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The World Through the Dime Store Door

Author : Aileen Kilgore Henderson
Publisher : University Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817320776
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The World Through the Dime Store Door written by Aileen Kilgore Henderson and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A coming-of-age memoir evoking farm, mining, and small-town life in Alabama's Tuscaloosa County as the world transitions from the Great Depression to World War II In the 1930s, the rural South was in the throes of the Great Depression. Farm life was monotonous and hard, but a timid yet curious teenager thought it worth recording. Aileen Kilgore Henderson kept a chronicle of her family's daily struggles in Tuscaloosa County alongside events in the wider world she gleaned from shortwave radio and the occasional newspaper. She wrote about Howard Hughes's round-the-world flight, her dreams of sitting on the patio of Shepheard's Hotel to watch Lawrence of Arabia ride in from the desert, and her horror at the rise to power in Germany of a bizarre politician named Adolf Hitler. Henderson longed to join the vast world beyond the farm, but feared leaving the refuge of her family and beloved animals. Yet, with her father's encouragement, she did leave, becoming a clerk in the Kress dime store in downtown Tuscaloosa. Despite long workdays and a lengthy bus commute, she continued to record her observations and experiences in her diary, for every day at the dime store was interesting and exciting for an observant young woman who found herself considering new ideas and different points of view. Drawing on her diary entries from the 1930s and early 1940s, Henderson recollects a time of sweeping change for Tuscaloosa and the South. The World through the Dime Store Door is a personal and engaging account of a Southern town and its environs in transition told through the eyes of a poor young woman with only a high school education but gifted with a lively mind and an openness to life.

Bloody Tuesday

Author : John M. Giggie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197766668
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (977 download)

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Download or read book Bloody Tuesday written by John M. Giggie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling work recovers a neglected episode in the Black community's long struggle for full citizenship when police and Klansmen stormed First African Baptist Church and brutalized over 600 unarmed protestors preparing to march for freedom. Bloody Tuesday, as Tuscaloosa residents called the day, is one of the most violent episodes in the civil rights movement.

The World Through Lace Curtained Windows

Author : Clarice J. Pugh
Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1602478287
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book The World Through Lace Curtained Windows written by Clarice J. Pugh and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2008-01-22 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The words 'mentally retarded' carry a sense of helplessness, hopelessness and fear. In The World Through Lace Curtained Windows, Clarice Pugh tells the story of how her parents faced this challenge when they chose to care for their retarded son at home. This is story of faith and trying to find God's purpose in a world of heartache and seemingly unanswered prayer, yet also a story of a family's love for their own. Covering the period of time from The Great Depression to the war in Vietnam, The World Through Lace Curtained Windows reaches out to those in every community, who every day have or currently are facing unique family challenges with courage and faith.

Stranger in Our Midst

Author : Sharon Travers
Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 161566792X
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Stranger in Our Midst written by Sharon Travers and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pastor Mike's ministry in the town of Oak Grove is full of joy and fellowship, ease and contentment, and delight in a congregation loaded with multiple personalities, quirks, and ideas. But late summer 1946 finds the peaceful, everyday life to which Mike is accustomed drastically changing when Andrew Baxter arrives in town bearing a truth that will turn the lives of many upside down. In Stranger in Our Midst, author Sharon Travers takes you along for the ride as storms brew in Oak Grove surrounding the stranger's mysterious purpose, the developing and complicated love of a young couple, and the secrets of the town's impetuous and elderly widow, who is convinced the Yankees are after her silverware. Follow the adventures as Stranger in Our Midst leaves you laughing, crying, and eager for more.

