Nothing Gold Can Stay

Beginning on a small tobacco farm in North Carolina shortly after World War II and ranging to the Smoky Mountains, South Carolina's Grand Strand, Charleston, Richmond, and beyond, Nothing Gold Can Stay, which borrows its title from the title of a Robert Frost poem, is a novel of childhood innocence, an inward journey, betrayal, lost friendship and lost love. The novel is narrated by three of its principal characters: Jamey, a farm boy who journeys from an idyllic childhood into the world of adulthood and its confusing choices; Mike, Jamey's childhood hero, a mill worker and World War II veteran who longs to be off the mill floor and out in the mountains he loves; and Jennyree, his bored and restless wife, who is Jamey's older cousin.

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In twenty-two simple yet profound reflections, seasoned minister Mark Belletini explores the many and varied forms of grief. His honest, poetic essays serve as a prism, revealing the distinct colors and manifestations of grief in our lives. He addresses the way we respond to loss of people in our lives, loss of love, loss of focus, and loss of the familiar—understanding that grief is as much a part of our lives as our breathing. Belletini uses specific and personal stories to open up to the universal experience. Nothing Gold Can Stay is a gift of awareness, showing how the shades of grief serve our deepest needs.

Nothing Gold Can Stay is a richly described reminiscence of childhood on an extended family farm in the late 1940s and in the 1950s. It is written in a beautifully lyrical style and told with disarming honesty. A unique history of one unforgettable place in time, it details a distinct way of life in an America that no longer exists. Thanks to author Gloria June Reeds clarity of memory to the smallest of details, Nothing Gold Can Stay will gift you with accounts of: the fortitude and hardships of immigration as both sets of Reeds grandparents leave the Volga Valley in Russia and emigrate to America; family strength and courage during World War II; surviving the Great Blizzard of 1949; the freedom to be a child and explore the wonder and fascination of the natural world; the adventures and pranks of farm children in the long, golden summer days; memories of a unique country school; the significance of both past and place in forging a life. The stories within Nothing Gold Can Stay are of Americas golden age, when family and faith were strong, Judeo-Christian values and patriotism flourished, and America was both a manufacturing capital and a beacon of freedom for the world. It was a refreshingly innocent time. But nothing ever stays the same, and eventually the farm and its way of life are destroyed by affluence, greed, demographics, changing values, and the resultant assault of swift changes in the world. This history of a bygone era and the people in it will engage and delight you. The richness of life on this farm will endure in your memory. Youll finish the book with the satisfaction of having read something of value that needed to be told.

On the northern edge of Fairwell, beneath the ever-flowing clouds, lies a ruin known as Cairy Hollow… So begins this tale of a Halloween Ball and bitter revenge. A spiteful woman orders the destruction of an estate cottage that has become a shelter for forest life. In retaliation, two ravens and a demon spell a wretched scarecrow into a handsome rogue. Christened Adrian Bramwell, his mission is to seduce the woman’s daughter Civette, with the goal of Nature’s creatures taking over the estate mansion as their new sanctuary. Yet between the dawn and the dusk of his one day on earth, their creation begins to feel, to guess, and to suffer. Will Adrian cold-heartedly lure Civette away, or will he fall in love?

Alaska State Trooper Liam Campbell is on the hunt for a serial killer. Newly promoted to corporal, Liam Campbell is slowly making a home for himself in Newenham. With just DUIs and domestic disputes to disturb the peace, life is relatively tranquil – until Campbell's girlfriend, Bush pilot Wyanet Chouinard, delivering a shipment of mail to a remote post office, finds the postmistress murdered. At first it seems a random assault; but then another woman disappears after her husband is killed at their gold mining claim. When Campbell connects the crimes with a twenty-year-old string of missing women, he knows he's facing a serial killer.

This evocative collection delves into the lives of characters facing defining moments and unexpected challenges. Here, you'll encounter strong, self-determined women, including a widowed mother rebuilding her life after a traumatic accident, and a daughter helping her ailing mother. Whether it's the unsettling visit to Auschwitz by an assimilated American family, a Polish patriot dealing with an unexpected gift from a Holocaust survivor, or a tale of magical realism, the stories in this book offer a unique view of the human condition. A thought-provoking collection, Jerome Mandel's NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY is a compassionate, profound exploration of human nature and self-discovery.

From Ron Rash, PEN / Faulkner Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Serena, comes a new collection of unforgettable stories set in Appalachia that focuses on the lives of those haunted by violence and tenderness, hope and fear—spanning the Civil War to the present day. The darkness of Ron Rash’s work contrasts with its unexpected sensitivity and stark beauty in a manner that could only be accomplished by this master of the short story form. Nothing Gold Can Stay includes 14 stories, including Rash’s “The Trusty,” which first appeared in The New Yorker.