Chancing The Brown Mountain Lights

Author : Christy Tillery French,Cyndi Tillery Hodges,CC Tillery
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798577522063

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Chancing the Brown Mountain Lights by Christy Tillery French,Cyndi Tillery Hodges,CC Tillery Pdf

Although healer/time traveler Lizzie Baker knows the possibility of war looms ahead, she elects to stay in the 21st century instead of going back 100 years to her time or to the 19th century, where she spent the last five years of her life. The threat of war becomes a reality when Lizzie treats a fatally injured man in Morganton, North Carolina who tells of the invasion of America by a foreign country. Lizzie and her lover Jonah Hampton, leader of a small community on Brown Mountain where Lizzie resides, along with the leader of the Morganton community, embark on a mission to try to locate the whereabouts of this army in order to assess their strengths and weaknesses. Two separate encounters with advance scouts result in bloody battles, after which they return to Brown Mountain to prepare for the invasion coming their way. The danger of war is soon overshadowed by a nemesis from Lizzie's past who is determined to get to Lizzie and her best friend, time-traveler Abbie Collins, and will resort to any means necessary, including violence. Now Lizzie is faced with the threat of this enemy as well as the alien soldiers who have proven brutal in their treatment of Americans as they sweep across the country. As the invaders steadily make their way toward Brown Mountain, Lizzie's relationship with Jonah grows stronger although she fears her time with him will be short-lived. Determined to stay with Jonah and face whatever comes their way, Lizzie unexpectedly finds herself in a situation where she is forced to make a decision that could, once again, change the course of her life.

Author : Christy Tillery French,Cyndi Tillery Hodges,Cc Tillery
Publisher : Brown Mountain Lights
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0989464180

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Chasing the Brown Mountain Lights by Christy Tillery French,Cyndi Tillery Hodges,Cc Tillery Pdf

"I'm a Stranger Here" could be the song title guiding Lizzie Baker's life. In the five years she spent on Brown Mountain during the Civil War, Lizzie wanted nothing more than to find the light that transported her back in time and return to the 20th century. While fleeing from bushwhackers in 1864, Lizzie, her friend Abbie Collins and fiancé Josh Hampton encounter a light Lizzie believes is hers. Hoping to get to safety, she pushes Abbie into the light, expecting Josh to follow. She and Abbie wake to find that this is not the Brown Mountain they remember. Trees and foliage are dying, the air smells like ash, the sky is hazy and dim. And Josh is nowhere to be found.Shocked to learn they've gone forward to the 21st century, Lizzie finds this time strikingly similar to that of the 19th as the people on the mountain fight for existence in a world that is dangerous and barely survivable. While searching for her fiancé, she and Abbie encounter Jonah Hampton, a man who bears a startling resemblance to Josh. Upon learning that one of Jonah's ancestors married a Collins, Lizzie begins to suspect that Josh did not come after her but, for some unexplainable reason, married and had children with Abbie's sister Sarie instead. Once more, Lizzie resorts to practicing herbal medicine by day while frantically searching for the lights by night, although is concerned that going back to Josh could possibly end the existence of people she's come to care for. To make matters worse, her tenuous relationship with Jonah sets in motion a perilous encounter with an enemy from her past that could lead to her death.Lizzie faces a hard decision as she continues to pursue the lights, one that will determine her fate for the rest of her life if she finds them: to stay in the 21st century where a war within America looms on the horizon, go back to the 19th century and risk ending the lives of those she's come to love, or return to the comfort and safety of her time in the 20th century.

Author : CC Tillery,Cynthia Tillery Hodges,Christy Tillery French
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0989464156

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Through the by CC Tillery,Cynthia Tillery Hodges,Christy Tillery French Pdf

In August1969, medical student Lizzie Baker sets off on a trip to Woodstock with her boyfriend and two other couples. When their van breaks down outside of Morganton, North Carolina, the group decides to hike up nearby Brown Mountain while they wait for the repairs to be finished. Lizzie's interest in nature prompts her to go on a walk by herself, hoping to get a glimpse of the legendary Brown Mountain Lights. When she unexpectedly encounters one, she naively reaches out to touch it and is thrown back in time to a place and lifestyle she comes to hate-the Antebellum South. Lizzie is taken in by three sisters who are healers. With them, she is able to put her knowledge as a medical student to good use. She finds a trusted friend in Abbie, the youngest sister, and through a budding romance with the son of a plantation owner is drawn into the dangerous world of the Underground Railroad. With a bloody and violent war looming on the horizon, at a time when women are looked upon as less than equal, Lizzie struggles to accept the differences that surround her every day in this new and challenging world. Wanting nothing more than to return home, she and Abbie continually search for the light Lizzie travelled through, hoping it will take her back to her time. But if she finds it, will she decide to stay or go?

