#denial is a river in south carolina

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Marissa - No I definitely think Neil's interested because he was acting all aloof like guys do when they're secretly into you and when I said 'I think you're interesting' his eyes went all soft and thoughtful and I don't even care about the scars you know

Katelyn - Um...

[tomorrowusa]

Imagine if Hurricane Helene had struck Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina with little or no warning. The death toll would have been in the hundreds rather than in the dozens. That's the world which Donald Trump and Project 2025 want us to adopt.

Emphasis added...

Hurricane Helene has derailed the Republican presidential ticket’s campaign across the South, forcing Trump’s vice presidential pick, J.D. Vance, to cancel several stops in Georgia. But the 20-foot storm surge–inducing, tornado-spawning weather event hasn’t yet changed Trump’s stance on his plan to tear down the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, root and branch. The climate agency, whose responsibilities include providing free weather forecasts as well as tracking and predicting hurricanes, would be completely gutted under Project 2025, the 920-page Christian nationalist manifesto that purports to be Trump’s second-term agenda. (Trump has haltingly and not particularly convincingly attempted to disavow Project 2025; a recently unearthed video features one of the project’s authors bragging that there will be “one-to-one mirroring” of the policies laid out in the document and Trump’s proposals.) “The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) should be dismantled and many of its functions eliminated, sent to other agencies, privatized, or placed under the control of states and territories,” the proposal reads on page 664. That would effectively privatize weather forecasts, forcing U.S. citizens to pay for weather subscriptions that would include national weather alert systems for emergencies like flash flooding, extreme heat, earthquakes, and others.

Just what we need – privatized forecasts beholden to Republicans with Sharpies. Politicians rather than scientists would have the final say on the forecasting we see.

Climate denial is behind this Trump/Project 2025 campaign promise. Fossil fuel companies are backing extremist Republicans. They don't want a federal agency which presents independent evidence of climate change caused by carbon emissions.

Beware of extremist proposals for privatization. In 1989 Margret Thatcher's Conservative Party pushed through Parliament the privatization of the water and sewage systems in England and Wales. Rivers and seashores are now dangerous thanks to raw sewage being dumped by private companies. This documentary was made before the Conservatives lost power in July.

MAGA Republicans pushing Project 2025 want to do to our weather what Thatcher's right-wing ideologues have done to waterways in the UK. Like Britain's rivers and streams, our weather forecasting would be full of poop under Trump Republican control.

Washington Post: Trump was the one who altered Dorian trajectory map with Sharpie

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[llilly15]

Simple justice

To hear some people tell it, the Confederacy of the Old South was not about preserving state-sanctioned slavery; nor is the Confederate battle flag a twenty-first-century symbol of hate.  The people making these denials go to great lengths to avoid owning up to historical fact, and they sanitize history and heritage so they will not have to.

This is southern heritage cleansed of its sins. It is accurate only insofar as it admits human tragedy on an unprecedented scale, omitting the legacy of damage and injustice done to millions of blacks. Anyone who challenges the myth-making stir a rebels’ resolve to justify a terrible wrong as a noble right.

But a tidal shift occurred after the South Carolina state Legislature ordered the removal of the Confederate battle flag from the Capitol grounds in Columbia.  It was a sober act of modest contrition in response to the mass murder in 2015 of nine African-American worshipers attending an evening Bible study in downtown Charleston.

The trial of the murderer left no doubt as to why the Confederate battle flag featured prominently in his crime. It was the symbol of his own and others’ racial hatred. The South Carolina state Legislature publicly acknowledged this fact when the flag was removed from state-sanctioned display on government grounds.

Of course, the backlash was immediate. The Ku Klux Klan organized a march of white supremacists in protest; and then a “heritage, not haters” rollback began, defending the flag’s display and to deter communities from re-visiting the placement in public places of memorials eulogizing the Confederate cause.  But Americans weren’t deterred. They were moved to action by the consequence of sustaining a false narrative injurious in its extremes.

Relics of the Confederacy are everywhere, in the halls of government, on public squares, emblazoned on public buildings, flying aloft, and etched in stone. They are honorifics hidden in plain sight, memorials that evince, in these times, a welling contradiction between the more perfect union the Civil War fought to preserve and a vision of America had the South won the war and slavery survived intact.

None have addressed this issue more bluntly than the Mayor of New Orleans, Mitch Landrieu. Last May he made a public speech defending the removal of the last of four Confederate monuments in the city. He was plain-spoken about the historical heart of the matter.

Said Landrieu, “It is self-evident that these men did not fight for the United States of America. They fought against it. They may have been warriors, but in this cause, they were not patriots. … The Civil War is over, and the Confederacy lost and we are better for it. Surely, we are far enough removed from this dark time to acknowledge that the cause of the Confederacy was wrong.”

Florida lawmakers have proven less sanguine about the need to move on. But there is hope.  

Following the Charleston massacre, the Florida Legislature agreed it was time to remove Confederate Gen. Edmond Kirby Smith from the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall., one of two Florida honorees. (Dr. John Gorrie, the “father of air conditioning,” is the other.)

Smith’s likeness has been in Statuary Hall since 1922. His claim to fame? He was in Florida when he surrendered his saber and the last military force of the Confederacy in 1865.Though a Floridan by birth, his connections to Florida are otherwise unremarkable.  

A lengthy process ensued to replace Smith. Nominees were invited statewide. After winnowing the suggestions, three candidates emerged: Marjorie Stoneman Douglas, author of The Everglades: River of Grass and mother of the Everglades National Park; Mary McLeod Bethune, one of 17 children, daughter of former slaves, nationally-known author, educator and civil rights activist and founder of Bethune-Cookman University; and George Washington Jenkins Jr., founder of the Publix grocery chain.

In April, the Florida Senate passed a resolution to replace Smith with Bethune. The House resisted the Senate’s lead, proposing Douglas. Then a third possibility arose, blocking the bill and derailing the entire process.

State Rep. Scott Plakon, the House committee chair, complained the process “flawed.” But really, Plakon favored Walt Disney. His discontent brought legislation to a standstill and won Gen. Smith a reprieve from removal for another year.   In reply, Randolph Bracy Jr., a guest columnist for the Orlando Sentinel wrote, “ Even as the Florida Legislature tries to address the state’s sordid history and mistreatment of African-Americans since the Civil War, some members of the Florida House of Representatives continue to drag their feet…Put Bethune in the statuary in Washington now, and stop fighting the Civil War over again.”

The postscript to his commentary added, “Bethune would be the first person and woman of color from the 50 states voted to such an honor…” noting a special act of Congress inducted Rosa Parks in the Hall in 2005.  

That no woman of color has been honored by a state is a disgrace in and of itself. Mr. Bracy is right. The time is now for simple justice.

Leslie Lilly

#FloridaWeekly #Charlottesville ##BlacklivesMatter #HeatherHeyer

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LOL Letter to the Editor

I live in a small North Carolina town and work at the local newspaper, which prints a lot of offensive things in the name of being a promoter of ‘local voices’. This was a response to one of their columns: Dear Editor, I am writing in response to a column by D.G Martin in last week’s paper called “Fixing HB2 in need of a good meal together”. In this column, Martin explains that in climates of heightened political opposition, a good way to build compassion amongst disagreeing leaders is for them to share a meal together and get to know each other as humans, which facilitates the ability to compromise and work towards resolve. I think this is a moral solution aspired to by lots of people: “we can disagree and still love each other” is not an uncommon position to hear someone defend. But I would argue that it is quite a superficial idea, which actually disregards power imbalances amongst the parties involved. Not all positions are worth mitigating with, if they are entrenched in the blindspots of someone misunderstanding another’s oppression because they have the privilege of not experiencing it themselves. As @SonofBaldwin states, “We can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.” Yet Martin’s article celebrates the “unlikely friendship” that developed between Ku Klux Klan leader C.P Ellis and Black community leader Ann Atwater through sharing a meal hosted by the wife of former representative Jack Hunt. I don’t understand how this meeting could be viewed responsibly without acknowledging the context of racial oppression upon which our country is unfortunately founded. Furthermore, I wonder why Martin quoted the KKK leader’s description of overcoming his racist fear that Atwater was the “meanest Black woman” he’d ever seen, without interviewing Atwater about her own experience. Not to state the obvious, but the KKK believes that white people are superior to non-white people... Fifty years after the civil rights laws were laid down, we still live in a system that directly benefits from anti-Black racism. Think of the fact that there were more Black people imprisoned in our country in 2015, than there was in South Africa at the heart of apartheid. Think of the amount of unarmed African American folks who were unrightfully shot by police in the past 3 years, and whose killers were given impunity from our juries. And think of the fact that just last week, three Black transwomen were shot in Louisiana, and the media refuses to report them as ‘hate crimes’. And if when reading this, your mind reaches to find rational explanations of how they might have deserved their imprisonment, abuse or death, please consider that those of us who are white, have blindspots because of privilege, and therefore have a reluctance to acknowledge the violence of our nation’s systems. I believe it has to do with the fact that it is very difficult to emotionally own the fact that, from slavery until today, this nation has been so violent in its prioritization of white needs. But if we sit with that discomfort or guilt, and we take a deep breath and let it overwhelm us, there is a chance to see through the pain we are desperately trying to avoid. From that new place there are more ways to take responsibility for the way our country operates today. Rev. angel Kyodo Williams writes about this initial reluctance: “the air needed to breathe through forgiveness is smothered. Healing is suspended for all. Truth is necessary for reconciliation.” I believe that is the missing step before “sharing a good meal together” is possible. We must understand that marginalized people might not even want to sit with people who have not committed to their political liberation. That is why I wonder what Ann Atwater has to say about sharing bread with the Ku Klux Klan. In my eyes, until the KKK is committed to the empowerment of all Black lives (which seems contradictory), Black leaders should not have to dialogue or compromise with them. Not all positions are legitimate, nor worth working towards resolve with. Mr. Martin laments the polarization of views about HB2, a bill which forces transgender North Carolinians to use the bathrooms that correspond with their gender assigned at birth instead of their actual gender. It is embarassing that our lawmakers are so utterly misinformed about gender and sexuality, for it is largely recognized that biological sex does not define one’s gender identity. And trans folks are not committing assaults on women and children. On the contrary, 80% of gender non-conforming people have reported experiencing hate crimes in school. Transgender people are four times more likely to live in extreme poverty. Twenty seven trans women of color were killed last year alone. That is not because transgender people are less capable of thriving in our world, it’s because the systems of our country work to make that as hard as it can be. I would argue that those who do not understand that do not have a legitimate position in discussing laws that affect the lives of transgender folks. Their position is not one that needs to be mitigated with. They do not need to be invited towards dialogue and compromise around a good meal. They have the responsibility to accept that they do not understand the experience of trans people, and need to step back to let those who do, lead the discussion. by River Allen, Spruce Pine. 

