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Phil Oakley

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in Austin, The United States

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Phil Oakley is a writer, educator, filmmaker, journalist and executive. He is the author of nine novels. He began working on his first one in the spring of 1964, while a freshman at The Univer sity of Texas at Austin. That book finally reached publication fifty years later in 2014. In addition to writing, Phil currently works as a paraprofessional educator at Kennedale High School. Previously, he served as Director of the Louisiana Film Commission, was a regional executive of The Walt Disney Company, supervising coverage for ABC News in the southwestern United States and Latin America. He also was an editor/producer for The Dallas Morning News. As a journalist, Phil won national awards from Columbia University, the Radio-Television News Dir ...more

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Average rating: 4.43 · 28 ratings · 11 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors

	Runners (The Oakleys Series) 4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Telegraph (The Oakleys Book 1) 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Longhorn: A Novel (The Oakleys) (Volume 3) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Morello Family: Pin Raids it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Morello Family: Wave of Carnage it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Phil Oakley rated a book it was amazing Deluge Before Dawn: Heartbreak, Survival and Resilience After the Guadalupe River Raged by Thomas R. Fox	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Stories of Tragedy, Loss and Deep Love Tom Fox is a master storyteller and a brilliant writer who immerses readers into the terrifying reality of the Fourth of July flood of the Guadalupe River in the Texas Hill Country which cost the lives of at leas ...more
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Phil Oakley rated a book it was amazing Planting and Painting the Landscape: A Sequel to The Art of Farming by T.D. Motley	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Just What We Need in Our Out of Control Lives and Times Can something be meandering, concise and even precise at the same time? T.D. Motley’s new book is. Can prose actually be an array of tight, complex little poems that can range through millenia in ...more
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Phil Oakley rated a book really liked it Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump by Maggie Haberman	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Phil Oakley rated a book it was amazing The Four Queens of Crime (A Four Queens of Crime Mystery #1) by Rosanne Limoncelli (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Rosanne Limoncelli’s THE FOUR QUEENS OF CRIME is a celebration of women coming together to claim their place in a society determined to maintain male domination and inherent, undeniable masculine superiority. These four women prove beyond doubt that t ...more
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As her mastery of the police procedural/who done it continues to get better with each new novel, Caitlin Rother has outdone herself again in STAGED, her latest pageturner featuring investigative journalist Katrina Chopin and her homicide detective si ...more
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