Texas Wind

Author : James Reasoner
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1930997515
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Texas Wind written by James Reasoner and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2004-05-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Cody, a Texas private investigator, is hired to look into what should be a straightforward missing person case, he soon realizes that he's taken on more than he bargained for. The facts surrounding the disappearance of Fort Worth businessman's daughter, twenty-year-old Mandy Traft, are far from clear. Did she run off with her boyfriend? Or has she been kidnapped? With each step Cody takes, the case becomes increasingly dangerous. Before long, he's been warned off, and bodies are starting to tumble. He knows he should get out while he still can. But he can't. Not until he finds Mandy. TEXAS WIND is James Reasoner's debut novel that has achieved a legendary status since its publication in 1980. Considered by many to be one of the best private eye novels ever written, TEXAS WIND is finally back in print. Includes a new introduction by Ed Gorman.

Author : Kate Galbraith
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292735839
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Texas Wind Rush written by Kate Galbraith and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1990s, West Texas was full of rundown towns and pumpjacks, aging reminders of the oil rush of an earlier era. Today, the towns are thriving as 300-foot-tall wind turbines tower above those pumpjacks. Wind energy has become Texas’s latest boom, with the Lone Star State now leading the nation. How did this dramatic transformation happen in a place that fights federal environmental policies at every turn? In The Great Texas Wind Rush, environmental reporters Kate Galbraith and Asher Price tell the compelling story of a group of unlikely dreamers and innovators, politicos and profiteers. The tale spans a generation and more, and it begins with the early wind pioneers, precocious idealists who saw opportunity after the 1970s oil crisis. Operating in an economy accustomed to exploiting natural resources and always looking for the next big thing, their ideas eventually led to surprising partnerships between entrepreneurs and environmentalists, as everyone from Enron executives to T. Boone Pickens, as well as Ann Richards, George W. Bush and Rick Perry, ended up backing the new technology. In this down-to-earth account, the authors explain the policies and science that propelled the “windcatters” to reap the great harvest of Texas wind. They also explore what the future holds for this relentless resource that is changing the face of Texas energy.

Author : Dorothy Scarborough
Publisher : Univ of TX + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0292758839
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wind written by Dorothy Scarborough and published by Univ of TX + ORM. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Letty, a delicate girl who is forced to move from lush Virginia to desolate West Texas. The numbing blizzards, the howling sand storms, and the loneliness of the prairie all combine to undo her nerves. But it is the wind itself, a demon personified, that eventually drives her over the brink of madness.

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ISBN 13 : 9780998056951
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Texas Wind Force written by and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Wind Force covers more than eight decades and brings to life, in vivid detail: ?A rural lifestyle, lived early-on without electricity, that gave birth to a vision that transformed that same landscape?The road that led one man, wo grew up n the heart of America's oil country and who trained as an accountant, banker, and entrepreneurial businessman, to embrace the cause of green energy?How standing up for the rights of small family farmers and ranchers enriched everyone involved?The way that small communities, far from any large cities, banded together to hep create an international force in wind energy and at the same time, to sustain their homes and families while building a better future for themselves?An engineering process that takes into account everything from Indian artifacts and endangered species to anchoring massive wind turbines that stand almost 300 feet tall and last for decades?Why politicians and businessmen from as far away as China and Denmark are turning their attention to the wide-open spaces of West Texas?A hopeful outlook for America's environment and economy powered by resources that are inexhaustible?One decade that saw an industry go from infancy to worldwide force, generating billions of dollars in economic activity

Author : Victoria Thompson
Publisher : NYLA
ISBN 13 : 1617508985
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Texas Wind written by Victoria Thompson and published by NYLA. This book was released on 1992-10-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tates of Texas (#1) Victoria Thompson’s vivid romances have brought pioneer Texas to life with heart-pounding action and lush passion. The first book in the Tates of Texas series, Wild Texas Wind, introduces the Tates—a family that shaped and upheld the legacy of the majestic Lone Star state. After seven years as a Comanche captive, Rebekah Tate has only a faint hope that she’ll ever see her beloved childhood home again. That is, until the day tall and dangerously handsome trader Sean MacDougal strides into camp and proceeds to risk his life rescuing her. Rebekah can only guess his reasons: could he be looking for glory—or a reward from her wealthy father? One thing she does know: no one is more stubborn than this rugged, self-made man. And no one else has a touch that warms her on cool desert nights, and makes her wonder how, together, the two of them might forge a new life out of a harsh and powerful land.

