The Whistle Walk
The Whistle Walk

Author: Stephenia H. McGee

Publisher: By The Vine Press

Published: 2014-12-17

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 0997866071

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A Mississippi Plantation: Civil War pits countrymen against one another and tears a nation asunder. Life and death are held in the balance where everyone is a slave to something. One is born free, yet lives as a soul in bondage...Lydia Harper never intended to purchase a slave. But when she witnesses a woman being beaten in the street, all her pretenses begin to unravel. A bride to a man she barely knows and bound by her secrets, Lydia will risk everything to save a stranger. Amid the War Between the States, the mistress of Ironwood faces the battles in her own heart and discovers strength in a way she never imagined.The other is born to serve, yet holds the spirit of freedom... Ruth, standing on the threshold of desperation, has lost everything she holds dear. After being pulled from the dirt, she is no longer a field hand but the personal maid to the lady of Ironwood. Ruth soon realizes adversity pays no mind to the color of skin. When propriety slips, she discovers they have more in common than she dreamed possible. In a time when fear brings the South to its knees, two women will forge a friendship in the fires of redemption and thrust Ironwood into a new future - where the battle for freedom has merely begun. Key Words: Stephanie McGee, Stephanie Magee, Stephanie H. McGee, Stephanie H. McGee, Stephania, Stephenie, Civil war, Christian fiction, Christian love story, friendship, Christian historical, dramatic Christian romance, dramatic Christian historical, Inspirational fiction, romantic themes, clean read historical, clean read romantic historical, clean read inspirational, top Christian novels, history ebook, 1800s romance, 1800s fiction, magnolia, belle, historical ebooks, battles, battle of Corinth, best historical, good fiction, 19th century, Civil War fiction, childhood, overcoming, military and war, death, redeemed, miracles, saved, healed, uplifting stories, antebellum, family, women, spirituality, worship and devotion, inspires, restored, uplifting reading, history novel, history story, Southern fiction, dramatic inspirational fiction, historical drama, family series, Christianity, historical era, time period, fighters, enslaved, liberated, American war, national war, Union Army, Confederate Army, Mississippi history, Herron House

Whistle for Willie
Whistle for Willie

Author: Ezra Jack Keats

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1977-02-24

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 0140502025

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Since it was first published in 1964, Whistle for Willie has delighted millions of young readers with its nearly wordless text and its striking collage artwork depicting the story of Peter, who longs to whistle for his dog. The New York Times wrote: "Mr. Keats' illustrations boldly, colorfully capture the child, his city world, and the shimmering heat of a summer's day."

The Mysterious Woods of Whistle Root
The Mysterious Woods of Whistle Root

Author: Christopher Pennell

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 0547792638

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A book much like the mysterious, inviting woods it describes. Step in to find friendship, magic, and surprises.

Dog Whistles, Walk-Backs, and Washington Handshakes
Dog Whistles, Walk-Backs, and Washington Handshakes

Author: Chuck McCutcheon

Publisher: ForeEdge from University Press of New England

Published: 2014-09-02

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1611686571

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To the amusement of the pundits and the regret of the electorate, our modern political jargon has become even more brazenly two-faced and obfuscatory than ever. Where once we had Muckrakers, now we have Bed-Wetters. Where Blue Dogs once slept peaceably in the sun, Attack Dogs now roam the land. During election season--a near constant these days--the coded rhetoric of candidates and their spin doctors, and the deliberately meaningless but toxic semiotics of the wing nuts and backbenchers, reach near-Orwellian levels of self-satisfaction, vitriol, and deceit. The average NPR or talk radio listener, MSNBC or Fox News viewer, or blameless New York Times or Wall Street Journal reader is likely to be perplexed, nonplussed, and lulled into a state of apathetic resignation and civic somnolence by the rapid-fire incomprehensibility of political pronouncement and commentary--which is, frankly, putting us exactly where the pundits want us. Dog Whistles, Walk-Backs, and Washington Handshakes is a tonic and a corrective. It is a reference and field guide to the language of politics by two veteran observers that not only defines terms and phrases but also explains their history and etymology, describes who uses them against whom, and why, and reveals the most telling, infamous, amusing, and shocking examples of their recent use. It is a handbook of lexicography for the Wonkette and This Town generation, a sleeker, more modern Safire's Political Dictionary, and a concise, pointed, bipartisan guide to the lies, obfuscations, and helical constructions of modern American political language, as practiced by real-life versions of the characters on House of Cards.

