Download or read book The North Carolina Gazetteer written by William S. Powell and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North Carolina Gazetteer, 2nd Ed: A Dictionary of Tar Heel Places and Their History

Download or read book Serena written by Ron Rash and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-10-07 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penned by an award-winning writer, this Gothic tale of greed, corruption, and revenge is set against the backdrop of the 1930s wilderness and America's burgeoning environmental movement.

Download or read book Who I Was Born to Be and Whose I Am written by Frankie Lee Watson and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who I Was . . . Born to Be . . . and Whose I Am is an inspirational autobiography, referring to a well-lived life, as an extravagant tapestry reveals true accounts of remarkable adventures—a first romance; an aunt, nurse to President Dwight Eisenhower; a neighbor, Senator Sam Ervin (chair of the Watergate investigation); life-changing decisions; dating a would-be celebrity; a journalist interview with Rev. Billy Graham; raising an artist-daughter and a Broadway-actor son; a murder; surviving 9/11; encounters with icons destined for greatness; divine interventions; miraculous healings; a mystery; and the invention of the Garmin (GPS) in a friend’s garage.

Download or read book The Poet written by Mark Raymond and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-11-23 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joel Parker, the deadliest CIA agent in history, is called out of retirement to do one last job. Accompanied by his son Jamie, Joel must figure out the source if a small terrorist organization that has been terrorizing major cities and nations across the globe.

Download or read book Even As We Breathe written by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteen-year-old Cowney Sequoyah yearns to escape his hometown of Cherokee, North Carolina, in the heart of the Smoky Mountains. When a summer job at Asheville's luxurious Grove Park Inn and Resort brings him one step closer to escaping the hills that both cradle and suffocate him, he sees it as an opportunity. The experience introduces him to the beautiful and enigmatic Essie Stamper—a young Cherokee woman who is also working at the inn and dreaming of a better life. With World War II raging in Europe, the resort is the temporary home of Axis diplomats and their families, who are being held as prisoners of war. A secret room becomes a place where Cowney and Essie can escape the white world of the inn and imagine their futures free of the shadows of their families' pasts. Outside of this refuge, however, racism and prejudice are never far behind, and when the daughter of one of the residents goes missing, Cowney finds himself accused of abduction and murder. Even As We Breathe invokes the elements of bone, blood, and flesh as Cowney navigates difficult social, cultural, and ethnic divides. Betrayed by the friends he trusted, he begins to unearth deeper mysteries as he works to prove his innocence and clear his name. This richly written debut novel explores the immutable nature of the human spirit and the idea that physical existence, with all its strife and injustice, will not be humanity's lasting legacy.

Download or read book Edible North Carolina written by Marcie Cohen Ferris and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marcie Cohen Ferris gathers a constellation of leading journalists, farmers, chefs, entrepreneurs, scholars, and food activists—along with photographer Baxter Miller— to offer a deeply immersive portrait of North Carolina's contemporary food landscape. Ranging from manifesto to elegy, Edible North Carolina's essays, photographs, interviews, and recipes combine for a beautifully revealing journey across the lands and waters of a state that exemplifies the complexities of American food and identity. While North Carolina's food heritage is grounded in core ingredients and the proximity of farm to table, this book reveals striking differences among food-centered cultures and businesses across the state. Documenting disparities among people's access to food and farmland—and highlighting community and state efforts toward fundamental solutions—Edible North Carolina shows how culinary excellence, entrepreneurship, and the struggle for racial justice converge in shaping food equity, not only for North Carolinians, but for all Americans. Starting with Vivian Howard, star of PBS's A Chef's Life, who wrote the foreword, the contributors include Shorlette Ammons, Karen Amspacher, Victoria Bouloubasis, Katy Clune, Gabe Cumming, Marcie Cohen Ferris, Sandra Gutierrez, Tom Hanchett, Michelle King, Cheetie Kumar, Courtney Lewis, Malinda Maynor Lowery, Ronni Lundy, Keia Mastrianni, April McGreger, Baxter Miller, Ricky Moore, Carla Norwood, Kathleen Purvis, Andrea Reusing, Bill Smith, Maia Surdam, and Andrea Weigl.

