Download or read book Christmas in Mossy Creek written by Carolyn McSparren and published by BelleBooks. This book was released on 2017-11-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hire me a moving van. It's the kind of town where everyone wishes they could live." --Debbie Macomber The friendly folks in Mossy Creek are back for a Christmas filled with love, laughter, holiday cheer, and zany antics. From a wild & wooly parade debacle in Town Square to the quiet tears of a surprise homecoming, from the tinsel-lined streets of archrival Bigelow to the lofty spires of Colchik Mountain, Creekites celebrate the season as only Creekites can. Your favorite Mossy Creek citizens are back with their own stories of Christmas gifts and decorations, of community spirit, of sacrifices and lessons learned. Merry and Louise struggle to make the annual parade a success. Inez and Lucy Belle keep the feud with Bigelow alive. Jayne receives a blessed gift from the new Santa in town. Pearl and Spiva give Mossy Creek Books and Whatnots--and their sisterly relationship--a needed makeover. Tag and Maggie struggle with the importance of career vs. family. Join us for these stories plus much more fun and Christmas joy in Mossy Creek.
Download or read book Mossy Creek written by Deborah Smith and published by BelleBooks. This book was released on 2001-05-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Mossy Creek, your home town. You'll find a friendly face at every window, and a story behind every door. We've got a mayor who cleans her own gun, and a Police Chief who doesn't need one. We've got scandal at the coffee shop and battles on the ballfield, a cantankerous Santa and a flying Chihuahua. You'll want to meet Rainey, the hairdresser with a tendency toward hysteria, and Hank, who takes care of our animals like they were his children. Don't forget to stop in for a bite at Mama's All You Can Eat Café, and while you're there say hello to our local celebrity, Sue Ora. Like as not, she'll sit you right down and tell you a story. People are like that in Mossy Creek. Award winning authors Debra Dixon, Donna Ball, Sandra Chastain, Virginia Ellis, Nancy Knight, and Deborah Smith (Sweet Tea and Jesus Shoes) come together once again to blend their unique southern voices into a collection of tales about the South, this time focusing their talents on the fictional town of Mossy Creek, Georgia. Chances are, you'll recognize it. But even if you don't, you'll want to come back, again and again. So welcome to Mossy Creek, the town that ain't going nowhere and don't want to.
Download or read book Ripples written by Jill S Behe and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-12 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ripples, Mossy Creek is gearing up for the Christmas holiday in a big way, but crime is trying to put a damper on its festive spirit.The first week in December starts out with a domestic dispute and an arrest for disturbing the peace. The couple involved ends up spending the night in separate cells.When a bully attacks a co-worker in the middle of the day in the company breakroom, Maggie, Wyatt, and their crew dig in to find the motive, and apprehend the culprit.Their strategy doesn't go as smoothly as hoped.The ripple-effects of that initial encounter reach further and are wider than anyone anticipated.A body is found behind The Lumberyard.And who stole Toby Walker's bat?It's not all bad. In point of fact, there is more good stuff than criminal craziness going on. Baby showers, Christmas parties, community tree trimming, the Christmas Eve service, new people, new couples, new friends.Mother Nature adds in her two cents by keeping her winter coat thick and heavy then throws out a wicked slap shot to end the year.Come on in and get comfortable. The woodstove is toasty warm. Maggie's waiting with hot chocolate, cookies, and all the nitty-gritty about what's going on in Mossy Creek this Christmas.
