Best Towns In Oklahoma - April 2024

The Grapes of Wrath

• ASIN: B001BKTEZA
• ASIN: B001BKTEZA
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

Out of the Dust

Out of the Dust joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content!"Dust piles up like snow across the prairie. . . ."A terrible accident has transformed Billie Jo's life, scarring her inside and out. Her mother is gone. Her father can't talk about it. And the one thing that might make her feel better -- playing the piano -- is impossible with her wounded hands.To make matters worse, dust storms are devastating the family farm and all the farms nearby. While others flee from the dust bowl, Billie Jo is left to find peace in the ble... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0590371258
• ASIN: 0590371258
• ISBN: 0590371258
• Brand: Scholastic Paperbacks
• Manufacturer: Scholastic

The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction: a true crime story that will terrify anyone who believes in the presumption of innocence. NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES “Both an American tragedy and [Grisham’s] strongest legal thriller yet, all the more gripping because it happens to be true.”—Entertainment Weekly In the town of Ada, Oklahoma, Ron Williamson was going to be the next Mickey Mantle. But on his way to the Big Leagues, Ron stumbled, his dreams broken by drinking, drugs, and women. Then, on a winter night in 1982, not far from R... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0345532015
• ASIN: 0345532015
• ISBN: 0345532015
• Brand: Dell
• Manufacturer: Dell

That Was Then, This Is Now

Another classic from the author of the internationally bestselling The OutsidersContinue celebrating 50 years of The Outsiders by reading this companion novel. That Was Then, This is Now is S. E. Hinton's moving portrait of the bond between best friends Bryon and Mark and the tensions that develop between them as they begin to grow up and grow apart. "A mature, disciplined novel which excites a response in the reader . . . Hard to forget."—The New York Times

• ASIN: 0140389660
• ASIN: 0140389660
• ISBN: 0140389660
• Manufacturer: Puffin Books

Oklahoma Starshine (Bliss in Big Falls Book 3)

Fans of touching small town holiday romances like those of Debbie Macomber, Susan Wiggs, Susan Mallory, and Robyn Carr are going to relish this novel!A deeply moving, emotional story of a mother’s anguish, a father’s love, a family’s hope, this novel will renew your faith and restore your belief in miracles.Veterinarian and single mom Emily Hawkins’ world is turned upside down when her precious little girl is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Only a bone marrow transplant can save 3-year-old Matilda Louise. Emily isn’t a match, but she’s determined to find someone who is, and that... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01L03LKD6
• ASIN: B01L03LKD6

Shine On Oklahoma (Bliss in Big Falls Book 4)

Kendra Kellogg's back in Big Falls. Thanksgiving and Dax Russell will never be the same. Con-artist Kendra is back in small-town Big Falls for one reason only: to save her father's life. Jack is dead unless Kendra can get his kingpin captor what he wants. And what he wants is for Dax Russell, Kendra's ex-lover and the only mark she ever regretted conning, to take over his father's thoroughbred racetrack, Aurora Downs.Dax is the sole heir to a legacy he doesn't want, from a hateful father who never showed love. All the other tracks in Aurora Springs NY belong to the State Racing Association. ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B075QZWXNW
• ASIN: B075QZWXNW
• Manufacturer: Thunderfoot Publishing, Inc.

Crazy Brave: A Memoir

A “raw and honest” (Los Angeles Review of Books) memoir from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States.In this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo details her journey to becoming a poet. Born in Oklahoma, the end place of the Trail of Tears, Harjo grew up learning to dodge an abusive stepfather by finding shelter in her imagination, a deep spiritual life, and connection with the natural world. Narrating the complexities of betrayal and love, Crazy Brave is a haunting, visionary memoir about family and the breaking apart ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0393345432
• ASIN: 0393345432
• ISBN: 0393345432
• Brand: W W Norton Company
• Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps

