Mary Johnston (November 21, 1870 – May 9, 1936) was an American novelist and women's rights advocate from Virginia. She was one of America's best selling authors during her writing career and had three silent films adapted from her novels.The daughter of an American Civil War soldier who became a successful lawyer, Mary Johnston was born in the small town of Buchanan, Virginia. A small and frail girl, she was educated at home by family and tutors. She grew up with a love of books and was financially independent enough to devote herself to writing.

IT was on the 16th of March, the eve of St. Patrick, not quite twenty years ago, that a little village on the bank of Lough Corrib was celebrating in its annual fair "the holy times," devoting one day to every species of enjoyment and pleasure, and on the next, by practising prayers and penance of various kinds, as it were to prepare their minds to resume their worldly duties in a frame of thought more seemly and becoming.

Agamemnon, elected leader of the Greek expedition against Troy, must submit to an angry godess’s demand for human sacrifice or face rebellion from the assembled army.Artemis, angered by the actions of King Agamemnon, stops the wind, bottling up the Greek fleet waiting to sail for Troy. To placate her, Agamemnon must sacrifice his daughter. He delays as long as he can but must consider the consequences for himself and his kingdom if he waits any longer.

In the village of Pokot in Kenya, traditional father, Felix struggles to cope as his daughter Matilda decides to reject one of the oldest rituals of their community.It is Christmas 1914. As Europe descends further into the Great War, Christopher Flyte is sent home in disgrace from his school. He returns to the sleepy English village of Alton. It is here that he meets the mysterious traveler, Bailey - a master storyteller who fills the boy's head with stories of King Arthur's time. The more Christopher hears, the more he suspects that Bailey's stories are more than just simple myths. Soon, Christoper is a pawn in a game that has been playing out for centuries....

Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationery shop in Brooklyn and buys a blue notebook. It is September 18, 1982, and for the next nine days Orr will live under the spell of this blank book, trapped inside a world of bewildering events that threaten to undermine his faith in reality.

Violet Buccleuch is like most American colonial women, except she's in love with two men at once, has a sniper's eye, wears breeches more than dresses, finds herself in a revolution, oh, and happens to be immortal. Mayhap she's not exactly like most other women. Ach, but she wants to be.**A Chanticleer Paranormal Winner** In the midst of the Battle of Concord, Violet Buccleuch wakes to look down at the gaping hole through her heart. Two months before In February 1775 she lives the life of a normal colonial woman. Though normal is a stretch of the word, since she wears breeches and farms to provide for her sister and mother. However, she knows well of expectations for her to settle down and marry. Her sights are set to wed her childhood friend, Mathew Adams. But fate and a French spy, Jacque Beaumont, falter her best intentions. Her heart is pulled in two directions as one man offers what she desires; the other saves her after violence and grief rip Violet’s life apart. Then the battle that erupts the American Revolution rages in her yard, forcing Violet, with a rifle in hand, to choose her own fate. But destiny deals her another blow. After she sips what appears to be innocuous water, she finds herself impervious to . . . death. Now immortal, Violet rushes to lend her sniper’s eye for the battle, which she hopes will save the man she vows to love.

This easy-to-perform skit is about a boy named Jake who cheats on his math test. When he gets caught, he finds an old Bible his grandpa left him and learns the truth: Jesus is the Word of God and that is how God saves us."I Can See God's Word (Skit) is based on a short story by the same name, also written by Cheryl Rogers. The story is included in her ebook "I Can See Christian Storybook Treasury," a unique story collection that defeats doubts about God that enter a child's mind as he or she grows.It can be performed with a small cast and a few props, even on short notice. It also can be used with youth groups, church groups, Bible clubs, and other ministries. Bible quotes are from the King James Authorized Version and are used with permission within the United Kingdom, where the King James Bible remains under copyright protection.

