Author: Nick Santoro
Publisher: WYTC Press
ISBN: 9780692749104
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Whortonsville Yacht & Tractor Club is an account of one man's attempt to escape the harried, impersonal life of a New York commuter in the hopes of finding a more fulfilling lifestyle in a tiny North Carolina coastal village. It is the story of Walter Smithwick, a man with no particular talents or skills, who survives a subway fire under the Hudson River on his way to a job he did not like, to realize that there must be a better way for him to spend the rest of his life. With no clear idea of what that better way might be, he decides to invent one.The people he meets and the experiences he encounters along the way are sure to put a smile on your face. And there just might be a life lessen in there for all of us.While the Whortonsville Yacht & Tractor Club is a work of fiction, it really did exist...or should I say "does"?
The Whortonsville Yacht and Tractor Club
Author: Nick Santoro
Publisher: WYTC Press
ISBN: 9780692749104
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Whortonsville Yacht & Tractor Club is an account of one man's attempt to escape the harried, impersonal life of a New York commuter in the hopes of finding a more fulfilling lifestyle in a tiny North Carolina coastal village. It is the story of Walter Smithwick, a man with no particular talents or skills, who survives a subway fire under the Hudson River on his way to a job he did not like, to realize that there must be a better way for him to spend the rest of his life. With no clear idea of what that better way might be, he decides to invent one.The people he meets and the experiences he encounters along the way are sure to put a smile on your face. And there just might be a life lessen in there for all of us.While the Whortonsville Yacht & Tractor Club is a work of fiction, it really did exist...or should I say "does"?
Publisher: WYTC Press
ISBN: 9780692749104
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Whortonsville Yacht & Tractor Club is an account of one man's attempt to escape the harried, impersonal life of a New York commuter in the hopes of finding a more fulfilling lifestyle in a tiny North Carolina coastal village. It is the story of Walter Smithwick, a man with no particular talents or skills, who survives a subway fire under the Hudson River on his way to a job he did not like, to realize that there must be a better way for him to spend the rest of his life. With no clear idea of what that better way might be, he decides to invent one.The people he meets and the experiences he encounters along the way are sure to put a smile on your face. And there just might be a life lessen in there for all of us.While the Whortonsville Yacht & Tractor Club is a work of fiction, it really did exist...or should I say "does"?
Conjure Blues
Author: Jaki Shelton Green
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
This Close to Happy
Author: Daphne Merkin
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374140367
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
This Close to Happy is the rare, vividly personal account of what it feels like to suffer from clinical depression, written from a woman's perspective and informed by an acute understanding of the implications of this disease over a lifetime. Taking off from essays on depression she has written for The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine, Daphne Merkin casts her eye back to her beginnings to try to sort out the root causes of her affliction. She recounts the travails of growing up in a large, affluent family where there was a paucity of love and of basics such as food and clothing despite the presence of a chauffeur and a cook. She goes on to recount her early hospitalization for depression in poignant detail, as well as her complex relationship with her mercurial, withholding mother.Along the way Merkin also discusses her early, redemptive love of reading and gradual emergence as a writer. She eventually marries, has a child, and suffers severe postpartum depression, for which she is again hospitalized. Merkin also discusses her visits to various therapists and psychopharmocologists, which enables her to probe the causes of depression and its various treatments. The book ends in the present, where the writer has learned how to navigate her depression, if not "cure" it, after a third hospitalization in the wake of her mother's death.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374140367
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
This Close to Happy is the rare, vividly personal account of what it feels like to suffer from clinical depression, written from a woman's perspective and informed by an acute understanding of the implications of this disease over a lifetime. Taking off from essays on depression she has written for The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine, Daphne Merkin casts her eye back to her beginnings to try to sort out the root causes of her affliction. She recounts the travails of growing up in a large, affluent family where there was a paucity of love and of basics such as food and clothing despite the presence of a chauffeur and a cook. She goes on to recount her early hospitalization for depression in poignant detail, as well as her complex relationship with her mercurial, withholding mother.Along the way Merkin also discusses her early, redemptive love of reading and gradual emergence as a writer. She eventually marries, has a child, and suffers severe postpartum depression, for which she is again hospitalized. Merkin also discusses her visits to various therapists and psychopharmocologists, which enables her to probe the causes of depression and its various treatments. The book ends in the present, where the writer has learned how to navigate her depression, if not "cure" it, after a third hospitalization in the wake of her mother's death.
