A conservative account is forced to flee to the remote eastern shore of Nova Scotia and assume a new identity after he helps to send several Mafia dons to jail. However, the steamroller hospitality of the rambunctious inhabitants overwhelms any hope that he has to keep his profile lower than low. Within days he is embroiled in their nefarious doings and wild antics. Full of love, mystery and murder, this rollicking tale hurtles like a runaway train to its inevitable disastrous climax.
Memories of an era past...of a neighborhood that no longer exists. A time when sidewalks and gutters were swept clean each morning and burning autumn leaves evoked thoughts of baked potatoes. Hot summer evenings were spent outdoors visiting with neighbors while children played hide and seek or chased fireflies. The first winter snow fall meant sledding down a viaduct grading or ice-skating across the lagoon in Sherman Park. Memories of the changes that slowly changed a neighborhood, and how one family coped with new beginnings. Tata's Tree was written not only as a reminder of the legacy and the deep roots left by those beginnings, but it is also meant to be an inspiration to a new generation of immigrants and their family that each day should be met with that renewal of hope. The sketches in this book were drawn mostly from memory, the authors and her elders. The passage of time may have repainted some events and places to the slight injury of accuracy. Some historical information was obtained from the following books: Polish Immigrants and Industrial Chicago, Dominic A. Pacyga Natuare's Metropolis, Chicago and the Great West, William Cronon Everyday Life from Prohibition through World War 11, Marc McCutcheon
This book is a collection of short stories about ordinary people who are walking out their faith. There is the Treasure, the story of what happens when a woman finds lost items she thought were refuse and cleans them up only to find out they are something special. A Man Apart, the story of a pastor haunted by the good deeds of an unlikely angel he cant seem to help, until he humbles himself. A Brief Encounter, the story of a woman who doesnt heed the call of a friend and regrets it. The Healing, a story told in three parts about a woman who visits a traveling faith healer and gets much more than she expected. It also focuses on the people she touches in the process. The Throwaway, the story of a boy who is in need of a friend and finds it in and unlikely place that puts an imprint on his life that lasts a lifetime. The Conversion, the story of a harried advertising executivewho is running from the rat race and his own shortcomings and who encounters a man that changes his thinking and way of life.
A Gift for everyone who has ever loved a summer home! The hilarious and heartbreaking story of an aging summer cottage, built to be "a refuge from grief with room for joy." Faced with the intrusion of an air conditioner, the builder's grand-daughter reflects on how the cottage has battled change as it fulfills its purpose-cosseting lovers, defying gangsters, sheltering wounded animals and children, and facing unique problems such as a porcupine in the basement, badgers under the support posts and a refrigerator in the bedroom. We watch the cottage adjust to history, fight for survival and always remain itself-a small house, nestled into the gentle magnificence of the Wisconsin North Woods.
A wildly entertaining and brutally honest memoir that takes readers from the network newsrooms to the locker rooms of our country's greatest sports teams, pulling the curtain back on celebrity entertainment coverage.
Discusses the selection and care of guinea pigs including such aspects as housing, feeding, breeding, and exhibition. Also describes the different breeds and varieties.
“The most important book on cooking over live fire in decades. Life of Fire illuminates it all, from coal beds, to home-built pits (in minutes!) to simple, delicious, recipes and enough whole hog know-how to impress the weekend warriors without intimidating newcomers.”—Andrew Zimmern One of the few pitmasters still carrying the torch of West Tennessee whole-hog barbecue, Nashville’s Pat Martin has studied and taught this craft for years. Now he reveals all he knows about the art of barbecue and live fire cooking. Through beautiful photography and detailed instruction, the lessons start with how to prepare and feed a fire—what wood to use, how to build a pit or a grill, how to position it to account for the weather—then move into cooking through all the stages of that fire’s life. You’ll sear tomatoes for sandwiches and infuse creamed corn with the flavor of char from the temperamental, adolescent fire. Next, you’ll grill chicken with Alabama white sauce over the grown-up fire, and, of course, you’ll master pit-cooked whole hog, barbecue ribs, turkey, pork belly, and pork shoulder over the smoldering heat of mature coals. Finally, you’ll roast vegetables buried in white ash, and you’ll smoke bacon and country hams in the dying embers of the winter fire. For Pat Martin, grilling, barbecuing, and smoking is a whole lifetime’s worth of practice and pleasure—a life of fire that will transform the way you cook.
The essays in Instinct for Survival explore fundamental ideas about the ties of community, the trials and tribulations of family life, the sacrif cial nature of public service, the yearnings of the spirit, and the tangled joys of teaching. From his childhood in Arkansas to his career as both Army off cer and professor of literature, Pat Hoy uses his rich experiences as departure points in his quest for meaning. In "Mosaics of Southern Masculinity," Hoy recalls his absent father and develops a multilayered inquiry into male identity that includes memories of his own sons and ref ections on the ways other southern writers have grappled with father-son relationships. "The Spirit Was Willing and So Was the Flesh" stems from Hoy's attempts to come to terms with the feminine aspects of his own personality and with the apparent dichotomy between the spiritual and the physical. Hoy toys with his own personal poetics and philosophy of writing in "Conversing with Images," where he articulates the unspoken power of images. A fascination with life's mysteries informs these essays, which together create a transcendent and marvelous mosaic of life.
Pat writes about wildlife, all kinds of wildlife we face in our modern lives: environmental, political, economic, family relationships, medical. Wild Life covers a wide range of modern Americana in the 21st century. Wild Life is funny, true, and meaningful.
Ole Club Foot was born with a deformity in one foot, so running away from trouble was not an option. He learned different and better ways to survive. He grew a huge body and a world class rack. He became king of his domain. Hunters were saying that he was one of those unkillable bucks. Bruce Turner learned as a young hunter how to use all his senses to a high degree to make him a hunter above everyone else. It was said that he could track down anything and kill any buck he went after, but it will take all of Bruce's skills and knowledge to kill a buck as wise as Ole Club Foot. Bruce was at home in the woods where he never expected to find a beautiful girl in the woods with his same interest, but when he saves her life, she misunderstands and turns away from him. Would he ever get a chance to win her back? Bruce, the girl, and Ole Club Foots lives get intertwined and reach an exciting climax that you don't want to miss. Pat Jordan, the author of Ole Club Foot, has spent 45 years chasing whitetails in Northern Michigan. A lot of the material he writes about in this book was taken from personal experience or from those he's hunted with.
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