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Hardscrabble

Author : Sandra Dallas
Publisher : Sleeping Bear Press
ISBN 13 : 1534122915
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Hardscrabble written by Sandra Dallas and published by Sleeping Bear Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2019 Wrangler Award for Outstanding Juvenile Book Winner 2019 Spur Award - Western Writer's of America Finalist In 1910, after losing their farm in Iowa, the Martin family moves to Mingo, Colorado, to start anew. The US government offers 320 acres of land free to homesteaders. All they have to do is live on the land for five years and farm it. So twelve-year-old Belle Martin, along with her mother and six siblings, moves west to join her father. But while the land is free, farming is difficult and it's a hardscrabble life. Natural disasters such as storms and locusts threaten their success. And heartbreaking losses challenge their faith. Do the Martins have what it takes to not only survive but thrive in their new prairie life? Told through the eyes of a twelve-year-old girl, this new middle-grade novel from New York Times-bestselling author Sandra Dallas explores one family's homesteading efforts in 1900s Colorado.

Hard Scrabble

Author : John Graves
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477309608
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Hard Scrabble written by John Graves and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two-time National Book Award finalist and author of Goodbye to a River ruminates over what an “unmagnificent” Texas homestead has meant to him. “A kind of homemade book—imperfect like a handmade thing, a prize. It’s a galloping, spontaneous book, on occasion within whooping distance of that greatest and sweetest of country books, Ivan Turgenev’s A Sportsman’s Notebook.” —Edward Hoagland, The New York Times Book Review “His subjects are trees and brush, hired help, fences, soil, armadillos and other wildlife, flood and drought, local history, sheep and goats . . . and they come to us reshaped and reenlivened by his agreeably individual (and sometimes cranky) notions.” —The New Yorker “If Goodbye to a River was in some sense Graves’s Odyssey, this book is his [version of Hesiod’s] Works and Days. It is partly a book about work, partly a book about nature, but mostly a book about belonging. In the end John Graves has learned to belong to his patch of land so thoroughly that at moments he can sense in himself a unity with medieval peasants and Sumerian farmers, working with their fields by the Tigris.” —Larry McMurtry, The Washington Post Book World “Hard Scrabble is hard pastoral of the kind we have learned to recognize in Wordsworth, Frost, Hemingway, and Faulkner. It celebrates life in accommodation with a piece of the ‘given’ creation, a recalcitrant four hundred or so acres of Texas cedar brake, old field, and creek bottom, which will require of any genuine resident all the character he can muster.” —Southwest Review

The Sisters from Hardscrabble Bay

Author : Beverly Jensen
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 014311929X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Sisters from Hardscrabble Bay written by Beverly Jensen and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published posthumously through the efforts of Beverly Jensen's many supporters, this widely acclaimed novel-in-stories offers a richly textured portrait of a bygone era. In 1916, Idella and Avis Hillock live on the edge of a chilly bluff in New Brunswick-a barren world of potato farms and lobster traps, rough men, hard work, and baffling beauty. From "Gone," the heartbreaking account of the crisis that changed their lives forever, through "Wake," a darkly comic saga of funeral plans gone awry, The Sisters from Hardscrabble Bay beautifully charts the trajectory of the Hillocks' divergent lives against the background of a lost slice of Americana.

Harder Than Hardscrabble

Author : Thad Sitton
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780292702387
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Harder Than Hardscrabble written by Thad Sitton and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until the U.S. Army claimed 300-plus square miles of hardscrabble land to build Fort Hood in 1942, small communities like Antelope, Pidcoke, Stampede, and Okay scratched out a living by growing cotton and ranching goats on the less fertile edges of the Texas Hill Country. While a few farmers took jobs with construction crews at Fort Hood to remain in the area, almost the entire population—and with it, an entire segment of rural culture—disappeared into the rest of the state. In Harder than Hardscrabble, oral historian Thad Sitton collects the colorful and frequently touching stories of the pre-Fort Hood residents to give a firsthand view of Texas farming life before World War II. Accessible to the general reader and historian alike, the stories recount in vivid detail the hardships and satisfactions of daily life in the Texas countryside. They describe agricultural practices and livestock handling as well as life beyond work: traveling peddlers, visits to towns, country schools, medical practices, and fox hunting. The anecdotes capture a fast-disappearing rural society—a world very different from today's urban Texas.

