Six stories, all of which start within a five-mile radius of 350 5th Avenue, the address of the Empire State Building, the original "Ground Zero." With this first book of five short stories and one novella, Russell Bittner believes that worlds can be discovered and described in a dewdrop, in a teardrop, in a leaky faucet-and that all that's required is a good magnifying glass, keen powers of observation, and a feel for how language might be made to form a picture in the reader's mind. NYC-fugheddaboud Brooklyn-is home to scoundrels and angels, derelicts and daredevils, high flyers, low flyers and every kind of flyer for every kind of service one human being is able to coerce, cheat, beggar or beat out of another. Russell captures that here in the key of C Minor-the key of melancholy.

Stories in the Key of C. Minor.

Literature & Fiction

Bittner, Russell

Contemporary

Faraway Publishing

What's So Special About Nantucket?

Miles, Mary and Locke, Barbara Kauffmann

Recipient of the NorthCarolina Society of Historians History Book Award, 2002, and the American Association of State and Local History Award, 2005.

Heart of the Blue Ridge: Highlands, North Carolina

History

Shaffner, Randolph P.

Americas

Beautiful hardback copy of book about Highlands, North Carolina in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains, published in 2001. Full of illustrations and photographs, all in black and white. Signed by the author. The Cherokee name for Highlands is Onteerorah: Hills of the Sky.

Heart of the Blue Ridge Highlands, North Carolina

Randolph P. Shaffner

Highlands, North Carolina: The Early Years

Angela Lewis Jenkins

On March 6, 1875, Sam Kelsey and C.C. Hutchinson paid $2.00 an acre for just over a square mile of the Sugartown Highlands in the Blue Ridge Mountains and began building a town 4,000 fett above the the clouds. This is a history of the origin and growth of a town with a Northern climate set high in the South, including the ever-continueing struggle between those who would preserve and those who would exploit its unique appeal to year-round residents and summer visitors. In its attempt to be all-inclusive, this book contains much detail, but it also embodies a collection of matchless characters and personalities and their stories that have given the town and its history remarkable color and enduring interest. In short, the big world is here mirrored in the small world where little things that happen are not less important but more so.

First Creation: 100 Years of Land Conservation was produced by the Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust, Inc., to celebrate the centennial of its first land purchase in 1909. The book is a 
photographic essay of landscapes, flora, fauna, and viewscapes of the Highlands-Cashiers plateau that have been 
preserved for the perpetual enjoyment and benefit of the public.

First Creation (100 Years of Land Conservation)

Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust

Who is this girl with the Irish blue eyes?The Earl of Shelburne's life changes the instant he meets the haunting eyes of a chance met female. He knows those features, but who is she?Rebecca is enthralled by the stranger with emerald eyes whom she sees in passing on the street.Does he truly recognize her features, or is he merely charming her to gain his own ends?Rebecca wants answers to these questions because she doesn't know who she is either.

The Uncertain Heart: Heart Series, Book One

Ellis, Peggy Lovelace

Genre Fiction

"Norma Jean heads for the attic. Home is an old two-story farmhouse three miles from town, the Taylor place, where she lives with Aunt Edna, Uncle Frank, and Gram. Taylor men have farmed this land for three generations; her grandfather, the last to do so, died the year before she was born. Her mother, Julia, his youngest daughter, drowned a year later. A bad time for her family. But the details are a big mystery to Norma Jean. In their household no one will talk about it. The past is a closed subject."This collection of Pieceworks depicts characters of every age from nine to ninety. Against the inevitable clash of the outer with the inner world, the unconventional characters in this novella and five short stories emerge as pieces in the freeform design of a beautiful quilt that gives symmetry and deep-rooted meaning to their individual lives. A beautiful read!

Pieceworks

Reid, Jeanette Fisher

"You Don't Look Seedy Enough to Be a Folk Singer" is a composite of the life of Betty Nance Smith, written in her fine hand about the world into which she was born. The first half of her book portrays a simple world of buttermilk biscuits on a wood stove, soft feather beds and dimity quilts, a frosty wet ice box in summer, and household chores on her grandparents' farm. She writes of her parents' life of law enforcement, gardening, singing, and sewing during the Great Depression and the children's carefree world of games and school. She recounts her marriage to her childhood sweetheart, Bill Smith, the joys and sorrows and laughter of rearing a family, and her lifelong love of music. Betty devotes the last half of her book to her love of ballads, which she claims "have a richness of spirit not found in most commercial music. It is a reflection of how people lived, how they felt about life and living. We can feel the pain and sorrow, share in the joy, and laugh at the ridiculous. The themes in the stories and songs are universal. They have meaning for people today as they did two hundred years ago." As a folk singer, songwriter, performer, and teacher of traditional music, Betty was recently recognized by the Order of the Long Leaf Pine as one of Western North Carolina's most cherished music legends.

You Don't Look Seedy Enough to Be a Folk Singer

Smith, Betty Nance

Parenting & Relationships

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Stories in the Key of C. Minor.

What's So Special About Nantucket?

Heart of the Blue Ridge: Highlands, North Carolina

Heart of the Blue Ridge Highlands, North Carolina

Highlands, North Carolina: The Early Years

Heart of the Blue Ridge Highlands, North Carolina

First Creation (100 Years of Land Conservation)

The Uncertain Heart: Heart Series, Book One

Pieceworks

You Don't Look Seedy Enough to Be a Folk Singer