Download or read book Hill Women written by Cassie Chambers and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After rising from poverty to earn two Ivy League degrees, an Appalachian lawyer pays tribute to the strong “hill women” who raised and inspired her, and whose values have the potential to rejuvenate a struggling region. “Destined to be compared to Hillbilly Elegy and Educated.”—BookPage (starred review) “A gritty, warm love letter to Appalachian communities and the resourceful women who lead them.”—Slate Nestled in the Appalachian mountains, Owsley County, Kentucky, is one of the poorest places in the country. Buildings are crumbling as tobacco farming and coal mining decline. But strong women find creative ways to subsist in the hills. Through the women who raised her, Cassie Chambers traces her path out of and back into the Kentucky mountains. Chambers’s Granny was a child bride who rose before dawn every morning to raise seven children. Granny’s daughter, Ruth—the hardest-working tobacco farmer in the county—stayed on the family farm, while Wilma—the sixth child—became the first in the family to graduate from high school. Married at nineteen and pregnant with Cassie a few months later, Wilma beat the odds to finish college. She raised her daughter to think she could move mountains, like the ones that kept her safe but also isolated from the larger world. Cassie would spend much of her childhood with Granny and Ruth in the hills of Owsley County. With her “hill women” values guiding her, she went on to graduate from Harvard Law. But while the Ivy League gave her opportunities, its privileged world felt far from her reality, and she moved home to help rural Kentucky women by providing free legal services. Appalachian women face issues from domestic violence to the opioid crisis, but they are also keeping their towns together in the face of a system that continually fails them. With nuance and heart, Chambers breaks down the myth of the hillbilly and illuminates a region whose poor communities, especially women, can lead it into the future.

Download or read book Then Came Cal written by Lee Barrows and published by Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD). This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sean Hutchins is having the worst day of his life... After losing what he thought was his dream job, Sean Hutchins walks away to suddenly find not only his professional life, but also his personal life, falling apart. Seeking comfort in his best friend, Cassie, the last person Sean expects to run into is Cassie's big brother—and Sean's long-time crush—Cal. Cal is supposed to be on vacation visiting his baby sister, not babysitting her and her best friend, Sean. And he definitely is not supposed to be staring at Sean's hot ass. But after spending some time with the guy, Cal finds himself with confusing feelings. Should Cal act on his attraction? And can Sean find a way to put back together the broken pieces of his heart and his life?

Download or read book She Said Yes written by Misty Bernall and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Columbine High April 1999.

Download or read book Scent written by Clint Kelly and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2006 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hunt is on to capture 'the very breath of beauty' and secure the success of struggling perfumers Cassie and Nick Dixon. When the fragrance 'Cassandra' is at last unveiled, the public goes wild. Then 'Cassandra' starts to wreak havoc, and the Dixons must face their inner demons before it's too late ...

Download or read book Along Came Trouble written by Sherryl Woods and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods returns readers to the beloved Southern town of Trinity Harbor with a story of intrigue and second chances. Sheriff Tucker Spencer has seen some action…but finding an almost-naked woman asleep in his bed leaves him speechless. Especially because this same woman, Mary Elizabeth, broke Tucker's heart six years ago by marrying a charismatic Virginia politician, a man who's just been found shot dead. Mary Elizabeth needs Tucker's help. Needs him, period. But along with her return comes all the town gossip about their reunion romance. Even his father, who can't manage his own love life, is determined to "impart his wisdom" regarding theirs. Tucker's not listening to any of it. He just needs to clear Mary Elizabeth's name. But in the end, he'll confront a mystery even more confusing than murder: how the heart makes room for forgiveness and a new start.

Download or read book Cassie s Ridge written by Kim Keller and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-02-13 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ms. Keller takes her readers to a conflict between representatives of powerful mining interests and two conversation-minded individuals who simultaneously endeavor to find peace in the mountains and with each other. While this is a work of fiction, all the events described have actually occurred in real life, but to other persons in other places. The mountain scenes are realistic, for the author's father-in-law is a distinguished alpinist who has experienced and verified, the realism of the acts and climbs described.

