Nicknamed Tatie Wee as a child, Kathryn Fisher is a spunky lady with attitude. An extraordinary adventure in living, Up a Tree with Tatie Wee explodes in a colorful mosaic of vivid personalities, historic benchmarks, and bizarre events. Follow Tatie Wee from her birthplace in North Carolina in 1930, a cross-country train ride with her mother, through the struggles of the Great Depression, a secret marriage at age 17, abuse and infidelity, to the birth of her beautiful daughter. After a divorce and second disastrous marriage, she’s determined to raise her daughter alone. Now she must deal with a male-dominated work force with little pay and a heavy workload. In Up a Tree with Tatie Wee, Fisher also chronicles her exploits—sometimes hilarious and sometimes poignant—among her friends and family with whom she has become very close. Tatie Wee also reminisces about how life could have been different if she had taken different paths. Fisher introduces us to an interesting cast of real-life characters from her favorite cousin Katherine Ann, to Uncle Edwin, who’s suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome. At last she finds her soul mate in Art Fisher. Art shares her zest for life, but as you will see, life is not always kind. Wince with Tatie Wee as her unpredictable father declares war on her, and share the pain when she realizes her brilliant "Mom the Cop" has developed Alzheimer’s disease. Up a Tree with Tatie Wee is a delightful account of the life of an exceptional woman. Through all the prosperity, misfortune, and sacrifice, Tatie Wee faces life with gusto.

Up a Tree with Tatie Wee

Biographies & Memoirs

Fisher, Kathryn M.

Community & Culture

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Things are often not what they seem to be. Author John Staples brilliant debut novel White Lies sets out to prove the importance of being able to distinguish reality from illusion. The reality is the world as it is, the illusion is the world as we believe it to be. Until and unless one can separate the illusion from the reality, the world has no chance of saving itself from itself. 
When a notorious female attorney in the small town of Conner’s Hill, North Carolina is run off the road by a hit-and-run driver and goes into a coma, newspaper reporter Jesse Stallings undertakes the journey of uncovering the truth behind the story. As he searches for the culprit, he runs into a web of conflicting information involving the local police department, the county sheriff’s department, and a notorious but well-heeled society "hostess". 
Stallings also confronts his own rationalizations and "white lies" about newspapers, the motivations of everyday people, and the psychological underpinnings of some whose character traits seem abnormal and flawed. More importantly, he finds that truth to most people is what they believe to be true, not what is actually true. 
The reporter’s probe is intermittently interrupted by personal and political problems—a kidney stone here, an irate mayor there—as well as by the purposes and opinions of a variety of local characters, from the Conner’s Hill Police chief to a lawyer with a penchant for straight talk and pretty women. 
Inevitably, Stallings stumbles across the truth in a climactic revelation, proving what Pogo claimed, "We have met the enemy and they is us!" 
White Lies illustrates one man’s pursuit of the truth and the realization that truth is often what we believe truth to be, not what it is. 
Former newspaper editor John Staples says he was intrigued by the career of novelist John O’Hara, of whom it has been said: "He quit the newspaper business and began writing novels in order to tell the truth." Using his clever writing style, John Staples has woven a remarkable journey into the human psyche.

White Lies and Other Deceptions

Staples, John

Literature & Fiction

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