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|  | | Adelsverein - Book 1: The Gathering
An unknown epic of the Texas frontier - the founding of the German settlements in the Texas Hill Country!
Thanks to a hundred years of melodrama and myth, Texas is a place that Americans think they know, a place which has cast a glamor over popular culture down to this very day.
But there is another story of Texas and it's dramatic frontier days - the story of those pioneers who also came in search of land and better opportunities for their children, for homes of their own, for freedom from rule by aristocrats and princes. These immigrants arrived all at once, straight from the Old World to the New: farmers and craftsmen, the educated and middle-class, a tide of German immigrants. They br | |  | | Adelsverein - Book 2: The Sowing
Civil War comes to the Hill Country of Texas
span style="font-size: 12pt; language: en-US">“Vati” Steinmetz and his children have prospered since they arrived in America. His oldest daughter Magda has married Carl Becker, born him children and helped him build a happy life as a rancher in the beautiful valley of the Guadalupe River. Vati’s son-in-law Hansi Richter has become a successful farmer and his son Johann has returned from Germany after years of studying to become a doctor. /span>
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A war ends … And another begins
The Confederacy lies in ruins, while those who survived struggle to
rebuild homes and lives!
div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">span style="font-size: 12pt">The Harvesting brings the saga of the Becker and Richter families in the Texas Hill Country to a triumphant conclusion in this final volume of the Adelsverein Trilogy. /span>/div>
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div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">span style="font-size: 12pt">The war is over and the soldiers return home, to take up the old lifes … if they can. The end of the Civil War has left the South broken and defeated. Too many young men are dead, too many families destroyed, homes left wr | |  | | Our Grandpa Was an Alien
I grew up in an eccentric but loving extended family, with two brothers and a sister, a father who brought home wierd stuff from the lab and a mother who cooked extremely interesting things... and a grandfather who was an alien. A resident alien, and a loyal British citizen to the day he died.
This book grew out of a series of essays on "The Daily Brief" about my family: how my father 'snake-proofed' my brother and I, and how he tried to teach us to tell time, how we came to have a horse in the back-yard, a bany brother who was our real-live baby-doll, aSiamese cat who came to us courtesy of the neighbor's pet goat, and a jade-green Plymouth station-wagon which my mother drove for thirty years. All the stories are there - even the one about the great uncle who had a pair of ladies in frilly skirts tattooed on his fore-arms, who did the shimmy when he flexed his muscles. | |  | | To Truckee's Trail
The greatest wagon-train adventure... never told
"To Truckee's Trail" is a fictional re-telling of the greatest real-life adventure on the California wagon-train trail --- of which you have most likely never heard. They were bold, daring, and lucky … and did everything right. The Stephens-Townsend Party of 1844 set out into a barely known and lightly-tracked wilderness; a party of fifty men, women and children, who walked nearly two thousand miles, across plain and desert, fording rivers and climbing mountains. They hoisted their wagons up a sheer mountain cliff, got caught in the snow and nearly starved, and along the way they were press- |
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