Download or read book Tales From A Hole Road written by Tim Stevich and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Christine and Tim Stevich decided to renovate a unique old house they had lived in for over a decade, located outside a small, rural town, they thought they had made the right decision. After renovating it into their dream home, they celebrated and settled down to enjoy their quiet new lifestyle. Unfortunately, some in their community had a different idea. With no warning or reason, people from the area began shouting at them from the road, honking at all hours of the night, and even creeping onto their property to look through the windows. Soon, hostile interactions with these people turned into a daily occurrence, and they began to fear for their safety. As the harassment grew uglier and more persistent, the Stevichs turned to the police and town council, only to find them unsympathetic and unable to restore peace to their neighborhood. They were alone and trapped in an unfathomable hell. This is the horrifying story of one couple’s experience with ongoing and vicious harassment. It recounts the daily assaults they endured, the methods they used to cope and defend themselves, and ultimately, how their terrible ordeal came to an end. To anyone who has or continues to face a similar situation, this book stands as a rallying call to do anything you can to secure your peace.
Download or read book There s a Hole in My Sidewalk written by Portia Nelson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-02-21 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to inspire self-discovery, "There's a Hole in My Sidewalk" contains more than 100 touching poems that gently guide readers to a more authentic and fulfilling life.
Download or read book The Story and Poems of the Boy from Dingle Hole Road written by Al Luckette and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a tumultuous time in the United States, young Alfred was dealing with more than just the confusion of the struggle for civil rights. His father had forced his family of ten into a nomadic existence, never staying anywhere long enough to become established. Originally from the North, the Luckettes found the Southern part of the US to be a very hostile environment for the family. Not in support of slavery or segregation, they were forced from the South and lived in many states along their way back North. Through all his family's travels seeking a peaceful life, Alfred himself was seeking a peaceful heart. Although placed in many different schools during his childhood, Alfred's intelligence kept him ahead of his studies. He also became highly skilled due to his father's various business ventures. But these successes couldn't stay the unrest in his soul. Ultimately, Alfred found the peace he had been searching for through God. Join author Al Luckette as he takes you through the colorful, painful, and heart-warming past of The Boy from Nowhere.
Download or read book Red Hole in Time written by Muriel Marshall and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escalante Canyon is a red-walled hole in a geologic uplift (the Uncompahgre Plateau) in western Colorado. Pioneers surging west fell into this canyon hole the way gold nuggets get caught in the potholes of a stream. Like nuggets eddying against stone, they were shaped by the Canyon--rounded off, shattered, or tossed away, according to how they conformed or resisted. Indeed, treasure richer than gold settled into that hole in time; in the onrushing current of history the lifestyle--the Old West--settled and still survives there--in fact, in artifact, and in living memories.
Download or read book The Lincoln Highway written by Amor Towles and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER More than ONE MILLION copies sold A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick A New York Times Notable Book, and Chosen by Oprah Daily, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Bill Gates and Barack Obama as a Best Book of the Year “Wise and wildly entertaining . . . permeated with light, wit, youth.” —The New York Times Book Review “A classic that we will read for years to come.” —Jenna Bush Hager, Read with Jenna book club “Fantastic. Set in 1954, Towles uses the story of two brothers to show that our personal journeys are never as linear or predictable as we might hope.” —Bill Gates “A real joyride . . . elegantly constructed and compulsively readable.” —NPR The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite direction—to the City of New York. Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view, Towles's third novel will satisfy fans of his multi-layered literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settings, characters, and themes. “Once again, I was wowed by Towles’s writing—especially because The Lincoln Highway is so different from A Gentleman in Moscow in terms of setting, plot, and themes. Towles is not a one-trick pony. Like all the best storytellers, he has range. He takes inspiration from famous hero’s journeys, including The Iliad, The Odyssey, Hamlet, Huckleberry Finn, and Of Mice and Men. He seems to be saying that our personal journeys are never as linear or predictable as an interstate highway. But, he suggests, when something (or someone) tries to steer us off course, it is possible to take the wheel.” – Bill Gates
Download or read book Out of the Rabbit Hole written by Sheri Bloom and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'Out of the Rabbit Hole: A Roadmap to Freedom from OCD' is a compelling story of one woman's journey to recovery from obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Sheri Bloom weaves a complicated web of real-life experiences that both influenced and culminated in her ultimate battle against OCD. Dr. Suzanne Mouton-Odum, a licensed psychologist who specializes in OCD, gives insightful and informative guidance to the reader about the development, conceptualization, and treatment of this disabling disorder. This book not only describes how it feels to have OCD, but also how to move toward recovery!"--P. [4] of cover.
Download or read book Down the Rabbit Hole written by Holly Madison and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-06-23 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The real, untold, and unvarnished story of life inside the legendary Playboy Mansion—and the man who holds the key—from the woman who was Hef’s #1 girlfriend and star of The Girls Next Door. A spontaneous decision at age twenty-one transformed small-town Oregon girl Holly Sue Cullen into Holly Madison, Hugh Hefner’s #1 girlfriend. But like Alice in Wonderland after she plunged down the rabbit hole, what seemed like a fairytale life inside the Playboy Mansion—including A-list celebrity parties and her own #1-rated television show—quickly devolved into an oppressive routine of strict rules, manipulation, and battles with ambitious, backstabbing bunnies. Losing her identity, her sense of self-worth, and her hope for the future, Holly found herself sitting alone in a bathtub contemplating suicide. But instead of ending her life, Holly chose to take charge of it. In this shockingly candid and surprisingly moving memoir, this thoughtful and introspective woman opens up about life inside the Mansion, the drugs, the sex and the infamous parties, as well as what her relationships with her Girls Next Door co-stars, Bridget and Kendra were really like. Holly talks candidly about a subsequent abusive relationship, her own successful television series, and the hard work of healing, including her turn on Dancing with the Stars. A cautionary tale and a celebration of personal empowerment, Down the Rabbit Hole reminds us of the importance of fighting for our dreams—and finding the life we deserve.
