Listening to the Jar Flies

Listening to the Jar Flies

Author: Jimmy R. Lewis

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2015-06-19

Total Pages: 487

ISBN-13: 1491766654

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In this delightful memoir, Jimmy R. Lewis does for the Ozarks what Garrison Keillor does for Lake Wobegon. Lewis has compiled an appealing and enduring love letter to Midwestern small town life of yesterday. BlueInk Starred Review In his memoir of growing up in rural southwest Missouri, Jimmy R. Lewis uses local newspaper archives and childhood memories to bring a bygone era back to life. Missouri Historical Review Lewis is a talented storyteller. Reading these accounts is like being at a family reunion, hearing lively talespreferably told outdoors in late summer, with the...jar flies, or cicadas, buzzing in the trees... Clarion Review - Five Stars (out of five) Lewis paints, in alternating broad and fine strokes, a picture of a small segment of the rural United States through difficult and prosperous eras. He has an eye for satisfying detail, and he thoroughly catalogs a colorful cast of characters... Kirkus Reviews Wheaton and Rocky Comfort, Missouri, may have looked like two sleepy towns in the mid-twentieth century, but they were home to an aging former cowboy who bested Old West legend Tom Horn in a knife fight, a faith-healing preacher who sought converts as a four-foot bullsnake slithered around his shoulders, and an air force fighter pilot who narrowly averted firing a missile that could have started World War III. Author Jimmy R. Lewis presents these and many other stories that offer insight into a piece of rural Americas history.


Covenantalk

Covenantalk

Author: Ken Shelton

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2005-06-14

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 1463458649

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CovenanTalk, Words That Set Us Free, tells how Gods Word uses the power of everyday language to lead us through lifes hard places. Although he was raised in a loving Christian home, the author reveals that, as a child of five years old, a visiting relative sexually abused him. Shelton eases the tension with humor and insight into the nature of Gods covenant love, as he recalls the impact the abuse had on his life. Eventually finding comfort and hope in his faith, the author takes the reader on a journey from the pastoral surroundings of his boyhood home to the breathtaking beauty of Appalachia and Yosemite. Using common, everyday words and heaven-spun expressions, Shelton extends hope to readers experiencing any sort of trauma. Originally written as a collection of essays, CovenanTalk has developed into a memoir that reveals the healing power of language.


Listening to the Jar Flies

Listening to the Jar Flies

Author: Jimmy R. Lewis

Publisher:

Published: 2015-06-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781491766644

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To the casual visitor, Wheaton and Rocky Comfort, Missouri, are just two tiny towns on the edge of the Ozark hill country. In Listening to the Jar Flies, author Jimmy R. Lewis narrates stories about the extraordinary and colorful characters who lived there between 1907 and 1960.


As Flies to Whatless Boys

As Flies to Whatless Boys

Author: Robert Antoni

Publisher: Akashic Books

Published: 2013-09-03

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 1617751561

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In 1845, British engineer John Adolphus Etzler invented machines to transform the division of labour and sent Londoners to form a utopian community in Trinidad. One recruit is a young boy, Willy, who helps build the society's future home in a remote swamp. Far from realising Etzler's dream of paradise, most are stricken with the 'Black Vomit'. Willy and his father make a final attempt to fix a wrecked boat, but Willy's father falls ill and dies. Willy must decide whether return home with Marguerite, who he loves, or become the head of his family in their new home.


Grandpa Wouldn’T Lie

Grandpa Wouldn’T Lie

Author: Samuel D. Perry

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2013-02-05

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 1481711997

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Grandpa Wouldn't Lie is the heartwarming story of a boy's relationship with his grandparents. Through stories told by his grandfather, the author learns, not only his family heritage, but important lessons about personal values and the meaning of life. Although essential reading for members of the author's family, this book has appeal for the general reader, too. The stories contained within it take the reader back to a time when life in the southern Appalachians was harsh and, sometimes,brutal. However, through the stories told by his grandfather, the author learns that integrity and family honor can triumph in the face of unrelenting difficulties. This is a book that will be read again and again, by both young and old. The reader will be long in forgetting it.


Behind the Glass

Behind the Glass

Author: Howard Massey

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 0879309555

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This collection of Howard Massey's interviews with top music producers and musicians from the world of pop, reveals the secrets and techniques that have enabled them to produce the big hit records that have sold so well.


Two Crops

Two Crops

Author: Polly Biggs

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2010-05

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1450091695

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JAR Professional Pilot Studies

JAR Professional Pilot Studies

Author: Phil Croucher

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2004-03-01

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13: 0968192823

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Ground study material for European pilot's written exams - aeroplanes & helicopter.


The Dynamics Of Power in Music

The Dynamics Of Power in Music

Author: Kehinde Ezekiel

Publisher: XinXii

Published: 2024-08-14

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9787890810

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Power and life are dynamic in nature, they can take forms that are oddity in our sight if viewed with uncommon perspective and rapt attention. Such is the case of music which has become our generic wonder, likened to the sun whose radiance has been scorching and finding inevitable expression in our daily existence, connoting power penetration through the windows and curtains of our homes calling on us to come and behold the extent of its magnificence. It is commonality of archaic and modern existence that music and power work hand-in-hand. In fact, music creates an atmosphere of power and meaning, enabling places to wear unfamiliar appearances. The germane enquiry is: how does music create an atmosphere of power and meaning, causing interrelations? It does when we acknowledge the fact that music, power and some of the factors associated with them can lead to the creation of wonderful experiences and they are one of the subjects of power dynamism the world is yet to take a wide glance at, be wowed by the discoverable factors one can gain and the prestige they can confer on mankind. The unravelling of these dynamic factors that will be thoroughly explicated has never been combined before, let alone have the opportunity of being encapsulated in a compendium like this. This book is about merging minute concept of power and little concept of music to expose depths that control and affect mankind generally but in musical parlance, which is designed to help man navigate his path towards power derivation. This exposition portrays the fact that music is powerful and power to a large extent has become the rhythm (music in form of instructions/machinery of control) people have been dancing (adhered) to before now and hitherto. The inquisitiveness about little knowledge of music being one of the peculiarities of power dynamism that exist in the world is evident in this volume 1 exhibition!