Author : James Allison
Publisher : Booktango
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 14,15 MB
Release : 2012-07-31
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1468902814
'A Place Called Time' is a book of poems dealving into many layers of thought and ideas. I started thinking of TIME as not a thing, but a place. Technically, time does not exist accept in our minds. There are many metaphysical correspondenses here as well as thought links to A Course Of Miracles.
Author : Andrew Henry Martin Scholtz
Publisher : NB Publishing
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 36,74 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
A hundred years ago, a small settlement sprang up in theNorthern Cape. A rich diversity of people moved in, as the children were born, Vatmaar became a village. A. H. M. Scholtz tells of Oom Chai, who in turn tells of a Vuurmaak, who in turn introduces someone else. Thus a chain of stories is created interlinking the fates of unforgettable characters like Lance-Corporal George Lewis and his Tswana wife, Rush, Sis Bet, Old Chetty, Hendruk, January, Tant Vonnie and her daughters as they recount tales of the Anglo-Boer War, the diamond diggings, court cases and stokvels: the tricksters and the tricked, marriages and funerals, love and betrayal. A Place Called Vatmaar is a panoramic novel: compelling, wise and humane.
Author : Lori Wick
Publisher : Place Called Home Series
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,78 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780736915335
Lori Wick offers readers nostagic turn of the century romances in her series of "A Place called Home."
Author : Samuel Miller
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 11,86 MB
Release : 2010-07-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1452027536
Riding the white horse her father gave her as a wedding present , Priscilla and her husband, Samuel Rugg, came to the Turkeyfoot Valley in Somerset County, PA. The year is 1789 and she immediately becomes a person of suspicion to the early German settlers. They tag her as Hex Berge, or witch of the hills. The legend lives on. Move ahead one hundred years to the times of Mary Wyno, the witch from Slovenia whom most of the people in the area held with suspicion. She appears and disappears at will, she can silence horses and her spells become reality. Here in Hexie her spirit lives on.
Author : Kim R. Manturuk
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 39,62 MB
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0190653264
Since the onset of the mortgage lending crisis and the subsequent Great Recession, there has been ongoing debate about the economic benefits of homeownership. Some say homeownership remains an important contributor to wealth creation, while others believe that renting is a less expensive and less risky option. This debate has raised an interesting question about homeownership: if the home is not guaranteed to provide a solid return on investment, is there a rationale for promoting homeownership beyond whatever financial benefits it may deliver? The authors' research has provided tremendous insights into the extra-financial effects of affordable homeownership. It shows that homeowners, when compared with renters, have better health outcomes, experience less stress in times of financial hardship, experience a greater sense of trust in their neighbors, have access to more social capital resources, and are more likely to vote. Further, the data allows us to explore not only what benefits result from affordable homeownership, but how and why these benefits are transferred. The book ultimately argues that homeownership is not only important for financial reasons, but also functions as a social tool that can improve the lives of low- and moderate-income people.
Author : Jodi Thomas
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 17,37 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0425250784
Jodi Thomas tells the story of the three hard-luck men who first settled the town of Harmony, where last chances and long-awaited dreams collide.
Author : Rita R. Trafford
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,23 MB
Release : 2012-09-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466948389
Grace Brantley is a curious and imaginative six-year-old girl trying to cope with a divided and constantly changing family environment. The story follows Grace through a turbulent childhood where the only stabilizing elements to be found are her widowed grandmother and a devoted uncle. Grace finds comfort and safety in the few things she can relate to as constants in her life, such as the town where she lives, its inhabitants, and her ongoing fascination with the Ohio River and the mysteries it hides. Graces intense need to hold on to certain relationships while allowing others to become less important, provide a glimpse into the mind of a child trying to find a quality of life that will allow her to understand values and set priorities. The search takes Grace to places where no child should have to go, but it also reveals the true essence of life, which she finds, can at times be beautiful, but also cruel and demanding, even with the very young. Without even realizing it, Grace finds through her continuous struggles to cope a resolve that is both enlightening and creative in spirit. Her self-confidence is brought about through the balance that is found in the understanding of not only people, but of nature itself. Her childlike faith in God, having been instilled in her early on by her grandmother, will provide the much-needed tension to maintain that balance.
Author : Beatty
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,40 MB
Release :
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 1609577426
The little long-eared beagle puppy Johnny Thompson received for his sixth birthday has gained quite a reputation around the county for being somewhat of a hero. In fact, so extraordinary and unbelievable are his actions, that some have even wondered if he may be more than just an ordinary dog—possibly, an angel. But none have wondered that more than Johnny. However, when tragedy raises its lethal head, and an unseen enemy strikes at the very heart of the Thompson family, the courageous canine's limits and abilities are pushed to the max. Will Johnny's forever friend be able rise to the challenge, or will this new "enemy" be too much even for him?+
Author : Randall K. Wilson
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 30,26 MB
Release : 2024-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1640096655
This epic history of America’s first national park explores how a remote Western landscape became an iconic symbol of our country and its vast wilderness so influential to our understanding of the natural world It has been called Wonderland, America’s Serengeti, the crown jewel of the National Park System, and America’s best idea. But how did this faraway landscape evolve into one of the most recognizable places in the world? As the birthplace of the national park system, Yellowstone witnessed the first-ever attempt to protect wildlife, to restore endangered species, and to develop a new industry centered on nature tourism. Yellowstone remains a national icon, one of the few entities capable of bridging ideological divides in the United States. Yet the park’s history is also filled with episodes of conflict and exclusion, setting precedents for Native American land dispossession, land rights disputes, and prolonged tensions between commercialism and environmental conservation. Yellowstone’s legacies are both celebratory and problematic. A Place Called Yellowstone tells the comprehensive story of Yellowstone as the story of the nation itself.
Author :
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 43,3 MB
Release :
Category : Mississippi
ISBN : 9781617033391
Filled with serendipitous connections and contrasts, this volume of Mississippiana covers four hundred years. It begins with a selection from "A Gentleman from Elvas," written in 1541, and ends with an essay the novelist Ellen Douglas wrote in 1996 on the occasion of the Atlanta Olympic games. In between is a chronology of some one hundred nonfictional narratives that portray the distinctiveness of life in Mississippi. Most are reprinted, but some are published here for the first time. Each section of this anthology reveals an aspect of Mississippi's past or present. Here are narratives that depict the settlement of the land by pioneers, the lasting heritage of the Civil War, the pleasures and the pastimes of Mississippians, their food, art, rituals, and religion, the terrain and the travelers, and the conflicts that brought enormous changes to both the landscape and the population. In its wide cultural perspective, A Place Called Mississippi includes an early description of the Chickasaws, a narrative of a former slave, "Soggy" Sweat's famous "Whiskey Speech" on Prohibition, and an account of how W. C. Handy discovered the blues in a deserted train station in Tutwiler, Mississippi. Among the selections are narratives by Jefferson Davis, Belle Kearney, Walter Anderson, Ida B. Wells, Richard Wright, Craig Claiborne, Richard Ford, William Faulkner, and Eudora Welty. Written by and about blacks, whites, Native Americans, and others, these fascinating accounts convey a variety of impressions about a real place and about real people whose colorful history is large, ever-changing, and ever-mystifying.