Author : Mary C. Findley
Publisher : Findley Family Video Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chasing the Texas Wind written by Mary C. Findley and published by Findley Family Video Publications. This book was released on with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hamilton Jessup despises Texas high society and the pity he gets as a wounded war hero. He's out of choices to solve his financial crisis, however. A marriage of convenience to beautiful celebrity singer Maeve Collinswood threatens to smother under the "his and hers" secrets and lies. When his sham wife disappears he's got to trust God in ways he has never imagined. Ham has to find the woman he's grown to love plus solve the puzzle of who's fueling Mexico's march to war. Maeve Collinswood's desperate to do something to honor the legacy of her Irish singer father. Her mixed heritage makes her love the Tejano people and Texas freedom. What will it cost her to invite a stranger into her tightly-controlled world? Can she keep Hamilton Jessup at arm's length, or has she misjudged this man who should have been content to promote her fundraising causes and leave her secrets unsolved?

Author : James E. Cherry
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1622881923
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edge of the Wind written by James E. Cherry and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the highly suspenseful Edge of the Wind, the main character, a sensitive but deeply troubled 25 year-old black man, Alexander van der Pool, is off his meds and has begun hearing voices, especially that of his alter ego, Tobi. Having been holed up in his sister's bedroom in southwest Tennessee for two months, Alex has done nothing but read and write poetry. Until one day, he is convinced writing poetry is his life's calling and sets out to visit a local community college to have his work evaluated. But life takes a terrible turn when those at the college reject Alex and his work. When they try to kick him out, he takes matters into his own hands and holds the literature class hostage. Noted author James E Cherry holds nothing back as he tackles mental illness, race, poetry, art and the importance of relationships in this his second novel.

Author : Lou Halsell Rodenberger
Publisher : Texas Tech University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780896725485
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing on the Wind written by Lou Halsell Rodenberger and published by Texas Tech University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vast, disparate region called West Texas is both sparsely populated and scarcely recognized. Yet it has given voice to a surprising number of women writers who have left more than a faint impression on its hardscrabble terrain and consciousness. These writers do much more than evoke the land and its celebrated skies. Often with humor and alw...

Author : Kristin Hannah
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250178622
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Four Winds written by Kristin Hannah and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Bestselling Hardcover Novel of the Year."--Publishers Weekly From the number-one bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone comes a powerful American epic about love and heroism and hope, set during the Great Depression, a time when the country was in crisis and at war with itself, when millions were out of work and even the land seemed to have turned against them. “My land tells its story if you listen. The story of our family.” Texas, 1921. A time of abundance. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. But for Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman’s only option, the future seems bleak. Until the night she meets Rafe Martinelli and decides to change the direction of her life. With her reputation in ruin, there is only one respectable choice: marriage to a man she barely knows. By 1934, the world has changed; millions are out of work and drought has devastated the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as crops fail and water dries up and the earth cracks open. Dust storms roll relentlessly across the plains. Everything on the Martinelli farm is dying, including Elsa’s tenuous marriage; each day is a desperate battle against nature and a fight to keep her children alive. In this uncertain and perilous time, Elsa—like so many of her neighbors—must make an agonizing choice: fight for the land she loves or leave it behind and go west, to California, in search of a better life for her family. The Four Winds is a rich, sweeping novel that stunningly brings to life the Great Depression and the people who lived through it—the harsh realities that divided us as a nation and the enduring battle between the haves and the have-nots. A testament to hope, resilience, and the strength of the human spirit to survive adversity, The Four Winds is an indelible portrait of America and the American dream, as seen through the eyes of one indomitable woman whose courage and sacrifice will come to define a generation.

Author : Russell Gold
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501163590
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Superpower written by Russell Gold and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Michael Skelly, the man boldly harnessing wind energy that could power America’s future and break its fossil fuel dependence in this “essential, compelling look into the future of the nation’s power grid” (Bryan Burrough, author of The Big Rich). The United States is in the midst of an energy transition. We have fallen out of love with dirty fossil fuels and want to embrace renewable energy sources like wind and solar. A transition from a North American power grid that is powered mostly by fossil fuels to one that is predominantly clean is feasible, but it would require a massive building spree—wind turbines, solar panels, wires, and billions of dollars would be needed. Enter Michael Skelly, an infrastructure builder who began working on wind energy in 2000 when many considered the industry a joke. Eight years later, Skelly helped build the second largest wind power company in the United States—and sold it for $2 billion. Wind energy was no longer funny—it was well on its way to powering more than 6% of electricity in the United States. Award-winning journalist, Russel Gold tells Skelly’s story, which in many ways is the story of our nation’s evolving relationship with renewable energy. Gold illustrates how Skelly’s company, Clean Line Energy, conceived the idea for a new power grid that would allow sunlight where abundant to light up homes in the cloudy states thousands of miles away, and take wind from the Great Plains to keep air conditioners running in Atlanta. Thrilling, provocative, and important, Superpower is a fascinating look at America’s future.