The Civil War
in Jackson County
was just a warm-up for the
Hooper-Watson Feud
Feuds, war, poverty and all the rest of 19th century mountain life in the hills of Jackson County, North Carolina from those who lived it and were glad of the privilege.
posted: 12/14/2005 11:00 (category: Land of the Sky Books)
(a portion of the profits go to the Jimmy V Foundation for Cancer Research)
V&Me: Everybody's Favorite Jim Valvano Story
by Bob Cairns, foreword Roy Firestone
304 pages, 6x9, hardback, dustjacket, $24.95, October 2004
release
1-800-472-0438 to order or click here
for secure online ordering
The often hilarious, often touching, most significant life of
one of basketball's great personalities
V&Me:
"Everybody's Favorite Jim Valvano Story"
takes
readers inside the inner circle of one of America's great college coaches and
TV basketball analysts for all the laughs, lights, cameras and action. The
stories are all here--from the inside-the-huddle coaching magic to the genius,
hype and hysterics of his inspirational half-time speeches. The more than 250
lively stories drop you into the action of a life that ran at warp speed and
ended way too soon, a life that ABC Sports' Terry Gannon describes as
"like being at a heavyweight fight!"
George Bush and John Kerry, 10th cousins! Bush related to ALL the other presidents. Bush, Kerry and their running mates descend directly from the prophet Mohammed, as do about 70% of all Americans! John Edwards more closely related to Elvis than his cousins Bush, Kerry, and Cheney. Thousands of other fascinating relationships with kings, queens, horse thieves, and just plain folk.
6x9 inches, 160 pages, $12 retail, published by Alexander
Books, now in stock!
Ask Hugo- and Nebula-winning science fiction writer Mike Resnick which works out of his scores of novels and hundreds of award-winning shorter pieces does he feel represents his best work. He has two answers, “the next one” (all writers say that) and, more reflectively, he answers “Paradise, Purgatory, and Inferno.” Ask any reviewer familiar with Mr. Resnick's astounding and significant additions to the classic literature of speculative fiction over the past 40 years and you get the same two answers–“his next” (because new Resnick books are always eagerly awaited) and, taking your question more seriously, “Paradise, Purgatory, and Inferno.” These three novels both entertain and provoke thought on various levels. ...
Book signing at Montreat-Anderson College Bookstore, Montreat NC, on July 3, 2004.
Eyewitness accounts by GIs who were the D-Day invasion
Dick Jensen’s third book presents the true survival stories of twelve military personnel who participated in Operation Overlord, the 1944 D-Day invasion.
Normandy Survivors includes new insight into the faith of the veterans, and reveals their current world views six decades after the Allied Forces’ counter-attack against Hitler’s army.
This book will give current and future generations an appreciation of the events of June 1944... and perhaps an understanding of the importance of “survivalist attitudes” for the future.
Foreword by Ralph Roberts, Publisher There are
things you can collect in these old, old mountains that have greater age than
antiques. Far greater age. Eons old, and these treasures lie beneath your feet,
in the ground, the ancient ground.
Rick Jacquot has knowledge of these vastly old
artifacts of the earth’s creation and its growing pains through millions of long
years, now gone. He has searched over mountain and through bramble-choked glen
to find the best places, those hallowed, secretive locations yielding the best
in specimens of rock, mineral, and—oh yes!—sparkling gemstones. Some of these
specimens can be valuable, others precious in the learning of geological lore
they impart. All have a story to tell.
Often hunters of rocks maintain their secrets
as closely as any fisherman protecting that piece of stream where the big trout
grab for any hook that comes near the water. Rick does not, he shares it here
with you, even to giving GPS coordinates!
posted: 04/21/2004 10:33 (category: Land of the Sky)
The first book to present the grace and imagination of minimal art in jewelry, a field not covered in other books on jewelry or the minimal art movement itself. The scores of full color illustrations beautifully depict the wonder in the "less is more" axiom of the minimal art movement. The book includes exquisite close-up images of minimal jewelry by one hundred and forty internationally renown jewelry designers. It also gives a chronological view of minimal jewelry from the 1930s to 2003. A highly signicant resource for a field rapidly growing in popularity.
