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“larry mccoy”

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  • Fatherless

    by Larry McCoy, Tracarris Wince ...
    When a father suddenly disappears from the life of a young boy, a new role is carved out for Arthur as he struggles through life's challenges. Growing up as the eldest male child in a family destined to support themselves by sharecropping on a cotton plantation during the Jim Crow era, Arthur daydreams about the day this daddy will return. In the meantime, his colorful, hard-working mother is ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Everyone Needs an Editor (Some of Us More Than Others)

    A Memoir

    by Larry McCoy ...
    Rude, raucous and often funny in a newsroom, Larry McCoy has stuck to that winning combination in this memoir covering his life from an inexperienced writer at UPI to news director at CBS Radio to a retired journalist who is as appalled as non-journalists by what many news organizations consider news these days. Too old to be hired again now, he pokes fun at former employers and many of their ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Did I Really Change My Underwear Every Day?

    One Geezer's Handbook for (Temporary) Survival

    by Larry McCoy ...
    Recent retirees have a lot of adjustments to make, and we’re not talking only pant size here. This entertaining book on aging offers hilarious suggestions for handling some of life’s more daunting challenges--from prostate cancer to keeping fit, from overly complicated TV remotes to night driving. (McCoy wonders if other drivers in their 70s always see trees in the middle of the road after dark.) ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    Join Father Tim on a profoundly personal journey back to his childhood home in this charming novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Jan Karon's Mitford series.Thirty-eight years have passed since Father Tim Kavanagh left his Mississippi hometown, determined not to return. Then he receives a handwritten note postmarked Holly Springs. Cryptic and unsigned, it says only Come home. These two ... Read more

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  • Stella by Starlight

    by Sharon M. Draper ...
    Sharon M. Draper presents “storytelling at its finest” (School Library Journal, starred review) in this New York Times bestselling Depression-era novel about a young girl who must learn to be brave in the face of violent prejudice when the Ku Klux Klan reappears in her segregated southern town.Stella lives in the segregated South—in Bumblebee, North Carolina, to be exact about it. Some stores she ... Read more

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  • My Life Before Me

    by Norah McClintock ...
    Series Book 5 - Secrets
    Cady has always wanted to be a reporter, like her hero Nellie Bly, so after a fire burns down the orphanage she lives in, she’s ready to leave small-town Ontario and make her mark as a newspaperwoman.A crumbling newspaper clipping leads her to Orrenstown, Indiana, where her investigation into a long-ago murder earns her a hard lesson in race relations. Smart and determined, and more than a little ... Read more

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  • Time of the Witches

    by Anna Myers ...
    Orphaned at the age of four, Drucilla finally has a place she can call home with her new family, the Putnams, of Salem Village. But when a new reverend and his family move into town with their servant Tituba, life takes a strange and dangerous turn as accusations of witchcraft swirl. Dru is overwhelmed by the fervor of lies and the power of groupthink among the other girls in town; reluctant to ... Read more

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  • Three Red Suitcases

    A Southern Childhood

    by Levonne Gaddy, Cory Woodward ...
    When adult Levonne Gaddy returns to the rural North Carolina community, where she was born and raised, to attend her mother's funeral, the director bars her entry to the viewing room, assuming she is white and therefore not related to the “colored” woman in the coffin. A sad, funny, and poignant story of childhood emerges as memories surface of racism and of the dysfunctional family life she left ... Read more

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  • God's Will and Other Lies

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    by Penny Mickelbury ...
    In this stunning departure from her mystery writing, Penny Mickelbury’s collection of stories God’s Will and Other Lies, attends to the lives of Black women, mostly aging and elderly, all determined to face life with strength and grace.A nearly blind woman is determined to venture out into the world alone, and must face the consequences of her travels. A woman estranged from her community ponders ... Read more

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  • Views from an Empty Nest

    Award-Winning Tales Written After Fifty

    by Madelyn F. Young ...
    Southern writer Madelyn Young thinks that when a woman enters her seventies, it is time to stop talking about what she is going to do and get on with it. In her collection of award-winning thirty-one stories and essays, Young shares tales of family loyalty and love, discord, and intrigue as she poignantly reflects on a life well-lived.In creating her stories, Young takes real-life experiences and ... Read more

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  • One Smart Sheep

    by Gary D. Schmidt, Elizabeth Stickney ...
    Illustrated by Jane Manning ...
    It takes one smart sheep to escape from a piano movers’ van and find his way home in this humorous friendship story for emerging and newly independent readers by beloved, award-winning author Gary D. Schmidt and coauthor Elizabeth Stickney.Wilson is a curious sheep, and after he foolishly climbs into the back of a piano movers' truck, he ends up alone in the big city, far from the farm. But Wilson ... Read more

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  • Dazed

    by Vanessa Morgan ...
    DazeD is a collection of poems and short stories written by Vanessa Morgan and also features poems written by her son Malik. Malik was the focal point of Ms. Morgans first book, I Go Hard. In Dazed, Ms. Morgan allows us access to the experiences and life-lessons learned through these poems and short stories. DazeD reminds us that lifes storms are temporary and sometimes necessary in order for us ... Read more

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