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The Lady from New York

By: Betty Annand

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The Lady from New York is the third historical novel in the trilogy about the tenacious and inspiring Gladys Tunner. Born in 1829 in Old Nichol—one of the worst slums in London—a young Gladys was forced to commit murder, following which she earned a life of riches, only to have widowhood and blackmail take it away and again be forced into servitude. This book begins in 1861 as Gladys and her son arrive in America on the SS Delaney to re-join her third husband, Angelo, leaving behind her daughters by her second husband in England. Will she ever be allowed to have her girls with her? With a host of labels—divorcee, wife, mother, friend, entrepreneur—Gladys struggles to make it all work. But if Gladys is to make a life for herself and everyone in her family, she must adapt quickly to a completely new way of being. Set primarily in New York and London, The Lady from New York captures the immigrant experience from a distinct perspective and will appeal to every age of reader, especially those who enjoy this period of history, in England and the new world. Fans of the author’s previous two novels will not be disappointed by this third installment. A wonderful story about a woman who uses her good fortune in America to help less-fortunate people from her place of origin, it’s the kind of book that keeps you in great company. Written with conviction to its characters—the complex web of interpersonal relationships and the personal ambitions of each character—this is historical fiction at its best!

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FriesenPress

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1525542001

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9781525542008

The Lady from New York

By: Betty Annand

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By: Betty Annand

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1525542001

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The Woman from Dover

By: Betty Annand

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The Woman from Dover

By: Betty Annand

Stung with the bitter loss of the life she had built, Gladys's story from The Girl from Old Nichol continues with Gladys as a housekeeper for the wealthy widower, James Hornby. Reunited with Toughie for one night before he leaves for New York with his bride, their romantic interlude leaves Gladys alone and pregnant. Fearing the workhouse, Gladys confesses all to James, who offers to marry her and legitimize Toughie’s baby. The new family lives happily, adding a daughter of their own. When Toughie returns years later as a widower, he meets his son and begs Gladys to travel to New York with him. Torn between the man she has loved since childhood and a comfortable life of luxury for herself and her children, Gladys faces a decision that will only lead to devastation; no matter what choice she makes, someone will be hurt and abandoned.

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Amberjack Publishing

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1944995412

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9781944995416

The Girl from Old Nichol

By: Betty Annand

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The Girl from Old Nichol

By: Betty Annand

Born into extreme poverty in the very worst of the London slums, young Gladys Tunner strives to survive her circumstances, including her alcoholic parents. Desperation and dreams for a better life are a constant. Her childhood best friend and protector Toughie looks after her until she's forced to escape and run for her life, creating an elaborate masquerade that leads to both love and heartbreak. This rich and compelling historical novel takes you from the streets of London to the manor houses of the English countryside where it has you rooting for Gladys, not just to survive, but to thrive.

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391

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Amberjack Publishing

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0997237783

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9780997237788

Destiny's Tapestry

By: Betty June Gilliland

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Destiny's Tapestry

By: Betty June Gilliland

On a stormy night, as a hurricane raced up the Gulf Coast and created havoc in its path, Betty Gilliland was born on a corn shuck mattress in a barn at the foot of Sand Mountain. As soon as the midwife wrapped her in a blanket and gently laid her in a cow manger, Gilliland began a journey through life that would eventually test her spirit, courage, and, most of all, her power to forgive. Gilliland begins by chronicling her growing up years during a challenging time in America's history. Her father was drafted into the war and then abandoned his family, leaving Gilliland and her mother to eke out a life for themselves in their tiny cabin, surviving on a diet of wild greens, nuts, and roots. As she weaves through the threads of her life's tapestry, Gilliland recalls the challenges she confronted during her difficult coming-of-age journey as she suffered through hardships, physical abuse, emotional abandonment, and her own self-destructive behavior. Yet through it all, she never lost the faith. What's more, she used that faith to begin building a new life and to discover her roots. Destiny's Tapestry shares one woman's poignant memories of moving from the darkness of abuse into the light of healing.

