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My Name is Jacob is the story of Robert's great-grandfather Jacob Sell, born in 1836, the son of German immigrants, and raised on a farm in Indiana. He enlisted in the army at age twenty-four.He was assigned to Company F, Forty-Sixth Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment and sent to battle in Mississippi River area. After three and a half years of battle, he and a group of his unit were captured in the Battle of Sabine Crossroads on the Texas-Lo...

A small autistic orphan is taken in by a furniture store owner who gives her a place to live and a purpose in life. The girl (Vallie) who has been rebuffed by the store owner's wife turns into a heroine. When Vallie is finally accepted by the store owner's wife, it is Vallie's turn at rejection.

Born in England in 1689, Royce Satterlee was orphaned at age seven. Forced to endure much abuse and slave-like conditions. He finally made it to the American colonies in 1714. Due to an unfortunate incident aboard the ship, he is dumped overboard within sight of the North Carolina shore. He manages to swim to shore. Tired and bewildered, he finds himself alone and afraid in a new and unforgiving land. He is spotted by a half-black, half-Indian...

This book depicts a woman who, because of a tragic event and unfortunate circumstances, is forced to eat from dumpsters and sleep under overpasses.

Sent out west to Tucson, Arizona, by the Denver newspaper to get a story on Cochise, the great Apache chief, Clyde and Eldon learn a whole new way of life. Cowboy boots, hats, and revolvers are all necessary facts of life and items of survival, and the two tenderfoots soon felt half-dressed without them. In the process of getting the story, one of the converted journalists falls in love with the beautiful half-Mexican, half-Apache widow of Coc...

A Korean War hero returns home to find his bank account has been raided, his home has been repossessed, and his wife has deserted him.Vowing never to work again, he finds his way to Spokane, Washington, and takes refuge in a large culvert.He eventually is convinced to go to work at a wheat farm, where he falls in love with the farmer's daughter.

The Ceremony at the Crying Tree depicts the life of a typical Sinixt Indian family living along the upper Columbia River during the last half and the first half of the 19th/20th centuries. This family traveled from Revelstoke, B.C., Canada, each summer in their sturgeon nosed canoes, to Kettle Falls on the Columbia to fish for salmon. Their way of life was ended when the U.S. government built the Grand Coulee Dam and the backwater covered the ...

Battle scarred and still suffering from a severe brain injury, Chad Hunnley returned home to his wife and his son, Chad Jr. Faced with the daunting task of running the huge Brierwood Plantation did not end up being his most formidable task. His biggest challenge was trying to deal with his ex-slave holder neighbor, Tyler Jeppson, a Ku Klux Clan leader.

Waking up on a North Carolina beach, Royce Satterlee is not sure whether or not he is dreaming. He is spotted by his friend, Loostah and now knows it is not a dream. When Blackbeard's ship, Queen Anne's Revenge is put on the auction block it is a mystery how a couple of illiterates living out of a cave can produce the fifty pounds to purchase it. Royce marries the mother of his son and they settle on a coastal farm. Royce kills a bear that is ...

With her beloved Royce dead and gone, Olga Sattlerlee is faced with running the huge Brierwood Estate and holding the family together. She manages to turn Brierwood into a lucrative venture for the residents and the community at large. Three generations of family come and go at the plantation during the times of prosperity and merriment and sadness when family members are committed to the earth. The proprietorship goes from Satterlee to Hunnle...

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