Ann Williams: 36 books

An interest in the middle ages often brings the non-specialist reader up short against a word or term which is not understood or only imperfectly understood. This dictionary is intended to put an end to all that - though such a claim is inevitably rash. However, it has been designed in the hope that...

In her first book, We Are Surely Blessed, Ann Williams focused on her parents, Leslie and Esther Johnson. They watch as their five older children grow to adulthood, marry and start their own familys while the two younger children continue their education. They pulled together during the Great...

Based on the author’s personal experience with the Swan Research Program in Warrenton, Virginia, this book is a detailed and innovative guide to swan care. Augmented by numerous drawings and charts, it provides extensive information on the trapping, feeding, health, and year-round care of captive...

Fate introduced them when Vaughn purchased Bessie, to be his sisters’ birthday baby doll.  Neither the planters’ son nor the slave child that crawled from the cage and clung bravely to him could have known their love was preordained.  Bessie was an outsider as she grew up in the Highwater...

Far in the future, when love was unknown and freedom a crime, a lone rebel was desperate to learn what his world had lost. In a daring experiment, he reached into the past--and found a woman unlike any he had ever known.... Marina's fear of this strange and forbidding time was equaled only...

Do You Want to Love and Be Loved? Everybody wants to love and be loved. Heres a collection of poetry dedicated to love and the search for more. Youll smile and maybe shed a tear as you read this book. Youll want to share it with others. Youll read poems from three LOVE sections: Love: Family, Friends...

City Literacies explores the lives and literacies of different generations of people living in two contrasting areas of London at the end of the 20th century: Spitalfields and the City. This contrast outwardly symbolizes the huge difference between poverty and wealth existing in Britain at this time....

The Great Smoky Mountains, at the border of eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina, are among the highest peaks of the southern Appalachian chain. Although this area shares much with the cultural traditions of all southern Appalachia, the folklife here has been uniquely shaped by historical events,...

Daily Meditations for Success in Learning in the Classroom & Beyond: 40 Days of Rhymes, Reflections, and Resources to Inspire and Motivate Students is a collection of 40 daily motivational rhymes revolving around the affirmations and thoughts that can and will lead to greater success in learning....

Darren had found refuge in his Fathers arms, outstretched and waiting for the wayward child to come home. Home to Him. This cell was not a home that Darren, aka Fester, had envisioned as a place to live out his life. Maybe, for his father, but never for him. The choice was initiated when he crossed...

Question Everything is a book written to challenge the status quo. While many people on the planet are already waking up to the many problems our world is facing today, this book is a wake-up call to those who are still asleep. It is a nudge to those who are aware but have not yet responded to the...

Gabe fingered the envelope, touching the sealed flap that secured the contents. He felt a connection, picturing his moms fingers touching the very object he held in his hands. Part of him wanted so badly to shout his joy in receiving this gift of writing from his mom, but another part wept in despair,...

Putting fear of rejection aside, Nellie lay pen to paper, scripting an offer of forgiveness. In her heart, she knew there was no other way but to reveal the truth from decades past. Her selfless act of love no longer held the clarity it once did; the weight of the burden now consumed the very depths...

Nathan pulled into the driveway of the parsonage, taking notice of the patrol car parked at the curb. Glancing toward the porch, he saw his friend posturing his head in his hands in a grievous manner. I didnt know where else to go. I Nathan, I saw the empty room. Shes gone, and theres not a...