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Written by Sheridan Hill
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Tuesday, 31 July 2007 19:00 |
My Name As A Prayer Author: Sheridan Hill
Publisher:
ISBN 978-0-9791355-0-7
Price: $12.95
Available: Amazon.com, Borders, The Muses  Troyanne Ross was an eccentric and humorous charm school owner in Charlotte, NC, who never relinquished her dream of being a star -- even on her deathbed. Sheridan Hill, a Black Mountain author, has published an intimate memoir chronicling the emotional healing and patient-caretaker challenges that she experienced with her mother, Troyanne Ross, during her mother's last year of life.
My Name As A Prayer begins with a hilarious chapter of mother-daughter angst and eventually moves to end-of-life issues. Ross was a prominent figure in the state in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s as one of the country's first weather women on WSOC-TV, a frequent star in Little Theatre productions, and the owner of the city's first modeling and personal development school. "A wonderful book! Hill has a huge talent...very sharp at the detail level, exceptionally deft dialogue, daring self-revelations...a magnificent job."
-- Robert Franklin, Founder, McFarland & Company "Extremely skillful and moving writing. The mother's ramblings are a genuine revelation of a level of meaning not accessible to ordinary discourse."
-- Ann Deagon "An observant, wry, loving...memoir about caring for her mother -- an irrepressible Charlotte charm schoolteacher -- during the last year of her mother's life."
-- Rob Newfeld, Asheville Citizen-Times |
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Written by Lynn Veach Sadler
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Thursday, 26 July 2007 19:00 |
Foot Ways Author: Lynn Veach Sadler
Publisher: Bards and Sages
ISBN: 978-0-6151-4563-1
 Lynn Veach Sadler weaves this coming of age tale with old wives' tales and a twist of menace to deliver a stunning, thoughtful story of youth and penance. Polly Junior never could understand why all the womenfolk in her sleepy little town would get so worked up over the arrival of Mr. Rufe. Why did everyone feel obligated to open their homes each year to this wanderer, who arrived each spring to the delight of the town ladies and the dismay of the town menfolk? Nothing is what it seems, and soon it becomes apparent that the seemingly harmless tradition carries a darker purpose.
Native North Carolinian and former college president Dr. Lynn Veach Sadler won an Extraordinary Undergraduate Teaching Award, a civil rights award, the Distinguished Women of North Carolina Award for Education, and the Barringer Award for Exceptional Service from the North Carolina Society of Historians. Her academic publications include five books and some sixty-eight articles. Now a full-time creative writer of poetry, fiction, and plays, she has a full-length poetry collection forthcoming. She won a Silver Medal in 2005 in the the Pinter Prize for Drama, and in 2006 wom the Abroad Writers Contest/Fellowship (France). Veach's novella won second place in the 2006 Bards and Sages Speculative Writing awards. The novella will be available from Amazon and most book retailers in June. Advance copies are available directly from the publisher. Complimentary review copies are available upon request in both digital galley and finished print format. More information about the book and an excerpt from Chapter One can be found at http://www.bardsandsages.com/footways |
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Written by Luleen S. Anderson, Ph.D.
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Tuesday, 24 July 2007 19:00 |
The Knack of a Happy Life: nine lessons along the journey Author: Luleen S. Anderson, Ph.D.
Publisher: Winoca Press
ISBN 978-0-9789736-3-6
$19.95
 A happy life is our choice ... misery is optional! Clinical psychologist Luleen S. Anderson draws on a lifetime of expertise and her own poignant experiences to show each of us how to make that choice for ourselves.
With compassion, gentle humor, and wisdom, her brief essays guide readers through the major turning points of our lives. Men and women, young and old alike, will find hope, joy, and insight in these delightful pages. |
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Hat's Off!
Hats Off! to Raleigh poet David Rigsbee, who has won a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship for poetry for 2013. The award is $25,000. Three NC poets were awarded fellowships, out of 40 total. The awards are given every other year for poets. This is Rigsbee's second NEA Fellowship award. |
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