Download or read book Homecoming In Mossy Creek written by Debra Dixon and published by BelleBooks. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighth novel in the acclaimed Mossy Creek Hometown Series continues the warm, witty, and wise doings in a small Southern village you'll want to call home. It's been over twenty years since Mossy Creek experienced Homecoming, and they're determined to do it right! And you know Creekites...if there's something interesting going on, they won't rest until they know about it. So when a letter shows up at the Police Station with a warning about ugly secrets hidden in the time capsule buried twenty years ago, the whole town is abuzz with the possibilities. Amos, Ida, & Win put Peggy Caldwell and Louise Sawyer on its trail, hoping the sleuth-loving ladies can find it before the week ends at the Homecoming Dance. Meanwhile, Amos & Ida tangle in a deserted Haunted House. Ardaleen & Inez scrimmage at the Bake Sale. Pearl & Spiva spar as they volunteer at the Booster Club Canteen. All of your favorite characters are back as Mossy Creek celebrates Homecoming with festivities that make Southerners cheer. Football. Homecoming Queens. Parades. Plays. It's all happening during Homecoming in Mossy Creek! Including stories from: Carolyn McSparren, Sandra Chastain, Martha Crockett, Debra Dixon, Nancy Knight, Brenna Crowder, Darcy Crowder, Susan Goggins, Maureen Hardegree, and Berta Platas.
Download or read book Blessings Of Mossy Creek written by Karen White and published by BelleBooks. This book was released on 2004-06-10 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The good-hearted citizens of Mossy Creek, Georgia are in a mood to count their blessings. Maybe it's the influence of the new minister in town, who keeps his sense of humor while battling a stern church treasurer. Maybe it's the afterglow of Josie McClure's incredibly romantic wedding to the local "Bigfoot." Or maybe it's the new baby in Hank and Casey Blackshear's home. As autumn gilds the mountains, town gossip columnist Katie Bell, has persuaded Creekites to confess their joys, trouble, and gratitudes. As always, that includes a heapin' helping of laughter, wisdom and good-old-fashioned scandal.
Download or read book Summer In Mossy Creek written by Deborah Smith and published by BelleBooks. This book was released on 2003-06-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a typical summer in the good-hearted mountain town of Mossy Creek, Georgia, where love, laughter and friendship make nostalgia a way of life. Creekites are always ready for a sultry romance, a funny feud or a sincere celebration, and this summer is no different. Get ready for a comical battle over pickled beets and a spy mission to recover hijacked chow-chow peppers. Meet an unforgettable parakeet named Tweedle Dee and a lovable dog named Dog. Watch Amos and Ida sidestep the usual rumors and follow Katie Bell's usual snooping. In the meantime, old-timer Opal Suggs and her long-dead sisters share a lesson on living, and apple farmer Hope Bailey faces poignant choices when an old flame returns to claim her. Your favorite authors are back along with some wonderful new storytellers--plus more recipes from Creekite chef Bubba Rice. Pull up a wicker rocker, sip some peach-flavored iced tea, and listen as the townsfolk of Mossy Creek share their lives with you once again.
Download or read book A Day In Mossy Creek written by Deborah Smith and published by BelleBooks. This book was released on 2006-02-20 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maybe it's the post-New Year's boredom. Maybe it's the cold, frisky air. Whatever the cause, the citizens of Mossy Creek seem determined to get into trouble on a clear winter day in mid-January. Police Chief Amos Royden and his loyal officers, Mutt and Sandy, can barely keep up with the calls. Hank and Casey Blackshear's great aunt Irene, 93, leads a protest march of angry old folks--on their electric scooters. Louise and Charlie Sawyer battle renovation pitfalls (literally) in their cranky house. Pearl Quinlan fights her sister, Spiva, over a plate of brownies. Patty Campbell performs a makeover on Orville Gene Simpson's front yard, against Orville's will. All that and more! Last, but not least, Amos and Ida finally stop fighting their secret attraction, but then the trouble really begins!
