Verities: A Journey by Tracks

by Randy White

Overview

“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.” Take a ride down the train tracks in the small town of Verities, and you’ll see one young man’s quests for meaning in his troubled life. Follow Sam’s journey as he grows up facing ugly truths about love and loss on the wrong side of the tracks. Verities is a hopeful story of rising above one’s circumstances, even in the cruel face of social injustice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781951565046
Publisher:	Belle Isle Books
Publication date:	03/04/2020
Pages:	300
Sales rank:	702,229
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.67(d)

About the Author

Randy White founded and serves as executive director of Love of Learning, a nonprofit that hosts read-alouds and donates high-quality children's books to low-income kids in central Virginia. He has received numerous Making a Difference awards for his work promoting literacy opportunities for disadvantaged children. Before founding his nonprofit organization, Mr. White spent ten years as a public school teacher in a suburb of Richmond, Virginia. He holds a master's degree in teaching and a bachelor's degree in sociology from Virginia Commonwealth University, as well as an associate's degree in social sciences. A native of Richmond, Mr. White currently lives in the city with his wife, Christin, their two young children, and two adorable boxers.

Table of Contents

Track 1 Waiting on a Sunny Day 1

Track 2 Fortunate Son 28

Track 3 Whiter Shade of Pale 56

Track 4 Brilliant Disguise 86

Track 5 Brothers in Arms 127

Track 6 Comfortably Numb 148

Track 7 Against the Wind 174

Track 8 The Sound of Silence 194

Track 9 Change 224

Track 10 No Son of Mine 250

Track 11 Bitter Sweet Symphony 275

Final Track Everybody Knows 285

About the Author 289

Editorial Reviews

“What’s important in life? No, what’s really important? Is it material possessions; what others think of you? Or, what at the end of much searching leads you to real happiness and contentment? Through a tornadic life, Sam faces questions about family, friends, trust, love, and the price to be paid for securing his dream. Fast-paced, with unexpected but clever plot twists, Verities carries the reader along with its stand-out characters every inch of the way. It also spotlights, in an era of receiving information in short bursts, the enduring value of books that make you think and see things you might never have seen.”

—Rich Garon, author of Felling Big Trees and Lee Fitts

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