Prospectors lured to the West in hopes of striking rich settled a thousand towns in the Colorado mountains. The cry of “Gold!” or “Silver!” or a few flecks of color in a tin cup sent them to remote, often inhospitable locations to search for the precious metals. Close on the heels of the miners were the merchant, the gamblers, the prostitutes, the washerwomen, the capitalists, and the con men. Together they turned the mining camps into bustling towns where saloons never closed and the safest place for a man to walk after dark was down the middle of the street with a gun in each hand. C... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0806120843
• ASIN: 0806120843
• ISBN: 0806120843
• Manufacturer: University of Oklahoma Press

Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of New Mexico

In places like the valley town of Alma, once known to Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch, and through the dusty streets of San Antonio, where Conrad Hilton began his fabulous career by carrying luggage from the train station to his father’s hotel, the Shermans have explored the past and present of New Mexico’s famous and infamous ghost towns and mining camps. They have arranged for the reader a historical and pictorial journey through more than 130 of the state’s old and defunct mining, farming, railroad, and lumbering communities. A cross section of New Mexico’s legacy from the frontier... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0806111062
• ASIN: 0806111062
• ISBN: 0806111062
• Brand: Brand: University of Oklahoma Press
• Manufacturer: University of Oklahoma Press

Where the Heart Is

• ASIN: 0446672211
• ASIN: 0446672211
• ISBN: 0446672211
• Manufacturer: Warner Books

Techniques of the Selling Writer

Techniques of the Selling Writer provides solid instruction for people who want to write and sell fiction, not just to talk and study about it. It gives the background, insights, and specific procedures needed by all beginning writers. Here one can learn how to group words into copy that moves, movement into scenes, and scenes into stories; how to develop characters, how to revise and polish, and finally, how to sell the product.No one can teach talent, but the practical skills of the professional writer's craft can certainly be taught. The correct and imaginative use of these kills can shorte... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0806111917
• ASIN: 0806111917
• ISBN: 0806111917
• Manufacturer: University of Oklahoma Press

Weird Oklahoma: Your Travel Guide to Oklahoma's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets

Oklahoma has a history that's both notorious and peculiar, from legendary natives like Giggling Granny-a jovial woman responsible for as many as eleven murders-to Shaman's Portal, a gateway said to have swallowed handfuls of unsuspecting travelers over the last few centuries.  And keep your camera at the ready for shape-shifting “manimals”! On this tour of the Sooner State, you'll encounter the outlandish, exceptional, and bizarre.

• ASIN: 1402754361
• ASIN: 1402754361
• ISBN: 1402754361
• Brand: Brand: Sterling
• Manufacturer: Sterling

The Mullendore Murder Case

The story of the biggest murder case in the history of northeastern Oklahoma: E. C. Mullendore III, the 32-year old scion of the most famous family was murdered at his home on the Cross Bell Ranch in Osage County, Oklahoma in September, 1970. Still unsolved.

• ASIN: 0848814029
• ASIN: 0848814029
• ISBN: 0848814029
• Brand: Brand: Amereon Ltd
• Manufacturer: Amereon Ltd

A Tiger among Us: A Story of Valor in Vietnam's A Shau Valley

Foreword by Chuck Hagel, former Secretary of Defense and Senator from NebraskaAdaptable. Cunning. Ferocious. Fearless. The Indochinese tiger is just one of the formidable predators roaming Vietnam's jungle. In 1966 a small band of US Special Forces soldiers--most especially Bennie Adkins--spent four grueling days facing down the "tiger" among them.While the rain and mist of an early March moved over the valley, then-Sergeant First Class Bennie Adkins and sixteen other Green Berets found themselves holed up in an undermanned and unfortified position at Camp A Shau, a small training and reconnai... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0306902028
• ASIN: 0306902028
• ISBN: 0306902028
• Manufacturer: Da Capo Press

Southern California's Best Ghost Towns: A Practical Guide

The ghost towns of Southern California-some dramatic and nearly intact, others devastated-are well worth visiting. Most are remnants of once-colorful mining towns, though there are also railroad towns, a World War II relocation center, a promoter's swindle, and a failed socialist colony. Some excellent attractions remain. One of the best-preserved stamp mills in the West is in Skidoo. Smelters, homes, stores, and the remarkable wooden American Hotel can be found in Cerro Gordo, which the author calls "California's best true ghost town." Seasoned back-roads traveler Philip Varney, who has visit... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0806126086
• ASIN: 0806126086
• ISBN: 0806126086
• Brand: Brand: University of Oklahoma Press
• Manufacturer: University of Oklahoma Press

