Growing up right is never easy, even if all the stars line up and you win the parent lottery. If you don’t, it’s even tougher. Since a cowboy is the pinnacle of human evolution (just ask one) he has certain values and responsibilities and attitudes to pass along to help others, even if they are in the city, and regardless of age or gender. Told with the frank humor of the range and mountains by a master storyteller whose column is read by nearly two million people each week, this book give...

Max Evans, one of New Mexico's most prolific writers, has lived, promoted, and articulated the Western way of life for nearly eight decades. With this book, his friends share some of Max's stories. Max Evans is the only guy I know who has 200 people swearing he's their best friend ... and all of them are telling the truth. – Slim Randles Sam Peckinpah’s favorite writer and fellow socializer in the entire world was New Mexico’s own Max Evans. – Jeb Rosebrook.

Home Country is not a place, but a state of mind. In this place Slim Randles is the recorder of everything – good and bad. Slim is a down home kinda guy with a sense of humor that often makes fun of himself. Slim would no sooner land a really big fish, or track a bear than tell a really great tale of his friends in the outdoors. Over 2 million people in 42 states read his Home Country weekly column in big and small newspapers. Slim is an award-winning author and journalist who has seen it ...

Straightforward steps to:• Getting started the right way • Avoiding common pitfalls • Eliminating rejection slips • Getting checks in the mailSlim Randles has been a journalist, editor, author, sportsman, and speaker. After years of making a living from the pen, he is passing on advice to those who want to write for a living. Slim’s advice is spiced up with his signature view of what the world is and could be. This book is filled with an award-winning author’s gentle but firm words to live...

Many children love cats, and there is so much to know about America's most popular pet. Why do they meow, hiss, and purr? Why do they have whiskers, tails, and claws? Beginning readers can find out the answers to those questions and many more in this fun, fact-packed book filled with colorful feline photos and drawings.

“Tales of The Friendly Forest” is a colorfully illustrated collection of fairy tales for children. The book contains ten instructive fairy stories about the adventures of kind and funny inhabitants of the forest: the traveling Hedgehog, the hare Turbo, the wolf Straight Tail and other great beasts. These tales teach the children friendship, humanity and respect to each other, the ability to perceive everything in positive manner and create good mood.

Indie rock music burst onto the scene in the early '80s with bands like Sonic Youth. A decade later, the music of Pavement, Guided By Voices, and Radiohead brought tons of new converts. Today, indie rock has exploded across all media, from popular TV shows such as The O.C. to numerous commercials and sold-out stadium tours. The poetry and stories in Revolution on Canvas, Volume 2 range from the hysterically funny to the achingly sad and are written by the biggest names in...

She just wanted some ice cream and her tattoo removed.But the underground wasn't as shady after all. Before she knew it, Taus was on the run again.That's why she stole a pirate ship.In this chapter: Let's get ready to RUMBLE! Taus has to battle for her freedom on a random planet in front of the universe. But will she?

This book is a narrative poetry book with some real "characters" - some of them are funny. The book has a study/discussion section at the end of the book which may be helpful to students, teachers, librarians, and others. The first story - "Hungry Willie" - is about a black bear that ate a lot and sometimes not. Find out about Willie. The second story - "A Dog In A Race" - is about a smart dog in a race who knew exactly what to do when a family was stranded on top of a corn pile. - "The Sw...

The New Yorker is, of course, a bastion of superb essays, influential investigative journalism, and insightful arts criticism. But for eighty years, it’s also been a hoot. In fact, when Harold Ross founded the legendary magazine in 1925, he called it “a comic weekly,” and while it has grown into much more**,** it has also remained true to its original mission. Now an uproarious sampling of its funny writings can be found in a hilarious new collection, one as satirical and witty, m...

Joe Perry’s New York Times bestselling memoir of life in the rock-and-roll band Aerosmith: “An insightful and harrowing roller coaster ride through the career of one of rock and roll’s greatest guitarists. Strap yourself in” (Slash).Before the platinum records or the Super Bowl half-time show or the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Joe Perry was a boy growing up in small-town Massachusetts. He idolized Jacques Cousteau and built his own diving rig that he used ...

A STUNNING NEW NOVEL FROM ONE OF THE BEST-SELLING AUTHORS OF ALL TIME!The #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever."I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts. That combo made Hard Case Crime ...