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  • Sean Zak "Searching in St. Andrews: Finding the Meaning of Golf During the Game's Most Turbulent Summer"

    Sean Zak "Searching in St. Andrews: Finding the Meaning of Golf During the Game's Most Turbulent Summer"
    Jun 10 2024
    When Sean Zak arrived in St. Andrews, Scotland—the mecca of golf—he was determined to spend his summer in search of the game's true essence. He found it everywhere—in the dirt, firm and proper, a sandy soil that you don't see in America. He found it in the people who inherited the game from their grandparents, who inherited it from their grandparents. He found it in the structures that prop up the game—cheap memberships and “private courses” that aren’t private at all. At every turn he also found LIV Golf, the Saudi-backed entity which descended on the professional circuit during that summer of the 150th Open Championship. Zak's personal personal pilgrimage now offered him a front-row seat at a cultural reckoning, one which pitted the game's longstanding customs against a divisive new force. Searching in St. Andrews is the vivid chronicle of an unforgettable sojourn in the birthplace of golf, informed by sublime mornings on the Old Course playing with just four clubs, evenings spent analyzing legal documents riddled with greed, and the singular characters he encountered along the way. Readers will meet a 92-year-old who just learned how to putt, explore the many differences between Golf Over There and Golf Over Here, and even experience caddying on the PGA Tour, from deciphering the yardage books to keeping your player on time to drinking until sunrise after you’ve missed the cut. Written with heartfelt curiosity and charm, this is an essential portrait of golf amid the crosswinds of tradition, progress, and power. https://www.thecountrybookshop.biz/book/9781637273326
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    1 h y 9 m
  • Ward Clayton "The Legendary Caddies of Augusta National: Inside Stories from Golf's Greatest Stage"

    Ward Clayton "The Legendary Caddies of Augusta National: Inside Stories from Golf's Greatest Stage"
    Jun 10 2024
    Starting in the 1930s, the Black caddies of Augusta National walked the course with the world’s greatest golfers. Clayton's book tells their stories, forever entwined with the history of the game. They used nicknames like Stovepipe, Burnt Biscuits, Skillet, Skinny, and Marble Eye. They worked for presidents of the United States, captains of industry, and the greatest golfers in the world. Their real names were Carl Jackson, Willie Perteet, and Matthew Palmer—and they witnessed every great moment, both private and public, at Augusta National beginning in the1930s—from Gene Sarazen's "shot heard 'round the world" to Jack Nicklaus winning a record five of his six Masters. Read why Nicklaus said he wouldn’t trade caddie Willie “Pete” Peterson “for a million dollars” and what Willie “Cemetery” Perteet really thought of President Eisenhower’s golf game. The Black caddies of Augusta National also endured, in their own ways, the racist social order of the sport and at the same time participated, albeit vicariously, in its many thrills. Ward Clayton documents their stories—history as compelling as the game of golf itself. Ward Clayton has been in and around the game of golf since growing up blocks from Hillandale Golf Course, a public facility in Durham, North Carolina. He continued to pursue the game as a competitive amateur and newspaper writer. He was the sports editor of the Augusta Chronicle from 1991 to 2000 and was responsible for what Golf World magazine called "the best coverage of a golf tournament of any newspaper in the world." Ward has been the Director of Editorial Services for the PGA Tour, and his work has appeared in Sports Illustrated, The First Call, and elsewhere. He lives, writes, and plays golf in the Jacksonville, Florida, area. https://www.thecountrybookshop.biz/book/9781958888179
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  • David Wright Faladé on "Black Cloud Rising"

    David Wright Faladé on "Black Cloud Rising"
    Aug 17 2023
    The Country Bookshop welcomes David Wright Faladé to talk about his book "Black Cloud Rising." "Black Cloud Rising" is a historical novel that takes us back to an extraordinary moment when enslaved men and women were shedding their bonds and embracing freedom.
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    1 h
  • Daniel Wallace on "This Isn't Going to End Well"

