Books with author William Dunstan

Spellbinding author William E. Dunstan invites you to sit by his side for a guided tour through his inspirational and magical series Adventures of a Southern Boyhood. The second book, Running with the Grim Reaper, opens with the author's birth in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, as the titanic hand of the Second World War grips the globe. The narrative highlights extraordinary men, women, and children tramping through an unforgettable world simmering with tragedies, racial conflicts, murders, mysteries, ghosts, unconventional friendships, romantic liaisons, lost loves, and bizarre true stories. This balanced, engaging book deserves to take its place among the first rank of modern memoirs.

Take a fascinating stroll with William E. Dunstan through the pages of Budding as a Young Scientist, the third volume of Adventures of a Southern Boyhood, his exhilarating memoir of epic beauty and power. Join him in exploring Elizabeth City, his magical and mysterious hometown in northeastern North Carolina. The author and his captivating friends seek spellbinding adventures, stumble into bizarre shenanigans, and form memorable bonds during the remarkable period after the traumatizing Second World War. They tell and retell vivid stories about their hometown, the hub of a region haunted by romance, legend, and murder. Meanwhile young William dreams of becoming a second Thomas A. Edison and engineers a series of colorful experiments, including a dazzling wall of fire, earning him the playful nickname Mad Scientist. He writes with candor and wit and offers reader unexpected glimpses of the spellbinding people shaping his boyhood world.

Spellbinding author William E. Dunstan invites you to sit by his side for a guided tour through his inspirational and magical series Adventures of a Southern Boyhood. The second book, Running with the Grim Reaper, opens with the author's birth in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, as the titanic hand of the Second World War grips the globe. The narrative highlights extraordinary men, women, and children tramping through an unforgettable world simmering with tragedies, racial conflicts, murders, mysteries, ghosts, unconventional friendships, romantic liaisons, lost loves, and bizarre true stories. This balanced, engaging book deserves to take its place among the first rank of modern memoirs.

Readers will never forget William E. Dunstan's uplifting series Adventures of a Southern Boyhood, an unflinching and spectacular memoir permeated by resilience, friendship, and devotion. This fourth book, Spinning Mischief Galore, extends the colorful story, beginning as William enters the fifth grade and continuing through his unconventional and unsupervised summer vacation after the seventh grade. During this period he still envisions becoming an inventor on the scale of Thomas A. Edison, but sometimes his inventions and experiments go horribly awry. Meanwhile William and his captivating friends sidestep bizarre ghosts, learn secrets, relish tales of terror and the supernatural, and overhear forbidden stories. Singing lyrical tales to human existence, they write letters in invisible ink, stumble into fistfights, develop spying techniques, and dabble in hypnosis. Their passionate bonds strengthen as they see three British Queens in black veils, play spin the bottle, attend their first dance, devour reports of flying saucers, tour Washington without adult supervision, and participate in a spicy hayride. Soon after the hayride, a bolt of lightning leaps through an open window and grazes young William's head. Perhaps ill-omened, the jolt kindles inklings of personal doom as William faces the riveting pitfalls of the eighth grade.

Take a fascinating stroll with William E. Dunstan through the pages of Budding as a Young Scientist, the third volume of Adventures of a Southern Boyhood, his exhilarating memoir of epic beauty and power. Join him in exploring Elizabeth City, his magical and mysterious hometown in northeastern North Carolina. The author and his captivating friends seek spellbinding adventures, stumble into bizarre shenanigans, and form memorable bonds during the remarkable period after the traumatizing Second World War. They tell and retell vivid stories about their hometown, the hub of a region haunted by romance, legend, and murder. Meanwhile young William dreams of becoming a second Thomas A. Edison and engineers a series of colorful experiments, including a dazzling wall of fire, earning him the playful nickname Mad Scientist. He writes with candor and wit and offers reader unexpected glimpses of the spellbinding people shaping his boyhood world.

Spellbinding author William E. Dunstan invites you to sit by his side for a guided tour through his inspirational and magical series Adventures of a Southern Boyhood. The second book, Running with the Grim Reaper, opens with the author's birth in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, as the titanic hand of the Second World War grips the globe. The narrative highlights extraordinary men, women, and children tramping through an unforgettable world simmering with tragedies, racial conflicts, murders, mysteries, ghosts, unconventional friendships, romantic liaisons, lost loves, and bizarre true stories. This balanced, engaging book deserves to take its place among the first rank of modern memoirs.

Take a fascinating stroll with William E. Dunstan through the pages of Budding as a Young Scientist, the third volume of Adventures of a Southern Boyhood, his exhilarating memoir of epic beauty and power. Join him in exploring Elizabeth City, his magical and mysterious hometown in northeastern North Carolina. The author and his captivating friends seek spellbinding adventures, stumble into bizarre shenanigans, and form memorable bonds during the remarkable period after the traumatizing Second World War. They tell and retell vivid stories about their hometown, the hub of a region haunted by romance, legend, and murder. Meanwhile young William dreams of becoming a second Thomas A. Edison and engineers a series of colorful experiments, including a dazzling wall of fire, earning him the playful nickname Mad Scientist. He writes with candor and wit and offers reader unexpected glimpses of the spellbinding people shaping his boyhood world.