BOONE, N.C. (Nov. 26, 2024) – Local authors Rahn and Timberley Adams have released the second book in their series of young adult novels focusing on teen living and high school sports.
Published by Gaillardia Press, this second installment is entitled Tales of the Barf Table, Book Two: Trouble Shooters, about girls’ basketball and boys’ wrestling. The uplifting and often humorous story also explores teenage issues such as learning whom to trust and whom to love.
“We’re really pleased with this story,” said Timberley Adams. “It offers positive alternatives for dealing with tough situations that many young people face. That’s what we want readers to see in all these books—good role models.”
The release of Trouble Shooters follows the January 2024 publication of the first book in the series, From the Gridiron to the Fire, mainly about high school football. Both novels feature a group of misfits who sit together in their school cafeteria at what other kids call the Barf Table.
From the book’s back cover: “Ninth grader Leah Russo has finally found her place at preppy Arbor High—not as a cheerleader or basketball player, but as a sportswriter and photographer for the school newspaper. Still dealing with the death of her big brother, everybody’s hero, Leah accepts help from her diverse circle of friends….”
Trouble Shooters begins at Thanksgiving and ends on Valentine’s Day, and follows the wins and losses of Leah and the Barf Table gang in the school lunchroom, on the basketball court and on the wrestling mat.
“We’re already working on Book Three,” said Rahn Adams. “It’ll close out the three-part series but also the school year at Arbor High, covering boys’ baseball and girls’ softball, as well as other spring sports and events.”
The Tales of the Barf Table series and two other children’s titles written solely by Timberley Adams are all published by the couple’s imprint, Gaillardia Press. Timberley’s two children’s books are Turtle Beach (2019) and Henry Heron Finds His Home (2022).
The Adamses also are working on a 20th-anniversary edition of their first novel, Night Lights; or, Golf, the Blues, and the Brown Mountain Light, first published in December 2004 by Parkway Publishers, Inc.
Both Rahn and Timberley Adams retired as teachers in Watauga County, after also teaching in Brunswick County. They also coached athletics in both counties. Rahn won tennis coach-of-the-year honors in both the Northwestern and Waccamaw Conferences.
In addition, the couple have extensive experience in radio and newspaper journalism, having won awards from the North Carolina Press Association, Radio-Television News Directors Association of the Carolinas, and the North Carolina Association of Educators (for outstanding education coverage).
Tales of the Barf Table, Book Two: Trouble Shooters is available from online booksellers and by request from local bookstores. For more information, contact the authors at P.O. Box 1382, Boone, NC 28607.