6/30/2023 0 Comments Callie's Heart by Kathleen Ball![]() With the Todd brothers all married and ending their Oregon Trail company, Smitty is now out of a job and he has a chance to settle down. Both Lynn and Smitty have doubts about their special love for each other.Ĭan Smitty sway Lynn to be his forever or will she choose to travel a different road? It was the biggest mistake of her life as the farmer is abusive. Lynn can’t stay in a house that doesn’t belong to her, so she answers an ad and leaves to become a farmer’s wife, taking her children with her. ![]() ![]() He finally comes home, but in his grief he decides to leave Lynn and the kids. Lynn knows Smitty is married and respects the vows he took. Upon arriving at Brenda’s house, he finds Brenda and her mother May dying of tuberculosis and just as ornery as ever. Brenda lied and said she was with child, Smitty’s child, over ten years ago. He has Lynn and a houseful of orphans, but he also had a wife who he’s always been faithful to. It’s finally time for Smitty to settle down after all of his trips on the Oregon Trail. From best-selling, award-winning author Kathleen Ball comes audiobook four of the #1 best-selling series Oregon Dreamin'. ![]()
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6/30/2023 0 Comments The rum diary a novel![]() ![]() ![]() Journalists - Puerto Rico - San Juan - Fiction. Puerto Rico was an unspoiled tropical paradise in those years - before Castro, before JFK, before civil rights & moonwalks & flower power & Vietnam & protests & even before drugs - but, the San Juan Daily News was a vortex & a snakepit of all the corrupt new schemes & plots & greedmongers who swarmed in. The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, treachery & violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s. In Paul Kemp, the novel's hero, there are echoes of the young Thompson, who was himself honing his wildly musical writing style as one of the "ill-tempered wandering rabble" on staff at the San Juan Daily News at the time. The Rum Diary was begun in 1959 by a then-twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. The rum diary : the long lost novel / Hunter S. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments The sheep look up book![]() ![]() ![]() He wrote his first novel, Galactic Storm, at 17, and published it under the pen-name Gill Hunt, but he did not start writing full-time until 1958. John Brunner was born in Preston Crowmarsh, near Wallingford in Oxfordshire, and went to school at St Andrew's Prep School, Pangbourne, then to Cheltenham College. More than a novel of science fiction, The Sheep Look Up is a skillful and frightening political and social commentary that takes its place next to other remarkable works of dystopian literature, such as Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, and George Orwell's 1984. The ''trainites,'' a group of violent environmental activists, want him to lead their movement the government wants him dead and the media demands amusement. Large corporations fighting over profits from gas masks, drinking water, and clean food tower over an ineffectual, corrupt government.Įnvironmentalist Austin Train is on the run. The water is undrinkable - unless you're poor and have no choice. The infant mortality rate is soaring, and birth defects, new diseases, and physical ailments of all kinds abound. In a near future, the air pollution is so bad that everyone wears gas masks. ![]() A prophetic look at the potential consequences of the escalating destruction of the Earth. ![]() |