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Author : John Vogel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780758100023
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 ( download)
Download or read book This Happened in the Hills of Kentucky written by John Vogel and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cassie Chambers
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 1984818937
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)
Download or read book Hill Women written by Cassie Chambers and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After rising from poverty to earn two Ivy League degrees, an Appalachian lawyer pays tribute to the strong “hill women” who raised and inspired her, and whose values have the potential to rejuvenate a struggling region. “Destined to be compared to Hillbilly Elegy and Educated.”—BookPage (starred review) “A gritty, warm love letter to Appalachian communities and the resourceful women who lead them.”—Slate Nestled in the Appalachian mountains, Owsley County, Kentucky, is one of the poorest places in the country. Buildings are crumbling as tobacco farming and coal mining decline. But strong women find creative ways to subsist in the hills. Through the women who raised her, Cassie Chambers traces her path out of and back into the Kentucky mountains. Chambers’s Granny was a child bride who rose before dawn every morning to raise seven children. Granny’s daughter, Ruth—the hardest-working tobacco farmer in the county—stayed on the family farm, while Wilma—the sixth child—became the first in the family to graduate from high school. Married at nineteen and pregnant with Cassie a few months later, Wilma beat the odds to finish college. She raised her daughter to think she could move mountains, like the ones that kept her safe but also isolated from the larger world. Cassie would spend much of her childhood with Granny and Ruth in the hills of Owsley County. With her “hill women” values guiding her, she went on to graduate from Harvard Law. But while the Ivy League gave her opportunities, its privileged world felt far from her reality, and she moved home to help rural Kentucky women by providing free legal services. Appalachian women face issues from domestic violence to the opioid crisis, but they are also keeping their towns together in the face of a system that continually fails them. With nuance and heart, Chambers breaks down the myth of the hillbilly and illuminates a region whose poor communities, especially women, can lead it into the future.
Author : John Pearce
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813118741
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (187 download)
Download or read book Days of Darkness written by John Pearce and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1994-11-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Among the darkest corners of Kentucky’s past are the grisly feuds that tore apart the hills of Eastern Kentucky from the late nineteenth century until well into the twentieth. Now, from the tangled threads of conflicting testimony, John Ed Pearce, Kentucky’s best known journalist, weaves engrossing accounts of six of the most notorior accounts to uncover what really happened and why. His story of those days of darkness brings to light new evidence, questions commonly held beliefs about the feuds, and us and long-running feuds—those in Breathitt, Clay Harlan, Perry, Pike, and Rowan counties. What caused the feuds that left Kentucky with its lingering reputation for violence? Who were the feudists, and what forces—social, political, financial—hurled them at each other? Did Big Jim Howard really kill Governor William Goebel? Did Joe Eversole die trying to protect small mountain landowners from ruthless Eastern mineral exploiters? Did the Hatfield-McCoy fight start over a hog? For years, Pearce has interviewed descendants of feuding families and examined skimpy court records and often fictional newspapeputs to rest some of the more popular legends.
