Food for Thought...

A poor appetite for good books
eventually leads to intellectual
malnutrition.

Literature is my utopia. Helen Keller

History Notes:

1776:

Patrick Henry is named colonel of First Virginia Battalion.

Favorite Links

Everyone has their favorite links. Here are a few of mine:

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Links to other wonderful works well worth your reading!
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9 Miracles; by Leigh Watson

This isn't a military book, nor a Mama's book. This is a book about hope and encouragement and the realization that God cares and we are never alone when we are going through our darkest hour. HE will provide the strength you need when you have none left on your own.
   

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Bottom Dwellers; by Shane Etter

After suffering a stroke, forty-eight-year-old Patrick Dylan is scuba diving in Lake Lanier in north Georgia, for exercise and therapy. He encounters green skinned mutant people with gills who have been living there for more than fifty years, since the lake was created. While diving, Patrick also meets beautiful Park Ranger Trudy Price who soon becomes his fiancée.
Just as with all people, there 
are good and bad among the bottom dwellers of Lake Lanier. Patrick battles with the bad and is surprised by the good.
Thinking that they have left subterranean life in the deep waters of the lake, Patrick and Trudy get married and head to New York City for their honeymoon. When they are visiting the Cloisters Museum, a curator is found murdered. They are thrust into the investigation and discover another subterranean culture: The Mole People of underground Manhattan, denizens of the abandoned subway and train tunnels. Patrick and Trudy are once again coping with good and evil among a different kind of bottom dweller.


www.ShaneEtter.com
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Walk to Paradise Garden by John Campbell


Welcome to a historical read right out of WW 1. Lose yourself in a family saga that will leave you laughing, crying, holding your breath, and when you have turned the last page, want nothing more than to start back at page 1 to read it again! 
 As a historian myself, I truly appreciated the amount of research that went into covering such a saga, not only of historical events or places, but of movies, songs, wearing apparel, etc. Such an undertaking is astounding. The mix of how much to include is always a tricky matter, yet I believe Mr. Campbell has created a good recipe. 




http://NigelFields.wordpress.com/
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When The Chickens Came Home To Roost; by Joe Cobb Crawford

Through his unique narratives and plot development, Joe poignantly depicts those who lived on the upper rung of the Great Copper Basin's social ladder in the early 1960s, and those on the bottom. Thanks to a mule, two suspicious deaths, and a reluctant Yankee transplant, these two totally diverse social sets find their lives entwined in ways neither side could ever have imagined, often with unimaginable consequences. You'll first cackle with laughter but then be left squawking with horror as the truth surrounding two mysterious deaths is revealed!

www.CrawfordPoetryCompany.com

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Once More Into The Breach; by Mark Brian Swart


This book has a little something for everyone, a chuckle for those of us who have been there, done that, a guide for 'Fresh Fish' to follow, and offers an insight to those who visit events and wonder what it is really like to be a Civil War re-enactor. The glossary in the back is an excellent bonus, offering understanding to terms we use so frequently yet others might be baffled over. Also, the writing is so smooth it is as if the story weaver himself is sitting there sharing tales around the camp fire! 

As of this writing, Mr. Swart's website is under construction, but you can order copies on Amazon.com and others.

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Moon Over Taylor's Ridge, by Janie Dempsey Watts

Avie, 42, has a mission: take a quick trip to Georgia to settle her father's estate. Too busy to go, her attorney husband, Michael, 50, sends her off with their asthmatic son, Joseph, 13, to keep her company. In tiny Taylor's Crossing, Avie settles in but is soon thrown off course by overbearing and meddling family members and her son's fascination with a legendary Cherokee Silver mine. Their search for the silver mine leads her up to Taylor's Ridge and to a new friend, Will. As her stay lengthens, her life begins to unravel even as she begins to blossom and make new friends. For the first time in her life, she must learn to stand on her own and find her way. Will she stay with her husband or choose a new love? And how can she hold on to the red land she cherishes?
www.JanieWatts.com