The Making of a Small-town Beauty King

The Making of a Small-town Beauty King

Author: Savy Leiser

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-02-18

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9781523866939

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A contemporary young-adult comedy about passion, pride, pumpkins, pageantry, and the plight of growing up in a small town. Once a year, the boring small town of Grey Acres perks up for its annual town fair. For champion Mathlete and headstrong feminist Stephanie Simon, this year's fair means another year of pressure from her mother (an 80s beauty queen turned pumpkin farmer) to enter the fair's beauty pageant. For college-bound convenience store clerk Jackie Almond, the fair just means the same old rush of customers buying slightly more interesting newspapers. That is, until a fateful meeting with a quirky guidance counselor informs Jackie that most colleges won't accept him without something to make him stand out. Just as Jackie hatches a plan to become the first-ever male Fair Queen, Steph devises a scheme to destroy the pageant that's offended her for years. What follows is an all-out war between Steph and Jackie, complete with pumpkin theft, sabotaged first dates, department store shoplifting, and paint-filled water balloon fights, all leading up to one Saturday-night beauty pageant the forgettable town of Grey Acres will always remember.


Small Town Talk

Small Town Talk

Author: Barney Hoskyns

Publisher: Da Capo Press

Published: 2016-03-08

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 0306823217

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Think "Woodstock" and the mind turns to the seminal 1969 festival that crowned a seismic decade of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. But the town of Woodstock, New York, the original planned venue of the concert, is located over 60 miles from the site to which the fabled half a million flocked. Long before the landmark music festival usurped the name, Woodstock-the tiny Catskills town where Bob Dylan holed up after his infamous 1966 motorcycle accident-was already a key location in the '60s rock landscape. In Small Town Talk, Barney Hoskyns re-creates Woodstock's community of brilliant dysfunctional musicians, scheming dealers, and opportunistic hippie capitalists drawn to the area by Dylan and his sidekicks from the Band. Central to the book's narrative is the broodingly powerful presence of Albert Grossman, manager of Dylan, the Band, Janis Joplin, Paul Butterfield, and Todd Rundgren-and the Big Daddy of a personal fiefdom in Bearsville that encompassed studios, restaurants, and his own record label. Intertwined in the story are the Woodstock experiences and associations of artists as diverse as Van Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Tim Hardin, Karen Dalton, and Bobby Charles (whose immortal song-portrait of Woodstock gives the book its title). Drawing on numerous first-hand interviews with the remaining key players in the scene-and on the period when he lived there himself in the 1990s-Hoskyns has produced an East Coast companion to his bestselling L.A. canyon classic Hotel California. This is a richly absorbing study of a vital music scene in a revolutionary time and place.


Small Town Rules

Small Town Rules

Author: Barry J. Moltz

Publisher: Que Publishing

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0789749203

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Teaches large businesses to use word-of-mouth and reputation-building to gain a loyal customer base in the way small businesses do.


King

King

Author: Chad Tucker

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9780738542225

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Nestled at the threshold of the Piedmont Foothills, King, North Carolina, is blessed with rural beauty, a neighborly spirit, and small-town Southern charm. The community, rooted in agriculture, was originally called King's Cabin after one of the first homes built in the area around 1826. It was settled in the 1880s by several founding families whose wisdom, along with the railroad, helped awaken the quiet countryside to new life. Ironically this town named after a home has become one of the fastest growing bedroom communities in North Carolina's Piedmont Triad. Images of America: King captures the history, heritage, and heart of a community founded by families who saw beyond the setting sun. These settlers helped establish churches, schools, businesses, and a community spirit that still, more than a century later, lives today.


Small Town South

Small Town South

Author: David Wharton

Publisher: George F Thompson Publishing

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781938086090

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"David Wharton traveled with his camera and unique vision to the small towns of the American South and created amazing images that evoke a Zen-like stillness amid the visual tension of a rapidly changing townscape. ...the photographs in Small Town South make us think deeply about the world that Wharton sees in his mind and captures with his camera."


Homecoming King

Homecoming King

Author: Jami Albright

Publisher:

Published: 2020-07-07

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781736448779

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The king of the gridiron is about to get sacked by a beauty queen with a grudge as big as Texas.Cash King rolls into Ryder, Texas looking for a little TLC and an ego boost from the townspeople who call him their favorite son. But that ain't happening. Which is just the cherry on top of the crap sundae that is his life.His football career is hanging by a thread.His mom isn't speaking to him.His hometown is out for his blood.And Tiger Lyons, the girl he did wrong in high school, is supervising the renovation of his new home ? and living in his pool house.How's the league's premier quarterback supposed to rehab his battered body and regain his starting position, when the woman who still owns a piece of his heart-and now hates his ever-loving guts-is in his face 24/7?Don't miss Homecoming King-a hilarious enemies-to-lovers, arrogant football player with a heart of gold, sassy heroine rebuilding her life, small-town sports romcom.


Big Lies in a Small Town

Big Lies in a Small Town

Author: Diane Chamberlain

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Published: 2020-01-14

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 125008735X

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From New York Times bestselling author Diane Chamberlain comes a novel of chilling intrigue, a decades-old disappearance, and one woman’s quest to find the truth... “A novel about arts and secrets...grippingly told...pulls readers toward a shocking conclusion.”—People magazine, Best New Books North Carolina, 2018: Morgan Christopher's life has been derailed. Taking the fall for a crime she did not commit, her dream of a career in art is put on hold—until a mysterious visitor makes her an offer that will get her released from prison immediately. Her assignment: restore an old post office mural in a sleepy southern town. Morgan knows nothing about art restoration, but desperate to be free, she accepts. What she finds under the layers of grime is a painting that tells the story of madness, violence, and a conspiracy of small town secrets. North Carolina, 1940: Anna Dale, an artist from New Jersey, wins a national contest to paint a mural for the post office in Edenton, North Carolina. Alone in the world and in great need of work, she accepts. But what she doesn't expect is to find herself immersed in a town where prejudices run deep, where people are hiding secrets behind closed doors, and where the price of being different might just end in murder. What happened to Anna Dale? Are the clues hidden in the decrepit mural? Can Morgan overcome her own demons to discover what exists beneath the layers of lies? “Chamberlain, a master storyteller, keeps readers hooked, with a story line that leavens history and social commentary with romance and mystery.”—Lexington Dispatch