The
Newest Edition ofThe Sanders Price Guide to Autographs Now Available
Whose
signature is worth the most? Declaration of Independence signer Button
Gwinnett goes for $150,000; Beethoven for $7,800; Geronimo $6,458; President
George Washington for $5,721, but his wife Martha’s worth more at $6,392;
and all four of the Beatles (on one piece) $4,960.Over
80,000 other prices from the historical to current celebrities are also given
in this world-leading autograph price reference. The Top 25 autograph values
are included in this news release.
ALEXANDER,
N.C.— Alexander Books a publishing imprint of Creativity, Inc.—Western North
Carolina’s largest locally-owned book publisher—announces the national
release of The Sanders Price Guide to
Autographs (6th edition) by Dr. Richard Saffro, Jim Smith, Don
Shaw, Helen Sanders, and Ralph Roberts.
The 5th
edition Sanders—released in 2000—until now has remained indisputably the
largest and most complete price guide with thousands more celebrity names than
any other price guide. The new 6th edition, weighing in at 736 pages
and over 80,000 celebrity prices raises the bar dramatically higher. No other
autograph price guide extant comes anywhere close.
Announcing a NEW SPECIAL COLLECTORS EDITION (with a bonus section by Lee Pace). Charlie (Choo
Choo) Justice�all-Southern, all-Service, all-American, all-everything�was
arguably the greatest football player ever in the South a half-century
ago, and his story has finally been told by Bob Terrell, a sports writer
who actually covered games Justice played, in a book titled ALL ABOARD! Charlie "Choo Choo" Justice. (Click on cover for full-sized view.)
[ABOVE: Carolina All-Americans
of the Justice Era, Charlie "Choo Choo," the passer, and Art Weiner,
the receiver.]
This expanded Second Edition of the leading guide to full
genealogy “gives a good overview of what is involved in getting started in
genealogy in the computer age.”—Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter
This guide to
computers, computerized family research, and genealogy on the World Wide Web is
written by a best-selling author widely known for his in-plain-English
explanations in his more than 90 other books. Roberts is “quite readable and
blends information, technology and humor into a compact package,” writes Linda
Swisher with The Star. He used the techniques in this book to prove
himself related to ALL U.S. presidents, and, in this book, shows how most anyone
can do the same.
The book gives practical advice on how to use the Internet to
cover FULL genealogy, not just the limited ancestor genealogy most books tell
about. Readers can quickly and easily apply this breakthrough in family history
research techniques to finding and documenting their own family roots. Using
this book as a guide, anyone with a personal computer can effortlessly compile
and manage a personal database and add hundreds of relatives a week, all showing
their exact relationship to the user and to one another.
The Civil War
in Jackson County
was just a warm-up for the
Hooper-Watson Feud
(a portion of the profits go to the Jimmy V Foundation for Cancer Research)
Ask Hugo- and Nebula-winning science fiction writer Mike Resnick which works out of his scores of novels and hundreds of award-winning shorter pieces does he feel represents his best work. He has two answers, “the next one” (all writers say that) and, more reflectively, he answers “Paradise, Purgatory, and Inferno.” Ask any reviewer familiar with Mr. Resnick's astounding and significant additions to the classic literature of speculative fiction over the past 40 years and you get the same two answers–“his next” (because new Resnick books are always eagerly awaited) and, taking your question more seriously, “Paradise, Purgatory, and Inferno.” These three novels both entertain and provoke thought on various levels. ...
The first book to present the grace and imagination of minimal art in jewelry, a field not covered in other books on jewelry or the minimal art movement itself. The scores of full color illustrations beautifully depict the wonder in the "less is more" axiom of the minimal art movement. The book includes exquisite close-up images of minimal jewelry by one hundred and forty internationally renown jewelry designers. It also gives a chronological view of minimal jewelry from the 1930s to 2003. A highly signicant resource for a field rapidly growing in popularity.
Order: 
Announcing a NEW SPECIAL COLLECTORS EDITION (with a bonus section by Lee Pace). Charlie (Choo
Choo) Justice�all-Southern, all-Service, all-American, all-everything�was
arguably the greatest football player ever in the South a half-century
ago, and his story has finally been told by Bob Terrell, a sports writer
who actually covered games Justice played, in a book titled ALL ABOARD! Charlie "Choo Choo" Justice. (Click on cover for full-sized view.)
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