Bøger af Bill Tabor

Tarpaper Shacks and Tipple Lights: The Continuing Saga of Tipple HollerBy: Bill TaborOld taxman should have stayed in the county seat. Coming to Boissevain Coal Camp is the last bad mistake he'll ever make, especially for a crooked bureaucrat with his fingers in the collections. Meanwhile the miner's union has decided to do something about their organizer's killing and his missing assistant. They send a specialist to solve their issues, a specialist you will never forget. With a host of coal camp residents looking on, page by page, murder, mayhem, and mining continues. Come with us to Boissevain, Virginia in 1912.About the AuthorBill Tabor lives in Abbs Valley, Virginia with his beautiful wife, Zenith, where he enjoys reading, writing, and raising chickens. He is the author of four novels, Tipple Holler, Bamboo Sally, Pickin' Bone in the Bible Belt, and Ophidian's Gaze.

We often come in contact with people and places that remain with us throughout our lives. Billy Timble is a veteran of the Vietnam War with memories he carries precariously setting on the edges of his mind. Sometimes an incident will trigger a sudden memory that takes him on a kind of time travel, if you will, backwards. Go with him on one of these memories and relive an incident that greatly changes his life; a bamboo sally with the one man he thought he would never meet, a man who gave him insights he needed more than he will ever know. Ride with the crew of Kilo 5 as they meet a man who changed history for not only them, but an entire nation. Ride through Southeast Asia and get to know the man they all call Kevan, a man with specific talents. Hear his reflections about his travels and read the reasons Billy has trouble coping with his own memory.

This novel, set in the titular locale, is set at the turn of the century when coal was beginning to become the life blood of Southern Appalachia. It delves into the personal life styles of fictional characters that go about their daily lives just trying to dig a meager living from the bottom of Boissevain's deep shaft mine. They go about their work facing cruel task masters hired by outside interest to do one thing and that is to dig coal. These pick and shovel miners are of little concern to these owners. Go with us now into Tipple Hollow, or as locals call it Tipple Holler, and meet these families who live as everyone else does dealing with social and emotional issues. They deal with mining, murder and mayhem. They do all this and still manage to delight you with laughter, love, and an appreciation of what coal camp life once was.About the AuthorBill Tabor was born in the heart of the Appalachian coal fields in Mercer County, West Virginia. Except for four and a half years in the Army, he has lived there his entire life. Now retired, Bill still lives in his hometown of Boissevain, just one mile from the Mercer County line. He resides there with his beautiful wife, Zenith, and enjoys gardening, raising chickens, and writing.