Wildflower" McAllister's daughter, Lily, now 14, struggles with her mother's reluctance to tell her who her father is. When a stranger appears on the family doorstep, drunk and evoking ghosts from the past, it threatens to break the close-knit McAllister family apart. Meanwhile, Wildflower has a deep secret of her own. When Lily discovers it by accident, it changes everything she thought she knew about her mother. The events that follow silence the singing she dreamed of sharing with the world. With her signature metaphors, Gabriel weaves a compelling tale that captures the resilience and strength of both mother and daughter, as secrets revealed test their strong bond and ultimately change their lives forever. Set in 1956 southern Appalachia.
In Charleston, South Carolina, 1964, Ida Trueluck, her 12-year-old granddaughter, Trudy, and her friends, a white girl and a black boy, attempt the impossible: to take down the Confederate flag that flies atop the South Carolina State House. A captivating novel about courage and the risks and rewards of trying to make the world a better place.
Set in 1940s Appalachia, The Secret Sense of Wildflower tells the story of Louisa May "Wildflower" McAllister whose life has been shaped around the recent death of her beloved father in a sawmill accident. While her mother hardens in her grief, Wildflower and her three sisters must cope with their loss themselves, as well with as the demands of daily survival. Despite these hardships, Wildflower has a resilience that is forged with humor, a love of the land, and an endless supply of questions to God. When Johnny Monroe, the town's teenage ne'er-do-well, sets his sights on Wildflower, she must draw on the strength of her relations, both living and dead, to deal with his threat. With prose as lush and colorful as the American South, The Secret Sense of Wildflower is powerful and poignant, brimming with energy and angst, humor and hope. In its ability to create a truly original Southern voice, The Secret Sense of Wildflower establishes Gabriel as a thoughtful and powerful Southern writer.
She must return to the place that twice brought her shame. She'll have one final chance to save someone else.Tennessee, 1982. Wildflower McAllister thought she'd put the past behind her. But when she learns her mother is dying, she digs deep and returns to the small mountain town that stole her innocence and cast her out. And she has no choice but to pull her thirteen-year-old granddaughter Daisy right back into the ghosts of her painful history.As her mother passes, Wildflower's grief turns to despair when Daisy's fortune is read, predicting a dark future and the return of sinister threats. With her granddaughter keeping a terrible secret, Wildflower's distress forces her to call upon the community that rejected her to prevent another tragedy from playing out in front of her eyes.Can Wildflower stop a harrowing legacy from spreading to another generation?Daisy's Fortune is the emotional conclusion to the Wildflower Trilogy. If you like strong women, generational tales, and the power of family and the land to heal, then you'll adore Susan Gabriel's compelling finale.Book 1: The Secret Sense of WildflowerBook 2: Lily's SongBook 3: Daisy's Fortune
2 books in 1 volume: Temple Secrets (400+ reviews) & Gullah Secrets. Save 27% over individual books! Temple Secrets: A town held together with secrets. A wealthy widow looking for an heir. One choice could shame high society into submission. Temple Secrets is a hilarious novel with a Southern gothic flair. If you like wisecracking humor, headstrong women, and twisty mysteries, then you'll love this compelling tale of an unconventional inheritance. Gullah Secrets (Sequel to Temple Secrets): A family legacy in danger. A stranger in their midst. Do they have the strength to survive the gathering storm of secrets? For the Temple women, the winds of change are blowing. And if they're not careful, it could sweep them all away? Gullah Secrets is the sequel to the bestselling novel Temple Secrets. If you like Southern gothic literature, characters you won't want to close the cover on, and locations steeped in history, then you'll love this hilarious and warmhearted saga.
Fans of The Help and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil will delight in this comic novel of family secrets by acclaimed writer, Susan Gabriel (The Secret Sense of Wildflower, a Best Book of 2012 by Kirkus Reviews). Every family has secrets, but the elite Temple family of Savannah has more than most. To maintain their influence, they've also been documenting the indiscretions of other prestigious southern families, dating as far back as the Civil War. When someone begins leaking these tantalizing tidbits to the newspaper, the entire city of Savannah, Georgia is rocking with secrets. The current keeper of the secrets and matriarch of the Temple clan is Iris, a woman of unpredictable gastrointestinal illnesses and an extra streak of meanness that even the ghosts in the Temple mansion avoid. When Iris unexpectedly dies, the consequences are far flung and significant, not only to her family-who get in line to inherit the historic family mansion-but to Savannah itself. At the heart of the story is Old Sally, an expert in Gullah folk magic, who some suspect cast a voodoo curse on Iris. At 100 years of age, Old Sally keeps a wise eye over the whole boisterous business of secrets and the settling of Iris's estate. In the Temple family, nothing is as it seems, and everyone has a secret.
This delightful collection of short stories from this bestselling author, is rich in humor as well as mystery and meaning. Whether white or black, living or dead, down home country of upscale urban, Gabriel's characters and quirky, poignant and deep. They include: A Gullah woman using folk magic to cast her latest spell. A girl coming-og-age dealing with the death in 1940s Tennessee. A wealthy Savannah matriarch with gastrointestinal issues guarding family secrets. A good ol' boy observing himself shortly after his death. An agoraphobic woman striking up a unique friendship with the girl across the street. And a band of seventy-year-olds finding healing in a mountain stream. These stories are all rooted in the southern landscape-from the steamy coast of Georgia, to the current day Atlanta suburbs, to the ancient Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina.
With humor and honesty, Susan Louise Gabriel takes us on a journey that reveals how God uses extraordinary experiences and painful events to shape our lives into a masterpiece. False accusations, attempted suicide, life-altering medication side effects, illness, death, depression, and personality changes punctuate Susan's life and destroy hope. She retraces her steps from a low of total disbelief in God - through calamities, hardships, and weird experiences - to arrive at joy and an unshakable faith in God. It is within adversity that Susan begins to understand God's love, the power of faith, and what an intimate relationship with God looks like. She finds that God's grace is so abundant, he gives us the opportunity to start over again - multiple times, if necessary - and takes care of us every step of the way, even when we don't feel his presence. Susan ultimately learns how to let go and trust God with her life, hear God's voice, and trust God's timing. Written in a quirky, conversational style, this inspirational autobiography is a message of hope to others who have struggled to conquer depression, find themselves, and turn an upended life the right way around again. Audiences will find that Stuck in Reverse: Finding Joy in the Middle of Weird is a book that deserves to be read. It's easy to read, hard to put down, and impossible to forget. A cross between a memoir and an autobiography, the book footnotes specific topics, such as autoimmune diseases, false accusations, genetic mutations, medication side effects, and MBTI personality types, with references to relevant articles and studies that many readers will find helpful. Stuck in Reverse has been described by readers as a "well-written, funny, sad, terrifying, inspirational, and powerful true story about a family that keeps you turning page after page to find out what happens next.
Gullah Secrets is the sequel to the bestselling novel Temple Secrets. If you like Southern gothic literature, characters you won't want to close the cover on, and locations steeped in history, then you'll love this hilarious and warmhearted saga.
The Secret Sense of Wildflower Named a Best Book of 2012 by Kirkus Reviews. Small southern towns have few secrets in Appalachia, 1941. When thirteen-year-old Louisa May "Wildflower" McAllister is targeted by the town's teenage bully, she may need more than her "secret sense" to survive. Lily's Song A mother's secrets, a daughter's dream, and a family's loyalty are masterfully interwoven in this sequel to The Secret Sense of Wildflower. A compelling tale set in 1956 Appalachia that captures the resilience and strength of both mother and daughter, as secrets revealed test their strong bond and ultimately change their lives forever. Daisy's Fortune Tennessee, 1982. Wildflower McAllister returns to the small mountain town that stole her innocence and cast her out. Can she stop a harrowing legacy from spreading to another generation? If you like strong women, generational tales, and the power of family and the land to heal, then you'll adore this compelling finale to the Wildflower trilogy.
A town held together with secrets. A wealthy widow looking for an heir. One choice could shame high society into submission. Temple Secrets is a hilarious novel with a Southern gothic flair. If you like wisecracking humor, headstrong women, and twisty mysteries, then you'll love this compelling tale of an unconventional inheritance.
These riveting personalities each achieved excellence, but even greater than their individual accomplishments is the positive Hispanic image they collectively represent to the world. Photographs, illustrations, and lively text tell the stories ot these fascinating historical figures.
Gabriel Morgan returns to the Northumberland village of Corby as the new church pastor. Eager to serve his parishioners, he settles into the position with energy and enthusiasm. He doesn’t expect to run into Mattie Wilson, the girl he grew up with—the woman he fell in love with—and then lost years ago. Reconnecting with Gabriel stirs up long-lost dreams in Miss Matilda Wilson, but her father’s overindulgences and shameful death, have brought her down in the world since her carefree, youthful days with Gabriel. Ashamed of her father’s past and struggling to understand her Grandfather’s quiet brand of faith, she struggles with believing anyone can find her worthy of love—especially Gabriel, whose love for God tugged him away from her once already.As the two become reacquainted, and Gabriel recognizes Matilda’s broken, hesitant spirit, his heart aches for her. While he eagerly shares with her the wonder of God, a small miracle binds them together—the discovery of an abandoned baby.As Christmas draws near, can Gabriel break down the walls of Matilda’s heart to see the wonder of it all? His affection for her blooms as he watches her uncover the greatest gift of all—unconditional love.
Humanity's Legacy is a collection of techniques that take the reader on a personal journey of transformation and shifting vibration. It was given to the Earth to help at this time of Spiritual Awakening and Evolution.
In "Christmas on 4th Street, " Noelle Perkins opens her store, The Christmas Attic, in Fool's Gold, California, and business is booming, with the added bonus of the gorgeous army doctor Gabriel Boylan offering to help out during the holiday rush.
This emotional and lyrical novel is a timeless story about love, commitment, and transformation, as a woman struggling with cancer and the collapse of her marriage rekindles her attraction to a girlhood friend.
During his forty-two years as president of AMS Press, Gabriel Hornstein quietly sponsored and stimulated the revival of "long" eighteenth-century studies. Whether by reanimating long-running research publications; by creating scholarly journals; or by converting daring ideas into lauded books, "Gabe" initiated a golden age of Enlightenment scholarship. This understated publishing magnate created a global audience for a research specialty that many scholars dismissed as antiquarianism. Paper, Ink, and Achievement finds in the career of this impresario a vantage point on the modern study of the Enlightenment. An introduction discusses Hornstein's life and achievements, revealing the breadth of his influence on our understanding of the early days of modernity. Three sets of essays open perspectives on the business of long-eighteenth-century studies: on the role of publishers, printers, and bibliophiles in manufacturing cultural legacies; on authors whose standing has been made or eclipsed by the book culture; and on literary modes that have defined, delimited, or directed Enlightenment studies"--
Gabriel Morgan returns to the Northumberland village of Corby as the new church pastor. Eager to serve his parishioners, he settles into the position with energy and enthusiasm. He doesn’t expect to run into Mattie Wilson, the girl he grew up with—the woman he fell in love with—and then lost years ago. Reconnecting with Gabriel stirs up long-lost dreams in Miss Matilda Wilson, but her father’s overindulgences and shameful death, have brought her down in the world since her carefree, youthful days with Gabriel. Ashamed of her father’s past and struggling to understand her Grandfather’s quiet brand of faith, she struggles with believing anyone can find her worthy of love—especially Gabriel, whose love for God tugged him away from her once already.As the two become reacquainted, and Gabriel recognizes Matilda’s broken, hesitant spirit, his heart aches for her. While he eagerly shares with her the wonder of God, a small miracle binds them together—the discovery of an abandoned baby.As Christmas draws near, can Gabriel break down the walls of Matilda’s heart to see the wonder of it all? His affection for her blooms as he watches her uncover the greatest gift of all—unconditional love.
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