You're Not From Around Here, Are You?
Author: C. Flynt
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2018-02-07
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13: 1732000506
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShort story collection for 8-12 year olds
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You're Not from Around Here, Are You?
Author: Louise A. Blum
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2001-03-13
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 0299170934
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a funny, moving story about life in a small town, from the point of view of a pregnant lesbian. Louise A. Blum, author of the critically acclaimed novel Amnesty, now tells the story of her own life and her decision to be out, loud, and pregnant. Mixing humor with memorable prose, Blum recounts how a quiet, conservative town in an impoverished stretch of Appalachia reacts as she and a local woman, Connie, fall in love, move in together, and determine to live their life together openly and truthfully. The town responds in radically different ways to the couple’s presence, from prayer vigils on the village green to a feature article in the family section of the local newspaper. This is a cautionary, wise, and celebratory tale about what it’s like to be different in America—both the good and the bad. A depiction of small town life with all its comforts and its terrors, this memoir speaks to anyone who has ever felt like an outsider in America. Blum tells her story with a razor wit and deft precision, a story about two "girls with grit," and the child they decide to raise, right where they are, in small town America.
Not From Around Here
Author: Brandon J O'Brien
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Published: 2019-10-01
Total Pages: 165
ISBN-13: 0802496563
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTidy categories may suit the media, but people are more complex up close. News outlets, historians, and sociologists can (and do) tell us all about the statistics, but they don’t (and can’t) tell us about what it’s really like in a given place—how the squish of creek water between your toes or the crunch of autumn leaves on a city sidewalk shape your sense of normal and good and right. To understand that—to understand the people in the places—we need stories. We need to listen, get to know the nuance of people, and have empathy for their way of seeing things. Brandon O’Brien is, in many ways, a man torn between places. Raised in the rural South, educated in the suburbs, and now living and doing ministry in Manhattan, he’s seen these places, and their complexity, up close. With the knack of a natural storyteller, he shares what he learned about himself, faith, and the people who make up America on his own journey through it.
Not from Around Here
Author: Lander Cartwright
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 81
ISBN-13: 1257657380
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDivided City
Author: Theresa Breslin
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2014-01-01
Total Pages: 65
ISBN-13: 1472910494
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA tale of two boys - one a Catholic, one a Protestant - whose attempt to help an outsider is set against the sectarian prejudices around them in Glasgow when the annual Orange Walks begin.
Over Burning Sands
Author: P R Adams
Publisher: Promethean Tales
Published: 2020-10-16
Total Pages: 494
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA changed world. A deadly world. Major Gabby Alonso woke to violence and an AI bent on killing her. She wasn't ready to die. Now she has to lead the last remnants of her team into the world they were supposed to rebuild, to reclaim from centuries-old ruins. While the world has changed, it's nothing like the training and simulations had taught her to expect. Except, that is, for its lethality. Petty tyrants, misguided pacifists, bloodthirsty marauders—Alonso can trust no one, racing from one threat to the next, always trying to stay just ahead of death on her way to find the peaceful promise of someone named Reggie Lee. Grab your copy of this thrilling post-apocalyptic tale now and follow the bloody path that leads Over Burning Sands.
Genealogical Jaunts
Author: Dennis Ford
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2009-01-07
Total Pages: 181
ISBN-13: 144010686X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt was wonderful to fulfi ll the dream of touring the ancestral village of Girdziunai. I now know what is at the end of the road. It was also a strange experience. Girdziunai is a poor place, something out of the nineteenth century. It was easy to imagine my grandparents and their grandparents making the same trek from their homes to the clearing at the river. There’s a real sense of a village frozen in time. Yet there are telephone poles near the road and cars parked in the dirt lanes. And there are political pressures and social uncertainties for the citizens of this obscure place. The strangeness lies in the awareness of straddling two centuries simultaneously—family history is an extension of my own experience. Our records here date to 1801—Laurynas and Elzbieta Storta were born in the eighteenth century. The feeling of the past is very strong and the presence of the past is very apparent. Yet the year 2001 is half a year away. The future is also a palpable presence on a hike that encompassed two centuries in a half hour.
The Shadows of a Man
Author: James M. Sellers
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Published: 2020-08-16
Total Pages: 839
ISBN-13: 0578237032
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Shadows of a Man is a glimpse into the mind of a troubled and damaged boy making decisions that are destined to have lasting consequences. This true story is about a boy abused and who was faced with all the haunting family issues he thought he could keep inside to channel his own demons, but the shadows in his life has exploded into a cycle of drugs crime prostitution and murder. The first part of this drama identifies with a child who is wise beyond his years a child who was put in a position in his young life to handle adult issues. Now James must confront his Shadows of an abused and tortured past and decide who and what he really is and deal with The Shadows of a Man. The Shadows are those hellacious levels of life. It changes as life rearranges. There is always hurt in the shadows as well as our unseen reflection. What we do in the Shadows come out into the light. This story is filled with bad choices, broken pieces, failures and a lot of pain. It is also filled with a major change, come back, and a freedom in life. Because there can be no after without a before. This book is based on lies, Love, hate and murder and what actually happened.
The Trust
Author: Ronald H. Balson
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2017-09-19
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1250127467
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“A thrilling, action-filled suspense novel.... Those who loved Balson’s other books like Once We Were Brothers and Karolina’s Twins will love this latest entry.” —The Huffington Post The Trust, from Ronald H. Balson, the international bestselling author of Once We Were Brothers, finds private investigator Liam Taggart returning to his childhood home for an uncle's funeral, only to discover his death might not have been natural. When his uncle dies, Liam Taggart reluctantly returns to his childhood home in Northern Ireland for the funeral—a home he left years ago after a bitter confrontation with his family, never to look back. But when he arrives, Liam learns that not only was his uncle shot to death, but that he’d anticipated his own murder: In an astonishing last will and testament, Uncle Fergus has left his entire estate to a secret trust, directing that no distributions be made to any person until the killer is found. Did Fergus know, but refuse to name, his killer? Was this a crime of revenge, a vendetta leftover from Northern Ireland’s bloody sectarian war? After all, the Taggarts were deeply involved in the IRA. Or is it possible that the killer is a family member seeking Fergus’s estate? Otherwise, why postpone distributions to the heirs? Most menacingly, does the killer now have his sights on other family members? As his investigation draws Liam farther and farther into the past he has abandoned, he realizes he is forced to reopen doors long ago shut and locked. Now, accepting the appointment as sole trustee of the Fergus Taggart Trust, Liam realizes he has stepped into the center of a firestorm.
West of Here
Author: Jonathan Evison
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: 2012-01-31
Total Pages: 513
ISBN-13: 161620124X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt the foot of the Elwha River, the muddy outpost of Port Bonita is about to boom, fueled by a ragtag band of dizzyingly disparate men and women unified only in their visions of a more prosperous future. A failed accountant by the name of Ethan Thornburgh has just arrived in Port Bonita to reclaim the woman he loves and start a family. Ethan’s obsession with a brighter future impels the damming of the mighty Elwha to harness its power and put Port Bonita on the map. More than a century later, his great-great grandson, a middle manager at a failing fish- packing plant, is destined to oversee the undoing of that vision, as the great Thornburgh dam is marked for demolition, having blocked the very lifeline that could have sustained the town. West of Here is a grand and playful odyssey, a multilayered saga of destiny and greed, adventure and passion, that chronicles the life of one small town, turning America’s history into myth, and myth into a nation’s shared experience.
