Bøger af Philip Gerard

Collectible series by a seasoned historical writer: This is the second in a series of collected articles by Philip Gerard originally published in Our State magazine. The Decades Series is written in an accessible and inviting style that will appeal to general audiences as well as history buffs.Partnered promotions with Our State magazine: Philip Gerard is a regular contributor to Our State magazine, a widely circulated monthly magazine (185K subscribers. 1.1 million readers per month). Known for its content as well as its beautiful design, Our State will promote the book in print and online.

This title brings together a popular series of articles originally published by Our State magazine about the lively history of North Carolina. This book is the first in a series that will chronicle the history of North Carolina, decade by decade. Written in an accessible style, this title covers the breadth of the geography, cultures, and events of North Carolina that go far beyond the traditional textbook outlines of a white, ¿ruling-class¿ canon. From Jazz and traveling big bands to the expansion of railroads and electricity, Gerard has a particular talent that he can bring as a fiction writer to lively nonfiction, and history enthusiasts will treasure this book--and the books of subsequent decades that are planned for later seasons. The book will include Our State branding on the cover. The interior will have a lively magazine-like look.

Nick Wolf is a public research specialist sent to scout potential drilling sites for NorthAm Oil Company. His latest assignment finds him on Hatteras Island, on North Carolina's Outer Banks. As soon as he arrives, Nick discovers that four families run everything and everyone is connected, even to him. Nick's grandfather was said to have died on Hatteras during World War II, though he was mysteriously claimed as a fallen soldier by both the American and German armies. While on the job, Nick becomes the victim of several suspicious accidents and begins receiving cryptic notes that lead him to surprising revelations about his grandfather and the island where he's laid to rest. In this thriller, contemporary politics of the Outer Banks, including the question of offshore drilling, interweave with the region's World War II history. The Dark of the Island is what oldtimers on Hatteras called a moonless night with no stars. It's Nick Wolf's destiny to discover what is hiding in that dark.

When black citizens win elected offices in 1898 Wilmington, NC, white citizens stage a coup. Based on real events. Twenty-fifth anniversary edition.

Meet the characters of essayist Philip Gerard¿s world: a misguided sailor and his crew of rowdy teenage boys, an ancient nun, a nurse who believes the government has been secretly spreading the bubonic plague, a park ranger, jaded baseball players, a voice on a VHF radio far out to sea, a family of itinerant Mexicans camping dangerously in a dry riverbed, a famous alcoholic writer, and a few inexplicable ghosts. Gerard¿s true stories are shot through with the uncanny and the mysterious¿they are not quiet interior contemplations but instead are full of public events, remarkable encounters, life-and-death moments that both reveal and deepen the mysteries of our lives.The Patron Saint of Dreams is a collection of fifteen narrative essays that address events in the world through the lens of personal experience, moments when seemingly small decisions have large consequences: enduring the terror of a direct hit by a hurricane, hiking through bear country and suffering a heart attack, hearing a disturbing secret from a old soldier who has kept it for sixty years, discovering an imposter who maintains his dual life long after death. Told by one of the South¿s most acclaimed and masterful nonfiction writers, these are the stories we live, and the lovely and terrible people who live them with us.

Novelist and non-fiction writer Philip Gerard invites readers onto the fabled waters of the Cape Fear River and guides them on the 200-mile voyage from the confluence of the Deep and Haw Rivers at Mermaid Point all the way to the Cape of Fear on Bald Head Island. Accompanying the author by canoe and powerboat are a cadre of people passionate about the river.

To understand the long march of events in North Carolina from secession to surrender is to understand the entire Civil War. Philip Gerard presents the stories of the individuals who endured the war to capture the dreadful suspense of lives caught up in a conflict whose ending had not yet been written.