Download or read book Reunion At Mossy Creek written by Deborah Smith and published by BelleBooks. This book was released on 2002-07-20 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome back to Mossy Creek--the warm-hearted but stubborn residents of the small town whose motto is "Ain't goin' nowhere, and don't want to" are once again sorting out the joys, sorrows and everyday mysteries of life. This time around they've got the added drama of the big town reunion commemorating the twenty-year-old mystery of the late, great Mossy Creek High School, which burned to the ground amid quirky rumors and dark secrets. Are the villains who caused the fire at the grand old school finally ready to come forward? In the meantime, sassy 100-year-old Creekite Eula Mae Whit is convinced Williard Scott has put a death curse on her, and Mossy Creek Police Chief Amos Royden is still fighting his reputation as the town's most eligible bachelor. Then there's the new bad girl in town, Jasmine, and more adventures from the old bad girl in town, Mayor Ida Hamilton. And last but not least, Bob the flying Chihuahua, finds himself stalked by an amorous lady poodle. All this and more--including the introduction of Mossy Creek's new recipe section, courtesy of Creekite Chef Bubba Rice--is waiting for readers in the second novel of the Mossy Creek series.
Download or read book History of the First Regiment of Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry written by W. R. Carter and published by The Overmountain Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Staunchly pro-Union young men escaped from Confederate-occupied East Tennessee in droves to muster up numerous regiments for the North. One of the most famous units was the First Regiment of the Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry. Led by Colonel James P. Brownlow, the regiment participated in more than 50 battles and skirmishes, including the East Tennessee campaign, the Atlanta campaign, the Battle of Franklin, the Battle of Nashville, and Brownlow’s infamous “naked charge.”
Download or read book History of the First Regiment of Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry in the Great War of the Rebellion written by William Randolph Carter and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Critters Of Mossy Creek written by Deborah Smith and published by BelleBooks. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 7 in the beloved Mossy Creek Hometown Series about life in a tiny Georgia mountain village. This time, tales of local pets weave among the usual intrigues, feuds, and romances. Ida and Amos are closer than ever to becoming a full-fledged couple; the new Mossy Creek High School is prepping for its first football season, Deputy Sandy is about to give birth, and Ed's story, with his faithful hound dog beside him, comes to a poignant conclusion.
Download or read book Carson Newman University written by Melody Marion and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Melody Marion and Amanda Ford trace the formation of this Jefferson City, Tennessee, institution from its founding as Mossy Creek Missionary Baptist Seminary in 1850 to the one-hundred-and-twenty acre university campus that is Carson-Newman today. Along the way, Marion and Ford discuss the school's Baptist foundations, its coeducational merger in the late nineteenth century, a string of presidents both exceptional and misguided, and its expansion from college to university in the twenty-first century"--
Download or read book Opdycke s Tigers in the Civil War written by Thomas Crowl and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized in the fall of 1862, the 125th Ohio Volunteer Infantry was commanded by the aggressive and ambitious Colonel Emerson Opdycke, a citizen-soldier with no military experience who rose to brevet major general. Part of the Army of the Cumberland, the 125th first saw combat at Chickamauga. Charging into Dyer's cornfield to blunt a rebel breakthrough, the Buckeyes pressed forward and, despite heavy casualties, drove the enemy back, buying time for the fractured Union army to rally. Impressed by the heroic charge of an untested regiment, Union General Thomas Wood labeled them "Opdycke's Tigers." After losing a third of their men at Chickamauga, the 125th fought engagements across Tennessee and Georgia during 1864, and took part in the decisive battles at Franklin and Nashville. Drawing on both primary sources and recent scholarship, this is the first full-length history of the regiment in more than 120 years.
Download or read book The First Georgia Cavalry in the Civil War written by Michael Bowers Cavender and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-12-31 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1861 Captain James J. Morrison resigned his commission in the United States Cavalry, returned to his home in Cedartown, Georgia, and was soon authorized by the Confederate War Department to raise a regiment of cavalry. This book is the first complete history of the First Georgia Cavalry, who saw action in Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina and North Carolina. A regimental roster includes more than 1,600 names with details of service provided, along with pre-war service, death and burial information in some cases.