    Daniel Wallace on "This Isn't Going to End Well"
    Jul 2 2023
    If we're lucky, we all encounter at least one person whose life elevates and inspires our own. For acclaimed novelist Daniel Wallace, he had one hero and inspiration for so much of what followed: his longtime friend and brother-in-law William Nealy. Seemingly perfect, impossibly cool, William was James Dean, Clint Eastwood, and MacGyver all rolled into one, an acclaimed outdoorsman, a famous cartoonist, an accomplished author, and a master of all he undertook, William was the ideal that Daniel sought to emulate. But when William took his own life at age 48, Daniel was left first grieving, and then furious with the man who broke his and his sister's hearts. That anger led him to commit a grievous act of his own, a betrayal that took him down a dark path into the tortured recesses of William's past. Eventually, a new picture of William emerged, of a man with too many secrets and too much shame to bear. "This Isn't Going to End Well" is Daniel Wallace's first foray into nonfiction. Part love story, part true crime, part a desperate search for the self and how little we really can know another, This Isn't Going to End Well tells an intimate and moving story of what happens when we realize our heroes are human. Daniel Wallace is the author of six novels, including Big Fish, which was adapted and released as a movie and a Broadway musical. His novels have been translated into over three-dozen languages. His essays and interviews have been published in The Bitter Southerner, Garden & Gun, Poets & Writers and Our State magazine, where he was, for a short time, the barbecue critic. His short stories have appeared in over fifty magazines and periodicals. He was awarded the Harper Lee Award, given to a nationally recognized Alabama writer who has made a significant lifelong contribution to Alabama letters. He was inducted into the Alabama Literary Hall of Fame in 2022. He is the J. Ross MacDonald Distinguished Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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    1 h y 9 m
  • In Conversation with Brendan Slocumb on "Symphony of Secrets"

    In Conversation with Brendan Slocumb on "Symphony of Secrets"
    May 11 2023
    Brendan Slocumb, author of “The Violin Conspiracy,” returns to the Sandhills to talk with Kimberly Taws about his newest book, “A Symphony of Secrets.” "A gripping page-turner about a professor who uncovers a shocking secret about the most famous American composer of all time--that his music was stolen from a young Black composer named Josephine Reed. Determined to uncover the truth and right history's wrongs, Bern Hendricks will stop at nothing to finally give Josephine the recognition she deserves. Bern Hendricks has just received the call of a lifetime. As one of the world's preeminent experts on the famed twentieth-century composer Frederick Delaney, Bern knows everything there is to know about the man behind the music. When Mallory Roberts, a board member of the distinguished Delaney Foundation and direct descendant of the man himself, asks for Bern's help authenticating a newly discovered piece, which may be his famous lost opera, RED, he jumps at the chance. With the help of his tech-savvy acquaintance Eboni, Bern soon discovers that the truth is far more complicated than history would have them believe. In 1920s Manhattan, Josephine Reed is living on the streets and frequenting jazz clubs when she meets the struggling musician Fred Delaney. But where young Delaney struggles, Josephine soars. She's a natural prodigy who hears beautiful music in the sounds of the world around her. With Josephine as his silent partner, Delaney's career takes off--but who is the real genius here? In the present day, Bern and Eboni begin to uncover more clues that indicate Delaney may have had help in composing his most successful work. Armed with more questions than answers and caught in the crosshairs of a powerful organization who will stop at nothing to keep their secret hidden, Bern and Eboni will move heaven and earth in their dogged quest to right history's wrongs"-- https://www.thecountrybookshop.biz/book/9780593315446 Biographical Note: Brendan Nicholaus Slocumb was raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and holds a degree in music education (with concentrations in violin and viola) from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. For more than twenty years, he has been a public and private school music educator and has performed with orchestras throughout Northern Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, DC.
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    1 h y 7 m
  • In Conversation with Adm William McRaven on The "Wisdom of The Bullfrog"

