Home To The Hills

Author : John N. Gray
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1571817395

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At Home in the Hills by John N. Gray Pdf

To most outsiders, the hills of the Scottish Borders are a bleak and foreboding space - usually made to represent the stigmatized Other, Ad Finis, by the centers of power in Edinburgh, London, and Brussels. At a time when globalization seems to threaten our sense of place, people of the Scottish borderlands provide a vivid case study of how the being-in-place is central to the sense of self and identity. Since the end of the thirteenth century, people living in the Scottish Border hills have engaged in armed raiding on the frontier with England, developed capitalist sheep farming in the newly united kingdom of Great Britain, and are struggling to maintain their family farms in one of the marginal agricultural rural regions of the European Community. Throughout their history, sheep farmers living in these hills have established an abiding sense of place in which family and farm have become refractions of each other. Adopting a phenomenological perspective, this book concentrates on the contemporary farming practices - shepherding, selling lambs and rams at auctions - as well as family and class relations through which hill sheep fuse people, place, and way of life to create this sense of being-at-home in the hills.

Author : Nancy Clark
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307428721

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The Hills at Home by Nancy Clark Pdf

“A graceful, intelligent, and very funny chronicle of a large, extended family beneath one capacious roof.” –The New York Times Book Review While always well-stocked with clean sheets, Lily Hill is not expecting visitors. At least not in the numbers that descend upon her genteely dilapidated New England ancestral home in the summer of ’89. Brother Harvey arrives first, thrice-widowed and eager for company; then perennially self-dramatizing niece Ginger and her teenaged daughter Betsy; then Alden, just laid-off from Wall Street, with his wife Becky, and their rowdy brood of four . . . As summer fades into fall, it becomes clear that no one intends to leave. But just as Lily’s industrious hospitality gives way to a somewhat strained domestic routine, the Hill clan must face new challenges together. Brimming with wit and a compendium of Yankee curiosities, The Hills at Home is an irresistible modern take on an old-fashioned comedy of manners.

Author : Marilyn Michel Whetstone
Publisher : Inspiring Voices
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-16
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781462413171

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Our Home in the Hills by Marilyn Michel Whetstone Pdf

One of more than twenty-five first cousins who grew up together in the Ozark Mountains, Marilyn Michel Whetstone reveals in Our Home in the Hills how she experienced first-hand the joy and comfort of being part of a large, close-knit family. In a collection of true stories and family recipes, Whetstone shares anecdotes that provide insight into her life growing up in the popular resort mecca of the Midwest, Rockaway Beach, during the 1950’s and 1960’s and the lives of guests who visited the family resort during that time. While transporting others on a nostalgic trip back to a simpler time, Whetstone details how unselfish acts of sacrifice and kindness promoted healthy and lasting bonds among relatives and friends. She shares the ups and downs in her teenage relationships and offers a glimpse into her close walk with Jesus Christ. Included are recipes that have been passed down in her family for more than a hundred years, providing a backdrop to her delightful stories. “These inspired stories of faith, family, friends, and community will touch your heart. They evoke memories of the joy and blessing of my own growing up years in Ozark Mountain Country.” —Edd Akers, Mayor, City of Branson

Author : Harold Bell Wright
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1992-02-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1455611883

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The Shepherd of The Hills by Harold Bell Wright Pdf

In this classic Christian Western novel, a stranger brings a message of forgiveness to a remote community in the Ozark mountains. The Shepherd of the Hills tells the classic tale of a stranger who takes the Old Trail deep into the Ozark mountains, many miles from civilization. Learned yet melancholy, he spends his days tending local sheep. And though he lives apart from the townsfolk of Mutton Hollow, he is a friend to one and all. As the story of his tragic past comes to light, so do the lessons of grace and forgiveness bestowed upon us all by the true shepherd. First published in 1907, The Shepherd of the Hills became an instant bestseller and was later adapted into a classic film starring John Wayne and Harry Carey.

Author : Helen Bianchin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Caregivers
ISBN : 0263727750

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The Hills of Home by Helen Bianchin Pdf

Author : Fred Horne,Summerside (P.E.I.)
Publisher : Halifax, N.S. : Nimbus Pub.
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 1551093855

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Historic Summerside, 1900-1970 by Fred Horne,Summerside (P.E.I.) Pdf

The town of Summerside was a commercial, agricultural and fishing hub in its heyday. Still a very active town, it boasts intriguing photographs that are included here with historical annotation.

