What better business for a cancer survivor than a wig shop? At least that's what Olivia thinks when buys one so she can work for herself. Never mind that the previous owner was murdered right outside the shop and that some New Jersey drug lord is hanging around, looking for drugs and money. Add in a creepy ex-wannabe-boyfriend, Liv's taser-toting granny, a neighbor who bakes pot brownies and a drag queen who thinks half the wigs in the shop belong to her/him and what Liv has acquired is a disaster-in-the-making. Thank heavens for The Survivors. Liv's going to need them to survive this one.

Kate is living out of a motel, eating beans and noodles, when her ex-husband dies, leaving her his condo and his business...a strip club called Knockers. With the help of her friends, the Survivors, Kate battles depression, embarrassment, and the mechanics of managing a bar, strippers, bouncers, and creditors. But can the Survivors help her find missing funds her ex- has hidden? How about dealing with his mistress? Then there's the issue of family members she hasn't seen in twenty years. She's survived cancer, but can Kate survive the feeling of being stripped bare of the woman she's...

This is a genealogical history of the families of Clawson, Tatum, Green, Brown, and others who lived in Watauga County, North Carolina, over a span of hundreds of years.

Youngsters often say they want to join a circus, become a fireman or police officer, or sail the seas looking for adventure, but those types of excitement often elude the majority of us. Not so with this family. Circus life was a business, sea-faring became more than a far-fetched dream. Imagine if you can, a broken-hearted violinist playing a last request for his dying wife. Picture a circus owner coping with escaping gorillas and out-of-control lions. How about an aging man waiting for marriage and children until he's past the age when most men are dead and buried? Doctors, lawyers,...