Download or read book The Town That Moved To Mexico written by Arthur Herzog III and published by Arthur Herzog III. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A shallow earthquake slides a California town full of bigots into Mexico. The Mexican mayor of the town across the border declares the Americans "drybacks" and won't let them leave. The two countries verge on war.
Download or read book The Town That Moved written by Mary Jane Finsand and published by Young Yearling. This book was released on 1991-07-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how the houses and buildings of a small town in northern Minnesota were moved to another location when iron ore was discovered in the ground beneath the town.
Download or read book A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear written by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tiny American town's plans for radical self-government overlooked one hairy detail: no one told the bears. Once upon a time, a group of libertarians got together and hatched the Free Town Project, a plan to take over an American town and completely eliminate its government. In 2004, they set their sights on Grafton, NH, a barely populated settlement with one paved road. When they descended on Grafton, public funding for pretty much everything shrank: the fire department, the library, the schoolhouse. State and federal laws became meek suggestions, scarcely heard in the town's thick wilderness. The anything-goes atmosphere soon caught the attention of Grafton's neighbors: the bears. Freedom-loving citizens ignored hunting laws and regulations on food disposal. They built a tent city in an effort to get off the grid. The bears smelled food and opportunity. A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear is the sometimes funny, sometimes terrifying tale of what happens when a government disappears into the woods. Complete with gunplay, adventure, and backstabbing politicians, this is the ultimate story of a quintessential American experiment -- to live free or die, perhaps from a bear.
Download or read book Our Towns written by James Fallows and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "James and Deborah Fallows have always moved to where history is being made.... They have an excellent sense of where world-shaping events are taking place at any moment" —The New York Times • The basis for the HBO documentary streaming on HBO Max For five years, James and Deborah Fallows have travelled across America in a single-engine prop airplane. Visiting dozens of towns, the America they saw is acutely conscious of its problems—from economic dislocation to the opioid scourge—but it is also crafting solutions, with a practical-minded determination at dramatic odds with the bitter paralysis of national politics. At times of dysfunction on a national level, reform possibilities have often arisen from the local level. The Fallowses describe America in the middle of one of these creative waves. Their view of the country is as complex and contradictory as America itself, but it also reflects the energy, the generosity and compassion, the dreams, and the determination of many who are in the midst of making things better. Our Towns is the story of their journey—and an account of a country busy remaking itself.
Download or read book If You Lived Here You d Be Home By Now written by Christopher Ingraham and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An NPR Best Book of the Year The hilarious, charming, and candid story of writer Christopher Ingraham’s decision to uproot his life and move his family to Red Lake Falls, Minnesota, population 1,400—the community he made famous as “the worst place to live in America” in a story he wrote for the Washington Post. Like so many young American couples, Chris Ingraham and his wife Briana were having a difficult time making ends meet as they tried to raise their twin boys in the East Coast suburbs. One day, Chris – in his role as a “data guy” reporter at the Washington Post – stumbled on a study that would change his life. It was a ranking of America’s 3,000+ counties from ugliest to most scenic. He quickly scrolled to the bottom of the list and gleefully wrote the words “The absolute worst place to live in America is (drumroll please) … Red Lake County, Minn.” The story went viral, to put it mildly. Among the reactions were many from residents of Red Lake County. While they were unflappably polite – it’s not called “Minnesota Nice” for nothing – they challenged him to look beyond the spreadsheet and actually visit their community. Ingraham, with slight trepidation, accepted. Impressed by the locals’ warmth, humor and hospitality – and ever more aware of his financial situation and torturous commute – Chris and Briana eventually decided to relocate to the town he’d just dragged through the dirt on the Internet. If You Lived Here You’d Be Home by Now is the story of making a decision that turns all your preconceptions – good and bad -- on their heads. In Red Lake County, Ingraham experiences the intensity and power of small-town gossip, struggles to find a decent cup of coffee, suffers through winters with temperatures dropping to forty below zero, and unearths some truths about small-town life that the coastal media usually miss. It’s a wry and charming tale – with data! -- of what happened to one family brave enough to move waaaay beyond its comfort zone
Download or read book The Moved Outers written by Florence C. Means and published by Walker Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The captivating story of a Japanese-American family in a World War II internment camp who struggle to retain their dignity and identity as Americans.
