You're Not from Around Here, Are You?
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

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This 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
Not From Around Here

Author: Brandon J O'Brien

Publisher: Moody Publishers

Published: 2019-10-01

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0802496563

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Tidy 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.

Divided City
Divided City

Author: Theresa Breslin

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2014-01-01

Total Pages: 65

ISBN-13: 1472910494

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A 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.

You're Not from Around Here
You're Not from Around Here

Author: Mike Smith

Publisher: Center for Amer Places Incorporated

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9781930066182

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Photographer Smith allows a rare and intimate glimpse of the unique region of Southern Apalachia. Smith's images evoke a range of emotions and reveal the reality behind the stereotypes of rural Southern life.

We're Not from Here
We're Not from Here

Author: Geoff Rodkey

Publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers

Published: 2019-03-05

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1524773069

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Imagine being forced to move to a new planet where YOU are the alien! From the creator of the Tapper Twins, New York Times bestselling author Geoff Rodkey delivers a topical, sci-fi middle-grade novel that proves friendship and laughter can transcend even a galaxy of differences. The first time I heard about Planet Choom, we'd been on Mars for almost a year. But life on the Mars station was grim, and since Earth was no longer an option (we may have blown it up), it was time to find a new home. That's how we ended up on Choom with the Zhuri. They're very smart. They also look like giant mosquitos. But that's not why it's so hard to live here. There's a lot that the Zhuri don't like: singing (just ask my sister, Ila), comedy (one joke got me sent to the principal's office), or any kind of emotion. The biggest problem, though? The Zhuri don't like us. And if humankind is going to survive, it's up to my family to change their minds. No pressure.

Over Burning Sands
Over Burning Sands

Author: P R Adams

Publisher: Promethean Tales

Published: 2020-10-16

Total Pages: 494

ISBN-13:

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A 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
Genealogical Jaunts

Author: Dennis Ford

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2009-01-07

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 144010686X

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It 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
The Shadows of a Man

Author: James M. Sellers

Publisher: Outskirts Press

Published: 2020-08-16

Total Pages: 839

ISBN-13: 0578237032

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The 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.