A superb book." THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE When quiet, shy Amelia Jones reads a desperate message that has fallen out of a barrel organ in the antique shop she just bought, she can't forget the words, "They're going to kill me soon..." Armed only with the woman's first name and the note written years before, Amelia begins a journey into the past, a search that takes her from the protective cocoon she's wrapped herself in to a precarious world where nothing is the way it seems, where fear is second nature, and dark secrets just might uncover murder--her own....
A Village in the Shadows is about survivors from the American Revolution who remained loyal to King George III. At the start of the revolution in 1776, families began to lose their homes, farms and businesses. They wanted to continue their old way of life under the orderly laws and security of the British Crown they had known in pre-revolutionary times. This type of government was being promised in Canada. A British Crown farming/resettlement program was implemented for families to grow grain and raise cattle on the west side of the Niagara River. Below the Escarpment, on the Niagara Peninsula, a Loyalist settlement developed at the intersection of two ancient Native trails. The settlement eventually became known as the village of St Davids. Its remarkable story started when Loyalist settlers arrived in the early 1780s. They became tenants of the land and laid down new roots. In 1812, they were once again beset by war. They had to defend their families from constant danger and they survived an incendiary attack by American Soldiers in 1814. Once more they had to rebuild their lives and businesses. Today, St Davids proud history is evident in its heritage homes, churches and burial grounds where many of the graves of the early settlers can be found.
Mrs. Walkers life has been a bridge between "olden days" and the modern technology age - an enlightening journey across bridges of achievement and trial spanning most of the 20th century plus interesting highlights from her ancestors in the late 1800s. Insight into how our world has changed, plus encouragement and challenge to those crossing their own Bridges of Life.
Short Stories is an anthology of short fiction not based on any one particular theme. Dorothy Walker uses the short story format to describe various settings, characters and subject matter. Each story is wonderfully enticing and all link together to form an admirable representation of Australian short fiction.
A passionate and intense affair that crosses two oceans. Sir John Marlin, an eye specialist from Sydney, in Paris for a medical conference; is captivated by Delia McKay, a widow also from Sydney, who happens to be staying at the same hotel. Once back in Australia, Marlin, unsatisfied in his marriage, persuades the widow to resume the affair... discretely of course. However, Delia is not ready to accept the role of the other woman. Power deceit and the censure of their grown families are all cards dealt in this game of love.
Autobiography of an adventurous octogenarian who has been mountain climbing, bush walking and cycling in many parts of the world. Dorothy Butler was awarded the Australian Geographic Society's Gold Medallion as Adventurer of the Year in 1988.
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