Greenville: Coming of Age (Urban Tapestry Series)

Arts & Photography

Gould, Scott

Photography & Video

Towery Pub

Whereabouts

Set in the deep South of the 1970s, Whereabouts is the powerful coming-of-age story of an independent teenager who desperately longs to flee her small, claustrophobic hometown following the unexpected death of her father and her mother's sudden remarriage to the local funeral director. As she attempts to map a new course for her young life, Missy's search is constantly derailed by the men she encounters-the mortician stepfather with a penchant for chilly women, a much older third cousin who offers to drive her aimlessly in his dusty pickup (for a steep, perhaps tragic price), the quirky owner of an all-but-abandoned roadside motel, and a pair of mismatched AWOL Marines from Parris Island. From cheap campgrounds to roadside bars, to the cracked Formica counter of a crumbling pancake house, Missy Belue wanders the back roads of a forgotten South, looking for a safe place to land, earning fresh scar tissue from the confusing, complicated world outside her hometown. In Whereabouts, award-winning writer Scott Gould lyrically weaves a tale of escape and redemption and, ultimately, of how love somehow survives, no matter the twisting paths it travels.

Literature & Fiction

United States

Koehler Books

Book by Gould, Scott, Olencki, Mark, O'Neal, Peggy

Spartanburg: Portrait of the Good Life (Urban Tapestry Series)

Olencki, Mark

O'Neal, Peggy

As a husband and wife make plans for an Italian vacation with friends-to visit her family's Tuscan village-she makes an unexpected, last-minute addition to the itinerary: she plans to leave him upon their return to the States. And her bombshell includes a strange caveat. He isn't allowed to breathe a word of it to their traveling companions. So begins Things That Crash, Things That Fly, the groundbreaking new memoir from award-winning writer Scott Gould.\nGould navigates that awkward vacation with his soon-to-be estranged wife in Serra, Italy, then sets out on another, longer journey-a winding route through heartbreak and anger, confusion and futility, despair and discovery. When Gould wangles (under dubious circumstances) a fellowship to research the death of William Guilfoil, a young WWII fighter pilot who crashed and died in the hills near Serra, he instead sets his sights on clarity and closure in his ex-wife's ancestral home. As he grinds through an uncharted future, his story and Guilfoil's become intertwined, and Gould gathers the fragments of a fractured heart. With a brutal honesty tempered with surprising humor, he tells us how he begins to stitch them back together.\nThings That Crash, Things That Fly is about many things: lost love, daughters and fathers, evaporating marriage, Italian sandals, friendship, bad knees, acrobatic birds, secrecy, oddly placed piercings...but most of all, Gould's inventive memoir is about how it's truly possible to rise and soar, even after you've struck the ground.

Things That Crash, Things That Fly

Self-Help

Relationships

Vine Leaves Press

The debut collection from award-winning short story writer Scott Gould, Strangers to Temptation, takes us to the white sand banks of the Black River in lowcountry South Carolina during the early 1970s, a place in time where religion and race provide the backdrop for an often uneasy coming-of-age. Linked by a common voice, these thirteen stories introduce us to a cast of uniquely Southern characters: a Vietnam vet father with half a stomach who plays a skinny Jesus in the annual Easter play; a mother/nurse attempting to heal the world, all the while sneaking sips of Smirnoff and Tang; a best friend whose reckless dive off a bridge earns him a fake eyeball and a new girlfriend; and our narrator, a baseball-playing, paper-delivering boy just hoping to navigate the crooked path out of adolescence. With the narrator’s eventual baptism into adulthood beneath the dark surface of the Black River, Strangers to Temptation reminds all of us what it felt like to be young, confused, and ultimately redeemed.

