William Lavender

This Anchorage Press publication is the script and score of a wonderful musical play for children, about a 5-6 year-old girl who has several imaginary friends. During the last week of summer vacation they have many adventures together, but as her first day of school approaches her thoughts begin to turn to other, "older kid," things, and her charming friends Nubbins and Glopp and the crew of "invisible people" must find another child to befriend -- one who believes in them, or else it won't work. The plot is touching, the songs utterly charming and singable -- they remain in your head long after seeing this show. The play has seen over 80 productions across the USA since its initial appearance in 1967. All local theater companies should give this show a whirl -- they and their young audiences will love it!

The saga of Chinaberry tells of a sprawling plantation on the Mississippi; a place rife with blazing ambitions, forbidden desires and scandalous secrets, meshed together in a web that ensnare all who come within its reach. Daughter of the landowner, Julia Douglas, grows dangerously close to her "personal slave boy," Darby, with disastrous results for both of them. Will he ever forget her? Certainly she'll never forget him . . . the twist ending will leave you shaking your head in wonder.

This is volume 2 in a 3-volume series following the Hargrave family from the banks of the post-Civil-War Mississippi through the cross-country migration West to eventual settlement in Spanish California. Volume 1 (Children of the River) and Volume 3 (The Fields Above the Sea), both widely available via online sellers, complete the epic story.

This hauntingly beautiful novel is woven from three threads. It is a hard look at a modern marriage gone bad, careening toward its inevitable destruction; it is an ode to the free-spirited souls of the world with their fragile, sometimes pathetic, idealism; and it is a lyrical tale of an appealingly shy and lonely young woman, Meg Hannah, and of how she is inspired to take her first courageous steps toward self-fulfillment. Then, one sunny Sunday morning, she comes face-to-face with a stranger, and her life is changed forever....

First in a 3-volume series following the Hargrave family from the banks of the Mississippi in the post-Civil War South across the United States in the great westward migration, and ending up in San Francisco, California (in vol. 3, The Fields Above the Sea. Children of the River tells the tale of young Lucius Hargrave, bitten by wanderlust, who strikes out for a life on a Mississippi riverboat -- and soon confronts a world of gamblers, hucksters and con-men . . . and romance.

A GLOWING DESTINY LED THEM - TO THE EDGE OF A CONTINENT AND THE CREST OF A DREAM. LUCIUS HARGRAVE shared the birth pangs of an ambitious city--he would reach for power, but gain wealth instead. And yearning for the return of a long-vanished father, he would lose his most precious possession, his own son. For JUSTIN HARGRAVE defies his father by pursuing both his bold career as a journalist and the love of his spirited cousin MARTHA...Martha, whose mother CATHERINE was desired by Lucius, and whose secret parentage haunts more than one Hargrave marriage. Now the sins of the past will bring both the cruel punishment and unexpected redemption to this newest generation of Hargraves--and to Lucius, who will once more leave for a land far away to seek the dancing phantom of a father never known. Final volume in a 3-vol. set following the Hargrave family from the banks of the post-Civil War Mississippi across the United States in the great Westward migration, all the way to Spanish California. In Fields Above the Sea, set on San Francisco's golden shore, old dreams dim, but new passions came alive....

RIGHT PLACE, WRONG TIME When Dr. Elliot Mallory met Georgina "George" Hathaway, almost everything seemed to be right. They liked the same jokes, shared a love of sports, and the chemistry that drew them together was the most powerful he'd ever known. But the one thing that was wrong was very wrong, at least in Elliot's mind: she was young and just beginning her career. If she tied herself to him now she'd be cheated out of all that the future could hold. He had every intention of doing the noble thing and telling her goodbye, but George had a very disconcerting way of lingering in his heart. Related Books - 3 - 1

When Lady Jane, orphaned daughter of an English earl, arrives in Charlestown, South Carolina, in 1776, she finds herself in the middle of a heated war--a war not only between her former country and her new home but one between the members of her own family, whose loyalties are strongly divided in America's fight for freedom. Torn by family feuds, the war, a secret romance, and her own growing need for independence, Jane struggles for the courage to become the person she wants to be: just Jane. Includes a reader's guide. Originally published by Harcourt Children's Books under the guidance of preeminent editor Karen Grove.

In 1776, amidst the beauty of South Carolina's Tidewater, stood the plantation Stone Hill-last bastion of British loyalty, pride of the powerful Tory leader Robert Prentice. But beneath Stone Hill's serene splendor grew the secret and tangled passions that were to divide the Prentice family one from another, even as the tides of revolution would divide a nation.