The Girl from Rat Row

Author : Evangelist Hazel Singleton
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1546208097
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book The Girl from Rat Row written by Evangelist Hazel Singleton and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In rural Georgia of the 1950s, Haley, a bootleggers daughter, begins her journey. Raised by two uneducated parents and working in cotton fields, Haley endures abuse, alcoholism, ridicule, and most glaringly, an environment where little love is ever shown. She is introduced to a former slave, Aunt Matilda, a woman with no children of her own, who raises Haley to love the Lord in spite of their present circumstances. In the 1960s, as a seventeen-year-old with two children out of wedlock, Haley attempts to escape the harsh realities of her past, only to have them follow her to New Hampshire. Drinking and partying to ease the pain becomes a way of life for her. Haley is finally forced to begin facing her inner demons and perceiving the call of God on her life. Witness the extraordinary journey of the girl from Rat Row in this harrowing tale of overcoming the worst of ones past to get to the best of ones future.

The Plum Thicket

Author : Janice Holt Giles
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813128313
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (283 download)

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Download or read book The Plum Thicket written by Janice Holt Giles and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1954 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Janice Holt Giles had a life before her marriage and writing career in Kentucky. Born in Altus, Arkansas, Giles spent many childhood summers visiting her grandparents there. After the success of her historical novel The Kentuckians in 1953, she planned to write a second frontier romance. But a visit to Altus caused her imagination to drift from Kentucky in 1780 to western Arkansas in 1913. At age forty-eight -- the same age as Giles at the writing of the novel -- the heroine Katie Rogers recalls her first visit alone to her grandparent's home in Stanwick, Arkansas. Eight-year-old Katie spends her summer climbing the huge mulberry tree and walking with her wise grandfather, a veteran of bloody Shiloh. She is fascinated, not frightened, by the grave of an unknown child in the nearby plum thicket. Throughout the visit Katie helps Aunt Maggie plan her wedding and looks forward to the three-day Confederate Reunion. But the Reunion -- and the summer -- end violently, as guilt, repression, and miscegenation are unearthed. "That summer was the end of a whole way of life," Katie realizes, for she can never again dwell in the paradise of childhood. In Katie Rogers, Giles voiced her own lament for "the beautiful and the unrecoverable past." To her publisher Giles wrote, "Out of my forty-odd years of living, much of whatever wisdom I have acquired has been distilled into this book." This new edition of The Plum Thicket gives Giles's many fans a powerful, moving glimpse into the mind and heart of this beloved author. Janice Holt Giles (1905-1979), author of nineteen books, lived and wrote near Knifley, Kentucky, for thirty-four years. Her biography is told in Janice Holt Giles: A Writer's Life.

Advances and Innovations in American Daily Life, 1600s-1930s

Author : Ernie Gross
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476608326
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Advances and Innovations in American Daily Life, 1600s-1930s written by Ernie Gross and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-10-09 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout its history, America has seen incremental improvements in the domestic and social lives of its citizens. Just for instance, Will K. Kellogg--who operated a Battle Creek, Michigan, sanitarium with his brother--developed a new crunchy breakfast cereal to serve in the sanitarium, and sold it to the nation by mail order. The business grew, revolutionizing American eating habits by replacing the traditional heavy, hot breakfast with cold cereals. This reference book is divided into these sections: Agriculture, Art and music, Business and finance, Clothing, Communications, Education, Energy, Entertainment, Food and drink, Health, Labor, Law, Manufacturing, Public service, Religion, Science, Shelter and domestic furnishing, Social welfare, Sports, and Transportation. Within each section the reader will find subsections detailing innovations and advances in that field--for example, Business and finance is made up of Accounting, Banking, Business machines, Exchanges, Hotels, Insurance, Lotteries, Merchandising, Money, Taxes, and Time keeping. This work describes the beginnings of many aspects of daily life in America, covering most innovations through approximately the 1930s. Dedicated to detailing the introduction of various advances or innovations, the book does not attempt to carry them through today.

