Bury Me with My Tractor

Bury Me with My Tractor
Author: Fenner L. Harding
Publisher: LifeRich Publishing
Total Pages: 69
Release: 2016-10-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1489709908

This is a relaxing, lighthearted story centered on the memories of Philip Lawson and his attachment to a piece of farm machinery. Philip and his wife Clarisa are products of the baby boomer generation. Now in their mid-fifties, Philip and Clarisa frequently reminisce about the days when the kids were at home and the community was thriving with activity. Philip knows the importance of telling his own story as it really happened before someone else tells it the way they would like for it to be told. So here he seizes the opportunity to do just that; to tell his story as it really happened over a span of a half-century, give or take a few years. Throughout Philips recollecting, the reader is constantly besieged with wonderment as to the believability of his encounters.

Bury Me Standing

Bury Me Standing
Author: Isabel Fonseca
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2011-09-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 0307761045

A masterful work of personal reportage, this volume is also a vibrant portrait of a mysterious people and an essential document of a disappearing culture. Fabled, feared, romanticized, and reviled, the Gypsies—or Roma—are among the least understood people on earth. Their culture remains largely obscure, but in Isabel Fonseca they have found an eloquent witness. In Bury Me Standing, alongside unforgettable portraits of individuals—the poet, the politician, the child prostitute—Fonseca offers sharp insights into the humor, language, wisdom, and taboos of the Roma. She traces their exodus out of India 1,000 years ago and their astonishing history of persecution: enslaved by the princes of medieval Romania; massacred by the Nazis; forcibly assimilated by the communist regimes; evicted from their settlements in Eastern Europe, and most recently, in Western Europe as well. Whether as handy scapegoats or figments of the romantic imagination, the Gypsies have always been with us—but never before have they been brought so vividly to life. Includes fifty black and white photos.

Bury Me in Shadows

Bury Me in Shadows
Author: Greg Herren
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Inc
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2021-10-03
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1635559944

After landing in the hospital after a bad breakup and an ensuing drug-and-alcohol binge, college student Jake Chapman is given two options: rehab, or spend the summer at his dying grandmother’s decaying home in rural Alabama. The choice is obvious. His grandmother’s land has been in Jake’s family since the early nineteenth century; the ruins of the old plantation house are a short walk through the woods behind her home. An archaeological team is excavating the ruins, looking for evidence to prove an old family legend—and there’s a meth lab just over the ridge. Once Jake is there, he begins having strange experiences—flashes of memory, inexplicable emotions—that he can’t explain, and he keeps seeing something strange out in the woods. As he explores his family history, he uncovers some dark secrets someone—or something—is willing to kill to keep hidden.

Bury Me When I'm Dead

Bury Me When I'm Dead
Author: Cheryl A Head
Publisher: Bywater Books
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2016-07-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1612940684

Finalist for the 29th Annual Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery. Charlene "Charlie" Mack is a PI in Detroit. Born and raised in the city that America forgot, Charlie has built a highly respected private investigation firm through hard work, smart choices, and relentless ambition. Her team of investigators is highly skilled and trustworthy, but she secretly struggles with her sexual orientation and a mother with early-onset Alzheimer's. When Charlie and her crack team head to Birmingham, Alabama following the trail of a missing person, what should be a routine case turns into a complex chase for answers. Shady locals and a southern patriarch with dark secrets dating back forty years obscure their path. It seems like everyone has something to hide, including Charlie. When the case turns deadly with a double murder, and Charlie is attacked on a quiet neighborhood street, everything suddenly becomes personal. Who can Charlie trust, and will she ever solve the riddles of the Magic City? A Detroit native, Cheryl A. Head now lives on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, where she navigated a successful career as a writer, television producer, filmmaker, broadcast executive, and media funder. Her debut novel, Long Way Home: A World War II Novel, was a 2015 Next Generation Indie Book Award finalist in both the African American Literature and Historical Fiction categories. When not writing fiction, she's a passionate blogger and user of Twitter, and she regularly consults on a wide range of diversity issues.

