Author: Samuel Emery Chamberlain
Publisher: Texas State Historical Assn
ISBN: 9780876111567
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 383
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Not control his amorous and pugilistic inclinations and so left for the West. According to his "Confession," he seduced countless women in the U.S. and Mexico, never missed a fandango, fought gallantly against Mexican guerrillas, and rode with the 1st Dragoons into the Battle of Buena Vista. His remarkable story is pure melodrama; but Goetzmann has proven by his painstaking research that much of it is true. In extensive annotation, the editor has been able to separate.
Author: Samuel E. Chamberlain
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780803263246
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 301
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Author: M. Andrine Welters
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780895556004
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A little classic from 1958 that has assisted many children with their First Confession as well as subsequent confessions. Boys and girls who use this book will receive wonderful help with making a careful examination of conscience in accord with the Ten Commandments, having true sorrow for their sins, making a firm purpose of Amendment, and remembering what to do and say in the confessional. Impr. 39 pgs, PB
Author: Samuel Emery Chamberlain
Publisher: New York : Harper
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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""The sun rose bright and clear...on the morning of the 23rd of February, 1847. it shone on a scene well calculated to stir one's blood to a fever heat with warlike enthusiasm and make a coward brave...twenty thousand men clad in new uniforms, belts, as white as snow, brasses and arms burnished until they glittered like gold and silver. Their Cavalry...some six thousand cavaliers...advanced towards us as if they would ride down out little band and finish the battle at one blow." This was the beginning of the famous Mexican War battle of Buena Vista, as seen by a seventeen-year-old U.S. dragoon who was in the thick of it. Half scoundrel, half hero, a lad who gloried in a fray, either personal duel or large-scale battle, with an eye for a pretty girl and talents that would have made Don Juan, Casanova, Gil Blas and d'Artagnan envious, he was also something of an artist and considerable of a writer. And he left behind him when he died (years later, a respected Civil War general) this matchless piece of Americana, his personally illustrated and illuminated account of his extraordinary adventures and youthful escapades just before, during and after the Mexican War. Here are the stories of battles, of love and dalliance, of duels, chases, escapes, murder, of massacres, ghosts, wild rides and gay fiestas, of the butchery, cruelty and barbarous punishment as well as the gallantry, heroism and glamour that characterized the Mexican War. Here are unparalleled glimpses of real heroes and villains such as General Zachary Taylor and Santa Anna, and of a number of young officers later to win fame in another war, including Captain R. E. Lee and his fellow officer, Captain Jefferson Davis. Here is a scalp-tingling account of young Chamberlain's postwar adventures with a gang of notorious outlaws. Here, in short, are the very sight and sound and smell of an almost neglected chunk of American history. Now brought to light after more than one hundred years, this unique document will surely excite nation wide interest and delight as a classic of picaresque adventure. The manuscript has been checked and rechecked by experts for accuracy and authenticity. Less than one-fifth of the book appeared in Life in three installments in July and August, 1956. With 55 illustrations and decorations including 16 pages in full color."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Cormac McCarthy
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307762521
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 349
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25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road: an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, Blood Meridian traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.
Author: Scott Pomfret
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1611459664
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 323
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Scott Pomfret serves as a lector at St. Anthony Shrine in Boston. He also writes gay porn. His boyfriend is a flaming atheist, and his boyfriend’s Protestant grandmother considers Catholicism a sin worse than sodomy. From Pentecost to Pride, from the books of the Bible to the articles of the Advocate, Pomfret’s wry, hysterically funny memoir maps with matchless humor the full spectrum of the gay Catholic experience.
Author: Diane Chamberlain
Publisher: MIRA
ISBN: 9781459201538
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Dear Anna, What I have to tell you is difficult to write, but I know it will be far more difficult for you to hear, and I’m so sorry… The unfinished letter is the only clue Tara and Emerson have to the reason behind their close friend Noelle’s suicide. Everything they knew about Noelle—her calling as a midwife, her passion for causes, her love for her friends and family—described a woman who embraced life. Yet there was so much they didn’t know. With the discovery of the letter and its heartbreaking secret, Noelle’s friends begin to uncover the truth about this complex woman who touched each of their lives—and the life of a desperate stranger—with love and betrayal, compassion and deceit. Told with sensitivity and insight, The Midwife’s Confession will have you turning pages late into the night. From the bestselling author of The Lies We Told and The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes comes a story of deception that asks: How much is too much to forgive?
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: WelBeck
ISBN: 1787398218
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Author: Marianne Collins
Publisher: The Mary Foundation
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Author: Paula Hendricks
Publisher: Moody Publishers
ISBN: 0802485162
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Sound familiar? 1. You spot a cute boy (we’ll call him Boy A). 2. You dream about Boy A. 3. You do whatever it takes to make Boy A notice you. 4. Even though Boy A doesn’t pursue you, you hang on to your dream of Boy A until he (a) moves to the North Pole with no access to a cell phone or computer, (b) dies and is buried or cremated, or (c) begins dating another girl. 5. You mend your broken heart by hating Boy A and finding another cute boy (Boy B). You replace Boy A with Boy B and begin all over again . . . Paula has gone through an entire alphabet—and more—of boys over the years. As she shares her journal entries and stories—the good, the bad, and the ugly—you’ll be encouraged to trust God with your love life and buckle up for the ride! Written for teen girls, Confessions of a Boy-Crazy Girl will help you on your own journey from neediness to freedom. Part of the True Woman publishing line, whose goal is to encourage women to exude God’s beauty by embracing his design for womanhood
