From the critically acclaimed author of Daddy Needs a Drink--hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "consistently hilarious"--comes a series of irreverent, wickedly observant essays about what it really means to be a teacher today. With his trademark wit and wisdom, Robert Wilder dissects the world's noblest profession--whether he's taming a classroom full of hormonal teenagers or going one-on-one with the school bully. Wilder was twenty-six when he found his true calling. Leaving a lucrative advertising career in New York, he got a job as an assistant first-grade teacher at a...
From the critically acclaimed author of Daddy Needs a Drink--hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "consistently hilarious"--comes a series...
There were never more than a handful. But they were the law as Texas knew it -- judge, jury, and executioner. For a thousand miles along the Rio Grande, Captain Sul Carter and his men were all that stood between the settlers and the predatory bands of cutthroats, thieves, and murderers.
Now someone from across the border was secretly arming the Indains...someone with money and power...someone who wanted to plunge Texas into the bloody hell of an Indian war and seize the rich frontier wilderness for himself.
They were only a handful of men -- but they were all that stood between...
There were never more than a handful. But they were the law as Texas knew it -- judge, jury, and executioner. For a thousand miles along the Rio Gr...