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349

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iUniverse

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1491728507

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9781491728505

Descendants of Patrick O'grady and Mary Steele 1757-2005

By: Betty O'Grady Matiskella

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Descendants of Patrick O'grady and Mary Steele 1757-2005

By: Betty O'Grady Matiskella

This book is a synopsis of many years of research in an eff ort to add a human face and personality to the data culled from various sources of vital records. As the family tree unfurls, it reveals the vivid contrasts between its many branches. It exposes the hardships and devastating eff ects of alcoholism that followed several branches, as well as the prestige and prosperity that were perpetuated in others. However, each individual is equally important to the color and texture of the fi ne tapestry created by this OGrady family history.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1479762687

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9781479762682

Longest Journey

By: Betty McInnes

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Longest Journey

By: Betty McInnes

A Scottish historical saga of exile, disaster, secrets . . . and love - The Scottish Highlands, 1848. Mary-Ann Macgregor's life is full of quiet contentment with her husband Ewan. But when her son Davey befriends a new arrival to the village, Janet, he sets in motion a disastrous chain of events. Harshly punished for a minor crime, Ewan and Davey are sentenced to exile in Australia. Mary-Ann is determined to keep her family together, but her past is catching up with her, and soon her children will know the secret she has tried so hard to keep . . .

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259

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Severn House Publishers Ltd

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1780103891

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9781780103891

I Did It My (Their) Way

By: Betty Lane Holland

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I Did It My (Their) Way

By: Betty Lane Holland

In the 1960s when Australian horse racing rules prevented women being racehorse trainers, Betty Lane broke down barriers and became listed in the top 10 from over 1000 trainers in New South Wales

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Balboa Press

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1504319869

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9781504319867

Dirty Girl Mary Ann

By: Betty Rosa

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Dirty Girl Mary Ann

By: Betty Rosa

Mary Ann was an innocent working girl who got dirty and had got caught up into immigration fraud and breaking the law by making moonshine and selling it in the backwoods of Georgia.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1479771163

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9781479771165

Winifred Sanford

The Life and Times of a Texas Writer

By: Betty Holland Wiesepape

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Winifred Sanford

The Life and Times of a Texas Writer

By: Betty Holland Wiesepape

Winifred Sanford is generally regarded by critics as one of the best and most important early twentieth-century Texas women writers, despite publishing only a handful of short stories before slipping into relative obscurity. First championed by her mentor, H. L. Mencken, and published in his magazine, The American Mercury, many of Sanford’s stories were set during the Texas oil boom of the 1920s and 1930s and offer a unique perspective on life in the boomtowns during that period. Four of her stories were included in The Best American Short Stories of 1926. Questioning the sudden end to Sanford’s writing career, Wiesepape, a leading literary historian of Texas women writers, delved into the author’s previously unexamined private papers and emerged with an insightful and revealing study that sheds light on both Sanford’s abbreviated career and the domestic lives of women at the time. The first in-depth account of Sanford’s life and work, Wiesepape’s biography discusses Sanford’s fiction through the lens of the sociohistorical contexts that shaped and inspired it. In addition, Wiesepape has included two previously unpublished stories as well as eighteen previously unpublished letters to Sanford from Mencken. Winifred Sanford is an illuminating biography of one of the state’s unsung literary jewels and an important and much-needed addition to the often overlooked field of Texas women’s writing.

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209

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University of Texas Press

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0292742983

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9780292742987

Austin Colony Pioneers

A Collection of Early Families Who Came to Stephen F. Austin’s Colony in Texas and Their Descendants

By: Betty Smith Meischen

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Austin Colony Pioneers

A Collection of Early Families Who Came to Stephen F. Austin’s Colony in Texas and Their Descendants

