Remarkable Women of the Outer Banks
Remarkable Women of the Outer Banks

Author: Hannah Bunn West

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2022-04-25

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 1439674663

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The Outer Banks of North Carolina attract those with a conviction to dream and do. Explorers, pirates, lifesavers and the world's first pilots decorate the halls of local history. Some of the Outer Banks' greatest accomplishments are due to daring women who pushed the odds. Eleanor Dare created a new life amidst a doomed colonial expedition, Chrissy Bowser found her freedom as the Civil War rocked Roanoke Island, and Irene Tate watched the Wright brothers assemble their glider in her front yard then went on to become a record-setting pilot herself. The women in this book fought for their homes. They stepped outside the traditional roles of their day and age, seeking to preserve its history and heritage. They saved sand dunes and moved lighthouses. Local author Hannah West tells the stories of these remarkable women.

Remarkable Women of the Outer Banks
Remarkable Women of the Outer Banks

Author: Hannah Bunn West

Publisher: History Press

Published: 2022-04-25

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 9781540251749

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The Outer Banks of North Carolina attract those with a conviction to dream and do. Explorers, pirates, lifesavers and the world's first pilots decorate the halls of local history. Some of the Outer Banks' greatest accomplishments are due to daring women who pushed the odds. Eleanor Dare created a new life amidst a doomed colonial expedition, Chrissy Bowser found her freedom as the Civil War rocked Roanoke Island, and Irene Tate watched the Wright brothers assemble their glider in her front yard then went on to become a record-setting pilot herself. The women in this book fought for their homes. They stepped outside the traditional roles of their day and age, seeking to preserve its history and heritage. They saved sand dunes and moved lighthouses. Local author Hannah West tells the stories of these remarkable women.

Girls Write Now on the Other Side of Everything
Girls Write Now on the Other Side of Everything

Author: Girls Write Now

Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY

Published: 2023-05-30

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 1558613323

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In partnership with Dutton Books, Amazon Literary Partnership, and Feminist Press, Girls Write Now On the Other Side of Everything: 2023 Anthology is a multi-genre showcase of the best writing from today’s next-gen voices and leaders. Do you know what it’s like to communicate with your family across a salty ocean’s divide? Do you want the sun and moon to enter your home with stories written in embers? Do you seek voices that will shatter expectations? Welcome to the other side of everything. It’s the other side of silence, the other side of childhood, the other side of hate, the other side of indifference, it’s the other side of sides, where the binary breaks down. It’s a new paradigm, a destination, a different perspective, a mindset, a state of openness, the space between the endless folds in your forehead, hopes for tomorrow, and reflections on the past. This anthology of diverse voices is an everything bagel of literary genres and love songs, secrets whispered in the dark of night, conversations held with ancestors under the sea.

How to Keep Believing When You're Suffering
How to Keep Believing When You're Suffering

Author: Shannon Cramer

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2024-01-10

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1666784958

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When a chronic illness shatters your future, how do you pick up the pieces? Three health conditions upended Shannon Cramer’s life in her early twenties. Two years later, unanswered prayers for healing broke her heart. One truth she knew for sure . . . if she was going to face a lifetime of suffering, she needed to keep believing in God’s love for her. Could Jesus restore her confidence in his goodness and teach her to survive this “new normal”? Twelve years into disability, Jesus has done so much more . . . This is a book for warriors. It is a battle plan for Christians fighting chronic illnesses—written from the heart of a fellow soldier. There is hope in the midst of suffering. When Shannon didn’t know how to pick up the pieces of her shattered dreams to live with disability, Jesus became her way maker. One step at a time, he led her out of grief and helped her rediscover his light. Are you ready to reclaim your joy and rebuild your life? May God’s comfort empower you to move forward.