Everything Scrabble

Author : Joe Edley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416561757
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Everything Scrabble written by Joe Edley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly revised with updated new strategies and words, the classic how-to guide to one of the most popular board games of all time. First introduced to the public in the mid 1950s, Scrabble has gone on to be one of the biggest selling board games in history—and is currently gaining legions of new fans in the online world. Offering relevant game tips for both the beginner and the seasoned pro, Everything Scrabble includes basic board strategies, tips for utilizing the letter "Q" (with and without the letter "U"), the latest in high scoring words, a complete list of two-letter words that can to increase players’ scoring averages by thirty to forty points—and much more. Featuring a complete history of the game, this extensively illustrated guidebook covers all facets of the game and worldwide Scrabble culture—including tournaments, champions, and rules—and is a must have for every serious fan.

The Hard-scrabble of Elm Island

Author : Elijah Kellogg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hard-scrabble of Elm Island written by Elijah Kellogg and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hardscrabble Hill

Author : Jeff Davis
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557314240
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (573 download)

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Download or read book Hardscrabble Hill written by Jeff Davis and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-03-03 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardscrabble Hill is the story of Adele Susannah Abbott, a white colonial house perched on the bank of the Penobscot River, and the impact the house had on Adele's life. It was a beacon of hope in her childhood, a refuge from the storm of her adolescence, a citadel of her adult life, and a safe haven in her waning years.Set in the town of Jonasport, Maine, at the turn of the century, Hardscrabble Hill follows the lives of Adele and the inhabitants of Jonasport who reached out to one another while trying to conceal the dark secrets of their individual lives. It is the story of a people who lived in a time when 'neighbors were friends and community mattered'

Hard Scrabble

Author : John Graves
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477309357
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Hard Scrabble written by John Graves and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A kind of homemade book—imperfect like a handmade thing, a prize. It’s a galloping, spontaneous book, on occasion within whooping distance of that greatest and sweetest of country books, Ivan Turgenev’s A Sportsman’s Notebook.” —Edward Hoagland, New York Times Book Review “His subjects are trees and brush, hired help, fences, soil, armadillos and other wildlife, flood and drought, local history, sheep and goats . . . and they come to us reshaped and reenlivened by his agreeably individual (and sometimes cranky) notions.” —New Yorker “If Goodbye to a River was in some sense Graves’s Odyssey, this book is his [version of Hesiod’s] Works and Days. It is partly a book about work, partly a book about nature, but mostly a book about belonging. In the end John Graves has learned to belong to his patch of land so thoroughly that at moments he can sense in himself a unity with medieval peasants and Sumerian farmers, working with their fields by the Tigris.” —Larry McMurtry, Washington Post Book World “Hard Scrabble is hard pastoral of the kind we have learned to recognize in Wordsworth, Frost, Hemingway, and Faulkner. It celebrates life in accommodation with a piece of the ‘given’ creation, a recalcitrant four hundred or so acres of Texas cedar brake, old field, and creek bottom, which will require of any genuine resident all the character he can muster.” —Southwest Review

Guardian Angels

Author : Joseph A. Citro
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584650027
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Guardian Angels written by Joseph A. Citro and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1999 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The terrifying companion to Citro's Shadow Child.

Hardscrabble Road

Author : George Weinstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781960562036
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Hardscrabble Road written by George Weinstein and published by . This book was released on 2023-10-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The entire MacLeod clan is haunted by secrets--and young Roger "Bud" MacLeod doesn't realize he carries the biggest secret of all. Growing up poor in Depression-era South Georgia is hard enough, but Bud is also cursed with a stutter and a birthmark that disfigures his face. His hateful father and amoral mother make life worse still, despite his brothers' efforts to shield him.To survive, Bud must discover his strengths and confront the sins of his parents. First, though, he'll need to grasp his own truth: that he can't embrace his future until he comes to terms with his past.

