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|  | | Abigail's Redemption Find out how one young man can help Abigail overcome a traumatic experience and learn to love.
| |  | | Farther Along Book 4 of Lucinda Harmon saga
| |  | | Jason's Journey Jason McCall is a doctor hired by the coal company to earn a year's free internship by coming to work in the coalfields. He meets Lucinda Harmon and falls in love but the gulf is too wide between the two cultures.
Jason McCall, the outsider, soon learns that there is a native wisdom and honesty about the mountain people that one learns to respect and admire, but he is baffled 'by the strictures of the mountain culture, the religious practices, and the Calvinistic beliefs in predetermination.
Jason is drafted into the Korean War, while working in Appalachia and while there determines to become an opthamologist. He does this but also marrries and returns to Appalachia to practice.
He once again meets Lucinda Harmon, now married, and their love becomes a guilt trip for both of the | |  | | Lucinda's Mountain Lucinda Harmon struggles to break away from the sheltering bonds of family and the mountain traditions to which McDowell County still clung during the 1950s. Her goal was a bigger and broader world through the realm of education. In striving for her goal, she encounters resistance from family, religious strictures, and traditional roles for women. She also struggles with the love of two men, one who challenges her to risk the unknown, and another who overwhelms her with possessive love.
Lucinda's Mountain is the first book in a three book series that describes the little known culture of the mountain tops surrounding the coal towns in Appalachia. Much has been written about the coal industry and culture as well as the coal camps or towns. Nothing is written, however, about the sturdy Scotch/Irish settlers who claimed the high mountain tops as home. Yet these people kept the mining communities alive and fed from the produce, timber, diary products, and meats that was used to keep their families alive also. Much can be learned by studying the interdep | |  | | The Beckoning Hills The third book in the trilogy about the romance of Lucinda Harmon and Jason McCall. They learn many lessons, through strife, sorrow, joy, grief and a love that beckons their hearts.
This final book, The Beckoning Hills, beginsd at the end of Lucinda's Mountain and finishes the story of these two people, who according to Jason, met by chance, but to Lincinda, were predestined to meet. Lucinda finds that many hard lessons are learned from adversity, but she holds on to her faith to survive and overcome her trials. She becomes more firmly entrenched in the adage that one should, "Do everything you can to help a situation and then leave the rest to God."
Jason also has much adversity and many challenges, culturally and politically , and gradually co | |  | | The Whisperer Find out how Janie Query and her best friend, Pru solve the mystery of the whisperer and save their town.
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Secrets in the Fairy Chimneys
by Linda Frank
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Secrets in the Fairy Chimneys, set in Istanbul and Cappadocia Turkey takes Annie Tillery to an archaeological where accidents and thefts plague the scientists. Thrilling chases, cave explorations, and danger from desperate traffickers in ancient hist |
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The Red Pen
by Christina Neely
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Samantha is a unique artist only using red ink in her drawings. She comes across a red feather pen enchanted never to run out of ink but she soon discovers that the drawings created from the pen come to life. |
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