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Surname. David Jiles, British engineer and academic who researched the Jiles-Atherton model of magnetic hysteresis. Dwayne Jiles (born 1961), former professional American football player. Pamela Jiles (born 1954), American sprinter. Pamela Jiles (born 1960), Chilean journalist and politician. Paulette Jiles (born 1943), Canadian writer.
Jan 1, 2009 · A soaring work of the imagination based on oral histories of the post-Civil War years in North Texas, Paulette Jiles's The Color of Lightning is at once an intimate look into the hearts and hopes of tragically flawed human beings and a courageous reexamination of a dark American history. 349 pages, Paperback.
North Spirit. (1995) Description / Buy at Amazon. Paulette Jiles is an American novelist, poet, and writer of memoirs. Paulette K. Jiles was born on April 4, 1943, in Salem, Missouri. She would seek higher education while attending the University of Missouri in Kansas City. She studied Romance Languages as her major and graduated in 1968.
Sep 12, 2023 · Paulette Jiles. Consumed with grief, driven by vengeance, a man undertakes an unrelenting odyssey across the lawless post–Civil War frontier seeking redemption in this fearless novel from the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of News of the World. Union soldier John Chenneville suffered a traumatic head wound in battle.
Paulette Jiles’ newest one, Chenneville: A Novel of Murder, Loss, and Vengeance (William Morrow 2023) is a fine adaptation of a classic hero’s-journey archetype. It is both an action-oriented adventure story and a splendidly well-written literary novel about a most painful period in our history.
November 2, it’s all starting. The round of the year —- Halloween and then Thanksgiving and then Advent, Christmas and New Year. I love it. I am learning The Fool’s Jig on the D tin whistle and I am keeping on keeping on with the big Low D whistle, I don’t know if I’ll ever get a true sound out of it. It may just be too big for my hands.
Sep 22, 2023 · For some years Paulette Jiles has labored over a fertile stretch of history, setting her novels in the American West amid the anarchy of Reconstruction. In a succession of charismatic page-turners ...