Hard Scrabble Zone 3

Author : Jeremy Reading
Publisher : Jeremy Reading
ISBN 13 : 1427641366
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (276 download)

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Download or read book Hard Scrabble Zone 3 written by Jeremy Reading and published by Jeremy Reading. This book was released on 2009 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hard Scrabble to Hallelujah, Volume 1: Bayou Terrebonne

Author : Christopher Everette Cenac
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496811089
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Hard Scrabble to Hallelujah, Volume 1: Bayou Terrebonne written by Christopher Everette Cenac and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents the first time that the known history and a significant amount of new information has been compiled into a single written record about one of the most important eras in the south central coastal bayou parish of Terrebonne. The book makes clear the unique geographical, topographical, and sociological conditions that beckoned the first settlers who developed the large estates that became sugar plantations. This first of four planned volumes chronicles details about founders and their estates along Bayou Terrebonne from its headwaters in the northern civil parish to its most southerly reaches near the Gulf of Mexico. Those and other parish plantations along important waterways contributed significantly to the dominance of King Sugar in Louisiana. The rich soils and opportunities of the area became the overriding reason many well-heeled Anglo-Americans moved there to join Francophone locals in cultivating the crop. From that nineteenth century period up to the twentieth century's side effects of World Wars I and II, Hard Scrabble to Hallelujah, Volume I: Bayou Terrebonne describes important yet widely unrecognized geography and history. Today, cultural and physical legacies such as ex-slave-founded communities and place names endure from the time that the planter society was the driving economic force of this fascinating region.

Goodbye to a River

Author : John Graves
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307773353
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Goodbye to a River written by John Graves and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-11-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the Brazos River in north-central Texas. For John Graves, this project meant that if the stream’s regimen was thus changed, the beautiful and sometimes brutal surrounding countryside would also change, as would the lives of the people whose rugged ancestors had eked out an existence there. Graves therefore decided to visit that stretch of the river, which he had known intimately as a youth. Goodbye to a River is his account of that farewell canoe voyage. As he braves rapids and fatigue and the fickle autumn weather, he muses upon old blood feuds of the region and violent skirmishes with native tribes, and retells wild stories of courage and cowardice and deceit that shaped both the river’s people and the land during frontier times and later. Nearly half a century after its initial publication, Goodbye to a River is a true American classic, a vivid narrative about an exciting journey and a powerful tribute to a vanishing way of life and its ever-changing natural environment.

Shadow Child

Author : Joseph A. Citro
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9780874518849
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book Shadow Child written by Joseph A. Citro and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1998 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fact and fiction combine in a classic that scared Vermonters out of the woods.

The Round Barn

Author : Suzi Wizowaty
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584653769
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (537 download)

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Download or read book The Round Barn written by Suzi Wizowaty and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2004-02 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinarily accomplished first novel of desires postponed, thwarted, and sometimes fulfilled.

Hardscrabble

Author : Donna E. Williams
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459708059
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book Hardscrabble written by Donna E. Williams and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2013-07-13 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of deception and adversity, Hardscrabble tells how unscrupulous politicians, emigration agents, and philanthropists lured impoverished emigrants to farm the Muskoka backwoods in the 1870s. What these new settlers weren't told was that their land was situated on the rocky Canadian Shield.

Hardscrabble Road

Author : Jane Haddam
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1429904968
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Hardscrabble Road written by Jane Haddam and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a local Philadelphia radio host known for his incendiary right-wing tirades is arrested for possession of illegal prescription drugs, the incident sets into motion a series of events that leads ultimately to the death of a homeless man. In the complicated mix is the local Benedictine monastery, a Nobel-prize-winning leftist academic, and a homeless advocacy group, among others. Now Gregor Demarkian, a retired F.B.I. agent, is hired by a local legal project to look into the circumstances surrounding the death of their former client--a task that leads Demarkian through a mirror-maze of motives and actors as he struggles to unravel a most complex puzzle before the killer strikes again.