These Kaleidoscope Hills


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Imagine belonging to a family of eleven children Lonnie Moulder knows exactly what its like. He and his family lived close to the banks of the Big Niangua River. Here, Lonnie trapped, fished, and farmed while his wife, Myrtle, cared for their eleven children. Forced to sell his home in 1929 to make way for the construction of the Lake of the Ozarks, they left the beloved river and relocated to a small farm south of Macks Creek, Missouri. Author L.L. Bartell takes you back in time, spanning the early 1900s through 1940s, with these colorful stories taken from the memories of the eight amazing Moulder girls.




Into the Fairy Hill


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Headstrong heroines and hot-tempered chieftains, loch monsters and hill fairies, cattle raids and clan feuds, wise animals and foolish saints: the Scottish Highlands' folktales date back centuries and preserve the history and beliefs of a people deeply rooted in their land and culture. Oral traditions connect the modern world with the hearts and minds of Scottish Highlanders across the ages, bringing their world to life in vivid detail. This anthology includes new and approachable translations of folktales from the Scottish Highlands and Nova Scotia, providing extensive commentary on this rich storytelling tradition. Each story is annotated with information about its origins and any insights into its meaning. The original Scottish Gaelic texts, collected from a wide variety of rare and obscure sources, are provided in an appendix.







A Girl from the Hill


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My mother is the closest thing to God I know. Her God concept, whether she knows it or not, is that she cannot be fully known by just one name or one single entity. Not Dahlia, Zalia, Zat, Dale, Mrs. Testa, Gale, Ma, Grammy, Mimi but someone other. Someone who serves as many beings to many people, revealing herself to each of us in ways that we can best appreciate and understand. After decades of indifference, self-indulgence, rebelliousness, embarrassment, and plain old apathy, I can finally say I truly appreciate my mother and her many pseudonyms. But Ive never been able to understand her as well as a daughter should. She deserves understanding and to have her stories and memories chronicled. I hope I do them justice.




The House on Round Hill Road


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Deirdre Lincoln is a middle-aged nursery owner who has escaped the confines of her New England upbringing to make a new life for herself with her husband, Jeremy, in the Pacific Northwest. Her peaceful world is interrupted by an unexpected phone call from her older sister delivering the news of her mothers sudden death. Deirdre leaves behind her preseason plant ordering to fly east and work with her sisters to plan the funeral and take care of family businessmost importantly, selling the house they grew up in, a place rich with memories. It is the first time the four women have spent time together as adults, although they have kept in touch over the years. As Deirdre revisits her past, sorting through a host of recollections, she soon realizes that the house harbors a secret that could change her life forever. In a novel about family and secrets, one woman returns to her childhood home, connects with a long-forgotten past, and discovers a new truth about herself.










The House on the Hill


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An incredible novel of mystery and psychological suspense from the author of Someone's Watching. No one knows it in the peaceful little Vermont town, but a blind killer dwells on the hill. Under constant electronic surveillance, his every move watched by cameras, he cannot possibly escape. But what if a victim were to come to him? Higgins Clark. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.




A Hill Among a Thousand


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Sometimes called “the land of a thousand hills,” Rwanda has witnessed upheavals of massive proportions. Looking at the people of one hill community, Danielle de Lame shows how they coped with unprecedented change during the twilight years of Rwanda’s Second Republic. In an insightful, meticulously researched study focusing on the late 1980s and early 1990s, de Lame situates this rural community, located at the heart of the Kibuye prefecture, within the larger context of Rwandan history and society. In this country without villages, it is the networks of kinship, administration, and commerce that create complex patterns of solidarity and dependency. De Lame reveals these patterns in all their intricacy, and her treatment of the region and its rhythms speaks at the same time to the economics of production, the inequalities of power, and the dynamics of social transformation. The ultimate goal of her work is to restore the individuality of the people she studies, “making them neither executioners nor victims but men and women fashioning their own destiny, day after day.” Copublished with the Royal Museum for Central Africa Wisconsin edition not for sale in Europe.