Author : Lauchlan MacLean Watt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Covenanters
ISBN : PRNC:32101068604048

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The Hills of Home by Lauchlan MacLean Watt Pdf

Author : Chenjerai Hove
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Zimbabwe
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038301870

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Red Hills of Home by Chenjerai Hove Pdf

Author : C Pam Zhang
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525537229

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How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang Pdf

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF 2020 LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE 2020 CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE WINNER OF THE ROSENTHAL FAMILY FOUNDATION AWARD, FROM THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS A NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION "5 UNDER 35" HONOREE NATIONAL BESTSELLER “Belongs on a shelf all of its own.” —NPR “Outstanding.” —The Washington Post “Revolutionary . . . A visionary addition to American literature.” —Star Tribune An electric debut novel set against the twilight of the American gold rush, two siblings are on the run in an unforgiving landscape—trying not just to survive but to find a home. Ba dies in the night; Ma is already gone. Newly orphaned children of immigrants, Lucy and Sam are suddenly alone in a land that refutes their existence. Fleeing the threats of their western mining town, they set off to bury their father in the only way that will set them free from their past. Along the way, they encounter giant buffalo bones, tiger paw prints, and the specters of a ravaged landscape as well as family secrets, sibling rivalry, and glimpses of a different kind of future. Both epic and intimate, blending Chinese symbolism and reimagined history with fiercely original language and storytelling, How Much of These Hills Is Gold is a haunting adventure story, an unforgettable sibling story, and the announcement of a stunning new voice in literature. On a broad level, it explores race in an expanding country and the question of where immigrants are allowed to belong. But page by page, it’s about the memories that bind and divide families, and the yearning for home.

Author : Joe Hill
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061843334

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Better Than Home by Joe Hill Pdf

From the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this e-short story—from Joe Hill’s award-winning collection 20th Century Ghosts. Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945. . . . Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and a gift for attracting abuse. It isn't easy to make friends when you're the only inflatable boy in town. . . . Francis is unhappy. Francis was human once, but that was then. Now he's an eight-foot-tall locust and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing. . . . John Finney is locked in a basement that's stained with the blood of half a dozen other murdered children. In the cellar with him is an antique telephone, long since disconnected, but which rings at night with calls from the dead. . . .

Author : Marilynne Robinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1297307063

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Home by Marilynne Robinson Pdf

Author : Temsula Ao
Publisher : Zubaan
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8189013718

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These Hills Called Home by Temsula Ao Pdf

More Than Half A Century Of Bloodshed Has Marked The History Of The Naga People Who Live In The Troubled Northeastern Region Of India. Their Struggle For An Independent Nagaland And Their Continuing Search For Identity Provides The Backdrop For The Stories That Make Up This Unusual Collection. Describing How Ordinary People Cope With Violence, How They Negotiate Power And Force, How They Seek And Find Safe Spaces And Enjoyment In The Midst Of Terror, The Author Details A Way Of Life Under Threat From The Forces Of Modernization And War. No One The Young, The Old, The Ordinary Housewife, The Willing Partner, The Militant Who Takes To The Gun, And The Young Woman Who Sings Even As She Is Being Raped Is Untouched By The Violence. Theirs Are The Stories That Form The Subtext Of The Struggles That Lie At The Internal Faultlines Of The Indian Nation-State. These Are Stories That Speak Movingly Of Home, Country, Nation, Nationality, Identity, And Direct The Reader To The Urgency Of The Issues That Lie At Their Heart.

Author : Lillian Beckwith
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780755102693

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The Hills is Lonely by Lillian Beckwith Pdf

"When Lillian Beckwith advertised for a secluded place in the country, she received a letter with the following unusual description of an isolated Hebridean croft: 'Surely it's that quiet even the sheeps themselves on the hills is lonely and as to the sea it's that near as I use it myself everyday for the refusals...' Her curiosity aroused, Beckwith took up the invitation. This is the comic and enchanting story of the strange rest cure that followed and her efforts to adapt to a completely different way of life."--Back cover.

Author : David Mixner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1936833107

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At Home with Myself by David Mixner Pdf

Bestselling author and renowned presidential campaign adviser (Bill Clinton, Dick Gephardt, Jerry Brown, Gary Hart) David Mixner returns with his first book in 10 years. In At Home with Myself, Mixner writes from and about his country home in Turkey Hollow, an upstate New York town so small and remote that it has just 10 residents, there's no cable TV, the nearest airport is a three hour drive, and deer and bear are his closest neighbors. However, these bucolic surroundings provide an ideal setting for observation and reflection. Drawing on his considerable talents as a storyteller in the tradition on Garrison Keillor and Will Rogers, Mixner chronicles his return to nature at the age of 60. No longer willing to do the things young people do and having lost most of his closet friends to AIDS, he felt out of place in the big cities and "gay mecccas" that had been his home all his adult life. So he chose a mountainside home as a retreat from the busy world, a place of meditation on the small, daily wonders of pastoral life, including the beauty of nature and its constant evolution. Observing the arrival of spring's new blossoms or the sudden appearance of new born animals (while speaking to life's daily events) Mixner writes as Thoreau might have had he been gay. However, At Home with Myself is also a look back on an illustrious 40 year career of protest and politics, including his involvement and leadership in the civil rights movement, the peace movement, the gay and lesbian rights movement, and high-powered presidential politics. In looking at both his--and America's--past and present, Mixner bridges today's world of openly gay elected officials and an African American US president that he and countless other activists fought to build over the past half century and the difficult but exhilarating road traveled to get here.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Home missions
ISBN : WISC:89066135849

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The Home Missionary by Anonim Pdf

No. 3 of each volume contains the annual report and minutes of the annual meeting.