Download or read book A Place Called Wiregrass written by Michael Morris and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-04-04 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Erma Lee is a wonderful character ...It is hard to believe that Wiregrass is a first novel.” — --Anne Rivers Siddons, author of Nora, Nora “...truly inspiring and uplifting without ever being preachy or didactic. A real page turner with very strong characters.”- — --Le Smith, author of The Last Girls

Download or read book The Secrets of Jin shei written by Alma Alexander and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-08-10 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epic story of a sisterhood where blood relations are nothing compared to the unbreakable bond of the secret sisters -- the bond of Jin-Shei.

Download or read book The Wiregrass written by Pam Webber and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reminiscent of the stories and styles of Harper Lee, Sue Monk Kidd, and Jan Karon, Pam Webber’s The Wiregrass ​is ​an extraordinary tale about a magical time in an ordinary place full of lovable and unlovable characters. Infused with laughter, tears, love, loss, and hope, the story follows fourteen-year-old cousins Nettie, J.D. Eric, and Sam as they navigate the summer of their discontent, struggle with the physical and emotional turbulence of puberty and disappearing childhood, feel the excitement of first love, and run for their lives ​after they uncover an evil secret hidden in the shadows of the small town they love. Their story promises to stay with you a lifetime.

Download or read book Wiregrass Country written by Herb Chapman and published by Pineapple Press Inc. This book was released on 1998 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in 1835 in the northern Florida Territory, this historical novel will transport you to a time when Florida settlers were few and laws were scarce. Dealing with cattle rustlers and a brewing Seminole war, Ace and Amaly Dover, their four sons, and their spirited daughter, Marvelous, have their hands full protecting their Three Springs Ranch. With authentic historical details and engaging characters, this family saga will capture your heart.

Download or read book Man in the Blue Moon written by Michael Morris and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-08-17 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “He’s a gambler at best. A con artist at worst,” her aunt had said of the handlebar-mustached man who snatched Ella Wallace away from her dreams of studying art in France. Eighteen years later, that man has disappeared, leaving Ella alone and struggling to support her three sons. While the world is embroiled in World War I, Ella fights her own personal battle to keep the mystical Florida land that has been in her family for generations from the hands of an unscrupulous banker. When a mysterious man arrives at Ella’s door in an unconventional way, he convinces her he can help her avoid foreclosure, and a tenuous trust begins. But as the fight for Ella’s land intensifies, it becomes evident that things are not as they appear. Hypocrisy and murder soon shake the coastal town of Apalachicola and jeopardize Ella’s family.

Download or read book The New South Comes to Wiregrass Georgia 1860 1910 written by Mark V. Wetherington and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first book-length examination of cultural change in the Georgia Pine Belt challenges the conventional view of this area as an unchanging economic backwater by examining its postbellum evolution from a self-sufficient economy to one largely dependent upon a single commercial crop - cotton. Before the Civil War, the Piney Woods easily supported a population of mostly yeomen farmers and livestock herders. After the war, a variety of external forces invaded the region, permanently altering the social, political, and economic landscape. Mark V. Wetherington's in-depth study sheds new light on the region's socioeconomic history and encourages a closer examination of post-Civil War change throughout the southern Pine Belt.

Download or read book Slow Way Home written by Michael Morris and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Slow Way Home is a warm, witty, fresh, and innovative novel.” — --Homer Hickam, author of October Sky “Slow Way Home is a gem -- both gritty and heartwarming at once. A wonderful, emotional read.” — --Lee Smith, author of The Last Girls “Slow Way Home is a novel for the heart. It is pitch perfect and the character Brandon is going to linger in a lot of minds. The opening chapter is one of the most poignant and poweful I have ever read. This is a fine book.” — Anne Rivers Siddons, author of Nora, Nora “A gentle story suffused with brutal truths, almost fable-like in its resonant simplicity.....a journey well worth taking.” — --Tim Farrington, author of The Monk Downstairs “In a remarkably consistent narrative voice, Morris takes us along for a moving, funny ride...” — --Silas House, author of Clay's Quilt and A Parchment of Leaves “Slow Way Home is a journey of the human spirit and its themes... make it a novel for the ages.” — --Richard Paul Evans, author of The Christmas Box “Master storyteller Michael Morris has delivered another stunning novel....touching, truthful, and beautifully written. It is not to be missed!” — --Lynne Hinton, author of Friendship Cake “a compulsively readable novel with many fine passages on the importance of home and the comforts of faith.” — Booklist “[A] tour de force... told in a Southern style that invites readers in and asks them to stay awhile.” — --Gadsden Times (Northeast AL) “Michael Morris is someone to watch .. .[Slow Way Home is] courageous and heartbreaking and moving....” — --The Birmingham News “Brandon Willard may well be one of the most endearing novel narrators since Scout Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird.” — -- Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 9/28/03 “[B]oth contemporary and timeless...read the book and savor for yourself Brandon’s redemption ....” — -- Mobile Register, 9/27/03 “[E]motional and fast-paced . . . the social issues covered make this an intelligent book for debate.” — -- Southern Scribe, 9/03 “Morris excels in creating the child’s voice.... an inspiring portrait of a true survivor.” — BookPage “... echoes of Harper Lee...or of Flannery O’Connor’s Southern grotesques . . . or even of Huck Finn.... ” — Washington Post “An emotionally charged work that is as timely as it is touching.” — --Dallas Morning News “Slow Way Home is one of those rare finds....it should become a classic.” — --Tampa Tribune (Florida) “...impressive achievement...entertaining and affecting.” — --St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 12/28/03 “Morris’ insightful book gives voice to the struggle millions of grandparents and the grandchildren in their care face everyday.” — --Donna M Butts, Executive Director, Generations United

Download or read book Live Like You Were Dying written by Tim Nichols and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2008-11-02 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Live Like You Were Dying is the unforgettable story inspired by Tim McGraw's #1 Country Music song of the same name. It weaves a tale of the miracles that happen once you stop being so busy with life that you actually have time to live it. Millions have embraced the song's lyrics. Now experience the inspirational story that will touch your heart and soul.

Download or read book Oglethorpe s Dream written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oglethorpe's Dream unites the award-winning photography of Diane Kirkland with the beautifully powerful writing of David Bottoms, Georgia's poet laureate. The result is a stunning portrait of the lands, waters, culture, and people of Georgia. From the sea islands to the cities, from the wiregrass to the mountain forests, Kirkland gives us a gallery of spectacular images showcasing the state in its breadth, beauty, and diversity. Marrying landscape to history, Bottoms gives voice to a people filled with courage, pain, conviction, and, above all, hope. Together they capture the natural beauty of the diverse landscape, the richness of the state's storied past, and the essence of its spirited people. "Isn't that what you always hoped for," Bottoms writes, "to find a place . . . and yourself in that place?" Oglethorpe's Dream helps us all to see a place called Georgia, and there to find something of ourselves. The publication of this book was made possible by the financial support of the State of Georgia, the leadership of Governor Roy E. Barnes, and the partnership of the Georgia Department of Industry, Trade & Tourism, the Georgia Humanities Council, and the University of Georgia Press.

Download or read book Saints in Limbo written by River Jordan and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “River Jordan’s Saints in Limbo is a compelling story of the mysteries of existence and, specially, the mysteries of the human heart.” –Ron Rash, author of Serena and Chemistry and Other Stories “I lose myself in River’s writing–transported to a different time and place– and in this case, to one that makes the ordinary mystical and magical. I give it FIVE diamonds in the Pulpwood Queen’s TIARA!” –Kathy L. Patrick, founder of the Pulpwood Queens Book Clubs and author of The Pulpwood Queens’ Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing Guide to Life Ever since her husband Joe died, Velma True’s world has been limited to what she can see while clinging to one of the multicolored threads tied to the porch railing of her home outside Echo, Florida. When a mysterious stranger appears at her door on her birthday and presents Velma with a special gift, she is rattled by the object’s ability to take her into her memories–a place where Joe still lives, her son Rudy is still young, unaffected by the world’s hardness, and the beginning is closer than the end. As secrets old and new come to light, Velma wonders if it’s possible to be unmoored from the past’s deep roots and find a reason to hope again. Praise for River Jordan “[River Jordan’s] literary spice rack has everything you need to put together a good book.” –Rick Bragg, author of All Over but the Shoutin’ and Ava’s Man “River Jordan writes so beautifully.” –Joshilyn Jackson, author of Gods in Alabama and The Girl Who Stopped Swimming

Download or read book A Land Remembered written by Patrick D Smith and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Land Remembered has become Florida's favorite novel. Now this Student Edition in two volumes makes this rich, rugged story of the American pioneer spirit more accessible to young readers. Patrick Smith tells of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family battling the hardships of the frontier. The story opens in 1858, when Tobias and Emma MacIvey arrive in the Florida wilderness with their son, Zech, to start a new life, and ends in 1968 with Solomon MacIvey, who realizes that his wealth has not been worth the cost to the land. Between is a sweeping story rich in Florida history with a cast of memorable characters who battle wild animals, rustlers, Confederate deserters, mosquitoes, starvation, hurricanes, and freezes to carve a kingdom out of the Florida swamp. In this volume, meet young Zech MacIvey, who learns to ride like the wind through the Florida scrub on Ishmael, his marshtackie horse, his dogs, Nip and Tuck, at this side. His parents, Tobias and Emma, scratch a living from the land, gathering wild cows from the swamp and herding them across the state to market. Zech learns the ways of the land from the Seminoles, with whom his life becomes entwined as he grows into manhood. Next in series > > See all of the books in this series

Download or read book Ecology of a Cracker Childhood written by Janisse Ray and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2023-07 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the memories of a childhood marked by extreme poverty, mental illness, and restrictive fundamentalist Christian rules, Janisse Ray crafted a “heartfelt and refreshing” (New York Times) memoir that has inspired thousands to embrace their beginnings, no matter how humble, and to fight for the places they love. This new edition updates and contextualizes the story for a new generation and a wider audience desperately searching for stories of empowerment and hope. Ray grew up in a junkyard along U.S. Highway 1, hidden from Florida-bound travelers by hulks of old cars. In language at once colloquial, elegiac, and informative, Ray redeems her home and her people, while also cataloging the source of her childhood hope: the Edenic longleaf pine forests, where orchids grow amid wiregrass at the feet of widely spaced, lofty trees. Today, the forests exist in fragments, cherished and threatened, and the South of her youth is gradually being overtaken by golf courses and suburban development. A contemporary classic, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood is a clarion call to protect the cultures and ecologies of every childhood.

