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Casting a Long Shadow
Author: R. Wayne Tanner
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Published: 2010-09-16
Total Pages: 173
ISBN-13: 1426936966
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is but a glimpse at that struggle and how it not only impacted men and their families but a way of life that can still be seen in many parts of Florida if one is willing to take time and look. Cowboys still saddle their horses and drive to an old set of cow pens and spend many an hour atop their favorite horse gathering, working and selling a new calf crop. They string miles of barbed wire and drive thousands of staples in fence rows built by their grandfathers and great grandfathers. To many, thou, it is lost and only a fading dream. Deep in the soul of Florida lies a great heritage called the True Florida Cracker. Not the urbanized rednecks that can afford a pair of Wrangler jeans, a shiny belt buckle, a fancy felt hat and black pointed toed cowboy boots but the true country boy and girl. Those who know the reason why you carry a pocket knife, how to keep it sharp and not cut yourself. Those who can appreciate a good pot of collard greens without the sweet cornbread you buy in a box. Those who are not afraid of taking a firm hold on a catfish as it flops around and taking out the hook without getting stuck. To those who had actually stepped into a fresh pile of cow crap and knows what it smells like and in a way appreciates the experience. To those who were taught to say yes mam and no sir and remember what respect is. To those who say to themselves that they were born in the wrong time.
Cast a Long Shadow
Author: Wayne D. Overholser
Publisher: Speaking Volumes
Published:
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 1645408566
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Three-time Spur Award Winning Author Wayne D. Overholser “STAY ON THE SIDE OF THE BIG MEN." That was what Pat Keenan told his son as he lay dying, and young Matt Keenan vowed to follow his father's advice. But when he returned to his boyhood home in New Mexico, he ran into a hail of bullets fired by the company he had hoped to work for and local settlers the company wanted to evict. Caught in the cross fire, Keenan had to decide which meant more: a promise to a dead man, or the lives of hundreds of men and women who would rather die than lose their land. A Classic Western Adventure by WAYNE D. OVERHOLSER Winner of the Western Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award
The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts
Author: Laura Tillman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2016-04-05
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1501104306
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“A haunted, haunting examination of mental illness and murder in a more or less ordinary American city…Mature and thoughtful…A Helter Skelter for our time, though without a hint of sensationalism—unsettling in the extreme but written with confidence and deep empathy” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). On March 11, 2003, in Brownsville, Texas—one of America’s poorest cities—John Allen Rubio and Angela Camacho murdered their three young children. The apartment building in which the brutal crimes took place was already run down, and in their aftermath a consensus developed in the community that it should be destroyed. In 2008, journalist Laura Tillman covered the story for The Brownsville Herald. The questions it raised haunted her and set her on a six-year inquiry into the larger significance of such acts, ones so difficult to imagine or explain that their perpetrators are often dismissed as monsters alien to humanity. Tillman spoke with the lawyers who tried the case, the family’s neighbors and relatives and teachers, even one of the murderers: John Allen Rubio himself, whom she corresponded with for years and ultimately met in person. Her investigation is “a dogged attempt to understand what happened, a review of the psychological, sociological and spiritual explanations for the crime…a meditation on the death penalty and on the city of Brownsville” Star Tribune (Minneapolis). The result is a brilliant exploration of some of our age’s most important social issues and a beautiful, profound meditation on the truly human forces that drive them. “This thought-provoking…book exemplifies provocative long-form journalism that does not settle for easy answers” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Cast a Long Shadow
Author: Kwen D. Griffeth
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2018-12-26
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781792726415
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ever try to fill boots a size too large? Ever keep pace with strides too long? Ever try to cast a long shadow? "Bad Bobby" Trent, star high school athlete, college scholarship holder, pro-rodeo circuit rider lived an unencumbered life. He was a man, who by his own definition, limited his concentration to no more than eight seconds at a time. The time required to ride a bull or saddlebronc and win. He's tough, independent, shallow and always looking for a good time. Then his father is murdered. Sheriff Robert Trent, longtime chief law enforcement officer of Lodge Pole County Montana. He was stern, fair, honest and dependable. He tried to see the best in people, and always ready to give them one more chance. Ambushed, shot dead at the side of the road. Set up by someone he knew. Now, rumors claim the sheriff wasn't all that he claimed. Rumors claim he was dirty; paid off by persons' unknown. Slapped by reality, Bobby is determined to investigate the killing. He's set on finding the one who did this. Only one problem, he doesn't have a clue what he's doing.