Dead Between the Lines

Author : Denise Swanson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0451418883
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Dead Between the Lines written by Denise Swanson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opening an old-fashioned five-and-dime shop in her small Missouri hometown has been a great change for Devereaux “Dev” Sinclair. But when she hosts a reading group there, she learns that bad writing can mean life or death. To keep her new business in the black, Dev opens up her shop to local clubs. But in the first meeting of the Stepping Out Book Club, the speaker storms out after members attack his poetry’s sexism and scorn for small towns. Later that night, the poet’s body is found outside Dev’s store. Dev can’t afford for the murder to close her down, so she does a little stepping out of her own to investigate, with help from her two sexy suitors, Dr. Noah Underwood and Deputy U.S. Marshal Jake Del Vecchio. But when the killer threatens Dev, they will have to use every trick in the book to solve the case before she becomes the final chapter in this murder mystery.… Includes a sneak peek at the next Scumble River Mystery!

Lost Burlington, Vermont

Author : Bob Blanchard
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467152293
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Lost Burlington, Vermont written by Bob Blanchard and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-17 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Burlington was first settled over two centuries ago it has seen the establishment of a rich historic and architectural legacy, much of which has been lost. The Strong and State Theaters, St. Paul's Cathedral, Converse School, Cathedral High School, and a neighborhood lost to urban renewal are just of few of the landmarks that still live within the memories of many who grew up in the Burlington area. The industrial waterfront, the clubhouses of the Lake Champlain Yacht Club, and the Overlake Estate are now a distant memory. Local historian Robert Blanchard reveals the stories of how these and over sixty other lost treasures came to be built, their roles in the city's life, and how they met their end.

Crime Novels: Five Classic Thrillers 1961-1964 (LOA #370)

Author : Fredric Brown
Publisher : Library of America
ISBN 13 : 1598537415
Total Pages : 867 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Crime Novels: Five Classic Thrillers 1961-1964 (LOA #370) written by Fredric Brown and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 867 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1960s the masters of crime fiction expanded the genre’s literary and psychological possibilities with audacious new themes, forms, and subject matter—here are five of their finest works This is the first of two volumes gathering the best American crime fiction of the 1960s, nine novels of astonishing variety and inventiveness that pulse with the energies of that turbulent, transformative decade. In The Murderers (1961) by Fredric Brown, an out-of-work actor, hanging out with Beat drifters on the fringes of Hollywood, concocts a murder scheme that devolves into nightmare. This late work by a master in many genres is one of his darkest and most ingenious. Dan J. Marlowe’s The Name of the Game Is Death (1962) channels the inner life of a violent criminal who freely acknowledges the truth of a prison psychiatrist’s diagnosis: “Your values are not civilized values.” Written with unnerving emotional authenticity, the story hurtles toward an annihilating climax. Charles Williams drew on his experience in the merchant marine for his thriller Dead Calm (1963). A newlywed couple alone on a small yacht find themselves at the mercy of the mysterious survivor they have rescued from a sinking ship, in a suspenseful story that chillingly evokes the perils of the open ocean. In the beautifully told and sharply observant The Expendable Man (1963), Dorothy B. Hughes’s final masterpiece of suspense, a young man in the American Southwest runs afoul of racial assumptions after he picks up a hitchhiker who soon turns up dead. In twenty-four brilliantly constructed novels, Richard Stark (a pen name of Donald Westlake) charted the career of Parker, a hard-nosed professional thief, with rigorous clarity. The Score (1964), a stand-out in the series, finds Parker and his criminal associates hatching a plot to rob simultaneously all the jewelry stores, payroll offices, and banks in a remote Western mining town, only to come up against the human limits of even the most intricate planning. Volume features include an introduction by editor Geoffrey O'Brien (Hardboiled America), newly researched biographies of the writers and helpful notes, and an essay on textual selection.

