Books tagged: banjo

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Never Trust a Goat    by Tracy Farr
Price: Free! 18110 words. Published on December 20, 2009. .

"Never Trust a Goat" is a collection of 23 humorous essays written by columnist Tracy Farr. Follow along as he discovers why goats prefer chocolate cake over grass; why French women never exercise and remain skinny; as well as why the world would be a better place if more people played the banjo!
Phantom Banjo: Book One of The Songkiller Saga    by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Price: $5.99 USD. 92900 words. Published by Gypsy Shadow Publishing  on October 7, 2010. .

This is a fantasy series about a bunch of folk musicians, good pickers and flawed but likable human beings, trying to reclaim songs destroyed by the evil forces (or devils, including but by no means limited to the Expediency Devil, the Stupidity and Ignorance Devil, and the Debauchery Devil) that want humanity to lose its humanity. Hauntings abound, as they do in the folk songs.
Stories from the Okefenokee    by Bob Keefe
Price: $5.95 USD. 28060 words. Published on October 13, 2010. .

Against the backdrop of the southern and western edges of the Okefenokee Swamp, long isolated from mainstream Georgia by a lack of exploitable resources, poor roads, vast swamps and protected by swarms of mosquitoes, biting flies and some of the largest rattlesnakes in the United States, these are my stories.
Picking the Ballad's Bones: Book Two of The Songkiller Saga    by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Price: $5.99 USD. 77830 words. Published by Gypsy Shadow Publishing  on October 19, 2010. .

The ancient ballads of England, Scotland and Ireland are great stories to visit but nobody in their right mind would want to live there. There’s a high body count for every ballad and a happy ending usually involves boy meets girl and they end up sharing a grave.
Strum Again? Book Three of The Songkiller Saga    by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Price: $5.99 USD. 106380 words. Published by Gypsy Shadow Publishing  on October 22, 2010. .

What started in the States ends in the States. The song-saving musicians are back home, with heads and hands full of songs they saved with the help of the Phantom Banjo, Lazarus. The soul-destroying devils haven’t given up on killing off the music though, along with everything else that’s maybe a little fun or keeps people human and sane. Even the debauchery devil, AKA Torchy Burns . . .
Fiction Gutted: The Establishment and the Novel    by Tony Christini
Price: Free! 31150 words. Published on January 31, 2011. .

The limits of establishment fiction and criticism.
The Talking Bows    by Felix Mayerhofer
Price: $3.99 USD. 1390 words. Published by Fideli Publishing on March 24, 2011. .

(Age Level – 7-11) – If the Disney style is a favorite of yours, this is the story for you. Not only does it feature all the strings, violins, violas, cello, and stringed bass, it even has a banjo for comic relief. Country western, the classics and jazz are all included. To top it off the bows are the main characters, a unique change in the magic world of strings.
Nude Nuns and Other Peculiar People    by Charles Wells
Price: $2.99 USD. 83750 words. Published on October 14, 2011. .

It has been my good fortune to know and associate with a goodly number of goofballs. Enjoy a few laugh out loud moments by following the adventures of an ordinary man's encounters with some very unordinary people. The scene changes from New Orleans to Harvard to Ft. Polk to China and throughout America's heartland, but the theme remains constant, the pervasive ubiquity of peculiar people.
Take Me for Longing    by Felice Fox
Price: $0.99 USD. 31160 words. Published on February 9, 2012. .

Bluegrass superstar Nic Taylor is ruined by the publication of a romance novel he swears isn’t about him. Forced out of his legendary father’s band, Nic quits the green hills of Tennessee for the seaside paradise of Malibu, California. There he must confront June Cricket, a real-life fan who isn’t about to back down from writing the sequel that could make her a star.