Elizabeth Crook
Author
Language
English
Description
"Early one morning in the remote hill country of Texas, a panther savagely attacks a family of homesteaders, mauling a young girl named Samantha and killing her mother, whose final act is to save her daughter's life. Samantha and her half brother, Benjamin, survive, but she is left traumatized, her face horribly scarred. The Which Way Tree is the story of Samantha's unshakeable resolve to stalk and kill the infamous panther, rumored across the Rio...
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
On a Monday in August of 1966, a student and former marine named Charles Whitman hauled a footlocker of guns to the top of the University of Texas tower and began firing on pedestrians below, the first mass shooting of civilians on a campus in American history. Shelly left her math class and walked directly into the path of the bullets; two cousins, Wyatt and Jack, rushed from their classrooms to help the victims. A relationship begins that will eventually...
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Meg Mabry reluctantly accompanies her grandmother Bassie, a historian that has spent her life promoting the diaries of her mother Hannah Bass. The journals are about frontier life in New Mexico. Meg discovers some difficult truths about herself while searching her family history.