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New Library Material August  - November 2019

Sorted by Call Number / Author.

031 O

Bill O'Neill. Trivia Madness : 1000 fun trivia questions. Wiq Media, 2016.

031 O

Bill O'Neill. Trivia Madness : 1000 fun trivia questions. Wiq Media, 2016.

031 O

Bill O'Neill. Trivia Madness : 1000 fun trivia questions about anything. LAK Publishing, 2017. The complete manual providing trivia, trivia facts, interesting facts, trivia questions, random facts, brain teaser quizzes, and brain games to strengthen your knowledge base!.

031 S

Evan Salveson. Game night trivia : 2,000 trivia questions to stump your friends. Lexington, KY, : 2019.

323.1

Eskew, Glenn T. But for Birmingham : the local and national movements in the civil rights struggle. Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, c1997. Provides an analysis of the struggle for desegregation in Birmingham, Alabama in the 1960s, during which the Southern Christian Leadership Conference urged the African-American community into a mass protest that ultimately resulted in the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

333.95 W

Wilson, Edward O. The diversity of life. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1992.

338.2 M

Maddow, Rachel, author. Blowout. First edition. "Rachel Maddow's Blowout offers a dark, serpentine, riveting tour of the unimaginably lucrative and corrupt oil-and-gas industry. With her trademark black humor, Maddow takes us on a switchback journey around the globe-from Oklahoma City to Siberia to Equatorial Guinea-exposing the greed and incompetence of Big Oil and Gas. She shows how Russia's rich reserves of crude have, paradoxically, stunted its growth, forcing Putin to maintain his power by spreading Russia's rot into its rivals, its neighbors, the United States, and the West's most important alliances. Chevron, BP, and a host of other industry players get their star turn, but ExxonMobil and the deceptively well-behaved Rex Tillerson emerge as two of the past century's most consequential corporate villains. The oil-and-gas industry has weakened democracies in developed and developing countries, fouled oceans and rivers, and propped up authoritarian thieves and killers. But being outraged at it is, according to Maddow, "like being indignant when a lion takes down and eats a gazelle. You can't really blame the lion. It's in her nature.""--.

355.3 S

Stengel, Richard, author. Information wars : how we lost the global battle against disinformation and what we can do about it. First edition. Welcome to State -- Getting There -- The Job -- Information War -- The Battle Is Engaged -- Disruption -- What to Do About Disinformation. "In February of 2013, Richard Stengel, the former editor-in-chief of Time, joined the Obama administration as Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. Within days, two shocking events made world-wide headlines: ISIS executed American journalist James Foley on a graphic video seen by tens of millions, and Vladimir Putin's "little green men"-Russian special forces-invaded Crimea, amid a blizzard of Russian denials and false flags. What these events had in common besides their violent law-lessness is that they were the opening salvos in a new era of global information war, where countries and non-state actors use social media and disinformation to create their own narratives and undermine anyone who opposes them. Stengel was thrust onto the front lines of this battle as he was tasked with responding to the relentless weaponizing of information and grievance by ISIS, Russia, China, and others. He saw the scale of what he was up against and found himself hopelessly outgunned. Then, in 2016, the wars Stengel was fighting abroad came home during the presidential election, as "fake news" became a rallying cry and the Russians used the techniques they learned in Ukraine to influence the election here. Rarely has an accomplished journalist been not only a close observer but also a principal participant in the debates and decisions of American foreign policy. Stengel takes you behind the scenes in the ritualized world of diplomacy, from the daily 8:30 morning huddle with a restless John Kerry to a midnight sit-down in Saudi Arabia with the prince of darkness Mohammed bin Salman. The result is a rich account of a losing battle against trolls and bots-who are every bit as insidious as their names imply."--.

355.8 K

Kean, Sam, author. The bastard brigade : the true story of the renegade scientists and spies who sabotaged the Nazi atomic bomb. First edition. Prologue: Summer of '44 -- Prewar, to 1939 -- 1940-1941 -- 1942 -- 1943 -- 1944 -- 1945. The leaders of the Manhattan Project were alarmed to learn that Nazi Germany was far outpacing the Allies in nuclear weapons research. Hitler would soon have the capability to reverse the entire D-Day operation and conquer Europe. Kean tells the story of a rough and motley crew of geniuses-- dubbed the Alsos Mission-- sent into Axis territory to spy on, sabotage, and even assassinate members of Nazi Germany's feared Uranium Club. The Mission included Moe Berg, a major league catcher and multilingual international spy; Joe Kennedy Jr, whose need for adventure lead him to volunteer for the dangerous mission; and Irène and Frederic Joliot-Curie, a physics Nobel-Prize winning power couple who became active members of the resistance. -- adapted from jacket.

364.152 C

Cep, Casey N., author. Furious hours : murder, fraud, and the last trial of Harper Lee. First edition. "The stunning story of an Alabama serial killer and the true-crime book that Harper Lee worked on obsessively in the years after To Kill a Mockingbird. Reverend Willie Maxwell was a rural preacher accused of murdering five of his family members for insurance money in the 1970s. With the help of a savvy lawyer, he escaped justice for years until a relative shot him dead at the funeral of his last victim. Despite hundreds of witnesses, Maxwell's murderer was acquitted -- thanks to the same attorney who had previously defended the Reverend. Sitting in the audience during the vigilante's trial was Harper Lee, who had traveled from New York City to her native Alabama with the idea of writing her own In Cold Blood, the true-crime classic she had helped her friend Truman Capote research seventeen years earlier. Lee spent a year in town reporting, and many more working on her own version of the case. Now Casey Cep brings this nearly inconceivable story to life, from the shocking murders to the courtroom drama to the racial politics of the Deep South. At the same time, she offers a deeply moving portrait of one of the country's most beloved writers and her struggle with fame, success, and the mystery of artistic creativity."--.

419.07 B

Butterworth, Rod R. Signing made easy; : a complete program for learning sign language... Putnam, 1989. ...includes sentence drills and exercises for increase comprehension and signing skill.

419.7 D

Duke, Irene. The everything sign language book : American Sign Language made easy. 2nd ed. Avon, Mass. : Adams Media, c2009. Explains basic communication using American Sign Language, including proper handshapes, body language, signing etiquette, and communicating with the hearing impaired.

419.7 G

Guido, James W., author. Learn American sign language : everything you need to start signing now. Alphabet -- Numbers -- Basics -- Days & times -- Family & friends -- Body & health -- At home -- Out & about -- School & work -- Food & drink -- Activities -- Social -- Nature -- Misc. verbs -- Descriptors. American Sign Language (ASL) is a vibrant, easy-to-learn language that is used by approximately half a million people each day. Current with the latest additions to ASL and filled with thousands of brand new photographs by Deaf actors, Learn American Sign Language is the most comprehensive guide of its kind.- Learn more than 800 signs, including signs for school, the workplace, around the house, out and about, food and drink, nature, emotions, small talk, and more.- Unlock the storytelling possibilities of ASL with classifiers, easy ways to modify signs that can turn "fishing" into "catching a big fish" and "walking" into "walking with a group."--Find out how to make sentences with signs, use the proper facial expressions with your signs, and other vital tips.

636.7 D

Davis, Kathy Diamond. Therapy dogs : training your dog to help others. 2nd ed. Wenatchee, Wash. : Dogwise Pub., c2002. Benefits therapy dogs provide -- Orientation to reality -- Focal point for attention-deficit problems -- Morale -- Antidote to depression -- Cooperation -- Social stimulation.

649.1 G

Ginott, Haim G. Between parent and child : the bestselling classic that revolutionized parent-child communication. Rev. and updated /Orig. pub.: Macmillan, 1965. New York : Three Rivers Press, c2003. The code of communication : parent-child conversations -- The power of words : better ways to encourage and guide -- Self-defeating patterns : there's no right way to do a wrong thing -- Responsibility : transmitting values rather than demanding compliance -- Discipline : finding effective alternatives to punishment --A day in a child's life -- Jealousy : the tragic tradition -- Some sources of anxiety in children : providing emotional safety -- Sex and human values : sensitive handling of an important subject -- Summing up : lessons to guide your parenting -- Epilogue.

