Butterfly Premonitions by Nancy Roe Premonitions. A missing father. A murdered stepmother. A reopened cold case. Merli Whitshire’s foreboding premonitions lead her home after a ten-year absence. She hopes to find her missing father, but her first night in Haven Hill, Iowa ends with a murdered stepmother. Merli’s reintroduced to her four best friends she hasn’t seen for ten years since the evening of high school graduation. She had cancelled her summer plans and abruptly moved to New York … [Read more...] about Butterfly Premonitions by Nancy Roe
Family First: Tracing Relationships in the Past by Ruth A Symes by Ruth A Symes
Husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, children, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents - these are the relationships that structure the family tree and fascinate the family historian. But how much do we really know about how our ancestors lived out these multiple roles? Buffeted this way and that by economic developments, legal changes, medical advances, Two World Wars, the rise of the Welfare State, women's emancipation and many other factors, relationships between members of our family … [Read more...] about Family First: Tracing Relationships in the Past by Ruth A Symes by Ruth A Symes
Belonging by Ruth ONeil @writerrutho
This book is bargain priced from 07/09/2014 until 08/02/2014 After the death of her father, painfully shy and introverted Shelly finds her world turned upside down. She is forced to speak with people and she may even have to move from her comfortable apartment. Sorting through her father’s possessions at his house brings back many memories, including how they would research her mom’s genealogy so that in a way, she could get to know her mother’s family, who are all deceased. Shelly wonders … [Read more...] about Belonging by Ruth ONeil @writerrutho
Jumping the Fence: A Legacy of Race in 150 Years of Family Secrets by Maureen Esnard Gilmer
Jumping The Fence is an extraordinary true story of a mixed race New Orleans family, rooted in the secretive gens de coleur libres, the free people of color of the French Quartery. As the story unfolds the reader becomes aware of the free colored class before the Civil War and how they took part in the politics of Reconstruction, then suffered under the gradual stranglehold of Jim Crow legislation. While much is written about this period, this is the first book to explore through the lives of … [Read more...] about Jumping the Fence: A Legacy of Race in 150 Years of Family Secrets by Maureen Esnard Gilmer
