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This book relates the stories and describes the memorials of the people buried in Shelby, North Carolina's historic Sunset Cemetery, a microcosm of the Southeastern United States. The authors, an academic and a journalist, detail the lives and memories of people who are buried here, from Civil War soldiers to those who created the Jim Crow South and promoted the narrative of the Lost Cause. Featured are authors W.J. Cash and Thomas Dixon, whose racist novel was the basis for The Birth of a Nation. Drawn from historical research and local memory, it includes the tales of musicians Don Gibson and Bobby "Pepper Head" London, as well as a paratrooper who died in the Battle of the Bulge and other ordinary folks who rest in the cemetery. A bigger responsibility is to give a voice to the silenced, enslaved people of color buried in unmarked graves. Cemeteries are sacred places where artistry and memory meet--to understand, we need both the tales and the tombstones.

(Fake Book). Country gets real in this new collection in the Real Book series featuring over 275 country favorites presented in the "Real Book" look with lead sheets and lyrics. Songs include: Act Naturally * All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming over Tonight * Always on My Mind * Amazed * Beer for My Horses * Before He Cheats * Bless the Broken Road * Blue Moon of Kentucky * Boot Scootin' Boogie * A Boy Named Sue * Breathe * City of New Orleans * Coal Miner's Daughter * Could I Have This Dance * Coward of the County * Crazy * Delta Dawn * The Devil Went down to Georgia * Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue * Elvira * Family Tradition * Folsom Prison Blues * Forever and Ever, Amen * Friends in Low Places * The Gambler * Gentle on My Mind * God Bless the U.S.A. * Help Me Make It Through the Night * Here's a Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares) * Hey, Good Lookin' * I Hope You Dance * (I Never Promised You A) Rose Garden * I Will Always Love You * I've Got a Tiger by the Tail * Islands in the Stream * Jackson * Jambalaya (On the Bayou) * King of the Road * Live like You Were Dying * Lucille * Mama Tried * Mean * On the Road Again * Redneck Woman * Ring of Fire * Rocky Top * She Believes in Me * Southern Nights * Stand by Your Man * There's a Tear in My Beer * When You Say Nothing at All * Your Cheatin' Heart * and more.

When Chris, an unambitious young waiter, walks through the park on his way home from work, he stumbles onto the set of a Hollywood film — and is promptly mistaken for the missing lead actor. Corralled into filming a scene for The Lost Expert — director Bryant Reed’s last-ditch effort to restore his reputation — Chris assumes the identity of international action star Thomson Holmes, and disconnects from his real life. He falls deeply into his newfound identity as Holmes and as his character in the film, a struggling young man who has the ability to find lost people and things. Tensions mount as Chris gradually learns of the real Thomson Holmes’ scandals and accusations of sexual misconduct. Meanwhile, the real Thomson Holmes has disappeared and Chris has reason to fear he’ll be next. As he tries to figure out what happened to the actor, he grapples with his role as imposter and whether he can — or even should — extricate himself from reinvention.