796.334 A

Adams, Sean, 1977-. Mia Hamm. New York : Barnes & Noble Books, 2003.

809.1 C

Classic writings on poetry. New York : Columbia University Press, c2003.

810.8 O

The outlaw bible of American literature. New York : Thunder's Mouth Press ;, c2004.

811 D

Davis, Geffrey M., 1983- author. Night angler : poems. First edition. The fidelity of water -- Hymn or hum -- The radiance -- The night angler -- Bop: no more your mirror/Side a: my son's prelude -- Survivor -- First blood -- Human note -- The epistemology of cheerios -- Prayer with miscarriage/Grant us the ruined grounds -- A proposal from the previously divorced -- Pillow kombat with the ultimate sleep fighter -- Son's face -- What I mean when I say harmony -- Self-portrait with headwaters -- Self-portrait as a dead black boy -- I have my father's hands -- Smolder -- The book of family -- What make a man -- From the country notebooks -- The fidelity of music -- The night angler -- Poem in which my son wakes crying -- Arkansas aubade -- What I mean when I say harmony -- 3:16: whosoever -- 3:16: so loved -- 3:16: for 56 -- 3:16: world -- 3:16: blackout -- Like a river -- From the suicide notebooks -- The fidelity of angles -- What i mean when I say harmony -- Bop: no more your mirror/Side b: my wife's fugue -- Pleasures of place -- The epistemology of growing pains -- West Virginia nocturne -- Hear the light -- For the child's mole -- The night angler.

812 G

Williams, Jaston. Greater Tuna. New York : S. French, c1983. Play.

812.54 W

Wilson, August. The piano lesson. New York : Plume, c1990. Dramatizes the struggles of an African-American family as they consider selling a prized possession, an ornate upright piano, in order to buy the tract of land upon which they were once enslaved.

813 B

Baldwin, James, 1924-1987, author. Later novels.

821 B

Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824. The major works. Oxford ; : Oxford University Press, 2008.

821 D

John Donne : Selected poems. Phoenix Edition, 2003. London (UK) : Orion Publishing Group, 2003.

821.008 C

Roy J. Cook. One Hundred and One Famous Poems. 122 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10011 : Barnes & Noble, Inc, 2009.

821.809

Hay, Daisy, 1981-. Young romantics : the Shelleys, Byron, and other tangled lives. 1st American ed. New York : Farrar Straus & Giroux, c2010. A group biography that tells the story of the interlinked lives of England's young Romantic poets. Focuses on the network of writers and readers who gathered around Percy Bysshe Shelley and the campaigning journalist Leigh Hunt. They included Lord Byron, John Keats, and Mary Shelley, as well as a host of lesser-known figures: Mary Shelley's stepsister and Byron's mistress, Claire Clairmont; Hunt's botanist sister-in-law, Elizabeth Kent; the musician Vincent Novello; the painters Benjamin Haydon and Joseph Severn; and writers such as Charles and Mary Lamb, Thomas Love Peacock, and William Hazlitt. They were characterized by talent, idealism, and youthful ardor, and these qualities shaped and informed their politically oppositional stances--as did their chaotic family arrangements, which often left the young women, despite their talents, facing the consequences of the men's philosophies.

823.9 L

Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963. Till we have faces : a myth retold. 1st Harvest/HBJ ed. New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980, c1956.

828.609

Gordon, Charlotte. Romantic outlaws : the extraordinary lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley. First U.S. edition. "Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) and her daughter Mary Shelley (1797-1851) have each been the subject of numerous biographies by top tier writers, yet no author has ever examined their lives in tandem. Perhaps this is because these two amazing women never knew each other--Wollstonecraft died of infection at the age of 38, a week after giving birth to her daughter. Nevertheless their lives were closely intertwined, their choices, dreams and tragedies so eerily similar, it seems impossible to consider one without the other: both became famous writers; both fell in love with brilliant but impossible authors; both were single mothers and had children out of wedlock (a shocking and self-destructive act in their day); both broke out of the rigid conventions of their era and lived in exile; and both played important roles in the Romantic era during which they lived. The lives of both Marys were nothing less than extraordinary, providing fabulous material for Charlotte Gordon, a gifted story teller. She seamlessly weaves their lives together in back and forth narratives, taking readers on a vivid journey across Revolutionary France and Victorian England, from the Italian seaports to the highlands of Scotland, in a book that reads like a richly textured historical novel"--.

914.304 G

The vagabonds : the story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison'sTen-Year Road Trip. First Simon & Schuster Hardback Edition, 2019. New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2019. Prologue: Paris, Michigan : mid-August 1923 -- 1914 -- 1915 -- 1916 -- 1918 -- 1919 -- 1920 -- 1921 -- Interim: November 1921-June 1923 -- 1923 -- 1924 -- Jep Bisbee is famous. "A brilliant portrait of two American giants, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, and America entering the automobile age, told through the fascinating but little-known narrative of the summer road trips taken by Edison and Ford"-- Provided by publisher.

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Clinton, Hillary Rodham, author. The book of gutsy women. First Simon and Schuster hardcover edition. EARLY INSPIRATIONS. Harriet Tubman -- Anna Pavlova, Isadora Duncan, Maria Tallchief, and Virginia Johnson -- Helen Keller -- Margaret Chase Smith -- Margaret Bourke-White -- Maria von Trapp -- Anne Frank -- Rigoberta Menchú Tum -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Florence Griffith Joyner -- EDUCATION PIONEERS. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz -- Margaret Bancroft -- Juliette Gordon Low -- Maria Montessori and Joan Ganz Cooney -- Mary McLeod Bethune -- Esther Martinez -- Daisy Bates -- Patsy Mink, Bernice Sandler, and Edith Green -- Ruby Bridges Hall -- Malala Yousafzai -- EARTH DEFENDERS. Marjory Stoneman Douglas -- Rachel Carson -- Jane Jacobs and Peggy Shepard -- Jane Goodall and "The Trimates" -- Wangari Maathai -- Alice Min Soo Chun -- Greta Thunberg -- EXPLORERS AND INVENTORS. Caroline Herschel and Vera Rubin -- Ada Lovelace and Grace Hopper -- Margaret Knight and Madam C.J. Walker -- Marie Curie and Irène Jolior-Curie -- Hedy Lamarr -- Sylvia Earle -- Sally Ride -- Mae Jemison -- HEALERS. Florence Nightingale -- Clara Barton -- Elizabeth Blackwell, Rebecca Lee Crumpler, and Mary Edwards Walker -- Betty Ford -- Mathilde Krim -- Dr. Gao Yaojie -- Dr. Hawa Abdi -- Flossie Wong-Staal -- Molly Melching -- Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha -- Vaccinators -- ATHLETES. Alice Coachman and Wilma Rudolph -- Junko Tabei -- Billie Jean King -- Diana Nyad -- Abby Wambach -- Michelle Kwan -- Venus and Serena Williams -- Ibtihaj Muhammad -- Tatyana McFadden -- Caster Semenya -- Aly Raisman -- ADVOCATES AND ACTIVISTS. Dorothy Height and Sojourner Truth -- Ida B. Wells -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Elizabeth Peratrovich -- Rosa Parks and Claudette Colvin -- Coretta Scott King -- Dolores Huerta -- The Peacemakers -- Victoria Mxenge -- Ai-jen Poo -- Sarah Brady, Gabby Giffords, Nelba Màrquez-Greene, Shannon Watts, and Lucy McBath -- Nza-Ari Khepra, Emma Gonzàlez, Naomi Wadler, Edna Chavez, Jazmine Wildcat, and Julia Spoor -- Becca Heller -- STORYTELLERS. Maya Angelou -- Mary Beard -- Jineth Bedoya Lima -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -- America Ferrera -- Ali Stoker -- Amani Al-Khatahtbeh -- ELECTED LEADERS. Bella Abzug -- Shirley Chisholm -- Ann Richards -- Geraldine Ferraro -- Barbara Jordan -- Barbara Mikulski -- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf -- Wilma Mankiller -- Michelle Bachelet -- Danica Roem -- GROUNDBREAKERS. Frances Perkins -- Katharine Graham -- Constance Baker Motley -- Edie Windsor -- Ela Bhatt -- Temple Grandin -- Ellen DeGeneres -- Maya Lin -- Sally Yates -- Kimberly Bryant and Reshma Saujani -- WOMEN'S RIGHTS CHAMPIONS. Rosa May Billinghurst -- The Suffragists -- Sophia Duleep Singh -- Fraidy Reiss -- Manal al Sharif -- Nadia Murad. Hillary Rodham Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, share the stories of the gutsy women who have inspired them -- women with the courage to stand up to the status quo, ask hard questions, and get the job done. Ensuring the rights and opportunities of women and girls remains a big piece of the unfinished business of the twenty-first century. While there's a lot of work to do, we know that throughout history and around the globe women have overcome the toughest resistance imaginable to win victories that have made progress possible for all of us. That is the achievement of each of the women in this book. So how did they do it? The answers are as unique as the women themselves. Civil rights activist Dorothy Height, LGBTQ trailblazer Edie Windsor, and swimmer Diana Nyad kept pushing forward, no matter what. Writers like Rachel Carson and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie named something no one had dared talk about before. Historian Mary Beard used wit to open doors that were once closed, and Wangari Maathai, who sparked a movement to plant trees, understood the power of role modeling. Harriet Tubman and Malala Yousafzai looked fear in the face and persevered. Nearly every single one of these women was fiercely optimistic -- they had faith that their actions could make a difference. And they were right. To us, they are all gutsy women -- leaders with the courage to stand up to the status quo, ask hard questions, and get the job done. So in the moments when the long haul seems awfully long, we hope you will draw strength from these stories. We do. Because if history shows one thing, it's that the world needs gutsy women.

