Download or read book Everything I Know Came from the Bunkhouse written by Lois Hodgson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arnie Kotkin has finally gotten his doctorate in science, but his dream of teaching at the college level eludes him when a private prep school in Vermont makes a far better offer. To add to the changes in his life, his parents have announced that they can no longer care for Todd--the child of his late brother--so he and his partner, Barnaby Moss, are tapped for the honor of raising the boy. Northward bound again, the pair stop to look at a house; it will be a wonderful place to raise a child, but it might also be a great place to share with someone else someone who should have left 145 years ago.
Download or read book The Boys in the Bunkhouse written by Dan Barry and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this Dickensian tale from America’s heartland, New York Times writer and columnist Dan Barry tells the harrowing yet uplifting story of the exploitation and abuse of a resilient group of men with intellectual disability, and the heroic efforts of those who helped them to find justice and reclaim their lives. In the tiny Iowa farm town of Atalissa, dozens of men, all with intellectual disability and all from Texas, lived in an old schoolhouse. Before dawn each morning, they were bussed to a nearby processing plant, where they eviscerated turkeys in return for food, lodging, and $65 a month. They lived in near servitude for more than thirty years, enduring increasing neglect, exploitation, and physical and emotional abuse—until state social workers, local journalists, and one tenacious labor lawyer helped these men achieve freedom. Drawing on exhaustive interviews, Dan Barry dives deeply into the lives of the men, recording their memories of suffering, loneliness and fleeting joy, as well as the undying hope they maintained despite their traumatic circumstances. Barry explores how a small Iowa town remained oblivious to the plight of these men, analyzes the many causes for such profound and chronic negligence, and lays out the impact of the men’s dramatic court case, which has spurred advocates—including President Obama—to push for just pay and improved working conditions for people living with disabilities. A luminous work of social justice, told with compassion and compelling detail, The Boys in the Bunkhouse is more than just inspired storytelling. It is a clarion call for a vigilance that ensures inclusion and dignity for all.
Download or read book How Successful People Win written by Ben Stein and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Successful People Win is a serious self-help book using as its central metaphor the life of the cowboy and his behavior as he leaves his bunkhouse. Based upon a lifetime of observation of the successful and how they got that way, Ben Stein suggests that you imitate the determination, inner mobility, activity, flexibility —and the refusal to indulge in self-pity —of the cowboy in order to get what you want out of life. The idea is that if you never indulge in making excuses, refuse to let other people’s hangups get in your way, and move deliberately toward clearly thought-out goals, you will get where you want to go. Just as the cowboy refuses to allow himself to get sidetracked by trivia, so can you refuse to allow life’s inevitable challenges and distractions mar your own success and happiness. The choice is yours.
Download or read book Conditions in the Copper Mines of Michigan written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Mines and Mining and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Saving the White Cougar written by Terry Spear and published by Terry Spear. This book was released on 2021-02-27 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stella White never believed that going on a cougar run would be such a dangerous excursion, painful, punishing, and pleasurable in the end. She realized that sometimes she just needed to get through the bad stuff to get to the good stuff and that meant meeting Ted Weekum, ranch foreman, and the kind of cowboy she'd only dreamed of. Ted Weekum was visiting with his brother at the ranch when he thought he saw a white flash of fur, but it wasn't until hunters started shooting up the place, claiming they'd shot a white cougar did the notion sink in that the cougar could be one of their own shifter kind. But a white cougar? Unheard of. And yet when he went to save her life—that's exactly what he found. A rare white cougar. Unclaimed. Unmated. The right age. The stars had aligned right that night. But the hunters aren't through with hunting down the wounded white cougar, or Stella White.
Download or read book Conditions in the Copper Mines of Michigan written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bob Green Game Warden written by Dillie Droak and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who wanted a game warden dead? Who would take out a contract to have him killed? Grizzly bears were enough of a threat. Mountain lions were a threat also. A game warden took his life in his hands each day to face animals in the forest.
Download or read book 1st Awakenings written by Dallas T. Crockett and published by Infinity Publishing. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When violence and magic are a part of everyday life you either learn to survive or die. The danger for Seth only increases as his destiny is revealed to him.
