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“Grimm was the only one in town who knew he had them where he wanted them―overconfident.” The hero of Quick Change is just twenty minutes into a bank robbery, and so far everything is going according to his brilliant, meticulously thought-out plan. The bank’s employees and customers are in the vault, the security cameras have all been shot out, and he’s bagged close to a million dollars. But the police and a SWAT team are already outside. Can Grimm get out of the bank and out of New York, with the money and his two accomplices, and pull off this daring escapade? And why is he dressed like a clown? Jay Cronley delivers the answers in a rapid-fire narrative―with much more suspense and Cronley’s signature deadpan humor than made it into the French or American film versions (the latter starring Bill Murray and Geena Davis). In an introduction written for this new paperback edition, the author tells how the book came to be, what it’s like to go Hollywood, and where the book has taken him since it was first published in 1981.

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Literature & Fiction

Humor & Satire

In Light and Variable, the reader is invited to join celebrated Oklahoma essayist and commentator Connie Cronley on a delightful romp through the calendar year. Honest, unpretentious, and laced with self-deprecating humor, the essays in this book revolve around special holidays or events, some of which you may never have heard of―Festival of Sleep Day, National Failures Day, and Blame Someone Else Day. Against a backdrop of celebrations and seasons, Cronley marvels at subjects close to her heart: siblings from outer space, small towns, champion whopper-telling ex-husbands, rascally cats, rescued dogs, deviled eggs, know-it-all hair dressers, church squabbles, books and authors, gardening efforts run aground, flocks of starlings, women’s history, cowgirls, and her own Cherokee heritage. Woven throughout are fragments of Emily Dickinson’s poetry; a few essays about food (not surprising from a former restaurant critic), including a history of celery in North America; a salute to rhubarb; and recipes from Frank Sinatra and Oprah Winfrey. Who knew that Oklahoma was such a magical place? Cronley introduces us to Oklahoma celebrities: movie stars Jennifer Jones and Tony Randall, glamorous café society singer Lee Wiley, champion poker player Bobby Baldwin, and one of the state’s legendary American Indian ballerinas (and the author’s personal friend) Moscelyne Larkin. Grab your hat and step into Connie Cronley’s special world, where the mood, like Oklahoma weather, is always light and variable.

Light and Variable

Religion & Spirituality

Product Description “How can women wear diamonds when babies cry for bread?” Kate Barnard demanded in one of the incendiary stump speeches for which she was well known. In A Life on Fire, Connie Cronley tells the story of Catherine Ann “Kate” Barnard (1875–1930), a fiery political reformer and the first woman elected to state office in Oklahoma, as commissioner of charities and corrections in 1907—almost fifteen years before women won the right to vote in the United States. Born to hardscrabble settlers on the Nebraska prairie, Barnard committed her energy, courage, and charismatic oratory to the cause of Progressive reform and became a political powerhouse and national celebrity. As a champion of the poor, workers, children, the imprisoned, and the mentally ill, Barnard advocated for compulsory education, prison reform, improved mental health treatment, and laws against child labor. Before statehood, she stumped across the Twin Territories to unite farmers and miners into a powerful political alliance. She also helped write Oklahoma’s Progressive constitution, creating what some heralded as “a new kind of state.” But then she took on the so-called “Indian Question.” Defending Native orphans against a conspiracy of graft that reached from Oklahoma to Washington, D.C., she uncovered corrupt authorities and legal guardians stealing oil, gas, and timber rights from Native Americans’ federal allotments. In retaliation, legislators and grafters closed ranks and defunded her state office. Broken in health and heart, she left public office and died a recluse. She remains, however, a riveting figure in Oklahoma history, a fearless activist on behalf of the weak and helpless. Review “Kate Barnard was a very impressive woman who found her way to advance the cause of Oklahoma Native Americans, women, and the oppressed.”—Chief Geoffrey Standing Bear, Principal Chief of the Osage Nation.“Kate Barnard was a woman before her time. She was a leader to the disadvantaged of her era and a true warrior woman.”—Carmelita Wamego Skeeter, CEO of the Indian Health Care Resource Center of Tulsa “Masterfully told, Connie Cronley’s popular biography of Kate Barnard will inspire a new generation to learn about the oratory, advocacy, and tenacity of Oklahoma’s first Commissioner of Charities and Corrections.”—Patricia Loughlin, author of Hidden Treasures of the American West: Muriel H. Wright, Angie Debo, and Alice Marriott“An insightful biography of social reform activist Kate Barnard, Life on Fire also peels back the curtain on Oklahoma’s territorial politics, institutions, political personalities, theft of indigenous orphan rights, and corruption. Connie Cronley writes with grace, humor, and a deft hand of Barnard’s fire and ambition, her intellect and gift of oratory, her nervous energy and indefatigable work ethic, her moral core, blind spots, and hubris. The result is a wonderfully compelling read and an important contribution to our understanding of Oklahoma’s first female elected official, and the place and the era that bred her.”—Rilla Askew, author of Most American: Notes from a Wounded Place "The story of Kate Barnard is as wonderful and heartbreaking as the story of Oklahoma itself. In this lively and thoroughly researched biography, Connie Cronley reintroduces us to this woman who embodied so many of the hopes and ideals of the new state, only to be ground down by the betrayal and disillusionment that followed.”—Randy Krehbiel, author of Tulsa, 1921: Reporting a Massacre “This book is a must-read. The human and political environment of early Oklahoma thatKate Barnard faced was sobering and disturbing. Barnard was tenacious and relentless in alleviating the suffering of children, orphans, the weak and frail, and prisoners, and in challenging the system that poorly managed them. Sadly, now more than ever, Oklahoma needs Kate Barnards.”—Chad “Corntassel” Smith, former Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and au

Life on Fire: Oklahoma's Kate Barnard

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

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