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Smith, Jean Edward, author. The liberation of Paris : how Eisenhower, De Gaulle, and Von Choltitz saved the City of Light. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. Paris occupied -- De Gaulle and the resistance -- The Allies advance -- The German defense -- The resistance rises -- Eisenhower changes plans -- Leclerc moves out -- A field of ruins -- Day of liberation -- De Gaulle triumphant. "The liberation of Paris tells the dramatic story of the Allied decision in World War II to divert from the strategic plan in order to save the City of Light from chaos and assist de Gaulle's efforts to become France's new leader even as the German general in charge of the occupation defied his orders to destroy the city as the Allies closed in"--.

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Alexander, Michael, 1941-. Medievalism : the Middle Ages in modern England. New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007. Introduction -- The advent of the Goths : the medieval in the 1760s -- Chivalry, romances and revival : Chaucer into Scott : The lay of the last minstrel and Ivanhoe -- Dim religious lights -- The lay, Christabel and 'The eve of St Agnes' -- 'Residences for the poor' : the Pugin of Contrasts -- Back to the future in the 1840s : Carlyle, Ruskin, Sybil, Newman -- 'The death of Arthur was the favourite volume' : Malory into Tennyson -- History, the revival and the PRB -- Westminster, Ivanhoe, visions and revisions -- History and legend : the subjects of poetry and painting -- The working men and the common good : Madox Brown, Maurice, Morris, Hopkins -- Among the lilies and the weeds : Hopkins, Whistler, Burne-Jones, Beardsley -- 'I have seen-- a white horse' : Chesterton, Yeats, Ford, Pound -- Modernist medievalism : Eliot, Pound, Jones -- Twentieth-century Christendom : Waugh, Auden, Inklings, Hill -- Epilogue : 'riding through the glen.

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Napoleon : the art of war & power. 2018. London (UK) : Sirius Publishing; a division of Arcturus Publishing, Ltd, 2018.

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Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., author. Stony the Road : Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow. Antislavery/antislave backlash : the white resistance to black Reconstruction -- The old Negro : race, science, literature, and the birth of Jim Crow -- Chains of being : the black body and the white mind -- Framing blackness : Sambo art and the visual rhetoric of white supremacy -- The United States of race : mass-producing stereotypes and fear -- The new Negro : redeeming the race from the redeemers -- Reframing race : enter the new Negro -- Epilogue. "A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counterrevolution that resubjugated them as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring stain on the American mind. The abolition of slavery in the aftermath of the Civil War is a familiar story, as is the civil rights revolution that transformed the nation after World War II. But the century in between remains a mystery: if emancipation came in Lincoln's America, why was it necessary to march in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s America? In this new book, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., one of our leading chroniclers of the African-American experience, seeks to answer that question in a history that moves from the Reconstruction Era to the 'nadir' of the African-American experience under Jim Crow, through to World War I and the Harlem Renaissance. Through his close reading of the visual culture of this tragic era, Gates reveals the many faces of Jim Crow and how, together, they reinforced a stark color line between white and black Americans. Bringing a lifetime of wisdom to bear as a scholar, filmmaker, and public intellectual, Gates uncovers the roots of structural racism in our own time, while showing how African Americans after slavery combatted it by articulating a vision of a "New Negro" to force the nation to recognize their humanity and unique contributions to America as it hurtled toward the modern age. The book will be accompanied by a new PBS documentary series on the same topic, with full promotional support from PBS"--.

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Goodwin, Doris Kearns, author. Leadership in turbulent times. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. Part 1. Ambition and the recognition of leadership -- Abraham: "Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition" -- Theodore: "I rose like a rocket" -- Franklin: "No, call me Franklin" -- Lyndon: "A steam engine in pants" -- Part 2. Adversity and growth -- Abraham Lincoln: "I must die or be better" -- Theodore Roosevelt: "The light has gone out of my life" -- Franklin Roosevelt: "Above all, try something" -- Lyndon Johnson: "The most miserable period of my life" -- Part 3. How they led: man and the times -- Transformational leadership: Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation -- Crisis management: Theodore Roosevelt and the Coal Strike -- Turnaround leadership: Franklin Roosevelt and the Hundred Days -- Visionary leadership: Lyndon Johnson and Civil Rights -- Epilogue: Of death and legacy. Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the leader make the times or do the times make the leader? Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin draws upon the four presidents she has studied most closely -- Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson (in civil rights) -- to show how they recognized leadership qualities within themselves and were recognized as leaders by others. By looking back to their first entries into public life, we encounter them at a time when their paths were filled with confusion, fear, and hope. They all collided with dramatic reversals that disrupted their lives and threatened to shatter forever their ambitions. Nonetheless, they all emerged fitted to confront the contours and dilemmas of their times. No common pattern describes the trajectory of leadership. Although set apart in background, abilities, and temperament, these men shared a fierce ambition and a deep-seated resilience that enabled them to surmount uncommon hardships. At their best, all four were guided by a sense of moral purpose. At moments of great challenge, they were able to summon their talents to enlarge the opportunities and lives of others.

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Goodwin, Doris Kearns. The bully pulpit : Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of journalism. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

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Grant, James, 1946- author. Bagehot : the life and times of the greatest Victorian. First edition. Prologue: "With devouring fury" -- "Large, wild, fiery, black" -- "In mirth and refutation; in ridicule and laughter" -- "Vive la guillotine" -- The literary banker -- "The ruin inflicted on innocent creditors" -- "The young gentleman out of Miss Austen's novels" -- A death in India -- The "problem" of W.E. Gladstone -- "Therefore, we entirely approve" -- "The muddy slime of Bagehot's crotchets and heresies" -- The great scrum of reform -- A loser by seven bought votes -- By "influence and corruption" -- "In the first rank" -- Never a bullish word -- Government bears the cost -- "I wonder what my eminence is?". "The definitive biography of a banker, essayist, and editor of the Economist, by an acclaimed financial historian. During the upheavals of 2007-9, the chairman of the Federal Reserve had the name of a Victorian icon on the tip of his tongue: Walter Bagehot. Banker, man of letters, inventor of the Treasury bill, and author of Lombard Street, Bagehot prescribed the doctrines that--decades later--inspired the radical responses to the world's worst financial crises. In James Grant's colorful and groundbreaking biography, Bagehot appears as both an ornament to his own age and a muse to our own. Brilliant and precocious, he was influential in political circles, making high-profile friends, including William Gladstone--and enemies: Lord Overstone, Benjamin Disraeli. As an essayist on wide-ranging topics, he won the admiration of Matthew Arnold and Woodrow Wilson. He was also a misogynist, and while he opposed slavery, he misjudged Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. As editor of the Economist, he offered astute commentary on the financial issues of his day, and his name lives on in an eponymous weekly column"--.

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Napoleon : a life. 2015. New York, NY : Penguin Books, 2015. Introduction -- Rise. Corsica ; Revolution ; Desire ; Italy ; Victory ; Peace ; Egypt ; Acre ; Brumaire -- Mastery. Consul ; Marengo ; Lawgiver ; Plots ; Amiens ; Coronation ; Austerlitz ; Jena ; Blockades ; Tilsit ; Iberia ; Wagram ; Zenith -- Denouement. Russia ; Trapped ; Retreat ; Resilience ; Leipzig ; Defiance ; Elba ; Waterloo ; St Helena. " ... the first single-volume, cradle-to-grave biography to take advantage of the recent publication of Napoleon's thirty-three thousand letters, which radically transform our understanding of his character and motivation"--Jacket.

92 Napoleon

Brown, Adam. Napoleon Bonaparte : the biography of a leader who changed the history of France (including the French Revolution). 2018.

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Ryan Swanson. The Strenuous life : Theodore Roosevelt and the making of the American athlete. New York, NY : Diversion Publishing Corp, 2019.

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Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973. The Hobbit. Complete and unabridged ed. London : HarperCollins, 2002. Read by Rob Inglis. Bilbo Baggins enjoys a quiet and contented life, with no desire to travel far from the comforts of home; then one day the wizard Gandalf and a band of dwarves arrive unexpectedly and enlist his services - as a burglar - on a dangerous expedition to raid the treasure-hoard of Smaug the dragon. Bilbo's life is never to be the same again.

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Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965. A raisin in the sun. 2008 by Recorded Books, LCC. Recorded by arrangement with HarperCollins Publishers. Starring Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil, Diana Sands, Leonard Jackson, Sakes Mokae, Sam Schacht, and Harold Scott; Lloyd Richards, director.

