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40 Acres and No Mule

by Janice Holt Giles

" In the late 1940s, Janice and Henry Giles moved from Louisville, Kentucky, back to the Appalachian hill country where Henry had grown up a d where his family had lived since the time of the Revolution. With their savings, the couple bought a ramshackle house and forty acres of land on a ridge top and set out to be farmers like Henry's forebears. To this personal account of the trials of a city woman trying to... (more)

Lost Slayer Bind Up (Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Simon Pulse))

Lost Slayer Bind Up (Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Simon Pulse))

by Christopher Golden

Truth and Consequences Buffy Summers's adjustment to life at U.C. Sunnydale has not gone smoothly. She feels awkward, insecure, and jealous that Willow's all over the college life. So when she is visited by a prophecy of impending danger, the timing couldn't be worse. There's plenty of evil afoot as it is: a unified troop of vampires has descended upon Sunnydale, and tension between Buffy and Willow gets in the... (more)

The Path into Healing

by Sam Oliver

The Path into Healing is a model for healing through the feminine side of the soul. The purpose of this book is to outline a process whereby a person can understand and acquaint him or herself with an aspect of our awareness often neglected in our world today. Much of the emphasis in our world is on what a person can achieve without regard to how these achievements affect the world and the people living in these... (more)

Johnny Osage

Voyage to Santa FeJanice Holt Giles

Voyage to Santa Fe

by Janice Holt Giles

BLOOD BROTHER SIGN OF THE SEVEN TRILOGY BOOK (THE SIGN OF SEVEN TRILOGY, BOOK ONE)

BLOOD BROTHER SIGN OF THE SEVEN TRILOGY BOOK (THE SIGN OF SEVEN TRILOGY, BOOK ONE)

by nora roberts

Buffy the Vampire Slayer-The Gatekeeper Triology:-Ot of the Madhouse/Ghost Roads/Sons of Entropy

Buffy the Vampire Slayer-The Gatekeeper Triology:-Ot of the Madhouse/Ghost Roads/Sons of Entropy

by Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder

Wicked Willow II: Shattered Twilight (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Wicked Willow II: Shattered Twilight (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

by Yvonne Navarro, Joss Whedon

Even Willow's own coven has turned against her now. Condemned for saving Buffy from their evil phantom and for not protecting the other coven members fully, as she had promised, Willow must come up with a way to restore herself to them -- and to reinforce her position of power, which hangs in the balance. But the truth -- that she battled the phantom because the ghost of Tara told her to -- will only lower... (more)

Sins of the Father (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Sins of the Father (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

by Christopher Golden

Stone-Cold Killer One night while on patrol, the Slayer and her friends are outnumbered and receive aid from a totally unexpected source: Buffy's old flame, Pike. He and Buffy had a complex relationship back in Los Angeles, when the Chosen One was first called. Now, Pike has arrived in Sunnydale, on the run from a stone demon with a grudge. Faced with this blast from the past, Buffy finds herself caught... (more)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: A Stake to the Heart (Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Dark Horse))

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: A Stake to the Heart (Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Dark Horse))

by Fabian Nicieza, Tom Fassbender, Jim Pascoe, Cliff Richards, Fabian Nicieza, Tom Fassbender

Buffy is dead. Her friends are trying to get on with their lives. Between them, there is enough anger, frustration, loss, guilt, and tragedy to resurrect an ancient demon. Sunnydale being what it is, things aren’t looking too good for Willow, Xander, and the gang. A lovelorn demon has been set free into our dimension, and its food is the grief of Buffy’s nearest and dearest. If that’s not bad enough, a horde of... (more)

What Happened to Cass McBride?

by Gail Giles

"The setting is claustrophobic, the characters are complex and the story will keep readers on the edge of their seats," KLIATT raved of this vivid, fast-paced psychological thriller in a starred review. Kyle Kirby has planned a cruel and unusual revenge on Cass McBride, the most popular girl in school, for the death of his brother David. He digs a hole. Kidnaps Cass. Puts her in a box--underground. He buries her... (more)

Wicked Willow (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Wicked Willow (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

by Yvonne Navarro

Wrestling with her increasing addiction to magic, Willow is devastated when her inability to stop using her power results in Tara leaving her. Far worse is to come however when no sooner are she and Tara reconciled than Tara is shot and killed by a stray bullet which had been meant for Buffy. Out of her mind with grief, Willow opens herself to the full power of her magic -- but magic of the darkest possible kind.... (more)

The Enduring Hills

by Janice Holt Giles

" The Enduring Hills was Janice Holt Giles's first novel. Originally published in 1950, the novel is based in part on her own courtship and introduction to the Kentucky mountain country. Giles's first novel introduces Hod and Mary Pierce and begins her trilogy of the people of Appalachia. Hod Pierce, a boy not unlike Henry Giles, who grows up on Piney Ridge, where generations of Pierces have made a living from the... (more)

Miss Willie

by Janice Holt Giles

With a Foreword by Wade Hall Miss Willie, first published in 1951, is part of Giles's Piney Ridge Trilogy. It tells the story of an earnest teacher who moves to the hills of Kentucky to teach in a one-room schoolhouse. Zealously, she tries to change the ways of the stubborn and proud Appalachian people, but to no avail. They listen to her ideas about sanitation and other foolishness because to argue would be rude.... (more)

The Kentuckians

by Janice Holt Giles

"The Kentuckians of Janice Holt Giles's title were that hardy band of angels who straggled through Cumberland Gap in the 1770s and carved their farms from the wilderness of Virginia's westernmost country. In her historical novel, first published in 1953, Giles invited the reader to experience the danger and beauty of life on the American frontier.Many of the frontiersmen were hunter in search of escape from an... (more)

The Believers

by Janice Holt Giles

"In her historical novels about Kentucky, Janice Holt Giles has become known for the integrity with which she handles her material and for the realism with which she writes. In The Believers, first published in 19567, she continues her series about the settling of Kentucky with a moving story of love and marriage set in a Shaker community.Rebecca Fowler is only seventeen when she marries Richard Cooper. She cannot... (more)

Hannah Fowler

by Janice Holt Giles

"In the novel Hannah Fowler, Janice Hold Giles created a pioneer woman who would, In Giles's words, "endow her own physical seed with her strength and courage, and her own tenderness and love." First published in 1956, this work is the second in Giles's series of historical novels on Kentucky, which includes The Kentuckians and The BelieversSamuel Moore and his daughter Hannah set out for the border country with a... (more)

The great adventureJanice (Holt) Giles

The great adventure

by Janice (Holt) Giles

Tara's Healing

by Janice (Holt) Giles

" This is the story of Tara Cochrane, who had been Hod's captain during World War II. Tara had returned from Europe to study medicine and start a practice, only to collapse with a severe nervous breakdown. Hod finds him in the hospital, scarcely recognizable as the tough commander who had slogged it out beside his men through France, Germany, and Austria. When the time comes for Hod to leave the hospital, he... (more)

Run Me a River

by Janice H. Giles

" The rich history of river life in Kentucky permeates Janice Holt Giles's novel Run Me a River. Set in 1861, at the beginning of Kentucky's reluctant entry into the Civil War, the novel tells the story of a five-day adventure on the Green River. Aboard the Rambler, a ramshackle steamboat, Captain Bohannon Cartwright and his crew journey 184 miles and pick up two extra passengers along the way. The boatmenrescue... (more)

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