books about: kentucky     books:       Jayber Crow34 reviews Wendell Berry Counterpoint, 2001 None better. I used to read a lot of books and I never felt the need to quantify or compare one book to another. But when I finished Jayber Crow I knew that this was the best book I had ever read. As other reviews here will testify, it is astounding how Wendell Berry communicates with mere words the beauty of life, the human heart and the love that holds both together. I've sold most of the books I ...             Troublesome Creek (Troublesome Creek Series #1)20 reviews Jan Watson Tyndale House Publishers, 2005 Troublesome Creek, A Novel Worth Reading... This story takes place in a mountainous region of rural Kentucky around 1881. For our main character we are introduced to Copper, a red-haired sixteen-year-old girl struggling through her teenage years. After causing the readers to become familiar with the current setting and family structure, Ms. Watson transports the readers back in time using a wonderful technique called flashback. Through ...             Clear Springs: A Family Story18 reviews Bobbie Ann Mason, 2008 The author remembers and revisits her Kentucky home I'm an appreciative fan of Bobbie Ann Mason's short stories, about rural people raised with traditional values now somewhat at sea in a world of consumerism, pop culture, and a new morality. Young adults, whose parents would have stuck with a marriage come hell or high water, now divorce and drift through relationships. Their parents tied to the land and other life-long occupations, Mason's ...             The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre19 reviews Stephen D. Youngkin University Press of Kentucky, 2005 Peter Lorre finally gets prestige treatment. Peter lorre was one of the most unique and fascinating actors ever to come out of the studio system in Hollywood. Anyone who has every seen his soft, silken acting or heard that lyrically menacing voice ever forgot it. I know that I never did. I have been a fan since seeing him go toe to toe with Cary Grant in Arsnic and Old Lace when I was in my teens. Peter Lorre fans have cause for ...             Kentucky Bad Boy: Stories of my Mother & Me18 reviews David S Rains AuthorHouse, 2001 Stories of life as many may or may not know it. I enjoyed this book so much that I read it again. David S.Rains writes with pure wit and vigor. His words consist of a series of stories about the bountiful events that occurred during a young boys life who grew up poor but full of life. It left me feeling that this man who is alive today must be strong, intelligent and sophisticated. His tales are so delightful and interesting that ...             Ghosts of Old Louisville: True Stories of Hauntings in America's Largest Victorian Neighborhood30 reviews David Domine McClanahan Publishing House, Inc., 2005 Ghosts of Old Louisville is a great read! Ghosts of Old Louisville by David Domine presents the haunted past of America's largest Victorian neighborhood in an entertaining and informative format. His unopinionated, objective way of fleshing out the stories of those residents who haven't quite yet vacated their former abodes in the magnificent historic preservation district known as Old Louisville makes this a unique and spellbinding ...             Your Home A Living Canvas: Create Stunning Faux Finishes & Murals with Paint29 reviews Curtis L Heuser North Light Books, 2007 Your Home A Living Canvas Being in this house must be like walking around in a dream.This man is highly gifted!             Creeker: A Woman's Journey37 reviews Linda Scott DeRosier University Press of Kentucky, 1999 She Took Me Home I was born in Paintsville (home of Loretta Lynn) and had to move away when I was 4. Reading this book took me back to my Grandma's front porch and the well outside. It reminded me of church outhouses and dinner on the ground. Made me want to throw rocks in the creek off the bridge at Grandma's and walk up to the family graveyard to wonder about my ancestor's lives. If you are from Eastern ...             Hannah Coulter: A Novel20 reviews Wendell Berry Shoemaker & Hoard, 2005 Hannah Coulter Of the eleven novels by Wendell Berry in the Port William saga, Hannah Coulter is probably the best. It is a complete life told with great sensitivity of a poor girl and an outsider to the families written about in the other novels of the saga. Hannah has great determination and ability to overcome her limitations with the help of her grandmother and the Feltner, Coulter and Catlett families. ...             The G Old Days: Surviving Appalachia26 reviews Andy Baker Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc., 2005 Kentucky Gem A wonderfully honest look at the many facets of life in an Appalachian home in the "good old days". At times funny, at times heart wrenching, this book gives the reader a true peek at Appalachian life's joys and hardships. Readers with Kentucky roots as well as those without will enjoy reading the author's memories of life, which is so different from how we now experience it. Pam Fraley             The Memory of Old Jack13 reviews Wendell Berry Counterpoint, 1999 phenomenal book For Berry readers, this will come as no surprise, but this is a phenomenal book. I love the simple elegance of the prose, and the import is incredible. Beautiful, beautiful book.             