Town written by Bonnie Geisert and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2001-03-26 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fourth book in the Geiserts’ series on small towns which conveys the wonder and personality of everyday life in the United States.The hot, dry desert town is prone to harsh conditions, but the town is full of life and readers are witness to many cheerful happenings over the course of the year. The Geiserts have once again captured the authenticity and essence of small-town America.

Author : Ramona Stewart
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781493620111
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desert Town written by Ramona Stewart and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2014-02-09 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DESERT TOWN is dark crime fiction for those whohave a taste for the perverse and violent. It wasmade into a major film, DESERT FURY, starringBurt Lancaster, Lizabeth Scott and Mary Astor.It's the story of seventeen year old Paula Haller's transition into womanhood as she defies her mother, Fritzi's dominance. Fritzi runs the small town of Chuckawalla including the Purple Sage casino and saloon as well as a bordello or two. Fritzi can control everything but Paula and the tension between the two is drawn as tight as a drum. The scenery includes sprawling ranches, a very much out of place colonial mansion and the vast beauty of the desert.Mix in a notorious gangster, his insanely jealous torpedo, a love triangle, the town sheriff, some weirdly eccentric characters and innuendo aplenty. Once the sun brings all these ingredients to a boil you've got the backdrop for a noir setting like no other.

Author : Deanne Stillman
Publisher : Bold Type Books
ISBN 13 : 9781568588636
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desert Reckoning written by Deanne Stillman and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Spur Award for Best Western Nonfiction Contemporary Winner of the LA Press Club Award for Best General Nonfiction On a scorching summer day, Donald Kueck-a desert hermit who loved animals and hated civilization-gunned down beloved deputy sheriff Stephen Sorensen when he approached his trailer. As the sound of rifle fire echoed across the Mojave, Kueck vanished. In Desert Reckoning, Deanne Stillman recounts a tragic tale, delving into the hidden history of Los Angeles County and tracing the paths of two men on a collision course that could only end in the modern Wild West.

Author : Marc M. Angelil
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783944074238
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cairo Desert Cities written by Marc M. Angelil and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1950s, Egypt has developed a dozen new towns in the desert outside of Cairo. Intended to alleviate a growing demand for housing in the capital, most have never been completed. Edited by Marc Angélil and Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, this book presents the first systematic exploration of these cities, analysing their architecture and urban form, along with their possibilities and shortcomings. Describing their condition as 'permanently emerging', the study identifies the towns' potential through a series of design scenarios which underscore the value of re-engaging with modernist town planning, in hopes that examining past failures uncovers future opportunities.

Author : Ken Layne
Publisher : MCD
ISBN 13 : 0374722382
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desert Oracle written by Ken Layne and published by MCD. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cult-y pocket-size field guide to the strange and intriguing secrets of the Mojave—its myths and legends, outcasts and oddballs, flora, fauna, and UFOs—becomes the definitive, oracular book of the desert For the past five years, Desert Oracle has existed as a quasi-mythical, quarterly periodical available to the very determined only by subscription or at the odd desert-town gas station or the occasional hipster boutique, its canary-yellow-covered, forty-four-page issues handed from one curious desert zealot to the next, word spreading faster than the printers could keep up with. It became a radio show, a podcast, a live performance. Now, for the first time—and including both classic and new, never-before-seen revelations—Desert Oracle has been bound between two hard covers and is available to you. Straight out of Joshua Tree, California, Desert Oracle is “The Voice of the Desert”: a field guide to the strange tales, singing sand dunes, sagebrush trails, artists and aliens, authors and oddballs, ghost towns and modern legends, musicians and mystics, scorpions and saguaros, out there in the sand. Desert Oracle is your companion at a roadside diner, around a campfire, in your tent or cabin (or high-rise apartment or suburban living room) as the wind and the coyotes howl outside at night. From journal entries of long-deceased adventurers to stray railroad ad copy, and musings on everything from desert flora, rumored cryptid sightings, and other paranormal phenomena, Ken Layne's Desert Oracle collects the weird and the wonderful of the American Southwest into a single, essential volume.

Author : Arthur Geisert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780395953884
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desert Town written by Arthur Geisert and published by . This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cynthia Nunn
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781479102037
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Randsburg written by Cynthia Nunn and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A combination history, photographic journey and travel guide to the historic living ghost town of Randsburg, California, located in the Mojave Desert. Take a step back in time and live the Old West! This old mining town has a lot of tales to tell, some of which you will find in the pages of this book. With a population of nearly 3000 in it's hey day, Randsburg saw it's share of excitement, murder, hi-jinks and disasters, often gaining mention in the larger newspapers. See where Billy Bob Thornton made his supporting speaking role debut in the movie "Chopper Chicks in Zombietown." After months of thorough research I reveal the true identity of Randsburg's most famous red-light madam, French Marguerite. Read the scandalous headlines about the woman vampire seeking new virgin blood! Explore the stories of some of those buried in the Rand District cemetery, who, until now, have been forgotten to history. Learn all the details behind the murder of Emily Davidson, shot dead on Butte Avenue in broad daylight by her husband. You will also learn about some of Randsburg's current residents and shop keepers, and how they manage to keep the history of Randsburg alive for future generations. Full of photographs, both color and black & white. If you have purchased this item, or plan to, please leave your review here: https: //www.createspace.com/Preview/1114892 For some reason my buyers have been unable to leave reviews at the Amazon listing page. Remember, your reviews help to further promote my book to others. Thanks!

Author : Gillian Frise
Publisher : Mack
ISBN 13 : 9781912339747
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Picture Summer on Kodak Film written by Gillian Frise and published by Mack. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Picture Summer on Kodak Film', a poem by two sisters echoes across Fulford's photographs, comprised of recurring motifs: time, test strips, refracted light, rainbow colour, and distortion through shadows. Characters and places are repeated in kaleidoscopic compositions throughout this vivid sequence. Though taken across the world (in Canada, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Nepal, Thailand, USA and Vietnam), these photographs come together to create a singular visual language: one bright, timeless, fictional place. A place imbued with the unexpected beauty, humor and meaning, that one has come to expect from Jason Fulford.

Author : Mario T. García
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300028836
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desert Immigrants written by Mario T. García and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1982-09-10 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses how the Mexican immigrants and their descendants have contributed to America's past, present, and future

Author : Robert Rossen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desert Town written by Robert Rossen and published by . This book was released on 1946* with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: