Download or read book Big Daddy Chinaberry written by Rona McLeod and published by America Star Books. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big Daddy Chinaberry: Love Given - Love Returned is an emotional story about how a daddy tree coached, talked and worked out with his son. He taught valuable lessons about living a good life. This is a delightful story illustrating how we can cope with life after the lost of a loved one. Big Daddy Chinaberry will take you down the road experiencing all kinds of emotions-happiness, sadness, joy, confusion, pain, doubt, fear, loneliness, and hope. It is a story written not only for children, but for many of us.

Download or read book Chinaberry Sidewalks written by Rodney Crowell and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a tender and uproarious memoir, singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell reveals the good, the bad, and the ugly of a dirt-poor southeast Texas boyhood. The only child of a hard-drinking father and a holy-roller mother, acclaimed musician Rodney Crowell was no stranger to bombast. But despite a home life always threatening to burst into violence, Rodney fiercely loved his mother and idolized his blustering father, a frustrated musician who took him to see Hank Williams, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash perform. Set in 1950s Houston, a frontier-rough town with icehouses selling beer by the gallon on payday, pest infestations right out of a horror film, and the kind of freedom mischievous kids dream of, Chinaberry Sidewalks is Rodney's tribute to his parents and his remarkable youth. Full of the most satisfying kind of nostalgia, it is hardly recognizable as a celebrity memoir. Rather, it's a story of coming-of-age at a particular time, place, and station, crafted as well as the perfect song.

Download or read book Chinaberries and Beyond written by Patricia L. Bostic and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patricia is born during WWII when racial segregation is a way of life, particularly in the south. A few years earlier in the small cotton mill town her father’s poor judgment forces her parents and eventually their eight children to live in a crude, unpainted, three-room dwelling located in an isolated area of four houses for African Americans. They have no electricity or running water, and a stone-covered spring in the woods becomes a special place for mischief. A single tree, a chinaberry, adjacent to the house serves many purposes. Home, church, and school are the Littletons’ family core, while their experiences are laced with fun, humor, and mischief. However, when temperamental Hazel, an adult bully, moves next door, there are conflicts, which escalate into unnerving, dangerous situations, especially with Patricia’s easygoing, soft-spoken mother. Hazel ridicules Patricia, who is smart, timid, and labeled a crybaby and stubborn in school. By high school, Patricia blossoms and becomes popular, but later her father warns her of wooden nickels. www.chinaberriesandbeyond.com

Download or read book The Chinaberry Album written by Ruth Coe Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Once a booming sin city of the Gulf coast, Bay Harbor is a faded flower at the outset of World War II. Nine year old Anna Lee Owens thinks she knows everything about everyone in this small, winsome town, only to discover the darker, sinister side of Bay Harbor as her innocence is slowly disheveled. Atrocities lurk behind the friendly doors of Chester and Helen's boarding house, the deeply religious Miss Red entices the neighbor children, her Uncle Johnn breaks her heart, and even her parents are not what they seem. When her world explodes, Anna Lee's friendship with a sick, ragged beach tramp saves her life, but it is her own courage and humor that carry her through."--Back cover.

Download or read book The Chinaberry Tree Revisited written by Dwight Austin Collier and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 1232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Jeremiah Collier was born about 1760 probably in Scotland. He married Sarah Ann Wood about 1861. They lived in North Carolina and had seven children. Information on many of their descendants is included in the material provided in this volume. Family members now live in Alabama, Mississippi, Texas and elsewhere.

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Download or read book Three Plays written by Horton Foote and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes called the American Chekhov, Horton Foote has been mapping the rich emotional terrain just beneath the plain, quiet surfaces of his small-town characters for well over half a century. This anthology brings together three of his most critically acclaimed plays: Dividing the Estate, The Trip to Bountiful, and The Young Man from Atlanta.

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Download or read book The Bottoms written by Joe R. Lansdale and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Edgar Award winner is "equal parts morality tale and page-turning thriller" (Denver Post)—classic American storytelling in its truest, darkest, and most affecting form, with echoes of William Faulkner and Harper Lee. Its 1933 in East Texas and the Depression lingers in the air like a slow moving storm. When a young Harry Collins and his little sister stumble across the body of a black woman who has been savagely mutilated and left to die in the bottoms of the Sabine River, their small town is instantly charged with tension. When a second body turns up, this time of a white woman, there is little Harry can do from stopping his Klan neighbors from lynching an innocent black man. Together with his younger sister, Harry sets out to discover who the real killer is, and to do so they will search for a truth that resides far deeper than any river or skin color.

Download or read book Chinaberry Summer written by Carroll S. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel recounts the adventures of Sissie, a nature loving fifth grader, during the years 1959-60. It is the story of her life in a small Southern community and of her large family, particularly her grandfather, who help her learn about the wide world.

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Download or read book An Hour Before Daylight written by Jimmy Carter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-10-16 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jimmy Carter re-creates his boyhood on a Georgia farm.

Download or read book Broken China written by Lori Aurelia Williams and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author of "When Kambia Elaine Flew in from Neptune" now delivers the story of one girl's excruciating struggle to beat the odds. Williams imbues this narrative with an unshakable sense of hope that transcends China's bleak reality.

Download or read book Dividing the Estate written by Horton Foote and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Matriarch Stella Gordon is determined not to divide her 100-year-old Texas estate, despite her family's declining wealth and the looming financial crisis. But her three children have another plan. Old resentments and sibling rivalries su