Shadows of Yesterday: One Family's Story, written and edited by Charles G. Hood and Christopher S. Hood, is a richly detailed and intriguing portrait of one family's journey through the twentieth century. Combining biographies of the Hood parents, William S. Hood and Anne M. Hood, with personal recollections of childhood and early adulthood written by the six Hood children, the authors provide a fascinating series of vignettes that tell the tale of this typical American family. From Fairmont, West Virginia, to Carmel, Indiana, and eventually to Pickens, South Carolina, the family timeline cuts across many geographic locales and features an abundance of both triumphs and tragedies. Perhaps the most difficult loss was the premature death of the father, William S. Hood, and this unfortunate occurrence is described in the most intimate of terms by the surviving children. Other more joyous family events, such as the holiday traditions, the family pets, vacations, and other blissfully innocent memories of youth, are intertwined into poignant narratives that even those readers who do not know the authors' family may enjoy perusing. The book concludes with a description of the later years of the surviving mother, Anne M. Hood, as she carved out a new life for herself and her children, and ultimately, as she faced her own demise with grace. The book is a product of nearly three years of intensive research with surviving family members and friends, review of old letters, cards, and photographs, viewing of reels of family home movies, and travel to the many old neighborhoods that were once called home. Written in loving memory of William and Anne Hood, Shadows of Yesterday: One Family's Story is a compelling narrative of those youthful remembrances that all of us carry into adulthood; to those whose sense of nostalgia carries them back in time to a simpler and often happier era, the book is further dedicated. Charles G. Hood and Christopher S. Hood are also co-authors of a companion book published earlier this year by Xlibris entitled, Returning to Our Roots: The Long Journey Home, which stands as a more dispassionate genealogic work. It details the earlier family history and dovetails nicely with the more recent and personal stories contained within this book. Read together, the two books offer a wealth of information about a group of extraordinary people leading ordinary lives in the United States.
Kentucky State Representative Charles Booker tells the improbable story of his journey from one of the poorest neighborhoods in the country to a political career forging new alliances among forgotten communities across the New South and beyond. “Charles Booker is a rising leader in our nation, and an inspiration to me and all those who get to know his story and vision.”—Senator Cory Booker Charles Booker grew up in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Kentucky, living in the largely segregated West End of Louisville. Faith and love were everything in his family, but material comforts were scarce. The electricity was sometimes shut off. His mother often went hungry so her son could eat. Even after he graduated from law school, Booker rationed the insulin he took for diabetes. Determined to build a world in which poverty and racism would not plague future generations, he charted his own course into Kentucky politics, a world dominated by the myth of an urban-rural divide, and controlled by the formidable Republican establishment. In this stirring account, Booker unfolds his journey from the heart of Louisville to the deepest reaches of Kentucky’s rural landscapes, reflecting the journey America itself must make on the way to a progressive future. Robbed of multiple family members by gun violence, Booker found the roots of a system built to fail him and his neighbors in everything from the hypocrisy of elected officials to the structural racism embedded in the state’s budget. Yet it wasn’t until his unlikely appointment to the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources that he understood the transformative power of the issues that bound his family with those in rural Appalachia. In coal country, he met citizens who, like those in the West End, suffered from extreme isolation, for whom fresh food and economic stability were scarce, who lacked the resources to overcome their cynicism about change. Through his work as the youngest Black state legislator in Kentucky, Booker built an unprecedented alliance between the hood and the holler. This coalition was the basis for a thrilling grassroots Senate campaign that nearly stunned the nation, putting Senators Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul on notice that the days of business as usual were over. From the Hood to the Holler is both a moving coming-of-age story and an urgent political intervention—a much-needed blueprint for how equity and racial justice might transcend partisan divisions in Kentucky, throughout the South, and across America.
This book features a lot lizard and a prostitute who was extremely good looking. Her eyes were dark and soft as a thousand midnights, and so was her hair. Her breast stood up like taillights on a ’59 Cadillac, she was a 34-28-36 brick house. Her lips were round and full, and her tongue tasted like July Jam. She was as fat as a swamp possum with the mumps and looked so good when this soul sister winked at a church deacon. They immediately had to give him artificial respiration. Go on and buy the book and read the rest of it. It’ll blow your mind how her pimp wanted to use a certain thing on her to get rid of her and he got some relatives living today using the same thing. If that wasn’t bad enough, this same pimp mistreated Jesus in the hood. Go ahead and buy this book, and be thrilled, enlightened, informed . . . and very amazed.
Puss in Boots," "Blue Beard," "Tom Thumb," and other beloved fairy tale classics, as set down by the man who first rescued them from the oral tradition in the 17th century. Contains six color plates and 30 black-and-white illustrations.
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A vivid and insightful look at the culture and terrain of Antarctica, as well as the people who choose to live and work there, South × South celebrates and explores life at the extreme edge of our planet. Blending travel narrative, historical research, and the surprises of magical realism, Hood presents life in Antarctica and the history of polar aviation as both a miracle of achievement yet also as a way to understand humanity’s longing to be creatures of the heavens as well as the earth. South × South is poetry at its most inventive and surprising, insisting that the world is stranger and more glorious than we ever might have guessed.
Classic story edited in modern keys of reading and graphic proposal. We rescue the original version of the text and moral of Charles Perrault, in counterpoint to how the moral would be in our time. Also in an epilogue, an authoritative voice tells us about how to read Little Red Riding Hood today and how to talk about these issues as a family, with children and teenagers.
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