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1	Enduring Hills more books like this by Janice Holt Giles 'The Enduring Hills' was Janice Holt Giles's first novel. Originally published in 1950, it was based in part on her own introduction to the Kentudky mountain country where her husband's family had lived since Revolutionary times. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.09! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Hannah Fowler more books like this by Janice Holt Giles Samuel Moore and his daughter Hannah set out for the border country with a party led by George Rogers Clark but left to follow the Kentucky River to Boone's Fort. As the story opens, Hannah is nursing her father, injured when an axe slips and cuts his leg. see all copies from $2.75! new only from $13.78! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Miss Willie more books like this by Janice Holt Giles Miss Willie, first published in 1951, is the second novel in Janice Holt Giles's Piney Ridge trilogy, which includes also The Enduring Hills and Tara's Healing. Although the plot is fictional, the central character is based on Giles's mother and some of the episodes are drawn from her life. This is the story of a dedicated teacher who moves to the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.78! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Believers more books like this by Giles In this novel, Mrs. Giles gives us a unique picture of everyday life in a Shaker village, one of the experiments in utopian communal living that are a part of American history. Realistically but with understanding, she shows us a society animated not only by saintliness but by bigotry and ordinary human frailties. She also shows us why utopia ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.67! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Tara's Healing more books like this by Janice Holt Giles Taras Healing, first published in 1951, is Janice Holt Giles's third novel and the last of her Kentucky Mountain trilogy, which includes The Enduring Hills and Miss Willie. Readers will find themselves on Piney Ridge again with Hod and Mary Pierce and their neighbors. This is the story of Tara Cochrane, who had been Hod's captain during World War ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.50! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Johnny Osage more books like this by Janice Holt Giles see all copies from $1.99! new only from $70.55! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Kentuckians more books like this by Giles The Kentuckians of Janice Holt Giles's title were that hardy band of frontiersmen who straggled through Cumberland Gap in the 1770s and carved their farms from the wilderness of Virginia's westernmost county. In her historical novel, first published in 1953, Giles invites the reader to experience the danger and beauty of life on the American ... see all copies from $2.10! new only from $11.24! \| first editions
8	Voyage to Santa Fe. by Janice Giles (Holt) see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
9	The Land Beyond the Mountains more books like this by Giles In her fourth novel of the Kentucky frontier, Janice Holt Giles tells the story of the Spanish Conspiracy, General James Wilkinson's 1783 plan to detach Kentucky from the United States and make it the nucleus of a Spanish empire in the West. Had it not been for the loyalty and determination of men like Giles's fictional hero, Major Cassius ... see all copies from $4.88! new only from $15.88! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Run Me a River more books like this by Janice Holt Giles, Morris A Grubbs (Foreword by) With a foreword by Morris A. Grubbs The rich history of river life in Kentucky permeates Janice Holt Giles's novel Run Me a River. Set in 1861, at the beginning of Kentucky's reluctant entry into the Civil War, the novel tells the story of a five-day adventure on the Green River. Aboard the Rambler, a ramshackle steamboat, Captain Bohannon ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.88! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Wellspring more books like this by Janice Holt Giles The nineteen selections that make up Wellspring, Janice Holt Giles's last published book before her death in 1979, are a microcosm of her large world. She brings together fiction, nonfiction, autobiography and fictionalized autobiography, revealing behind-the-scenes looks at her life, her family, her love for her adopted state of Kentucky and its ... see all copies from $5.35! new only from $20.94! \| first editions \| SVS
12	Plum Thicket more books like this by Janice Holt Giles Janice Holt Giles had a life before her marriage and writing career in Kentucky. Born in Altus, Arkansas, Giles spent many childhood summers visiting her grandparents there. After the success of her historical novel The Kentuckians in 1953, she planned to write a second frontier romance. But a visit to Altus caused her imagination to drift from ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.60! \| first editions \| SVS
13	Six Horse Hitch more books like this by Janice H. Giles see all copies from $1.99! first editions
14 view cover	Shady Grove more books like this by Janice Holt Giles Broke Neck, Kentucky, lies deep in Appalachia. Its people are descendents of the men and women who settled the country in Revolutionary War times, and their ways have not changed much in the past two hundred years. Shady Grove chronicles the riotous adventures and misadventures of Broke Neck's Fowler clan, among them Frony, the feisty and ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $14.67! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	40 Acres and No Mule more books like this by Janice Holt Giles To this personal account of trials of a city woman trying to learn the ways of the country and of her neighbors, Janice Holt Giles brings the same warmth, humor, and powers of observation that characterize her novels. see all copies from $9.78! new only from $13.78! \| first editions \| SVS
16	The Great Adventure more books like this by Janice H. Giles see all copies from $2.80! first editions
17	The damned engineers. more books like this by Janice Giles (Holt) see all copies from $15.00! first editions
18 view cover	A Little Better Than Plumb: The Biography of a House more books like this by Henry Giles, Janice Holt Giles, Linda Beattie (Foreword by) Janice Holt Giles never thought her lifelong dream of owning a log house, a bubbling brook, and a few acres of hilly countryside was overly ambitious. Mrs. Giles and her husband Henry soon discovered otherwise. A Little Better than Plumb is their warm and humorous account of the trials of creating a place to call home. To longtime Giles fans and ... see all copies from $9.50! new only from $15.00! \| first editions \| SVS
19	The great adventure; a novel. more books like this by Janice Giles (Holt) see all copies from $27.35!
20	Around our house more books like this by Henry Giles, Janice Holt Giles see all copies from $10.00! first editions
21	Johnny Osage, Bks. 1-6 more books like this by Janice H. Giles see all copies from $1.99!
22 view cover	Hill Man more books like this by Janice Holt Giles, Wade Hall (Foreword by) This classic novel offers a realistic, unromanticized portrayal of poor, rural, Kentuckians. Rady Cromwell always gets what he wants: first a gun, then a dog and a guitar. Then he wanted a widow and her farm, then he wanted an even more beautiful widow and her property. see all copies from $16.15! new only from $20.67! \| SVS
23	Modifying retarded behavior more books like this by John T Neisworth, Janice Holt Giles see all copies from $1.99! first editions
24 view cover	Act of Contrition more books like this by Janice Holt Giles, Wade Hall (Foreword by) Act of Contrition focuses on the intimate relationship between Regina, a widow, and Michael, a young doctor whose wife left him for another man. Having found happiness in one another, they desire nothing more than to be together. Yet in the eyes of the Catholic Church, Michael is not free to divorce his wife and marry Regina. In an emotional ... see all copies from $13.78! new only from $13.78! \| SVS
25	Six-horse hitch; a novel. more books like this by Janice Giles (Holt) see all copies from $102.29!

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