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The birth of a nation. [Blu-ray/DVD combo]. Nate Parker, Armie Hammer, Mark Boone Jr., Colman Domingo, Aunjanue Ellis, Dwight Henry, Aja Naomi King, Esther Scott, Roger Guenveur Smith, Gabrielle Union, with Penelope Ann Miller and Jackie Earle Haley. In 1831, when Virginia slave Nat Turner learns of slavery conditions in other parts of the state, he leads an uprising against slave owners in the area.

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Based on the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby [2013]. DVD. Joel Edgerton, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Elizabeth Debicki, Leonardo Dicaprio, Isla Fisher. A would-be writer, Nick Carraway leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of loosening morals, glittering jazz, bootleg kings, and skyrocketing stocks. Chasing his own American dream, Nick lands next door to a mysterious, party-giving millionaire, Jay Gatsby. It is thus that Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the super rich, their illusions, loves, and deceits. "The cast is first-rate, the ambiance and story provide a measure of intoxication and, most importantly, the core thematic concerns pertaining to the American dream, self-reinvention and love lost, regained and lost again are tenaciously addressed."--Hollywood Reporter. "The best attempt yet to capture the essence of the novel."--Richard Roeper. "...Stands out like a beacon in a sea of silly blockbusters."--New York Post.

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Jerry Tarkanian's amoeba zone defense. Ames, IA 50010 : Championship Productions, 1996. Coach Tarkanian explains, in several teaching progressions, why your zone defense must be similar to your man-to-man defense. Tark shows how the Amoeba prevents the offensive players from getting into the gaps, beating you with the dribble and getting cross-court passes. On-court, the Runnin' Rebels demonstrate run glide run, zig zags, close outs and denials. Drills include the Amoeba drill for guards, back line, 5-on-7, 5-on-5 and how to double team the first pass.

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Atwood, Margaret, 1939-. The testaments : a novel. 1st edition.

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Baldwin, James, 1924-1987. If Beale Street could talk. New York : Dial Press, 1974.

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Berry, Flynn, 1986- author. A double life. "A gripping, intense, stunningly written novel of psychological suspense from the award-winning author of Under the Harrow Claire is a hardworking doctor living a simple, quiet life in London. She is also the daughter of the most notorious murder suspect in the country, though no one knows it. Nearly thirty years ago, while Claire and her infant brother slept upstairs, a brutal crime was committed in her family's townhouse. Her father's car was found abandoned near the English Channel the next morning, with bloodstains on the front seat. Her mother insisted she'd seen him in the house that night, but his powerful, privileged friends maintained his innocence. The first lord accused of murder in more than a century, he has been missing ever since"--.

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Coates, Ta-Nehisi, author. The water dancer : a novel. First edition. "Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage--and lost his mother and all memory of her when he was a child--but he is also gifted with a mysterious power. Hiram almost drowns when he crashes a carriage into a river, but is saved from the depths by a force he doesn't understand, a blue light that lifts him up and lands him a mile away. This strange brush with death forces a new urgency on Hiram's private rebellion. Spurred on by his improvised plantation family, Thena, his chosen mother, a woman of few words and many secrets, and Sophia, a young woman fighting her own war even as she and Hiram fall in love, he becomes determined to escape the only home he's ever known. So begins an unexpected journey into the covert war on slavery that takes Hiram from the corrupt grandeur of Virginia's proud plantations to desperate guerrilla cells in the wilderness, from the coffin of the deep South to dangerously utopic movements in the North. Even as he's enlisted in the underground war between slavers and the enslaved, all Hiram wants is to return to the Walker Plantation to free the family he left behind--but to do so, he must first master his magical gift and reconstruct the story of his greatest loss. This is a bracingly original vision of the world of slavery, written with the narrative force of a great adventure. Driven by the author's bold imagination and striking ability to bring readers deep into the interior lives of his brilliantly rendered characters, The Water Dancer is the story of America's oldest struggle--the struggle to tell the truth--from one of our most exciting thinkers and beautiful writers"--.

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Edugyan, Esi., author. Washington Black. First United States edition.

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Goldring, Suzanne. My name is Eva. London, EC4Y 0DZ : Bookouture: In Imprint of StoryFire Ltd, 2019.

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Green, John. Looking for Alaska. 1st ed. New York : Dutton Bks, c2005. Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.

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King, Stephen, 1947-. Doctor Sleep : a novel. First Scribner hardcover edition. The now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) must save a very special twelve-year-old girl from a tribe of murderous paranormals.

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Claire legrand. Kingsbane : the Empirium Trilogy. Naperville, IL : Sourcebooks, Inc, 2019. Sun Queen Rielle faces new trials as she tries to maintain the Gate and is tempted by the angel Corien, while centuries later, Eliana must choose whether to embrace the crown or reject it forever.

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Sun, Rivera. Billionaire buddha.

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Sun, Rivera. The roots of resistance.

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Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973. The Hobbit, or, There and back again. Authorized ed., Rev. ed 1982. New York : Ballantine Books, 1982, ℗♭1980. The adventures of the well-to-do hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, who lived happily in his comfortable home until a wandering wizard granted his wish. A new edition to Tolkien's classic, the prelude to the Lord of the Rings saga, is available just in time for "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, " set for release in theaters in December 2002. Illustrations. In this fantasy, a prelude to The Lord of the Rings, the reader meets Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit, in a land filled with dwarfs, elves, goblins, and dragons. The Greatest Fantasy Epic of our Time, Bilbo Baggins was a hobbit who wanted to be left alone in quiet comfort. But the wizard Gandalf came along with a band of homeless dwarves. Soon Bilbo was drawn into their quest, facing evil orcs, savage wolves, giant spiders, and worse unknown dangers. Finally, it was Bilbo-alone and unaided-who had to confront the great dragon Smaug, the terror of an entire countryside ... This stirring adventure fantasy begins the tale of the hobbits that was continued by J.R.R. Tolkien in his bestselling epic The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien are the movie tie-in editions to The Fellowship of the Ring, the first of the three New Line Films based on the classic epic fantasy, which opens December 19, 2001. A saga of dwarfs and elves, goblins and trolls in a far-off, long ago land. There is a special edition illustrated by Michael Hague (1984.

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Twain, Mark, 1835-1910, author. Five novels. San Diego, Calif. : Canterbury Classics, c2011. The adventures of Tom Sawyer -- The prince and the pauper -- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- A Connecticut yankee in King Arthur's court -- The tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson.

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Sternberg, Martin L. A. American Sign Language dictionary. 3rd ed., rev. ed. New York : HarperPerennial, c1998.

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Heyer, Georgette, 1902-1974, author. Snowdrift : and other stories. Collects fourteen stories of romance, intrigue, and villainy, including "Pistols for two," "A husband for Fanny," and "Runaway match.".

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O'Brien, Tim, 1946-. The Things They Carried : a work of fiction. 1st Broadway Books trade pbk. ed. New York : Broadway Books, 1998, c1990. Related stories, linked by recurring characters and an interwoven plot, recreate an American foot soldier's experience in the Vietnam War.

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Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. The complete short stories. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.

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Sun, Rivera. The dandelion insurrection study guide : making change through nonviolent action. Study Guide.

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Nature ‘It’s Back’: Underwater Yet Again, the Carolinas Face a New Reality

Nature ‘It’s Back’: Underwater Yet Again, the Carolinas Face a New Reality Nature ‘It’s Back’: Underwater Yet Again, the Carolinas Face a New Reality http://www.nature-business.com/nature-its-back-underwater-yet-again-the-carolinas-face-a-new-reality/

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A flooded home on the outskirts of Kinston, N.C.CreditCreditHilary Swift for The New York Times

GARLAND, N.C. — After Hurricane Matthew stomped into his trailer home and pulped his floors, walls and cabinets two years ago, Bobby Barnes Jr. spent $90,000 to rebuild and protect himself from another flood. He raised the house two feet onto brick pilings, bought $1,300 worth of flood fencing and said he complied with every federal recommendation.

But on Tuesday morning, his family was underwater again. The Black River, 10 feet above flood stage and still rising, was now a lake that had swallowed farm fields around the Barnes’s house. The water lapped at their front door and sloshed around the newly laid floors.

“It’s back,” Mr. Barnes said. “Same nightmare.”

It was the kind of tragic, expensive, depressing rerun that played out across much of the Carolinas this week, not only on the coast, but in inland communities like this one in Sampson County, blessed with tobacco and turkeys, not sea and sand.

Throughout the region, residents like Mr. Barnes were struggling to put soggy homes and soggy lives back together yet again, amid palpable anxiety that the Carolinas seem to be confronting a new normal of too many storms, with too much water coming much too often.

In both states, the will, and the assumptions, of residents and officials were being sorely tested.

In inland Kinston, N.C., which saw streets go underwater in 2016 during Matthew and again last week, Tony Sears, the city manager, had accepted the fact that this was hurricane country. “Typically you think Louisiana, Miami, somewhere a little south,” he said.

Mr. Sears and many others here are well aware that hurricanes have long been a fact of life in North and South Carolina, with nearly 500 miles of coastline between them. But the last four years have been particularly punishing. An unnamed weather system that drew moisture from a hurricane in the Atlantic paralyzed much of South Carolina in 2015. Hurricane Matthew arrived the next year, drenching the Carolinas and leaving dozens dead. And now, Florence, which has dropped more than 8 trillion gallons of rain on North Carolina alone.

