Category: Historical Fiction Publisher: Marilyn Pavlovsky
Pages: 260
Copyright: Nov 14, 2008
ISBN-13: 9780615259901
A capitvating story of a beautiful lady who grew up in the lap of luxury only to be forced to move, by riverboat, to an aunt's dirt farm. The story is full of love and full of tragedies.
Burning Sunshine is a book staged when the times in our country were changing fast. The period takes you through the period of 1883 - 1958. Through two world wars, a depression and many changes. The book is full of romance, turn of the century, drama, religion, ways of travel and is very historial. A touching story from a wonderful time period. You will truly want to read this book.
Excerpt
Along about the 1920's, people on the surrounding farms were purchasing cars. John had his heart set on a Model T Ford but felt he may have to settle for a Model A. The buggy roads were so narrow and the winters in Ohio took their toll on the mud filled ruts or ditches they called roads.
The Six Bells of Madame Lin is the first book in The Witch of Marigold Hall Trilogy, a fictionalized account of the struggles of Lin Mang, a blind woman who manages to navigate the world during the Mongol conquest of China in the 13th Century. Withou
Shanghai Escapist grabs the faint-of-heart right from the get-go and serves up an ultimatum: What would you do if caught in the same circumstances? From the opening scene, the reader is tossed into the maze of daily intrigue as it existed in 1960s-70
