Download or read book Tales from the Oak Hammock written by Dave Gossman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-08-23 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Other than black and white TV, the baby boomer boys growing up in the little oak hammock east of South Florida’s everglades don’t have much to entertain them. Personal computers and the Internet are still decades away. Organized youth sports are all but non-existent in their environs. Rock and roll is king but exists only on an AM radio station and a stack of black vinyl disks.So how does a brotherhood of youngsters come of age while manufacturing adventure from an otherwise uneventful existence in the early ’60s? How do they spend their summers when girls are still mysterious, undiscovered creatures and the bicycle is the only mode of transportation? And how do they face life’s unanswered questions while anticipating their once-in-a-lifetime trip to the New York World’s Fair? Tales from the Oak Hammock chronicles the amusing answers to these questions as it recounts the misadventures—and misdemeanors—of boys who sometimes catch a glimpse of life’s meaning—but more often merely observe its puzzling complexities. They are the first generation raised by TV so they surely don’t have all the answers—but this one thing they know: Life isn’t always fair, but it’s almost always in black and white!
Download or read book Dred Anti slavery tales and papers Life in Florida after the war written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Strangler Fig and Other Tales written by Mary A. Hood and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2004 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hood's travel memoir is a lyrical journey to places of great natural beauty and biological importance. Her stories reveal the vulnerability of natural places and the consequences of unsustainable exploitation. This inspiring work will be valuable for those interested in nature or travel memoirs, ethnographic writing, and for all who are concerned with the survival of our broader sense of place in the global environment.
Download or read book Occupying Force written by D. Charles Gossman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-06-19 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A surprise attack on American soil and a holy war waged under the guise of an ancient religion-A nation of zealots indoctrinated to hate Western Civilization and a culture ignoring reason in favor of mindless violence-A cabal of militarists conditioned to elect suicide as a battle strategy and celebrate death for divine reward! Headlines from today's war on terrorism? No-these were the themes of America's war with twentieth-century Japan. Joining the Navy to face these fearsome enemies, seventeen-year-old Charlie misses the action in World War II by mere days. Then, directed to occupy the former foe's homeland instead, he remains behind when the war's heroes have all returned to a welcoming nation. Working and enduring through the months, Charlie records his daily thoughts while growing to respect the Japanese people-and does his best to find adventure along the way!
Download or read book The Devil Tree written by Keith Rommel and published by Sunbury + ORM. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the Port St. Lucie Legend Back in the 1970s, a series of bizarre incidents occurred at what has since been known as "The Devil Tree." Beneath this ancient denizen, evil was wrought by a sick serial killer, calling upon forces most evil and dark. People were hung there ... and bodies buried there ... exhumed by the police. Overcome by superstition, some tried to cut down the tree, to no avail. Since then, it has stood in a remote section of a local park—left to its own devices—quiet in its eerie repose—until now! Bestselling psychological-thriller author Keith Rommel has imagined the whole tale anew. He's brought the tree to life and retold the tale with gory detail only possible in a fiction novel. Action-packed, with spine-tingling detail, this thriller is beyond parallel in the ground it uncovers ... one author's explanation of what may have really been said—what may have really happened—under Port St. Lucie's "Devil Tree."
Download or read book Dred together with Anti slavery tales and papers and Life in Florida after the war written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Volusia County s West Side written by Ronald W. Williamson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008-09-22 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of popular Sense of Place columns by Daytona Beach News-Journal award-winning writer Ronald Williamson chronicles the sleepy streams, poignant passages and timeless traditions of the hilly western side of Volusia Countya place quite different from the hustle and bustle of the Daytona Beach area. Majestic St. Johns River steamboats replace speeding racecars, and subdued sances at an old spiritualist camp replace brash biker bashes and spring break revelry. From slavery and segregation to Madame Clarissa Zaraza and mayhaw jelly from swampy creeks, these stories are a moving account from a master storyteller.
