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Finding Otho: The Search for Our Enslaved Williams Ancestors
Kathy Lynne Marshall
Kanika African Sculptures
2018
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Until she was 19 years old, Kathy Lynne Marshall loved everything about her African roots and culture. When she discovered her European ancestry through a DNA test, she began an intensive search to learn the full truth about her family lineage. Kathy knew that her maternal great-great-grandfather, Otho Williams, was born a slave in 1834 in Maryland. She wanted answers to other questions: Who were his parents? Who owned him and what was his life like almost 200 years ago?She read biographies of runaway slaves and researched stories about Maryland in the 1700s and 1800s. The Civil War Battle of Antietam, where 23,000 men died in one day, occurred within miles of her ancestral home. She sifted through hundreds of bills of sale, land deeds, probate and census records to learn first-hand where and how her mixed race family lived. In Finding Otho: The Search for Our Enslaved Williams Ancestors, Kathy braids the reality of Otho's life with facts and historical record. The man who emerges is one we will not soon forget.This book includes a guide to writing your family history.Kathy Lynne Marshall, the Black Ancestor Biographer, is a Diversity and Inclusion Specialist on behalf of our ancestors. Her books and workshops restore the American Historical Record by adding highly-researched accounts of enslaved African Americans. Kathy has addressed the Sons and Daughters of the U.S. Middle Passage conference and consulted for West Virginia's Beverly Heritage Center.
Kathy Butterly, Lynne Drexler, Marley Freeman
Karma
2024
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Three generations of women artists create a new visual vernacular inspired by Maine’s scenic landscape This catalog unites the work of three women artists of different generations whose work responds to the unique environs of Maine. Spanning oil paintings, fused-glass works and ceramics, these pieces help forge a critical genealogy of artists who have spent time working in the state.
A female spymaster will face mortal danger to protect her husband and her queen. . .Mistress Rosamond Jaffrey is recruited by Queen Elizabeth I's spymaster to be lady-in-waiting to Lady Mary, a cousin of the queen who is being courted by Russia's Ivan the Terrible. However, there are some nobles at court who will do anything they can to thwart such an alliance and Rosamond must put herself in mortal peril to protect her ward . . .
Voices of Change 2-Minute Inspirational Stories on Life's Lessons Learned
Kathy Lynn
Gatsby Publishing
2010
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The Incredible Adventures of Ashes My Adoption
Kathy Lynn McBride
Independently Published
2019
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Twelve-year-old Katie Brant is used to getting everything her own way. She lives with her grandparents, two uncles, and her Aunt Mattie in a farm/boardinghouse in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains of New York State in the early 1920s. With the exception of her formidable grandmother, everyone spoils her because her mother died when she was born and her father is away for long stretches of time, working for the O&W Railroad. But this year, as the tourist season starts and the family, including Katie's cousins Nellie and Muriel, beds down in the attic to make room to take in summer boarders, Katie's world changes in ways that force her to take a hard look at herself and the way she treats both friends and family. She soon learns that choices have consequences.
Kerry Odell and her younger brother Lyle are not enthusiastic about spending the next six months in rural western Maine. It seems like a pretty dismal place, especially in March, and means entering a new school in mid-year. The house their mother has rented, with its locked tower, has all the makings of a haunted "castle" with mysterious comings and goings, odd noises in the night, and a landlord who seems to have it in for them. Set in 1982. Reading level 4.9.from the reviewers: "Emerson writes with suspense and spins a clever plot. The book is full of action and shows a certain pre-teen authenticity in its portrayal of adolescent relations and concerns.""Emerson is to be commended for realistically portraying a young girl's anxiety over the possibility of her widowed mother's remarriage, and the potential rift in the mother-daughter relationship that may ensue as an important new family member is absorbed."
