Download or read book When the Whippoorwill Sang written by Arthur Lee Ford and published by University of Louisiana. This book was released on 2008 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the subtle constraints imposed on all rural African Americans in the segregated South and the central dilemma that defined their lives.

Download or read book Whippoorwill written by Joseph Monninger and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two New Hampshire teenagers fall into an unlikely relationship as they come together to save a mistreated dog. Whippoorwill is a deeply poignant story about the virulent nature of abuse and the power of human empathy.

Download or read book When the Whippoorwill written by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fact and fancy are the irresistible blend that characterizes these delightful tales of Florida's backwoods... and the Florida Crackers - the zany but lovable folks who populated the remote hamlet that was Marjorie Rawlings' home. With a gift for humor and a venerable ear for dialect comes the author's personal accounts of the people, scenery and wildlife of Cross Creek.

Download or read book Listen for the Whippoorwill written by Dave Jackson and published by Castle Rock Creative, Incorporated. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LISTEN FOR THE WHIPPOORWILL Introducing Harriet Tubman Living as a slave with her family on an old Maryland plantation in 1853, twelve-year-old Rosebud Jackson had been helping her mother with the cooking for the Big House as long as she could remember. Rosebud's world seemed like an endless pile of pots and pans to wash, food to prepare, and bread to bake. Her father worked long days in the fields while her fifteen-year-old brother Isaac was the stable boy. But when a series of tragedies strikes, Rosebud is left alone and very afraid. Her only hope is that the words of her father will come true: "Just listen for the whippoorwill." When the harvest season is over, this sound will be her signal to follow in a desperate attempt to escape her cruel slavery. On the darkest of nights, Rosebud will meet the mysterious person the slaves called "Moses," who will lead her and other slaves on a harrowing journey toward the North on the Underground Railroad. Harriet Tubman, known as "Moses," was also an escaped slave and became famous for leading bands of runaways on their dangerous passage to Canada. Will rosebud be able to keep up? Does Harriet Tubman know the way?

Download or read book Songs of the Whippoorwill An Appalachian Odyssey written by John Blankenship and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These snapshots from a reporter's notebook offer a compelling look at the resilient folk of Appalachia from the 1980s to the present. The author's detailed feature stories and personal reflections bring into focus the larger than life characters who helped mold our times for the better, even when facing seemingly insurmountable odds in one of our nation's most challenging economic regions."--Back cover

Download or read book When the Whippoorwill Calls written by Candice F. Ransom and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Blue Ridge Mountain family is displaced to the flatlands by the creation of the Shenandoah National Park.

Download or read book Songs of the Whippoorwill An Appalachian Odyssey Volume II written by John Blankenship and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-08-19 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These snapshots from a reporter's notebook offer a compelling look at the resilient folk of Appalachia from the 1980s to the present. The author's detailed feature stories and personal reflections bring into focus the larger than life characters who helped mold our times for the better, even when facing seemingly insurmountable odds in one of our nation's most challenging economic regions."--Back cover

Download or read book The Whippoorwill Trilogy written by Sharon Shala and published by RosettaBooks. This book was released on 2020-06-24 with total page 815 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the New York Times–bestselling author “at top form”—includes Whippoorwill, The Amen Trail, and The Hen House, all in one volume (Debbie Macomber). From bestselling author Sharon Sala comes the trilogy following Leticia Murphy on her adventures that take her from the Kansas Territories to Denver City, and from reluctant saloon girl to happily married woman. Orphaned at age twelve, all Leticia Murphy wants is love, a family, and a happily ever after. But the Kansas territories are a difficult place, and Letty has to do what it takes to survive. Now, she’s the last saloon girl in the rough-and-tumble town of Lizard Flats, a place where happily ever afters are nothing but a dream. Praise for The Whippoorwill Trilogy “Sharon Sala has created a one-of-a-kind, unforgettable character in Letty Murphy. Her rags-to-riches story is a mythic journey filled with moments of devastating emotional truth and soaring triumph.” —Susan Wiggs, #1 New York Times–bestselling author “No one does love and laughter like Sala. You’ll definitely want to take a journey down The Amen Trail.” —Joan Johnston, New York Times–bestselling author “Sharon Sala works her familiar magic and creates a story line that grabs your attention, along with a cast of unlikely characters who work their way right into your heart.” —Jasmine Cresswell, USA Today-bestselling author “Wear a corset because your sides will hurt from laughing! . . . You’re going to love this touching and memorable book.” —Debbie Macomber, #1 New York Times–bestselling author

Download or read book The Judas Murders written by Ken Oder and published by SkipJack Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-11 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a cold February morning in 1967, Sheriff Coleman Grundy finds Betty Lou Mundy dead in her front yard and her husband on the porch with the gun that killed her. It looks like a classic case of revenge on a cheating wife.Until the next murder. And the next. As Cole desperately searches for leads, he’s forced to come to grips with his own wife’s unsolved murder three years earlier, and in the process, he unearths long-buried secrets that change his life forever.