Author : Cc Tillery,Cyndi Tillery Hodges,Christy Tillery French
Publisher : Spring Creek Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0989464164

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Seeking the Brown Mountain Lights by Cc Tillery,Cyndi Tillery Hodges,Christy Tillery French Pdf

You don¿t always get what you want in life, and no one knows that better than Lizzie Baker. Her only wish is to go home, but in order to do so, she has to find the one light on Brown Mountain that transported her back in time from 1969 to 1859. When Lizzie¿s one opportunity is thwarted, she remains trapped in the antebellum South, a time she¿s come to loathe, but that¿s not the only reason she¿s anxious to return home. The Civil War looms ever closer and she is frantic to leave before the deadliest and bloodiest conflict in American history descends on Brown Mountain. Lizzie spends her days helping the Collins sisters doctor the people on Brown Mountain and in the little town of Morganton, North Carolina. While learning about the natural healing methods the sisters¿ use, she teaches them the more modern medicine she learned in medical school.But it¿s the nights that keep Lizzie going, searching the mountain with her best friend Abbie to find the one light that can take her home and engaging in secret meetings with Josh Hampton, a plantation owner¿s son, risking her life as she helps him lead slaves to freedom. As time goes by, Lizzie begins to care deeply for Josh, enough that she questions what she will do if the opportunity to go back to her time ever presents itself. Will she step into the light or will she choose to stay with Josh? She fears that when the time comes, she will only have a split second to make that decision and can only pray it will be the right one.

Author : Philip B. Mishoe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1972-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0805916652

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The Lights of Brown Mountain by Philip B. Mishoe Pdf

Author : Carol Crane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1935711199

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The Brown Mountain Lights by Carol Crane Pdf

The Riley family move from Ireland to America in search of a better life, settling in western North Carolina. When Pa returns home after fighting in the Revolutionary War, he finds his family missing. He walks up and down nearby Brown Mountain looking for them, carrying a torch. The legendary Brown Mountain lights are his ghost still looking for his beloved family.

Author : Gary L. Street
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1728798051

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Elvis, Fast Cars, and the Brown Mountain Lights by Gary L. Street Pdf

A dead girl found by a lonely highway. A car pulled from a swampy hole containing more dead bodies. There's been an evil presence in this small North Carolina town for a long time. Now, another evil has come to these beautiful mountains. There's a mystery wrapped around another mystery tied together with a love story. Who do you turn to when you don't know who is guilty and who is not?The 1950's are a time remembered for things such as Rock and Roll, hot rods, submarine races, slick hairstyles, sock hops, and the art of being "cool". Ford Rawlings is a young man whose life represented the fifties very well. He had the looks, the cars, the girl, and the joy of living in a fantastic time. He had it all...until he lost it. In fact, in the turn of one day...he found he'd lost almost all of it.The mysterious murder of his beautiful girlfriend, the accusation that he may have committed the atrocity, and the overwhelming guilt from not being able to stop it, leaves Ford broken. Ford's life, even from his conception, seemed magical. Suddenly, he is adrift in a sea of doubt and remorse. So much so that he finds his only choice is to travel half-way around the world to try and forget.With the chance to come home, Ford instead tries to build a new life in New Jersey. This new "home" is surprisingly welcoming until another evil emerges and tragedy strikes agan. Ford's new life is once again torn apart and forces him back to his North Carolina home. A home where he finds both demons waiting for him as well as demons following him. Will taking a stand now bring closure and hope or will it destroy both him and the ones he loves?Mara DeVoti Rawlings, Ford's mother, knows about demons. Years ago she fled New Jersey to escape her own demons, to start a new life in the simple country lifestyles of Treemont, North Carolina. She not only found solace in Treemont but found herself thriving in a peaceful life lived with her husband J.J. and their son. Mara knows that peace can so easily fall apart...and finally it does. But Mara has one saving grace...one ace up her sleeve. Mara has the Brown Mountain Lights! She has a most unique and intimate association with the "ghost" lights...and she knows just who they are!Elvis, Fast Cars, and the Brown Mountain Lights is a saga of the Rawlings Family. It is a story built on mysteries and murder, perseverance and hope, love and loss, and above all...evil versus goodness.

