Pioneer families of Sumter Country, Alabama

Jenkins, Nelle Morris

Livingston Press at the University of West Alabama

Winner of theTartt First Fiction Award. THE DITCH-WALKING LOVE took shape in the Murphees Valley section of the Cumberland Plateau in central Alabama. Where I live, ridges lift above ravines the creeks and small rivers have cut into being. And if you dig down in a field, the steel of a shovel or posthole digger will hit the chert in the soil, causing the ground to spark. That difficulty of breaking the land can be heard in the people here--we set flint to our words. Speaking this way is at the heart of THIS DITCH-WALKING LOVE. Fiction. Short Stories.

This Ditch-Walking Love

Literature & Fiction

James Braziel

United States

Fiction. Short Stories. Sometimes immigrants must share their experience with the people who are fortunate enough to reside in their countries of birth. Not just to take off the load from their shoulders, but to make the others aware of the plight of hundreds of millions who leave their countries annually worldwide. I'm one of those immigrants. In this collection of twenty-one stories, I share my own experience and the experience of others like me through the lives of my composite protagonists.

An Accidental American Odyssey

Mark Budman

Genre Fiction

Searching for Jimmy Page

Review "Within this engrossing rockin' tale, Hallberg captures the mysterious compelling enigma that is Jimmy Page." ​—Pamela Des Barres, author of I'm With the Band: Confessions of a Groupie"Readers seeking strong literary works that focus on a daughter's journey to grasp the essence of family relationships through cultural icons and musical references will find Searching for Jimmy Page a powerful story. It is very highly recommended reading . . ." —D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review"Hallberg's masterful storytelling skills are further elevated by her beautifully crafted prose. . . . Searching for Jimmy Page is woven through with Zeppelin mythology that fans of the band will love. But it's Luna's humanity and heartbreak that ultimately strikes a chord and resonates with readers." —Rob Errera, IndieReader"In her wondrous first novel, Christy Hallberg gives us a mystery, a mother-daughter love story, a paean to rock and roll, and a window into the culture of eastern North Carolina, all joined seamlessly by the elegance and poetry of her writing. It's a book that begs to be read twice, first to find out the true story of Luna's parentage, and then again, immediately but more slowly, to savor the beauty of the language." —Liza Wieland, author of Paris, 7 A.M., named one of The Best Books by Women of Summer 2019 by O, the Oprah Magazine"Searching for Jimmy Page is an intoxicating journey into the secret world that lies hidden inside certain songs, a place of illicit promises, shifting identities, and unlikely personal connections. Hallberg's story unfolds with lyrical poise and thrums with the feral heart of the best rock and roll." —Jeff Jackson, author of Destroy All Monsters: The Last Rock Novel Product Description The unraveling of eighteen-year-old Luna Kane’s haunted past begins in the winter of 1988, when her dying great-grandfather, a self-proclaimed faith healer, claims he hears phantom owls crying in the night. “Them owls, like music. Can you hear the music?” he implores her in his final moments, triggering Luna’s repressed memory of her dead mother’s obsession with Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin’s legendary guitar wizard. Desperate to learn the truth about her mother’s suicide, to tease fact from family lore in order to weave her own personal narrative, Luna embarks on a pilgrimage from her family’s farm in the pines of eastern North Carolina to England, to search for the man whose music her mother held sacred, Jimmy Page. From the Author From the beginning, family has played an integral role in my passion for Led Zeppelin and Jimmy Page and in the evolution of my novel, our family lore looming large in its pages. Protagonist Luna Kane's great-grandfather is named after and inspired by my maternal great-grandfather, Jesse Baker, who died in 1946, long before I was born. I know him only as an enigmatic family legend, this man my grandmother told me took a mail order course on faith healing because he believed he could cure his wife, my great-grandmother Emily, of breast cancer. That story has stayed with me and crept into my own stories, especially Searching For Jimmy Page, the book that is the culmination of a life steeped in the music, myth, and magic of Led Zeppelin, a fascination that began when I was a teenager in the mid-1980s, with a fortuitous viewing of the band's concert film, The Song Remains the Same, on MTV with my mother and older brother Steve, who was a huge fan of the band. It is the story I was always meant to tell. About the Author Christy Alexander Hallberg is the author of Searching for Jimmy Page, a novel about Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page, published by Livingston Press. She teaches literature and writing online at East Carolina University. She serves as Senior Associate Editor of North Carolina Literary Review. Her short fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, and interviews have appeared in such journals as North Carolina Literary Review, storySo

Christy Alexander Hallberg

In Venice, the narrator meets two women, one a devout and sensual Parisian, the other, an enigmatic beauty, who is mute but can hear. At the wedding--whoever bride may be--a 17th century rabbi will preside. For in this true fiction, characters cross time lines. Fiction. Jewish Studies.

Me, Mo, Mu, & Mod

Curt Leviant

Contemporary

A Parcel of Rogues is a quirky, barbed comedy. Opportunistic and crafty, the main characters, Gourlay and McMinn, along with the herculean Big Red, become bumbling founding member of 'army' cells that they hope will bring about independence from Great Britain.With Scottish independence in the air, the author takes a few jabs not only at Sassenach overlords, but at his ain folk, and suggests the disputatious Scots are too busy arguing among themselves to deal effectively with their southern neighbours.

A Parcel of Rogues

James Findlay Sleigh

MADNESS WITH GRIEF is an autobiographical literary novel written with lyricism and dark humor about an offbeat young woman's struggle to sort her family's dynamics and the problematic circumstances of her oldest brother's death. Fiction.

Madness with Grief

M. Kaat Toy

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