Saving Wonder
Saving Wonder

Author: Mary Knight

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2016-02-23

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 0545828953

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In this utterly transporting debut about the power of words, the importance of friendship, and the magic of wonder, Curly Hines must decide whether to fight to save the mountain he calls home. Having lost most of his family to coal mining accidents as a little boy, Curley Hines lives with his grandfather in the Appalachian Mountains of Wonder Gap, Kentucky. Ever since Curley can remember, Papaw has been giving him a word each week to learn and live. Papaw says words are Curley's way out of the holler, even though Curley has no intention of ever leaving.When a new coal boss takes over the local mining company, life as Curley knows it is turned upside down. Suddenly, his best friend, Jules, is interested in the coal boss's son, and worse, the mining company threatens to destroy Curley and Papaw's mountain. Now Curley faces a difficult choice. Does he use his words to speak out against Big Coal and save his mountain, or does he remain silent and save his way of life?From debut author Mary Knight comes a rich, lyrical, and utterly transporting tale about friendship, the power of words, and the difficult hurdles we must overcome for the people and places we love.

PAPAW
PAPAW

Author: David R. Kosak

Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

Published: 2024-08-09

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13:

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Daniel Jerome Shykes, or Danny to his friends and Papaw to his grandchildren, survived brutal combat in North Africa, Italy, and northern France during World War II. After losing two of his best friends, who happened to be devout Christians, while capturing a bridge, Danny lost faith. When Danny returned from the war, he married his sweetheart Anne, and they lived a fulfilling life. Upon his retirement, Anne, a devout Christian, tragically lost her life when a drunk driver ran her car off the road. Despair over the loss of his wife drove Danny further from Jesus. To help cope, Danny moved his daughter Carol and his grandchildren Tim and Mary into the house where he and Anne shared their lives. Heartbroken, Danny pined for Anne. After a conversation with his grandson, Tim, Danny learned what he needed to do. He had to learn to forgive.

The Papaw Diary
The Papaw Diary

Author: Dennis W. Shepherd

Publisher: Author House

Published: 2005-10-24

Total Pages: 469

ISBN-13: 1452072795

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Ghosts. Ghouls. Goblins. Just about every G word that makes your blood turn blue. It’s in here. Banshees too. And one seriously baaaaaaad wizard. Dragons. Knights with long poles. Knights with rusty butts. It’s all inside these covers. Two brothers who grow up around a house made of blue and white bricks. One becomes a singer and the other a teacher. But both wind up colliding with a tanker truck and die, exploding into space. In here, I tell you. There’s also a castle where a man named Rocky falls in love with someone named Katie. Yeah, pretty yucky stuff, I know. That’s in here too. But what happens in that castle will curdle your blood, and make you hurl your lunch. You got to see that stuff. Oh, and basketball too. The most famous basketball game of all time is right inside this book. Where can you buy a book with so much stuff for less than a thousand dollars? Hurry, before the author catches on and raises up the price. (This book was named a finalist in the children's fiction category of the Fresh Voices 2006 Awards, sponsored by the Writer's Marketing Association)

LIFE'S CHANGES
LIFE'S CHANGES

Author: KERMIT E. BEAVER JR.

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2015-07-07

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 0359324592

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Life's Changes began in 2006 when I was 46 years of age. In a discovery I made, I always knew about this life but never really experienced it. The hypocritical life I lived was saying one thing and doing the other. In the dark world I lived in, a new light shined and a new life began. In a six-year period, everything that could go wrong, happened, but for the right reasons. This changed me and the life I live today. I hope that by you reading this book, it will help change your life and save you from the disasters, pitfalls and traps that I experienced. In the end you may be able to understand how your life can change as well. Life's Changes is based on a true story and only by reading the book, you will see a new light and a new life.

A Grandfather’S Gift
A Grandfather’S Gift

Author: James E. Smith Sr.

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2014-02-11

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1491863250

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This book is about my life experiences and also contains the stories I have heard my folks tell while sitting on the front porch after supper. For many years, my maternal grandfather lived with us. He and my dad would swap interesting stories about times when they were growing up and farming with oxen and mules. They talked about the dummy line railroads that ran through the forest near our home and told their childhood tales and many other stories I would long for later in life. I wanted to pass this and my life stories down to my descendants. Many interesting stories were told in the serene setting of the front porch deep in the country, with only the interruptions of whippoorwills, hoot owls, screech owls, and such making pleasant noises in the distant woods. I hope that this book will inspire future generations in some way to understand the important things in life. Its been said that the best things are free, and I learned that one only has to make necessary efforts to obtain a peaceful, happy, and fulfilling life.

Hi, My Name Is Jack
Hi, My Name Is Jack

Author: Jack Watts

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2011-11-29

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1439192707

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In this grippingly honest narrative about one man’s journey from addiction and self-destruction to recovery and a changed life, readers will be dismayed at the hurtful patterns of his two alcoholic parents and how they scarred and shaped the outcome of their three sons forever. Watts openly talks of his multiple failed marriages, strained relationships with his children, overwhelming business losses, and the self-loathing and guilt that plagued him for years. In spite of all of this, Jack held on to the conviction he made more than fifteen years ago never to drink again. Gradually learning to make better choices, he discovered how to move past deeply engraved dysfunctions and become a productive, loving adult. Included are accounts of his efforts to live out the twelve steps in restoring relationships with family members and confronting the offender who molested his three daughters. A story like this is one that continues throughout a lifetime. The glimpses shared in these pages will inspire readers to be honest about their own demons and provide hope for a fulfilled and joyful life beyond the shackles of addiction.

Hillbilly Heart
Hillbilly Heart

Author: Billy Ray Cyrus

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 0547992653

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The country musician behind the chart-topping hit "Achy Breaky Heart" describes his life, from his Kentucky childhood listening to gospel and bluegrass music to his original pursuit of a career in baseball to his breakthrough in the music business.

Hillbilly Elegy
Hillbilly Elegy

Author: J. D. Vance

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2016-06-28

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 0062300563

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A riveting book."—The Wall Street Journal "Essential reading."—David Brooks, New York Times From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America’s white working class Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck. The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love,” and moved north from Kentucky’s Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually their grandchild (the author) would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of their success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that this is only the short, superficial version. Vance’s grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother, struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, and were never able to fully escape the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. Vance piercingly shows how he himself still carries around the demons of their chaotic family history. A deeply moving memoir with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country.