Author : Max Brooks
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781984826794

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Devolution by Max Brooks Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The #1 New York Times bestselling author of World War Z is back with “the Bigfoot thriller you didn’t know you needed in your life, and one of the greatest horror novels I’ve ever read” (Blake Crouch, author of Dark Matter and Recursion). FINALIST FOR THE LOCUS AWARD As the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier’s eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the Greenloop massacre has passed unnoticed, unexamined . . . until now. The journals of resident Kate Holland, recovered from the town’s bloody wreckage, capture a tale too harrowing—and too earth-shattering in its implications—to be forgotten. In these pages, Max Brooks brings Kate’s extraordinary account to light for the first time, faithfully reproducing her words alongside his own extensive investigations into the massacre and the legendary beasts behind it. Kate’s is a tale of unexpected strength and resilience, of humanity’s defiance in the face of a terrible predator’s gaze, and, inevitably, of savagery and death. Yet it is also far more than that. Because if what Kate Holland saw in those days is real, then we must accept the impossible. We must accept that the creature known as Bigfoot walks among us—and that it is a beast of terrible strength and ferocity. Part survival narrative, part bloody horror tale, part scientific journey into the boundaries between truth and fiction, this is a Bigfoot story as only Max Brooks could chronicle it—and like none you’ve ever read before. Praise for Devolution “Delightful . . . [A] tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “The story is told in such a compelling manner that horror fans will want to believe and, perhaps, take the warning to heart.”—Booklist (starred review)

Author : Christy Tillery French,Cc Tillery,Cyndi Tillery Hodges
Publisher : Brown Mountain Lights
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0989464172

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Into the Brown Mountain Lights by Christy Tillery French,Cc Tillery,Cyndi Tillery Hodges Pdf

Although Lizzie Baker wants nothing more than to return to her time 110 years in the future, she remains stuck on Brown Mountain, NC during the time of the Civil War, the bloodiest conflict in American history. Although an abolitionist, Lizzie lives in a state that has seceded from the Union and finds herself, as a woman of that time, unable to protect slaves being mistreated by their plantation owners as well as women who suffer at the hands of their husbands, without rights or laws to protect them. Lizzie continues to learn herbal healing from the Collins sisters while helping her beau Josh transport runaway slaves to safety via the Underground Railroad. With the aid of her best friend Abbie, she begins a Relief Agency to send supplies to the army while running a medical clinic treating injured soldiers who return home. After she helps deserters on their way to East Tennessee, she falls under suspicion of the Home Guard, an agency formed to track down deserters, draft dodgers and escaped prisoners. If that isn't bad enough, there's always danger from bushwhackers who raid the mountain, looking for food and arms.When Josh joins the war effort, Lizzie and Abbie accompany him to the bloodiest battle of the war, the Battle of Gettysburg. There, they work as nurses in a field hospital until they find themselves retreating with the wounded and dying under General Robert E. Lee's command. When Brown Mountain is raided by the Union, Lizzie becomes frantic to return to the future with Josh, who has agreed to accompany her, and begins searching in earnest for the light that transported her from1969 to 1859. On the anniversary of her fifth year on Brown Mountain, while Lizzie, Abbie and Josh are running from bushwhackers, they encounter a light that Lizzie thinks is hers. But as the light takes Abbie and begins to draw Lizzie in, she realizes it's not the right one. Will Josh be able to save Lizzie and Abbie or will their fate be linked together as they go through the light?

Author : Tom Hardy
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780875654904

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Slow Moving Dreams by Tom Hardy Pdf

Tom Hardy’s new novel, Slow Moving Dreams, tells the story of Tom Carter, a city man who is forced by the death of a cousin to return to his rural roots in West Texas. Hardy takes his readers along two journeys in this novel: the first is the physical journey that Tom takes as he drives to the funeral in Alpine, and the second is an exploration of Tom’s life as a child growing up in the country that the adult Tom is now passing through. But not all of those memories are happy ones, as Tom and his cousins soon find out. The funeral starts to unravel a dark secret that could change everything Tom thought he knew about his family. Hardy breathes life into all of his characters with his witty dialogue and nostalgic memory sequences. Slow Moving Dreams is a story of homecoming and family bonds that, in this age of consumerism and technology, is a refreshing change of pace. For those familiar with the lifestyle of the modern cowboy, the life Tom Carter remembers is a reminder of the old days, when nature provided everything one could ever need. But all readers, new to the cowboy’s world or not, are in for a fun, heart-warming tale as they follow Tom’s exploration of his past and realizations about his future.