Download or read book THE HIGHLANDER S MAIDEN written by Elizabeth Mayne and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her Heart Was In The Highlands Indeed, every hill and vale seemed a mapping of her soul. Cassie MacArthur doubted any man could ever understand the freedom of roaming high road and low. Especially not Robert Gordon, enemy to her clan—yet, ironically, the one man in Scotland who made her blood sing! Driven by a questing spirit, Cassie MacArthur would make a bonny bride—Robert Gordon felt it in the marrow of his bones. Truly, the legendary Lady Quickfoot would be the perfect partner for his life's work—and his life! But was he fleet enough to catch her?

Download or read book The Facts of Life written by Graham Joyce and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2003 World Fantasy Award Graham Joyce chronicles a haunting, war-torn terrain in this heartrending novel of one family's quest to begin again -- without forgetting the lives they left behind. The Facts of Life Set in Coventry, England, during and immediately after World War II, The Facts of Life revolves around the early years of Frank Arthur Vine, the illegitimate son of young, free-spirited Cassie and an American GI. Because Cassie is too unreliable and unstable to act as his proper guardian -- and is prone to blue periods in which she wanders off without warning or recollection -- Frank is brought up in the care of his strong-willed, stout-drinking grandmother, Martha Vine, who has, among other homemaking talents, the untoward ability to communicate with the dead. So begins the first decade of Frank's life, one in which ghosts have a place at the table and divine order dictates the outcome of his days. Along the way there are brief stays with each of his six eccentric aunts, visits to the local mortuary, and voices inside of his own head that suggest that he, too, has the gift of supernatural intuition. An affecting tale of family and history, war and peace, love and madness, The Facts of Life will leave readers spellbound with its resounding expression of magic realism.

Download or read book Blood Ties written by Gabriella Poole and published by Hodder Children's Books. This book was released on 2010-08-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Darke Academy is a school like no other. An élite establishment that moves to an exotic new city every term, its students are impossibly beautiful, sophisticated and rich. This term the secretive Darke Academy has moved to New York, and Cassie Bell is no longer the innocent new girl. Now she is strong, determined, and hiding secrets of her own. For Cassie has been introduced to the world of the Few and is struggling to come to terms with her astonishing powers, a dangerous romance and the malevolent spirit inside her, demanding to be fed. When an old enemy returns, bent on revenge, Cassie is tested to the limit. Can she rescue her friends from a horrific fate, or will she end up destroying them to save herself? Wherever the Darke Academy goes, death is never far behind ...

Download or read book The 5th Wave written by Rick Yancey and published by Large Print Press. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cassie Sullivan, the survivor of an alien invasion, must rescue her young brother from the enemy with help from a boy who may be one of them.

Download or read book Something to Believe written by Robbi McCoy and published by Bella Books. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Lauren Keegan met Cassie Burkett on a Yangtze River cruise, they immediately clicked. Cruise over, they kept in touch, and rapidly became close friends. The following year they’re reunited for a visit which ends with a spontaneous kiss that surprises them both. That one kiss destroys their friendship, sending them back to their lives—and their partners—heartsick and remorseful. Ten years later everything—and nothing—has changed. While the path is now clear for them to reignite the old flame, the time still seems all wrong. Cassie is unable to break through the emotional wallsseparating her from both her estranged son and her rediscovered love, while Lauren is overcome with revelations about her late partner that shatter her belief in destiny and romance. Challenged by the past and besieged in the present, the only thing going for them is the one thing they’ve denied all these years: love. With an unforgettable journey through China as backdrop for a story of fated love, Robbi McCoy, author of Waltzing at Midnight and Not Every River returns with a decade-spanning romance that explores first impressions, second chances and perhaps third time’s the charm.

Download or read book Cassie Was Here written by Caroline Hickey and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After moving to a new neighborhood, eleven-year-old Bree's long-forgotten imaginary playmate returns, to the dismay of her parents and brother, but the only other girl on the street is thirteen-year-old Cassie, whose behavior may lead to big trouble.