Author : Kim Michele Richardson
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1492671533
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (926 download)
Download or read book The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek written by Kim Michele Richardson and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RECOMMENDED BY DOLLY PARTON IN PEOPLE MAGAZINE! A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A USA TODAY BESTSELLER A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER The bestselling historical fiction novel from Kim Michele Richardson, this is a novel following Cussy Mary, a packhorse librarian and her quest to bring books to the Appalachian community she loves, perfect for readers of William Kent Kreuger and Lisa Wingate. The perfect addition to your next book club! The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything—everything except books, that is. Thanks to Roosevelt's Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome's got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carter. Cussy's not only a book woman, however, she's also the last of her kind, her skin a shade of blue unlike most anyone else. Not everyone is keen on Cussy's family or the Library Project, and a Blue is often blamed for any whiff of trouble. If Cussy wants to bring the joy of books to the hill folks, she's going to have to confront prejudice as old as the Appalachias and suspicion as deep as the holler. Inspired by the true blue-skinned people of Kentucky and the brave and dedicated Kentucky Pack Horse library service of the 1930s, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek is a story of raw courage, fierce strength, and one woman's belief that books can carry us anywhere—even back home. Look for The Book Woman's Daughter, the new novel from Kim Michele Richardson, out now! Other Bestselling Historical Fiction from Sourcebooks Landmark: The Mystery of Mrs. Christie by Marie Benedict The Engineer's Wife by Tracey Enerson Wood Sold on a Monday by Kristina McMorris
Author : Chris Offutt
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802158420
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Killing Hills written by Chris Offutt and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A veteran on leave investigates a murder in his Kentucky backwoods hometown in this Appalachian noir by the acclaimed author of Country Dark. Mick Hardin, a combat veteran and Army CID agent, is home on a leave to be with his pregnant wife—but they aren’t getting along. His sister, newly risen to sheriff, has just landed her first murder investigation—but local politicians are pushing for someone else to take the case. Maybe they think she can’t handle it. Or maybe their concerns run deeper. With his experience and knowledge of the area, Mick is well-suited to help his sister investigate while staying under the radar. Now he’s dodging calls from his commanding officer as he delves into the dangerous rivalries lurking beneath the surface of his fiercely private hometown. And he needs to talk to his wife. The Killing Hills is a novel of betrayal within and between the clans that populate the hollers—and the way it so often shades into violence. Chris Offutt has delivered a dark, witty, and absolutely compelling novel of murder and honor, with an investigator-hero unlike any in fiction.
Author : Abir Mukherjee
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 164313745X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)
Download or read book The Shadows of Men written by Abir Mukherjee and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning crime novelist Abir Mukherjee is back with another brilliant mystery featuring police detective Captain Sam Wyndham and Sergeant Surrender-Not Banerjee, set in 1920s Calcutta. Calcutta, 1923 When a Hindu theologian is found murdered in his home, the city is on the brink of all-out religious war. Can the officers of the Imperial Police Force—Captain Sam Wyndham and Sergeant “Surrender-Not” Banerjee—track down those responsible in time to stop a bloodbath? Set at a time of heightened political tension, beginning in atmospheric Calcutta and taking the detectives all the way to bustling Bombay, the latest instalment in this remarkable series presents Wyndham and Banerjee with an unprecedented challenge. Will this be the case that finally drives them apart?
Author : J D Vance
Publisher : Harper Large Print
ISBN 13 : 9780063438354
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (383 download)
Download or read book Hillbilly Elegy written by J D Vance and published by Harper Large Print. This book was released on 2024-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hillbilly Elegy recounts J.D. Vance's powerful origin story... From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate now serving as a U.S. Senator from Ohio and the Republican Vice Presidential candidate for the 2024 election, an incisive 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. THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "You will not read a more important book about America this year."--The Economist "A riveting book."--The Wall Street Journal "Essential reading."--David Brooks, New York Times Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis--that of white working-class Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for more than forty years, has been reported 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 one of their grandchildren would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that J.D.'s grandparents, aunt, uncle, and, most of all, his mother struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, never fully escaping the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. With piercing honesty, Vance shows how he himself still carries around the demons of his 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.
Author : Chris Offutt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439129991
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book The Good Brother written by Chris Offutt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the critically acclaimed author of the collection Kentucky Straight and memoir My Father the Pornographer, The Good Brother is the finely crafted debut novel from a talent the New York Times calls “a fierce writer”. Virgil Caudill has never gone looking for trouble, but this time he's got no choice—his hell-raising brother Boyd has been murdered. Everyone knows who did it, and in the hills of Kentucky, tradition won’t let a murder go unavenged. No matter which way he chooses, Virgil will lose. The Good Brother is the story of a man’s struggle to find his real self in the wake of an impossible choice. Traversing the American landscape from the hollows of Eastern Kentucky to the plains of Montana, Offutt explores the hunger for belonging that drives our most passionate beliefs, and in the process shows himself to be one of our most powerful storytellers.
