13 Ergebnisse.

Asgali Nvya, the three hundred foot high Head Rock, is older than time itself in the river gorge in the mountains. Young Josh Allen loves the old Rock, because it always reflects his moods. But he loves Ellen Miller, his wonderful little school mate with the crossed eyes, even more. She grows into a beautiful woman, and she and Josh keep running in and out of each others lives for four decades, sharing happiness and tragedy, while getting caug...

THE ST. CHARLES BARBER, by Allan Ishmael Young When Minnie Mullins sold her deceased husband's barbershop to the personable young stranger, little did she realize the portent of his sudden appearance in her community. Not only would the old barbershop be brought back to life, but her business agreement with the new owner might spell out a death warrant on her own life. And she had little idea that his arrival would drastically change the life...

When sixteen-year-old coal digger Andy Stewart decides on his first day at work that there must be better and safer ways of knockin' the black out (a euphemism for extracting more coal from the earth), he sets about learning and developing technology to do so. But his lifelong friend and neighbor, Nick Rakos, takes a different route, through unionization, and they become bitter enemies. Both make marriages of convenience, but learn to love the...

Protectionism of parent thwarts lives of young couple Young boy might or might not be in love with Faye, but admires her greatly. Running in and out of each others lives for half a century, any permanent contact is discouraged by her domineering father. He, for some reason, does not approve of the boy, who tries hard to prove him wrong. Allan Ishmael Young, writer of books in all genres, specializes in complex situations which entertain ...

TWO NOVELLAS by Allan Ishmael Young THE HEAD ROCK CHALLENGE Lord, how I hate these people, kept running through his mind. Life seems to smite him at every turn. His personal as well as his professional life, are constantly full of insurmountable problems. His inherent dislike of family members and potential friends slowly turns to hate. When eventually he comes to believe that he has found ways to conquer his difficulties, he makes his f...

My memoirs of my two older sisters, their home lives, their education, their husbands, their children.

THE NEW REVEREND, by Allan Ishmael Young Young Reverend Lincoln Davis Hawk - an ex-soldier and ex-drunk with a shameful past, finds romance and rancor in the Bible Belt. He is now an ordained minister working among the needy and downtrodden, but not in a church - but is assigned, against his will, to return to the hometown he dislikes, to take over a problematical church. After meeting a host of characters, including the young and beautiful...

DOWN HOME GIRLS Allan Ishmael Young No matter where a boy grows up, he will be faced with knowing many girls. Some will bring types of pleasures he never dreamed of, and some will simply be pains in the butt, to be avoided. I always felt sorry for the girls. They were missing half the fun of being young. Of course, I guess their weapons were more subtle! And as time went on I was to find out just how subtle. I probably had plenty of opport...

Pick any given place, like Lee County, and the multitude of stories attributed to the people there are fascinating. Select any given family name from the area, and the tales from and about them can even become weird. Here are sagas of three members of the Hill clan, including many details, fears, lives, afflictions, strange happenings, and their effect on the people themselves, as well as their friend sand contacts. There is the claustrophobic...

APPALACHIAN ANTHOLOGY by Allan Young These 18 stories by Appalachian native Allan Young make up a microcosm of the tragedies and triumphs of life in his home mountains during the last century. Ranging all the way from a fifteen year old girl's aiding handicapped kids to life and death in the coal mines to various landmarks, professions and romances, these tales are reflections of the author's experiences on a day to day basis. The reader ca...

NIGHTINGALE OF THE MOUNTAIN FOLD by Allan Young Molly Hilton, pious forty-something widow, is attending her favorite activity, a singing convention of all-religious songs. Suddenly feeling the call to try singing, she, and the world, discover that she has a beautiful soprano voice. That voice leads her from her simple country life into the many intrigues of the business of religion, church organizations, and religious crusades. Meet the pe...

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