Download or read book The Story So Far written by Ann Cattanach and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2002-06-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identity is formed through the narration of experience, and children who experience difficult life events may need help in forming and expressing their own narratives. Play therapy can be a very appropriate way of facilitating this kind of expression. This book describes the work of nine play therapists through the narratives of children - and some adults - whose stories emerge during their play therapy sessions. These stories are not direct accounts of real happenings but are imaginative, metaphorical, complex and multi-layered. The life events they relate to include fostering, long-term illness, and the traumatic death of a close adult. One chapter examines attachment in families and another describes the Biography Laboratory project exploring story creation through action research. This is a book in which professionals from many disciplines will find much to further their understanding of children's experiences and understanding of the world.

Download or read book Thru Hell on the Good Foot written by Mary La Grande Nicholas and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Mary La Grande Nicholas's life hasn't always been easy, but she credits a guardian angel for helping her navigate to the place she is today. In Thru Hell on the Good Foot, she shares anecdotes and stories from her life's journey. Her story begins with her birth in 1946 in High Point, North Carolina, the second of two daughters. She tells of her father's death when she was two years old, her mother's remarriage, her mother's death when Mary was just eight years old, and Mary's subsequent move to New Jersey to live with relatives. She shares a host of traumatic stories, including a confrontation with the Ku Klux Klan, encounters with a pimp and drug dealers, and a beating from police. Thru Hell on the Good Foot demonstrates her courage and perseverance as she followed the path to adulthood without parents or a proper role model, eventually becoming a nurse and caring for patients with Alzheimer's disease. Her story communicates there is help and hope.

Download or read book One Second After written by William R. Forstchen and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A post-apocalyptic thriller of the after effects in the United States after a terrifying terrorist attack using electromagnetic pulse weapons. New York Times best selling author William R. Forstchen now brings us a story which can be all too terrifyingly real...a story in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war, in one second, a war that will send America back to the Dark Ages...A war based upon a weapon, an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP). A weapon that may already be in the hands of our enemies. Months before publication, One Second After has already been cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read, a book already being discussed in the corridors of the Pentagon as a truly realistic look at a weapon and its awesome power to destroy the entire United States, literally within one second. It is a weapon that the Wall Street Journal warns could shatter America. In the tradition of On the Beach, Fail Safe and Testament, this book, set in a typical American town, is a dire warning of what might be our future...and our end. The John Matherson Series #1 One Second After #2 One Year After #3 The Final Day Other Books Pillar to the Sky 48 Hours At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book The Family written by J. Andrews Smith and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-10-04 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this book, J. Andrews Smith, MSW, makes a unique contribution to the fields of North Carolina historiography, sociology and social work. Almost 20 years ago, Clyde F. McSwain published a detailed account of his life at the Masonic Orphanage at Oxford, North Carolina. Nearly 10 years later Richard McKenzie published a penetrating memoir of his life in the Presbyterian Orphanage at Barium Springs, North Carolina. A few other full-length recollections of orphanage life may have been written and published, but there is no other book, I think, similar to this one by Mr. Smith. His is no less than a collection of firsthand accounts of life as lived by a succession of children in the Free Will Baptist Orphanage (or Children's Home) at Middlesex, North Carolina, over a period of nearly 90 years-from the second decade of the 20th century to the first decade of the 21st century. George Stevenson Jr. Archivist (1970-2008) North Carolina State Archives Raleigh, North Carolina

Download or read book Lessons from Doctor Lowell written by Barb Furman Hall and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you realize how much of an impact you have as a parent? Do you have a parent who helped shape and mold who you are today? Dealing with hard-hitting issues like death, blending families, and achieving overall life satisfaction, Barb Furman Hall recounts the life of her esteemed father as she blazes a trail through her own existence. She candidly discusses the influences her father had, and she talks openly about the emotions behind having a step-mother. Sourcing strength from the deeply-rooted Christian life her father led, Barb recounts invaluable lessons about her own childhood to adulthood. She then parlays those ideas into applications for a wider audience to take advantage of. Dr. Lowell was a beloved individual and created a legacy that extends much farther than even Barb realized. Join Barb Furman Hall as she explores that legacy and develops her own life with Lessons From Dr. Lowell.

