Bøger af Rohn Federbush

Abigail Breckenridge is studying to become Ann Arbor's second female attorney, but a scandal interrupts her studies and sends her off to Europe to avoid the town gossips. Charles Van Aker, a 6' 5" poet, is the oldest of eight and at the age of 18 helps run his father's furniture company. Charles and Abigail have been friends since grade school, so when the scandal surrounding Abigail violently erupts, Charles and his large family of brothers and sisters stand by Abigail. Through scandal, distance and lost faith, the love between Abigail and Charles grows steadily, but can it survive the tragedies that a typhoid epidemic buries them under?

It's 1841 and after three years of potato blight on the Ring of Kerry, fiery seventeen year old Irish lass, Angela McGovern leaves behind family and friends to follow her destiny in America. Meeting the tall and handsome Englishman, Michael Halliday on the crossing was an unexpected adventure, and Angela's courage and character will be tested in ways she never imagined during the passage. Michael (Bumble) Halliday has secured his dream job as a lighthouse keeper for Lake Superior's Strawberry Island, and he's determined to follow through with his plan of living a quiet, hermit's life . . . No matter how attractive he finds Angela. Will Michael's stubbornness destroy the chance of true happiness for both of them?

An Ann Arborite, Professor Silas Douglas, became the first president of Michigan's Historical Society. He was a teenager who witnessed the 1818 Maumee River treaty signing by seven tribes for President Monroe's Erie Canal. The names of the tribes and the individual natives have been preserved in the Ann Arbor Public Library. North Parish follows the diplomats around the Great Lakes. * * * * * Parish North is the blonde adopted son of a Huron native, and with his manhood-quest completed in time for his father's trip with a Jesuit bishop, he's allowed to participate in the efforts to secure powwow agreements from seven tribes around the Great Lakes for the building of the Erie Canal. During the trip, Parish recognizes his vision temptress in Dorothy Evans. Hoping to join the delegation, Dorothy Evans dreams of escaping duties as her mother's cook-helper at Fort Detroit. Exciting windows to the wider world open for the girl in the Fort's Jesuit library. Two centuries worth of European books convince her everything good and pure comes from nature. And when Dorothy meets the blond native, Parish North, she feels her heart quicken when he smiles in her direction. She's positive Parish is half of her future. When a bishop assigned to the trip persuades Dorothy's mother to allow him to chaperon her intelligent daughter on the trip to facilitate her education, Dorothy's mother accepts his kind offer with the comforting knowledge that Dorothy is under the protection of a man of the Church. But the Bishop's intentions may not be as pure as they appear and Dorothy's virtue is in danger. Will the Bishop's unholy plan succeed?

Tied together as hostages in a bank robbery, an ex-race-car driver, Gina Branson, shares the shock of the bank guard, Thomas Woods, as he witnesses the murder of his twin brother. Once freed, the roller coaster of Tom's grief and rage alienates them on issues of retribution and clemency. Bound to each other from their first flicker of interest, the couple weathers both the bank-robbery trial and the death of Gina's ailing mother to a final testing of their faith, trust and affection.

"Hastings' Dead" is set in a small Michigan town, where a University of Michigan student, Range Goloso, has promised her father she'll return to teach grade school. In college Range falls in love with Ben Adler, a New York based law student who can't very well start a lucrative practice without a substantial client base. She defends a local artist accused of pushing his girlfriend off the church bell tower when she wanted to leave town. Actually Range is upholding her town's reputation and realizes her dreams of settling down in Hastings might be dead.

"Salome's Conversion" is a beautiful rendition of the Gospel as seen through the eyes of Salome, the step-daughter of Herod, and her Roman guard, Decius. Their story intertwines with that of Jesus and the Apostles to give insight into Hebrew and Roman life at the times and the affect the Lord had on the day to day affairs of the people. Quotes from the King James Version of the bible in the narrative gives the story a classic feel.