Author: Louis L'Amour
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553280856
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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He was an orphan from the hills of Tennessee and he hadn’t eaten in three days. With the front of his stomach making friends with the back, he was in no position to let an opportunity slip by unnoticed. And when Chancy defended his new herd of cattle with a shotgun, he didn’t miss. The dead man left a pistol on the ground. Chancy needed a spare and, after stowing it in his bedroll, forgot about it. He had a cattle drive to finish and a profit to make. But the gun had a history. Another killing had taken place and Chancy would never know the truth until it was too late. Now, locked in a jail cell with an angry, drunken mob outside and time running out, he must somehow find a way to prove his innocence.
Author: Myriam JA Chancy
Publisher: Tin House Books
ISBN: 1951142845
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 299
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American Book Award Winner Aspen Words Literary Prize Finalist A NPR, Boston Globe, New York Public Library, Chicago Public Library, and Library Journal Best Book of the Year “Stunning.” —Margaret Atwood At the end of a long, sweltering day, an earthquake of 7.0 magnitude shakes the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince. Award-winning author Myriam J. A. Chancy masterfully charts the inner lives of the characters affected by the disaster—Richard, an expat and wealthy water-bottling executive with a secret daughter; the daughter, Anne, an architect who drafts affordable housing structures for a global NGO; a small-time drug trafficker, Leopold, who pines for a beautiful call girl; Sonia and her business partner, Dieudonné, who are followed by a man they believe is the vodou spirit of death; Didier, an emigrant musician who drives a taxi in Boston; Sara, a mother haunted by the ghosts of her children in an IDP camp; her husband, Olivier, an accountant forced to abandon the wife he loves; their son, Jonas, who haunts them both; and Ma Lou, the old woman selling produce in the market who remembers them all. Brilliantly crafted, fiercely imagined, and deeply haunting, What Storm, What Thunder is a singular, stunning record, a reckoning of the heartbreaking trauma of disaster, and—at the same time—an unforgettable testimony to the tenacity of the human spirit.
Author: Myriam J. A. Chancy
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252051904
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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In Autochthonomies, Myriam J. A. Chancy engages readers in an interpretive journey. She lays out a radical new process that invites readers to see creations by artists of African descent as legible within the context of African diasporic historical and cultural debates. By invoking a transnational African/diasporic lens and negotiating it through a lakou or ”yard space,” we can see such identities transfigured, recognized, and exchanged. Chancy demonstrates how the process can examine the salient features of texts and art that underscore African/diasporic sensibilities and render them legible. What emerges is a potential for richer readings of African diasporic works that also ruptures the Manichean binary dynamics that have dominated previous interpretations of the material. The result: an enriching interpretive mode focused on the transnational connections between subjects of African descent as the central pole for reader investigation. A bold challenge to established scholarship, Autochthonomies ranges from Africa to Europe and the Americas to provide powerful new tools for charting the transnational interactions between African cultural producers and sites.
Author: Ed Teja
Publisher: Float Street Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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A Hong Kong sailing story The partly true story of a passionate sailor, a "Flying Dutchman." A man who was nearly trapped in the Hong Kong corporate treadmill by the world's tightest golden handcuffs. John wrote a song that inspired this story which provides a glimpse of a man living his dream. Beautifully illustrated with photos of Hong Kong by Tom Tsui.
Author: Lass Small
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1459271521
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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JUST ONE OF THE BOYS Chancy Freedman had grown up on the Bar Q ranch. She had learned how to rope and ride, and the ranch hands had looked out for her "best they could." But they couldn't teach her the art of being a lady, and poor Chancy had made it to her twentieth birthday without learning how. And then Clifford Robertson rode into town…. Cliff was a real cowboy, with an easy, long-legged stride and a confident air. Nothing rattled this dude—until the irrepressible Chancy roped him in. The virginal beauty had decided Cliff would make a most appropriate teacher. That wily wrangler was in for the ride of his life!
Author: Louis L'Amour
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553899007
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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He was an orphan from the hills of Tennessee and he hadn’t eaten in three days. With the front of his stomach making friends with the back, he was in no position to let an opportunity slip by unnoticed. And when Chancy defended his new herd of cattle with a shotgun, he didn’t miss. The dead man left a pistol on the ground. Chancy needed a spare and, after stowing it in his bedroll, forgot about it. He had a cattle drive to finish and a profit to make. But the gun had a history. Another killing had taken place and Chancy would never know the truth until it was too late. Now, locked in a jail cell with an angry, drunken mob outside and time running out, he must somehow find a way to prove his innocence.
Author: Keith R. Ostling
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1304901734
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 163
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"Chancy Flint" tells the story of a twelve-year-old boy who is suddenly forced to accept adult responsibilities in Civil War era Kentucky. His mother is kidnapped by an evil Shawnee war chief. His father sets out to rescue her, leaving Chancy to care for his five-year-old brother, the family farm, and all the animals. Chancy faces many challenges at which most grown-ups would cringe. But we see him grow up straight and strong, tempered by adversity, not defeated by it.
Author: Keith R. Ostling
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 131241720X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 159
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Chancy Flint: Cowboy is the second in a series of five novels following the life of a young man from age twelve into his thirties. Chancy becomes a cowboy who is good with horses, cattle, and guns. Honest, courageous, hard-working and loyal, Chancy is a man to ride the river with. Right after the Civil War Chancy and his partners ride into South Texas and round up and brand over 3,000 unbranded mavericks and 365 horses. They then drive the herd up the Shawnee Trail to the railhead at Sedalia, Missouri. Along the way, they must deal with violent weather, floods, stampedes, hostile Indians, and rustlers. Chancy faces life's challenges with courage and resourcefulness. Over the five novels we watch him grow up straight and strong, tempered by adversity, not defeated by it.
Author: M.B. Smith
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557106982
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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When actress Chancy Phillips hits the big time, she believes she's finally left the brutality and deprivation of her childhood behind. That is, until she comes home unexpectedly and finds her husband, aging quarterback John Wade, in bed with another woman. Realizing that her marriage is just another abusive relationship, she flees in despair; by doing so she sets in motion events that could reignite their love for one another, but also opens the door to monsters from her past. The key to which will prevail lies in a warning from her dead mother...if only she can decipher it in time!
Author: Sid Fleischman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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