Download or read book Cold Mountain written by Charles Frazier and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wounded Confederate soldier treks across the ruins of America in this National Book Award–winning novel: “A stirring Civil War tale told with epic sweep.” —People Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, a Confederate soldier named Inman decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge mountains to Ada, the woman he loves. His journey across the disintegrating South brings him into intimate and sometimes lethal converse with slaves and marauders, bounty hunters and witches, both helpful and malign. Meanwhile, the intrepid Ada is trying to revive her father’s derelict farm and learning to survive in a world where the old certainties have been swept away. As it interweaves their stories, Cold Mountain asserts itself as an authentic odyssey, hugely powerful, majestically lovely, and keenly moving.

Download or read book Masque of Honor written by Sharon Virts and published by RosettaBooks. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this coming-of-age tale set in early 19th century America, two sons of the Virginia aristocracy risk it all to defend their dreams and determine their own destinies. General Armistead Mason and John “Jack” Mason McCarty are brothers-in-law, second cousins and descendants of founding father George Mason IV. Ambitious and headstrong, together they set out to find love, acceptance and honor on their own merit. Armistead—by nature a politician—demands respect and strives for perfection. Jack—by inclination a rover—looks to forge his own path. When Armistead is challenged by corruption in the political machine and is denied a seat in the US Congress, the two become embroiled in a bitter dispute that sets in motion an irrevocable chain of events, leading them to the dueling grounds and an outcome that changes everything. Based on historical events of the 1819 Mason-McCarty duel, Masque of Honor is a story of courage, conviction, and the cost of sacrificing one life to forge another.

Download or read book Seekers into the Mystery written by J. M. DeMatteis and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2017-01-18 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucas Hart, a struggling screenwriter, is tortured by his addictions and inner demons. In his dreams, he recovers repressed memories of childhood abuse along with his extraordinary method of coping: astral projection. Lucas once again engages in out-of-body experiences, this time with angels, aliens, and otherworldly beings in hopes of finding the magician whose grace can transform the human race. A thrilling tale of unknown dangers and spiritual rebirth, Seekers into the Mystery takes readers on an unforgettable journey toward salvation. This deluxe Dover edition presents the first-ever compilation of the entire series of fifteen comic books, originally published by DC Comics' Vertigo imprint. Created by Eisner Award–winning writer J. M. DeMatteis, the series features stunning graphics by an all-star cast of comics legends: Jon J Muth, Glenn Barr, Michael Zulli, and Jill Thompson. In addition to a new Introduction by J. M. DeMatteis, the compilation includes cover art by Barr, Muth, Zulli, and John Bolton — along with character sketches by Glenn Barr. Suggested for mature readers.

Download or read book First Impressions written by Matt James and published by Worthy Books. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matt James, the first Black bachelor on ABC’s beloved television show, The Bachelor, shares his views on the controversial topics that defined his season and confronts matters of race, opportunity, and his biracial identity head on. When The Bachelor franchise announced Matt James as the first Black lead, it was celebrated as long-overdue progress on the primetime show. America fell in love with Matt—the Christian, former NFL athlete, and nonprofit CEO—who charmed millions of viewers each week. But the off-screen conversations around the show revealed the realities and inescapable challenges of being Black in America and the depth of racism that still exists. On the show, Matt could only go so far in sharing his own story with America. In First Impressions, Matt shares his views on controversial topics like race and opportunity that defined his season on The Bachelor. Matt lives at the intersection of these important issues and shares the wisdom his experience has granted him. Matt describes the joys and difficulties of being the youngest of two Black sons, raised by a single, working-class, white mother in Raleigh, North Carolina. He elaborates on the spiritual closeness and sense of duty he felt for his mother, but also the complex relationships he had with the many male figures in his life: his prejudiced, Italian grandfather, who had trouble accepting Matt as his own; his father, whose womanizing and petty crime put strain on the family; and his older brother, who was Matt’s protector in youth, but who struggled with the long shadow of their father’s legacy. Simultaneously inspirational and informative, First Impressions will leave readers with a deeper understanding of the life experiences that prepared Matt for such a divisive moment in television history.

Download or read book The Thing at the Foot of the Bed and Other Scary Tales written by Maria Leach and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A noted folklorist spins a tapestry of spooky yarns involving haunted houses, ghostly visitations, and other chilling vignettes. Moody black-and-white drawings complement the stories, which range from humorous to eerie.

Download or read book Finding Your Fairy Tale Ending written by Dechari Cole and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The true story of a girl in search of happiness and love :a search that leads her through the wild and unpredictable world of friendships, dating, heartbreak, and loneliness."--Amazon.