Strangers to Temptation

Literary

Hub City Press

The latest novel from critically acclaimed Southern storyteller Scott Gould, The Hammerhead Chronicles explores the effects of grief, racism, homophobia, revenge, love, and loss on an oddball cast of contemporary characters in a small, fictitious South Carolina town . . . oh, and it's funny.\nOn the day Claude slaps down a credit card for an expensive racing bicycle, his soon-to-be-ex-wife passes away. As Claude begins a quest to pedal away from his marriage and his grief, we encounter the Southern eccentrics that orbit his world: his overly independent, rebellious teenage daughter; his foul-mouthed sister-in-law who deftly stalks her husband's mistress; twin, gay bookstore owners who serve the profitable underground Confederacy market out of their "special" back room; the math professor possessing an attic full of rats and a penchant for revenge; a skinny bartender-named for a Marine base-who preaches a suck-it-up philosophy; and Claude's recently deceased wife, observing it all from the Great Beyond, where she is annoyed by the lack of decent weather and by the troubled, tangled lives she left behind.\nThis ensemble of quirky, narrative voices dovetail for a fast-moving, comic story of longing and redemption, while flipping a number of Southern clichés on their ears.

The Hammerhead Chronicles

Humor & Satire

University of North Georgia

"... a must-read for anyone working in any form of engagement ..." "I love every model in this book." – B. Joseph Pine II, author of The Experience Economy (Harvard Business Review Press) "Relationships matter. In the early days of Twitter we did all we could to build enduring connections with users — and it worked. This book shows you how to do the same." – Claire Diaz-Ortiz, award-winning author (One Minute Mentoring, Twitter for Good) and Silicon Valley innovator "An excellent, insightful read. This book should sit on the shelf next to your other go-to books for strategic and tactical advice." – Richard Newton, author of The Management Consultant (Financial Times) "…a guide useful for any executive or individual seeking to understand the fundamental elements and importance of engagement" – Bruce Bolger, President of The Enterprise Engagement Alliance *** Do you know how to successfully engage with your customers, employees and communities? The answer is probably no. While engagement is one of the biggest buzz words around, and one of the most needed things in our fast changing world, most executives and managers shrug their shoulders in bewilderment as to what it actually is, and how it actually works. But no more. In this short but incisive book, expert consultant and speaker Scott Gould demystifies and breaks down engagement into seven profoundly simple shapes that explain the mysteries behind what makes people form enduring connections with ideas, brands, organisations, and each other. Eight years in the making, and drawing on almost two decades of experience, Scott will reveal to you:<ul>
<li>What makes engaging companies outperform their unengaging counterparts by 29.9% increase in stock price year on year </li>
<li>What's getting in the way of your engagement succeeding, and why trying to "get" people to engage doesn't work</li>
<li>Why a click is NOT engagement, and what the difference is between participation, connection, and interaction</li>
<li>What the three types of engagement are, and how to tell if they are at work in your organisation</li>
<li>What the six psychological steps of engagement are, and what strategies to use at each stage</li>
<li>What truly motivates people to engage</li>
<li>How to operationalise engagement within an enterprise</li>
</ul>Using the experience and insight garnered from working in a broad range of industries as diverse as media and entertainment, aviation, education, local councils, advertising agencies, tourism, national government, digital marketing, youth work, and even from being a church minister, Scott will show you how to put the shapes of engagement into practice, so that you never again scratch your head wondering what to do to engage. This book is a must-read for anyone working in customer engagement, brand engagement, employee engagement, community engagement, and enterprise engagement. Get to ready to learn, once and for all, the shape of engagement.

The Shape of Engagement: The Art of Building Enduring Connections with Your Customers, Employees and Communities

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Idiot Men

In Europe, Polyethylene (PE) pipes have been used for water transportation since the 1950s and In Australia since the late 1970s, with low failure rates. In North America, PE has been used for water supply since the late 1980s and only on a small scale. To assess the current field performance of PE water pipes, historical failure data was requested from a total of 87 water utilities from the Australia, the UK and the US. While actual failure data was supplied in some cases, the majority of information supplied was anecdotal. Details of this study are reported and discussed. Several areas are identified for future development of the Monte Carlo simulation model: Inherent Defect Size, Loading Conditions, and Generic Failure Rate vs. Age Curves.

Long-term Performance Predictions for Pe Pipes

Science & Math

Davis, Paul.

Burn, Stewart

Cardy, Mark R.

Tjandraatmadja, Grace

Nature & Ecology

Amer Water Works Assn

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