Why him? Why here? Why now?Caroline Pierce O'Leary expects to work hard to earn her passage to the Oregon Country. She doesn't expect to find that the wagon train scout is a man with whom she shares a troubled past. Though Caroline is a Christian now, thanks to her late husband, she finds forgiving Michael to be the hardest part of her journey, harder even than the Trail.Michael Moriarty thought he'd left his past behind in "green and hurting Ireland." Seeing Caroline on his ...

A fiery Irishwoman. A haunted wagon master. Can they find hope on the Oregon Trail?After years of wandering, Pace Williams expects to find a home in the Oregon Country. He doesn't expect to fall in love with Oona Moriarty, a woman bent on returning to Ireland to avenge her family. Oona is drawn to Pace, but can she trust a man who seems as untamed as the Western landscape?Oona expects to exact revenge on the English overlords who destroyed her home. She doe...

The greatest orator in Roman history, Marcus Tullius Cicero remained one of the republic's chief supporters throughout his life, guided by profound political beliefs that illuminated his correspondence with both close friends and powerful aristocrats. A chronicle of a crumbling civilization during the era when the republic disintegrated and was replaced by despotism, his Letters portray a world dominated by characters who have since acquired almost mythic status - including Pompey, Caesar,...

The only comprehensive, single-volume survey of magic available, this compelling book traces the history of magic, witchcraft, and superstitious practices such as popular spells or charms from antiquity to the present day. Focusing especially on Europe in the medieval and early modern eras, Michael Bailey also explores the ancient Near East, classical Greece and Rome, and the spread of magical systems_particularly modern witchcraft or Wicca_from Europe to the United States. He examines how...

The only life Viola Chivers ever wanted was here in these Klamath Mountains, loving and serving her family. Pa's ambitions for her were different: go back East and become a lady, in an elegant "finishing school." But Vi's already "finished," and she knows what she wants: a life here with logger Stephen Miller, a man who shares her faith.Can Vi and Steve find a way to be together, and can she make sure this isn't her last Christmas in the Oregon Country?

Enlightenment and Secularism is a collection of twenty eight essays that seek to understand the connection between the European Enlightenment and the emergence of secular societies, as well as the character or nature of those societies. The contributors are drawn from a variety of disciplines including History, Sociology, Political Science, and Literature. Most of the essays focus on a single text from the Enlightenment, borrowing or secularizing the format of a sermon on a text, and are d...

Uniquely New HampshireNew Hampshire has always been fiercely independent, and its history, museums and festivals reflect that trait. Roy Campanella and Don Newcombe broke baseball's color barrier with the Nashua Dodgers in 1946, and Holman Stadium is now a stop on the Black Heritage Trail. Three of the state's historic mansions—the Fells, the Castle in the Clouds and the Saint-Gaudens historic site—remain as impressive today as when they were built. Portsmouth's hi...

A father's grief for his son. A daughter's grief for her father. And a love story that crossed continents and an ocean, coming to rest in a tiny New Hampshire town. This small state has more than enough heart, sending men and women to fight for freedom around the world.New Hampshire military personnel have distinguished themselves in every war from the French and Indian War to the dusty mountains of Afghanistan. The Granite State continues to honor their sacrifices, memorializing t...

By: Rev. J.D. Bailey, Orig. Pub. 1924, Reprinted 2018, 296 pages, soft cover, Index, ISBN #0-89308-002-0. An excellent reader for all ages on the part that Upper South Carolina played in the War for Independence. Chapters on several leading figures in the Revolution are given with family information and origins and the battles in which they participated. Also, many lesser figures. Patriot and Loyalists are mentioned, and many interesting incidents of the Revolution not elsewhere mentioned ...

Why him? Why here? Why now? Caroline Pierce O'Leary expects to work hard to earn her passage to the Oregon Country. She doesn't expect to find that the wagon train scout is a man with whom she shares a troubled past. Though Caroline is a Christian now, thanks to her late husband, she finds forgiving Michael to be the hardest part of her journey, harder even than the Trail. Michael Moriarty thought he'd left his past behind in "green and hurting Ireland." Seeing Caroline on his wagon train,...

Red Dawn's world was shattered in a single vengeful act, an act that brought her to into the home of the enemy. She couldn't love a white man, not after what they did to her people. Could she?After losing a limb serving his country, Laban Jones has built a life from nothing. He's got more than he dare ask for, but what woman would accept a one-legged husband? Can he offer Red Dawn three-quarters of a man, and will she be content with that?The answer they receive on a Christma...

Does the president represent the entire nation? Or does he speak for core partisans and narrow constituencies? The Federalist Papers, the electoral college, history and circumstance from the founders’ time to our own: all factor in theories of presidential representation, again and again lending themselves to different interpretations. This back-and-forth, Jeremy D. Bailey contends, is a critical feature, not a flaw, in American politics. Arriving at a moment of great debate over ...