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A pair of weary Marines come home from the Pacific. They yearn for Texas and cattle ranching. But Texas has changed.
It's 1946. World War II is over. Ennis Middlebrooks and Harry Byerly want life to get back to normal.
But Texas has changed. The end of war brings with it a mindset of wildness, excess, and profiteering.
The Middlebrooks Ranch has changed. Ennis's baby sister has grown wild as a colt.
Oilmen have come in search of riches.
No peace will they find.
The Sheriff is murdered. Becky Middlebrooks is kidnapped. A failed bank robbery doesn't go as planned.
A killer is on the loose.
Crooks are in charge.
But Marines are stubborn and know how to take care of themselves. | |  | | Crazy of Natural Causes
Chance Benford has to start all over. He doesn't know how. He doesn't remember what happened. He finds his own way ... with a little help.
Chance Benford is a fine football coach who is out of control, and his life comes tumbling down. He loses his wife, job and very nearly his life.
While Chance recovers, having no memory of the month before his accident, he reads the Bible and develops his own vision of Christ's teachings.
Almost by accident, Chance gives his testimony at a church. A video goes viral. Suddenly, he is in demand. His message comes to the attention of a powerful evangelist.
Chance doesn't want to be a powerful evangelist himself.
It all gets thoroughly out of control. | |  | | Forgive Us Our Trespasses
Denny Frawley will do anything to be governor of South Carolina.
Anything.
Denny Frawley is a crook. He's a murderer. He loves cocaine.
His children and their friends sell weed. His wife is an alcoholic. His mistress is conniving. His minions are as ruthless as he.
Hal Kinley is a good cop. He works for Frawley. He's known him all his life. Denny is on the verge of being elected governor of South Carolina. No one can stop him but Hal. Hal's son has fallen under the spell of the Frawley twins. Hal wants to save Hayden, too.
It's a long shot. | |  | | Life Gets Complicated
In the sequel to Lightning in a Bottle, Barrie Jarman faces hardships in his rookie season at stock car racing's premier level.
At the age of nineteen, Barrie Jarman has grown up in a hurry. He is poised on the edge of stock car racing stardom. He’s making ten times as much money as a year ago. He has a top-flight ride with a top-flight team in the top flight of the sport. He is exactly where he wants to be.
Life Gets Complicated. It’s veteran motorsports writer Monte Dutton’s sequel to Lightning in a Bottle, the acclaimed novel about the kid with the character of his generation but the spirit of stock car racing’s rowdy past.
At the end of Barrie’s frantic first year, he parties with his girlfriend, Angela Hug | |  | | Lightning in a Bottle
Barrie Jarman is just what stock car racing needs. He just can't get the powers that be to understand his appeal.
Stock car racing is in decline. Its fan base is shrinking and aging.
Along comes Barrie Jarman, an 18-year-old virtuoso from the wrong side of the Spartanburg, South Carolina, tracks.
Barrie is athletic, articulate, brash, and rebellious.
Thanks to his Uncle Charlie, an old FASCAR hand, Barrie gets a chance to show what he can do, and Ford puts him in the Enervation Series with a top-flight team.
But Barrie locks horns with the FASCAR leadership from day one.
He has a hard time convincing them that he is exactly what they need.
They just think he's a pain in the ass. | |  | | The Audacity of Dope
The last thing Riley Mansfield ever wanted to be was a hero.
Riley Mansfield is not your typical hero. He writes songs for a living, smokes pot for recreation, and just wants to live and let live.
When Riley foils an apparent terrorist plot to blow up the small plane he is on, he is thrust into the spotlight, which is exactly where he doesn't want to be.
Suddenly, everyone wants a piece of him, including both major political parties. They aren't willing to take no for an answer, partly because it's an election year and partly because what happened on the plane is a bit more complicated that it appears. | |  | | The Intangibles
It's 1968. All hell has broken loose in the South in general and the town of Fairmont, South Carolina, in particular. Only a football team can keep the peace.
Desegregation has torn Fairmont apart. Blacks and whites are coming together in the public school and tearing apart in the community.
A new football coach, Reese Knighton, arrives, to coach the Fairmont Cyclones, and he manages to secure the loyalty of Willie Spurgeon, coach of the Mossy Springs Moccasins, who are no more.
A white school in decline joins with a black school laden with talent. It's not easy to bring warring elements together, but Knighton does it. Meanwhile, within the team is there culture shock.
Many prominent people do not want the Cyclones to succeed.
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44:15 El Camino del Diablo
by Tom Leftwich
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 In this collection of Western fiction, I’ve endeavored to bring the reader a little laughter at the expense of my characters, even though they are at times engaged in life threatening adventures. Learn to say something nice to all of your enemies l |
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