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INTRO TO STATEN BAY 3
For fans of my Staten Bay Trilogy, I’m posting on my Web site the final installment, book 3, After Doll.
Free! read online here
Little Doll, granddaughter of the original Just Doll, in book one of the trilogy, now finds herself in old age having to raise her own granddaughter, Sara Ann—an adolescent mess. Doll’s only living son, Herman—“a Herman-type for real and not Doll’s fault”—leaves Sara Ann with his mother after his wife is killed in an automobile accident. Well, that’s the story he tells his daughter; one of many conflicts between him and his mother, his cowardice and lies.
Flashing back on Doll’s life between the end of book 2 and the beginning of book 3, I fill in the blanks—what happened after Doll sets the suffering prisoners free from the Jasper jail on the coldest night in North Florida history? Doll falls heir to Staten Bay Plantation, after First Doll’s death, with all its problems, promises and ghosts. Her job—other than ghost-slayer—is to groom her sassy, baiting granddaughter to be the next heir and owner of Staten Bay Plantation. Not an easy task given the fact that Sara Ann shows little early interest or inclination.
And then there’s the rumor of buried gold—truth or myth?--to contend with...
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Book Reviews from the New York Times
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The First Lady
The life of this novel’s heroine -- a first lady who comes to realize that she has compromised her youthful ideals -- is conspicuously modeled on that of Laura Bush.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Oates-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Oates-t.html" border="0"/></a></span>
Two of a Kind
By all appearances, George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh had little in common. David Lebedoff argues the opposite case.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Holt-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Holt-t.html" border="0"/></a></span>
Strange New World
In Rose Tremain’s latest novel, a jobless Russian widower travels to London, seeking a way to start again.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Schillinger-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Schillinger-t.html" border="0"/></a></span>
Anthromusicology
Daniel J. Levitin proposes that humans have been shaped by a “soundtrack of civilization.”<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Itzkoff-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Itzkoff-t.html" border="0"/></a></span>
The Un-Bird
Pigeons flutter between wildness and domestication. Courtney Humphries explains how they became part of a city’s natural environment.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Royte-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Royte-t.html" border="0"/></a></span>
With the Best Intentions
In 19th-century military interventions, Gary J. Bass sees lessons that might be used to confront humanitarian crises today.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Hochschild-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Hochschild-t.html" border="0"/></a></span>
Zogby’s Crystal Ball
The pollster John Zogby shares his predictions for the future of American culture and values.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Queenan-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Queenan-t.html" border="0"/></a></span>
Theory and Practice
In his poetry as in his criticism, Adam Kirsch upholds the values of traditional form.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Hammer-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Hammer-t.html" border="0"/></a></span>
In Bed With the Right
According to Dagmar Herzog, Christian leaders have embraced a new role as cheerleaders for sex -- at least the marital kind.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Rosin-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Rosin-t.html" border="0"/></a></span>
Wooing the South
Bob Moser says that for too long, Democrats have taken the wrong approach to Southern politics.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Suellentrop-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Suellentrop-t.html" border="0"/></a></span>
The Arrangement
An Indian-American journalist returns to her parents’ land in search of a husband.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Gottlieb-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Gottlieb-t.html" border="0"/></a></span>
The Idiot
A con man tricks a gullible peddler into stealing cars.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Leland-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Leland-t.html" border="0"/></a></span>
The Greatest Gen
Jeff Gordinier argues that the do-good Xers are not so apathetic after all.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Jesella-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Jesella-t.html" border="0"/></a></span>
Plurality Tale
This novel — part historical fiction, part modern-day murder mystery — imagines the tribulations of two polygamist wives.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Thomas-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Thomas-t.html" border="0"/></a></span>
Nothing Ever Finished
At 84, Herbert Gold delivers a memoir of sorts, just doing what a writer does.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Berger-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Berger-t.html" border="0"/></a></span>
My So-Called Death
In Christine Schutt’s refreshingly strange novel, girls at an elite school confront mortality.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Casey-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Casey-t.html" border="0"/></a></span>
Fiction Chronicle
New fiction by Gerard Woodward, Irina Reyn, Richard Milward, Joey Goebel and Joe Meno.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Turrentine-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Turrentine-t.html" border="0"/></a></span>
Essay: Solzhenitsyn the Stylist
Censorship, in its more benign manifestations, may have been good for Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s prose.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Scammel-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Scammel-t.html" border="0"/></a></span>
