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Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Billy Graham enjoyed a career that spanned six decades and his ministry of faith touched the hearts and souls of millions. In Just As I Am, a #1 New York Times Bestseller, Graham reveals his life story. With down-to-earth warmth and candor, Graham tells the stories of the events and encounters that helped shape his life. He recounts meetings with presidents, celebrities, and world leaders, including Harry S. Truman, Winston Churchill, Queen Elizabeth,...
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Language
English
Description
"I never thought I would live to be this old." In this moving narrative, Billy Graham once again takes up the pen not only to share his personal experience of growing older but also teach us some important lessons on how to view our time here on Earth. He says that the Bible makes it clear that God has a specific reason for keeping us here. So what is His purpose for these years, and how can we align our lives with it? How can we not only learn to...
3) Heartwood
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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A lawyer solves a mystery.
Author
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling author of Route 66 comes this long-awaited biography of one of America's most legendary folk heroes.Award-winning historian Michael Wallis has spent several years re-creating the rich, anecdotal saga of Billy the Kid (1859-1881), a deeply mythologized young man who became a legend in his own time and yet remains an enigma to this day. With the Gilded Age in full swing and the Industrial Revolution reshaping the American landscape,...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Billy Crystal is turning 65, and he's not happy about it. With his trademark wit and heart, he outlines the absurdities and challenges that come with growing old. In chapters like "Buying the Plot" and "Nodding Off," Crystal not only catalogs his gripes, but offers a road map to his 77 million fellow baby boomers arriving at this milestone age. As wise and poignant as they are funny, Crystal's reflections are an unforgettable look at an extraordinary...
Author
Publisher
Bison Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Whatever his name or alias at the moment-Henry McCarty, Henry Antrim, Kid Antrim, Billy Bonney-people always called him the Kid. Not until his final month did anyone call him Billy the Kid. Newspapers pictured him as a king of outlaws; and his highly publicized capture, trial, escape, and end fixed his image in the public mind for all time. He was only twenty-one years old when a bullet from Sheriff Pat Garetts six-shooter killed him on July 14, 1881....
9) The Kid
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
"A new novel from Ron Hansen, the award-winning author of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, about an iconic American criminal of the old West: legendary outlaw, Billy the Kid. Born Henry McCarty, Billy the Kid was a diminutive, charming, blond-haired young man who, growing up in New York, Kansas, and later New Mexico, demonstrated a precocious dexterity at firing six-shooters with either hand--a skill that both got him into...
10) Billy the Kid
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Young William Bonney is talked into committing his first train robbery, unaware that his cousin and best friend, Willie Monroe, is now sheriff of the nearest town, and that his fellow robbers are already wanted in four states.
11) Zero to hero
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When Billy Broccoli moves into his new house, he discovers Hoover Porterhouse, a teenage ghost, is haunting his room, and he helps Billy get in style, stand up to bullies, and conquer his new school.
Author
Publisher
ABRAMS
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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From the incomparable Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award winner, a powerful and revealing autobiography about race, sexuality, art, and healingânow in paperback
Itâs easy to be yourself when who and what you are is in vogue. But growing up Black and gay in America has never been easy. Before Billy Porter was slaying red carpets and giving an iconic Emmy-winning performance in the celebrated TV show Pose; before he was the groundbreaking...
Itâs easy to be yourself when who and what you are is in vogue. But growing up Black and gay in America has never been easy. Before Billy Porter was slaying red carpets and giving an iconic Emmy-winning performance in the celebrated TV show Pose; before he was the groundbreaking...
13) To hell on a fast horse: Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the epic chase to justice in the Old West
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
No outlaw typifies America's mythic Wild West more than Billy the Kid. To Hell on a Fast Horse by Mark Lee Gardner is the riveting true tale of Sheriff Pat Garrett's thrilling, break-neck chase in pursuit of the notorious bandit. This is spellbinding historical adventure at its very best, recalling James Swanson's New York Times bestseller Manhunt-about the search for Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth-as it fills in with fascinating detail the...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The legendary exploits of Billy the Kid and Ned Kelly live on in the public imaginations of their respective countries, the United States and Australia. But the outlaws' reputations are so mythologized, the truth of their lives has become obscure. In Wanted, Robert M. Utley reveals the true stories and parallel courses of the two notorious contemporaries who lived by the gun, were executed while still in their twenties, and remain compelling figures...
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