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Four towns dismantled slowly while their inhabitants grieve for a
history and heritage that has been voted away from them. Based on
an actual event which displaced four entire towns in central
Massachusetts for the construction of a reservoir, families are
divided between those who protest the construction project, those
who give up and leave, and those who help to build it. A rift
between two brothers, Eli and John Vaughn, at the turn of the
twentieth century continues through to the next generation as John
tries to use Jenny, Eli's daughter, in a plot to regain the family
farm. Jenny becomes the guardian of her family's heritage, and
ultimately, the one to decide what happens to them. Torn between
loyalty to her family and heritage, and the allure of a future
beyond the valley, Jenny refuses to remain powerless like the men
she loves, but looks for a way to take control. A disastrous
decision may prove fatal in a race against time.
A late twenty-first century time traveler battles bards, druids,
warrior queens, and Roman cohorts for survival during the Celtic
rebellion against the Romans in Britannia, 60 AD. Time traveler
John Moore's fate is determined by four women: the Celtic warrior
queen Boudicca; Tailtu, a gentle slave purchased from another clan;
Dr. Eleanor Roberts, a severe, jealous and brilliant woman who
spearheads the time travel mission; and enigmatic Dr. Cheyenne
L'Esperance, herself a time traveler from an even more distant
future. Moore's mission to survive three battles against the Roman
legions coincides with survival tactics and backstabbing in the
modern government department. The savage past clashes swords with
the desperate future in a time continuum of treachery.
"Speak Out Before You Die," the second in the "Double V Mysteries"
series reunites wealthy Juliet Van Allen and ex-con Elmer Vartanian
on New Year's Eve, 1949. Guests are gathered in snowbound mansion
for the wedding of Juliet's widowed father to an elegant younger
woman just after the clock strikes midnight. When Juliet finds what
appears to be a threatening note directed at her father, she calls
Elmer to pose as a hired servant to help ferret out the
danger...but midnight is approaching and time is running out. There
may be murder as the old year dies.
The three articles that comprise this book tell different stories
about the Ames Manufacturing Company of Chicopee, Massachusetts,
which played an important role as an arms manufacturer during the
American Civil War. Together, they make up a kind of composite of
the Northern Civil War experience in the small, but dynamic,
universe of a factory town. We meet Nathan P. Ames and James T.
Ames, brothers who founded the firm, the younger burdened with the
responsibility to continue the company after the tragic and grisly
death of the older brother. We meet two workers in the factory, one
of whom, Charles Tracy, was a machinist who left his position to
join the army, and came home without a leg-and was awarded the
Medal of Honor. He was cared for by Clara Barton, and comforted by
President Abraham Lincoln in the hospital ward. The other man,
Melzar Mosman, just a boy of nineteen, worked in the foundry
department of the factory, forging canon. He also left to join the
army, but after the war would become celebrated for forging bronze
statuary, including a number of Civil War monuments.
Rose, a tall, bumbling American woman, travels to New Zealand to
re-establish ties with her late mother's family. Her ill-planned
adventure turns her life around, and that of Nora, her New Zealand
cousin, whose family problems immediately begin to involve Rose.
Nora's elderly mother, who broke off ties with Rose's family;
Nora's unemployed husband who confides his dreams to Rose instead
of to his wife; and Nora's brother whose emotional meltdown from
losing the family farm all challenge Rose to bring her family's
past full circle. A sudden romance with the farm manager with the
mysterious past of his own was not, however, on her original
agenda. She is anxious about continuing it lest she repeat mistakes
made by her American father and New Zealand mother. Armed with old
family letters, Rose retraces her mother's footsteps as a World War
II government agricultural worker, or Land Girl. The information
Rose learns from the letters is key to preventing a tragedy in
Nora's family.
A "cozy" post-World War II mystery about a museum heist, a missing
child, a murder, and the partnership of a recent ex-con and an even
more recent widow. In Hartford, Connecticut it is 1949, and Juliet
Van Allen, a museum administrator, discovers that her artist
husband is having an affair with another woman. Elmer Vartanian,
recently released from prison for a museum robbery, is coerced into
helping scout the museum for a heist by a gang that has kidnapped
his daughter. Juliet's husband is found murdered. Elmer signs on as
her alibi in exchange for something he wants. Together, dogged by
the scandal-monger newsman, the shrewd police detective, and
scrutinized by the even more judgmental eye of Hartford's elite,
the rich widow and the ex-con try to outrun them all in a 1948
Lincoln Cosmopolitan, in a world where Modern Art meets
old-fashioned murder.
Picture book, pre-K. Bob the Bear loves to run, but when his friend
enters him in a race, Bob faces a bewildering world of competition.
When he trips on his shoelace and falls, he is more worried about
disappointing his friend than losing the race. Both friends learn
in this warm and gentle story that winning isn't everything and
there's always a next time to try again.
Elmer and Juliet continue their rocky relationship while
investigating murder at a wealthy estate in Litchfield,
Connecticut, in the summer of 1950, while a horse show on the
grounds covers the tracks of a number of suspects. Elmer, an
ex-convict, is now off parole, the Korean War has just started, and
television antennas are starting to spring up on roofs all over the
place. It's the dawn of new, unsettling day.
A publicity stunt to attract tourists to a small dying town results
in the entire community turning the clock back to 1904. It is local
Christmas tree farmer Everett Campbell's idea, after watching the
film "Meet Me in St. Louis," his young daughter's new favorite
movie. What begins as half practical joke and half desperate ploy
initiates the rebirth of Nuthatch, Massachusetts. Tourists do come,
along with the media. To Everett's dismay, his campaign to save
their community results in also attracting representatives of a
chain of theme parks who want to buy Nuthatch 1904. Everett now
stands to lose his town in a way he never imagined, and the
community is divided on which alternate future to choose. A local
drug dealer, the longtime enemy of Everett, may hold their future
in his hands unless Everett can pull off his most spectacular, and
dangerous, practical joke.
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