Monday, March 18, 2013
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PimPage: An Occasional Feature in Which I Call Attention to Books of Interest
ADELINE: Wayne D. Dundee: Amazon.com: Kindle Store: For over half a century, the Orphan Train program took abandoned children from the squalor and dangers of overcrowded eastern cities and transported them to new lives in the rural West.
Some went to loving, welcoming homes the way it was meant to be. Others ended up as little more than slave labor to the hard demands of farm or ranch life.
And then there was the fate that awaited Adeline …
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Shooter's Cross (Rancho Diablo): Colby Jackson, Bill Crider, Mel Odom, James Reasoner: Amazon.com: Kindle Store: CURSED LAND
Army Scout Sam Blaylock rode into the small Texas town of Shooter's Cross looking for deserters, not trouble.
While up in the mountains, he discovered a wilderness plagued by nature and haunted by superstition, but one that he thought he could tame with his experience and strong back.
He didn't know he was going to have to kill to keep the home he planned for his family, but he didn't let that stop him. Sam had been looking for a home for his family for years. That search had been interrupted by the Civil War.
Now Sam is putting down roots, and not even the Devil himself can stand in the way.
Army Scout Sam Blaylock rode into the small Texas town of Shooter's Cross looking for deserters, not trouble. While up in the mountains, he discovered a wilderness plagued by nature and haunted by superstition, but one that he thought he could tame with his experience and strong back.
He didn't know he was going to have to kill to keep the home he planned for his family, but he didn't let that stop him. Sam had been looking for a home for his family for years. That search had been interrupted by the Civil War.
Now Sam is putting down roots, and not even the Devil himself can stand in the way.
The End of the Hangup
The Atlantic: Why the physical form of smartphones and the unreliable operation of cellular networks has made hanging up the telephone impossible.
The Adventures of St. Patrick
The Adventures of St. Patrick: Slave, traveler, evangelist, abolitionist, and saint. A scant 400 years after Jesus' birth, the priest known as Patrick took the Great Commission seriously, to spread the gospel to the ends of the earth by converting the frightening barbarians of that scary outpost known as Ireland. Dates and details of Patrick's life are somewhat ambiguous since written records from fifth-century Ireland are scarce. A lot of what we know comes from what little Patrick himself wrote, or from biographies written long after his time.
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