Raymond the Rooster

Raymond the Rooster
Author: Katie Morgan Lester
Publisher: Mascot Books
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2021-01-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781645435761

Raymond the Rooster lives on a farm With lots of animals and a big red barn. He's off on an adventure to find a new a friend, Will he learn a valuable lesson in the end?

High Steaks

High Steaks
Author: Rob Loughran
Publisher: Salvo Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2003
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1930486375

Winner of the Mystery Novel Award. . . Davis O'Kane thought his fall from grace had reached its lowest point, with an impending divorce and a custody battle for his twin daughters, but then he finds a dead body in his restaurant, and his world sinks as deep as a Uranium pit in the high desert of Nightingale, Nevada. Nightingale is a place where high stakes gamblers and rednecks belly up to the bar with high-priced hookers and federal agents. High Steaks propels the reader into the realm of crooked horse racing, cheating the roulette wheel, and murder as hot as a Nevada summer, set against a backdrop of the town's first contested mayoral race in decades. Follow Davis as he unravels the murder and pulls himself up from the brink of despair.

Rooster

Rooster
Author: Don Trembath
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2005-06-01
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1554695295

Rooster Cobb is in trouble--with his school, with his mother, with his girlfriend. He smokes too much and he hates his stepfather. In fact, he might not graduate from high school. But he just doesn't seem to care. That is until the guidance counselor and the principal come up with a plan to get Rooster through grade twelve, out of their lives forever and possibly on the right track with his life. The last thing Rooster wants to do is coach The Strikers, a bowling team of special-needs adults, especially when he finds out he's going to be mentored by the most unpopular girl in school, the principal's daughter, Elma. When he starts to take coaching seriously, his friends make fun of him, and his girlfriend accuses him of taking the easy way out. But when one of The Strikers dies unexpectedly, Rooster discovers there are as many ways to be a hero as there are ways to mess up.

Indiana Ditchweed and the Politics of Ray

Indiana Ditchweed and the Politics of Ray
Author: Aric Heintzelman
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2001-06-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0595181198

In the middle of the Midwestern capital, the overlooked town of Podunk is knocked out of hibernation when its newly elected mayor begins manufacturing rope spun from its fields of wild-grown hemp. Mayor Ray needed a job. His life was lacking so he used his resourses and a little creative thinking to create his own hillbilly utopia. The only problem was that Ray wasn't listening when he was told that hemp farming was illegal. Funny how it always works out that way.

The Pastures of Heaven

The Pastures of Heaven
Author: John Steinbeck
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 241
Release: 1995-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1440674175

A Penguin Classic In Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck’s beautifully rendered depictions of small yet fateful moments that transform ordinary lives, these twelve early stories introduce both the subject and style of artistic expression that recur in the most important works of his career. Each of these self-contained stories is linked to the others by the presence of the Munroes, a family whose misguided behavior and lack of sensitivity precipitate disasters and tragedies. As the individual dramas unfold, Steinbeck reveals the self-deceptions, intellectual limitations, and emotional vulnerabilities that shape the characters’ reactions and gradually erode the harmony and dreams that once formed the foundation of the community. This edition includes an introduction and notes by James Nagel. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Longfellow Bridge

Longfellow Bridge
Author: Billam Northgate
Publisher: Avon Arts
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2013-10-12
Genre:
ISBN:

Longfellow Bridge, the author's first work; is a lavish narrative that covers four decades in the life of a family whose daily struggle for dignity and existence is sometimes reminiscent of the Joad family in the Grapes of Wrath, but at the same time it is an edgy and sometimes hilarious look into the life of a young boy coming of age in the South of the 1960's; and in the turbulent and gritty urban climate of the Northeast between the 1970's and 80's. -Poets and Rogues Magazine

The Pearl Necklace

The Pearl Necklace
Author: Michael H. Faulkner
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2006-05
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781598581508

The Pearl Necklace takes you into the mysterious and often humorous lives of Miss Kitty the Beautiful Golden Retriever, Alice Jane The One-Eyed Pug, Bill the Bull, Lewis the Cat, Rustle the Parrot and many other delightful animal charaters. Faulkner's page turning story comes to life through his own rich illustrations to create a charming story filled with action, suspense, forgiveness and love. Who took the Pearl Necklace and why? "The antics of Miss Kitty, Alice Jane, Lewis and all the other characters are a true delight Life lesson presented by the animals will provide for great discussions with young readers I look forward to the next mystery to be solved by this family of animals." - Mari-Beth O'Neil AVP Special Services, American Kennel Club Michael Faulkner is an artist, educator and American Kennel Club dog show judge. Faulkner lives in Washington, D.C. and Tidewater, Virginia.

The Search

The Search
Author: Joyce Murphy Arendt
Publisher: LifeRich Publishing
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2020-06-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1489728120

After her friend Abby’s spectacularly romantic wedding in Illinois, Victoria Berhenke returns to her home town in Arkansas to visit her mother and brothers, but she has an ulterior motive. She is determined to find her father, who disappeared after the death of her twin baby brothers, leaving her mother devastated and alone to raise her and her four brothers. Victoria’s guilt over leaving her mother alone to raise the family has haunted her for ten years and until she exhausts all means to find her father and reunite the family, she feels she will never be able to find a love of her own. Not just a love, but the love of her life. Meeting Abby’s new husband’s handsome brother, Raymond, has awakened her desire for love and family. Could Raymond be the one? However, back in Arkansas her childhood buddy reappears on the scene. Now, a handsome and successful Pastor, Jeremy makes himself available to help her in her search for her father, and is very, very attentive, making her more confused than ever. Perhaps one of these men will be her forever love. Which one? Or, is there someone else on her horizon? She won’t know until she finds her father. If she’s not too late.

Field of Oleander

Field of Oleander
Author: George B. Eronini
Publisher: America Star Books
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2016-03-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1682902056

When Raymond Karr is approached by a murderous gang to become a drug smuggler bringing drugs from Africa, he immediately rejects the proposition. A straight shooting immigrant, he actually abhors besmirching his family’s honor. But his passion to attend George Washington med school is unmatched by dismal financial capability, causing him to vacillate as his better instinct struggles with his ambition. Eventually, through a series of coincidences and inertia, despite a re-occurrence of an eerie dream in a field of Oleander, he is swept along the road to criminality. After a tempestuous affair with a beautiful Latina, it’s game on.