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(Left to right) Alex Barth, 10, Eva Rambach, 13, and Abby Barth, 12, walk through a flooded neighborhood in Conway, S.C.CreditTamir Kalifa for The New York Times

“The tropical systems that have affected us recently have not been wind events. They’ve been rainfall events producing inland flooding,” said Dr. Susan Cutter, a geography professor at the University of South Carolina and director of its Hazards and Vulnerability Research Institute. “This is something that these areas may have experienced, but not with the constancy that we see now.”

Acknowledging the constancy, and planning for it, has been a theme this week for Gov. Roy Cooper of North Carolina, who has been touring some of his state’s hardest-hit areas.

“When you have two 500-year floods within two years of each other, it’s pretty clear it’s not a 500-year flood,” the governor said at a news conference this week. “So as we approach recovery, both short-term and long-term, we will have to look at flooded property, work on mitigation and buyouts, and being smart about how we recover and make sure that we’re involving local, state and federal officials.”

But buyouts could prove tricky in rural communities where families have deep ties to the land. On Tuesday, Mr. Barnes, 42, and his wife, Brandy, 41, sat parked on what was now the water’s edge of Lisbon Bridge Road in Garland County, some 60 miles inland from where Hurricane Florence had slugged ashore four days earlier.

They had lived in the house, just across the field from Mr. Barnes’s father, since 1996 and had never flooded out until Matthew. Mr. Barnes didn’t think twice about rebuilding after the 2016 storm, even though he said his flood insurance only covered about $25,000 of the damage. He paid out of pocket to get county approvals to raise the house and even put on an addition.

Mr. Barnes said he was denied a low-interest construction loan through the Federal Emergency Management Agency, so he borrowed money and drained the savings his family had built up after several good years running a local repair business.

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The Baron and The Beef restaurant in Kinston flooded with more than two feet of water.CreditHilary Swift for The New York Times

“I replaced everything,” Mr. Barnes said.

Now, as he looked out at the waters and talked about boating home to check on the house, he said they did not know what to do.

Raising the house yet again would cost thousands. They had raised a son and a daughter there and did not want to leave. Their 16-year-old son, Mason, had been killed in a car crash just before Matthew. When the family had to flee again this month, the first thing their 11-year-old daughter asked her mother was: When can we go back?

“She needs a place,” Ms. Barnes said.

“We’ll probably try to go out and try one more time,” Mr. Barnes said. “You can’t relocate. You’ve got to do what you’ve got to do.”

While there is some research suggesting that small storms may become less frequent because of climate change, there is also widespread consensus among scientists that the most powerful storms — those with the kind of extreme rainfall brought to the Carolinas by Florence — are already becoming more common, said Kerry Emanuel, a professor of environmental science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

What’s more, Dr. Emanuel said, there is evidence that the occurrence of powerful storms is particularly likely to increase in places on the margins of the tropics — “like the Carolinas.”

The states are among the fastest-growing in the country, and in each of them, Republican-dominated legislatures have been accused of prioritizing business and growth over efforts to limit the consequences of climate change. Beginning in 2012, North Carolina lawmakers took actions that forced state and local agencies that make policy on the coast to ignore models that predict rising sea levels.

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(Left to right) Jack Helms, 11, Abby Barth, 12, and Eva Rambach, 13, survey the damage done to Helms’s flooded home in Conway.CreditTamir Kalifa for The New York Times

Earlier this year, the South Carolina legislature changed the preamble to a 30-year-old law governing beachfront development, striking out a state policy of “retreat” from the shoreline in the face of erosion and replacing it with a policy of “preservation” of the beaches. It was a small change, but a sign of the state’s approach, said Josh Eagle, who teaches environmental law at the University of South Carolina law school.

“The philosophy is one of, ‘We can beat nature,’” he said. “The driving forces are property rights and climate denial.”

People are moving to the Carolinas by the tens of thousands, and to coastal areas in particular, many of them starting businesses in places that would be right in a hurricane’s path. Extreme storms like Florence might jeopardize that growth, but then again, so would aggressive measures to protect against those storms, said Robert Hartwig, the director of the Risk and Uncertainty Management Center at the University of South Carolina.

“Are city planners — and the states and counties — are they zoning in a way to reflect the new reality?” Professor Hartwig asked. “The answer to that is, generally speaking, no. Most local officials are going to be loath to kill the goose that lays the golden economic egg.”

Still, a number of local governments have been forced to acknowledge that the flood risks are real. After experiencing some of the worst flooding in its history in 1995 and 1997, Mecklenburg County, N.C., home to Charlotte, began regulating all development with an eye to what the “anticipated ultimate development would look like” in the region, said Dave Canaan, the county’s storm water services director.

Growth and development, Mr. Canaan said, remains a priority in a place like Charlotte, the largest city in the Carolinas. But at the same time, the county has run a rolling and aggressive buyback program that has moved roughly 700 families and 450 structures out of the county’s floodplains.

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Flooding on the outskirts of Kinston.CreditHilary Swift for The New York Times

“This is not supposed to be where big box stores are, or homes upon homes upon homes are supposed to be,” he said, “but just to be open space, where our streams are meant to meander back and forth.”

In Kinston, a working-class city of 21,000, the buyout program that started after the last hurricane was not even finished by the time Hurricane Florence arrived last week.

But the mind-set seemed to have fully changed. Local officials used to regard hurricane response as something akin to major snow removal: sporadic events that therefore warranted relatively little investment.

“Two years of these types of storms have really made us look internally at our own preparation,” Mr. Sears said. “Now that we have a better understanding of where people may be at risk, we can better stage assets in that area.”

“Matthew got me once, Florence got me twice,” Mr. Sears said Tuesday, recounting what he told the City Council this week. “The next hurricane won’t get me.”

Closer to the coast, in Conway, S.C., a few miles northwest of Myrtle Beach, the weariness with the cycle of worry, flood, repeat was palpable.

“I grew up here,” said Matt Bruton, 34, a moving and storage business operator, who was hanging out Tuesday in his single-story brick home in Old Sherwood Country Club, an eclectic neighborhood of old and new houses north of the Waccamaw River.

The waters had already risen through neighboring Crabtree Swamp to a level higher than residents had ever seen. “We had a record flood during Floyd in ’99, and it wasn’t this high,” Mr. Bruton said. “The hundred-year flood they called it the last time, and here we are again. I’d like to put my house in a different, higher place, but I call this the best neighborhood in Conway. We’re all friends here.”

Jack Healy reported from Garland, Richard Fausset from Washington, N.C., and Campbell Robertson from Fayetteville, N.C. Reporting was contributed by Alan Blinder from Kinston, N.C., Chris Dixon from Conway, S.C., and Tyler Pager from Lumberton, N.C.

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GARLAND, N.C. — After Hurricane Matthew stomped into his trailer home and pulped his floors, walls and cabinets two years ago, Bobby Barnes Jr. spent $90,000 to rebuild and protect himself from another flood. He raised the house two feet onto brick pilings, bought $1,300 worth of flood fencing and said he complied with every federal recommendation.

But on Tuesday morning, his family was underwater again. The Black River, 10 feet above flood stage and still rising, was now a lake that had swallowed farm fields around the Barnes’s house. The water lapped at their front door and sloshed around the newly laid floors.

“It’s back,” Mr. Barnes said. “Same nightmare.”

It was the kind of tragic, expensive, depressing rerun that played out across much of the Carolinas this week, not only on the coast, but in inland communities like this one in Sampson County, blessed with tobacco and turkeys, not sea and sand.

Throughout the region, residents like Mr. Barnes were struggling to put soggy homes and soggy lives back together yet again, amid palpable anxiety that the Carolinas seem to be confronting a new normal of too many storms, with too much water coming much too often.

In both states, the will, and the assumptions, of residents and officials were being sorely tested.

In inland Kinston, N.C., which saw streets go underwater in 2016 during Matthew and again last week, Tony Sears, the city manager, had accepted the fact that this was hurricane country. “Typically you think Louisiana, Miami, somewhere a little south,” he said.

Mr. Sears and many others here are well aware that hurricanes have long been a fact of life in North and South Carolina, with nearly 500 miles of coastline between them. But the last four years have been particularly punishing. An unnamed weather system that drew moisture from a hurricane in the Atlantic paralyzed much of South Carolina in 2015. Hurricane Matthew arrived the next year, drenching the Carolinas and leaving dozens dead. And now, Florence, which has dropped more than 8 trillion gallons of rain on North Carolina alone.

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(Left to right) Alex Barth, 10, Eva Rambach, 13, and Abby Barth, 12, walk through a flooded neighborhood in Conway, S.C.CreditTamir Kalifa for The New York Times

“The tropical systems that have affected us recently have not been wind events. They’ve been rainfall events producing inland flooding,” said Dr. Susan Cutter, a geography professor at the University of South Carolina and director of its Hazards and Vulnerability Research Institute. “This is something that these areas may have experienced, but not with the constancy that we see now.”

Acknowledging the constancy, and planning for it, has been a theme this week for Gov. Roy Cooper of North Carolina, who has been touring some of his state’s hardest-hit areas.

“When you have two 500-year floods within two years of each other, it’s pretty clear it’s not a 500-year flood,” the governor said at a news conference this week. “So as we approach recovery, both short-term and long-term, we will have to look at flooded property, work on mitigation and buyouts, and being smart about how we recover and make sure that we’re involving local, state and federal officials.”

