Four Dead Horses

Author : K. T. Sparks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781646030668
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Four Dead Horses written by K. T. Sparks and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On May 1, 1982, eighteen-year-old Martin Oliphant watches a horse drown off the shore of Lake Michigan--the first of four equine corpses marking the trail that will lead Martin out of the small-minded small town of Pierre, Michigan, onto the open ranges of Elko, Nevada, and into the open arms, or at least open mics, of the cowboy poets who gather there to perform. Along the way, he nurtures a dying mother, who insists the only thing wrong with her is tennis elbow; corrals a demented father, who believes he's Father Christmas; assists the dissolute local newspaper editor; and serves stints as horse rustler and pet mortician. For thirty years, Martin searches for an escape route to the West, to poetry, and to his first love, the cowgirl Ginger, but never manages to get much farther than the city limits of his Midwestern hometown--that is, until a world famous cow horse dies while touring through Pierre, and Martin is tapped to transport its remains to the funeral at the 32nd Annual Elko Cowboy Poetry Confluence.

Author : Brian Evenson
Publisher : Coffee House Press
ISBN 13 : 156689414X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Collapse of Horses written by Brian Evenson and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stuffed bear’s heart beats with the rhythm of a dead baby, Reno keeps receding to the east no matter how far you drive, and in a mine on another planet, the dust won’t stop seeping in. In these stories, Evenson unsettles us with the everyday and the extraordinary—the terror of living with the knowledge of all we cannot know. Praise for Brian Evenson: "Brian Evenson is one of the treasures of American story writing, a true successor both to the generation of Coover, Barthelme, Hawkes and Co., but also to Edgar Allan Poe."—Jonathan Lethem "One of the most provocative, inventive, and talented writers we have working today." The Believer "There is not a more intense, prolific, or apocalyptic writer of fiction in America than Brian Evenson." —George Saunders “Brian Evenson is one of the few who will still be read a hundred years from now: either by our grandchildren, or by the machines who have killed our grandchildren.” —Hobart, “An interview with Brian Evenson” "Packed with enough atrocities to give Thomas Harris pause. . . . Not many writers have the imagination or the audacity to transform what looks like salvation into an utterly original outpost of hell." —Bookforum “Evenson’s writing is something to be read in short intervals, like a good tea that you want to savor to the last drop.” —Twin Cities Geek Praised by Peter Straub for going "furthest out on the sheerest, least sheltered narrative precipice" Brian Evenson has been a finalist for the Edgar Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and is the World Fantasy Award and the winner of the International Horror Guild Award, the American Library Association's award for Best Horror Novel, and one of Time Out New York's top books.

Author : Violet McNeal
Publisher : Feral House
ISBN 13 : 1627310932
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Four White Horses and a Brass Band written by Violet McNeal and published by Feral House. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violet McNeal ran away from her family’s rural Minnesota farm in the late 1880s and fell under the spell of conman and patent medicine “doctor” Will Archimbauld who hooked her on opium and promises of fame and fortune. Violet soon learned to become Princess Lotus Blossom and was the best pitchman, nostrum seller, and conwoman to roam the west in a torch-lit wagon. Four White Horses and a Brass Band is Violet’s story of life on the road with the medicine show and reveal the secrets of conman’s trade. Sick and nearly dead with addiction by age 30, she submits to the tortures of withdrawal and the “cure” to create a new life. First published in 1947, the Feral House edition features an extensive afterword on the history of the patent medicine trade and evolution of the lure of miracle cures and healers. Also included are a glossary of the grifter’s cant and samples of scripts used by Violet and other infamous “doctors”.

Author : Bruce McCandless III
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
ISBN 13 : 1626348642
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Land of Dead Horses written by Bruce McCandless III and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dead Have No Love for the Living In the Land of Dead Horses tells the story of Texas Ranger Jewel T. Lightfoot’s pursuit of and confrontation with a resurrected horror from another age—a manifestation of the Mayan god of darkness, unearthed from its subterranean crypt in the wastelands of the Chihuahuan Desert and set loose on an unsuspecting world. Lightfoot, a hard-drinking Texas Ranger, is aided by an aging silver miner named Ernesto Zavala and his grandson Antonio, a rangy firebrand who longs to free his people from the rule of Porfirio Diaz’s corrupt Mexican government. Together, these unlikely heroes face off against a sinister German academic, a trio of religious fanatics who wants to restore the glory of the Mayan empire, and a horror from the depths of history that grows stronger with each setting sun. ​Join Jewel Lightfoot in what Kirkus Reviews calls "a paranormal whodunit that offers a gripping battle between good and evil." But be careful: Not everyone who rides out of Austin in the fall of 1908 is going to make it back alive.

Author : Mandy Retzlaff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781471258497
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Hundred and Four Horses written by Mandy Retzlaff and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of incredible bonds - a love of the land, the strength of a family, and of the connection between man and the most majestic of animals, the horse. As the invasions gathered pace, the Retzlaffs began an epic journey across Zimbabwe, facing eviction after eviction, trying to save a group of horses with whom they felt a deep and enduring bond. When their neighbours fled to New Zealand, the Retzlaffs promised to look after their horses, and made similar promises to other farmers; they amassed an astonishing herd and faced an arduous journey to freedom.

Author : Jane Smiley
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0375869689
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pie in the Sky written by Jane Smiley and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abby Lovitt is put in charge of training the expensive and haughty horse Pie in the Sky after his owner refuses. While trying to get a hold on him, she must deal with the new challenges, both good and bad, that come with being a freshman in high school in 1970's Northern California.

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Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 0857861018
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revelation written by and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions. According to these, empires will fall, the "Beast" will be destroyed and Christ will rule a new Jerusalem. With an introduction by Will Self.

Author : Cormac McCarthy
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679744398
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All the Pretty Horses written by Cormac McCarthy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1993-06-29 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The first volume in the Border Trilogy, from the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With two companions, he sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey to a place where dreams are paid for in blood. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.

Author : Eric Flint
Publisher : Baen Books
ISBN 13 : 0743488601
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grantville Gazette written by Eric Flint and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story collection continues the saga that began in 1632 and 1633, describing life for the inhabitants of Grantville, an American town from West Virginia that finds itself hurtled back in time and into the middle of the Thirty Years War, as they struggle to bring their advanced technology to the seventeenth century. Includes a section of articles exploring different scientific questions and conundrums raised by the Eric Flint series.

Author : Deanne Stillman
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618454457
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mustang written by Deanne Stillman and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2008 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This epic story offers a sweeping tale of the wild horse in the culture, history, and popular imagination of the American West.