Sadie Ferguson begins a journey where she will endure incredible hardship and unexpected triumph. As she starts to rebuild a life of her own, she finds she is misunderstood by many. She can't predict the trials in store for her, but she knows her faith in God will get her through. Through sheer faith and the will to survive, Sadie will overcome all manner of struggle, from finding work to finding love, to ultimately finding the true family she needs. Join author, Mary Ann Jenkins, for a touching tale of loss, love, and the perseverance of one woman and her God in The Witch's Journal.
When her Uncle Charlie dies, Mary discovers that she has inherited a house in Georgia. She travels to Sunset Cove, and unravela why her uncle never mentioned the house and why the townspeople don't want her to stay.
Life was simple for Betty Ann Sunshine when she was growing up way down in the backwoods of Alabama. Sometime later on in life Betty met Bobo Coxs, the man of her dreams. Little did she know that her life was about to be turned into a nightmare, a dark and shadowy nightmare that she would never forget.
When her Uncle Charlie dies, Mary discovers that she has inherited a house in Georgia. She travels to Sunset Cove, and unravela why her uncle never mentioned the house and why the townspeople don't want her to stay.
Metal Clay & Color explores adding color to metal clay jewelry in novel ways. Twenty top designers are working with all kinds of metal clay, various forms of silver, bronze, and copper, and adding different elements to add color to the projects. The 25 projects in this book include color with polymer clay, colored ceramics, patinas, resin, gemstones, seed beads, enamel, and more. All techniques are presented with step-by-step instructions and photographs. These well recognized contributors bring an eye-candy appeal to metal!
After experiencing life as an orphan, Jenny Walters, after her 21st birthday in 1985, is found to be the only heir of 300-acres of property called Rivers Run with a 19th Century manor house built in 1867. Immediately she identifies with the house from bizarre childhood fantasies, but finds the house in need of repairs and maintenance, as she deals with a female companion and the assigned caretakers of Rivers Run. In the house, Jenny begins experiencing strange episodes with her ancestors that reveal private moments from their past, convincing her there are many secrets in the old place that may involve her. With the help of a contractor, Jenny is adamant that, whatever it takes, Rivers Run will be restored to its original glory. Setbacks and unforeseen circumstances involving the caretakers, along with information from her ancestors, reveal surprising answers to Rivers Run secrets. As she finds love, begins new projects, and the mysteries unravel, will her problems be solved or or her troubles increase?
A facsimile reprint of the Second Edition (1994) of this genealogical guide to 25,000 descendants of William Burgess of Richmond (later King George) County, Virginia, and his only known son, Edward Burgess of Stafford (later King George) County, Virginia. Complete with illustrations, photos, comprehensive given and surname indexes, and historical introduction.
Curious Travellers: Writing the Welsh Tour, 1760-1820 provides the first extensive literary study of British tours of Wales in the Romantic period (c.1760-1820). It examines writers' responses to Welsh landscapes and communities at a time of drastic economic, environmental, and political change. Opening with an overview of Welsh tours up to the early 1700s, Mary-Ann Constantine shows how the intensely intertextual nature of the genre imbued particular sites and locations with meaning. She next draws upon a range of manuscript and published sources to trace a circular tour of the country, unpicking moments of cultural entanglement and revealing how travel-writing shaped understanding of Wales and Welshness within the wider British polity. Wales became a popular destination for visitors following the publication of Thomas Pennant's Tours in Wales in the late 1770s. Hundreds of travel-accounts from the period are extant, yet few (particularly those by women) have been studied in depth. Wales proves, in these narratives, as much a place of disturbance as a picturesque haven--a potent mixture of medieval past and industrial present, exposed down its west coast to the threat of invasion during the Napoleonic Wars. From castles to copper-mines, Constantine explores the full potential of tour writing as an idiosyncratic genre at the interface of literature and history, arguing for its vital importance to broader cultural and environmental studies.
Polly O'Brien is a girl of twelve who is desperately trying to save her father from the clutches of alcoholism. While attending Catholic school in the 1950s, she aspires to write and figure out life's mysteries without much guidance. Experiencing a frightening existence, she escapes by writing a book with the help of a ghost. Polly is visited by a spirit as she begins to pen a tale about the Irish Potato Famine. The apparition helps her to create by relating her own Famine story, and offers some advice. Dailearie O'Donovan, the visitation, tells of her adventures during the Famine in Ireland. By pirating and taking grain to county Mayo where their relatives previously died, she and her brothers hope to be the hand of God's bounty. This narrative describes coming of age before the era of information and the Internet, and the horrors of An Gorta Mór, The Great Hunger. It recounts the real difficulties that are often experienced by children and adults alike that have lived with someone suffering from alcoholism. Both the spirit and the very young author eventually find solutions to the devastating problems they both encounter
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