But buyouts could prove tricky in rural communities where families have deep ties to the land. On Tuesday, Mr. Barnes, 42, and his wife, Brandy, 41, sat parked on what was now the water’s edge of Lisbon Bridge Road in Garland County, some 60 miles inland from where Hurricane Florence had slugged ashore four days earlier.

They had lived in the house, just across the field from Mr. Barnes’s father, since 1996 and had never flooded out until Matthew. Mr. Barnes didn’t think twice about rebuilding after the 2016 storm, even though he said his flood insurance only covered about $25,000 of the damage. He paid out of pocket to get county approvals to raise the house and even put on an addition.

Mr. Barnes said he was denied a low-interest construction loan through the Federal Emergency Management Agency, so he borrowed money and drained the savings his family had built up after several good years running a local repair business.

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The Baron and The Beef restaurant in Kinston flooded with more than two feet of water.CreditHilary Swift for The New York Times

“I replaced everything,” Mr. Barnes said.

Now, as he looked out at the waters and talked about boating home to check on the house, he said they did not know what to do.

Raising the house yet again would cost thousands. They had raised a son and a daughter there and did not want to leave. Their 16-year-old son, Mason, had been killed in a car crash just before Matthew. When the family had to flee again this month, the first thing their 11-year-old daughter asked her mother was: When can we go back?

“She needs a place,” Ms. Barnes said.

“We’ll probably try to go out and try one more time,” Mr. Barnes said. “You can’t relocate. You’ve got to do what you’ve got to do.”

While there is some research suggesting that small storms may become less frequent because of climate change, there is also widespread consensus among scientists that the most powerful storms — those with the kind of extreme rainfall brought to the Carolinas by Florence — are already becoming more common, said Kerry Emanuel, a professor of environmental science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

What’s more, Dr. Emanuel said, there is evidence that the occurrence of powerful storms is particularly likely to increase in places on the margins of the tropics — “like the Carolinas.”

The states are among the fastest-growing in the country, and in each of them, Republican-dominated legislatures have been accused of prioritizing business and growth over efforts to limit the consequences of climate change. Beginning in 2012, North Carolina lawmakers took actions that forced state and local agencies that make policy on the coast to ignore models that predict rising sea levels.

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(Left to right) Jack Helms, 11, Abby Barth, 12, and Eva Rambach, 13, survey the damage done to Helms’s flooded home in Conway.CreditTamir Kalifa for The New York Times

Earlier this year, the South Carolina legislature changed the preamble to a 30-year-old law governing beachfront development, striking out a state policy of “retreat” from the shoreline in the face of erosion and replacing it with a policy of “preservation” of the beaches. It was a small change, but a sign of the state’s approach, said Josh Eagle, who teaches environmental law at the University of South Carolina law school.

“The philosophy is one of, ‘We can beat nature,’” he said. “The driving forces are property rights and climate denial.”

People are moving to the Carolinas by the tens of thousands, and to coastal areas in particular, many of them starting businesses in places that would be right in a hurricane’s path. Extreme storms like Florence might jeopardize that growth, but then again, so would aggressive measures to protect against those storms, said Robert Hartwig, the director of the Risk and Uncertainty Management Center at the University of South Carolina.

“Are city planners — and the states and counties — are they zoning in a way to reflect the new reality?” Professor Hartwig asked. “The answer to that is, generally speaking, no. Most local officials are going to be loath to kill the goose that lays the golden economic egg.”

Still, a number of local governments have been forced to acknowledge that the flood risks are real. After experiencing some of the worst flooding in its history in 1995 and 1997, Mecklenburg County, N.C., home to Charlotte, began regulating all development with an eye to what the “anticipated ultimate development would look like” in the region, said Dave Canaan, the county’s storm water services director.

Growth and development, Mr. Canaan said, remains a priority in a place like Charlotte, the largest city in the Carolinas. But at the same time, the county has run a rolling and aggressive buyback program that has moved roughly 700 families and 450 structures out of the county’s floodplains.

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Flooding on the outskirts of Kinston.CreditHilary Swift for The New York Times

“This is not supposed to be where big box stores are, or homes upon homes upon homes are supposed to be,” he said, “but just to be open space, where our streams are meant to meander back and forth.”

In Kinston, a working-class city of 21,000, the buyout program that started after the last hurricane was not even finished by the time Hurricane Florence arrived last week.

But the mind-set seemed to have fully changed. Local officials used to regard hurricane response as something akin to major snow removal: sporadic events that therefore warranted relatively little investment.

“Two years of these types of storms have really made us look internally at our own preparation,” Mr. Sears said. “Now that we have a better understanding of where people may be at risk, we can better stage assets in that area.”

“Matthew got me once, Florence got me twice,” Mr. Sears said Tuesday, recounting what he told the City Council this week. “The next hurricane won’t get me.”

Closer to the coast, in Conway, S.C., a few miles northwest of Myrtle Beach, the weariness with the cycle of worry, flood, repeat was palpable.

“I grew up here,” said Matt Bruton, 34, a moving and storage business operator, who was hanging out Tuesday in his single-story brick home in Old Sherwood Country Club, an eclectic neighborhood of old and new houses north of the Waccamaw River.

The waters had already risen through neighboring Crabtree Swamp to a level higher than residents had ever seen. “We had a record flood during Floyd in ’99, and it wasn’t this high,” Mr. Bruton said. “The hundred-year flood they called it the last time, and here we are again. I’d like to put my house in a different, higher place, but I call this the best neighborhood in Conway. We’re all friends here.”

Jack Healy reported from Garland, Richard Fausset from Washington, N.C., and Campbell Robertson from Fayetteville, N.C. Reporting was contributed by Alan Blinder from Kinston, N.C., Chris Dixon from Conway, S.C., and Tyler Pager from Lumberton, N.C.

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Pat Conroy, Author Of ‘Prince Of Tides’, Dies At 70

By Bill Trott

( Reuters) – Pat Conroy, who altered anecdotes of his painfully dysfunctional category into best-selling tales such as “The Great Santini” and “The Prince of Tides, ” croaked on Friday at the age of 70, his publishing fellowship said.

Conroy, who had announced in a Feb. 15 Facebook post that he had pancreatic cancer, succumbed at his house in Beaufort, South Carolina, surrounded by family and loved ones, read Todd Doughty, a spokesman for Doubleday.

“The water is wide and he has now passed over, ” said his wife , novelist Cassandra King Conroy.

Much of Conroy’s work was inspired by a nighttime muse – his father, U.S. Marine Colonel Donald Conroy. The elder Conroy was a fighter pilot who opposed in four battles – World War Two, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the long-running conflict with their own families. He was a tyrant who pulsate his wife and children.

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“I remember detesting him even when I was in diapers, ” Conroy wrote in the prologue of “The Death of Santini, ” the memoir that put to rest his feelings about his father, as well as serving as a postscript to the fiction “The Great Santini.”

Hollywood affection the psychological aspects of Conroy’s works and “The Water Is Wide, ” “The Prince of Tides” and “Lords of Discipline, ” as well as “The Great Santini, ” were all made into successful movies.

Conroy once told People magazine that his works were an effort to explain his life to himself, which was a involved undertaking.

He was one of 7 children in their own families that, due to his father’s military works, moved 23 epoches before he was 18.

Conroy’s mother did not know how to deal with his father much beyond labelling hiding place for “their childrens” to run to when a rampage started. As the oldest brat, Conroy often tried to intervene when hassle started, which meant that he would took the brunt of his father’s cruelty.

Later in life, as he disclosed the nasty slope of his family in his journals, Conroy became estranged from some siblings who he spoke is now in self-denial about the early days. Some own family members were so upset by “The Great Santini” that they picketed his book-signing appearances.

In “Why We Write About Ourselves, ” a work about memoirists, Conroy said he actually played down his father’s abuse in his books.

“I wasn’t yet prepared to say he vanquish us half to fatality and left us in the driveway, ” he read. “I had fus get beings to believe me.”

The two contacted something of a reconciliation before the elder Conroy died in 1998 and the papa would sometimes accompanied book-signings with his son and autograph notebooks as “The Great Santini.”

Despite his literary success, Conroy would struggle through alcoholism, feeling and two miscarried weddings. Like four members of his siblings, he attempted suicide.

“My family is my fraction of blaze, my eternal flame, my fate, and my era on the cross, ” Conroy wrote in “Death of Santini.”

Conroy was a teenager when his father was attributed to a military basi in Beaufort, South Carolina, and the territory would become the direct for many of his journals, as well as his long-time home.

“It was in Beaufort in sight of a river’s sinuous turn and the movements of its dolphin-proud tides that I began to discover myself and where my life began at 15, ” he wrote on Facebook in announcing his cancer.

Conroy graduated from The Citadel, a military college in South Carolina that he attended to conciliate his father, and his novel “The Lords of Discipline” explored the physical and psychological defamation heaped on students there. “My Losing Season” was a memoirs about its own experience on the school’s basketball team.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Instead of a military occupation, Conroy became a teacher on isolated, impoverished Daufuskie Island, where many of his students were illiterate and direct progenies of slaves. He was burnt after a year because of his dissenter approaching to schooling and battles with executives but started away with material for “The Water Is Wide, ” which was constituted into the movie “Conrack.”

The 1986 novel “Prince of Tides” also stood similarities to Conroy’s life – a human trying to overcome the psychic trauma from life in a disturbed house. The movie version starred Nick Nolte and Barbra Streisand.

