Author: Victorian Society at Falls Church
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: america, images, church, falls, victorian
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2007-07-16
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 073855250X
ISBN-13: 9780738552507

Falls Church, Virginia, was settled in 1699 and named for its first church. Located near Washington, D.C., this rural farming community grew into an important crossroads during the 19th century. Prior to World War II, its most significant growth occurred during the Victorian era. The area and lifestyle of its residents were significantly impacted by the Northern migration into the South for better farmland; the Civil War; the expansion of railway service; the developing role as a suburb of Washington; and military buildup during the Spanish-American War. This collection of vintage images portr

Author: W. Smith
Publisher: Pan Book
Keywords: falls, sparrow
Number of Pages: 630
Published: 2009-03-02
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 033047829X
ISBN-13: 9780330478298

A Courtneys of Africa novel from the worldwide bestselling master storyteller, and sequel to When the Lion Feeds and The Sound of Thunder. ‘Mark never heard the Mauser shot for the bullet came ahead of the sound. There was only the massive shock in the upper part of his body, and then he was hurled backwards with a violence that drove the air from his lungs. From the trenches of France, General Sean Courtney comes back to fame, fortune and a seat in the Government. Mark Anders, the courageous young South African whom he has come to regard as his own son, returns to nothing, his grandfather

Author: Wilbur Smith
Publisher: St. Martin’s Paperback
Keywords: falls, sparrow
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 2007-01-02
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0312940688
ISBN-13: 9780312940683

Mark Anders grew up on eight thousand acres of African land that bore his family name. Then he fought in Europe’s Great War and, upon returning to his ancestral home, he saw savagery unlike any other…. In Africa, Mark’s family estate has been despoiled. His grandfather has died under mysterious circumstances. And he has inherited a murderous enemy—the rogue scion of the powerful Courtney clan—in an altogether new kind of war. Now, Mark will make a fateful choice between two women. Journey into the wilderness to uncover his grandfather’s fate. Find his way through battles raging bet

Author: Richard Russo
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: falls, empire
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2002-04-12
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0375726403
ISBN-13: 9780375726408

With Empire Falls Richard Russo cements his reputation as one of America’s most compelling and compassionate storytellers. Miles Roby has been slinging burgers at the Empire Grill for 20 years, a job that cost him his college education and much of his self-respect. What keeps him there? It could be his bright, sensitive daughter Tick, who needs all his help surviving the local high school. Or maybe it’s Janine, Miles’ soon-to-be ex-wife, who’s taken up with a noxiously vain health-club proprietor. Or perhaps it’s the imperious Francine Whiting, who owns everything in town–and seem

Author: Jodi Picoult
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Keywords: falls, salem
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2002-08-06
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0743418719
ISBN-13: 9780743418713

Love can redeem a man...but secrets and lies can condemn him. A handsome stranger comes to the sleepy New England town of Salem Falls in hopes of burying his past: once a teacher at a girls’ prep school, Jack St. Bride was destroyed when a student’s crush sparked a powder keg of accusation. Now, washing dishes for Addie Peabody at the Do-Or-Diner, he slips quietly into his new routine, and Addie finds this unassuming man fitting easily inside her heart. But amid the rustic calm of Salem Falls, a quartet of teenage girls harbor dark secrets -- and they maliciously target Jack w

Author: Carol Goodman
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Keywords: falls, arcadia
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2010-03-09
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0345497538
ISBN-13: 9780345497536

There once was a girl who liked to pretend she was lost. . . . Meg Rosenthal is driving toward the next chapter in her life. Winding along a wooded roadway, her car moves through a dense forest setting not unlike one in the bedtime stories Meg used to read to her daughter, Sally. But the girl riding beside Meg is a teenager now, and has exchanged the land of make-believe for an iPod and some personal space. Too much space, it seems, as the chasm between them has grown since the sudden, unexpected death of Meg’s husband.    Dire financial straits and a desire for a fresh start take Meg an

Author: Anne Stuart
Publisher: Mira
Keywords: falls, silver
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2009-05-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0778325970
ISBN-13: 9780778325970

Rachel is finally getting it right. After years of wandering, she’s married the perfect man and settled into the ideal life. But as her sleepy little town turns into a killing ground, she realizes that this new life might come at too high a price.Caleb Middleton says he’s returned home to set things right. But as her husband’s dangerous brother circles like a hungry wolf, poking holes in her perfect world, Rachel draws her young daughter in close. The rain and violence keep coming, and Rachel must decide whether to trust her dream life or her instincts…before the town of Si