"Someday, Kristy, if you stay as sweet and innocent as you are now, you're going to make some lucky guy a great wife." That's what the boy Kristy Russell is crazy about tells her. Insulted, sixteen-year-old Kristy embarks on a journey of self-discovery, trying to figure out why he rejected her. In the attempt, she comes to realize that her own self-esteem is more important than what anyone else thinks of her. But will that knowledge enable her to make the right choice when a potentially life-altering decision is required of her? It isn't just her own future she holds in her hands. Set in Maine in 1992,
Publishers Weekly "Julia's recovery . . . parallels a deeper change--adaptation to a new kind of family life and eventual friendship with Grace, her "beastly" cousin. Julia's realization that she has behaved in a snobbish, self-centered, unlikeable fashion--and her subsequent maturity--is fully delineated and the 19th century setting is effectively evoked. . . . well sustained . . . a light, seamless style." The year is 1887 and twelve-year-old Julia Applebee has been shipped off to her cousin's home in the small rural New York town of Liberty Falls while her parents go to China as missionaries. Used to living in New York City, Julia wants nothing to do with her "country cousins." To make matters worse, on her second day on the farm she falls through the hay hole in the barn and breaks her leg. At first, Julia has only one wish--to be rescued. But as her broken leg mends, so does her attitude. Her anger and frustration slowly subside and she begins to understand the importance of family. Reading level 4.9
In this unique compilation of 115 essays written between 2011 and 2021, Kathy Lynn Emerson, author of over sixty traditionally-published books in a variety of genres and under several names, writes about everything from how to conquer the sagging middle of a work-in-progress to the adoption of her current cat-in-residence. Other topics highlight eccentricities--her own, a few from her family tree, and those to be found in the rural Western Maine mountains where she lives. Best known for her cozy mysteries, written as Kaitlyn Dunnett, and for historical mysteries written under her own name, Kathy Lynn Emerson has also been published in non-fiction, including the award-winning How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries.
Spending three weeks in rural Maine listening to the sound of bagpipes isn't 12-year-old Kim Hanlon's idea of fun, but her father has signed up to attend classes in playing that instrument at the estate of an eccentric millionaire and he's brought his family with him to the adjacent campground. When a valuable set of antique bagpipes disappears, Kim's new friend Woody is suspected of the theft. Refusing to believe he's guilty, she's determined to discover who really committed the crime. Set in 1986. Reading level 5.2. Originally published by Avon Camelot in 1991. from the reviewers: Bangor Daily News: "an excellent summer choice for that niece or nephew."Booklist: "Emerson weaves much food for thought into the narrative through Kim's willingness to trust in Woody and her search to understand her own goals and talents."
Imagine if Maeve Binchy grew up in Texas and wrote an old-school Larry McMurtry novel. Think Hope Floats meets High Fidelity. That's how critics are describing A Good Kind of Knowing-from the author of the highly acclaimed and number-one Amazon bestseller, Blue Straggler.A Good Kind of Knowing is a novel about the power of music and friendship, the relationship two-steps that go on in old Texas dancehalls, and the secret to finding just a little bit of common ground in a world full of distrust. Sera Taylor's store is the one place in Lakeville, Texas, where individuals from all walks of life share a universal love for music and a respect for the gypsy-like woman behind the antique glass counter. Readers get a taste of the unorthodox connection between Sera and Mack, a young local cowboy and musician, and Sera's previously untested devotion to her husband Bill. They learn of her relationship with Ruby D., the vibrant but misguided mother of five; with Louie, the shy high school band director; with Beverly, the religious, upper-class socialite; with Antonio, a local bar owner striving to make a life for himself; with Tommy Lee, a rich and directionless gigolo; and with Wes, the only out-of-the closet gay man for miles. As Sera battles a serious illness, the characters must overcome long-held stereotypes to save Sera's store, and in the end, large parts of themselves.What readers are saying: "Engaging, emotionally accurate, visual and funny."My head is full of your story. It took me only two and a half days to read the book cover to cover, which means I was doing it every spare minute." "You pulled me right in.""I feel like I'm right there-I can feel the Texas heat and see the small town and the people who populate it." "The characters are diverse and interesting, and each has a unique personality that adds to the entire canvas of the story." "I know these people. What's more, I like them, even despite their faults.""The pace is comfortable, the characters rich and colorful. The events are anything but predictable; I was always wondering what's going to happen next."