Against the Stream

Leonard, Ralph

Chapel Hill Press

In the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, a young couple must fight the heritage of their ancestors to save their child. Dr. Carol Mattox, an anthropologist, is called home to her dying brother's bedside. While home, Carol learns of the Mattox curse, which has struck the Mattox clan for nearly 200 years. The logical anthropologist refuses to believe the rumors of the ancient Indian curse until she is presented with irrefutable evidence and learns of the star-crossed lovers, the formidable Isabelle and the irresistible Chief Tallaquoyah Wolf. Was her brother's suspicious death the result of the ancient curse? Is she herself destined to meet the same fate? As the story unfolds, Dr. Mattox sets out to find the terrible truth about her family's past. We learn, as Carol learns, of the doomed love affair and the curse that change the Wolf and Mattox families forever. We're taken back to the early 19th century when Isabelle, the daughter of a respected and powerful white family, meets the regal and handsome Chief Wolf. Wolf saves her from drowning in the 'ritual river,' so much a part of the two Carolinian dynasties, one white and one Indian. What will it take to break the spell of the Nantahala Gorge? Carol learns the heart-breaking answer as she is reunited with Winston, her first love. The passions of the two are rekindled amidst family objections and ancient, cultural hatreds. In the stirring climax, the 'ritual river' will, once again, play a part as the lovers struggle to appease ancient spirits and modern adversaries.

Ritual River

Teen & Young Adult

Nancy Sales Cash

Literature & Fiction

Benjamina Galapaga

Granny Bugs

Childhood can be magical, and one of the functions of magic is delivering the audience into another realm. In WILDFLOWERS AMONG THE COTTON SEEDS: Childhood Memories of Growing Up on Farms and in Cotton Mill Villages in Greenville and Pickens Counties, South Carolina, 1941-1959, Doyle Porter transports his readers to a culture and a way of life that to many readers will seem far more than two generations removed. Born and reared in a time when frugality was not a choice but a necessity, when the company store and the land provided a family's sustenance, and when child's play came from the wonders of the imagination rather than electronic boxes, Porter refreshes memories for readers who grew up in the mill towns and farms of the South and offers for more citified later generations a first-hand look at another place and time, but one inherently and unmistakably American.

Wildflowers Among the Cotton Seeds

Doyle R. Porter

More Than I Deserve

Dan E. Perry

Humanity at Work: Encouraging Spirit and Truth to Flourish in the Workplace [Hardcover]

Humanity at Work: Encouraging Spirit and Truth to Flourish in the Workplace

Santo J. Costa

Review\nMore than an engaging memoir, Roy Cooper s childhood stories are a social history, passionately conveying love and respect for a place, family, friends, and neighbors. He leaves one tasting Miss Rada s cherry pie, feeling a hot knife stinger from a honey bee, reeling from the smell of chitlins at hog killings, and watching tadpoles become frogs. Roy Cooper s memories define values which are embryos of human greatness. --Ben Casey, author of Dismal? The Great Dismal Swamp Canal, and other photo-essays\nRoy Cooper Jr. has brought his adventures along the creeks of Nash County to us in a way that shows appreciation and understanding of the eastern North Carolina land where he and I were brought up. For Roy, like his parents before him, growing up is about education, home, heart and community. Never mind the tough economic times that pinched his family and friends. Roy leads us on a memorable journey through the corncrib, the two-room schoolhouse and the fishing creeks, causing us to reflect on how family and friends have shaped our own lives. I agree with Roy s sons; there is a lot for us to learn there between the creeks. --James B. Hunt Jr., Governor of North Carolina 1977-1985, 1993-2001, and author of the book, First in America, An Education Governor Challenges North Carolina.\nRoy Cooper Jr. has written about his adventures growing up during the Depression years. But there is nothing depressing about this uplifting, often funny, and always entertaining book of tales about country life and lessons learned. I m hoping for a sequel! --Kay Williamson, author of Murder at the Starlight Pavilion and other romantic suspense murder mysteries.\nMore than an engaging memoir, Roy Cooper s childhood stories are a social history, passionately conveying love and respect for a place, family, friends, and neighbors. He leaves one tasting Miss Rada s cherry pie, feeling a hot knife stinger from a honey bee, reeling from the smell of chitlins at hog killings, and watching tadpoles become frogs. Roy Cooper s memories define values which are embryos of human greatness. --Ben Casey, author of Dismal? The Great Dismal Swamp Canal, and other photo-essays\nRoy Cooper Jr. has written about his adventures growing up during the Depression years. But there is nothing depressing about this uplifting, often funny, and always entertaining book of tales about country life and lessons learned. I m hoping for a sequel! --Kay Williamson, author of Murder at the Starlight Pavilion and other romantic suspense murder mysteries.

Between The Creeks

Biographies & Memoirs

Roy A. Cooper Jr.

Professionals & Academics

This book, however, is simply about values in leadership. Those values transcend my career at GlaxoSmithKline and extend back to experiences from my childhood, some of which I describe here as having had a significant impact on my leadership beliefs today. I tell several stories from my memory bank because I believe that stories provide illustrative and memorable imprints for the reader to use. Reading my stories is extremely practical for you in your daily life at work, at home, and in the community. My values in leadership center on a simple, hearty recipe whose ingredients are integrity, courage, and empathy wrapped in a crust of passion. It is truly the staff of life because it provides you, the reader with a simple, nourishing meal that will energize you around leadership values and behaviors. I hope you enjoy taking it in as much as I have enjoyed writing it.

Passion and I.C.E.

Stephen F. Stefano

Humanity at Work: Encouraging Spirit, Achievement & Truth to Flourish in the Workplace

Religion & Spirituality

It has been said that the baseball sage Yogi Berra, on being asked one day why he was talking to a rookie baseball player, responded I m learning him my experience . In The Barefoot Prophet Ernest Kraybill has done that for us. Throughout a career as a physician and teacher, Dr. Ernest Kraybill has been a master clinician, teacher, and exemplar of social responsibility. He has been a sensitive, insightful and principled counselor to patients, a teacher, advisor and mentor to students, residents and colleagues, and an inspiration to many. Dr. Kraybill has distilled some of his experiences, lessons and values into a series of vignettes that are both warm and crisp in style, global in reach, and often fresh and penetrating in insight. The stories provide authentic insight into many issues, concerns, and developments in health care practice over the last half century especially in the newish specialty of neonatology of which Dr. Kraybill is among the founding members. Stuart Bondurant, MD Emeritus Dean, UNC School of Medicine Ernest Kraybill has put together a delightful collection of stories from his career as a physician which he calls that fallible human enterprise. From his life as a primary care physician in rural Virginia, to collaboration with doctors about the care of premature infants in East Germany (before the fall of the Berlin Wall), he reveals his deep commitment to his calling and compassion for patients. Reading this book is an opportunity to stand in the shoes of an outstanding physician and to gain a mini medical education in the process. Robert Seymour Minister Emeritus, The Olin T. Binkley Memorial Baptist Church

The Barefoot Prophet

Ernest N. Kraybill

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