Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
Gone With The Hickory Stick
Download Gone With The Hickory Stick full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Gone With The Hickory Stick ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Book Synopsis Hickory Stick by : Douglas M. Cooper
Download or read book Hickory Stick written by Douglas M. Cooper and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2004-08-18 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hickory Stic is a novel about revenge deferred. It concerns Leonard Merygates, a shy, retired highschool administrator who feels that had corporal punishment been sustained in America's public school systems, the country would not be in the condition it is today. Children would respect adults; adults would embrace social and cultural values beyond material wealth, and the streets of Hamilton City (USA) would be a lot safer. Hickory Stick also concerns the adventures of HCPD homicide detectives, Walter T. Fleischmann and Willis Loveday, who must find the vigilante that is ridding Hamilton City of its social detritus before he kills someone else.
Book Synopsis To the Tune of a Hickory Stick by : Robbie Branscum
Download or read book To the Tune of a Hickory Stick written by Robbie Branscum and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1978 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mistreated by their cruel uncle, a backwoods brother and sister find refuge in the schoolhouse where they spend the winter hiding with their teacher and senile grandfather.
Download or read book Wintering written by Katherine May and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! AS HEARD ON NPR MORNING EDITION AND ON BEING WITH KRISTA TIPPETT “Katherine May opens up exactly what I and so many need to hear but haven't known how to name.” —Krista Tippett, On Being “Every bit as beautiful and healing as the season itself. . . . This is truly a beautiful book.” —Elizabeth Gilbert "Proves that there is grace in letting go, stepping back and giving yourself time to repair in the dark...May is a clear-eyed observer and her language is steady, honest and accurate—capturing the sense, the beauty and the latent power of our resting landscapes." —Wall Street Journal An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knocks us down. Sometimes you slip through the cracks: unforeseen circumstances like an abrupt illness, the death of a loved one, a break up, or a job loss can derail a life. These periods of dislocation can be lonely and unexpected. For May, her husband fell ill, her son stopped attending school, and her own medical issues led her to leave a demanding job. Wintering explores how she not only endured this painful time, but embraced the singular opportunities it offered. A moving personal narrative shot through with lessons from literature, mythology, and the natural world, May's story offers instruction on the transformative power of rest and retreat. Illumination emerges from many sources: solstice celebrations and dormice hibernation, C.S. Lewis and Sylvia Plath, swimming in icy waters and sailing arctic seas. Ultimately Wintering invites us to change how we relate to our own fallow times. May models an active acceptance of sadness and finds nourishment in deep retreat, joy in the hushed beauty of winter, and encouragement in understanding life as cyclical, not linear. A secular mystic, May forms a guiding philosophy for transforming the hardships that arise before the ushering in of a new season.
Book Synopsis The Book Lover's Guide to Florida by : Kevin M. McCarthy
Download or read book The Book Lover's Guide to Florida written by Kevin M. McCarthy and published by Pineapple Press Inc. This book was released on 1992 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here is the book lover's literary tour of Florida, an exhaustive survey of writers, books, and literary sites in every part of the state. The state is divided into ten areas and each one is described from a literary point of view. You will learn what authors lived in or wrote about a place, which books describe the place, what important movies were made there, even the literary trivia which the true Florida book lover will want to know. You can use the book as a travel guide to a new way to see the state, as an armchair guide to a better understanding of our literary heritage, or as a guide to what to read next time you head to a bookstore or library."--Publisher.
Book Synopsis Reading, Writing, and the Hickory Stick by : Irwin A. Hyman
Download or read book Reading, Writing, and the Hickory Stick written by Irwin A. Hyman and published by Free Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Spare the rod and spoil the child". Is there a point at which discipline crosses the line and becomes abuse? Dr. Hyman, drawing on an extensive body of research, argues that our society may actually be encouraging teachers and school administrators to perpetuate corporal punishment.
Download or read book Mill Town written by Kerri Arsenault and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2021 Rachel Carson Environmental Book Award Winner of the 2021 Maine Literary Award for Nonfiction Finalist for the 2020 National Book Critics John Leonard Prize for Best First Book Finalist for the 2021 New England Society Book Award Finalist for the 2021 New England Independent Booksellers Association Award A New York Times Editors’ Choice and Chicago Tribune top book for 2020 “Mill Town is the book of a lifetime; a deep-drilling, quick-moving, heartbreaking story. Scathing and tender, it lifts often into poetry, but comes down hard when it must. Through it all runs the river: sluggish, ancient, dangerous, freighted with America’s sins.” —Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland Kerri Arsenault grew up in the small, rural town of Mexico, Maine, where for over 100 years the community orbited around a paper mill that provided jobs for nearly everyone in town, including three generations of her family. Kerri had a happy childhood, but years after she moved away, she realized the price she paid for that childhood. The price everyone paid. The mill, while providing the social and economic cohesion for the community, also contributed to its demise. Mill Town is a book of narrative nonfiction, investigative memoir, and cultural criticism that illuminates the rise and collapse of the working-class, the hazards of loving and leaving home, and the ambiguous nature of toxics and disease with the central question; Who or what are we willing to sacrifice for our own survival?