Download or read book Mill Town written by Kerri Arsenault and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2021 Rachel Carson Environmental Book Award Winner of the 2021 Maine Literary Award for Nonfiction Finalist for the 2020 National Book Critics John Leonard Prize for Best First Book Finalist for the 2021 New England Society Book Award Finalist for the 2021 New England Independent Booksellers Association Award A New York Times Editors’ Choice and Chicago Tribune top book for 2020 “Mill Town is the book of a lifetime; a deep-drilling, quick-moving, heartbreaking story. Scathing and tender, it lifts often into poetry, but comes down hard when it must. Through it all runs the river: sluggish, ancient, dangerous, freighted with America’s sins.” —Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland Kerri Arsenault grew up in the small, rural town of Mexico, Maine, where for over 100 years the community orbited around a paper mill that provided jobs for nearly everyone in town, including three generations of her family. Kerri had a happy childhood, but years after she moved away, she realized the price she paid for that childhood. The price everyone paid. The mill, while providing the social and economic cohesion for the community, also contributed to its demise. Mill Town is a book of narrative nonfiction, investigative memoir, and cultural criticism that illuminates the rise and collapse of the working-class, the hazards of loving and leaving home, and the ambiguous nature of toxics and disease with the central question; Who or what are we willing to sacrifice for our own survival?
Download or read book The Girl Who Moved to the That Wasn t There written by Suzanne Fuller and published by . This book was released on 2020-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pa stopped his oxen at the top of the hill. Pointing down into the valley, he announced, "There's our new home." But all ten-year-old Virgie saw were two houses and trampled grasses. There was no town. No school, no stores, and worst of all-no children. Virgie didn't know it yet, but loneliness would be the least of her challenges on the harsh prairie of Dakota Territory.Published by the Siouxland Heritage Museums and written by former newspaper journalist and author Suzanne Fuller, this is the story of the birth of a town and the struggles of the people. Using the local newspaper from 1880, Fuller, the great-granddaughter of those early pioneers, weaves together a fictionalized story inspired by the real history of a family who had roots in the village of Eagan.
Download or read book More Than Rivals written by Ken Abraham and published by Revell. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Inspiring True Story Set in the Midst of the Civil Rights Era By 1970, racial tension was at a breaking point in the southern town of Gallatin, Tennessee. Desegregation had emotions running high. The town was a powder keg ready to erupt. But it was also on the verge of something incredible. Eddie Sherlin and Bill Ligon were boys growing up on opposite sides of the tracks who shared a passion for basketball. They knew the barriers that divided them--some physical landmarks and some hidden in the heart--but those barriers melted away when the boys were on the court. After years of playing wherever they could find a hoop, Eddie and Bill entered the rigors of their respective high school teams. And at the end of the 1970 season, all-white Gallatin High and all-black Union High faced each other in a once-in-a-lifetime championship game. What happened that night would challenge Eddie and Bill--and transform their town. This New York Times bestseller is a fast-paced true story of courage, determination, character, and forgiveness.
Download or read book Suppose a Kid from the Last Dungeon Boonies Moved to a Starter Town Vol 6 light novel written by Toshio Satou and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lights, Camera, Action! There’s a casting call for movie extras and stuntmen, and the agents are looking for one of the military cadets! With the help of a little magic, Alka transforms Lloyd into a handsome young man perfect for the role. Meet Roy Akizuki—fresh new face in the action–movie industry! One small change in the script lands him the starring role, and thrown into a cast of chaotic actors, Lloyd improv skills are immediately put to the test. It’s getting harder and harder to tell if the scenes are just on-screen drama or actually happening...Either way, they’re starting to veer off script, and it’s too late to turn back now!
Download or read book Suppose a Kid from the Last Dungeon Boonies Moved to a Starter Town Vol 8 light novel written by Toshio Satou and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ROUND TWO! READY...GO! Lloyd has emerged from his hellish training session with the demon lord with an ounce of much-needed confidence. His next challenge is participating in the martial arts tournament that will select the next leader of the Ascorbic Domain. Much to Allan’s chagrin, and despite the prayers he’s offered to the heavens, the enemy forces have concluded that he is their top fighter. It’s shaping up to be a match between two “extraordinary” fighters—one with no real confidence in his abilities and the other with no skills to speak of!
Download or read book Somebody Moved written by William C. Draper and published by Tate Publishing & Enterprises. This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step back in time when an unpopular war was raging and the country was deeply divided. Now focus on one young man, like thousands of others, who must leave the comfort and security of his Oklahoma roots to fight a cunning enemy in places no one heard of just a few months before. Bill Draper's riveting account of his military service in Vietnam will keep you turning page after page because these are pages from history that need to be revealed, understood, even embraced. Draper's attention to detail and vivid descriptions of combat, relationships, even death, will remain in your memory long after you finish Somebody Moved. See through this soldier's eyes as he suffers through the horrific experiences of a war they were not allowed to win, only to return home to a thankless nation. No "Welcome Home" banners hung on Main Street and no one seemed interestedin helping to ease the i ntense pain and humiliation. We should all be ashamed! Draper brings to life this period and gives us a second chance to call these once young men, "heroes." Somebody Moved proclaims the message loud and clear - heroes they were and are!