Download or read book Boy at Sea written by Jonathan May and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-10-19 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kenny Roper has seen too many movies about WWI to hang around and be caught in the draft of WWII. If he goes down, let it be in water and not in trenches. He joins the U. S. Coast Guard. He won't have to go overseas, will he? Guess again, Kenny. You're in for a rude awakening, as well as a riotous and raunchy adventure. "Do you like girls?" he is asked in the examination room. What do they think, he's antisocial? So begins Boy At Sea, a novel that, as the title suggests, is about conflicted sexuality as revealed through the picaresque adventures of a college freshman-turned-sailor. Kenny meets great guys on ship and on land, but none so intriguing or troubling as blond gunner's mate Blake, stationed aboard the same destroyer escort in the South Pacific. Kenny's travels take him from Wilmington and other parts of California to New York and Boston, Brisbane, Samoa, the Panama Canal Zone and Alaska. He experiences the Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles in 1943 and the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944, but nothing sears itself into his consciousness like his relationship with Blake.
Download or read book Love Inspired Historical April 2017 Box Set written by Linda Ford and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love Inspired Historical brings you four new titles! Enjoy these historical romances of adventure and faith. THE RANCHER’S SURPRISE TRIPLETS Lone Star Cowboy League: Multiple Blessings by Linda Ford After stumbling on triplet orphans abandoned at the county fair, rancher Bo Stillwater’s not sure what to do with them. But when he leaves them in the care of the town doctor’s lovely spinster daughter, Louisa Clark, he finds he can’t stay away—from her or the babies. COWBOY HOMECOMING Four Stones Ranch by Louise M. Gouge When cowboy Tolley Northam returns home, he’s determined to finally win his father’s approval. Perhaps a marriage to family friend Laurie Eberly will help him earn it. But when Laurie discovers why he began pursuing her, can he convince her that she holds his heart? UNDERCOVER SHERIFF by Barbara Phinney After a woman, a child and Zane Robinson’s small-town-sheriff twin all go missing, the woman’s friend Rachel Smith has a plan to find them. But for it to work, Zane must pose as his brother and draw out anyone involved in their disappearance. FAMILY OF CONVENIENCE by Victoria W. Austin In need of a father for her unborn child, mail-order bride Millie Steele agrees to a marriage in name only with single father Adam Beale. But as she grows to love her new children—and falls for their handsome dad—can their convenient family become real?
Download or read book Family of Convenience written by Victoria W. Austin and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mail-Order Mother Recently widowed and pregnant, Millie Steele needs a husband to help provide for her unborn child, and becoming a mail-order bride is her only option. Thankfully, her new husband, Kansas farmer Adam Beale, only wants a mother for his two young children—not romance. Everything is going according to plan…until Millie begins to fall for Adam. Adam had reservations about wedding another city dweller—his late wife never took to life on the prairie. But now he can't imagine his family being complete without Millie and her unborn baby. Though they agreed to a strictly platonic partnership, can real love be blooming in Adam and Millie's marriage of convenience?
Download or read book Dobyns Chronicles written by Shirley McLain and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-05-23 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dobyns Chronicles is a captivating celebration of the life of Charlie Dobyns. His life began in northeast Texas near Bonham, on the Red River. His Cherokee mother and cowboy father strove to survive on their river valley ranch. Tragedy ended this way of life for Charlie in 1888. Follow him through Chickasaw Territory and on to McAlester in eastern Oklahoma. This is a story of a changing way of life and adaptations made to survive. Charlie's strong passion for life and dignity equipped him for survival as he raised his siblings with, likeability and dignity. Its a story of loss, misfortune, hard times and heartbreak, but also love, determination, kindness, joy and spirituality. Follow Charlies life through the adventures that shaped the man he became, and that of his family for generations.
Download or read book Plumber s Gap written by Marion Dees and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author's name is Marion Michael Dees. He is sixty-four years old. He has worked in construction of one kind or another for most of his life, about forty-five years. Back in November of 2020, he found out he had a blood clot in his lungs and went into AFib. He was in and out of the hospital until August of 2021, when they finally did a procedure to stop his heart from going into AFib. During this time, he had a lot of downtime when he could not work or had to work from home. It was during this time that he started writing this book. Because of his love for South Dakota, he wanted to make his story about that area and its history. Although this is a fictional story with some actual facts, much liberation has been taken. However, it is based on actual locations and times that reflect the kind of events that could happen and some that did happen during this period. He hopes the readers will enjoy their journey back in time. He thanks them for reading his book.
Download or read book Of Mice and Men written by John Steinbeck and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 1937 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells a story about the strange relationship of two migrant workers who are able to realize their dreams of an easy life until one of them succumbs to his weakness for soft, helpless creatures and strangles a farmer's wife.
Download or read book Boys Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1928-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.
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