Crack Of Dawn

Audiences at storytelling festivals worldwide are passionate about Donald Davis and his deceptively soft-edged Appalachian stories. The 14 stories in this, his signature title, are so convincingly private as to be universal. They elicit laughter, silent tears, and thunderous applause in live performance -- and many repeat buyers who give the book or audio to friend after friend.

I need a new bum! Mine's got a crack. I can see in the mirror a crack in the back. What to do when you need a new bum? Should you get one that's blue or yellow spotted? A Chevy bum, a rocket bum that's all fire and thrust, or a robo-bum? The options are endless - but wait, Dad's bum crack is showing too? Maybe this is contagious.

Describes the experiences of a young boy growing up in western North Carolina during the fifties and sixties.

At the Crack of Dawn is a story about teamwork. Each of our team members, individual and organization, brought a wealth of resource in the form of knowledge, experience, and diversity. Diversity in our experience was not limited to ethnicity alone but also different age groups, religious backgrounds, types of organizations, different cultures customs and national origin, and different socioeconomic backgrounds. To sum that up, our events included peoples from all walks of life. Engaging creativity and innovation through democratic processes, we were able to transform our meager financial resources into the production of desired objectives and outcomes, as discussed in this book. We had our high and low moments, and many in between. We did not stop in our tracks when the tunnel became darker. We moved forward wading our way through the darkness, holding each others hand in true team spirit taking one step at a time. We shared, cared and cheered until we were At the Crack of Dawn. I hope that this book will inspire others to continue moving forward in their volunteer work or what ever their progressive undertakings may be. I also assure you that engaging teamwork, and especially in these hard pressed, slow economic times, the synergy will transform your world. God speed!

The arrangement of the collection of poems in the ECHOES AT THE CRACK OF DAWN follows a continuous and sequential flow of subject matters. From the beginning to the very end, coherence is sustained through themes, lucid diction and images that give a perfect match of contents and contexts. It addresses and redresses the contemporary socio- political issues, lost heritage, matters of the heart and also captures the cultural aesthetics of Africa in a new voice, born of creativity and originality.... It is a logical, didactic and rhythmical collection that is fun to read for its rhymes on the lines. A picture, they say is more than a thousand words, the paper back alone speaks volume.

"A ... storyteller recalls the Appalachia of the 50's and the 60's"--Cover subtitle.

The inside story of how America's enemies launched a cyber war against us-and how we've learned to fight back With each passing year, the internet-linked attacks on America's interests have grown in both frequency and severity. Overmatched by our military, countries like North Korea, China, Iran, and Russia have found us vulnerable in cyberspace. The "Code War" is upon us. In this dramatic book, former Assistant Attorney General John P. Carlin takes readers to the front lines of a global but little-understood fight as the Justice Department and the FBI chases down hackers, online terrorist recruiters, and spies. Today, as our entire economy goes digital, from banking to manufacturing to transportation, the potential targets for our enemies multiply. This firsthand account is both a remarkable untold story and a warning of dangers yet to come.