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 Now This is Where I Draw the Line!Editorial Cartoon Collection by John Rose © 2006, 100 pp., ISBN: 1-933251-34-4, Paperback, $19.95. Now This is Where I Draw the Line! is a collection of editorial cartoons that originally appeared in the Daily News- Record in Harrisonburg, VA. Rose has won awards from the National Newspaper Association and the Virginia Press Association. His cartoons are distributed by the Scripps Howard News Service. |
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 HUMOR Is Where You Find ItLook No Further by Taylor Reese © 2004, 168 pp., ISBN: 1-887905-32-4, Paperback, $12.95. A big laugh is good for you, it releases endorphins, Laughter adds to your well-being and could even lengthen your life--a good laugh is actually better for you than chocolate and it won’t rot your teeth. HUMOR Is Where You Find It is full of short, pithy, clean stories. Some of us don’t have time to find a comfortable armchair for a few hours of reading--some of us have to read on the run. If you are one of these people, this is a book for you. You will read about riders on a bus who are treated to Reuben’s unauthorized presence. You’ll meet Janice Jean and her brothers who go from one wild caper to another, and you’ll find a thousand other short funny stories, the foibles of life. As a Court Reporter, Reese spent years listening. Now he tells some of those stories and other day-to-day twists we all experience. |
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 Appalachian Mountain Memoriesby Larry G. Morgan © 2004, 118 pp., ISBN: 1-887905-31-6, Paperback. $14.95. This book was inspired by Larry Morgan’s father-in-law who entertained his friends and neighbors with his amusing stories. Morgan says, “These humorous stories give insight into mountain culture because they are taken from all aspects of mountain life including religion, education, day-to-day life, and celebration of holidays.” Morgan was born in a three-room shack in the Nantahala Mountains of North Carolina. He grew up in Nantahala, the fifth of ten children, from 1944 to 1955. He married Peggy Helton who was born in the mountains of southwest Virginia. The stories in Appalachian Mountain Memories reflect both of their experiences in the mountains. Morgan previously published Mountain Born, Mountain Molded. |
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 Are We Having Fun Yet?by Tim Smith © 2004, 148 pp., ISBN: 1-887905-80-4, Softcover. $14.95. Are We Having Fun yet? Wry Slices of Life is a collection of humorous essays covering the broad canvas of life, from raising kids to getting older, from taking vacations to planting a garden, from dieting to dealing with the IRS. These slightly skewed views offer a distinctly unique perspective on the many pitfalls, foibles and follies so common in everyday life. Tim Smith has been a newspaper and magazine commentator on family life, social mores, politics, government, the environment and the economy for nearly 25 years. He was a reporter, columnist and editor at the Watauga Democrat in Boone, North Carolina and taught writing and journalism at Appalachian State University. He is a contributing writer and editor of Carolina Mountain Living magazine. He lives in the mountains of North Carolina with his wife and two children. |
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 Aunt Vyrnetta and Other Stories from Cedar Groveby Kelly Swanson © 2004, 138 pp., ISBN: ISBN: 1-887905-79-0, Paperback. $14.95. Cedar Grove is a tiny town about a mile and a hair past nowhere. They’ve got two stoplights total, an old brick schoolhouse that also serves as the town hall and bingo headquarters on Thursdays. They’re very proud of their one-half of a fast food restaurant. The other half is technically in Butner. Not the same Butner to which you may be familiar with. Time rolls at a slow pace in Cedar Grove, where the most exciting thing that ever happened was the time Cleetus Harley’s pig made front page of the paper for having borned her a piglet with three tails. These stories aren’t fancy. They’re just about the people. Kelly Swanson’s stories are filled with humor and wit as they deliver messages of faith and inspiration as seen through the eyes of Cedar Grove, that tiny Southern town about a mile and a hair past nowhere. Her beloved quirky characters will make you laugh and cry at the same time. These are people you know, people you live with, people you can relate to. Their delicious simplicity speaks of a day gone by and reminds us of the important things in life. Swanson lives in High Point, North Carolina, with her husband Bill. For more information on Swanson, see her website: www.kellyswanson.net. |
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 Bloomin' Bouquet:Letters from Myrtle by Sherry W. Boone © 2004, 120 pp., ISBN: 1-887905-81-2, Paperback. $13.95. Sherry W. Boone, after she became a grandmother, wrote a Christmas play, which started a chain reaction that hasn’t let up. She distributed “Letters from Myrtle” via homemade cassettes to lift the spirits of shut-ins and those stories were broadcast on National Public Radio and on a local radio station. She now writes column, “Blue Ridge View,” for the Watauga Democrat. Sherry lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. She and her late husband Sam were the parents of three children and grandparents of six. Lee Smith says, “Reading these wonderful pieces is just like sitting on the porch and sipping iced tea with a friend--wise, warm, and funny, Sherry Boone is the best company in the world.” |
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