City Slicker’s Guide to Country Living

City Slicker’s Guide to Country Living
Author: Becky Condon
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Total Pages: 956
Release: 2017-07-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1478771666

Neighbors: Persons living in proximity to other persons. Everyone has neighbors. Neighbors-From-Hell: Neighbors who are not nice. Have you ever had Neighbors-From-Hell? Neighbors are an obvious arrangement in cities or towns. Good or bad, tidy or messy, quiet or noisy, nice or mean; there are all types. City slickers moving to the country invoke the image of space and solitude, but there will still be neighbors. The space between domiciles might be larger, but a bad, messy, or noisome neighbor can still exist. Even with a country home's space and larger area, there can still be neighbors that won't contain themselves to their own area. Once upon a time there was a young family who had a dream of owning land and operating a farm. They became land owners and cattle ranchers, building their very own dream house on their very own patch of paradise. They worked hard to assimilate to this new lifestyle in a new neighborhood. It was everything they'd hoped for, and they were so happy. Then they got neighbors. They got Neighbors-From-Hell. These bad neighbors were pushy, arrogant, and mean. Their bad attitudes, slovenly habits, and meanness aside, the neighbors would not contain themselves to their own area. They encroached. They took what was not theirs. They forced themselves into the space and lives of our heroes. These neighbors meant to build their house on their property next door to our little family. The neighbors' property had some unfortunate attributes, however, and it became clear that their property wasn't very conducive to building a home. Astonishingly, these neighbors insisted on utilizing portions of property they didn't own to construct their project. There were other solutions to the construction dilemmas these neighbors faced, but these answers would have been costly. They wanted to use our little family's land for free. They wanted to steal the property and property rights of our little family. These Neighbors-From-Hell came on over bringing their messes and problems with them, and embroiled our little family in a battle for their rights and their very lives. When our heroes stood firm on their property rights, these awful neighbors tried it anyway. When the young couple complained, the neighbors lied. When the family sought the help of the authorities, they found out the difficulties of fighting city hall when the local power came to the aid and assistance of their county crony, even in the face of proven and documented lies. The common refrain used as their excuse for lies and deceit was, "Y'all aren't from around here, are you?" This bigotry and clannish attitude was brought to full force against our little family, whose only desire was to be left alone on their own land. When the neighbors couldn't steal the part of the land they were after, they tried to take everything. Using their friends in county authority and the local judiciary, they brought the fight of our young heroes' lives. Does the young family survive? Can they win against the local establishment and seemingly insurmountable odds? What do you do when your neighbors are the Neighbors-From-Hell? What do you do when the Neighbors-From-Hell have friends in high places? What do you do when they threaten your home, your livelihood, and your family? Everyone knows fighting city hall can be a pointless fight, rarely won. But what do you do when city hall brings the fight to you? Sometimes you have to stand and fight.

The Cowboy at Work

The Cowboy at Work
Author: Fay E. Ward
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2013-02-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 0486146235

Want to know how to throw a half-diamond hitch and wild a branding iron? Interested in the recipe for S. B. stew? This authoritative manual by an old-time cowboy explains it all. 600 black-and-white illustrations.

On Gramma's Rocker

On Gramma's Rocker
Author: Ann M. Bondanella Filutze
Publisher: Inspiring Voices
Total Pages: 87
Release: 2013-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1462404987

This treasure trove of short stories offers tales of friends and animals that come to life and features important lessons about friendship, sharing and more. On Gramma’s Rocker shares a treasure box of children’s tales filled with short stories that make friends and animals come alive and help your child learn life’s most important lessons through fun. Go to the palace with porcupines who learn their manners. Follow a curious girl into a “boys-only” tree house and discover a real hero. Meet a new fire truck named Flash who wants to befriend a unique dog at the fire station. Sit in the shade with Blanket and Sombrero as they compete for the first-place prize in their village. Stand guard with Ring the doorbell as he tries his best—rain or shine. Travel with Cup and Teabag from the sunny south to the cold north until they finally reach their relaxing destination. These stories bring you and your children unusual companions who become friends as they meet each challenge before them.

Abbott and Costello on the Home Front

Abbott and Costello on the Home Front
Author: Scott Allen Nollen
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2009-06-08
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0786453257

As two of the most popular entertainers of the mid-century film industry, comic greats Bud Abbott and Lou Costello offered an essential balm to the American public following the sorrows of the Great Depression and during the trauma of World War II. This is the first book to focus in detail on the immensely popular wartime films of Abbott and Costello, discussing the production, content, and reception of 18 films within the context of wartime events on the home front and abroad. The films covered include the service comedies Buck Privates, In the Navy, and Keep 'Em Flying; more mainstream comic relief films such as Pardon My Sarong and Who Done It?; and post-war experiments such as Little Giant and The Time of Their Lives. More than 120 stills and lobby cards from the author's personal collection illustrate the text, including many showing outtakes or deleted scenes.

