Books
Ridin’ the Pine
By Chris Graham
Published by Augusta Free Press LLC
Augusta Free Press editor Chris Graham’s fourth book, Ridin’ the Pine, a collection of literary short stories, is also the first ebook from Augusta Free Press LLC. The stories in Ridin’ the Pine include a tale of a little-league baseball game, a young romance gone up in flames on a night at the park and the humorous story of a self-absorbed newspaper columnist’s interaction with a crazed fan.
$4.99
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Stop the Presses: A collection of columns
By Chris Graham
Published by Augusta Free Press LLC
Parent company of the Luray Page Free Press
Stop the Presses, a collection of columns by Chris Graham, is a 260-page book complete with more than 100 columns that will make you laugh and make you cry – covering everything from weather to politics to the various and sundry vagaries of daily life. Also included is an emotional column written on the first anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that drew comments from around the world.
$19.00 plus shipping/handling
Crystal Clear
By Crystal Graham
Published by Augusta Free Press LLC
Parent company of the Luray Page Free Press
Collection includes columns on fear, encouragement, heartache, culture, obesity and the humor found in everyday life. (Excerpt) You see, I was the egg omelet that Justin Timberlake was playing, generally speaking. Or in my case, the chicken that could’ve laid that egg. I worked at a chain grocery store. And my boss convinced me somehow that dressing up as a chicken (yes, really) for a few hours would somehow be fun … (Excerpt) Maybe we could hire someone to, you know, sit in for us. Or better yet, we could use Photoshop to digitally enhance our looks. I could shave a couple of inches off the waistline, for example … is that ethical? “The Chris and Crystal you know and love, only better.”
$8.00 plus shipping/handling
Mad About U: Four Decades of Basketball at University Hall
By Chris Graham and Patrick Hite
Published by Augusta Free Press LLC
Parent company of the Luray Page Free Press
Mad About U: Four Decades of Basketball at University Hall is a comprehensive book covering the players, coaches and memories of University Hall at the University of Virginia. Join us as we look back at the memories from more than 40 years in U Hall. From Barry Parkhill’s last-second shot to help Virginia knock off No. 2 South Carolina to the struggles faced by coaches Barbara Kelly and Dan Bonner in the early years of UVa. women’s basketball to the excitement of the early 1980s in the House that Ralph Built to the move to JPJ – it’s all here. We’ve talked to players, coaches and fans, including Terry Holland, Debbie Ryan, Jeff Lamp, Heather and Heidi Burge, Mac McDonald, Wally Walker, Dawn Staley, Jeff Jones, Richard Morgan, Dan Bonner, Bryant Stith, Wendy Palmer, Bobby and Ricky Stokes, Val Ackerman, Gus Gerard, Craig Littlepage and many more.
$25.00 plus shipping/handling
Judge Not
By Chris Graham
Published by Augusta Free Press LLC
Parent company of the Luray Page Free Press
Every small town has its own tales to tell. Ruetown isn’t special in that respect. For years, the political machinations that dominated the parlor talk in the sleepy Shenandoah Valley town had been kept as much beneath the surface as possible. But that was before community activist Juan Cordonez turned up dead – and the evidence pointed to The Honorable John Edward Malone as the man behind his murder. The headlines in The Times-Progress told Ruetown residents part of what was going on. The reporter for the paper who was working on the story of a lifetime, Andrew Floyd, knew more, a lot more – but could it be that he perhaps knew too much? Waynesboro author Chris Graham fleshes out the details of the macabre happenings in Ruetown in his first novel, Judge Not, a political thriller that follows reporter Andrew Floyd as he blazes a trail into the parlors to ferret out the identity of the real killer – before he himself meets his own final judgment.
$10.00 plus shipping/handling
My Daddy Fought the Cold War
Not Entirely Serious Tales of a Foreign Service Career
By C. Robert (Bob) Dickerman
Published by Augusta Free Press LLC
Parent company of the Luray Page Free Press
When daughters Anneke and Julia, then 8 and 10, stood where the infamous Berlin Wall had divided East and West through three decades, they saw only manicured grass and bike and walking trails. Let’s get ice cream, said one. So how was their daddy to explain a world that had been defined by that grotesque Wall, and a Foreign Service career spanning these same peculiar years? In tales that are funny, poignant, and provocative, Bob Dickerman recalls what it was to fight the Cold War as a self-described working stiff diplomat in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Caribbean. This is hands-on history as it’s too rarely written.
