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Author: Janice Holt Giles Publisher: University Press of Kentucky ISBN: 9780813101859 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 260
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"The story of Hod Pierce, a young man who grows up on Piney Ridge, where generations of Pierces have made a living from the stubborn soil. Hod loves his people and the land but longs for wider horizons, for more education, and for the freedom his imagines can be found in the outside world. It takes World War II to carry Hod away from the Ridge and out into the owrld, and it takes his city-bred wife to make Hod realize that Piney Ridge will always be home"--Back cover.
Author: Janice Holt Giles Publisher: University Press of Kentucky ISBN: 9780813101859 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 260
Book Description
"The story of Hod Pierce, a young man who grows up on Piney Ridge, where generations of Pierces have made a living from the stubborn soil. Hod loves his people and the land but longs for wider horizons, for more education, and for the freedom his imagines can be found in the outside world. It takes World War II to carry Hod away from the Ridge and out into the owrld, and it takes his city-bred wife to make Hod realize that Piney Ridge will always be home"--Back cover.
Author: Dianne Watkins Stuart Publisher: University Press of Kentucky ISBN: 9780813129556 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 304
Author: Ian McEwan Publisher: Vintage Canada ISBN: 0307366995 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 280
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In one of the most striking opening scenes ever written, a bizarre ballooning accident and a chance meeting give birth to an obsession so powerful that an ordinary man is driven to the brink of madness and murder by another's delusions. Ian McEwan brings us an unforgettable story—dark, gripping, and brilliantly crafted—of how life can change in an instant.
Author: Lucy Morgan Publisher: UNC Press Books ISBN: 1469610329 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 337
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Miss Lucy went to the North Carolina mountains in 1920 as an apprentice teacher, but she soon discovered that the kind of teaching that she wanted to do was not in the fields in which she was trained. What interested her most was already there among the mountain people--the ancient arts of hand-weaving and vegetable dyeing. Her campaign to revive interest in these native crafts has resulted in the internationally respected Penland School of Handicrafts. Originally published in 1971. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Author: Janyre Tromp Publisher: Kregel Publications ISBN: 0825477948 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 288
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"Tromp weaves a complex historical tale incorporating love, suspense, hurt, and healing--all the elements that keep the pages turning." —Julie Cantrell, New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of Perennials Charlotte Anne Mattas longs to turn back the clock. Before her husband, Sam, went to serve his country in the war, he was the man everyone could rely on--responsible, intelligent, and loving. But the person who's come back to their family farm is very different from the protector Annie remembers. Sam's experience in the Pacific theater has left him broken in ways no one can understand--but that everyone is learning to fear. Tongues start wagging after Sam nearly kills his own brother. Now when he claims to have seen men on the mountain when no one else has seen them, Annie isn't the only one questioning his sanity and her safety. If there were criminals haunting the hills, there should be evidence beyond his claims. Is he really seeing what he says, or is his war-tortured mind conjuring ghosts? Annie desperately wants to believe her husband. But between his irrational choices and his nightmares leaking into the daytime, she's terrified he's going mad. Can she trust God to heal Sam's mental wounds--or will sticking by him mean keeping her marriage at the cost of her own life? Debut novelist Janyre Tromp delivers a deliciously eerie, Hitchcockian story filled with love and suspense. Readers of psychological thrillers and historical fiction by Jaime Jo Wright and Sarah Sundin will add Tromp to their favorite authors list.
Author: Andrew Hardy Publisher: University of Hawaii Press ISBN: 9780824826376 Category : History Languages : vi Pages : 408
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Several million rural inhabitants of Vietnam’s northern deltas made the decision to move during the twentieth century, seeking to make new homes in the country’s highlands. This book offers a historical analysis of the political economy of migration, stimulated by the French colonial and independent socialist states. It shows how socialist policies especially changed the face of the highlands, as settlers from the plains turned the hills "red."
Author: Janice Holt Giles Publisher: University Press of Kentucky ISBN: 9780813108315 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 284
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Miss Willie, first published in 1951, is the second novel in Janice Holt Giles's Piney Ridge trilogy, which includes also The Enduring Hills and Tara's Healing. Although the plot is fictional, the central character is based on Giles's mother and some of the episodes are drawn from her life. This is the story of a dedicated teacher who moves to the hills of Kentucky to teach in a one-room schoolhouse at Piney Ridge. Zealously she tries to change the ways of the stubborn and proud Appalachian people - but to no avail. They listen to her crazy ideas about sanitation and other foolishness because to argue would be rude. But in the end they quietly go about their accustomed ways. Ultimately Miss Willie realizes that the hill customs have a beauty and dignity of their own and that some of her efforts to reform them were ill-conceived. Her warmth, generosity, and humor help her bridge the gap and find fulfillment in Piney Ridge. This is a story of reconciliation and the coming together of two different ways of life. Above all, it is a story of people and of the land to which they belong.
Author: Grace Livingston Hill Publisher: Barbour Publishing ISBN: 1628363754 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 283
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Jane Arleth’s mountain vacation is cut short when she receives news that both her parents have been sick back home. Anxious to help but sad to leave a rare chance to relax for the hard times ahead, Jane returns to the city. She soon discovers that there’s only one cure for her ailing parents: some much-deserved, cooling time away from the scorching city. So Jane rents a tiny cottage on the beach, hoping for the best. What she finds is a summer that opens her heart to love.
Author: Ernest Hemingway Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 147677014X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 167
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There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things, and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave. In the winter of 1933, Ernest Hemingway and his wife Pauline set out on a two-month safari in the big-game country of East Africa, camping out on the great Serengeti Plain at the foot of magnificent Mount Kilimanjaro. “I had quite a trip,” the author told his friend Philip Percival, with characteristic understatement. Green Hills of Africa is Hemingway's account of that expedition, of what it taught him about Africa and himself. Richly evocative of the region's natural beauty, tremendously alive to its character, culture, and customs, and pregnant with a hard-won wisdom gained from the extraordinary situations it describes, it is widely held to be one of the twentieth century's classic travelogues.
Author: Janice Holt Giles
Author: Janice Holt Giles
Author: Dianne Watkins Stuart
Author: Janice Holt Giles
Author: Ian McEwan
Author: Lucy Morgan
Author: Janyre Tromp
Author: Andrew Hardy
Author: Janice Holt Giles
Author: Grace Livingston Hill
Author: Ernest Hemingway