Book Description
A shallow earthquake slides a California town full of bigots into Mexico. The Mexican mayor of the town across the border declares the Americans "drybacks" and won't let them leave. The two countries verge on war.
Author : Arthur Herzog III
Publisher : Arthur Herzog III
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 25,21 MB
Release : 2004-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0595309542
A shallow earthquake slides a California town full of bigots into Mexico. The Mexican mayor of the town across the border declares the Americans "drybacks" and won't let them leave. The two countries verge on war.
Author : Mary Jane Finsand
Publisher : Young Yearling
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 42,79 MB
Release : 1991-07-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780440404897
Describes how the houses and buildings of a small town in northern Minnesota were moved to another location when iron ore was discovered in the ground beneath the town.
Author : Christopher Ingraham
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 36,63 MB
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0062861492
An NPR Best Book of the Year The hilarious, charming, and candid story of writer Christopher Ingraham’s decision to uproot his life and move his family to Red Lake Falls, Minnesota, population 1,400—the community he made famous as “the worst place to live in America” in a story he wrote for the Washington Post. Like so many young American couples, Chris Ingraham and his wife Briana were having a difficult time making ends meet as they tried to raise their twin boys in the East Coast suburbs. One day, Chris – in his role as a “data guy” reporter at the Washington Post – stumbled on a study that would change his life. It was a ranking of America’s 3,000+ counties from ugliest to most scenic. He quickly scrolled to the bottom of the list and gleefully wrote the words “The absolute worst place to live in America is (drumroll please) … Red Lake County, Minn.” The story went viral, to put it mildly. Among the reactions were many from residents of Red Lake County. While they were unflappably polite – it’s not called “Minnesota Nice” for nothing – they challenged him to look beyond the spreadsheet and actually visit their community. Ingraham, with slight trepidation, accepted. Impressed by the locals’ warmth, humor and hospitality – and ever more aware of his financial situation and torturous commute – Chris and Briana eventually decided to relocate to the town he’d just dragged through the dirt on the Internet. If You Lived Here You’d Be Home by Now is the story of making a decision that turns all your preconceptions – good and bad -- on their heads. In Red Lake County, Ingraham experiences the intensity and power of small-town gossip, struggles to find a decent cup of coffee, suffers through winters with temperatures dropping to forty below zero, and unearths some truths about small-town life that the coastal media usually miss. It’s a wry and charming tale – with data! -- of what happened to one family brave enough to move waaaay beyond its comfort zone
Author : Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 34,93 MB
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1541788486
A tiny American town's plans for radical self-government overlooked one hairy detail: no one told the bears. Once upon a time, a group of libertarians got together and hatched the Free Town Project, a plan to take over an American town and completely eliminate its government. In 2004, they set their sights on Grafton, NH, a barely populated settlement with one paved road. When they descended on Grafton, public funding for pretty much everything shrank: the fire department, the library, the schoolhouse. State and federal laws became meek suggestions, scarcely heard in the town's thick wilderness. The anything-goes atmosphere soon caught the attention of Grafton's neighbors: the bears. Freedom-loving citizens ignored hunting laws and regulations on food disposal. They built a tent city in an effort to get off the grid. The bears smelled food and opportunity. A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear is the sometimes funny, sometimes terrifying tale of what happens when a government disappears into the woods. Complete with gunplay, adventure, and backstabbing politicians, this is the ultimate story of a quintessential American experiment -- to live free or die, perhaps from a bear.
Author : Florence C. Means
Publisher : Walker Books for Young Readers
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,19 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780802773869
The captivating story of a Japanese-American family in a World War II internment camp who struggle to retain their dignity and identity as Americans.
Author : James Fallows
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 43,95 MB
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1101871857
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "James and Deborah Fallows have always moved to where history is being made.... They have an excellent sense of where world-shaping events are taking place at any moment" —The New York Times • The basis for the HBO documentary streaming on HBO Max For five years, James and Deborah Fallows have travelled across America in a single-engine prop airplane. Visiting dozens of towns, the America they saw is acutely conscious of its problems—from economic dislocation to the opioid scourge—but it is also crafting solutions, with a practical-minded determination at dramatic odds with the bitter paralysis of national politics. At times of dysfunction on a national level, reform possibilities have often arisen from the local level. The Fallowses describe America in the middle of one of these creative waves. Their view of the country is as complex and contradictory as America itself, but it also reflects the energy, the generosity and compassion, the dreams, and the determination of many who are in the midst of making things better. Our Towns is the story of their journey—and an account of a country busy remaking itself.
Author : Amy Stewart
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 10,87 MB
Release : 2005-03-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 1565126556
"You know a book is good when you actually welcome one of those howling days of wind and sleet that makes going out next to impossible." —The New York Times In The Earth Moved, Amy Stewart takes us on a journey through the underground world and introduces us to one of its most amazing denizens. The earthworm may be small, spineless, and blind, but its impact on the ecosystem is profound. It ploughs the soil, fights plant diseases, cleans up pollution, and turns ordinary dirt into fertile land. Who knew? In her witty, offbeat style, Stewart shows that much depends on the actions of the lowly worm. Charles Darwin devoted his last years to the meticulous study of these creatures, praising their remarkable abilities. With the august scientist as her inspiration, Stewart investigates the worm's subterranean realm, talks to oligochaetologists—the unsung heroes of earthworm science—who have devoted their lives to unearthing the complex life beneath our feet, and observes the thousands of worms in her own garden. From the legendary giant Australian worm that stretches to ten feet in length to the modest nightcrawler that wormed its way into the heart of Darwin's last book to the energetic red wigglers in Stewart's compost bin, The Earth Moved gives worms their due and exposes their hidden and extraordinary universe. This book is for all of us who appreciate Mother Nature's creatures, no matter how humble.
Author : Toshio Satou
Publisher : Yen Press LLC
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 12,71 MB
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 197531848X
ROUND TWO! READY...GO! Lloyd has emerged from his hellish training session with the demon lord with an ounce of much-needed confidence. His next challenge is participating in the martial arts tournament that will select the next leader of the Ascorbic Domain. Much to Allan’s chagrin, and despite the prayers he’s offered to the heavens, the enemy forces have concluded that he is their top fighter. It’s shaping up to be a match between two “extraordinary” fighters—one with no real confidence in his abilities and the other with no skills to speak of!
Author : Eric Spitz
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 41,92 MB
Release : 2003-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0595287417
The Earth Moved is a novel about an earth-altering event. An underwater nuclear test in China is of such a magnitude that the actual core of the earth is affected. All power and telephone connections fail worldwide. Michael is a middle-aged lawyer living in Chappaqua, N.Y. Alone, his wife in Florida, he and his neighbors, Judy and Jim join forces in coping in a suburb without electricity or communications. In Michael's home, they reveal problems and insecurities about themselves never faced before. The neighbors' marriage problems surface and a new attraction begins between Michael and Judy. Two more couples join them and together they try to survive in a new environment. Michael and his guests now face searing truths about their lives, their pasts, and their relationships as they face an uncertain future.
Author : Bill Bryson
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 43,69 MB
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 038567452X
When an old friend asked him to write a weekly dispatch from New Hampshire for the Mail on Sunday's Night and Day magazine, Bill Bryson firmly turned him down. So firm was he, in fact, that gathered here are nineteen months' worth of his popular columns about the strangest of phenomena -- the American way of life.Whether discussing the dazzling efficiency of the garbage disposal unit, the mind-boggling plethora of methods by which to shop, the exoticism of having your groceries bagged for you, or the jaw-slackening direness of American TV, Bill Bryson brings his inimitable brand of bemused wit to bear on the world's richest and craziest country.