The Making of a Small-town Beauty King

The Making of a Small-town Beauty King
Author: Savy Leiser
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2016-02-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9781523866939

A contemporary young-adult comedy about passion, pride, pumpkins, pageantry, and the plight of growing up in a small town. Once a year, the boring small town of Grey Acres perks up for its annual town fair. For champion Mathlete and headstrong feminist Stephanie Simon, this year's fair means another year of pressure from her mother (an 80s beauty queen turned pumpkin farmer) to enter the fair's beauty pageant. For college-bound convenience store clerk Jackie Almond, the fair just means the same old rush of customers buying slightly more interesting newspapers. That is, until a fateful meeting with a quirky guidance counselor informs Jackie that most colleges won't accept him without something to make him stand out. Just as Jackie hatches a plan to become the first-ever male Fair Queen, Steph devises a scheme to destroy the pageant that's offended her for years. What follows is an all-out war between Steph and Jackie, complete with pumpkin theft, sabotaged first dates, department store shoplifting, and paint-filled water balloon fights, all leading up to one Saturday-night beauty pageant the forgettable town of Grey Acres will always remember.

King

King
Author: Chad Tucker
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780738542225

Nestled at the threshold of the Piedmont Foothills, King, North Carolina, is blessed with rural beauty, a neighborly spirit, and small-town Southern charm. The community, rooted in agriculture, was originally called King's Cabin after one of the first homes built in the area around 1826. It was settled in the 1880s by several founding families whose wisdom, along with the railroad, helped awaken the quiet countryside to new life. Ironically this town named after a home has become one of the fastest growing bedroom communities in North Carolina's Piedmont Triad. Images of America: King captures the history, heritage, and heart of a community founded by families who saw beyond the setting sun. These settlers helped establish churches, schools, businesses, and a community spirit that still, more than a century later, lives today.

Small Town Rules

Small Town Rules
Author: Barry J. Moltz
Publisher: Que Publishing
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2012
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0789749203

Teaches large businesses to use word-of-mouth and reputation-building to gain a loyal customer base in the way small businesses do.

Twisted Beauty: A FREE Billionaire Boss Small Town Office Romance

Twisted Beauty: A FREE Billionaire Boss Small Town Office Romance
Author: Summer Cooper
Publisher: Hot Summer and Sexy Romance
Total Pages: 182
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Introducing a gripping FREE billionaire boss romance by Summer Cooper, a USA Today Bestselling Dark Contemporary Romance Author. Keily, a former beauty queen, finds herself at rock bottom—jobless, homeless, and going through a devastating divorce. Determined to regain control of her life, she seizes an opportunity to become a personal assistant to a scorching-hot billionaire. Keily believes she can charm her way into his heart, but she soon realizes that her boss, Logan, is not what she expected. She discovers that Logan is more than just a sexy boss—he's the devil incarnate, determined to make her life a living hell. Will Keily succumb to Logan's wicked games, or will she find the strength to rise above? Read the whole series now: Book 1: Twisted Beauty Book 2: Twisted Love Book 3: Twisted Fate This is an adult only steamy contemporary romance, appealing to readers who love fated mates, billionaire romance, second chance and sizzling hot romances with a twist. Perfect for fans of Lucy Darling, Louise Bay, Willow Winters, Skye Warren, Penelope Sky and Luna Mason.

The Pancake King

The Pancake King
Author: Seymour Chwast
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2016-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1616894873

Relates the saga of Henry who, because he could not stop making pancakes, became wealthy and famous.

Small Town South

Small Town South
Author: David Wharton
Publisher: George F Thompson Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9781938086090

"David Wharton traveled with his camera and unique vision to the small towns of the American South and created amazing images that evoke a Zen-like stillness amid the visual tension of a rapidly changing townscape. ...the photographs in Small Town South make us think deeply about the world that Wharton sees in his mind and captures with his camera."

Beauty

Beauty
Author: Asha King
Publisher: Asha King Books
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2015-01-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

She doesn’t know the danger coming for her... Awkward, wild child Bryar Rosings was raised in the country by her aunts, isolated from the world at large. Her birth family remains a mystery to her, secrets kept hidden away to prevent a dangerous foe from locating her. Still she longs for a life outside of Midsummer and finally plans to make her big getaway just as soon as she has the money saved up. It’s not like there’s anything else keeping her there. In running away from his life, he finds what he least expected ... Troubled pop star Sean Philip Sawyer needs a break from life as much as from his career. A quiet town like Midsummer, outside the usual vacation season, seems like the perfect place to forget his past and ignore his future. A chance encounter at a late night beach party, however, turns up the one thing he never thought he’d find: a woman who doesn’t recognize him. Bryar arouses and fascinates him in turn, stirring hope for a future without fame. But a chance video going viral kicks into motion a decades’ old grudge that threatens not only their love but their lives. As a mysterious, powerful criminal known as The Dragon rises, Bryar’s dark past could spell their end unless Sawyer can save them both.

Hope in a Jar

Hope in a Jar
Author: Kathy Peiss
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2011-11-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 081220574X

How did powder and paint, once scorned as immoral, become indispensable to millions of respectable women? How did a "kitchen physic," as homemade cosmetics were once called, become a multibillion-dollar industry? And how did men finally take over that rarest of institutions, a woman's business? In Hope in a Jar, historian Kathy Peiss gives us the first full-scale social history of America's beauty culture, from the buttermilk and rice powder recommended by Victorian recipe books to the mass-produced products of our contemporary consumer age. She shows how women, far from being pawns and victims, used makeup to declare their freedom, identity, and sexual allure as they flocked to enter public life. And she highlights the leading role of white and black women—Helena Rubenstein and Annie Turnbo Malone, Elizabeth Arden and Madame C. J. Walker—in shaping a unique industry that relied less on advertising than on women's customs of visiting and conversation. Replete with the voices and experiences of ordinary women, Hope in a Jar is a richly textured account of the ways women created the cosmetics industry and cosmetics created the modern woman.

Big Lies in a Small Town

Big Lies in a Small Town
Author: Diane Chamberlain
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2020-01-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 125008735X

From New York Times bestselling author Diane Chamberlain comes a novel of chilling intrigue, a decades-old disappearance, and one woman’s quest to find the truth... “A novel about arts and secrets...grippingly told...pulls readers toward a shocking conclusion.”—People magazine, Best New Books North Carolina, 2018: Morgan Christopher's life has been derailed. Taking the fall for a crime she did not commit, her dream of a career in art is put on hold—until a mysterious visitor makes her an offer that will get her released from prison immediately. Her assignment: restore an old post office mural in a sleepy southern town. Morgan knows nothing about art restoration, but desperate to be free, she accepts. What she finds under the layers of grime is a painting that tells the story of madness, violence, and a conspiracy of small town secrets. North Carolina, 1940: Anna Dale, an artist from New Jersey, wins a national contest to paint a mural for the post office in Edenton, North Carolina. Alone in the world and in great need of work, she accepts. But what she doesn't expect is to find herself immersed in a town where prejudices run deep, where people are hiding secrets behind closed doors, and where the price of being different might just end in murder. What happened to Anna Dale? Are the clues hidden in the decrepit mural? Can Morgan overcome her own demons to discover what exists beneath the layers of lies? “Chamberlain, a master storyteller, keeps readers hooked, with a story line that leavens history and social commentary with romance and mystery.”—Lexington Dispatch