Archive: Book Review Podcast
This week: Times columnist Maureen Dowd on the politics of Curtis Sittenfeld’s new novel; Dave Itzkoff on Daniel J. Levitin’s “World in Six Songs”; Rachel Donadio with notes from the field; and Dwight Garner with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/08/books/books-podcast-archive.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/08/books/books-podcast-archive.html" border="0"/></a></span>
Up Front
Jim Holt is a true devotee of Evelyn Waugh. “I’ve even read two of Waugh’s novels, ‘Brideshead Revisited’ and ‘The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold,’ in French translation,” he writes.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Upfront-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Upfront-t.html" border="0"/></a></span>
TBR: Inside the List
How much George Orwell is too much George Orwell? Books by and about the writer arrive so regularly that even Orwell’s admirers struggle to keep up.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/InsideList-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/InsideList-t.html" border="0"/></a></span>
Browsing Books: Editors’ Choice
Recently reviewed books of particular interest.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/EdChoice-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/EdChoice-t.html" border="0"/></a></span>
Browsing Books: Paperback Row
Paperback books of particular interest.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/PaperRow-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/PaperRow-t.html" border="0"/></a></span>
Letters: ‘How Fiction Works’
To the Editor:.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Letters-t-HOWFICTIONWO_LETTERS.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Letters-t-HOWFICTIONWO_LETTERS.html" border="0"/></a></span>
Letters: Blurb-Free
To the Editor:.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Letters-t-BLURBFREE_LETTERS.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Letters-t-BLURBFREE_LETTERS.html" border="0"/></a></span>
Letters: Defending Doris Lessing
To the Editor:.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Letters-t-DEFENDINGDOR_LETTERS.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Letters-t-DEFENDINGDOR_LETTERS.html" border="0"/></a></span>
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VSU Hosts 'Chillin with the Champs' Sept. 20
VALDOSTA - Valdosta State University’s Office of University Events and Ceremonies will host the 2008 Chili Cook-Off, “Chillin’ with the Champs,” at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 20, on East Jane Street.
Individuals and teams who think they have..
100 Black Men Pledge Scholarships for VECA Grads
VALDOSTA - Members of 100 Black Men of Valdosta announced today the organization's pledge to provide scholarships to the top 50 percent of students from the inaugural graduation class of the Valdosta Early College Academy. The presentation was made a..
South Georgia Institute Renamed
VALDOSTA - The South Georgia Institute is now the Center for Business and Economic Research, according to Dr. Cliff Lipscomb, the center's new director.
CBER is a service arm of Valdosta State University and the Harley Langdale Jr. College of Bus..
Butler Recognized Once More
VALDOSTA - Wendy Butler was recently named runner-up in the large business employee category in the 2008 World Class Employee Recognition Program sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce.
Butler serves at Valdosta State University as the senior secre..
VSU Teams up Again to Offer Online Masters in Teaching
VALDOSTA - Valdosta State University will collaboratively participate in a new online Master of Arts in Teaching program with multiple certifications beginning January 2009.
The new degree targets people with bachelor's degrees in mathematics or ..
VSU Grad Revisits VSU as Minister of Education in Belize
VALDOSTA - The Honorable Patrick Faber, '98, who serves in Belize, Central America, as the Minister of Education, visited Valdosta State University July 28-30, after attending a meeting of the Consortium for Belize Educational Cooperation at Kennesaw..
University Works with City to Decrease Parking on Neighborhood Streets
VALDOSTA - Ask college students to name one of their biggest annoyances and many of them will agree it is the lack of convenient parking.
Parking issues have been a major concern for Valdosta State University, especially within the surrounding n..
VSU Earns Fulbright Program Grant for Third Year
VALDOSTA - Valdosta State University was recently awarded a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant program grant for the third consecutive year.
Established in 1968, the FLTA program puts young, native-speaking teachers in the classroom to ..
VSU Alumnus First in Langdale Lecture Series
VALDOSTA - Doug Swords, '03, co-founder and CFO of Azalea Health Innovation, Inc., will be the first to present at the Harley Langdale Jr. Lecture Series, from 5-6:15 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 3, in Pound Hall Auditorium, the Rea and Lillian Steele North C..
VSU Presents Faculty and Staff Excellence Awards
VALDOSTA - At convocation Monday, Aug. 11, six members of the Valdosta State University family were recognized for their outstanding professional contributions.
The Faculty Excellences awards were presented to four individuals who were recommende..
Chapman Selected as Georgia AFROTC Cadet of the Year
VALDOSTA - The Georgia Air Force Association recently selected Valdosta State University Air Force ROTC cadet Ryan Chapman as the Cadet of the Year for 2008.
Chapman, who was also chosen as VSU's Outstanding AS300 Cadet for the 2007-08 academic y..
Registration Open for Parents Weekend
VALDOSTA - Registration is open for Parents Weekend at Valdosta State University, which is scheduled for Friday and Saturday, Sept. 19-20.
Hosted by the VSU Office of Student Life, Parents Weekend is an annual opportunity for students and their p..
VSU Nursing Receives $24,000 Grant
VALDOSTA - Valdosta State University's College of Nursing was recently named the recipient of a $24,000 grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration.
The grant will be used to aid graduate students enrolled in advanced practice nur..
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