Going Over Home

Going Over Home
Author: Charles Thompson, Jr.
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2019-10-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1603589120

For readers of Sarah Smarsh's Heartland and J.D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy, an intimate portrait of the joys and hardships of rural life, as one man searches for community, equality, and tradition in Appalachia.

Going Over Home

Going Over Home
Author: Charles Thompson, Jr.
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2019-10-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1603589139

Booklist Editors’ Choice “Best Books of 2019” An intimate portrait of the joys and hardships of rural life, as one man searches for community, equality, and tradition in Appalachia Charles D. Thompson, Jr. was born in southwestern Virginia into an extended family of small farmers. Yet as he came of age he witnessed the demise of every farm in his family. Over the course of his own life of farming, rural education, organizing, and activism, the stories of his home place have been his constant inspiration, helping him identify with the losses of others and to fight against injustices. In Going Over Home, Thompson shares revelations and reflections, from cattle auctions with his grandfather to community gardens in the coal camps of eastern Kentucky, racial disparities of white and Black landownership in the South to recent work with migrant farm workers from Latin America. In this heartfelt first-person narrative, Thompson unpacks our country’s agricultural myths and addresses the history of racism and wealth inequality and how they have come to bear on our nation’s rural places and their people.

Going Over

Going Over
Author: Beth Kephart
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2014-04-01
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1452132348

It is February 1983, and Berlin is a divided city with a miles-long barricade separating east from west. But the city isn't the only thing that is divided. Ada lives among the rebels, punkers, and immigrants of Kreuzberg in West Berlin. Stefan lives in East Berlin, in a faceless apartment bunker of Friedrichshain. Bound by love and separated by circumstance, their only chance for a life together lies in a high-risk escape. But will Stefan find the courage to leap? Or will forces beyond his control stand in his way? National Book Award finalist Beth Kephart presents a story of daring and sacrifice, and love that will not wait.

Our Boys

Our Boys
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 726
Release: 1907
Genre: Children
ISBN:

We're Going on a Bear Hunt

We're Going on a Bear Hunt
Author: Michael Rosen
Publisher: Walker Books Limited
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Bear hunting
ISBN: 9781406323924

We're going on a bear hunt. Through the long wavy grass, the thick oozy mud and the swirling, whirling snowstorm - will we find a bear today?

Come from Away

Come from Away
Author: Genevieve Graham
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2018-04-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1501142925

From the bestselling author of Tides of Honour and Promises to Keep comes a poignant novel about a young couple caught on opposite sides of the Second World War. In the fall of 1939, Grace Baker’s three brothers, sharp and proud in their uniforms, board Canadian ships headed for a faraway war. Grace stays behind, tending to the homefront and the general store that helps keep her small Nova Scotian community running. The war, everyone says, will be over before it starts. But three years later, the fighting rages on and rumours swirl about “wolf packs” of German U-Boats lurking in the deep waters along the shores of East Jeddore, a stone’s throw from Grace’s window. As the harsh realities of war come closer to home, Grace buries herself in her work at the store. Then, one day, a handsome stranger ventures into the store. He claims to be a trapper come from away, and as Grace gets to know him, she becomes enamoured by his gentle smile and thoughtful ways. But after several weeks, she discovers that Rudi, her mysterious visitor, is not the lonely outsider he appears to be. He is someone else entirely—someone not to be trusted. When a shocking truth about her family forces Grace to question everything she has so strongly believed, she realizes that she and Rudi have more in common than she had thought. And if Grace is to have a chance at love, she must not only choose a side, but take a stand. Come from Away is a mesmerizing story of love, shifting allegiances, and second chances, set against the tumultuous years of the Second World War.