Download or read book Homegrown Yankees written by James Alex Baggett and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the states in the Confederacy, Tennessee was the most sectionally divided. East Tennesseans opposed secession at the ballot box in 1861, petitioned unsuccessfully for separate statehood, resisted the Confederate government, enlisted in Union militias, elected U.S. congressmen, and fled as refugees into Kentucky. These refugees formed Tennessee's first Union cavalry regiments during early 1862, followed shortly thereafter by others organized in Union-occupied Middle and West Tennessee. In Homegrown Yankees, the first book-length study of Union cavalry from a Confederate state, James Alex Baggett tells the remarkable story of Tennessee's loyal mounted regiments. Fourteen mounted regiments that fought primarily within the boundaries of the state and eight local units made up Tennessee's Union cavalry. Young, nonslaveholding farmers who opposed secession, the Confederacy, and the war -- from isolated villages east of Knoxville, the Cumberland Mountains, or the Tennessee River counties in the west -- filled the ranks. Most Tennesseans denounced these local bluecoats as renegades, turncoats, and Tories; accused them of betraying their people, their section, and their race; and held them in greater contempt than soldiers from the North. Though these homegrown Yankees participated in many battles -- including those in the Stones River, Tullahoma, Chickamauga, East Tennessee, Nashville, and Atlanta campaigns -- their story provides rare insights into what occurred between the battles. For them, military action primarily meant almost endless skirmishing with partisans, guerrillas, and bushwackers, as well as with the Rebel raiders of John Hunt Morgan, Joseph Wheeler, and Nathan Bedford Forrest, who frequently recruited and supplied themselves from behind enemy lines. Tennessee's Union cavalry scouted and foraged the countryside, guarded outposts and railroads, acted as couriers, supported the flanks of infantry, and raided the enemy. On occasion, especially during the Nashville campaign, they provided rapid pursuit of Confederate forces. They also helped protect fellow unionists from an aggressive pro-Confederate insurgency after 1862. Baggett vividly describes the deprivation, sickness, and loneliness of cavalrymen living on the war's periphery and traces how circumstances beyond their control -- such as terrain, transport, equipage, weaponry, public sentiment, and military policy -- affected their lives. He also explores their well-earned reputation for plundering -- misdeeds motivated by revenge, resentment, a lack of discipline, and the hard-war policy of the Union army. In the never-before-told story of these cavalrymen, Homegrown Yankees offers new insights into an unexplored facet of southern Unionism and provides an exciting new perspective on the Civil War in Tennessee.
Download or read book At Home In Mossy Creek written by Deborah Smith and published by BelleBooks. This book was released on 2007-07-15 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's Valentine's Day weekend in Mossy Creek, and Creekites don't need any new romantic dilemmas. The town's still buzzing over Ida and Amos's kiss. Hannah's heart flutters every time a certain handsome Scottish photographer walks into her library. Peggy's debating her first real date since her husband died. Harry's keeping a romantic secret from Josie. Sandy's got a romantic surprise for Jess. Sagan has to decide whether he and Emily really are a couple, and Win Allen's preparing his restaurant for the biggest night of the year. So what could make the weekend more Chaotic? The Circus! Cirque d'Europa is stranded in Mossy Creek, and Creekites find themselves hosting some very strange characters with romantic problems of their own.
Download or read book Now I Know written by Yvonne Linscott Bartel and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yvonne Bartel's maternal great-grandfather, James Ross Scadden, refused to talk about his Civil War days. No one knew anything other than he had been a prisoner of war in Andersonville, the notorious Confederate Civil War prison camp in Georgia. Spending two years researching, Yvonne gathered every possible detail about Scadden's Civil War experience from other soldiers' journals and diaries who were enlisted with him, including the fourteen months he spent in Andersonville. Through Bartel's retelling, Now I Know includes tales of heroism, extreme difficulties, stamina, battles in the western theatre, capture, and the tales of sickness, death, and suffering as a prisoner of war. Here at long last is the spellbinding tale of an ordinary country boy caught up in the catastrophic years of the Civil War that changed him forever.
