Bøger af Sandra Fox Murphy

In seventeenth-century Rhode Island, Ann Tallman, wife of Peter, is charged with adultery after finding love and refuge with the man whose kindness captured her heart. Ann's story begins in Barbados where she meets the dashing merchant Captain Peter Tallman. After they settle in Rhode Island, after six children, after years of Peter's absences, abuse, and jealousies, it was Thomas, the English indentured servant, who won Ann's heart. Refusing to leave behind her children, her choice was abruptly taken from her hands with Peter's request for divorce and the court's sentence of lashings in Portsmouth and Newport. After an escape to Jamestown in the Virginia colony, Ann is eventually drawn back to Rhode Island, to her beloved, to her children, and to her punishment. Will she be welcome among her peers or will she be but an outcast? Will her children forgive her? Readers will love this story for its historical color and reflection of the sacrifices of New England's early settlers. This is a story of atonement, of courage, forgiveness and grace in deeply judgmental colonial America.

In the early summer of 1860, the man Fidelia McCord had fallen in love with, Miles Maloney, traveled north to gather information and stories for the anti-secessionist newspaper Southern Intelligencer. He'd been certain his beloved Fidelia would await his return. But he has vanished and sent no word to her. Had he fallen to a terrible end in the scrubland, or had he abandoned the young woman he claimed to love?As the year 1860 neared its end, Fidelia's heart faltered midst doubt and persuasion, and she accepted James Hughes' proposal of marriage. When the nation begins to tremble toward war, James enlists with Benjamin Terry's Texas Rangers, and as James departs, Fidelia shares the news that she is carrying their child. James will be gone for years.While the two men who love Fidelia find their way through a war-torn nation, facing death at every turn, Fidelia perseveres through her own struggles and losses in Texas, always with fear in the back of her mind that she may have chosen the wrong path. A haunting dread fills her. What if neither of the men she loves comes home?

On a Lark (The Fidelia McCord Series, Book 2) ¿In¿On a Lark, Fidelia McCord has become the only surviving child of John and Mariah McCord of Pond Springs. After having borne great loss and hardship in mid-nineteenth century Texas - where moments of jubilation and jeopardy carry a girl to womanhood - Fidelia knows the weight of her choices. At the same time, far away in North Carolina, the Maloney brothers, cooking mash into whiskey in the Appalachian mountains, are making their own life-changing decisions, with Miles Maloney trying to keep his brother Jackson in check and away from the gallows. But, as Fidelia and Miles each forge their own path to a future, destiny has plans of its own. ¿¿ "A riveting and realistic novel of the westward expansion, inspired by real people. Life on the trail and on the Texas frontier was not easy for anyone, much less a seven-year old girl whose faith was tested…but those who persevered and survived would find new joys."-Miles O'Neal, author of¿The Dragon Lord Chronicles "Ms. Murphy develops the powerful characters of this story in such a way that they come alive and you feel that you know each one of them personally. On a Lark will linger long after reading it."-Jane Caraway, author of Baby in a Mailbox*******Sandra Fox Murphy is the author of the novels¿That Beautiful Season and¿A Thousand Stars, as well as the Fidelia McCord Series, including¿Let the Little Birds Sing. Her collection of poems,¿Aging Without Grace, was released in July 2019. Originally from Glasgow, Delaware, she lives in central Texas where she hunts down small-town history.

You need to be strong to read these powerful poems, but they are worth the journey along the course of aging. The title of the collection may be Aging Without Grace, but the poems carry a special grace. It is the grace of truthfulness captured in stunning images such as, "Now your vacant chair sighs when I pass by," in "When You Lay Dying."The poems also touch the sensitivity of all ages as when a woman visiting the grave of a friend thinks of "The day when a friend might visit me," in "The Shift of Time."Each piece in this startling collection of poems captures touchable shifts of time. Aging Without Grace illuminates Nobel Prize winner Salvatore Quasimodo's definition of poetry as "the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as their own." ~ Anna M. Carroll,author of the poetry collections Gulag and Pieces of a Thief