Best Served Cold : A Small Town Police Procedural Set in Oklahoma

Twenty years ago, the Whitebridge Players staged their last ever performance and swore that they'd return to the same theatre and stage the same play. Two decades later, they do - with tragic results. DCI

• UPC: 856139155

From Praha to Prague : Czechs in an Oklahoma Farm Town

In From Praha to Prague, Philip D. Smith examines how the Czechs who founded and settled in Prague, Oklahoma, embraced the economic and cultural activities of their American hometown while maintaining their ethnic

• UPC: 56045998

Boom Town : The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, its Chaotic Founding... its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis

"Award-winning journalist Sam Anderson's long-awaited debut is a brilliant, kaleidoscopic narrative of Oklahoma City--a great American story of civics, basketball, and destiny. Oklahoma City was born from chaos. It was founded in a bizarre but

• UPC: 313157914
• Rating: 4.5

Ghost Towns of Oklahoma

In the past 150 years as many as two thousand Oklahoma hamlets, villages, towns, and even cities have bloomed and then died. Some have faded away, with not even a fallen chimney to mark their

• UPC: 33648345

Noelle's Best Christmas (Christmas Town, Book 8) - eBook

Come home this Christmas to...CHRISTMAS TOWN, TENNESSEEWhere everyday dreams come true!New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Ginny Baird completes her heartwarming holiday series...NOELLE’S BEST CHRISTMAS(Christmas Town, Book 8)Fledgling newspaper reporter Noelle Christmas is

• UPC: 272032848

Weird Oklahoma : Your Travel Guide to Oklahoma's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets

9781402754364

• UPC: 15132947

Pawnee : The Greatest Town in America

Fictitiously attributed to Leslie Knope, a character on the NBC television show, Parks and recreation, that is set in the fictional Indiana town,

• UPC: 15882937
• Rating: 4.6

Best of the Best from Oklahoma : Selected Recipes from Olkahoma's Favorite Cookbooks

Each cookbook in Quail Ridge Press' acclaimed Best of the Best State Cookbook Series contains favorite recipes submitted from the most popular cookbooks published in the state. The cookbooks are contributed by junior leagues, community

• UPC: 29328877

Best Served Cold : A Small Town Police Procedural Set in Oklahoma

Someone is getting revenge against Milt Kovak with a series of pranks. But things escalate when the brakes on Milt's deputy's car are cut and his wife to crashes. Then two friends of the mother

• UPC: 56120572

Our Town : A Play in Three Acts

The author's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama portrays life in a small New Hampshire town during the early

• UPC: 2191094
• Rating: 4.152

Best Served Cold: A Small Town Police Procedural Set in Oklahoma by Cooper: New

• UPC: 283155602722
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 23 USD

Best Served Cold: A small town Police Procedural set in Oklahoma by Cooper: New

• UPC: 282828881522
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 18 USD

NEW - Best Served Cold: A small town Police Procedural set in Oklahoma

• UPC: 143231235042
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 15 USD

Best Served Cold A small town Police Procedural set in Oklahoma 9780727886699

• UPC: 232885709103
• Category: Fiction
• Price: 16 GBP

Best Served Cold: A Small Town Police Procedural Set in Oklahoma by Susan Rogers

• UPC: 392271335518
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 29 USD

Best Served Cold: A small town Police Procedural set in Oklahoma (A Mi-ExLibrary

• UPC: 293081817535
• Category: Fiction
• Price: 16 GBP

Best Served Cold: A Small Town Police Procedural Set in Oklahoma (Milt Kovak Mys

• UPC: 362655943047
• Category: Fiction
• Price: 19 GBP

Best Served Cold: A small town Police Procedural set in Oklahoma by Cooper: Used

• UPC: 283359789673
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 18 USD