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Death of the River Master

A Texana Jones Mystery

By: Allana Martin

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Allana Martin's sixth color-filled mystery, set in a remote spot on the Mexican-American border, opens with an unexpected and terrible blow for trading-post owner Texana Jones. Her husband, Clay, a popular veterinarian with patients on both sides of the (almost dry) Rio Grande, has been arrested for the murder of the river master, the official in charge of allocating the region's scant water supply under the terms of the binational agreement. Now Clay is in jail awaiting trial in a Mexican court. Having lived all her life on the fringe of Mexico, Texana is anything but naive about their harsh legal system - where there is no such thing as bail, habeas corpus, probation, or early release. The fate of the accused is not in the hands of a jury, but the hands of a single judge, a judge who may be fair, or who may have self-interests that will sway the verdict. And, unfortunately, the latter is more likely. Determined to find incontrovertible evidence of Clay's innocence that even the most venial judge would not dare to overlook, she delves into the river master's background - at no small risk. Whoever is behind all this is determined to hold on to the spoils of the effort. Texana must use all her senses, her ingenuity, and her courage to free her blameless husband from the coils of the Mexican judicial snare and the enemy behind it. Martin's firm hold on the unusual lives of the people who live - and try to make a living against many odds - in the small area where these stories are set pulls readers into a world they never knew. The strength and reality of Texana Jones's extraordinary common sense and human understanding convince her readers that she's their friend, one whose adventures they share.

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Death of the River Master

A Texana Jones Mystery

By: Allana Martin

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A Texana Jones Mystery

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Death of a Myth Maker

By: Allana Martin

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Death of a Myth Maker

By: Allana Martin

The great strength of Martin's Texana Jones series, now in its fourth installment, remains the vivid depiction of the stark Chihuahuan Desert of Presidio County, Texas, with its vibrant Tex-Mex culture and the unique mentality of its fronterizo inhabitants." - Booklist When trading post owner Texana Jones and her veterinarian husband Clay take refuge at the Paisano Hotel in Marfa, they again cross paths with danger. Texana is begged by a rancher to help a possible killer escape arrest. In this fourth in the borderland series, murder and its resolution play out amid the mixed Anglo and Hispanic culture of the trading post and the river. As usual the most convincing married pair in mystery are aided by a charming cast of eccentrics.

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1250104920

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Death of the Last Villista

A Texana Jones Mystery

By: Allana Martin

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Death of the Last Villista

A Texana Jones Mystery

By: Allana Martin

In 1961, a Hollywood movie company came to tiny Polvo, Texas, to film a movie about Pancho Villa. However, the film was dogged with trouble: a man was found murdered on an island in the middle of the Rio Grande and the case was never solved. Now, forty years later, trading post owner Texana Jones is hosting a video crew making a special celebrating the film's anniversary. Most of the townspeople are excited by this event, but some want nothing to do with the project. On the day the townspeople gather to meet the actors, the RV belonging to actor Dane Anthony catches fire and explodes. Is it an accident or arson? And who is the mysterious river watcher in the camouflage suit? While Texana's veterinarian husband Clay fights to save several abandoned horses, Texana searches in the past for a key to the present danger. She makes some startling discoveries about her own family and about the conflicting presence of the movie people forty years earlier. But, when a local child goes missing, Texana relies on a freelance reporter to help her discover who is behind the threats and whether or not the death of the Villista is connected to present day events. As the past and present converge, Texana slowly begins to uncover a motive for all the evil, but has she done it in time to prevent further tragedy?

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1250104939

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Ebrahim Alkazi

Holding Time Captive

By: Amal Allana

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Ebrahim Alkazi

Holding Time Captive

By: Amal Allana

Amal Allana’s compelling biography of her father is the first carefully researched, full-length account of the life, work and times of Ebrahim Alkazi, one of the giants of twentieth-century theatre and a key promoter of the visual arts movement in India. Evoking the excitement of Alkazi’s student years in England, the controversies that surrounded his provocative ideas to transform the theatre movement in Bombay and later in Delhi, as the director of the National School of Drama (NSD), this book charts Alkazi’s meteoric rise to the top, with his modernist staging of plays and his aim of putting Hindi theatre on the map. It was at the Sangeet Natak Akademi that Alkazi first confronted resistance to his ideas on the role of tradition in the making of a new ‘national’ culture. By the 1970s, disillusioned with the curtailing of civil liberties and a dysfunctional bureaucracy, he ultimately resigned from the NSD, developing his own independent institutions for the promotion of the visual arts in India as well as abroad. Staging the cultural history of India between the 1940s and 2000s, and featuring a galaxy of artists and actors as the dramatis personae—including M.F. Husain, F.N. Souza, Akbar Padamsee, Gieve Patel, Nissim Ezekiel, Alyque Padamsee, Girish Karnad, Manohar Singh, Vijaya Mehta, Kusum Haidar and Gerson da Cunha—Allana’s chronicle is charged with their fierce energy and commitment as contributors to a vibrant new India. The author’s personal perspective as Alkazi’s daughter brings to the narrative an added dimension of veracity and sensitivity. With objective candour, Allana shares details of her parents’ relationship as they examine their marriage on entirely new terms, as a partnership of equals. Holding Time Captive shows a dynamic Alkazi in his quest to bring about an inclusive, international, intercultural and interdisciplinary thinking in artistic expressions that is transformative and liberating. This book offers unique glimpses into an enigmatic personality whose emotionally charged life closely reflected and ran parallel to the growth and evolution of his startlingly fresh ideas and vision for a modern cultural movement in India.

