LIBROS DEL AUTOR: mike vance

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  • Undertold Texas Volume 2
    Mike Vance
    Travel Texas history in the shoes of lesser-known people who illuminate big stories in our Lone Star past. This curated journey through an eclectic collection of Texas history ranges across four centuries. Find captivating stories in Texas politics, arts, labor, literature, agriculture, oil, ranching, sports, and civil rights. There are heartrending struggles and inspiring triu...
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    14,98 €

  • A Fire to Kindle A - H
    Mike Vance
    The myriad of social changes in the world since the 1830s are often best reflected in our schools. When Harris County was formed, support for public education was far from universal. Many of the earliest schools were organized by German immigrants, and it took carpetbaggers and Reconstruction to bring about public schools as we know them today. A Fire to Kindle sheds light on t...
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    21,48 €

  • The Devil’s Lease
    Mike Vance
    Will Ennis rules his sprawling plantation empire on the Texas prairie by holding his petty and capricious fist over a mix of sharecroppers and leased convicts. George Purdy is a tenant looking for a fair shake. Trouble feels inevitable.When murder inserts itself into the already brutal landscape, irascible defense attorney J.B. Duckworth aims to set things right, but the lawyer...
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    15,03 €

  • Wingo’s Redemption
    Mike Vance
    116-year old Rube Wingo recounts another half century of his remarkable life, beginning with a personal tragedy that compels him to leave New York City to pick up the pieces in Cincinnati. His friendships, new and rekindled, and his ill-fitting attempts to again find love surround his behind-the-scenes roles with baseball’s oldest franchise and one of its newest ones - all amid...
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    15,27 €

  • Undertold Texas Volume 1
    Mike Vance
    Travel Texas history in the shoes of lesser-known people who illuminate big stories in our Lone Star past. This curated journey through an eclectic collection of Texas history ranges across five centuries. Find captivating stories in Texas politics, arts, labor, literature, agriculture, oil, ranching, sports, and civil rights. There are heartrending struggles and inspiring triu...
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    14,67 €

  • Wingo
    Mike Vance
    When 116-year old Rube Wingo reflects back on the start of his life, he remembers a dirt-poor Southern boy who lived baseball and dreamed of future diamond greatness. His positivity landed him in the game all right, but not in the role he envisioned. When happenstance then brings Rube to the Polo Grounds in New York City in 1922, he jumps at the chance for a piece of the big le...
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    15,91 €