Behind and Beyond the Pine Curtain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Behind and Beyond the Pine Curtain write by Gary B. Borders. This book was released on 2004. Behind and Beyond the Pine Curtain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Behind the Pine Curtain
Behind the Pine Curtain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Behind the Pine Curtain write by Gerri Hill. This book was released on 2006-06-01. Behind the Pine Curtain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Jacqueline Keys was ostracized from her small hometown of Pine Springs, Texas when she was seventeen, sent away because she was gay. Her family was the largest employer in the county, owning Pine Springs Lumber, and her father was mayor of this small town. Her mother could not accept the fact that her only child was gay, could not tolerate the gossip about her family. So, with a hundred dollars in her pocket and a one-way bus ticket out of town, Jacqueline was told not to come back until she had come to her senses. And that included being prepared to marry the son of a business associate of the family. Fifteen years later—long after she'd hitch-hiked to Los Angeles, long after she'd worked nights to put herself through college, and long after she'd written her first best seller, No Place For Family—Jacqueline is persuaded to go back to the tiny town of Pine Springs after her father's death. The quick trip she'd envisioned for the funeral turns into weeks as she learns her father's business is suddenly hers to manage. And she is also again face-to-face with the woman who, as a teen, had been Jackie's first crush. She and Kay had been inseparable as kids, and later as teens. They find themselves falling back into their old habits, and Jackie is soon fighting the same feelings she'd had when she was seventeen. But living behind the pine curtain, Kay is afraid of her love for Jackie, afraid of what her family will say, afraid of how the town will react. Jackie refuses to hide, refuses to crawl back into the closet, so once again, she leaves Pine Springs...alone.
Behind the Magnolia Curtain
Behind the Magnolia Curtain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Behind the Magnolia Curtain write by Thomas B. Hargrave Jr.. This book was released on 2013-03-15. Behind the Magnolia Curtain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Buoyed by his remarkable extended family, Thomas B. Hargrave, Jr., came of age during the turbulent decades of the Great Depression and World War II. He attended nine segregated public schools, served in a segregated Air Force, and ultimately graduated from college in 1951. He confronted the barriers of racism, intolerance, and injustice, earning his membership in the vanguard of the Civil Rights movement. In his memoirs, he shares honest recollections of the segregated society of his youth and how his early experiences shaped his outlook on life. Behind the Magnolia Curtain serves as his legacy to a new generation who will continue the quest for justice.
Behind the Bamboo Curtain
Behind the Bamboo Curtain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Behind the Bamboo Curtain write by Priscilla Mary Roberts. This book was released on 2006. Behind the Bamboo Curtain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Based on new archival research in many countries, this volume broadens the context of the U.S. intervention in Vietnam. Its primary focus is on relations between China and Vietnam in the mid-twentieth century; but the book also deals with China's relations with Cambodia, U.S. dealings with both China and Vietnam, French attitudes toward Vietnam and China, and Soviet views of Vietnam and China. Contributors from seven countries range from senior scholars and officials with decades of experience to young academics just finishing their dissertations. The general impact of this work is to internationalize the history of the Vietnam War, going well beyond the long-standing focus on the role of the United States.
Nothing to Lose
Nothing to Lose - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nothing to Lose write by Jim Sanderson. This book was released on 2014-05-31. Nothing to Lose available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Roger Jackson is a grouch. He drinks too much with the wrong sorts of people. He dislikes where he lives—Beaumont, Texas, a small, humid southeast Texas town caught between a marsh and an impenetrable forest, between racial and social strife, between rival versions of Jesus. He dislikes his job—taking photos of cheating spouses. He dislikes his past. (He could have been a lawyer.) And now, he finds himself entangled in a crime. When the police find an aging ex-hippie dead from bullet wounds to the head and torso, they find Roger’s photos and want his help. Surrounded by a cast of colorful characters, Roger must do his job while maneuvering around the dangerous agendas of those around him. But the greatest obstacle is the recurring cocaine trail leading to Jewel McQueen, a small-time crook, who is guarded by his sociopathic brother, Sunshine McQueen, who hears voices from Jesus, Satan, and his mother. Jewell will stop at nothing—even murder—to keep his demented brother out of prison. Roger must leave the enclosed suburbs with their exclusive, prim, cleaned-up Jesus and cheap cocaine and liquor habits and, with his new partners, venture “behind the pine curtain,” into the deep Piney Woods with its wild, unruly Pentecostal Jesus and meth-lab economy and mentality.