Download or read book Tales from the Oak Hammock written by David Charles Gossman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-08-23 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Other than black and white TV, the baby boomer boys growing up in the little oak hammock east of South Floridas everglades dont have much to entertain them. Personal computers and the Internet are still decades away. Organized youth sports are all but non-existent in their environs. Rock and roll is king but exists only on an AM radio station and a stack of black vinyl disks. So how does a brotherhood of youngsters come of age while manufacturing adventure from an otherwise uneventful existence in the early 60s? How do they spend their summers when girls are still mysterious, undiscovered creatures and the bicycle is the only mode of transportation? And how do they face lifes unanswered questions while anticipating their once-in-a-lifetime trip to the New York Worlds Fair? Tales from the Oak Hammock chronicles the amusing answers to these questions as it recounts the misadventuresand misdemeanorsof boys who sometimes catch a glimpse of lifes meaningbut more often merely observe its puzzling complexities. They are the first generation raised by TV so they surely dont have all the answersbut this one thing they know: Life isnt always fair, but its almost always in black and white!
Download or read book Cross Creek written by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in the year 1942, 'Cross Creek' was written by a twentieth century American novelist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. "Cross Creek is a bend in a country road, by land, and the flowing of Lochloosa Lake into Orange Lake, by water. We are four miles west of the small village of Island Grove, nine miles east of a turpentine still, and on the other sides we do not count distance at all, for the two lakes and the broad marshes create an infinite space between us and the horizon. We are five white families; "Old Boss" Brice, the Glissons, the Mackays and the Bernie Basses; and two colored families, Henry Woodward and the Mickenses. People in Island Grove consider us just a little biggety and more than a little queer. Black Kate and I between us once misplaced some household object, quite unreasonably." -Preface
Download or read book Dred written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lucky written by Neh Dewan and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-02 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fish Bowl My son one day told me mom the fish is making some sound, I thought may be he discovered a fact Then he showed me his school fish craft, He told me mom the fish wants to fly, I said no but then hed cry, He told me mom the fish can walk, I told my son I think we need to talk, To bring him back from his imagination, I bought him a gold fish bowl for his persuasion, Then, he fed it daily with love and crumb And named it Goldy for its golden skin, It was she he got to know , when he saw her fry swim, It was a surprise for me too Then he named the family dew She and her fry became his best friends Because they never shout nor disturb never demand any herb, You just feed them once or twice then also they will be too nice They never pee here and there or loiter on my bed They never make a single sound or never get upset They never bark day and night leaving me upright, Only once in month you change the water and they will be happy and give you a good look, It all started from my sons expert brain Then he told me it was all his plan...
Download or read book Tales of Terror written by Joyce Emmerson Muddock and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tales of Talbot House written by Philip Byard Clayton and published by London : Chatto & Windus. This book was released on 1919 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Voices in a Midnight Mind written by Ken Michaels and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voices in a Midnight Mind is a compilation of horror stories that will run a cold skeletal finger down your spine in the dim reading light of your otherwise cozy room. The descriptive, often dark, narratives between these book covers will escort your thoughts with a sure hand and unsound mind, from the playful beginnings of two boys in "The Dare" through the unique solution to the world's energy sources in "Oilganic" to the poignant redemption of a cold lonely man in "Batting Cleanup." Each haunting tale welcomes you like a creaky door to a dark house and bids you farewell with the gentle caress of a shovel on your grave. And you will be left wondering, and wandering, in the dark room of your imagination . . . your own midnight mind.
Download or read book From a Darkened Room written by Arthur Crew Inman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diary became a many-layered and strikingly animated work of a gifted writer, by turns charming, repellent, shocking, cruel, and comical. But the diary is also an uninhibited history of his times, of his eccentricities and fantasies, of his bizarre marriage arrangements and sexual adventures. Inman's explorations of his own troubled nature made him excessively curious about the secret lives of others.
Download or read book Tales from the Veld written by Ernest Glanville and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book True Tales of Travel and Adventure written by Harry De Windt and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