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Penguin Random House India Private Limited

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9357085246

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9789357085243

Death of a Healing Woman

By: Allana Martin

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Death of a Healing Woman

By: Allana Martin

It's the day of the dead in border country and Texana Jones has had enough of it. Six months ago two friends were murdered; today she found the local healer shot through the eye. The sheriff puts it all down to random violence by drug runners, but that's not enough for Texana. And once she starts digging into the latest victim's past, it turns out the three killings were deliberate, personal and connected. Martin's Press.

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Worldwide Library

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0373262817

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Death of a Saint Maker

By: Allana Martin

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Death of a Saint Maker

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Texana Jones and her husband live on the vast, hot Rio Grande, between Texas and Mexico. Though usually peaceful, strange things happen--like the death of an itinerant wood carver affectionately known as the saint maker. The pit bull found standing over the body is blamed for the death, but Texana has a feeling that someone intentionally sent her quiet neighbor to meet his own maker. Martin's Press.

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037326299X

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9780373262991

Death of an Evangelista

By: Allana Martin

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Death of an Evangelista

By: Allana Martin

When trading post owner Texana Jones finds a dead man in a taxi, she barely escapes becoming a scapegoat from corrupt "federales." The innocent cab driver is left to take the fall. Then the body of an American missionary is found, leading Texana deeper into the kind of secrets the desert hides well. Martin's Press.

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How Still We See Thee Lie

By: Allana Martin,Tom Mitcheltree,Connie Shelton,Elizabeth Gunn

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How Still We See Thee Lie

By: Allana Martin,Tom Mitcheltree,Connie Shelton,Elizabeth Gunn

Anthology of 4 novels.

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0373264372

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Death of the Last Villista

A Texana Jones Mystery

By: Allana Martin

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Death of a Myth Maker

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The Kindergarten Survival Handbook

The Before School Checklist & a Guide for Parents

By: Allana Elovson

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The Kindergarten Survival Handbook

The Before School Checklist & a Guide for Parents

By: Allana Elovson

Written to help parents understand what their children need to know before they start kindergarten, this volume, bound separately in English and Spanish, is intended to help parents become their children's best, as well as their first and most important, teachers. The first part of the book, the before school checklist, is divided into eight sections, each about different skills children need to know. The eight sections are: (1) things they need to know (the basics); (2) understanding and being understood; (3) self-help and social skills; (4) large movement skills; (5) small movement skills; (6) using all their senses; (7) recognizing pictures; and (8) words and letters. The second part of the book, a guide for parents, shows parents how to help their children learn the things they need to know. This part is also divided into eight sections that show simple things parents can do at home, or anywhere, without special equipment or materials, on a daily basis. Following an introduction that offers parents general guidelines for helping their children, the guide covers the skills listed in the before school checklist in eight sections. A final section discusses why the parent is always the most important person in a child's education. (TJQ)

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1879888068

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Simplify the Holidays

By: Allana Baroni

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Simplify the Holidays

By: Allana Baroni

Finally, a book designed to bring comfort and joy back into every holiday season. Concentrating on that busy time of the year beginning with Halloween and going through Thanksgiving, Christmas, Channukah and Kawanzaa, but also including many of the other festive occasions such as Valentine's Day, Easter, Passover, Mother's and Father's Days; Simplify the Holidays shows readers how to restore sanity to the preparation and celebration of each holiday and revive the treasured sentiments they embody. It presents scores of simple, stress-reducing, and clever ideas -- from directions for making quick and creative Halloween costumes to innovative suggestions for activities that will keep children happily occupied during school vacations, from foolproof recipes for holiday dinners to hints on accommodating the different interests and beliefs of all the members of today's blended and multiethnic families.

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