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In Book 1 of the Twenty-Seven series fifty-six-year-old Gilbert Morgan has treasure hunting in his blood. While on a dive to find a sunken ship, Morgan is nearly out of oxygen when he accidentally cuts his hand on a throny plant. While he sleeps, his body reverts back to that of a twenty-seven year old. After his diving crew stares at him in disbelief the next morning, a now much younger-looking Morgan quickly determines the source of his youthfulness and excavates the plant. While Morgan attemps to understand how to replicate the proccess and subsequently commercialize it, billionare William S. Bates, who has learned of the aquatic plant’s amazing powers, launches a fast-paced chase to steal the amazing plant from its rightful owner. Join Morgan and his crew through the wild ride that ensues with such an invaluble treasure hunt find. “What a fun book! I love a book that surprises and intrigues me and this one certainly did. I never knew what was coming next and it made me think about the “what ifs” in life. I also very much enjoyed getting to know the characters and their personalities, I felt like I really got to know them.”
Three pillars supported the empire of New Spain. The first two, the presidio and the mission, have lived on in history and the popular imagination. The third, less studied and less understood, has lived on in the traditions of local self-governance and the distinctive cultural and social patterns of the Southwest. That third pillar is the civil settlement, or town, with its distinctive governmental institutions. Town councils, or cabildos, brought to the northern frontier a high degree of law and order, patterns of local government, a rough democracy, and the principle of justice based on rule of law. The towns populated the Borderlands, introduced industry, and contributed to the economy an...
A.B. Cowden is long, lean, and every bit as tough as the unforgiving frontier where he makes his home. Since before the Civil War his beef cows have grazed the Arizona range. It was a time when ranchers were neighbors united in the ongoing war against the Apaches and the bandits from south of the border. But in 1885 barbed wire and greed rode into Arizona along with an Eastern cattle baron and ruthless hired guns, like the trigger-happy Briggs brothers. As patriarch of the Cowden clan, A.B. picked up his rifle to face these bushwhackers and thieves. But even his sure-shot and iron will could not save his son Ben from having a price put on his head or his daughter from a greater danger--a band of renegade Apache warriors led by the great chief called Yawner.
Diverse perspectives on the “chronicle”as a literary genre and socio-cultural practice.
LC Number: 2005048399
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