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Louette's Wake

Author: Sue Riddle Cronkite

Publisher:

Published: 2019-07-15

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780972410137

Louette's Wake is a work of fiction rooted in and capturing the heart and soul of a real time and place. Widely referred to as the "Wiregrass" region, the novel's journey devotedly accentuates and gives an intimate portrait derived from the author's genuine 20th Century Southern life experience. Colloquial Wiregrass language accentuates the text, making it feel like a true visit to the warm-hearted locale, and a thorough sampling of sweet and soulful Southern gospel songs greets the reader at the start of each chapter. A heartily hospitable recipe section rounds out the novel's end. Louette is haunted by her husband's mysterious disappearance, held hostage in her dreams by a threatening sinkhole and living in fear that she won't be allowed to spend time with her beloved grandson in the midst of a battle of stubborn wits with her daughter. A quirky neighbor falls in love with her and she realizes that the cloud over her head is stealing her life away. As she begins to open up to life again, Louette blows off steam by singing gospel songs and serving slabs of fudge cake to the local deputy sheriff. Her friends and neighbors think she's lost her ever-lovin' mind when she remembers her mother's wake and decides to hold one of her own, alive and breathing. Rumors spread and when a psychiatrist turns up at an oyster-shucking being held by her wacky neighbor, Louette catches on and explodes into affirming her right to live by her own joy-driven inclinations. Louette cajoles the deputy into hanging a wake invitation on the town war memorial as the tale swings hard-right into hopeful lightheartedness. The controversial wake party inspires her family, friends and neighbors to live with appreciation for what makes Southern small-town life so special, togetherness no-matter-what, and unabashed humor in the midst of real, sometimes hard to swallow, living.

The High Tide Club

Author: Mary Kay Andrews

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Published: 2018-05-08

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 1250126061

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When ninety-nine-year-old heiress Josephine Bettendorf Warrick summons Brooke Trappnell to Talisa Island, her 20,000 acre remote barrier island home, Brooke is puzzled. Everybody in the South has heard about the eccentric millionaire mistress of Talisa, but Brooke has never met her. Josephine?s cryptic note says she wants to discuss an important legal matter with Brooke, who is an attorney, but Brooke knows that Mrs. Warrick has long been a client of a prestigious Atlanta law firm.

Legendary Locals of Wake Forest

Author: Durward Matheny and Jennifer Smart

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 146710180X

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For much of its history, Wake Forest was an idyllic college town. Trains chugged past White Street, the depot hummed with activity, and citizens could shop for groceries, see a movie, and cheer the Demon Deacons without ever getting behind the wheel of a car. It was a town of visionaries. Samuel Wait, William Louis Poteat, Sophie Stephens Lanneau, and Peahead Walker made history in the fields of academics, religion, and athletics; when famous 20th-century writer and satirist H.L. Mencken reportedly called North Carolina "the most intelligent" of all Southern states, he was referring to Wake Forest. That tradition continues today. The Allen family publishes one of the region's most honored weekly newspapers; Andy Ammons recreated small-town magic in the community known as Heritage Wake Forest; and Steve Tarangelo followed his dream to prove that "food is love."

Wheeler's Wake Volume Ii

Author: Andrew Clyde Little

Publisher: Trafford Publishing

Published: 2012-02-06

Total Pages: 589

ISBN-13: 146691078X

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Volume II of Wheelers Wake continues the story of a communications pioneer involved in shortwave radio and the birth of television. Wheeler also managed to raise a son while dealing with a highly neurotic wife. It traces how he balanced a demanding career with the role of a father in a difficult marriage. This support for his son allowed the author to grow into a responsible adult who eventually followed in his fathers wake, shaping his own career, using some of the technology Wheeler developed. It is a tribute to a remarkable man from a devoted and loving son, Andrew Clyde Little.

The Birds of Africa: Volume VIII

Author: Roger Safford

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2020-09-17

Total Pages: 1025

ISBN-13: 1472982894

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Universally recognised as by far the most authoritative work ever published on the subject, The Birds of Africa is a superb multi-contributor reference work, with encyclopaedic species texts, stunning paintings of all species and numerous subspecies, informative line drawings, detailed range maps, and extensive bibliographies. Each volume contains an Introduction that brings the reader up to date with the latest developments in African ornithology, including the evolution and biogeography of African birds. Diagnoses of the families and genera, often with superspecies maps, are followed by the comprehensive species accounts themselves. These include descriptions of range and status, field characters, voice, general habits, food, and breeding habits. Full bibliographies, acoustic references, and indexes complete this scholarly work of reference. This eighth and final volume covers the Malagasy region which comprises Madagascar and the various islands and archipelagos of the Indian Ocean including the Seychelles, the Comoros, Mauritius and Réunion. Every resident and migrant species is covered in full detail, comparable to other volumes in the series, and with a colour map for each species. Vagrants are treated in less detail. All species are illustrated on a beautiful series of 64 colour plates, with original artwork from John Gale and Brian Small. This is a major work of reference on the birds of the region and will remain the standard text for many years to come.

Empire lost

Author: Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2009-03-16

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 0739132245

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Despite the loss of the French Empire, France and its former colonies are still bound by a common historical past. With the new global promotion of la Francophonie, the relation between the various constituencies of the French-speaking regions of the world is reexamined and debated in this book, through the conversation between scholars dealing with diverse texts and contexts that present the colonial contact and its imprint. The book illustrates how, in France and in its other worlds, that contact, its repercussions, and its memory are lived and expressed today in a variety of textual representations. The historical contact between France and its other worlds has given birth to new kinds of cross-cultural expressions in the arts, in literature, and in aesthetics, establishing interrelations and generating appropriations from both sides of the Hexagon frontier, highlighting the fluidity and the permeability of its cultural borders. The book subtext tells that the frontier between France and its other worlds is no more an unshakable geographical, political, and cultural limit, but rather a line that has become mobile, fluctuating, and permeable, and across which currents, ideas, sensitivities, and creativity are expressed, bearing testimony to vitality and diversity but also to a cross-fertilization of cultures and societies (re) crossing or meeting at that line. Seen from this latter perspective, the book comes also as an interrogation of the inclusiveness or exclusiveness of the words francophone and Francophonie, and, at an academic level, a mutual exclusion of French and Francophone Studies.