Jason Culp
1) Blind tiger
Author
Language
English
Description
"Thatcher Hutton, a war-weary soldier on the way back to his cowboy life, jumps from a moving freight train to avoid trouble . . . and lands in more than he bargained for"--
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
p2011
Physical Desc
8 CDs (8 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On March 30, 1981, President Reagan narrowly escaped death after he was cut down by a sniper's bullet. However, few really knew how close the president came to dying. Here, award-winning journalist Del Quentin Wilber chronicles the assassination attempt, retracing the footsteps of those who were responsible for saving President Reagan's life as well as those who were involved in the shooter's apprehension.
Author
Publisher
Playaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015].
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
i audio media player (3.5 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
On the 16th of December, 1944, in the frozen forests of the Ardennes, the German army attacked American Allied forces, launching a final bid to turn the tide of World War II. Thus began the long, hard slog of a battle that was nicknamed by the media as the Battle of the Bulge. Lasting more than a month, it led to tens of thousands of casualties. Sir Winston Churchill called it "the greatest American battle of the war and . . . an ever-famous American...
Author
Language
English
Description
There's a killer on the road, and nobody is safe. Michael and Megan Fitzgerald are siblings who share a terrifying past. Both adopted, and now grown -- Michael is a long-haul truck driver, Megan a college student majoring in psychology -- they trust each other before anyone else. They've had to. Their parents are public intellectuals, an Ivy League clinical psychologist and a renowned psychiatrist, and they brought up their adopted children in a rarefied,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After being injured in a freak accident, novelist Gerry Andersen lies in a hospital bed in his glamorous but sterile apartment, isolated from the busy world he can see through his windows, utterly dependent on two women he barely knows: his young assistant and a night nurse whose competency he questions. But Gerry is also beginning to question his own competency. As he moves in and out of dreamlike memories and seemingly random appearances of a persistent...
7) Stand proud
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2000, c1984
Edition
1st Forge ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 306 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
On trial for murder, Frank Claymore, an old Texas rancher, recalls his experiences as a young man and the events that led to his trial.
8) Bitter trail
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1996, c1962
Edition
1st Forge ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
217 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Bitter Trail, Kelton tells the story of a tough teamster named Frio Wheeler whose wagons haul cotton from Texas to Mexico. Sounds like a peaceable enterprise. The problem is that the Civil War is raging throughout the South and Wheeler's cotton is to be sold for gold, gold used to buy guns and ammunition for the Confederate army.
And, added to his balky mules, the broiling heat, and killing drought of the Mexican dessert, Wheeler has even more...
Author
Series
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
A chronicle of the most powerful hurricane ever to hit the United States and its aftermath details the storm of September 1935 as seen by survivors, Federal Emergency Relief Administration staff, and government officials.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 426 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the Pulitzer Prize- winning historian, a brilliant, absorbing study of Jefferson and his campaign to save Virginia through education. By turns entertaining and tragic, this beautifully crafted history reveals the origins of a great university in the dilemmas of Virginia slavery. Thomas Jefferson shares center stage with his family and fellow planters, all dependent on the labor of enslaved black families. With a declining Virginia yielding to...