Terry Kay
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First published in 1976, The Year the Lights Came On was Terry Kay's debut novel. Revolving around the electrification of rural northeast Georgia shortly after the end of World War II, the novel has become a classic coming-of-age story. Kay, now an acclaimed writer with an international following, has reread the novel with the eyes of a seasoned storyteller. Cutting here and adding there, Kay has enriched an already highly comical and poignant work....
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In the summer of 1955, Madison Lee "Bobo" Murphy was a waiter at the Catskills' Pine Hill Inn. A rural Southerner, he had never heard the word meshugge until Avrum Feldman -- a retired New York City furrier -- became his unlikely friend. For Bobo, nothing about that special time and place ever lost its glow: Avrum's obsession with the haunting voice of a famous opera diva, music that no one else could hear; the exotic mingling of Yiddish and German...
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When Foster Lanier and Ben Phelps are released from a professional baseball team in 1904, it is the only experience they have in common, until they meet a runaway -- a girl-woman named Lottie Parker -- on the train that takes them from Augusta, Georgia, and away from their dreams of greatness.
Foster will marry her and father her son.
Ben will escort her home.
And Lottie will change the lives of everyone she meets, from the day she runs away until...
5) Dark Thirty
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In the sleepy town of Tickenaley, Georgia, they call the thirty minutes between day and night Dark Thirty. The memory of daylight lingers, but falling darkness brings with it haze, change and uncertainty. One day at Dark Thirty, Jesse Wade, in high spirits, carrying a birthday gift for his beloved grandson, returns home to a scene of unspeakable horror. His entire family-wife, children, grandchild-have been savagely slain. In one slashing moment,...
6) The Runaway
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Tom and Son Jesus, two 12-year-old boys--one black and one white born the same hour of the same day--are best friends, bound by deep ties and who spend their days dreaming, fishing, and trying to escape work. But their fun comes to an abrupt halt when they discover a human bone, which later turns out to be part of the skeletal remains of Son Jesus' long missing father. As sheriff Frank Rucker, a World War II hero, begins an investigation into remains,...
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Do you think that normal training sessions can be difficult? Teaching the dog to sit, stay, down, come, and heel all require weeks of dedicated effort on the part of you and your dog. In contrast to this, it can take many months and sometimes years to train service dogs such as police, search and rescue, and guide dogs.
Here, you'll find out the easiest way to train your own service dog alongside the duration of the training and what the minimum requirements...
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In 1949, Kathryn Malatesta and Edward Terrence Hallagan met on a blind date at Chicago's Union Station. Kay told Terry she planned to enter a cloistered convent, and Terry convinced her to marry him instead. That marriage lasted 63 years yielding: 12 children, 34 grandchildren and countless great grandchildren.
In their free time, Terry created Hallagan Business Machines to support his expanding family and HBM is now 60 years old. Kay mothered a dozen...