Death Warrant

Author : Bryan Johnston
Publisher : CamCat Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 0744305330
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book Death Warrant written by Bryan Johnston and published by CamCat Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death Makes Great TV. Frankie Percival is cashing in her chips. To save her brother from financial ruin, Frankie—a single stage performer and mentalist who never made it big—agrees to be assassinated on the most popular television show on the planet: Death Warrant. Once she signs her life away, her memory is wiped clean of the agreement, leaving her with no idea she will soon be killed spectacularly for global entertainment. After years of working in low-rent theaters, Frankie prepares for the biggest performance of her life as her Death Warrant assassin closes in on her. Every person she encounters could be her killer. Every day could be her last. She could be a star, if only she lives that long.

Anna Teller

Author : Jo Sinclair
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 9781558610552
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Anna Teller written by Jo Sinclair and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 1992 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highly praised at its first publication in 1960, Anna Teller is the story of 75 years in the life of a Jewish Hungarian family, from their roots in Europe through the separate migrations of the son and the mother into the U.S. and their eventual reconciliation. "A fascinating story".--Kirkus Reviews.

Memorabilia and Memories Shared

Author : Will Kalinke
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1426954115
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book Memorabilia and Memories Shared written by Will Kalinke and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grandparents want to leave some memories for their grandchildren, but may have a difficult time reading or writing. Memorabilia and Memories Shared offers assistance to them and to their grandchildren. Intended to be read together, it seeks to job important memories of times gone by. Guided questions will help grandparents and grandchildren to collaborate in creating a verbal or written account of those precious memories. In an example of this method, author Will Kalinke has written his fondest memories in Memorabilia and Memories Shared with the hope that others will do the same thing. After you've dabbled with this book, you should be ready to try to write your own treasured memories for your loved ones. Record your memories for the generations to come. Focus on exploring, creating, expanding, and recording important memories to offer a bit of yourself, a true legacy, for posterity. It is more important to capture memorabilia and memories and that of loved ones-today, before it is too late.

The Judge

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 754 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The Judge written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Remembering Home

Author : Linda Rich
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595447775
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book Remembering Home written by Linda Rich and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An old farmhouse overlooks the scenic Spoon River in western Illinois. It has stood there for over a hundred years, sheltering Bobby and Neoma Hanks and their children through the early years of the twentieth century until 1927, when they leave the farm. Their move to town has momentous consequences. By 1950 the family has split up and is scattered across the country from New York to California. Decades later, grandson Drew owns the farmhouse he has always loved and eagerly shares his cherished childhood memories with his younger cousin Sharon. But for Sharon, who grew up in a different place and time, memories of her own childhood home evoke very different emotions. After her mother's death, Sharon struggles to come to terms with her past and wonders whether life in the old house on the Spoon, where her mother was born, was really as idyllic as Drew remembers.

More Than He Can Handle

Author : Cheris Hodges
Publisher : Dafina
ISBN 13 : 0758264976
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (582 download)

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Download or read book More Than He Can Handle written by Cheris Hodges and published by Dafina. This book was released on 2010-04-19 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He's One Mistake She Plans To Forget. . . As maid-of-honor to a friend who's gone Bridezilla, Winfred "Freddie" Barker is dealing with minute-to-minute drama from her crazy-extravagant wedding. So when the ceremony is over and the reception starts heating up, Freddie blows off steam with a little champagne--and a lot of the best man, Cleveland Alexander. It was definitely going to be just a one-night fling, 'cause no woman in her right mind would fall for that man's arrogant, self-centered self, no matter how caramel-fine he is. . . She's The One Woman He Can't Live Without. . . As a hard-core bachelor, Cleveland Alexander was strictly all about beddin' and forgettin'. And the only reason he let Ms. Winfred Barker call his bluff was to put her stuck-up attitude in check. But once he sees how complicated and caring she really is, he'll do anything to help solve her problems--and convince her that the love between them is a lifetime of real. . .

International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology

Author : Jens Beckert
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415286735
Total Pages : 795 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology written by Jens Beckert and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 795 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dealing with the multiple and complex relations between economy and society, this encyclopedia focuses on the impact of social, political, and cultural factors on economic behaviour. It is useful for students and researchers in sociology, economics, political science, and also business, organization, and management studies.