Books with author Randall

Will Rogers Medallion winner Randall Dale spins a grand western tale of a good horse gone bad and a young, ambitious cowboy locked in an epic battle of wills in the dry and dusty southwest. Hard working and honest to the core Ricky Richardson, taught by one of the best, is injured in a freak horse accident that leaves him in the hospital and the horse dead. After six weeks of recovery and without work he is desperate for a job. An offer comes with a catch, he must show up with a horse to ride and the only horse in his price range is a mistrusting black with a history of having been mistreated. He is cheap for a reason as Ricky would soon learn. Both stubborn, one will have to give. Which one will it be? A tender and emotional story of the bond that develops between a horse and his owner. That bond is tested as the young man and his horse endure an almost unbearable hardship. It will take all the fortitude Ricky can muster and all the help his friends can give as he faces the possibility of losing his favorite horse forever.

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Cordelia Lu Hankins is half Caucasian, half Chinese—and all albino. She's grown up isolated from the world, with her cold father and a giant stepmother named Babe (after Paul Bunyan's blue ox) in a remote lumber town in the Pacific Northwest. But in the summer of 1918, when she is 14, she meets the dashing Squirl. Squirl is charming, easygoing, and good-looking, and Cordy falls desperately in love with him. Her father forbids Cordy to go near Squirl—which only makes him more attractive. One day they meet on the mountain and Cordy receives her first kiss, as well as a wild ride down a log flume that gets Squirl fired.Determined to follow Squirl, Cordy runs away and begins an exciting adventure that takes her to the sideshows of Seattle's Luna Park, where her unusual looks bring her fame. But her journey also brings tragedy, in this entertaining and thought-provoking coming-of-age novel.

In rhyming or alliterative pairs, Jibber-Jabber presents the onomatopoeic sounds of 14 animals that will be easily identifiable to young learners. The name of each creature appears below its signature sound to further reinforce the connection and providing another way to read the text—as a series of commands (Squeak mouse, Squawk parrot, and so on). Whimsical linocut illustrations accompany the block-letter type, engaging visual as well as auditory senses throughout.

A legend is unearthed. A myth becomes a reality.James Peters has his summer mapped out, but his plans quickly change as his school break starts getting weird. After nearly getting killed by someone with abilities only found in fairy tales, he finds himself involved in a conflict with the person that killed his father.With his life at stake, James is forced to team up with a would-be fossil thief in order to get some answers about his dad. But, faster than he can say Micropachycephalosaurus, James finds himself in the middle of an epic battle that throws his understanding of history into a tailspin and threatens to diminish his current life expectancy … from 78.74 to 14.65.Remnant is the first book in the action-packed Mythic Beasts series. If you like modern fantasy, mythical creatures, and lots of hijinks, you'll love this book by Randall Floyd.Buy Remnant and plunge into a new fantastic world today.

When a prominent lawyer is shot while waiting at a suburban stop sign it sets off a nation-wide manhunt for an elusive killer. Special Agent Jack Randall of the FBI finds himself appointed to track down and stop the shooter. Not by his superiors, but by the killer himself. As more bodies fall the shooter takes his message to the press, earning the support of the public with his choice of targets and confounding the FBI at every turn. From the desert of Nevada to the urban jungle of New York City, Jack and his team follow the trail of bodies and haunting messages left behind by the killer. With the pressure to find him mounting on Jack, the assassin’s crimes grow bolder, and his message more sinister and closer to home. It becomes clear to Jack that in order to find the shooter, he may have to look inside his own past, and become the man he was years ago.

Tales of the Bearfolk is a series of short stories and novellas that take place in the enchanted valley of Beornheim, a mystical realm inhabited by clever, adventurous bears. Based loosely on Norse and Finnish mythology, Tales of the Bearfolk seeks to bring ancient, time honored stories to new readers and listeners and to impart lessons of our interconnectedness with nature and our friends in the animal kingdom. Some of the Tales of the Bearfolk are mirthful, others bittersweet, but all take place in a world that allows a child of any age to enter the realm of unbridled imagination and to let their heart soar among the stars.In this second tale, we learn of the origin of Whistling Jack, the elusive bear who brings gifts to good cubs on the eve of the Winternight Yum Festival. This is especially important knowledge for cubs who wish to be gifted with delightful things!

