Oklahoma Tough: My Father, King of the Tulsa Bootleggers, Paperback - Ron Padgett

Wayne Padgett was a colorful, charming, and generous man. He was also one of Oklahoma's most elusive bootleggers and career criminals. From the 196...

Reducere. Gathering the work of more than fifty years, Ron Padgett's Collected Poems is the record of one of the most dynamic careers in twentieth-century Am...

Reducere. DescriptionWritten over three seasons in a Vermont cabin, these poems act as a reflecting pool, casting back mortality, consciousness, and time in ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Ron PadgettThis bestselling reference guide includes 76 entries on traditional and modern poetic forms. Defined in alphabet...

Reducere. In 1921 Tulsa's Greenwood District, known then as the nation's "Black Wall Street, " was one of the most prosperous African American communities in...

Going from the jungles of the wartime Philippines to the schoolyards of northwestern Oklahoma is no easy transition. For one twelve-year-old girl, ...

Reducere. In 1921 Tulsa's Greenwood District, known then as the nation's "Black Wall Street, " was one of the most prosperous African American communities in...

Reducere. On the evening of May 31, 1921, and in the early morning hours of June 1, several thousand white citizens and authorities violently attacked the Af...

Reducere. Charles Goodnight was a pioneer of the early range cattle industry--an opinionated and profane but energetic and well-liked rancher.Goodnight's sto...

Choosing the title of this collection was an easy decision for Donald. He has written poems for weddings, birthdays, funerals, and other occasions....

This brand new collection of 28 short stories spans the length of Frame's career and contains some of the best she wrote. None of these stories hav...

Clad in the black robe of his priestly order and armed only with a crucifix, for more than a quarter of a century Father De Smet relentlessly tramp...

Reducere. "The child that is born on the Sabbath Day is bonnie and blithe and good and gay." (Traditions of Devonshire, Nursery Rhyme, 1883) He brooked no in...

Reducere. Changes in climate and sea level are nothing new - over the last 700 million years, the Earth has been slowly but constantly changing from within. ...

A break-out novel from one of America's most strikingly powerful and accessible talents. Father of the Rain tells the spellbinding story of a daugh...

Reducere. Rising from a Missouri boyhood and meager prospecting success to owning the most productive copper, silver, and gold mines in the world and being e...

Reducere. If we do in fact "remember the Alamo, " it is largely thanks to one person who witnessed the final assault and survived: the commanding officer's s...

Reducere. Mary Parrish was reading in her home when the Tulsa race massacre began on the evening of May 31, 1921. Parrish's daughter, Florence Mary, called t...

Sins of the Father tells of Shaneda Daly's horrific abuse for over a decade by her own father, and how she managed to take back the power he had ta...

Publisher: Lodima PressAuthor(s): Brett WestonIllustration(s): 10 b/w photosNumber of pages: 36Publication date: 2011Dimensions: 372 x 268 x 14Cove...

Reducere. This book is about Oklahoma City, its primary law enforcers and their agency. It is about the controls they have exerted, tried to exert or failed ...

From the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England, comes the story of King Edward III, who - like Elizabeth and Victori...

Reducere. If there was one man, other than Napoleon himself, who determined the course of the Napoleonic Wars, it was Jacques-Antoine-Hippolyte, comte de Gui...

Reducere. A historical account of Theodore "Teddy" Roe who courageously fought the Chicago Mafia aka The Outfit, for control of the lucrative Policy/Numbers ...

Publisher: Galaxy PressAuthor(s): L. Ron HubbardNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 138 x 202 x 18Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

One of the lessons I learned from seeking the origins of my family is to understand the role of education in raising a family's standard of living ...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Edmund KingNumber of pages: 144Collection: Penguin MonarchsPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 110 x 181 x 16C...

Reducere. From leading political figure and bestselling Hebrew author Yair Lapid comes a mesmerizing portrait of the author's father, one of modern Israel's ...

DescriptionThe youngest of William the Conqueror's sons, Henry I (1100-35) was never meant to be king, but he was destined to become one of the gre...

Reducere. Comezon: It's more than an itch. It's a long-standing desire that will never be fulfilled. And, in this novel by award-winning author Denise Chavez...

Publisher: OrionAuthor(s): Lily DunnPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 135 x 214 x 22Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Rico Hinson-KingNumber of pages: 32Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 250 x 251 x 7Cover type: Paperb...

Reducere. " An] impressive feature of the book is the profusion of illustrative material. Many of the photographs have never been published before....The app...

In the vein of the Costa-winning Dadland, with the biographical elements of H is for Hawk and The Lonely City, The Fragments of my Father is a powe...

Reducere. Creator, Father, King is a One Year devotional written to help teens learn more about God and see His love, His perfect character, and His eternal ...

Reducere. Edward Cooper is a hard man to know.Dour and exuberant by turns, his moods dictate the always uncertain climate of the Cooper household. Balding, o...

DescriptionA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR " A] poignant addition to the literature of moneyed glamour and its inevitable tarnish and dec...

A son. A father he adores. A profession he loves, and, a disease that destroys. The painful and life-changing journey one of Britain's finest actor...