Download or read book She Said Yes written by Misty Bernall and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir is of an ordinary teenager growing up in suburban Colorado, and faced, as all teenagers are, with difficult choices and pressures. Told by her mother, it is Cassie's story, one of the Columbine High students killed by two schoolmates.

Download or read book Along Came Cassie written by David Boyce and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a beloved Portuguese Water Dog named Cassie and the impact she had on our lives. What you read is 100 percent true. There's no way I could make this story up. As you read more of the story, you'll find out how special she was. From boat rides to chasing squirrels, things were never dull when Cassie was around.

Download or read book My Cassandra written by Nora Griswold and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story opens with Cassandra (cassie) hurrying in to open her shop for the day. Keith shows a measure of interest as he is having coffee and looking at the shop acoss the way. He picks out a pin and matching earrings for his nurses bithday and indicates he will be waiting for Cassie when the shop closes so they might go to dinner. Kevin feels determined to have her while he is a man who does not believe in love and marriage... he beleives in one woman at a time. They seem to form a bond but after several months, he indicates, I think we should see and date other people. Cassie feels heartbroken and disappears. He resolves to try to make up to her all the hurt he caused. He enlists a private investigator. An auto accident lands Cassie in the hospital, Keith is shocked to find she apparently has lost her memory and as she inches towards recovery he makes up his mind to tell her they are engaged to be married. Certain information emerges giving Cassie mixed feelings about what had transpired over the past few months and seeing Keith somewhat differently. A bout of illness complicate things while giving up the shop to her friend Sandy. She feels like part of her life is coming to a close. In the concluding chapters of My Cassandra by Nora Griswold Sandy shows a degree of concern for Doug who put Punoro in jail in exchange for his masion in Beverly Hills. Meanwhile Cassie's lungs start giving out. Keith senses the end is near. They head for New York where Dr.Guberman uses all his techniques on Cassie but determines her time is very limited. It is best to take her home where she can be comforatble in her last days. With elements of suspence and romance the work is designed to capture the imagination as well as to provoke thought.

Download or read book StarJumper s Bride written by J. A. Clarke and published by Uncial Press. This book was released on 2012-05-18 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cassie Gordon is up for sale on the notorious flesh auction block of the Fortis Cluster. The man who pays a fortune for her promises to deliver her to sanctuary. His only demand is for payment in kind-rescue from an untenable situation. The price-marriage. The rogue trader who travels the shadowy byways of questionable commerce in three star systems may not be what he seems. Sebastian Asteril's past begins to surface as Cassie builds a new life for herself in the Crestar System. How could her husband have once been a high-ranking officer in the elite Seventh Fleet of the mighty Mariltar Nation when all the evidence points to his illegal trade in shlil dust? The mission that has consumed him becomes an intolerable burden when Sebastian learns that the evil that delivered Cassie to the auction block stalks her still. Somehow, he has to keep her safe. Somehow, he must protect his wife from the vicious alien force that wants her back.

Download or read book Iron O brian written by M. L. Becker and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-02-18 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1862 and nineteen-year-old Cassie OBrian has been traveling for three days on a train to reach a camp surrounded by a scorched wasteland. Cassie, who hastily joined the army when her fianc died at Bull Run, is ill-equipped for her new life as a Civil War nurse. But no one cares about her past as she is quickly ushered off the train and thrown into the horrors of war. Now all Cassie has to do is survive in a harsh reality comprised of mostly men. Cassie somehow muddles through her heartbreak by nursing soldiers back to health and staying numbthe only way she thinks she can continue living. As her adventures take her into bloody battles, the black market, and to a man who will eventually heal her broken heart, Cassie becomes braver, resilient, and determined to endure in an unforgiving world. But as the war ends and she travels to Washington City to start anew, Cassie soon realizes that nothing in her past has prepared her for the challenges of being an outspoken Yankee feminist. Iron OBrian is the historical tale of death and rebirth as a Civil War nurse journeys from the darkness of grief to the horrors of battlefield and beyond as she learns about loveand most of allherself.