Stolen

Stolen
Author: Leslie Georgeson
Publisher: Leslie Georgeson
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2024-07-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

A life on the run. A love that can’t be denied. A deadly obsession no one sees coming… My entire childhood was a lie—constantly moving, new names, new schools, and no friends to speak of. Then Nicholas Miller burst into my life. At fourteen, he stole my heart. At twenty, he broke it. I never thought I'd see him again. Years later, Nick's sudden return knocks me off balance and digs up all the old feelings. I'm not over him, and I never will be. But he's not here to win me back—he's tracking a serial killer who is targeting me. Nick is the link between me and the killer. Losing Nick once was brutal. Twice was devastating. I won't survive a third time. Yet, my heart still yearns for what could have been. But with an obsessed sociopath breathing down our necks, how can we find love again?

Firewall

Firewall
Author: Andy McNab
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 529
Release: 2002-06-25
Genre: British
ISBN: 0743406273

Helsinki, December 1999. Nick Stone, ex-SAS, is tough, resourceful, ruthless, highly-trained - and desperately in need of cash. Offered the lucrative freelance job of kidnapping a Mafia warlord and delivering him to St. Petersburg, it seems to Stone that his problems are over. In fact, they are only just beginning.

Life after Death Row

Life after Death Row
Author: Saundra D. Westervelt
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2012-10-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0813553393

Life after Death Row examines the post-incarceration struggles of individuals who have been wrongly convicted of capital crimes, sentenced to death, and subsequently exonerated. Saundra D. Westervelt and Kimberly J. Cook present eighteen exonerees’ stories, focusing on three central areas: the invisibility of the innocent after release, the complicity of the justice system in that invisibility, and personal trauma management. Contrary to popular belief, exonerees are not automatically compensated by the state or provided adequate assistance in the transition to post-prison life. With no time and little support, many struggle to find homes, financial security, and community. They have limited or obsolete employment skills and difficulty managing such daily tasks as grocery shopping or banking. They struggle to regain independence, self-sufficiency, and identity. Drawing upon research on trauma, recovery, coping, and stigma, the authors weave a nuanced fabric of grief, loss, resilience, hope, and meaning to provide the richest account to date of the struggles faced by people striving to reclaim their lives after years of wrongful incarceration.

Bury Me Deep in the Green Wood

Bury Me Deep in the Green Wood
Author: Rob McLennan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 102
Release: 1999
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Both an acknowledgement and a quiet celebration of the connections that run through people and their personal and public histories, this poetry collection explores and mines the past and present while stepping into the future. The poems are rich in image and in their sense of Canada, especially the tensions between literature and its physical realities. A heady and heads-up mix of classicism, urban pop culture, and historic Glengarry County in Eastern Ontario, this volume roots itself in the green earth, where it holds and thrives at all costs.

Violin Lessons

Violin Lessons
Author: Arnold Zable
Publisher: Text Publishing
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2012-07-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1921922788

From the songs of Arab diva Umm Khultum on the banks of the Tigris to the strains of a young boy playing the violin for his mother in Melbourne, to the swing jazz of the nightclubs and cabarets of 1940s Baghdad, a fisherman playing a flute on the banks of the Mekong, and Paganini in the borderlands of eastern Poland... Music weaves its way through each of these spellbinding stories. Each tale, each fragment of music, leads to Amal, the woman who saved her life by clinging to a corpse for twenty hours alone in the sea. Arnold Zable takes the reader on an intimate journey into the lives of people he met on travels over the last forty years. These are tales aching to be told. Tales of hardship, of yearning and of celebration. Tales that span the globe, and bring us back to Melbourne to the powerful and heartbreaking story of Amal—her flight from Baghdad, her fears boarding the unseaworthy SIEV X, her survival when it went down, and her desire to have her story told.