Thad: 54 books
by Thad Hillis Carter
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2009
The Kansas City Southern Railway initially offered freight service to the immediate Kansas City area south. As the line expanded toward Texas, each tiny community had its own railway station with access to daily passenger service and less-than-carload lot freight services. No one could have foreseen...
by Thad Sherman
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
This is 150 pages crammed with eighty four pomes presented in an easily readable style. Short titles have been chosen so that the plot and punch line are not always immediately obvious. Pomes are a reflection of everyday life and happenings with a wry twist. The subjects vary widely and randomly,...
by Thad Nodine
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
To escape an addiction, a young blind man in California steps into a station wagon with his friends and their foster kids to deliver a handmade casket to a dying grandfather in Florida. As they battle their way across the southern half of the nation, this rag-tag American family falls prey to love and...
Finding Fontainebleau
An American Boy in France
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
**Winner of the French Heritage Literary Award
A beguiling memoir of a childhood in 1950s France from the much-admired New York Times bestselling author of The Piano Shop on the Left Bank
"Like the castle, [Carhart's] memoir imaginatively and smoothly integrates multiple influences,...
by Thad Dupper
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
TOPGUN meets the West Wing in this modern-day, military techno-thriller set on the picturesque island of Nantucket.
Vacationing with his wife and two young children, US President Andrew Russell is enjoying a well-deserved break from Washington politics when Islamic militants launch a fierce...
Whale Done Parenting
How to Make Parenting a Positive Experience for You and Your Kids
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
Offers five simple and effective principles for coping with any parenting challenge • Based on actual killer whale training techniques • Story format makes this an unusual and entertaining approach for a parenting book “How is it they can get a killer whale to urinate on cue, and we can’t...
Running From Fear
Walking Into the Desert and Finding Life Again
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
There is no shortage of good books, friends, support groups, therapies, religious teachings, advice and knowledge on how to live a life full of abundance, joy and love. Yet, in so many lives, it barely exists. Fear is the roadblock that keeps us from engaging a life we all desire, but cannot seem...
From Can See to Can’t
Texas Cotton Farmers on the Southern Prairies
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Cotton farming was the only way of life that many Texans knew from the days of Austin's Colony up until World War II. For those who worked the land, it was a dawn-till-dark, "can see to can't," process that required not only a wide range of specialized skills but also a willingness to gamble on forces...
Gray Ghosts and Red Rangers
American Hilltop Fox Chasing
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
Around a campfire in the woods through long hours of night, men used to gather to listen to the music of hounds' voices as they chased an elusive and seemingly preternatural fox. To the highly trained ears of these backwoods hunters, the hounds told the story of the pursuit like operatic voices chanting...
Oral History
A Guide for Teachers (and Others)
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
More than a mode of gathering information about the past, oral history has become an international movement. Historians, folklorists, and other educational and religious groups now recognize the importance of preserving the recollections of people about the past. The recorded memories of famous and common...
How to Become a Casting-house Worker
How to Become a Casting-house Worker
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
This publication will teach you the basics of how to become a Casting-house Worker. With step by step guides and instructions, you will not only have a better understanding, but gain valuable knowledge of how to become a Casting-house Worker
Risk Regulation in the United States and European Union
Controlling Chaos
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
Globalization and technology have altered public fears and changed expectations of how government should make people safer. This book analyzes how Europeans and Americans perceive and regulate risk. The authors show how public fears about risk are filtered through political systems to pressure governments to insure against risk.
The State of the Parties
The Changing Role of Contemporary American Parties
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
The State of the Parties brings readers up to date on party action in election years and in between. This essential party primer includes: new chapters on polarization between and within the parties in the aftermath of the 2012 election, demographic changes to America’s political parties and the...
"Had 'Em All the Way"
The 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2015
The 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates were a special team—team being the operative word. There were no superstars, although Roberto Clemente would become one, and nobody had a record season. The Battling Bucs frequently came from behind to win late in the game, with Pirates broadcaster Bob Prince signing...