Book Synopsis Miss Hickory by : Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Download or read book Miss Hickory written by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hope on the Inside by : Marie Bostwick
Download or read book Hope on the Inside written by Marie Bostwick and published by Kensington. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compelling, heartwarming novel from New York Times bestselling author Marie Bostwick, one woman finds new purpose in a new phase of life . . . “Whatever comes your way, find the happiness in it.” Hope Carpenter received that advice from her mother decades ago. Now, with their four children grown, Hope and her husband, Rick, are suddenly facing an uncertain future, after a forced retirement strains both their savings and their marriage. Seeking inspiration and a financial boost, Hope gets a job teaching crafts to inmates at a local women’s prison. At first, Hope feels foolish and irrelevant, struggling to relate to women whose choices seem so different from her own. But with time, and the encouragement of the prison chaplain, she begins to discover common ground with the inmates, in their worries about their children and families, their fear of having failed those who need them. Just like her, they want to make something of themselves, but believe it might be impossible. Embarking on an ambitious quilting project, Hope and her students begin to bond. Together, piece by piece, they learn to defy expectations—their own and others’—and to see that it’s never too late to stitch together a life that, even in its imperfections, is both surprising and beautiful. Praise for Marie Bostwick and Her Novels “Reading Marie Bostwick is like wrapping yourself up in a warm, hand-crafted quilt.” —Debbie Macomber, #1 New York Times bestselling author “It takes great skill to write a heartwarming story about grief, and Bostwick proves she is up to the task. . . . A great addition to any women’s-fiction collection.” —Booklist “Beautiful, thought-provoking, tragic and redeeming, The Second Sister is a feel-good goldmine.” —USAToday.com
Book Synopsis Lake Waramaug Observed by : Charles Raskob Robinson
Download or read book Lake Waramaug Observed written by Charles Raskob Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As revealed in the subtitle, this book is comprised of three parts. Part I, the Present, shows the diverse beauty of Lake Waramaug in the four seasons as seen in thirty-five paintings of the same scene, executed under different conditions over two years. All but two of the works (both are nocturnes) were painted on location and many were executed in the artist's Portable Sketching Capsule during frigid or inclement weather. Each painting tells its own story and is accompanied by selected observations made in the artist's log book during the painting process. Part II, the Past, is a fascinating long-view of the Lake's history. It is humbling to see the present in the larger perspective of the past that (a) goes back to the Lake's probable beginning eons ago when continents collided and then (b) fast forwards through the Ice Ages that sculpted the Lake, the Five Mass Extinctions which killed off over 75% of all species living on Earth at that those times and, finally, (c) relates the retreat of the current Ice Sheet from Connecticut, the return of flora and fauna and the arrival of humans - first the Native Americans and then European settlers. Although Lake Waramaug is the special place we have come to know and love, the threat of the Sixth Mass Extinction looms. Finally, Part III, the Future, reviews the noble efforts and successes in recent decades by farsighted leading individuals and organizations to preserve and protect the Lake and this part of the country so future generations of all life forms will survive and continue to enjoy them.
Download or read book Adventure written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Works of Booth Tarkington by : Booth Tarkington
Download or read book The Works of Booth Tarkington written by Booth Tarkington and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Pageant of Shadows by : Louise Cabral
Download or read book A Pageant of Shadows written by Louise Cabral and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2004-10-19 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the plague and its ravaging hold upon the city of London, the story follows the adventures of Catherine Constanza, beautiful, young, and suddenly bereft of all she knows. Catherine perseveres through her misfortune, and soon begins a star-crossed love affair with Shakespeare; the excitement and deceit at the Globe Theatre, the devastation and degradation of Newgate Prison, the glitter and intrigue in the court of King James I, and the harsh reality of the Jamestown Colony follow. Rich with Elizabethan flavoring, A Pageant of Shadows is a saga full of action while staying within the framework of its era in tone, in character, and in the beautiful flowing language of the time. Events, costumes, and locations vividly and accurately detail the life of England in the seventeenth century. And there has always been a hunger for people to transplant themselves into another world, another time, another love affair....
Book Synopsis The Unlikely Making of a Mennonite Minister by : Herman Myers
Download or read book The Unlikely Making of a Mennonite Minister written by Herman Myers and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Unlikely Making of A Mennonite Minister," is the autobiography of Herman Myers. It is the account of his journey through life from a Pennsylvania farmboy to serving as a Mennonite minister for 52 years. A high school drop-out, growing up without knowledge of who Mennonites were, he followed an early inner call to ministry. Through many twists and turns he responded to God's call and was ordained to serve six Mennonite churches over a period of 52 years. He retired from pastoral ministry in 2010.
Download or read book The Midlander written by Booth Tarkington and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mid-uest Babbitt, whose dream bring him unhappiness.
Download or read book The Midlander written by Booth Tarkington and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-12 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Midlander is the final part of Booth Tarkington's Growth trilogy. It concludes the story of a family in a crumbling town, and in particular, of two brothers and their troubled relationship.
Book Synopsis An Interesting Explanation and Other Stories by : Basil F. Johnson
Download or read book An Interesting Explanation and Other Stories written by Basil F. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Gone but Not Forgotten by : William E. Austin
Download or read book Gone but Not Forgotten written by William E. Austin and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-12-08 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these tough economical times it has been a popular assessment to try to compare this recession to the Great Depression. The stock market crash of 1929 led the way and by the time dust storms had turned the Farm Belt into the Dust Bowl hundreds of thousands of Americans were hungry, homeless, and barely alive. At the end of it all was a war that no one wanted, but everyone was willing to fight. Hitler and his Germans to the east and The Japanese Imperial Army to the west gave Americans a common theme that brought them together to bring this nation from the depths of poverty to the greatest nation on earth. Gone But Not Forgotten is a true story about a man who lived through it all. The starvation and destitute of living with an alcoholic father in The Depression; the terror and inhumane conditions of World War II; the battles with alcohol and malaria that sent his world spiraling out of control; and finally finding peace and salvation through his creator. To live through all of this and still be able to relive these stories at eighty-nine is not only a blessing but is also a miracle. When I first began writing this story I asked my dad if this is going to be a religious book. Before he could answer I realized that any book about my father would have to be a religious book.
