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Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -From East Tennessee, the Scott family faces Civil War conflicts. One brother and his son decide to fight for the Southern Cause, while four other brothers escape into Kentucky to join the Union Army, fighting against slavery and preserving the Union. The Scott family adheres to the Presbyterian faith as Covenanters, embracing Native American perspectives, combining those values to provide guidance through a most challenging time. The family members who remain in East Tennessee are subjected to suffering from the plundering bushwhackers who see the Scott family allegiance to the Union as cause for punishment. That retribution also applies to slaves with whom the Scotts live as farmers, loggers and millers, all working the land of others.How THE SCOTT BOYS approach the decision to fight, how they react during events, and how they face the fears and the mental challenges of war are presented with the realization that none of us knows for certain what those feelings were like in 1860. Follow each brother through the war during battle, in prison, marching, and dealing with the harshness of exposure to the weather. Many of the characters portrayed are real life men and women. The locations are all actual. 298 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This book is a collection of 39 short stories and essays that will enlighten you about theauthor's personal life, his family's past, and other hilarious adventures. The contentsof the book are divided into seven sections with the first section containing shortstories about his father, David Gellis, an immigrant European tailor. The secondsection describes various stages of his sister Barbara's life, who somehow inheritedthe 'wild' gene and constantly got herself into trouble. The section about the author'spast covers his chaotic life as a child living in a small house behind the family drycleaning establishment, his years of medical school and residency, and unusual eventsduring his private practice of plastic surgery. Farcical times with his young friends arerecreated. Later in life, even while practicing medicine, Dr. Gellis would substituteteach in the public school system, creating hilarious stories. Narratives, describing hisBrooklyn, New York, beginnings including family and friends, are brought to light inthe fourth chapter that showcase his grandfather, a Kosher butcher, and the author'smother, Rose, a very defiant 4-year-old. Within the fift h section are stories of events inFlint, Michigan, especially an unusual encounter with the Detroit Mafia's The PurpleGang in the 1930's. Very interesting chance meetings the author had with famousathletes, Muhammad Ali and Tiger Woods, are covered in the sixth section. Finallyon an academic level, the author discusses his favorite sayings and idioms with theirorigins, along with a poem/prayer called 'Family.' There is obviously something foreveryone in this entertaining collection of short stories.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 220 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -From East Tennessee, the Scott family faces Civil War conflicts. One brother and his son decide to fight for the Southern Cause, while four other brothers escape into Kentucky to join the Union Army, fighting against slavery and preserving the Union. The Scott family adheres to the Presbyterian faith as Covenanters, embracing Native American perspectives, combining those values to provide guidance through a most challenging time. The family members who remain in East Tennessee are subjected to suffering from the plundering bushwhackers who see the Scott family allegiance to the Union as cause for punishment. That retribution also applies to slaves with whom the Scotts live as farmers, loggers and millers, all working the land of others.How THE SCOTT BOYS approach the decision to fight, how they react during events, and how they face the fears and the mental challenges of war are presented with the realization that none of us knows for certain what those feelings were like in 1860. Follow each brother through the war during battle, in prison, marching, and dealing with the harshness of exposure to the weather. Many of the characters portrayed are real life men and women. The locations are all actual.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 298 pp. Englisch.