Mingling the earthy with the otherworldly, these ten stories chronicle ineffable events in ordinary lives.When Randall Kenan’s first collection was published, the New York Times called it “nothing short of a wonder-book.” Now, with inventiveness seasoned by maturity and shot through with humor, Kenan riffs on appetites of all kinds, on the eerie persistence of history, on unstoppable losses and unexpected salvations.In Kenan’s fictional territory of Tims Creek, North Carolina, an old man rages in his nursing home, a parson beats up an adulterer, a rich man is haunted by a hog, and an elderly woman turns unwitting miracle worker. A retired plumber travels to Manhattan, where Billy Idol sweeps him into his entourage. An architect who lost his famous lover to AIDS reconnects with a high school fling. Howard Hughes seeks out the woman who once cooked him butter beans.A rich chorus of voices and visions, dreams and prophecies, marked by physicality and spirit, If I Had Two Wings is a glory.

What Liar's Poker was to the 1980s, The Zeroes is to the first decade of the new century: an insider's memoir of a gilded era when Wall Street went insane-and took the rest of us down with it. Randall Lane never set out to become a Wall Street power broker. But during the decade he calls the Zeroes, he started a small magazine company that put him near the white-hot center of the biggest boom in history. Almost by accident, a man who drove a beat-up Subaru and lived in a rented walk-up became the go-to guy for big shots with nine-figure incomes. Lane's saga began with a simple idea: a glossy magazine exclusively for and about traders, which would treat them like rock stars and entice them to splurge on luxury goods. Trader Monthly was an instant hit around the world. Wall Streeters loved the spotlight, and advertisers like Gulfstream, Maybach, and Bulgari loved the marketing opportunity. To accelerate the buzz, Lane's staff threw parties featuring celebrities, premium steaks, cigars, and top-shelf vodka. Nothing was too expensive or too outrageous. Private jets in Napa Valley. Casino nights in London. And $1,000-a- seat boxing matches in New York, where traders from Goldman Sachs and Bear Stearns pounded each other in front of tuxedoed throngs. Before long, Wall Street's rich and powerful trusted Lane as a fellow insider- the guy who could turn an anonymous trader into a cover model and media darling. And the rest of the world sought him out as a way to tap into Wall Street's riches. As he emptied his bank account to help keep his little company afloat, he became a nexus for the absurd. Traders who turned 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina into multimillion-dollar windfalls. John McCain closing out the craps tables during an all-night gambling binge. Pop artist Peter Max hustling hundreds of thousands of dollars by selling traders paint-by-numbers portraits. Al Gore, John Travolta, Moby. Corrupt Caribbean rulers, the mobsters from Goodfellas, the pope. And a retired baseball star turned market guru named Lenny Dykstra, whose rise and fall was a great metaphor for the decade. All played roles in Lane's increasingly surreal world. When the crash of 2008 hit, Lane's company and life savings were destroyed along with the high-flying traders and dealmakers his magazines exalted. But Lane walked away with something more lasting: an incredible true story, told by a skilled writer and reporter who sat squarely in the middle of one of the critical periods in modern financial and cultural history. People will turn to The Zeroes for many years to come, to find out what the era was really like.

Real. Practical. Advice.Tired of reading a book that is hundreds of pages in length, then thinking they could have boiled down the "important parts," and saved you a lot of time? Here's a book that eliminates the fluff and gives you just the nuggets in 50 one to three-page chapters, with accompanying photos. Fast, easy insightful reading.This is information you can instantly put to use and make a real difference in your kids' lives - and your own - strengthening your marriage and family.Randall Hicks's books on parenting and family-formation have been featured on The Today Show, CBS This Morning, Sally Jesse Raphael and more, and called "empowering, no-nonsense, matter-of fact advice" by Publishers Weekly. The American Library Association said, "showers the anxious parent with information." A starred review from Library Journal, stating, "A brilliantly lean book . . . highly recommended."