Author : Jojo Moyes
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399562508
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)
Download or read book The Giver of Stars written by Jojo Moyes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK “A great narrative about personal strength and really captures how books bring communities together.” —Reese Witherspoon From the author of the forthcoming Someone Else’s Shoes, a breathtaking story of five extraordinary women and their remarkable journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond in Depression-era America Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve, hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. So when a call goes out for a team of women to deliver books as part of Eleanor Roosevelt’s new traveling library, Alice signs on enthusiastically. The leader, and soon Alice's greatest ally, is Margery, a smart-talking, self-sufficient woman who's never asked a man's permission for anything. They will be joined by three other singular women who become known as the Packhorse Librarians of Kentucky. What happens to them--and to the men they love--becomes an unforgettable drama of loyalty, justice, humanity, and passion. These heroic women refuse to be cowed by men or by convention. And though they face all kinds of dangers in a landscape that is at times breathtakingly beautiful, at others brutal, they’re committed to their job: bringing books to people who have never had any, arming them with facts that will change their lives. Based on a true story rooted in America’s past, The Giver of Stars is unparalleled in its scope and epic in its storytelling. Funny, heartbreaking, enthralling, it is destined to become a modern classic--a richly rewarding novel of women’s friendship, of true love, and of what happens when we reach beyond our grasp for the great beyond.
Author : Charles Gustavus Mutzenberg
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Kentucky's Famous Feuds and Tragedies written by Charles Gustavus Mutzenberg and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Kentucky's Famous Feuds and Tragedies: Authentic History of the World Renowned Vendettas of the Dark and Bloody Ground," is an historical book by Charles Gustavus Mutzenberg. The author begins his retelling of feud stories by giving credit to the "culture of fighting the Indians" in the late 1700s for toughening up frontiersmen and making them quick to go to arms. It is a book on the subject of feudal wars with facts and exemplary descriptions.
Author : Troy Taylor
Publisher : Whitechapel Productions
ISBN 13 : 9781892523990
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (239 download)
Download or read book American Hauntings written by Troy Taylor and published by Whitechapel Productions. This book was released on 2017-04-13 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the mediums of Spiritualism's golden age to the ghost hunters of the modern era, Taylor shines a light on the phantasms and frauds of the past, the first researchers who dared to investigate the unknown, and the stories and events that galvanized the pubic and created the paranormal field that we know today.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 894 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Defender Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Miss J. J. Thompson (of Brookville)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book A History of the Feud Between the Hill and Evans Parties of Garrard County, Ky written by Miss J. J. Thompson (of Brookville) and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sam Antrim Kane
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 147594344X
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (759 download)
Download or read book Why Can't They See Me? written by Sam Antrim Kane and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AuthorSam Antrim Kane was born the middle of two sisters. He has a sweet loving wife, five children and five grandchildren. In 2004 the family lost uncles and aunts to cancer, cousins, nephews, and nieces to drunk driving and suicide. Sam started writing a "Family Ministries" letter to help families realize they are not alone. He felt the family should have been there to help comfort and support those that were hurting. God continues to inspire him to write these letters each month and mail them out to over 100 family and friends. After his sister Jan died he began writing this book about her and all the struggles, hardships, and bullying that she went through. Everyone no matter who you are just wants to be seen. There is lots of deceptions people use just to be seen such as education, drugs, alcohol, and money.
Author : Leonard W. Roberts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813132112
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (321 download)
Download or read book South of Hell-fer-Sartin : Kentucky mountain folk tales written by Leonard W. Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : University of Kentucky. Libraries
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bulletin written by University of Kentucky. Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Megan Miranda
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1668035081
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (68 download)
Download or read book The Girl from Widow Hills written by Megan Miranda and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the New York Times bestselling author of "The Last House Guest"--a Reese's Book Club pick--comes a riveting new novel of psychological suspense about a young woman plagued by night terrors after a childhood trauma who wakes one evening to find a corpse at her feet"--
