A semi-autobiographical novel, set in New Hampshire, from a significant literary figure of the mid 19th centuryA semi-autobiographical novel, set in New Hampshire, from a significant literary figure of the mid 19th century

The state of Iowa was still young and wild when Wayne Lockwood came to it from New England in 1851. He claimed a quarter-section about a hundred miles west of Dubuque and quickly came to appreciate widely scattered neighbors like Jeremiah Martin, whose seven daughters would have chased the gloom from any bachelor's heart. Sabina, Emily, Celia, Melinda, Phoebe Lou, Jeanie, and Suzanne are timeless in their appeal - too spirited to be preoccupied with sermons, sickness, and sudden death. However, the feasts, weddings, and holiday celebrations in Song of Years are shadowed by all the rigors and perils of frontier living, which captures the period in Iowa of Indian scares and county-seat wars, as well as the climate preceding the Civil War.

INTRIGUE. TENSION. LOVE AFFAIRS:In The Historical Romance series, a set of stand-alone novels, Vivian Stuart builds her compelling narratives around the dramatic lives of sea captains, nurses, surgeons, and members of the aristocracy.Stuart takes us back to the societies of the 20th century, drawing on her own experience of places across Australia, India, East Asia, and the Middle East. She loved a manto the manor born...And the young, spirited American bride-to-be was determined to take her place beside her distinguished Maurice with dignity. Bur Tracey soon found she had married more than the squire of a vast old English estate. She had married a man with a very disturbing – and very recent – past.As she unveils the truths surrounding his aristocratic, secluded family, Tracey finds herself in increasingly sinister circumstances. Maurice had married before, his brother had died mysteriously ... and several people are warning Tracey now to leave before she learns too...

It reaches white heat just as he starts for a class reunion which the hated rival is to attend MRS. HENRY Y. MASON'S years numbered fifty-two, which means that she stood on that plateau of life where one looks both hopefully forward and longingly back. Life had been very gracious to Mother Mason. It had brought her health, happiness, and Henry; and sometimes in a spasm of loyal devotion, Mother decided that the greatest of these was Henry. To-night, as she sat knitting by the library table, her heavy figure erect, her plump face, under its graying hair, radiating energy and kindliness, her health was evident.

When Linnie Colsworth comes from the East to visit relatives in Omaha, she is plunged into a wider, more hazardous world than she had ever known. In the wake of the Civil War, land seekers are pouring into the West and displacing the Indian tribes. Not interested in spending her days sewing and serving tea, Linnie travels up the Missouri to deliver a "Dear John" message to her cousin's fiancé, a handsome lieutenant - and suddenly becomes the wife of this stranger. They come to love and trust each other, but can they survive this raw frontier? Their harrowing story is based on the diary of a frontier wife.

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Zetta Berghoffer's dream of a sweet life is jeopardized when her husband, Asa, leaves to work coal so he can pay off their Kentucky farm. Determined to keep the family together, Zetta and their toddlers join Asa and her brothers at the Golden Gate coal camp just before Christmas 1922. She is eight months pregnant.During the first week in the dismal camp, Zetta suffers fearful nightmares of cut trees and fresh dirt—Appalachian signs of trouble. Asa dismisses his wife's pleas to return to their farm, insisting their three-month stay will provide the $400 they need to give their children better lives. Disappointed, Zetta draws strength from her plump red-haired neighbor, Dosha, and the strong-willed granny woman, Clarie, who will deliver her baby. And each morning, she thanks the Lord they are one more day closer to home. Or are they?

Dru Mills Returns Home with New Dreams for a New LifeOne early morning in 1985, Dru drives off to leave everything behind in Michigan—her parents, her younger siblings and her cheating boyfriend, with all his empty promises. She's convinced returning to Kentucky and taking the computer job at the local hospital will provide everything she needs for a fresh start.Within five minutes of crossing the Kentucky Eden County line, she's welcomed—with a speeding ticket! This is not how she imagined her homecoming.After the annoying but admittedly handsome police officer hands over the ticket, Dru grumpily pulls back onto the asphalt. Chastised, she drives slower, remembering long-ago childhood scenes. Those memories are interrupted by the sight of an Amish buggy carrying a stoic bearded man.Soon after settling in, Dru's life collides with both the policeman's and the Amish farmer's when a murderer invades Dru's community. The three unlikely...