Download or read book Henry s Night written by Linda Michelin and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Henry cannot sleep, he takes the night jar and tries to capture the song of the night bird.

Download or read book Whippoorwill Hollow written by Davidson Lee Price and published by J. D. Grayford Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-24 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it take to truly lay a burden down? Having served two tours in Afghanistan, Hudson Lee returns home to Georgia mentally traumatized after the death of his good friend, who sacrificed himself to save Hudson in battle. Deeply distraught and unable to see a way out of his depression, Hudson makes plans to end his life at the family farm, Whippoorwill Hollow. Just when he's about to follow through, however, he encounters an abandoned dog that's been bitten by a snake and in dire need of help. Hudson's protective instincts kick in, and he and the mistreated red-nose terrier, named Hank after Hudson's deceased friend, form an extraordinary bond. Across town, Katie Carter is increasingly despondent about the prospect of ever escaping her abusive fiancé, Sean. When Hank guides Hudson and Katie together, she, too, has nearly lost her will to live. No matter where she goes or what she does, Sean always seems to find her. But love, family, and forgiveness are powerful, and with Hank's help, Hudson and Katie stand a chance of outrunning the demons of their past and facing a future together. Davidson Lee Price's debut novel is a tender and moving story of what happens when unspeakable pain is finally shared and how a community can come together to heal it.

Download or read book Bet the Farm written by Beth Hoffman and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Eloquent and detailed...It's hard to have hope, but the organized observations and plans of Hoffman and people like her give me some. Read her book -- and listen." -- Jane Smiley, The Washington Post In her late 40s, Beth Hoffman decided to upend her comfortable life as a professor and journalist to move to her husband's family ranch in Iowa--all for the dream of becoming a farmer. There was just one problem: money. Half of America's two million farms made less than $300 in 2019, and many struggle just to stay afloat. Bet the Farm chronicles this struggle through Beth's eyes. She must contend with her father-in-law, who is reluctant to hand over control of the land. Growing oats is good for the environment but ends up being very bad for the wallet. And finding somewhere, in the midst of COVID-19, to slaughter grass finished beef is a nightmare. If Beth can't make it, how can farmers who confront racism, lack access to land, or don't have other jobs to fall back on hack it? Bet the Farm is a first-hand account of the perils of farming today and a personal exploration of more just and sustainable ways of producing food.

Download or read book When the Whippoorwill Calls written by Peggy Poe Stern and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southern historical fiction novel of drama and intrigue set on the Blue Ridge of the Appalachian Mountains in Western North Carolina.Excerpt from Chapter Nine: She hid in the woods all night long. Didn't even come out to milk the goat or feed her mother's chickens. The goat was starting to bleat to be milked by the next morning, but she was too afraid to take a chance on being out in the open long enough to milk her.By the time the sun started going down, she gathered enough determination to slip close enough to the cabin to see through the open door. There was enough light left in the cabin to see her dad lying on the floor with a jug lying on its side and another one sitting upright only inches from his hand. She could hear his snoring from where she hid.He didn't look anything like the dad she feared. The man she was looking at was no longer the broad, powerful man she remembered. His body had shrunk, his beard was white, and thin hair that hung in greasy clumps on his round head. She could smell an odor coming from him even from the long distance from the cabin to where she hid. Hurriedly, she rushed from her hiding place through the woods to the shelter where the goat and chickens were. She fed and milked the goat, fed the chickens, and gathered the eggs. She drank every drop of the warm milk, but she didn't want to eat a slimy, raw eggs. She hid the eggs in a hollow stump where she could get them later.She went back to her hiding place in the woods as the gloaming of night set in. All she had to comfort her was the call of a whippoorwill coming from high on tall, rugged mountain. She wondered if Clancy was able to listen to the mournful sound, and if he felt desperate the way she did.