Cast A Long Shadow
Author: Elizabeth Jeffrey
Publisher: Piatkus
Published: 2014-08-07
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 0349406863
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The year is 1916 and twenty-year-old Poppy Barlow is clearing the desk of her late father when she comes across a faded photograph of her father with his two sisters - aunts that Poppy never knew she had - along with their address. Poppy contacts her aunts, and is thrilled when they invite her to stay with them in Sheffield. But while Dale House might look grand from the outside, on closer inspection, the place is run-down and crumbling. Poppy determines to change all this and applies for a job at the local scythe works - to the horror of her aunts. As Poppy learns to survive, she is tormented by many unanswered questions. Why had her father rejected Dale House? Why had he never mentioned his sisters or the past? And what could have happened between her aunts and Frederick Kenton, her new boss, that could cause them so much anguish every time his name, or the scythe works, is mentioned?
The Long Shadow of Temperament
Author: Jerome Kagan
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-06-15
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0674264886
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →We have seen these children—the shy and the sociable, the cautious and the daring—and wondered what makes one avoid new experience and another avidly pursue it. At the crux of the issue surrounding the contribution of nature to development is the study that Jerome Kagan and his colleagues have been conducting for more than two decades. In The Long Shadow of Temperament, Kagan and Nancy Snidman summarize the results of this unique inquiry into human temperaments, one of the best-known longitudinal studies in developmental psychology. These results reveal how deeply certain fundamental temperamental biases can be preserved over development. Identifying two extreme temperamental types—inhibited and uninhibited in childhood, and high-reactive and low-reactive in very young babies—Kagan and his colleagues returned to these children as adolescents. Surprisingly, one of the temperaments revealed in infancy predicted a cautious, fearful personality in early childhood and a dour mood in adolescence. The other bias predicted a bold childhood personality and an exuberant, sanguine mood in adolescence. These personalities were matched by different biological properties. In a masterly summary of their wide-ranging exploration, Kagan and Snidman conclude that these two temperaments are the result of inherited biologies probably rooted in the differential excitability of particular brain structures. Though the authors appreciate that temperamental tendencies can be modified by experience, this compelling work—an empirical and conceptual tour-de-force—shows how long the shadow of temperament is cast over psychological development.
Cast a Long Shadow
Author: Jim Annison
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2014-08-03
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 1291971602
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →It has been fifteen years since Adam Carnell's wife died, killed by one of the ghosts that haunted Mosscroft House. It has been five years since he returned there to face his demons. Now living in Bristol with his new wife, Jenny, Adam is, finally, beginning to put the past behind him until a long forgotten evil puts that which he loves most in danger. Only then does he realise past events can cast a long shadow over the present.
The Long Shadow
Author: David Reynolds
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2013-11-07
Total Pages: 540
ISBN-13: 0857206389
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Britain we have lost touch with the Great War. Our overriding sense now is of a meaningless, futile bloodbath in the mud of Flanders -- of young men whose lives were cut off in their prime for no evident purpose. But by reducing the conflict to personal tragedies, however moving, we have lost the big picture: the history has been distilled into poetry. In TheLong Shadow, critically acclaimed author David Reynolds seeks to redress the balance by exploring the true impact of 1914-18 on the 20th century. Some of the Great War's legacies were negative and pernicious but others proved transformative in a positive sense. Exploring big themes such as democracy and empire, nationalism and capitalism and re-examining the differing impacts of the War on Britain, Ireland and the United States,TheLong Shadowthrows light on the whole of the last century and demonstrates that 1914-18 is a conflict that Britain, more than any other nation, is still struggling to comprehend. Stunningly broad in its historical perspective, The Long Shadowis a magisterial and seismic re-presentation of the Great War.
Cast a Long Shadow
Author: Sanghamitra Sharma
Publisher: Notion Press
Published: 2017-01-17
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 194651506X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A bulldozer tears up the old Maheshwari bungalow in Versova and reveals a grisly secret – the skeleton of a young girl. DNA confirms that the body belongs to a young girl who has been missing for twenty-five years. This discovery sets off ugly reverberations for the Maheshwaris in the media and brings not only the police but also Kavita Tandon and Darius Mody of M&T Investigations to their doorstep! The detective duo discover old loves, resentments and secrets that come tumbling out of everyone’s cupboard. A ruthless father who is used to getting his own way – two brothers, one love – wives who discover that the past is not always so well-buried – a lawyer who carries shame within – friends who would rather protect themselves and the family than tell the truth. Kavita and Darius have their task cut out as they deal with hostility, anger and lies to finally get to the truth.