Turn Back Time12 reviews Philip Dale Smith, Lisa Kay Hauser Golden Anchor Press, 2000 WOW! Where's Book # 2? This is definitely one of those books that you don't lay down until you read the last word. It goes everywhere with you and your family wants you to hurry up and finish so they can have you back! It was a book that had me hooked from the beginning. It reminded me of the old mining stories my family use to reminisce about. The detailed info about the mining terminology was very interesting. Do ...             The Life of Daniel Boone14 reviews Lyman Copeland Draper Stackpole Books, 1998 From Smoke & Fire News: A Unique Volume on Daniel Boone Occasionally a book that has been available for a while deserves another look just because of its intrinsic value. In 1998 a book was published that combined the names of two legendary individuals who will be associated forever with the history of the American backwoods-Daniel Boone, the famous adventurer, and Lyman C. Draper, the renowned nineteenth-century interviewer and collector. It was ...             A Rose for Mrs. Miniver: The Life of Greer Garson18 reviews Michael Troyan University Press of Kentucky, 2005 Curtain up on a wonderful star Modern actors and actresses don't seem to have the charisma, style and elegance of yesteryear's stars. Maybe that's because most of today's actors are really nothing but pitiful celebrities striving to be what once was, when Hollywood was golden. I long for yesterday when it comes to film stars: Betty Davis, Myrna Loy, Katherine Hepburn Ginger Rogers, and so many more. Oh, yes, and that ...             A Still Small Voice14 reviews John Reed Delacorte Press, 2000 WOW!!! WHAT A BOOK!!! This book is written so beautifully that at some points I found myself reading pages over and over again just for the simple beauty of the words! This book is about love, loss and the hardships and the simple pleasures of life just before and after the Civil War. It is a poetic, funny, sad and romantic story about enduring love and how it haunts us. At times I did become a little frustrated with ...             OUT OF THE WOODS: Stories11 reviews Chris Offutt Simon & Schuster, 1999 High Praise for Chris Offutt Presently you won't see Chris Offutt's name on any bestseller's list, but please don't let that discourage you from reading his wonderful work. In "Out of the Woods," Offutt follows the lives of ex-cons, alcoholics, gamblers, and drifters as they struggle to find direction and purpose. Offutt's characters share one common thread, they were all born and raised in Appalachian communities in ...             Miss Cornett's Courtship11 reviews Cathlynn Richard Dodson Hummingbird House, 2005 A pleasant way to spend an evening. Reading the novella based on the letters of the author's great-grandparents was a pleasant way to spend an evening. The epistolary form (with its built-in sense of reality) is very appealing to most readers. What I found most interesting, however, is how good the writing is--particularly the lack of authorial self consciousness that advertises inexperience, and is so hard to overcome in fiction. ...             Kentucky Lion: The True Story of Cassius Clay11 reviews Richard Kiel, Pamela Wallace Morrison Mcnae Publishing, 2007 An Amazing Book! Kentucky Lion: The True Story of Cassius Clay This is an amazing book about one man who would not give up his fight for something that he believed in, despite many things being thrown in his path. Once you start reading it, you will not be able to put it down. I had never heard the name 'Cassius Clay' before reading this book, and now I will never forget him or the story of his life. It's ...             Oh, Kentucky!12 reviews Betty Layman Receveur Ballantine Books, 1992 FANTASTIC READ I loved this book. It was hard to put down and I was able to finish the 600 pages in one week...which says a lot since I'm the mother of 3 small children! It was supspenseful, romantic and very-well written. If you enjoyed "Mrs. Mike", "Christy" (the book, not the horrible mini-series), and "Tisha", you will love this book. This book will be on my list to read again and again!             The Dentist of Auschwitz: A Memoir13 reviews Benjamin Jacobs University Press of Kentucky, 2001 A Remarkable Story of Courage and Survival I found out about this book after reading another book that the author co-wrote. It is called The 100-Year Secret and it deals with a portion of the material that is contained in The Dentist of Auschwitz. The author spent almost five years in various camps, riding in closed railroad cars in summer, open railroad cars in winter, on death marches in the dead of winter, and on "hell ships," that ...              search for books america, appalachia, auschwitz, cassius, cornett, coulter, courtship, create, creeker, daniel, dentist, finishes, garson, hauntings, jayber, journey, kentucky, largest, louisville, memoir, memory, miniver, murals, neighborhood, springs, stories, stunning, surviving, troublesome, victorian books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Entgeld nach Leistung und Erfolg home  impressum - about us