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Travis Lee is out of work when his mine closes, but it doesn't take
long to find a new job, while he and Joey are gone to Italy. In the
meantime, back home in Alabama, his boys find that trouble can
literally fall from the sky, when a drug smuggler's plane crashes
near their camp.
Travis Lee begins his new career, as an insurance investigator, by
doing a job in Venezuela, and then takes his son, Chris, on a
vacation to visit Machu Picchu, in Peru. But with Travis, a
vacation is never just a vacation, ...it's an adventure
Travis Lee takes his son Drew to England for his senior trip, and
at the same time, he feels out his new publisher, Jester Books. But
the real story is what is going on back home in Alabama while they
are gone. With five restless teenage children living under the same
roof, and 'colorful' neighbors dropping in, there is never a dull
moment at the Lee household.
Lester Graff is Part Five in the Travis Lee Series. In this story,
while sitting around a camp fire, Travis recounts the strange tale
told him by an old man years earlier. More than just a tale, it was
the old man's dying confession to a life overshadowed by murder,
and the tangled web he wove to keep his deeds from coming to light.
Travis himself becomes entangled in that web, and almost becomes
the old man's last victim.
This story is Part Four, in the continuing Travis Lee series. As
you will remember from Part Three, 'Eye of the Sorcerer'. .Travis
Lee had finally returned home from a harrowing experience in
Colombia, South America, where he was working for his employer,
Southern States Energy Company. In addition to the dangers of being
kidnapped by a drug cartel, and surviving a plane crash in the
jungle, he now has a new worry, one of a supernatural kind. He has
become the target of a Tucano Indian sorcerer, who believes that
Travis has stolen something valuable from him, and he will stop at
nothing to get it back. Using his power to create illusions, the
sorcerer will try to get it back, and take revenge on Travis for
taking it from him. Part Four, 'Illusions', begins as Travis is
arriving back home, just weeks before he is to take his wife on
their second honeymoon trip to Greece. But little does he know, the
danger he is in, as the old sorcerer closes in on him, and even
follows him on the plane to Greece.
Travis Lee and Miranda Monroe are taken in by missionaries in
Southern Colombia. While there, Travis recounts the events of his
visit there twenty years earlier, and comes face to face with an
old sorcerer bent on revenge. They face a danger more terrifying
than anything they have ever known. Travis also gets to the bottom
of what is really going on at his company's Colombian coal mines,
and the answer is simple but surprising. This is Part Three of the
Travis Lee Series, the sequal to 'Return To Colombia'.
A beady-eyed varmint crawls through the floor of a lonely old mans
cabin. A boy spends the night in a haunted house, complete with a
grinning skeleton in the chimney. A girl foolishly taunts a giant
owl-woman. A young mans prom date has a spooky secret. The Hairy
Man will catch you unless you can fool him three times. Graveyard
ghosts and creatures from swamps and riverbanks slink through ten
creepy tales presented by master storytellers Tim Tingle and Doc
Moore. Guaranteed to send shivers down the spines of younger
readers, each of these stories comes with its own eerie
illustrations. Some humorous, some haunting, these tales guarantee
thrills and chills for youngsters from any state.
This title is 'Storytelling World/Storytelling Magazine' Award
Winner. 'I love a book that gives me what it promises, and this one
does: fifty real ghost stories, drawn from a variety of sources and
told in as many voices, written so as to simulate the language and
delivery of a face-to-face performance, and artfully, delightfully
done' - ""Review of Texas Books"". 'Scarcely a page will you turn
in this collection of ghost stories in Texas without encountering a
disembodied hand or a fang babycreatures guaranteed to shock the
shell of an armadillo...Whether you read the tales out loud or spin
them around a campfire, youand your audiencewill be spooked. And
you'll never again saunter along a dark, deserted riverbank late at
night' - Patti Ross, ""San Antonio Express-News"". Some humorous,
some haunting, and some just late-night terrifying, these stories,
gathered by two favorite Texas tellers, span a rich cultural
heritage from the earliest Spanish explorers to the present, from
""La Llorona (the Weeping Woman)"" to the ""Vanishing Hitchhiker""
. Introduced by John O. West and John L. Davis, two of Texas most
respected folklorists, the stories include tales adapted by
European settlers to their new southwestern settings, more
historically rooted legends about such early pioneers as Britt
Bailey of the Gulf Coast prairie and Josiah Wilbarger of Austin,
and those notorious contemporary cautionary tales known as urban
legends. With two appendixes addressing selection, learning, and
telling of stories as well as sources and scholarship, ""Texas
Ghost Stories"" is a full-service compendium for tellers, teachers,
readers, and collectors. Celebrating both the blending and the
diversity of Texan cultures through the timeless stories we love to
be scared by, it is a treasury for all Texans and for those who
really want to know us.
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