A 17 year old boy moves to Boise, Idaho with his father after his parent's divorce and starts his senior year of high school at a new school where he meets several people who guide him to his salvation.Sebastian had been able to see things more clearly ever since he could remember. A very rare eye condition enabled him to distinguish colours that to other humans appeared to be identical. It motivated him to explore the profusion of his visual ability and exceptional talent by taking him on an exhilarating ride through the possibilities of painting. The beautiful Professor Fiona Raine had a similar ability and was the first person who ever shared this secret with him. Sebastian is about to discover that their abilities and connection are much more significant than sharing a love for painting. He has to choose between life as a normal student and falling in love with his class mate Mia or following his destiny to serve a greater purpose with Fiona Raine.

Charlie the Great White Horse and the Journey to the North Pole:The second book in the trilogy.Children’s fables are meant to bring back to life: the basic tried and true ideals of old-fashioned story telling, whose foundation is built upon wholesome and virtuous storylines; that is the basis of “Americana LiteratureThe three protagonists that gave Charlie so much trouble are back again.Charlie has taken ill at the North Pole because the magic that lies within the string of “Magic Jingle Bells” has been broken and now Christmas might be lost forever. The, “The “Missouri Rats” and Squint-Eye Pete are no good crooks who have devised a sinister plan take over the daily operations of Santa’s Village from Charlie and steal Christmas’s future from all the children of the world. Louis, Chug, and Hot Tamale Molly (a neighborhood girl) have been by fate, decreed to be the saviors of the future of Christmas and have been given the daunting task of returning the magic back into the string of “Magic Jingle Bells”. The three brave friends must embark on a long and very dangerous trek to the North Pole to reach Santa’s Village before Christmas Eve, before the dwindling magic that is keeping Charlie alive, is no more. The three young adventurers with help from “Jupiter the Show Horse” and his best friend Apollo get help from the strangest of characters through out their arduous journey. With each giving all the help they can to save Christmas, but mostly they all try to give little Louis the courage that he will need to succeed, at the dramatic and climatic ending.The first book in the series is now ready: The Journey to Northumberland and the Rise of the Undertoads.

In Seventeen, the story of a lonely seventeen year old who turns to a right-wing group for self-esteem, and J, the story of a spoiled, young, drifter son of a Japanese executive, Ōe shows us a world where the values that had regulated life had been blown to smithereens along with Hiroshima and Nagasaki: what confronts his heroes now is a gaping emptiness.

Stories about Ignatius Loyola, John Bunyan, Telemachus, the twelve Martyrs of Scilla, and some frustrated fisherman. They do such things as start the Jesuit order, put an end to the gladiatorial games in Rome, and die for their faith.Stories about Ignatius Loyola, John Bunyan, Telemachus, the twelve Martyrs of Scilla, and some frustrated fisherman. They do such things as start the Jesuit order, put an end to the gladiatorial games in Rome, and die for their faith. These are mostly biographies and are all written in creative nonfiction style, which is where you take real events and add details so that they read like a novel. The stories pop to life and will challenge you. Would you do what they did?

What is Life? What do we all want from life? Is it an easy life, where people work for us and we enjoy the fruits of their labour? Why do we run after so many things when we know it is out of our reach? Why do all of us commit mistakes trying to repeat the same actions over and over again? A collection of 5 short stories on different facets of life. Please read them and enjoy your lives!An international millionaire organises an interschool competition in the town of Adelaide, Australia. Five students from Westshade High are hand picked by the principal to compete. The five very different teenagers all have one thing in common, their fear and despise of the adult world that they will soon be forced to step into. They quickly learn their differences combined create a formidable force and team Westshade take the lead in the race. Working together brings the group closer as friends and their resolve is tested when they learn the real reason the principal had picked them for the competition. They realise their new found friendship is strong enough that they continue on to prove themselves to the principal and to themselves that they can win. As they progress they witness an incident that begins to make them question the competition itself, before they accidently discover a hidden chamber in a hillside. The chamber holds an ancient relic with a secret that the five students painfully learn that there are people who will stop at nothing to retrieve it and posses the power that lies with in it. They embark on an action packed adventure that will make them enemies and find them allies; they just have to figure out which ones are which. Friendships and loyalties become tested before building to an explosive finally where they discover their love for each other will save not just them but the future of mankind itself.