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Rural Odyssey
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Author : Dr. R Leonard Carroll
language : en
Publisher: Elm Hill
Release Date : 2018-10-30
Rural Odyssey written by Dr. R Leonard Carroll and has been published by Elm Hill this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Rural Odyssey is a story that follows the family and life of a young man who grew up in rural America. This book is made up of the many experiences and stories and incorporates secrets that were involved in all relationships in his parents' families and in his own family. It also weaves in the accounts of growing up in a straight Pentecostal and faith-based life. The young man's life is shaped by his experiences and is followed as he grows up in a minister's family. His education is begun in a rural one room schoolhouse and then advances to the usual elementary and secondary school systems, attendance at a state university, and entry in medical school at 19 years of age. Multiple successes and failures are included. The intricacies of his life along with multiple marriages, children, and drug associated problems are told through stories. Always trying to be a knight in shining armor and everything to everyone caused many problems. Faith was the glue that kept his life together. 50 years in the practice of general surgery has brought about a lot of observations and many varied and entertaining stories. Many technical advances are noted both in life and medical practice. Problems are presented and interesting simple solutions are given. All in all, this is very readable, understandable, hilarious, and intensely fascinating adventure of growing up in the country and memories of family, faith, and secrets.
A Rural Odyssey
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Author : Mark J. Curran
language : en
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Release Date : 2019-07-02
A Rural Odyssey written by Mark J. Curran and has been published by Trafford Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-02 with Fiction categories.
A Rural Odyssey: Living Can Be Dangerous is the story of Mick O’Brien’s growing-up years on a small wheat farm in Central Kansas in the 1940s and 1950s. It tells of his Catholic Irish American pioneering farm parents, the religious and moral beliefs of their traditions, and the consequences of living the same way. Mick and his siblings inherited their traditions. The growing of their own food, the farm chores, the raising and caring of livestock, the field work on the tractor, and the harvest that provides the family subsistence, but not without danger. School, sports, having fun with buddies, and imaginary games filled Mick’s teenage years. Music, singing, playing the guitar, and a special friendship are an important chapter of that time as well but with unplanned consequences. Unforeseen challenges and the unpredictable dangers of life filled O’Brien’s days. Work and play, joy and sadness, Mick tells it all as it happened.
Rural Odyssey V
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Author : Mark J. Curran
language : en
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Release Date : 2023-11-08
Rural Odyssey V written by Mark J. Curran and has been published by Trafford Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-08 with Fiction categories.
RURAL ODYSSEY V - TROUBLE IN A KANSAS RIVER TOWN is a return to fiction. It tells the latest in Curran's stories of Abilene, Kansas. Trouble comes to Abilene in an unexpected armed attack on the town and its residents in 1971 by KKK and "rugged individualists" out for revenge for the conviction and imprisonment in Abilene of their relatives and cronies in past years. Following the "troubles," the author writes of protagonists Mike and Mariah's teaching at the Dwight D. Eisenhower College in Abilene, the birth of their daughter Ariel Sarah O'Brien Palafox, and the Palafox family's travel to Spain. With the passage of time and events in Abilene, Mike and Marah make a life changing move back east and work and teaching at Harvard. Book Two - a Novella - Ballad of the "Smoky Hill River Rambler" tells the story of Abilene's Mickey Clancy's dream of performing (singing and playing guiitar, including classical guitar) in the restaurants and bars in Durango and other towns of Southwest Colorado. As his music evolves and the repertoire grows, he encounters romance and surprises, not always pleasant, as an itinerant musician.
Rural Odyssey Iv Parallels
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Author : Mark J. Curran
language : en
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Release Date : 2023-01-24
Rural Odyssey Iv Parallels written by Mark J. Curran and has been published by Trafford Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-24 with Fiction categories.
"RURAL ODYSSEY IV - PARALLELS Abilene - Cowboys - "Cordel" is a return to the "Rural Odyssey" series, a narrative in fiction telling of Professor Mike O'Brien's work on a "History of Abilene," life with his young wife, Professor Mariah Palafox O'Brien, and their jobs at DDEC (Dwight D. Eisenhower College) in Abilene. After telling of his "History of Abilene," the book recounts Mike and Mariah's trip to Brazil in the summer of 1971 via Fulbright Lecture Grants. Mike gives talks on Eisenhower, Abilene and the Cowboy days, cowboys and "cordel," and Mariah lectures on American Literature. "The Great Gatsby," "The Sound and the Fury," and "To Kill a Mockingbird" are a few highlights. They meet important military, literary, and folkloric figures in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Bahia and Recife and visit Brazil's famous tourist and cultural sites as well. Mike's Catholic and Mariah's Jewish heritages come into play.
A Rural Odyssey Ii
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Author : Mark J. Curran
language : en
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Release Date : 2020-04-15
A Rural Odyssey Ii written by Mark J. Curran and has been published by Trafford Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-15 with Fiction categories.