Conroy cleaned up his lifestyle in his mid-6 0s after dealing here diabetes, intensifying heavines, high-pitched blood pressure and a mis liver. He lost weight, discontinue drinking, embarked chewing healthily and assembled his personal teach in opening a fitness studio in Port Royal, South Carolina.

“He will be cherished as one of America’s favorite and bestselling columnists, and I will miss him exceedingly, ” his longtime editor Nan A. Talese of Doubleday said in a statement.

Conroy was wedded three times.

( Reporting and writing by Bill Trott; Additional reporting by Victoria Cavaliere; Editing by Kim Coghill and Nick Macfie)

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Pat Conroy, Author Of ‘Prince Of Tides’, Dies At 70

By Bill Trott

( Reuters) – Pat Conroy, who altered anecdotes of his painfully dysfunctional category into best-selling tales such as “The Great Santini” and “The Prince of Tides, ” croaked on Friday at the age of 70, his publishing fellowship said.

Conroy, who had announced in a Feb. 15 Facebook post that he had pancreatic cancer, succumbed at his house in Beaufort, South Carolina, surrounded by family and loved ones, read Todd Doughty, a spokesman for Doubleday.

“The water is wide and he has now passed over, ” said his wife , novelist Cassandra King Conroy.

Much of Conroy’s work was inspired by a nighttime muse – his father, U.S. Marine Colonel Donald Conroy. The elder Conroy was a fighter pilot who opposed in four battles – World War Two, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the long-running conflict with their own families. He was a tyrant who pulsate his wife and children.

Ulf Andersen via Getty Images

“I remember detesting him even when I was in diapers, ” Conroy wrote in the prologue of “The Death of Santini, ” the memoir that put to rest his feelings about his father, as well as serving as a postscript to the fiction “The Great Santini.”

Hollywood affection the psychological aspects of Conroy’s works and “The Water Is Wide, ” “The Prince of Tides” and “Lords of Discipline, ” as well as “The Great Santini, ” were all made into successful movies.

Conroy once told People magazine that his works were an effort to explain his life to himself, which was a involved undertaking.

He was one of 7 children in their own families that, due to his father’s military works, moved 23 epoches before he was 18.

Conroy’s mother did not know how to deal with his father much beyond labelling hiding place for “their childrens” to run to when a rampage started. As the oldest brat, Conroy often tried to intervene when hassle started, which meant that he would took the brunt of his father’s cruelty.

Later in life, as he disclosed the nasty slope of his family in his journals, Conroy became estranged from some siblings who he spoke is now in self-denial about the early days. Some own family members were so upset by “The Great Santini” that they picketed his book-signing appearances.

In “Why We Write About Ourselves, ” a work about memoirists, Conroy said he actually played down his father’s abuse in his books.

“I wasn’t yet prepared to say he vanquish us half to fatality and left us in the driveway, ” he read. “I had fus get beings to believe me.”

The two contacted something of a reconciliation before the elder Conroy died in 1998 and the papa would sometimes accompanied book-signings with his son and autograph notebooks as “The Great Santini.”

Despite his literary success, Conroy would struggle through alcoholism, feeling and two miscarried weddings. Like four members of his siblings, he attempted suicide.

“My family is my fraction of blaze, my eternal flame, my fate, and my era on the cross, ” Conroy wrote in “Death of Santini.”

Conroy was a teenager when his father was attributed to a military basi in Beaufort, South Carolina, and the territory would become the direct for many of his journals, as well as his long-time home.

“It was in Beaufort in sight of a river’s sinuous turn and the movements of its dolphin-proud tides that I began to discover myself and where my life began at 15, ” he wrote on Facebook in announcing his cancer.

Conroy graduated from The Citadel, a military college in South Carolina that he attended to conciliate his father, and his novel “The Lords of Discipline” explored the physical and psychological defamation heaped on students there. “My Losing Season” was a memoirs about its own experience on the school’s basketball team.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Instead of a military occupation, Conroy became a teacher on isolated, impoverished Daufuskie Island, where many of his students were illiterate and direct progenies of slaves. He was burnt after a year because of his dissenter approaching to schooling and battles with executives but started away with material for “The Water Is Wide, ” which was constituted into the movie “Conrack.”

The 1986 novel “Prince of Tides” also stood similarities to Conroy’s life – a human trying to overcome the psychic trauma from life in a disturbed house. The movie version starred Nick Nolte and Barbra Streisand.

Conroy cleaned up his lifestyle in his mid-6 0s after dealing here diabetes, intensifying heavines, high-pitched blood pressure and a mis liver. He lost weight, discontinue drinking, embarked chewing healthily and assembled his personal teach in opening a fitness studio in Port Royal, South Carolina.

“He will be cherished as one of America’s favorite and bestselling columnists, and I will miss him exceedingly, ” his longtime editor Nan A. Talese of Doubleday said in a statement.

Conroy was wedded three times.

( Reporting and writing by Bill Trott; Additional reporting by Victoria Cavaliere; Editing by Kim Coghill and Nick Macfie)

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Pat Conroy, Author Of ‘Prince Of Tides’, Dies At 70

By Bill Trott

( Reuters) – Pat Conroy, who altered anecdotes of his painfully dysfunctional category into best-selling tales such as “The Great Santini” and “The Prince of Tides, ” croaked on Friday at the age of 70, his publishing fellowship said.

Conroy, who had announced in a Feb. 15 Facebook post that he had pancreatic cancer, succumbed at his house in Beaufort, South Carolina, surrounded by family and loved ones, read Todd Doughty, a spokesman for Doubleday.

“The water is wide and he has now passed over, ” said his wife , novelist Cassandra King Conroy.

Much of Conroy’s work was inspired by a nighttime muse – his father, U.S. Marine Colonel Donald Conroy. The elder Conroy was a fighter pilot who opposed in four battles – World War Two, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the long-running conflict with their own families. He was a tyrant who pulsate his wife and children.

Ulf Andersen via Getty Images

“I remember detesting him even when I was in diapers, ” Conroy wrote in the prologue of “The Death of Santini, ” the memoir that put to rest his feelings about his father, as well as serving as a postscript to the fiction “The Great Santini.”

Hollywood affection the psychological aspects of Conroy’s works and “The Water Is Wide, ” “The Prince of Tides” and “Lords of Discipline, ” as well as “The Great Santini, ” were all made into successful movies.

Conroy once told People magazine that his works were an effort to explain his life to himself, which was a involved undertaking.

He was one of 7 children in their own families that, due to his father’s military works, moved 23 epoches before he was 18.

Conroy’s mother did not know how to deal with his father much beyond labelling hiding place for “their childrens” to run to when a rampage started. As the oldest brat, Conroy often tried to intervene when hassle started, which meant that he would took the brunt of his father’s cruelty.

Later in life, as he disclosed the nasty slope of his family in his journals, Conroy became estranged from some siblings who he spoke is now in self-denial about the early days. Some own family members were so upset by “The Great Santini” that they picketed his book-signing appearances.

In “Why We Write About Ourselves, ” a work about memoirists, Conroy said he actually played down his father’s abuse in his books.

“I wasn’t yet prepared to say he vanquish us half to fatality and left us in the driveway, ” he read. “I had fus get beings to believe me.”

The two contacted something of a reconciliation before the elder Conroy died in 1998 and the papa would sometimes accompanied book-signings with his son and autograph notebooks as “The Great Santini.”

Despite his literary success, Conroy would struggle through alcoholism, feeling and two miscarried weddings. Like four members of his siblings, he attempted suicide.

“My family is my fraction of blaze, my eternal flame, my fate, and my era on the cross, ” Conroy wrote in “Death of Santini.”

Conroy was a teenager when his father was attributed to a military basi in Beaufort, South Carolina, and the territory would become the direct for many of his journals, as well as his long-time home.

“It was in Beaufort in sight of a river’s sinuous turn and the movements of its dolphin-proud tides that I began to discover myself and where my life began at 15, ” he wrote on Facebook in announcing his cancer.

Conroy graduated from The Citadel, a military college in South Carolina that he attended to conciliate his father, and his novel “The Lords of Discipline” explored the physical and psychological defamation heaped on students there. “My Losing Season” was a memoirs about its own experience on the school’s basketball team.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Instead of a military occupation, Conroy became a teacher on isolated, impoverished Daufuskie Island, where many of his students were illiterate and direct progenies of slaves. He was burnt after a year because of his dissenter approaching to schooling and battles with executives but started away with material for “The Water Is Wide, ” which was constituted into the movie “Conrack.”

The 1986 novel “Prince of Tides” also stood similarities to Conroy’s life – a human trying to overcome the psychic trauma from life in a disturbed house. The movie version starred Nick Nolte and Barbra Streisand.

Conroy cleaned up his lifestyle in his mid-6 0s after dealing here diabetes, intensifying heavines, high-pitched blood pressure and a mis liver. He lost weight, discontinue drinking, embarked chewing healthily and assembled his personal teach in opening a fitness studio in Port Royal, South Carolina.

“He will be cherished as one of America’s favorite and bestselling columnists, and I will miss him exceedingly, ” his longtime editor Nan A. Talese of Doubleday said in a statement.

Conroy was wedded three times.

( Reporting and writing by Bill Trott; Additional reporting by Victoria Cavaliere; Editing by Kim Coghill and Nick Macfie)

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