Elizabeth Calwell’s Dear Passenger: Welcome to My Wacky World as a Flight Attendant contains three decades of amusing anecdotes and episodes that have happened on and off the airplane
Thriving Beyond the Storm Volume 2 Now Available
Release on October 7! Please pick up your copy and support the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina
Thriving Beyond the Storm Tar Heel Traveler video available!
Check out the interview on the Publicity Page. Thanks to Scott Mason and WRAL!
Thriving Beyond the Storm KPTF Interview
Check out the interview on the Publicity Page. Thanks to Scott Briggaman.
Thriving Beyond the Storm Martin Brossman Interview
Check out the interview on the Publicity Page. Thanks to Martin!
Thriving Beyond the Storm
The new digital book,Thriving Beyond the Storm: Practical Advice for Small Business Owners from Small Business Owners will be released on Monday, June 8 to benefit the the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina. See the front page for details.
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New Release: The Last Pilgrim
The Last Pilgrim: The Life of Mary Allerton Cushman
by Noelle Granger
This book captures and celebrates the grit and struggle of the Pilgrim women who stepped off the Mayflower in the winter of 1620 to an unknown world – one filled with hardship, danger and death. The Plymouth Colony would not have survived without them.
See Noelle’s Site and Blog
New Release: Nathan Ross and the American Revolution
Set during America’s revolution, the fictional journal of Nathan Ross is a compelling coming-of-age tale. Nathan fills these pages with anecdotes and illustrations about his family on their farm, in their smithy, and with their companions. A steady stream of war news inspires his sister, Abigail, to challenge the social restrictions of the time, and inflames Nathan’s desire to fight alongside their valiant older brother.
Risks to loved ones and the shock of traitors among friends intensify the family’s emotions until individual choices are made that change their lives forever. This novel is not only for young adult readers, it is for anyone who wants to experience the uncertainties, hardships, and courage that founded a nation.
Available at Amazon at www.amazon.com/Nathan-American-Revolution-Francis-Applequist/dp/1944662448/
FRANCES’ BIO
Frances Applequist was born in Newark, New Jersey, and lived
in different towns across the state. As a young mother, she fell in love with
the rich colonial history of the area and haunted historical sites—including
the locations in this novel—with her younger son, Matthew. Her older son, Mark,
throughout his long service with the National Guard, reinforced Frances’s love
for their country and respect for the military. Her husband, Ken, brings
balance into their lives with his support and spirituality.
After careers as college instructors in New Jersey, Frances and her husband
moved to North Carolina to continue teaching. In Raleigh, the author’s brother,
Daniel Bode, the Revolutionary War reenactor and artist who inspired this
story, also guided its research. Nathan Ross and the American
Revolution is the
culmination of the people and events in Frances’s life and she is excited to
share this act of love with you.
Happy New Year 2019
another year’s turning finds its cloudy close
a forward look churning replete with new dreams
let go of your sorrows take stock of short falls
embrace higher roads, release bonds to lows
though the external world revealed turmoil too deep
it provided the time to steel anchors internal
to build perseverance and reach out through mist
a helpful hand to those with lifepaths too steep
this new year is for hope and to tear down your walls
to look outward for bridges to mend what’s been torn
emit higher rays and let your heart beam out light
to brighten the world and prevent courtesy’s fall
Drew Becker
New Year 2019