“A RURAL ODYSSEY – Abilene – Digging Deeper” is the continuation of the story of Mick O’Brien, now a college graduate and back in his home town of Abilene, Kansas teaching at the new Junior College. He settles into daily life in Abilene and spends time with girlfriend Mariah Palafox a professor of English at the Juco. Family, friends, teaching, research and work on Mick’s “History of Abilene” take up most of his time. Mick and Mariah become close friends, then romantically involved. This leads to visits to her family and summer travel in Mexico and Spain, tips and hints aided by her relatives. Family ethnicity – Irish and Jewish – color the relationship. Life in Abilene gets dicey and dangerous with repercussions from previous problems with local criminals, then KKK activists and a return to violence and now larger threats to the citizens and town of Abilene.
Rural Odyssey Iii Dreams Fulfilled And Back To Abilene
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Author : Mark J. Curran
language : en
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Release Date : 2021-04-28
Rural Odyssey Iii Dreams Fulfilled And Back To Abilene written by Mark J. Curran and has been published by Trafford Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-28 with Fiction categories.
RURAL ODYSSEY III Dreams Fulfilled and Back to Abilene, A Fictional and Historical Narrative” is the third in the series of fictionalized stories based on Mark Curran’s autobiography “The Farm.” Mike O’Brien and Mariah Palafox fulfill their dreams of graduate education, travel and research in Mexico, and return to Abilene where life offers new adventures.
Temple Stream
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Author : Bill Roorbach
language : en
Publisher: Down East Books
Release Date : 2014-12-07
Temple Stream written by Bill Roorbach and has been published by Down East Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Great blue herons, yellow birches, damselflies, and beavers are among the talismans by which Bill Roorbach uncovers a natural universe along the stream that runs by his house in Farmington, Maine. Populated by an oddball cast of characters to whom Roorbach ("The Professor") and his family might always be considered outsiders, this book chronicles one man's determined effort—occasionally with hilarious results—to follow his stream to its elusive source. Acclaimed essayist and award-winning fiction writer Bill Roorbach uses his singular literary gifts to inspire us to laugh, love, and experience the wonder of living side by side with the natural world.
In The Pink
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Author : Molly Watson
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2009-07-15
In The Pink written by Molly Watson and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
When two city girls embark on an afternoon of idle window-shopping in Worcestershire and end up buying a horse, their lives swerve gloriously off course. Within weeks they have abandoned their careers in London in favour of life in the wilds of Ledbury. But their dreams of a sunny rural idyll, preferably funded by a landed local bachelor, are quick to shatter. Thrown into a hair-raising world where the horses have cocaine habits and the locals have developed their own alternative to Viagra, Molly Watson and her sister Annabel make their way through the maelstrom that is country life to hilarious effect.
Toms Run
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Author : Steve Bill Hanshew
language : en
Publisher: WestBow Press
Release Date : 2016-09-21
Toms Run written by Steve Bill Hanshew and has been published by WestBow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-21 with Religion categories.
History is a sequence of events from the past leading us to the present. Family History is where we came from and how we got here. More often than not those two paths converge and become a composite history we live each and every day, interacting with the world around us. This history forms and molds us into what we become and when were gone, how we will be remembered, however fleeting that may be. For a Christian how we interact with the world is defined by Christ and should be a defining feature of our personality. Pointedly, we are to be both salt and light. Salt preserves and light displaces darkness. This task has never been more difficult as we are slowly enveloped by a culture that preserves nothing good, extols the bad while seeking to snuff out the light. As believers we more and more find ourselves as Christ warned; hated and reviled, just as He was. At some nearly subliminal level I think many Americans feel this void as more and more of our culture seeks to eradicate God and replace it with secular Humanism. They feel the unnatural movement towards anarchy. It can be stopped or at least abated, only if we are willing to look at where we were and how we got here. This book attempts to retrace those steps leading to this amoral abyss.
Two
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Author : Mark J. Curran
language : en
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Release Date : 2022-10-17
Two written by Mark J. Curran and has been published by Trafford Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
TWO BY MARK J. CURRAN ASU Days as well as The Guitars – A Music Odyssey are a return to the autobiographical. Book I ASU Days tells the story beginning with graduate study for the Ph.D in Spanish and Latin American Studies and the account of Mark’s years at Arizona State University. It is comprised of memories of teaching and research days at ASU but also a description of campus life dating to 1968. Book II The Guitars - A Music Odyssey recounts the role of music in Mark’s life from age 14 in 1955 to the present. The main characters are the guitars: a simple steel stringed Stella in 1955, an electric Kay and amplifyer in high school, 1955 - 1959 and college days, a Brazilian Rosewood Classic from Rio de Janeiro in 1966 and a Manuel Rodríguez Classic from Madrid, electrified for performance, 2002. The study, learning, practice and the performing range from early pop and Rock n’ Roll from Elvis Presley days, to serious home study of classic guitar, to the folk tunes of the 1960s, Classic Country and Western, Irish, “Oh Brother Where Art Thou” and Classic Guitar and Contemporary Catholic Songs for meditation at church. The final chapter is a work in process: practice and performance at home.