Download or read book Mountain Windsong written by Robert J. Conley and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-12-11 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against the tragic events of the Cherokees' removal from their traditional lands in North Carolina to Indian Territory between 1835-1838, Mountain Windsong is a love story that brings to life the suffering and endurance of the Cherokee people. It is the moving tale of Waguli (Whippoorwill") and Oconeechee, a young Cherokee man and woman separated by the Trail of Tears. Just as they are about to be married, Waguli is captured be federal soldiers and, along with thousands of other Cherokees, taken west, on foot and then by steamboat, to what is now eastern Oklahoma. Though many die along the way, Waguli survives, drowning his shame and sorrow in alcohol. Oconeechee, among the few Cherokees who remain behind, hidden in the mountains, embarks on a courageous search for Waguli. Robert J. Conley makes use of song, legend, and historical documents to weave the rich texture of the story, which is told through several, sometimes contradictory, voices. The traditional narrative of the Trail of Tears is told to a young contemporary Cherokee boy by his grandfather, presented in bits and pieces as they go about their everyday chores in rural North Carolina. The telling is neiter bitter nor hostile; it is sympathetic by unsentimental. An ironic third point of view, detached and often adversarial, is provided by the historical documents interspersed through the novel, from the text of the removal treaty to Ralph Waldo Emerson's letter to the president of the United States in protest of the removal. In this layering of contradictory elements, Conley implies questions about the relationships between history and legend, storytelling and myth-making. Inspired by the lyrics of Don Grooms's song "Whippoorwill," which open many chapters in the text, Conley has written a novel both meticulously accurate and deeply moving.

Download or read book Whippoorwill Farewell written by Debbie Fletcher and published by Trafford on Demand Pub. This book was released on 2003 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jocassee Valley, peacefully tucked in the arms of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Oconee County, was finally laid to rest in 1973. Duke Power Company's multi-million dollar Keowee-Toxaway project abruptly choked the natural flow of four wild rivers: Whitewater, Toxaway, Horsepasture, and Keowee, inundating the Valley under a chilling shroud, in some places over 300 feet deep. The idyllic sights and sounds of Jocassee are forever lost...except in the hearts of those of us who lived and played there. So, let's get to the bottom of it--Lake Jocassee, that is. Inside these covers are rare--perhaps one-of-a-kind--photographs of this beautiful Valley. Some were taken as early as 1914, long before dynamite carved out its cruel facade. Whippoorwill Farewell: Jocassee Remembered is my collection of childhood and family memories and rare photographs which I hope will make you laugh--perhaps cry--as you take a trip back through your own memories and remember the family times that warm your heart. The word "remember" means "to put back together; to re-member." It is my hope that in these pages... Jocassee will be remembered.

Download or read book The Amen Trail written by Sharon Sala and published by RosettaBooks. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An odd couple are on a trail to redemption in this delightful western romance—the second in a bestselling trilogy “full of adventure, laughter and fun” (Debbie Macomber, #1 New York Times–bestselling author). After one of her clients dies under embarrassing circumstances, frontier saloon girl Leticia Murphy fled the town of Lizard Flats with handyman and erstwhile drunk Eulis Potter in tow. Eager to forget her colorful past, Letty is determined to turn over a new leaf, and Eulis is happy to follow her. Impersonating a preacher and his wife, the pair travel from the Kansas territories to Colorado—marrying couples, baptizing babies, and performing burials along the way. Letty and Eulis manage to fool most people into seeing them as upstanding citizens, but that doesn’t stop them from getting into trouble . . . or falling in love. “Once you start reading you won’t want to stop!” —Debbie Macomber, #1 New York Times–bestselling author “The delightful Sharon Sala brings back her most memorable characters, Letty and Eulis, in a rousing adventure that is by turns dramatic, funny, touching and ultimately uplifting.” —Susan Wiggs, New York Times–bestselling author “Filled with characters that grab you by the funny bone and shake you till you laugh! No one does love and laughter in Sharon Sala’s style.” — Joan Johnston, New York Times–bestselling author

Download or read book Rascal Puffin Modern Classics written by Sterling North and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-09-23 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rascal is only a baby when young Sterling brings him home. He and the mischievous raccoon are best friends for a perfect year of adventure—until the spring day when everything suddenly changes. A Newbery Honor Book