North Carolina's Timber
Author: Herbert A. Knight
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Dear Carolina
Author: Kristy Woodson Harvey
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0425279987
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
"A major new voice in southern fiction."—Elin Hilderbrand, New York Times bestselling author From the New York Times bestselling author of Under the Southern Sky and The Wedding Veil comes a moving debut novel about two mothers—one biological and one adoptive. One baby girl. Two strong Southern women. And the most difficult decision they’ll ever make. Frances “Khaki” Mason has it all: a thriving interior design career, a loving husband and son, homes in North Carolina and Manhattan—everything except the second child she has always wanted. Jodi, her husband’s nineteen-year-old cousin, is fresh out of rehab, pregnant, and alone. Although the two women couldn’t seem more different, they forge a lifelong connection as Khaki reaches out to Jodi, encouraging her to have her baby. But as Jodi struggles to be the mother she knows her daughter deserves, she will ask Khaki the ultimate favor... Written to baby Carolina, by both her birth mother and her adoptive one, this is a story that proves that life circumstances shape us but don’t define us—and that families aren’t born, they’re made... “Dear Carolina is Southern fiction at its best....Beautifully written.”—New York Timesbestselling author Eileen Goudge
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0425279987
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
"A major new voice in southern fiction."—Elin Hilderbrand, New York Times bestselling author From the New York Times bestselling author of Under the Southern Sky and The Wedding Veil comes a moving debut novel about two mothers—one biological and one adoptive. One baby girl. Two strong Southern women. And the most difficult decision they’ll ever make. Frances “Khaki” Mason has it all: a thriving interior design career, a loving husband and son, homes in North Carolina and Manhattan—everything except the second child she has always wanted. Jodi, her husband’s nineteen-year-old cousin, is fresh out of rehab, pregnant, and alone. Although the two women couldn’t seem more different, they forge a lifelong connection as Khaki reaches out to Jodi, encouraging her to have her baby. But as Jodi struggles to be the mother she knows her daughter deserves, she will ask Khaki the ultimate favor... Written to baby Carolina, by both her birth mother and her adoptive one, this is a story that proves that life circumstances shape us but don’t define us—and that families aren’t born, they’re made... “Dear Carolina is Southern fiction at its best....Beautifully written.”—New York Timesbestselling author Eileen Goudge
The Community Economic Base Study
Author: Charles Mills Tiebout
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Lies and Other Acts of Love
Author: Kristy Woodson Harvey
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1101987065
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Southern Book Prize Finalist Romantic Times Top Pick Southern Independent Booksellers Association Okra Pick Maria Shriver’s Top Summer Reads Deep South Magazine’s Best Beach Reads Glitter Guide’s Must Read List SITS Girls Books You Need to Read in 2016 Greenville News Perfect Books for Vacation Pulpwood Queens Official Book Club Pick MomTrends Book Club Pick From the New York Times bestselling author of Under the Southern Sky and The Wedding Veil comes a novel about what it really means to tell the truth... After sixty years of marriage and five daughters, Lynn “Lovey” White knows that all of us, from time to time, need to use our little white lies. Her granddaughter, Annabelle, on the other hand, is as truthful as they come. She always does the right thing—that is, until she dumps her hedge fund manager fiancé and marries a musician she has known for three days. After all, her grandparents, who fell in love at first sight, have shared a lifetime of happiness, even through her grandfather’s declining health. But when Annabelle’s world starts to collapse around her, she discovers that nothing about her picture-perfect family is as it seems. And Lovey has to decide whether one more lie will make or break the ones she loves....
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1101987065
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Southern Book Prize Finalist Romantic Times Top Pick Southern Independent Booksellers Association Okra Pick Maria Shriver’s Top Summer Reads Deep South Magazine’s Best Beach Reads Glitter Guide’s Must Read List SITS Girls Books You Need to Read in 2016 Greenville News Perfect Books for Vacation Pulpwood Queens Official Book Club Pick MomTrends Book Club Pick From the New York Times bestselling author of Under the Southern Sky and The Wedding Veil comes a novel about what it really means to tell the truth... After sixty years of marriage and five daughters, Lynn “Lovey” White knows that all of us, from time to time, need to use our little white lies. Her granddaughter, Annabelle, on the other hand, is as truthful as they come. She always does the right thing—that is, until she dumps her hedge fund manager fiancé and marries a musician she has known for three days. After all, her grandparents, who fell in love at first sight, have shared a lifetime of happiness, even through her grandfather’s declining health. But when Annabelle’s world starts to collapse around her, she discovers that nothing about her picture-perfect family is as it seems. And Lovey has to decide whether one more lie will make or break the ones she loves....
Carolina Yacht Club of Wrightsville Beach, N.C.
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clubs
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clubs
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description