Storyville
Storyville

Author: Lois Battle

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1997-12-01

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 1101640227

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From turn-of-the-century New Orleans, a city renowned for sin, seduction, and sex, comes a tale of two women inextricably linked by “the District” of Storyville, where prostitution was legal—and flourishing. Kate—young, beautiful, and abandoned by a man who doesn’t love her—finds herself thrown on the mercies of the city. Julia Randsome is a transplanted Yankee, a supporter of women’s rights, who against everyone’s advice marries into one of the city’s most prominent families. Though they occupy different universes in New Orleans, somehow all roads bring Kate and Julia to the same place…back to the District. As lush and provocative as New Orleans is itself, Storyville sweeps across lines of caste and blood, money and desire—and into the voluptuous secrets of a city as tempting as any on earth. “Lois Battle is a born storyteller.”—The Washington Post “Storyville comes to lurid life.”—Kirkus Reviews

U-Boats off the Outer Banks: Shadows in the Moonlight
U-Boats off the Outer Banks: Shadows in the Moonlight

Author: Jim Bunch

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1467137677

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From January to July 1942, more than seventy-five ships sank to North Carolina's "Graveyard of the Atlantic" off the coast of the Outer Banks. German U-boats sank ships in some of the most harrowing sea fighting close to America's shore. Germany's Operation Drumbeat, led by Admiral Karl Donitz, brought fear to the local communities. A Standard oil tanker sank just sixty miles from Cape Hatteras. The U-85 was the first U-boat sunk by American surface forces, and local divers later discovered a rare Enigma machine aboard. Author Jim Bunch traces the destructive history of world war on the shores of the Outer Banks.

Outer Banks Shipwrecks
Outer Banks Shipwrecks

Author: Mary Ellen Riddle

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2017-04-03

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1439659885

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Ever since ships began navigating the coast of North Carolina, the area has maintained a reputation for being dangerous. Weather, geography, war, piracy, and human error have all contributed to this dense shipwreck zone. Today, the region that stretches from the Currituck Outer Banks south to Bogue Banks is referred to as the "Graveyard of the Atlantic." From the 1585 grounding of the English ship Tiger off the Outer Banks to the 2012 loss of the Bounty, more than 2,000 shipwrecks have occurred in the Graveyard of the Atlantic. The stories behind the shipwrecks illustrate the best and worst of mankind, showing courage and compassion as well as the atrocities of war. This history informs readers about commerce, technology, war, environment, maritime life, and the complexity of the human element.

Remarkable Women of the Outer Banks
Remarkable Women of the Outer Banks

Author: Hannah Bunn West

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2022-04

Total Pages: 1

ISBN-13: 1467146021

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The Outer Banks of North Carolina attract those with a conviction to dream and do. Explorers, pirates, lifesavers and the world's first pilots decorate the halls of local history. Some of the Outer Banks' greatest accomplishments are due to daring women who pushed the odds. Eleanor Dare created a new life amidst a doomed colonial expedition, Chrissy Bowser found her freedom as the Civil War rocked Roanoke Island, and Irene Tate watched the Wright brothers assemble their glider in her front yard then went on to become a record-setting pilot herself. The women in this book fought for their homes. They stepped outside the traditional roles of their day and age, seeking to preserve its history and heritage. They saved sand dunes and moved lighthouses. Local author Hannah West tells the stories of these remarkable women.

Outer Banks Visionaries: Building North Carolina's Oceanfront
Outer Banks Visionaries: Building North Carolina's Oceanfront

Author: Clark Twiddy

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2023-06

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1467153915

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Dreamers, Risk Takers, Innovators... The chain of barrier islands that skirt the coast of North Carolina from the Virginia border to Cape Lookout were once remote. Today the Outer Banks is one of America's most popular vacation destinations, welcoming millions of visitors each year. Like Walt Disney World or Las Vegas, the initial ideas around what is today a glittering vacation capital were, at one point, nothing more than a shared vision of what was possible. A series of dreamers fired the engines of the popular attraction to this scattering of sandy islands that resonates across much of the Eastern United States today. Author and Outer Banks native Clark Twiddy chronicles the region's journey from isolation to popularity through the stories of these innovators and risk-takers.