Download or read book If I Ignore It It Will Go Away and Other Lies I Thought Were True written by Marsha Marks and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2010-06-09 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever thought… My daughter will take care of the dog… I can keep house like my mother-in-law… I’ll never do that again… Not only has author Marsha Marks believed the lies many of us hear and tell on a daily basis–she’s willing to talk about them! Tickling the funny bone to get to the heart, Marks shares the real truths she’s discovered behind everyday lies. Here you’ll enjoy heavenly advice woven into hilarious stories as Marks offers a good dose of reality in a way you’ve never heard it before.

Download or read book Sweet Dreams written by Carla Stewart and published by FaithWords. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1962, and Dusty Fairchild, daughter of a self-made millionaire and oilman, wants to go to college. Instead she is sent to a private finishing school in East Texas. Although she's never wanted for material possessions, Dusty longs for independence and adventure. The only upside to attending Miss Fontaine's is having her cousin and best childhood friend, Paisley, join her. Paisley has traveled the country with her bohemian mother, but she dreams of putting down roots and living a settled life. At Miss Fontaine's, their loyalty to each other binds them, but when they fall in love with the same handsome young man, their relationship teeters on shaky ground. Only after a tragic accident do they learn where their true hearts-and dreams-lie.

Download or read book Yearning for the Unattainable written by L.L. Eadie and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2002-08-12 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yearning for the Unattainable By: L.L. Eadie Eadie’s gift for understanding the adolescent heart is on full display … in this delicious witch’s brew of southern gothic, paranormal romance and realistic contemporary. The town of Wiregrass is a character in itself with its whispers, horrors and secrets. And at the heart of it all is Gentry, the newcomer, who innocently looks for love, but instead is drawn into a portal that nearly takes her life. -Joyce Sweeney on Yearning for the Unattainable Eadie’s work stands out from the usual teen novel. Written in a light, easy style Tuesday’s story of emotional emancipation is one that any teenager can appreciate. -Kirkus Reviews on Mistaken Identity A love story mixed with tragedy and humor. Secrets and broken promises from the author’s youth (and from all teenagers’ lives) prompted Eadie to write this story. She hopes her readers will see themselves in her characters and be able to feel their emotions—recognize them—relate to them—laugh and cry with them.

Download or read book Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe written by Heather Webber and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE USA TODAY BESTSELLER Heather Webber's Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe is a captivating blend of magical realism, heartwarming romance, and small-town Southern charm. Nestled in the mountain shadows of Alabama lies the little town of Wicklow. It is here that Anna Kate has returned to bury her beloved Granny Zee, owner of the Blackbird Café. It was supposed to be a quick trip to close the café and settle her grandmother’s estate, but despite her best intentions to avoid forming ties or even getting to know her father’s side of the family, Anna Kate finds herself inexplicably drawn to the quirky Southern town her mother ran away from so many years ago, and the mysterious blackbird pie everybody can’t stop talking about. As the truth about her past slowly becomes clear, Anna Kate will need to decide if this lone blackbird will finally be able to take her broken wings and fly. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book Mojo Workin written by Katrina Hazzard-Donald and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2012-12-30 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold reconsideration of Hoodoo belief and practice Katrina Hazzard-Donald explores African Americans' experience and practice of the herbal, healing folk belief tradition known as Hoodoo. She examines Hoodoo culture and history by tracing its emergence from African traditions to religious practices in the Americas. Working against conventional scholarship, Hazzard-Donald argues that Hoodoo emerged first in three distinct regions she calls "regional Hoodoo clusters" and that after the turn of the nineteenth century, Hoodoo took on a national rather than regional profile. The spread came about through the mechanism of the "African Religion Complex," eight distinct cultural characteristics familiar to all the African ethnic groups in the United States. The first interdisciplinary examination to incorporate a full glossary of Hoodoo culture, Mojo Workin': The Old African American Hoodoo System lays out the movement of Hoodoo against a series of watershed changes in the American cultural landscape. Hazzard-Donald examines Hoodoo material culture, particularly the "High John the Conquer" root, which practitioners employ for a variety of spiritual uses. She also examines other facets of Hoodoo, including rituals of divination such as the "walking boy" and the "Ring Shout," a sacred dance of Hoodoo tradition that bears its corollaries today in the American Baptist churches. Throughout, Hazzard-Donald distinguishes between "Old tradition Black Belt Hoodoo" and commercially marketed forms that have been controlled, modified, and often fabricated by outsiders; this study focuses on the hidden system operating almost exclusively among African Americans in the Black spiritual underground.