Deferred Justice

Deferred Justice
Author: Al Long
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2001
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0595193439

A handsome but naive young man from the country leaves his rural hometown after the death of his mother and grandmother and goes to the big city. Although a brilliant student, he had found it necessary to drop out of high school four years earlier to care for and support them. He thought he would find a better life in the city, but found nothing but trouble. While trying to do a favor for a man who had befriended him, he is arrested on a drug charge, wrongly convicted and jailed for six months, a first timer. Inmates try to teach him their criminal ways and it almost leads him into a life of crime. When released he meets a beautiful Criminal Psychology student and joins her in an activist movement that her group has organized to make it unlawful to jail first timers in the same cells with hardened criminals. They fall madly in love, but then find that both have vowed to retain their virginity until marriage. Neither has contemplated marriage and they find themselves locked in a fierce battle with temptation.

The New Natural Cat

The New Natural Cat
Author: Anitra Frazier
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 590
Release: 1990-11-01
Genre: Pets
ISBN: 1101119217

Here is the definitive handbook for concerned cat lovers everywhere, now thoroughly revised and updated with an all-new health encyclopedia. Offers basic tips on choosing a vet, dealing with litter box problems, selecting a scratching post, proper grooming and diet, caring for sick cats, and much more. 20 line drawings.

This Side of Paradise

This Side of Paradise
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1996-03-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780140189766

First published in 1920, This Side of Paradise marks the beginning of the career of one of the greatest writers of the first half of the twentieth century. In this remarkable achievement, F. Scott Fitzgerald displays his unparalleled wit and keen social insight in his portrayal of college life through the struggles and doubts of Amory Blaine, a self-proclaimed genius with a love of knowledge and a penchant for the romantic. As Amory journeys into adulthood and leaves the aristocratic egotism of his youth behind, he becomes painfully aware of his lost innocence and the new sense of responsibility and regret that has taken its place. Clever and wonderfully written, This Side of Paradise is a fascinating novel about the changes of the Jazz Age and their effects on the individual. It is a complex portrait of a versatile mind in a restless generation that reveals rich ideas crucial to an understanding of the 1920s and timeless truths about the human need for--and fear of--change. "A very enlivening book indeed, a book really brilliant and glamorous, making as agreeable reading as could be asked . . . There are clever things, keen and searching things, amusingly young and mistaken things, beautiful things and pretty things . . . and truly inspired and elevated things, an astonishing abundance of each, in THIS SIDE OF PARADISE. You could call it the youthful Byronism that is normal in a man of the author's type, working out through a well-furnished intellect of unusual critical force." --The Evening Post, 1920 "An astonishing and refreshing book . . . Mr. Fitzgerald has recorded with a good deal of felicity and a disarming frankness the adventures and developments of a curious and fortunate American youth. . . . [It is] delightful and encouraging to find a novel which gives us in the accurate terms of intellectual honesty a reflection of American undergraduate life. At last the revelation has come. We have the constant young American occupation--the 'petting party'--frankly and humorously in our literature." --The New Republic, 1920

The Baha Mousa Public Inquiry report

The Baha Mousa Public Inquiry report
Author: Baha Mousa Public Inquiry
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2011-09-08
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780102974928

The terms of reference for this inquiry were to investigate and report on the circumstances surrounding the death of Baha Mousa and the treatment of those detained with him. It takes account of previous investigations that have already taken place, in particular where responsibility lay for approving the practice of conditioning detainees by any members of the 1st Battalion, The Queen's Lancashire Regiment in Iraq in 2003.The report is divided into four modules: the history of the use of conditioning techniques (from the time of internment in Northern Ireland in the early 1970s up to and including March 2003; Baha Mousa and other detainees; training and the chain of command; the future - what has happened since 2003 is considered in relation to conditioning techniques.Baha Mousa died with 93 injuries in custody in Basra in 2003. His relatives claim he was beaten to death by troops. The inquiry concluded that his death was caused by a combination of his weakened physical state and a final struggle with his guards.The Inquiry has criticised the conduct of individual soldiers, senior army officers and their legal advisers and also failures in the chain of command. The lack of training and preparation British troops received for the invasion of Iraq is also highlighted. The report found that systematic abuse of civilians by British troops did not happen.There are 64 recommendations to the Ministry of Defence including that the MoD should keep its current absolute prohibition on the use of hoods on captured personnel. Arguments for the ban are overwhelming and a return to their use is difficult to justify

Montgomery Ward

Montgomery Ward
Author: Montgomery Ward
Publisher:
Total Pages: 616
Release: 1926
Genre: Advertising, Direct-mail
ISBN: