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Author
Series
Publisher
YAV Publications
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the waning years of the 19th century, Bessie Daniels grows up in the small town of Hot Springs in western North Carolina. Secure in the love of her father, Bessie is determined to forge her own way in life. Or, as her great-grandmother, Elisi, outs it, to be a whistling woman. Life, however, has a few surprises for her. First, there's Papa carrying home a dead man, which seems to invite Death for an extended visit in their home. Shortly before...
Author
Series
Publisher
Spring Creek Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
204, 2 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the second decade of the 20th century, major world events resonate even on secluded Stone Mountain where Bessie Elliott lives with her husband Fletcher. There's a great war, one that takes away many young men, including Bessie's kin, some never to return. Bessie's role of healer intensifies as she treats those suffering from the Spanish flu and tries to keep it from spreading further on her mountain. She defends a young woman who's in the middle...
3) Wise woman
Author
Series
Publisher
Spring Creek Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
219 ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the mid 1920s, Bessie Elliott and her husband Fletcher take in their six-year-old nephew John. They are determined to give him a warm and secure home on Stone Mountain. Having a child brings many changes to their daily life and even more for John, but it isn't long before he feels completely at home with his aunt and uncle. As he learns about the farm animals, the wildlife and plant life on the mountain, he grows into a young man Bessie and Fletch...
Author
Series
Brown mountain lights volume 2
Publisher
Spring Creek Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lizzie Baker's only wish is to go home, but in order to do so, she has to find the one light on Brown Mountain that transported her back in time from 1969 to 1859. When Lizzie's one opportunity is thwarted, she remains trapped in the antebellum South, a time she's come to loathe, but that's not the only reason she's anxious to return home. Lizzie spends her days helping the Collins sisters doctor the people on Brown Mountain and in the little town...
Author
Series
Brown mountain lights volume 3
Publisher
Spring Creek Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
221 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
An abolitionist, Lizzie lives in a state that has seceded from the Union and finds herself, as a woman of that era, unable to protect slaves being mistreated by their plantation owners as well as women who suffer at the hands of their husbands, without rights or laws to protect them. Lizzie continues to learn herbal healing from the Collins sisters while helping her beau Josh transport runaway slaves to safety via the Underground Railroad. She begins...
Author
Series
Brown mountain lights volume 6
Publisher
Spring Creek Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
234 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Healer/time traveler Lizzie Baker remains in the mid 21st century, where chaos reigns as a foreign army slowly makes its way toward Brown Mountain, North Carolina. Although Lizzie questions whether they should flee or remain, her fiance Jonah Hampton, leader of the people of Brown Mountain, remains steadfast in his decision to stay put, reasoning that if they hide well enough, once the army sweeps through, it will continue on, leaving those on the...
Author
Series
Brown mountain lights volume 4
Publisher
Spring Creek Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
While fleeing from bushwhackers in 1864, Lizzie, Abbie Collins and Josh Hampton encounter a light Lizzie believes is hers. Hoping to get to safety, she pushes Abbie into the light, expecting Josh to follow. She and Abbie wake to find that this is not the Brown Mountain they remember. And Josh is nowhere to be found. Shocked to learn they've gone forward to the 21st century, Lizzie finds this time strikingly similar to that of the 19th as the people...
Author
Series
Brown mountain lights volume 5
Publisher
Spring Creek Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
229 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lizzie Baker knows the possibility of war looms ahead; she elects to stay in the 21st century. The threat of war becomes a reality when Lizzie treats a fatally injured man in Morganton, North Carolina who tells of the invasion of America by a foreign country. Lizzie and her lover Jonah Hampton, leader of a small community on Brown Mountain where Lizzie resides, along with the leader of the Morganton community, embark on a mission to try to locate...
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