Mary Holmes: 43 books

Mothers of Adult Children elucidates what happens when children come of age and leave home, creating new lives in the realms of work and relationships. Mothers from around the world learn that this is the point in which their relationships with their children must drastically change. Mothers often...

Four major themes are explored in this year’s commentary. The first theme is “The Christian Community Comes Alive” (September- November 2015), which explores various texts throughout the book of Acts. These lessons focus on the beginnings of the early church in Jerusalem and growth throughout the...

Popular novel, first published in 1877.

Rather than return from school in Canandaigua to an oppressive home life with her spinster Aunt, Edna Browning instead chooses to elope with Charlie Churchill, the apparent heir to the vast Leighton fortune.  Transcribed and edited by Jeffrey Merrow from the 1872 New York printing.

Swept in by a snowstorm, found nearly frozen, a young lady and her child have traveled far to land on Hugh's doorstep. Hugh's mother and family are wary. What is this woman to them? What is Hugh to her? And what to make of her child and the wedding band shining so boldly from her finger? These questions are only the tip of the iceberg in this intergenerational family drama.

Everyone in Rothsay including old Judge Forrest believes that young Everard Forrest, Esq. will someday marry Beatrice Belknap. But not Everard! Oh, he has always adored her, but as ‘Bee’ is a full year his senior, he cannot fathom the match. Judge Forrest pushes the issue, and Everard loses his...

'Mid the New England hills, and beneath the shadow of their dim old woods, is a running brook whose deep waters were not always as merry and frolicsome as now; for years before our story opens, pent up and impeded in their course, they dashed angrily against their prison walls, and turned the creaking...

Child bride Marian Lindsey flees her Kentucky manse believing her new husband loves another more beautiful than she, but has wed her only for her vast estate. Transcribed and edited by Jeffrey Merrow from the 1865, New York edition.

Hugh Worthington is a young plantation owner near Frankfort, Kentucky, who has forsworn any interest in the ladies vying for his attention, as he remains haunted by the memory of a long-lost 'Golden Haired' maiden.  Transcribed and edited by Jeffrey Merrow.

his romantic saga, set before the Civil War, follows the ill-omened, orphaned 'Lena. Her parents married secretly; her father abandoned her mother before her fatal birth. She's forced from her loving, though impoverished, childhood home with her grandparents in rural Massachusetts, and must reside...