Author : Henry Beston
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465528360

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The Firelight Fairy Book by Henry Beston Pdf

Author : Charles Foster
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1523820349

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New Lights on Old Paths by Charles Foster Pdf

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

Author : Robert Macfarlane
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780241967867

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Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane Pdf

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2015 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2016 Landmarks is Robert Macfarlane's joyous meditation on words, landscape and the relationship between the two. Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words. Landmarks is about the power of language to shape our sense of place. It is a field guide to the literature of nature, and a glossary containing thousands of remarkable words used in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales to describe land, nature and weather. Travelling from Cumbria to the Cairngorms, and exploring the landscapes of Roger Deakin, J. A. Baker, Nan Shepherd and others, Robert Macfarlane shows that language, well used, is a keen way of knowing landscape, and a vital means of coming to love it. Praise for Robert Macfarlane: 'He has a poet's eye and a prose style that will make many a novelist burn with envy' John Banville, Observer "I'll read anything Macfarlane writes" David Mitchell, Independent 'Every movement needs stars. In [Macfarlane] we surely have one, burning brighter with each book.' Telegraph '[Macfarlane] is a godfather of a cultural moment' Sunday Times

Author : Roman Meinhold
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783839424377

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Fashion Myths by Roman Meinhold Pdf

Besides products and services multinational corporations also sell myths, values and immaterial goods. Such »meta-goods« (e.g. prestige, beauty, strength) are major selling points in the context of successful marketing and advertising. Fashion adverts draw on deeply rooted human values, ideals and desires such as values and symbols of social recognition, beautification and rejuvenation. Although the reference to such meta-goods is obvious to some consumers, their rootedness in philosophical theories of human nature is less apparent, even for the marketers and advertisers themselves. This book is of special interest for researchers and students in the fields of Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Marketing, Advertising, Fashion, Cultural Critique, Philosophy, Sociology, Anthropology and Psychology, and for anyone interested in the ways in which fashion operates.

Author : Deb Perelman
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 675 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780307961068

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The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook by Deb Perelman Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • Celebrated food blogger and best-selling cookbook author Deb Perelman knows just the thing for a Tuesday night, or your most special occasion—from salads and slaws that make perfect side dishes (or a full meal) to savory tarts and galettes; from Mushroom Bourguignon to Chocolate Hazelnut Crepe. “Innovative, creative, and effortlessly funny." —Cooking Light Deb Perelman loves to cook. She isn’t a chef or a restaurant owner—she’s never even waitressed. Cooking in her tiny Manhattan kitchen was, at least at first, for special occasions—and, too often, an unnecessarily daunting venture. Deb found herself overwhelmed by the number of recipes available to her. Have you ever searched for the perfect birthday cake on Google? You’ll get more than three million results. Where do you start? What if you pick a recipe that’s downright bad? With the same warmth, candor, and can-do spirit her award-winning blog, Smitten Kitchen, is known for, here Deb presents more than 100 recipes—almost entirely new, plus a few favorites from the site—that guarantee delicious results every time. Gorgeously illustrated with hundreds of her beautiful color photographs, The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook is all about approachable, uncompromised home cooking. Here you’ll find better uses for your favorite vegetables: asparagus blanketing a pizza; ratatouille dressing up a sandwich; cauliflower masquerading as pesto. These are recipes you’ll bookmark and use so often they become your own, recipes you’ll slip to a friend who wants to impress her new in-laws, and recipes with simple ingredients that yield amazing results in a minimum amount of time. Deb tells you her favorite summer cocktail; how to lose your fear of cooking for a crowd; and the essential items you need for your own kitchen. From salads and slaws that make perfect side dishes (or a full meal) to savory tarts and galettes; from Mushroom Bourguignon to Chocolate Hazelnut Crepe Cake, Deb knows just the thing for a Tuesday night, or your most special occasion. Look for Deb Perelman’s latest cookbook, Smitten Kitchen Keepers!