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Toadsuck isnt a town. Its not even a village. Its a place located on the bank of the Arkansas River. But, as a child, author John J. Dub Black grew up in the area. In this memoir, he narrates a patchwork of stories that re? ect the adventures of his youth near Toadsuck. Tales from Toadsuck follows four years of Blacks life beginning at age ten, when he fought the two asylum attendants as they dragged his screaming mother from their house, locked her in a van, and left. His alcoholic dad watched quietly and then drove away in his car never to return. His memoir describes the boys thirty-mile bike ride through farm country to the home of his aunt and uncle who let him live there and work on the farm. He shares tales of being attacked by a 400-pound wild pig, nearly drowning in a raging river, and playing Halloween pranks with his friends. A story of both survival and love, Tales from Toadsuck tells of a boy coming of age while tackling both the good and the bad that life throws at him.
Humor and trivia author Bill Cannon discovered there really was a Toadsuck, Texas, and he has collected a series of delightfully funny stories about folks he imagined might have lived in a town with such a comical name.
Texas convicts and inmates have made the Texas prison system the most colorful in the world over the past 150 years. T
The lawmen in this book were serious offenders against the laws they had at one time sworn to uphold. Their skills were honed in range wars and family feuds and polished along the cattle trails, in the saloons and banks, and on the trains of the West. More than one kicked out their lives at the end of ropes strung up by citizens who were outraged by their abuse of the trust that went along with the badge they wore. These are their stories.
Collected writings dealing with supernatural encounters or experiences.
There is a myriad of little known, often forgotten, and sometimes unbelievable events, places and people that make up the warp and woof of the Texas mystique. This book consists of intriguing facts taken from age-old legends about the people who developed and settled the state. A section called Truth is Stranger than Fiction will defy imagination. The Texas history buff is sure to enjoy Forgotten Footnotes to Texas History. Have You Ever Wondered? will supply answers to questions about certain Texas legends and folklore. Texas: Land of Legend and Lore presents the Texas of fact and fantasy that so captivates the imaginations of Texans and non-Texans alike.
"From My Mother's Hands" celebrates the positive roles mothers can play in the lives of daughters. In a collection of poignant memoirs crafted from interviews with thirty-three notable Texas women, Susie Kelly Flatau weaves a tapestry of intimate memories, family photographs and recipes, and profiles of each daughter. The daughters' observations and discoveries about their mothers are filled with a wide range of emotions. Lessons of integrity, love, and hope chronicle the powerful bonds that can exist between a daughter and her mother.\r\n\r\n "Every day is Mother's Day in this wonderful collection of daughters' memories of their mothers their guidance, their endurance, even their recipes. And what remarkable daughters speak here! This is a tribute to two generations".\r\n\r\n Nancy Baker Jones, Ph.D., independent scholar specializing in Texas women's history. Co-author (with Ruthe Winegarten) of the recently released book "Capitol Women" and the video Getting Where We've Got to Be, histories of Texas's female legislators\r\n\r\n "So many books are about what went wrong. This is a book about what went right. There is immense wisdom in these lives, wisdom that mentors us, inspires us, gives us hope for our own future and our children's future. The section on [Creating Your Own Mother's Journal] is both an occasion for reflection and a reminder of what is yet possible".\r\n Chuck Meyer, author of "Twelve Smooth Stones: A Father Writes to His Daughter About Money, Sex, Spirituality and Other Things That Really Matter"\r\n\r\n Susie Kelly Flatau is an author whose fascination with people and places lives within the spirit of herwriting. In "Counter Culture Texas" (in collaboration with photographer Mark Dean) Ms. Flatau's vignettes taken from on-the-spot interviews capture the histories of old-time diners, dance halls, drugstores, and more.\r\n For over twenty-five years this award-winning educator has taught writing and literature to students of all ages in both public schools and the private sector. Susie lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband, Jack, and daughter, Jenni.\r\n
Twenty-one-year-old Felicia is a college student working part-time as a professional Dominatrix. She came to the profession on the advice of an older Dominatrix. As a dominant female, she hopes to come to terms with a traumatic and humiliating event from her past. At just eighteen, she consented to a disciplinary paddling from her school principal. The ensuing media attention resulted in her being almost totally ostracized by her peers. She still suffers from PSTD and feels she's missing out on something she may be afraid to admit, even to herself... that is until one warm spring evening, when she accepts an "outcall" from a posh hotel not far from her apartment, she meets a "client" of the sort she never expected. Turns out, he never expected a girl like her! Two dominants in the same room? While it’s a practical joke, as their evening progresses, Felicia discovers that not all males calling themselves Dominants are cut from the same cloth. He suggests possibilities she's been missing and an aspect of her personality she may never have quite accepted, until tonight…
This picture book tells a story of an ornery toad that lives under rocks, dense foliage and tree stumps. The story unfolds with Toadlow being awaken from a deep slumber by one of his friends, Sneezy. His friends want him to enter into a race they are sure he can win. The race is held in a small rural town called Toad Suck. At first, he is uncertain if he even wants to try until he hears about the prize to be given to the winner. In her fourth book, the author, Barbara Winningham provides children another example of overcoming life challenges using insects and animals as the main characters. As they read and look at the colorful illustrations it becomes apparent that a solution can be found for nearly any problem. Most importantly, Toadlow gains more confidence to win directly from the encouragement and support he receives from his friends. Children will be encouraged that even though he starts out slow; in the end, Toadlow’s name is announced as the winner. Oh what a prize. Listen in as children relate what would be just as good a prize to them as a big bowl of worms was to Toadlow. Viewed as a series this story continues in that same vein as her first three published books. In The Turtle Pit, My Kitty Dog and Chatter’s Nut House we see many avenues of information, guidance and inspiration revealed to the young reader’s mind. Most importantly, Toadlow gains more confidence to win directly from the encouragement and support he receives from his friends.
Children’s Literature in Place: Surveying the Landscapes of Children’s Culture is an edited collection dedicated to individual, international, and interdisciplinary considerations of the places and spaces of children’s literature, media, and culture, from content to methodology, in fictional, virtual, and material settings. This volume proposes a survey of the changing landscapes of children’s culture, the expected and unexpected spaces and places that emerge as and because of children’s culture. The places and spaces of children’s literature are varied and diverse. By making place studies a guiding principle, this book builds on the impressive body of international research on place in children’s literature, media, and culture to bring together and provide a comprehensive overview of how to study place in children’s and young adult literature. This volume provides a wide range of approaches and international perspectives of place in children’s literature, media, and culture and contributes to this growing and relevant field by showcasing various scholarly aspects and approaches to children’s literature, and the place of children’s literature in the context of international scholarship.