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Barns of Summers County: West Virginia Heritage
Phyllis Campbell Whitley
Dementi Milestone Publishing
2011
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For centuries barns served many functions: housing for animals, storage for equipment, and graineries. Farmers threshed grain on barn floors, stored hay for feeding livestock in lofts, and sheltered animals in stalls. To farmers, barns were as essential as the houses they lived in. To many barns represent tradition, hard work and independence. These associations are just as much a part of the barn as its framework and its roofing. The barn was also the heart of the farm and a vital center of community life. It was a place for dancing, praying, and a place for children to play. For Summers County, West Virginia, the vernacular structures were recalled and a "barn raisin" ensued. The objective of the project was not to raise the sides of a building......but to help raise awareness of the importance of preservation of our barns, the history of our people as well as our libraries.
The Memory Pool: Reflections of Past Forward
Phyllis Bayles; Bob Clapp; Lois Dickenson
Cantraip Press
2014
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Peru was in a state of siege, Halley's Comet was making its cyclical reappearance for the first time in seventy-two years, and the throngs of tourists that would soon elevate Machu Picchu to a major world tourist destination had not yet descended upon the Sacred Valley. Before the luxury hotels, high-speed trains and express helicopters, an independent traveler armed with a poem encounters the obstacles and rewards of a puzzled trail in the quest to reach Machu Picchu, the legendary Lost City of the Incas. With travels through the highlands of Peru; including Cusco, Pisac, Ollantaytambo, Machu Picchu and Puno; with a circuitous route through La Paz, Copacabana and Lake Titicaca, Bolivia. Past and present converge in a story that is true for all times.Finalist, Foreword Reviews Magazine, Book of the Year Award / Travel Essays. 2012. A Shelf Unbound Notable Book.
It's hard to believe there are young people growing up today never knowing the impact The Beatles have had on their everyday lives. Finally is a picture book explaining to children in simple story form who The Beatles were and what their influence was on hair, dress, lifestyle, and music. Written in answer to the child who asks "Mom, Dad, who are The Beatles?" and as a way for parents to pass along the legacy of The Beatles to future generations.
It's hard to believe there are young people growing up today never knowing the impact The Beatles have had on their everyday lives. Finally is a picture book explaining to children in simple story form who The Beatles were and what their influence was on hair, dress, lifestyle, and music. Written in answer to the child who asks "Mom, Dad, who are The Beatles?" and as a way for parents to pass along the legacy of The Beatles to the next generation.
Greta loved her violin. She took it with her everywhere and she played it every day. A little girl with a big imagination passionately expresses her feelings of happiness, anger, jealousy, restlessness, and sadness, by playing her violin every day. But today, is different than all other days. What happens when Greta doesn't feel in any mood to play?
Greta loved her violin. She took it with her everywhere and she played it every day. A little girl with a big imagination passionately expresses her feelings of happiness, anger, jealousy, restlessness, and sadness, by playing her violin every day. But today is different than all other days. What happens when Greta doesn't feel in any mood to play?
It's time for Jessica to return to Earth. She's proven herself on the religious quest, survived a planet-wide gravitational storm, found her inner peace, and has reunited two planets that are light years apart. But Cameron has given Jessica a new mission, save his people from themselves and from certain extinction. She doesn't want to let him down. Just one problem, Pegasus Colony still wants nothing to do with Jessica. They won't even let her back into their settlement. How does she triumph over 300 years of misunderstanding and mistrust? After all she's accomplished, is Jessica destined for failure?Don't miss the exciting ending to this intriguing trilogy.
Jessica's chances of survival are slim.To prove her worth, Pegasus Colony is sending Jessica on Woden, a religious quest of endurance across their planet's frozen tundra. The real test of endurance is getting along with her two traveling companions, who have agendas of their own. The journey could cost Jessica her life. The planet is warming creating whiteouts that will separate Jess from the others. There's a blizzard that threatens to bury the expedition alive. A gravitational storm will literally shake the entire planet to its core. Even if Jessica does survive, she must also face down her old life before she can face her new life and truly survive Woden. Things are not looking good for Jessica.Don't miss out on the second installment of this character-driven, science fiction trilogy.
It's Time to go HomeBook three is told in two different timelines-300 years apartThe Historical Chronicles is the history of how settlers from Earth became the People of Akiane.After 300 years, the second timeline is about the conflict of reuniting those two worlds.It's time for Jessica to complete her assignment and reunite Pegaus Colony with their home planet Earth. Once finished, she will return to Earth and start her life over, the one goal that has kept her going since she arrived.But Cameron has given her a new mission-save the People of Akiane from themselves.How does she triumph over 300 years of misunderstanding and mistrust?Here is the final book of this intriguing trilogy.
Jo Henderson's idyllic life on a remote, family-operated resort is shattered one April day by a killer snow storm. A happy marriage spanning more than three decades hasn't prepared her for the road ahead - one with seemingly impassable roadblocks painted with the names love, uncertainty, ecstasy and guilt. During the first season on her own, an encounter with sports figure Mike Talbot literally starts off on the wrong foot. One misstep leads to another and tragedy follows. Where to turn? Her brain is telling her one thing, her heart is telling her another, and her gut instinct is saying "listen to me". A solid shoulder named Tony DeMarco offers his strength for her to draw on. From the incredible beauty of Northwestern Ontario where the sunsets are beyond description to the cosmopolitan skyscrapers of Toronto and scuba diving off the Florida Keys, uncertainty follows. Try as she might, Jo can't forget - but the real problem lies in the remembering. A strong woman, Jo is determined to fight her way through the miasma of pain and guilt threatening to keep her from finding her promised tomorrow.
Three white sisters return to their Caribbean island home to find their family living in poverty and mental anguish. Each sister responds to the family's plight in different ways - seeking change through romance or politics or money. Intenselyautobiographical, The Orchid House describes a colonial society in decay as seen through the (usually) loyal eyes of the sisters' childhood nurse, Lally: "Beauty and disease, beauty and sickness, beauty and horror: that was the island."First published in 1953, it was republished in 1982 as a Virago Modern Classic. It was later filmed by Channel 4 for a four-part series (1991) with Diana Quick, Frances Barber and Elizabeth Hurley (available as a DVD).This edition has a new and incisive introduction by the Dominican scholar Schuyler Esprit, which casts a fresh and contemporary eye on Allfrey's life and work.