Delphi Complete Works of Grace Livingston Hill (Illustrated)


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The American early twentieth century novelist Grace Livingston Hill was immensely popular during her lifetime, writing over 100 books and numerous short stories. Many of her tales were written during a time of great uncertainty, in a world plagued with war and the troubles of the great Depression. Her protagonists were often young female ingénues, strong Christian women or those that have erred and now seek redemption. She wrote about a variety of subjects and almost always with a romance worked into the narrative. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents Hill’s complete novels, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, concise introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) Please note: Hill’s last novel, ‘Mary Arden’, was finished by her daughter and so cannot appear due to copyright restrictions. * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Hill’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major texts * All 95 novels, with individual contents tables * The complete Marcia Schuyler Trilogy * Features rare stores appearing for the first time in digital publishing, including Hill’s first tale, ‘The Esselstynes’, composed when she was only 12 years old * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres CONTENTS: The Marcia Schuyler Trilogy Marcia Schuyler (1908) Phoebe Deane (1909) Miranda (1915) The Novels A Sevenfold Trouble (1889) In the Way (1897) Lone Point (1897) A Daily Rate (1900) The Angel of His Presence (1902) An Unwilling Guest (1902) According to the Pattern (1903) The Story of a Whim (1903) Because of Stephen (1904) The Girl from Montana (1908) Aunt Crete’s Emancipation (1911) Dawn of the Morning (1911) The Mystery of Mary (1912) Lo, Michael (1913) The Best Man (1914) The Man of the Desert (1914) The Obsession of Victoria Gracen (1915) The Finding of Jasper Holt (1916) A Voice in the Wilderness (1916) The Witness (1917) The Enchanted Barn (1918) The Red Signal (1919) The Search (1919) The War Romance of the Salvation Army (1919) Cloudy Jewel (1920) Exit Betty (1920) The Tryst (1921) The City of Fire (1922) The Big Blue Soldier (1923) Tomorrow about This Time (1923) Re-Creations (1924) Not under the Law (1925) Ariel Custer (1925) A New Name (1926) Coming through the Rye (1926) The Honor Girl (1927) Job’s Niece (1927) The White Flower (1927) Blue Ruin (1928) Crimson Roses (1928) Found Treasure (1928) Duskin (1929) Out of the Storm (1929) The Prodigal Girl (1929) The Gold Shoe (1930) Ladybird (1930) The White Lady (1930) The Chance of a Lifetime (1931) Kerry (1931) Silver Wings (1931) The Challengers (1932) Happiness Hill (1932) The Patch of Blue (1932) The Beloved Stranger (1933) Matched Pearls (1933) The Ransom (1933) Amorelle (1934) The Christmas Bride (1934) Rainbow Cottage (1934) Beauty for Ashes (1935) White Orchids (1935) The Strange Proposal (1935) April Gold (1936) Mystery Flowers (1936) The Substitute Guest (1936) Brentwood (1937) Daphne Deane (1937) Sunrise (1937) Homing (1938) Marigold (1938) Maris (1938) Patricia (1939) The Seventh Hour (1939) Stranger within the Gates (1939) Head of the House (1940) Partners (1940) Rose Galbraith (1940) Astra (1941) By Way of the Silverthorns (1941) In Tune with Wedding Bells (1941) Crimson Mountain (1942) The Girl of the Woods (1942) The Street of the City (1942) Spice Box (1943) The Sound of the Trumpet (1943) Through These Fires (1943) More than Conqueror (1944) Time of the Singing of the Birds (1944) All Through the Night (1945) A Girl to Come Home To (1945) Bright Arrows (1946) Where Two Ways Met (1946) The Shorter Fiction The Esselstynes (1877) A Chautauqua Idyl (1887) A Little Servant (1890) The Parkerstown Delegate (1892) Katharine’s Yesterday and Other Christian Endeavor Stories (1895) Miscellaneous Stories