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The Blue Ridge Trilogy

Book one: When the Owl Calls (2016)

Book two: Shadows on the Mountain (2017)

Book three: Reflections in a Stream (to be published in the near future)

At the turn of the twentieth century, the communities nestled within the Blue Ridge Mountains were thought to be developmentally a hundred years behind the rest of the country. It was into this environ that Dr. Jim Bradley felt a calling to minister through medicine to people who were often bound by superstition and home remedies.

For those who fell in love with the characters in...

Judith Early was a privileged only child of an affluent family. She expected this life of comfort to continue when she became engaged to Dr. Jim Bradley, who was completing his surgical residency in Boston. That dream was shattered when he shared plans to practice in an isolated community of the Blue Ridge, a mountainous area in the southern Appalachians.

Disappointed, Judith questions why Jim would pass up a promising partnership to squander his skills in a backwoods, impoverished community. Deeply hurt, she breaks the engagement, forcing Jim to leave without her in answer to God's...

Warum Krankheiten, Seuchen und Pandemien nicht alle gleich treffen - eine Reise durch die Weltgeschichte 

AIDS, Cholera, die Spanische Grippe - die Folgen von Epidemien werden auch durch menschliches Handeln bestimmt. Nicht weiße Menschen sind schwerer von solchen Ereignissen betroffen und haben ein höheres Sterberisiko. Kolonialismus, Ausgrenzung und Rassismus potenzieren Krankheitsausbrüche und vergrößern das Leid. Diese fatalen Unterschiede zeigt Edna Bonhomme in ihrem Buch, in dem sie eine spannende Reise durch die Zeit der Krankheiten und Seuchen unternimmt: vom Ausbruch...

"The Eskimo Girl and the Englishman" is a sequel to the delightful story "Once Upon an Eskimo Time," which recounts the remarkable life of Minnie and her Eskimo mother as she comes of age in a traditional village on Alaska s western coast. Resuming the tale on the day Minnie encounters her first white man, The Eskimo Girl and the Englishman relates the next century of Minnie s adventurous life painting a picture of early twentieth-century village life as Minnie and her Englishman marry and find the determination, strength, and courage to live life in the face of tragedy, rapidly changing...