Jefferson Square is the story of the making of a major urban culture center. It goes behind the scenes into the private lives and private battles of those whose talents, genius and ambitions make a cultural center come alive.
This classic story, based on the Gastonia textile strike of 1929, follows a family of Appalachian mountaineers who find themselves drawn to a mill town near their family plot after suffering great economic adversity. Originally published in 1932, the tale provides keen insights on a pivotal moment of American history.
The first title in Elizabeth Ogilvies' Lover's Trilogy, The Dawning of the Day follows widow Philippa Marshall as she makes a life for herself as a schoolteacher on rugged Bennett's Island. As she grapples with her sense of loyalty to her deceased husband, Philippa must weigh the balance of her heart and mind, and plot the course of her destiny.
Completing Elisabeth Ogilvie's Lover's Trilogy Strawberries in the Sea tells the story of Rosa Fleming who flees to Bennett's Island to escape her messy divorce. The island becomes much more than a refuge as she discovers community, love, and an inner strength upon its rocky shores. Will her newfound confidence come at the expense of her fledgling ......
Vanessa Barton feels caged in her marriage and trapped by life in the small community of Bennett's Island. She blindly yearns for something, but doesn't know what, until Owen Bennett walks into her life. He inspires her passion, self-discovery and growth, enabling her to seize her own destiny, free of the emotional fetters of her youth.
On the first day of July 1863, Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia accidentally crossed swords with George Gordon Meade's federal Army of the Potomac. They clashed at a tiny Pennsylvania crossroads called Gettysburg. Three days later, at least 22,000 Confederate men and boys were dead, wounded or captured, and the Yankees held the field when ......
From her ranch home in Montana in the 1920s, Nettie Brady dreamed of joining the rodeo circuit and becoming a star. Defying her mother's wishes and trading her skirts for trousers--and riding the range with her brothers and taking on the occasional half-ton steer in local rodeos--Nettie bucked convention to compete with men in the arena. When ......
For every glorious legend of the Old West there are a thousand workaday stories of the boundless persistence and courage that turned a wilderness into civilization. Jennifer Vandermeer and the story of her hardship, disasters and triumphs, is one of the real stories of how the West was won.
Willie Goodwin begins his odyssey of death and vengeance when he tracks a faceless and chilling murderer across western plateaus, ultimately facing a dilemma that pits the values of friendship against honor.
