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1 p.m.: Richard Antony, Mountain of My Dreams in three books: The Early Years, The Middle Years and The Later Years
Unlike many back to the land books that detail the initial challenges of surviving a move from the city to the country, Mountain of My Dreams begins well before the Antony’s fateful decision in the late 1970s to abandon their comfortable suburban lifestyle and start an azalea nursery in the Blue Ridge Mountains. When they made their decision Richard and Sandra had no horticultural training, no business experience, and few of the skills they needed to succeed in their new venture As a result, numerous adventures followed.
Richard’s first three books share his family's 30-year adventure. It is a story of triumph and despair, of high expectations and harsh reality, and of the people who touched their lives along the way. Poignant, touching, funny, sad, exuberant and endearing, the story has it all.
2 pan.: James P. Gannon, A Life in Print: Selections from the Work of a Reporter, Columnist and Editor
Veteran newspaperman James P. Gannon brings together his finest work over a 40-year career as writer and editor in A Life in Print, a collection of essays and columns that reads like a personal diary of a remarkable autobiographical journey.
Gannon, an award-winning journalist with a gift for graceful writing, wrote for The Wall Street Journal and was editor of the The Des Moines Register and Washington Bureau Chief for The Detroit News. A Life in Print ranges in subject matter from Gannon's boyhood in Minneapolis through his years covering economics, politics and presidents in Washington, D. C. Along the way there are personal triumphs, including Pulitzer Prizes, and tragedies, which give this book its sense of a life fully lived.
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