Download or read book America Moved written by Booth Tarkington and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America Moved: Booth Tarkington's Memoirs of Time and Place, 1869-1928 brings together for the first time all of the autobiographical writings of Booth Tarkington, one of the most successful and best-loved writers in American history. These are the memoirs of one of America's greatest literary figures--and one of the keenest interpreters of American manners and mores. During his lifetime, Tarkington was immensely popular. From 1902 to 1932, nine of his books were top ten bestsellers, The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams won Pulitzer Prizes, and Tarkington's Penrod stories became widely recognized as young-adult classics. America Moved demonstrates that Tarkington's writing and powers of social observation stand the test of time. Written in a genial, easygoing style, America Moved gently but consistently interrogates the values of the new commercial-industrial age, especially its obsessions with speed, growth, and efficiency. The humane skepticism Tarkington directs in these pages toward the automobile, sprawl, and the cult of Progress identifies him as a voice quite at home in the twenty-first century. America Moved will delight readers with an enjoyable eyewitness account of the vast social and cultural changes that transformed America between the Civil War and the Great Depression.
Download or read book Cottage for Sale Must Be Moved written by Kate Whouley and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2011-05-02 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “highly entertaining” memoir of one woman’s “Holy Grail quest” to make a Cape Cod home—and the people, obstacles, and self-discoveries she encountered along the way (Wall Street Journal). When Kate Whouley saw the classified ad for an abandoned vacation cottage, she began to dream: Transport the cottage through four Cape Cod towns. Attach it to my three-room house. Create more space for my work and life. Smart, single, and self-employed, Kate was used to fending for herself. But she wasn’t prepared for half the surprises, complications, and self-discoveries of her house-moving adventure. Supported by friends and family and egged on by her bossy cat, Kate encountered a parade of town officials, a small convoy of State Police, and an eccentric band of house-movers, carpenters, and tradesmen. She found herself dancing on the edge of the gender divide—infatuated with trucks, cranes, tools, construction terms, and a dreamy mason who taught her the history of concrete. In one remarkable year, Whouley moved a cottage and created a home.
Download or read book The War of the Rebellion written by United States. War Department and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 1288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Official records produced by the armies of the United States and the Confederacy, and the executive branches of their respective governments, concerning the military operations of the Civil War, and prisoners of war or prisoners of state. Also annual reports of military departments, calls for troops, correspondence between national and state governments, correspondence between Union and Confederate officials. The final volume includes a synopsis, general index, special index for various military divisions, and background information on how these documents were collected and published. Accompanied by an atlas.
Download or read book We Shall Not Be Moved written by Tom Wooten and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As floodwaters drained in the weeks following Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans residents came to a difficult realization. Their city was about to undertake the largest disaster recovery in American history, yet they faced a profound leadership vacuum: members of every tier of government, from the municipal to the federal level, had fallen down on the job. We Shall Not Be Moved tells the absorbing story of the community leaders who stepped into this void to rebuild the city they loved. From a Vietnamese Catholic priest who immediately knows when two of his six thousand parishioners go missing to a single mother from the Lower Ninth Ward who instructs the likes of Jimmy Carter and Brad Pitt, these intrepid local organizers show that a city’s fate rests on the backs of its citizens. On their watch, New Orleans neighborhoods become small governments. These leaders organize their neighbors to ward off demolition threats, write comprehensive recovery plans, found community schools, open volunteer centers, raise funds to rebuild fire stations and libraries, and convince tens of thousands of skeptical residents to return home. Focusing on recovery efforts in five New Orleans neighborhoods—Broadmoor, Hollygrove, Lakeview, the Lower Ninth Ward, and Village de l’Est—Tom Wooten presents vivid narratives through the eyes and voices of residents rebuilding their homes, telling a story of resilience as entertaining as it is instructive. The unprecedented community mobilization underway in New Orleans is a silver lining of Hurricane Katrina’s legacy. By shedding light on this rebirth, We Shall Not Be Moved shows how residents, remarkably, turned a profound national failure into a story of hope.
Download or read book When I Moved Upstairs written by Ann Brophy and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-03-18 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ...It was like a scene in a movie when the girl has a nightmare. She locks her knees, pushes out her elbows, opens up her eyes and screams. Only I had no knees and no elbows. My eyes were blank, and my scream was silent. Thats when I knew I was dead. I looked down from where I hovered and saw myself, a clear overall view. I looked pretty bad, really messed up and surprised to be lying, twisted like a pretzel, in a pile of twigs and dirty slush. Bare trees, etched black against a dark gray sky, shivered above my body. They looked cold and bare. I looked cold and half-bare...
