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Author: Jeni Swem Edmonds Publisher: Trafford Publishing ISBN: 1426933436 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 244
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Thomas Martin is a pranksterone of those guys who thinks his jokes are funny. Living in the foothills of the Smokey Mountains, he revels in executing pranks on the campers and hikers; he has mastered the art of scaring the city folk. Sometimes his stunts have deadly consequences. He calls himself the Woodsman. Though loyal to her father, Martins ten-year-old daughter Jennifer is often afraid, especially when Martin abuses her mother, Eileen. Jennifer is with him the day a hiker dies as a result of one of his foolish pranks, bringing the family to a breaking point. Just a few days before Jennifers eleventh birthday, Martin is brutally murdered. Eileen disappears, and Jennifer has no memory of her fathers tragic death. Time passes, but Jennifer has her never forgotten the abuses her father heaped on the family. She now leads a life full of murder and deceit, getting revenge on those who mistreat women and those who stick their noses in her business. Her mother served revenge up on a platter, but for Jennifer, revenge is spoon-fed and dressed to kill. She is the Woodsmans daughter.
Author: Jeni Swem Edmonds Publisher: Trafford Publishing ISBN: 1426933436 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 244
Book Description
Thomas Martin is a pranksterone of those guys who thinks his jokes are funny. Living in the foothills of the Smokey Mountains, he revels in executing pranks on the campers and hikers; he has mastered the art of scaring the city folk. Sometimes his stunts have deadly consequences. He calls himself the Woodsman. Though loyal to her father, Martins ten-year-old daughter Jennifer is often afraid, especially when Martin abuses her mother, Eileen. Jennifer is with him the day a hiker dies as a result of one of his foolish pranks, bringing the family to a breaking point. Just a few days before Jennifers eleventh birthday, Martin is brutally murdered. Eileen disappears, and Jennifer has no memory of her fathers tragic death. Time passes, but Jennifer has her never forgotten the abuses her father heaped on the family. She now leads a life full of murder and deceit, getting revenge on those who mistreat women and those who stick their noses in her business. Her mother served revenge up on a platter, but for Jennifer, revenge is spoon-fed and dressed to kill. She is the Woodsmans daughter.
Author: Paul M. Zall Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press ISBN: 9781572335851 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 172
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Abraham Lincoln's Legacy of Laughter, a substantial revision of P. M. Zall's 1982 classic, Abe Lincoln Laughing, consists of stories, jokes, and anecdotes on a wide range of topics by and about Abraham Lincoln before and after he became president. Establishing which tales are authentic and which are frauds and delusions, Abraham Lincoln's Legacy of Laughter includes stories derived from Lincoln's writings and speeches; writings by others up to April 1865; post-Civil War writings by those who knew him; and writings by others about Lincoln in later decades, including a sample from the twentieth century. Within each group, entries are arranged in the order they appeared in print. The volume contains notes, a bibliography, an index of the entries by section, and a subject index.
Author: Harold K. Bush Publisher: University of Iowa Press ISBN: 1609380452 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 297
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More than any other American before or since, Abraham Lincoln had a way with words that has shaped our national idea of ourselves. Actively disliked and even vilified by many Americans for the vast majority of his career, this most studied, most storied, and most documented leader still stirs up controversy. Showing not only the development of a powerful mind but the ways in which our sixteenth president was perceived by equally brilliant American minds of a decidedly literary and political bent, Harold K. Bush’s Lincoln in His Own Time provides some of the most significant contemporary meditations on the Great Emancipator’s legacy and cultural significance. The forty-two entries in this spirited collection present the best reflections of Lincoln as thinker, reader, writer, and orator by those whose lives intertwined with his or those who had direct contact with eyewitnesses. Bush focuses on Lincoln’s literary interests, reading, and work as a writer as well as the evolving debate about his religious views that became central to his memory. Along with a star-struck Walt Whitman writing of Lincoln’s “inexpressibly sweet” face and manner, Elizabeth Keckly’s description of a bereaved Lincoln, “genius and greatness weeping over love’s idol lost,” and William Stoddard’s report of the “cheery, hopeful, morning light” on Lincoln’s face after a long night debating the fate of the nation, the volume includes selections from works by famous contemporary figures such as Hawthorne, Douglass, Stowe, Lowell, Twain, and Lincoln himself in addition to lesser-known selections that have been nearly lost to history. Each entry is introduced by a headnote that places the selection in historical and cultural context; explanatory endnotes provide information about people and places. A comprehensive introduction and a detailed chronology of Lincoln’s eventful life round out the volume. Bush’s thoughtful collection reveals Lincoln as a man of letters who crafted some of the most memorable lines in our national vocabulary, explores the striking mythologization of the martyred president that began immediately upon his death, and then combines these two themes to illuminate Lincoln’s place in public memory as the absolute embodiment of America’s mythic civil religion. Beyond providing the standard fare of reminiscences about the rhetorically brilliant backwoodsman from the “Old Northwest,” Lincoln in His Own Time also maps a complex genealogy of the cultural work and iconic status of Lincoln as quintessential scribe and prophet of the American people.
Author: Sharon Barcan Elswit Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 1476663041 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 317
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The Caribbean islands have a vibrant oral folklore. In Jamaica, the clever spider Anansi, who outsmarts stronger animals, is a symbol of triumph by the weak over the powerful. The fables of the foolish Juan Bobo, who tries to bring milk home in a burlap bag, illustrate facets of traditional Puerto Rican life. Conflict over status, identity and power is a recurring theme--in a story from Trinidad, a young bull, raised by his mother in secret, challenges his tyrannical father who has killed all the other males in the herd. One in a series of folklore reference guides by the author, this volume shares summaries of 438 tales--some in danger of disappearing--retold in English and Creole from West African, European, and slave indigenous cultures in 24 countries and territories. Tales are grouped in themed sections with a detailed subject index and extensive links to online sources.
Author: Betty June Gilliland Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1491728515 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 347
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On a stormy night, as a hurricane raced up the Gulf Coast and created havoc in its path, Betty Gilliland was born on a corn shuck mattress in a barn at the foot of Sand Mountain. As soon as the midwife wrapped her in a blanket and gently laid her in a cow manger, Gilliland began a journey through life that would eventually test her spirit, courage, and, most of all, her power to forgive. Gilliland begins by chronicling her growing up years during a challenging time in Americas history. Her father was drafted into the war and then abandoned his family, leaving Gilliland and her mother to eke out a life for themselves in their tiny cabin, surviving on a diet of wild greens, nuts, and roots. As she weaves through the threads of her lifes tapestry, Gilliland recalls the challenges she confronted during her difficult coming-of-age journey as she suffered through hardships, physical abuse, emotional abandonment, and her own self-destructive behavior. Yet through it all, she never lost the faith. Whats more, she used that faith to begin building a new life and to discover her roots. Destinys Tapestry shares one womans poignant memories of moving from the darkness of abuse into the light of healing.
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