The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982) A sheriff named Ed Earl enjoys an amicable relationship with Miss Mona who runs the whorehouse on the edge of town. Even though what she is doing is technically illegal she runs a clean business that is enjoyed by many of the residents and particularly by the winners of the annual football game between University of Texas and Texas A&M who enjoy the ladies services free of charge as a victory prize. Unfortunately interference from a big-city personality exposes the existence of the chicken ranch and Ed has a very difficult time keeping the rumors contained. If he is to keep his job as upholder of the law he must find a way to make the ranch legal. Actor(s) Burt Reynolds Dolly Parton Dom DeLuise Charles Durning Theresa Merritt

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It was love at first sight. When Wolf Hayward and Molly Donivan gazed into each other s eyes in a crowded train station during the Civil War they knew they were meant to be--and sealed their commitment with a passionate kiss. He promised to find her after the war--until he realized she was the daughter of a Union General when he was a Southern spy behind enemy lines. But he ll never forget her and Molly will pledge to wait for the man she only knows as Benjamin. ? Eight years later Wolf--now a Texas ranger--is chasing down some outlaws when he is struck down by a falling signpost--and wakes up to see the beautiful woman he has never forgotten. Molly doesn t recognize him as the handsome soldier who swept her away so long ago but she can t help being intrigued by his kindness and charm. And she can t help imagining what it s like to be in his arms after the sun goes down...????????

THE KNAPSACK ROAD is a collection of seven interlocking short stories set in the limestone and cedar country of central Texas during and immediately after the Civil War. The stories share characters locations and a single road building a composite portrait of a specific American moment: the season when the old order had ended and no one yet knew what would replace it. The collection opens with Jacob Turner s return to his Hill Country farm after four years in the Confederate Army a return that is not the homecoming he had imagined - his wife and children died before he left and strangers have settled in his house. The decision Jacob makes in that first encounter ripples through every story that follows. Sarah a fifteen-year-old working girl whose father steals her wages appears first as a presence in Jacob s kitchen and then in her own story - a young woman beginning very carefully to understand the difference between endurance and choice. Eli Briggs signed the company roll beside Jacob that same afternoon and his story told through the journal he kept is what men carry when they march away from things they cannot say out loud. Harlan Vance never enlisted; he made a list of forty-seven properties with his father s handwriting and spent the war filing deeds and his arrival at the Turner farm is the collection s most direct examination of how power moves through paper. Moses walks out of the quarters on the day of emancipation with an iron strap in his pocket his wife s hand in his and a name - a Bureau office a Quaker a man who writes things down. His story is the collection s moral center. Tuwihtua a young Comanche learning from his uncle to read an arrow shaft against the sky finds himself on a ridge above the Hill Country as the world his people have known contracts around them - and his brief encounter with Jacob Turner a moment of recognition across an impassable distance is one of the collection s most carefully crafted scenes.

Accounting for Affection examines the multifaceted nature of early modern motherhood by focusing on the ideas and strategies of Roman aristocratic mothers during familial conflict. Illuminating new approaches to the maternal and the familial employed by such women it demonstrates how interventions gained increasing favor in early modern Rome.