Whistling Past the Graveyard
Whistling Past the Graveyard

Author: Susan Crandall

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-07-02

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1476707731

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From an award-winning author comes a wise and tender coming-of-age story about a nine-year-old girl who runs away from her Mississippi home in 1963, befriends a lonely woman suffering loss and abuse, and embarks on a life-changing road trip. Whistling past the graveyard. That’s what Daddy called it when you did something to keep your mind off your most worstest fear... In the summer of 1963, nine-year-old Starla Claudelle runs away from her strict grandmother’s Mississippi home. Starla’s destination is Nashville, where her mother went to become a famous singer, abandoning Starla when she was three. Walking a lonely country road, Starla accepts a ride from Eula, a black woman traveling alone with a white baby. Now, on the road trip that will change her life forever, Starla sees for the first time life as it really is—as she reaches for a dream of how it could one day be.

Wolf Whistle
Wolf Whistle

Author: Lewis Nordan

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2003-10-05

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 156512913X

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ALA Notable Book; 1994 Mississippi Writers Award for Fiction; 1994 Southern Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. In WOLF WHISTLE, Lewis Nordan unleashes the hellhounds of his prodigious imagination on one of the most notorious racial killings of the century, the Emmett Till murder. Soon we're on a magical mystery tour of the Southern psyche of the mid-1950s and the dawning of guilt and recognition in a whole generation of white Southerners. "An immense and wall-shattering display of talent. WOLF WHISTLE will help usher Lewis Nordan into the Hall of Fame of American Letters."--Randall Kenan, The Nation.

Samuel’s Whistle
Samuel’s Whistle

Author: Cheryl D. James

Publisher: WestBow Press

Published: 2022-12-08

Total Pages: 25

ISBN-13: 1664275142

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In America, there have been significant times in our history. One of these is illustrated during the period of slavery, for people of African decent. This is a story of one family and their son Samuel, who had a special talent. Their love and dedication help to develop him into a fine individual.

The Walk-In
The Walk-In

Author: Gary Berntsen

Publisher: Crown

Published: 2008-08-12

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0307449793

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Gary Berntsen, longtime CIA operative and the field commander who cornered Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan, writing with award-winning novelist Ralph Pezzullo, offers in this edge-of-the-seat thriller a terrifying vision of where the next threat to America may come from. When a highly placed Iranian intelligence operative walks into a U.S. embassy claiming to possess explosive information, counterterrorism officer Matt Freed is dispatched to interview him and is warned of an impending attack on the United States that could kill millions. But is the man’s story precious truth or calculated fiction? Matt isn’t sure, but with a possible catastrophe looming in less than two weeks, his superiors reluctantly prepare for the assault. Matt can’t leave it alone, though. With questions still lingering about what is really going on, he defies his superiors’ orders and launches his own investigation. As the clock ticks down, he searches frantically for the truth at an Afghan prison under siege, an abandoned Uzbekistan bio weapons facility, and a Moscow hospital where an arms dealer is dying of a mysterious disease. Ultimately, Matt’s efforts brand him an out-of-control renegade, and he finds himself left out in the cold. Yet he may be the only one with the knowledge needed to avert unimaginable chaos. From a counterterrorism warrior who has spent a lifetime thwarting those who would do us harm, The Walk-In is an exhilarating plunge into tradecraft and terror.