    In Conversation with Adm William McRaven on The "Wisdom of The Bullfrog"
    Apr 30 2023
    Admiral McRaven, acclaimed bestselling author of Make Your Bed discusses his newest book with Kimberly Taws. In The Wisdom of the Bullfrog, Adm. McRaven draws on his four decades as a Navy SEAL to provide readers with the most important leadership lessons he has learned over the course of his service. https://www.thecountrybookshop.biz/book/9781538707944
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    49 m
  • Kate Moore in Conversation with Kimberly Daniels Taws

    Kate Moore in Conversation with Kimberly Daniels Taws
    Feb 12 2023
    This is an engaging discussion between Kimberly Daniels Taws of The Country Bookshop and the renowned nonfiction writer Kate Moore. The discussion is made all the more interesting because of the audience conversation at the end. Buy the book now from The Country Bookshop! https://www.thecountrybookshop.biz/book/9781728242576 From the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of "The Radium Girls" comes another dark and dramatic but ultimately uplifting tale of a forgotten woman whose inspirational journey sparked lasting change for women's rights and exposed injustices that still resonate today. "Moore has written a masterpiece of nonfiction."—Nathalia Holt, New York Times bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls 1860: As the clash between the states rolls slowly to a boil, Elizabeth Packard, housewife and mother of six, is facing her own battle. The enemy sits across the table and sleeps in the next room. Her husband of twenty-one years is plotting against her because he feels increasingly threatened—by Elizabeth's intellect, independence, and unwillingness to stifle her own thoughts. So Theophilus makes a plan to put his wife back in her place. One summer morning, he has her committed to an insane asylum. The horrific conditions inside the Illinois State Hospital in Jacksonville, Illinois, are overseen by Dr. Andrew McFarland, a man who will prove to be even more dangerous to Elizabeth than her traitorous husband. But most disturbing is that Elizabeth is not the only sane woman confined to the institution. There are many rational women on her ward who tell the same story: they've been committed not because they need medical treatment, but to keep them in line—conveniently labeled "crazy" so their voices are ignored. No one is willing to fight for their freedom and, disenfranchised both by gender and the stigma of their supposed madness, they cannot possibly fight for themselves. But Elizabeth is about to discover that the merit of losing everything is that you then have nothing to lose... Bestselling author Kate Moore brings her sparkling narrative voice to The Woman They Could Not Silence, an unputdownable story of the forgotten woman who courageously fought for her own freedom—and in so doing freed millions more. Elizabeth's refusal to be silenced and her ceaseless quest for justice not only challenged the medical science of the day, and led to a giant leap forward in human rights, it also showcased the most salutary lesson: sometimes, the greatest heroes we have are those inside ourselves. "The Woman They Could Not Silence is a remarkable story of perseverance in an unjust and hostile world."—Susannah Cahalan, New York Times bestselling author of Brain on Fire
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    58 m
  • Exploring the parallels of Billie Holiday and Marilyn Monroe: A virtual conversation with author Carole Boston Weatherford about her two books of Memoir in Verse

    Exploring the parallels of Billie Holiday and Marilyn Monroe: A virtual conversation with author Carole Boston Weatherford about her two books of Memoir in Verse
    Dec 8 2022
    The Country Bookshop Presents Exploring the parallels of Billie Holiday and Marilyn Monroe: A virtual conversation with author Carole Boston Weatherford about her two books of Memoir in Verse. Becoming Billie Holiday (purchase the book here: https://www.thecountrybookshop.biz/book/9781590785072 ) is a fictionalized memoir in poetry that brings alive Holiday's childhood and continues up to the moment she performed Strange Fruit on the Paris stage. Beauty Mark: A verse novel of Marlyn Monroe (purchase the book here: https://www.thecountrybookshop.biz/book/9781536206296) is a fictionalized exploration in poetry of Marlyn's experience from childhood through her adulthood. Kimberly Taws from The Country Bookshop will be in conversation with Carole Boston Weatherford to examine the two works and explore the parallels between Marylin Monroe and Billie Holiday
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    1 h y 1 m