By: Betty Smith Meischen

Austin Colony Pioneers is a collection of many families that came to Texas in its earliest days and the German settlers and their influences upon the growth of Texas. The book is filled with many anecdotes, short stories, obituaries and articles gleaned from area newspapers. These early families intermarried and not only filled Austin’s original colony but their descendants went to every corner of America. The book traces many of these early pioneers into the present day and also gives their roots before they came to Texas. Colonel William Barret Travis of the Alamo has been a constant element of Betty’s historical research because her family was connected to him in many ways. There are descriptions of persons of historical note such as that of General George Custer and his command of Hempstead, Waller County, after the Civil War. There are stories of towns that once flourished and today are no more. The pages are packed with accounts such as the Bell-Schaffner feud and Shootout in Sealy, Texas and tales of infamous Six Shooter Junction, of Elizabeth Ney, the famous sculptress, and many other historical places and persons of interest.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1796043001

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9781796043006

Silent Sisters

An Ethnography Of Homeless Women

By: Betty G. Russell

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Silent Sisters

An Ethnography Of Homeless Women

By: Betty G. Russell

This work on homelessness amongst women investigates how far it is a gender- based condition. Describing the lives of women without homes, and drawing upon homeless women's views of themselves and society, the book offers a cultural analysis which contains elements of an answer to the problem.

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Routledge

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1136592857

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9781136592850

From Jamestown to Texas

A History of Some Early Pioneers of Austin County

By: Betty Smith Meischen

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From Jamestown to Texas

A History of Some Early Pioneers of Austin County

By: Betty Smith Meischen

The rugged character and indomitable spirit of the early pioneers of Stephen F. Austins Texas colony had their roots in a turbulent, distant past. From the early 1600s, their courageous ancestors had pushed westward, leaving the European shores to carve out a new nation from the wilderness. They fled religious and political oppression in search of a better life in which freedom was of supreme importance. Many came with tales of their former struggles in Londonderry, Ireland during the great siege, of terrible massacres and clan rivalries in the times of William Wallace and Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland. They vividly remembered the tribulations of Martin Luther and the deadly religious split with the Catholic Church. More recently, memories of their parents participation in the American Revolution, of dramatic, true life scenes such as depicted in the movie The Patriot filled their minds, their fathers having ridden along side of the wily Swamp Fox, Francis Marion. These pioneers associated themselves with men like Travis, Crockett, Houston and Andrew Jackson. Many of these early trailblazers were Scots-Irish and German immigrants. They were on a westward trek to grasp a special prize, to seal Americas Manifest Destiny. And that prize they sought was Texas. From Jamestown to Texas is the story of these intrepid pioneers and their ancestors who cleared and farmed the land, who fought the Indians, battled the elements, and carved out this wonderful country that we have today.

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1453576398

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9781453576397

The Woman from Dover

By: Betty Annand

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The Girl from Old Nichol

By: Betty Annand

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By: Betty Annand

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Bed and Breakfast U. S. A., 1987

By: Betty Rundback

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Bed and Breakfast U. S. A., 1987

By: Betty Rundback

A leader in the field of B&B guides, with extensive inn listings, guaranteed rates, recipes, and tips on how to start your own B&B. Illustrated.

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Plume Books

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0525482636

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9780525482635

Book's by Betty Annand

The Lady from New York

The Lady from New York

The Lady from New York

The Lady from New York

The Woman from Dover

The Woman from Dover

The Girl from Old Nichol

The Girl from Old Nichol

Destiny's Tapestry

Destiny's Tapestry

Descendants of Patrick O'grady and Mary Steele 1757-2005

Descendants of Patrick O'grady and Mary Steele 1757-2005

Longest Journey

Longest Journey

I Did It My (Their) Way

I Did It My (Their) Way

Dirty Girl Mary Ann

Dirty Girl Mary Ann

Winifred Sanford

Winifred Sanford

Austin Colony Pioneers

Austin Colony Pioneers

Silent Sisters

Silent Sisters

From Jamestown to Texas

From Jamestown to Texas

The Woman from Dover

The Woman from Dover

The Girl from Old Nichol

The Girl from Old Nichol

Bed and Breakfast U. S. A., 1987

Bed and Breakfast U. S. A., 1987

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