Flow On Sweet Missouri & Iowa Born & Bred - Author: Carol Troestler
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Based on true events and combining genealogy, history and imagination, Flow On Sweet Missouri spans the years 1861 to 1938. It is the story of a family searching for freedom and a story of America as it seeks a more perfect union. The story begins as Mary Boothman gives birth on the banks of a coal mine to daughter Minnie. Mary is fleeing bushwhackers who have terrorized her home. The family recently settled in the river town of Lexington, Missouri, but finds a peaceful life cannot be, for in 1861 America has turned on itself. Mary’s husband, William, joins the Union cavalry as Missourians divide their allegiance between the North and the South. The reader is swept into the family’s history and the history of America.
Let history come alive with real people and real historical events interwoven with imaginative stories! Although based on genealogical and historical facts, Iowa Born and Bred is part history and part novel, where thoughts, feelings and life-changing events shape the lives of those in the story, as well as the lives of descendants that follow.
Maria Kellar Nelson was born in 1860 on a farm in Iowa. Her father was a farmer, preacher and inventor. Maria married Peter Nelson, an immigrant from Denmark, in the Dakota Territory and moved to northwest Iowa, raising five children there. When in his early twenties, her second oldest son, Martin Lyle, headed east to Chicago where he received over one hundred patents for his inventions. Meanwhile, Maria and Peter went west to California.
In 1949, Maria Nelson’s great-granddaughter got on the Union Pacific in Chicago and traveled alone to California to visit the great-grandmother she had never met. This is the second in Carol Troestler’s historical novels about her great-grandmothers, the first being Flow On Sweet Missouri. She lives in Wisconsin with her husband where she raised six children and owned a mental health center.
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Keechie - Author: Phil Whitley
Ever since young Brian discovered his first arrowhead, he knew that he wanted to be an archaeologist. There was just something about holding an object that had been created by someone from an earlier civilization that spoke to him.
The story begins as Brian, on one of his frequent field trips, discovers an old half-breed Indian woman. Completely self-sufficient and content with her circumstances in life, Keechie teaches him the skills of survival, along with a love and appreciation of the natural and supernatural worlds.
The survival skills learned from Keechie prove to be the difference between life and death many years after her death for Brian and his own family in the final chapters of this story.
It begins in rural Georgia in the 1950s—a shameful time of racial bigotry and segregation of the races, contrasted by being referred to as the “Age of Innocence.”
Flatwoods and Lighterknots - Author: James Elders
Flatwoods and Lighterknots is a cameo peek into Southern culture as experienced by a young boy who grew up during the years following World War II. The young boy’s experiences are captured in a series of stories that treat people of different backgrounds with tender remembrances of their special contributions to a culture changed by the demands of technological progress. As America moved forward after a long war and subsequent advent of a mobilized society, many people had to change their lives in ways that were often inconvenient, yet necessary in a new age of mass communications and mass confusion. Old ways and traditions gave way to new methods as people, steeped in old customs, began remodeling their lives to meet the challenges of a new era. Yet, there still lingers a deep respect and admiration for the contributions of those who came before us, plowing the furrows of progress.
A Heart Divided - Author: Sarah Crandell Thomas
(PublishAmerica) April 18, 2006 -- PublishAmerica is proud to announce that it has acquired the publishing rights to Sarah Crandell Thomas’s A Heart Divided, the captivatingly romantic tale of Mary, a woman who, frustrated with her difficult marriage, leaves her husband George to travel from
The Eagle and The Oyster - Author: Dale Talbert
The Eagle and the Oyster tells the story of Floridians from the twenties to the present. Two destructive hurricanes in Florida ended the Roaring Twenties’ land boom and caused chaos that foreshadowed the Great Depression. These events pave the way for the chapters to segue into the present and to link today’s characters with those of earlier times, such as comparing today with yesterday. For example, Hurricane Andrew in 1992 versus the early settlers who had no radio stations, TV, or hurricane hunter planes. The present-day protagonist is Duke Barney, an irascible warhorse of the Korean War. Sabina is his stabilizer and the love of his life, even though she’s 28 years his junior. They met in 1983, but were separated for 12 years before they unexpectedly met again. They later learn that Duke’s father knew Sabina’s grandfather.
Can You Hear Me?: Miss Sarah's Civil War Journals - Author: Gloria Kenmare Grant
Sarah has dedicated most her life to helping others. Now, she lies in a comatose state, listening to her memories as her daughter Marie reads aloud her journals of the Civil War.
Sarah just turned nine and her world is shattered as the Civil War begins. Now, she must face the hardships of being a child caught in the middle of a war.
This young girl must face this journey with faith and determination, a journey that will prove to be a challenge, as she sees the faces of good and bad people, and faces both good and bad times.
She starts her journey with no more than a knapsack and a deep faith in God.
These journals she left behind tell the story of her fears and joys, as we live through this terrible war though a child’s eyes.