Download or read book Tales of Yukaghir Lamut and Russanized Natives of Eastern Siberia written by Vladimïr Germanovich Bogoraz and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folklore of Yukaghir, Lamut, Kolyma, Markova, and Anadyr.
Download or read book A Tale Of Two Cities written by Karen Evans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Tale of Two Cities is a study of two major cities, Manchester and Sheffield. Drawing on the work of major theorists, the authors explore the everyday life, making contributions to our understanding of the defining activities of life.
Download or read book Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole written by Allan H. Ropper and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tell the doctor where it hurts." It sounds simple enough, unless the problem affects the very organ that produces awareness and generates speech. What is it like to try to heal the body when the mind is under attack? In this book, Reaching Down the Rabiit Hole, Dr. Allan H. Ropper and Brian David Burrell take the reader behind the scenes at Harvard Medical School's neurology unit to show how a seasoned diagnostician faces down bizarre, life-altering afflictions. Like Alice in Wonderland, Dr. Ropper inhabits a world where absurdities abound: • A figure skater whose body has become a ticking time-bomb • A salesman who drives around and around a traffic rotary, unable to get off • A college quarterback who can't stop calling the same play • A child molester who, after falling on the ice, is left with a brain that is very much dead inside a body that is very much alive • A mother of two young girls, diagnosed with ALS, who has to decide whether a life locked inside her own head is worth living How does one begin to treat such cases, to counsel people whose lives may be changed forever? How does one train the next generation of clinicians to deal with the moral and medical aspects of brain disease? Dr. Ropper and his colleague answer these questions by taking the reader into a rarified world where lives and minds hang in the balance.
Download or read book Folk tales of Andros Island Bahamas written by Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fire in the Hole written by Elmore Leonard and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this superb short fiction collection, Elmore Leonard, “the greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever” (New York Times Book Review), once again illustrates how the line between the law and the lawbreakers is not as firm as we might think. In the title story, the basis for the hit FX series Justified, U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens meets up with an old friend, but they’re now on different sides of the law. Federal marshal Karen Sisco, from Out of Sight, returns in “Karen Makes Out,” once again inadvertently mixing pleasure with business. In “When the Women Come Out to Dance,” Mrs. Mahmood gets more than she bargains for when she conspires with her maid to end her unhappy marriage. These nine stories are the great Elmore Leonard at his vivid, hilarious, and unfailingly human best.
Download or read book Roxbury Place Name Stories written by Jeannine Green and published by Jeannine Green. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every place on earth has a name. Never noticed the place-names in your town? Then take a look at these tales; you'll learn some things about where you live. These stories are about a rural Connecticut town settled in the 1700s. Place-names are everywhere on rivers, roads, brooks, hills, buildings, parks, cemeteries, nature preserves, even rocks. The names are from Englishmen, Indians, plants, animals, battles, the Bible, hell, heroes, celebrities, and just plain folks. Place-names are strange creatures, but they all reveal the history, culture, and eccentricities of people who passed through even in your town. Rummage around these tales if you're a librarian, historian, geographer, genealogist, traveler, or resident of this planet. Advance Praise from Roxbury, Conn. Notables lasting treasure for our community insights into nuggets of Roxbury's heritage quick and pleasurable read Barbara Henry, First Selectman extraordinary vade mecum informs and amuses paints a living portrait of Roxbury Steven Schinke, President, Roxbury Land Trust exhaustive research into town records, printed sources, unpublished manuscripts and the memories of older residents clear panorama of where white settlers first arrived in the 18th century Timothy Field Beard, FASG, Town Historian important local history and delightful read Valerie G. Annis, Director, Minor Memorial Library.
Download or read book Harper s Story Books written by Jacob Abbott and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strange Tales from Virginia s Mountains written by Denver Michaels and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-12 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the mysterious side of Virginia with these strange tales of Bigfoot, buried treasure, phantom dogs, UFOs, ghosts, and more. The stunning mountains of Virginia offer spectacular views and endless outdoor activities, yet they also hold secrets. A nineteenth-century cache of gold is buried in the hills. Nine-foot giants once walked the ridges, pre-Columbian explorers built homes on isolated mountaintops and a ghost town lies deep in the Jefferson National Forest. The mountains conceal canines that walk upright, black panthers and a resurgent mountain lion population. The hide-and-seek champion of the world, Bigfoot, lurks in the dark hollows, phantom dogs pace the back roads and aggressive monkeys swing through the trees. UFOs crisscross the skies, and ghosts haunt the caverns below. Join Denver Michaels, local author and explorer of the unexplained, as he explores these mysteries and many more.
Download or read book The Story of Martha s Vineyard written by Charles Gilbert Hine and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dacha Tales written by Larisa Zalesova and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dacha Tales: Life in the Russian Hinterland is the author’s first book in the travel genre. Readers of Zalesova’s novels often asked whether she drew on her own and her family’s experience to write them. The answer was ‘yes and no.’ In Dacha Tales, she says directly that the stories retold are autobiographical, recounting her adventures recreating as a pensioner the joyful life in the countryside that she enjoyed in her childhood and adolescence. The personalities presented are real flesh and blood people: neighbors, friends, acquaintances who embody the folk wisdom and the life experience of contemporary Russia.