A 1923 Appalachian Young Widow: In this sequel to Zetta's Dream, the words perseverance and overcoming aren't in Zetta Berghoffer's vocabulary. Instead, as a new widow and mother of two toddlers and a five-week-old baby, she lives those characteristics as she faces unwanted suitors, her gentle brother's life threatening snake bite, her stubborn father's demands, the historic American Chestnut tree blight, and daily hardships in the 1923 Appalachian Mountains. But despite Zetta's challenges, she is encouraged by her faith and the friendship of other strong women. And she dares to claim a bright future.

Old Valentines - A Love Story is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Munson Aldrich Havens is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Munson Aldrich Havens then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.

At the age of seventeen, Abbie must decide whether to marry Ed, and live a life of comfort, or Will, who offers a sod shanty on the Nebraska frontier.

Ella Bishop came to college a healthy, country-bred girl, alive to every fresh sensation, with an infinite capacity for work, love, and understanding. Her abundant energy and devotion to learning made her a superior student, then a gifted teacher. But her smile concealed more than one youthful tragedy, and tragedy did not stop with youth.

An Amazon bestselling author of 2012, for non-fiction Real Moms Love to Eat. This compelling, gripping debut suspense thriller, Pink Slips, is filled with unexpected twists that will keep you page-turning and rooting for Betsy Ryan until the early hours. Perfect for fans of Fractured and Gone Girl. Betsy Ryan is pregnant with her third child, and receiving threatening notes from a stalker. During what should be a joyful time in her life, she’s forced to face a decade old memory, and relive one of the most devastating nights of her life In order to uncover the mystery behind the threats, she enlists the help of an unlikely, but oddly reliable source, her dog Barney. As the menacing notes continue to arrive, her husband is called out of town for work, and she struggles to keep her composure while shielding her two young sons from danger. She trusts no one except her parents, best friend Misty, and her extraordinary dog—who has proven to literally understand everything she says. Is this person out to harm her? And how do they have so much personal information about Betsy? She can’t help but think it’s the same person who attacked her at the train station almost a decade ago, and changed the course of her life forever. To save herself and her unborn child—Betsy must face her fears and find her strength, to reveal who is after her and most importantly…why.

Alexandra Aldrich, a direct descendant of the famous Astor dynasty, grew up in the servants' quarters of Rokeby, the forty-three-room Hudson Valley mansion built by her ancestors. Her childhood was one of bohemian neglect and real privation. But it was fairly stable until the summer of her tenth year, when her father took up with an alluring interloper, Giselle.Alexandra idolized her father, Rokeby's charismatic lord of misrule, who had attended elite private schools as a child but inherited only landed property, not money. To him, she says, "poverty was amusing, a delightful challenge." All of the family's resources--emotional and financial--went to the maintenance of the Astor house and legacy. If the family had sold the house and its 450 acres, they all would have been able to live comfortably. Instead, Alexandra and her parents lived precariously in the grand house, scavenging for the next meal. Her mother, an icy Polish artist, disguised her maternal...

GCHQ is the successor to the famous Bletchley Park wartime code-breaking organisation and is the largest and most secretive intelligence organisation in the country. During the war, it commanded more staff than MI5 and MI6 combined and has produced a number of intelligence triumphs as well as some notable failures. Since the end of the Cold War, it has played a pivotal role in shaping Britain's secret state. Still, we know almost nothing about it. In this ground-breaking new book, Richard J. Aldrich traces GCHQ's evolvement from a wartime code breaking operation based in the Bedfordshire countryside to one of the world's leading espionage organisations. Focusing in part on GCHQ's remarkably intimate relationship with its American partner, the National Security Agency (NSA), Aldrich also examines both the impact of the Second World War on GCHQ and the breakthroughs made after the war was over. Today's GCHQ struggles with some of the most difficult issues of our time. A leading...

It was a simple honeymoon cruise... that they just couldn't disembark from.