$15.95 plus shipping/handling
Looking Through the Rain
By Duane Hahn
Published by Augusta Free Press LLC
Parent company of the Luray Page Free Press
Part travelogue, part autobiography, and part ode to his much-loved pets, Looking Through the Rain is Duane Hahn’s last work. At times delightfully funny and playful, it’s also sometimes a bit wistful. It’s a very personal work in which the author shares thoughts and emotions about his past and hopes for the future.
$14.00 plus shipping/handling
Shenandoah Moon
By Duane Hahn
Published by Augusta Free Press LLC
Parent company of the Luray Page Free Press
Announcing Shenandoah Moon, a novel set in the Shenandoah Valley during a troubled, desperate 1930s, the coming of the Shenandoah National Park, the government intervention, love, and the CCC boys of Roosevelt’s Tree Army. Join one family’s fight to preserve their land in a battle of eminent domain.
$17.95 plus shipping/handling
Looking Over My Shoulder
By Steven Britt
Published by Augusta Free Press LLC
Parent company of the Luray Page Free Press
Looking Over My Shoulder, Some (mostly) funny stories of growing up in 1950’s-60’s rural America, or how I know I was given to the wrong family at birth is a story of growing up different in the heartland of America. It’s a tale of good people, mean people, people who were over medicated, and of one young person’s experiences in getting out. While written about a young boy, the novel is intended for adults. The stories tell of grappling with ever-changing financial conditions and family arrangements, eccentric relatives, good friends, a dancing rabbit, experiments in flight, travels with a carnival, and rescue by an aunt who resembles Auntie Mame. It’s a boy’s story of survival and a quest to find a better life.
$12.95 plus shipping/handling
Safe at Home: A Season in the Valley
By Austin Gisriel
Published by Augusta Free Press LLC
Parent company of the Luray Page Free Press
College baseball players hone their skills in summer leagues all across America. Often playing in small towns and living with host families, the players strive to develop their abilities to the point where they are signed to professional contracts. For the towns, the summer league team is often a major source of local pride and community involvement. Nowhere in America is this more true than in New Market, Virginia, where every game is “not just a game,” it’s an event. Safe at Home: A Season in the Valley tells the story of the 2009 New Market Rebels and the townspeople who house them, feed them, and root for them; welcome them into their homes in June and send them back to their schools in August. In the process, both players and fans become part of something greater than themselves, even if it is just a baseball team in a little town in the Shenandoah Valley.
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Adventures in Warnerland
My political soap opera in Mark Warner’s Virginia
By Steven Sisson
Published by Augusta Free Press LLC
Parent company of the Luray Page Free Press
I’m just an average Joe with a story to tell. There are a lot of those who will deny what I write. Let’s set the record straight from the get-go. It’s not to further my political career. It’s not sour grapes on my part. Politics should be about ethics and truth, but it’s not. That’s a shame. Running for elected office shouldn’t be a spectator sport, either. It should be an honorable matter and just cause for individuals. It’s hard for the average person to even imagine what takes place, or the games people play. At the outset, I ran for elected office to be an agent of change. The Democratic Party of Virginia knew and gave full approval of the Sisson state Senate campaign and its issues, but the governor, Mark Warner, turned against fellow party members, such as myself, for his own selfish political motivation.This is a story that needs to be told.
$14.99 plus shipping/handling
A Heavenly View
By Gary Summers
Published by Augusta Free Press LLC
Parent company of the Luray Page Free Press
This story tells of Heaven and how the angels became divided in their obedience to their Creator. When the rebellious angels were thrown out of Heaven, God had a plan that something or someone would take their place. So God created the universe. He brought forth light from which had been all darkness. He created souls that would serve him and eventually be reunited with him in Heaven.
$12.99 plus shipping/handling
Other Books by AFP
Friday Night Reunion
By Jim Bresnahan
Virginia’s Country Stores
By Joe Morse
Where Was God? The World Trade Center Disaster as seen through a Chaplain’s Eyes
By Bob Johnson
Marvelous Maggie
By Warren Evans
One Day at a Time
By Warren Evans
The Table is Forever
By Warren Evans
Death Notices from Extant Issues of The Rockingham Register
By Dorothy A. Boyd-Bragg
Nielsen’s 100th Anniversary
(Lot’s Wife Publishing)
