Betrayal At Cross Creek

Julia's Last Hope

Twelve-year-old Elspeth Monro, a Scottish settler and weaver's apprentice on the North Carolina frontier in 1775, must find out who is betraying her Loyalist family during the months before the start of the Revolutionary War.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896 - 1953) was an American author who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. Her best known work, The Yearling, about a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn, won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1939 and was later made into a movie of the same title, The Yearling. The book was written long before the concept of young-adult fiction, but is now commonly included in teen-reading lists.

This book consists of articles from Wikia or other free sources online. Pages: 72. Chapters: A Bundle of Trouble, A Spy on the Home Front, A Thief in the Theater, Betrayal at Cross Creek, Circle of Fire, Clue in the Castle Tower, Clues in the Shadows, Danger at the Wild West Show, Danger at the Zoo, Enemy in the Fort, Gangsters at the Grand Atlantic, Ghost Light on Graveyard Shoal, Historical Character Mysteries, History Mysteries, Lady Margaret's Ghost, Midnight in Lonesome Hollow, Mini Mysteries, Mini Mysteries 2, Mini Mysteries 3, Missing Grace, Mystery at Chilkoot Pass, Mystery of the Dark Tower, Mystery on Skull Island, Peril at King's Creek, Riddle of the Prairie Bride, Secrets at Camp Nokomis, Secrets in the Hills, Secrets on 26th Street, Shadows in the Glasshouse, Shadows on Society Hill, The Cameo Necklace, The Cry of the Loon, The Crystal Ball, The Curse of Ravenscourt, The Hidden Gold, The Light in the Cellar, The Minstrel's Melody, The Night Flyers, The Puzzle of the Paper Daughter, The Runaway Friend, The Silent Stranger, The Silver Guitar, The Smuggler's Treasure, The Stolen Sapphire, The Strange Case of Baby H, The Tangled Web, Traitor in Williamsburg, Trouble at Fort La Pointe, Under Copp's Hill, Voices at Whisper Bend, Watcher in the Piney Woods, Whistler in the Dark. Excerpt: Discusses the household duties of young girls in 1914. Topics include: The book opens up with Molly doing a cannonball into a pond. Her friend, Anna Schulz and Molly are competing to see how high their splashes are. Molly is visiting her grandparent's farm for two weeks. Anna Schulz and her family are next-door neighbors to the Culver's, Molly's grandparents. Normally, all of the McIntire's visit the farm, but the war made it unable for the family to come. Molly's mother is working for the Red Cross, Jill is helping at the Veteran's Hospital, Ricky's mowing lawns, and Brad was at camp. Mr. McIntire is a doctor in England, fighting in the war. Also, Aunt Eleanor, Molly's...

First published in the year 1942, 'Cross Creek' was written by a twentieth century American novelist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. "Cross Creek is a bend in a country road, by land, and the flowing of Lochloosa Lake into Orange Lake, by water. We are four miles west of the small village of Island Grove, nine miles east of a turpentine still, and on the other sides we do not count distance at all, for the two lakes and the broad marshes create an infinite space between us and the horizon. We are five white families; "Old Boss" Brice, the Glissons, the Mackays and the Bernie Basses; and two colored families, Henry Woodward and the Mickenses. People in Island Grove consider us just a little biggety and more than a little queer. Black Kate and I between us once misplaced some household object, quite unreasonably." -Preface

Cross Creek is a 1983 American biographical drama romance film starring Mary Steenburgen as The Yearling author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. The film is directed by Martin Ritt and is based in part on Rawlings's 1942 memoir Cross Creek.

For the first time in one place, Roger M. Sobin has compiled a list of nominees and award winners of virtually every mystery award ever presented. He has also included many of the “best of” lists by more than fifty of the most important contributors to the genre.; Mr. Sobin spent more than two decades gathering the data and lists in this volume, much of that time he used to recheck the accuracy of the material he had collected. Several of the “best of” lists appear here for the first time in book form. Several others have been unavailable for a number of years.; Of special note, are Anthony Boucher’s “Best Picks for the Year.” Boucher, one of the major mystery reviewers of all time, reviewed for The San Francisco Chronicle, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and The New York Times. From these resources Mr. Sobin created “Boucher’s Best” and “Important Lists to Consider,” lists that provide insight into important writing in the field from 1942 through Boucher’s death in 1968.? This is a great resource for all mystery readers and collectors.; ; Winner of the 2008 Macavity Awards for Best Mystery Nonfiction.

At the memorial held after Martin Ritt's death in 1990, he was hailed as this country's greatest maker of social films. From No Down Payment early in his career to Stanley & Iris, his last production, he delineated the nuances of American society. In between were other social statements such as Hud, Sounder, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, Norma Rae, and The Great White Hope. He was a leftist who embraced various radical movements of the 1930s and, largely because of this involvement, was blacklisted from television in the early 1950s. His film The Front, about the blacklisting, was his most autobiographical. He was a Jew from New York; yet he went to a small college in North Carolina, Elon, where he played football for "The Fighting Christians". His school days in the South gave him a lifelong love for the region. Thus, in his movies, he was just as much at home with southern as with northern topics. He did not deal totally in his southern experience with racism and poverty. He directed The Long Hot Summer and The Sound and the Fury, both of which described conflicts between and among white social groups. He once remarked, "I have spent most of my film life in the South". Some referred to his films as "think movies", and perhaps this is why he never won an Oscar for best directing. But he gave moviegoers all over the world an opportunity to see what America was really like - from the viewpoint both of the wealthy and of the poor. It may be, unfortunately, that we will never see his likes again.

The core of the book is Emerson's personal take on writing and selling historical mysteries, but it also includes contributions from over forty other historical mystery writers practical advice, anecdotes, and suggestions for research and input from assorted editors, booksellers, and reviewers. For both historical mystery writers and readers.This book embodies its subtitle: The Art & Adventure of Sleuthing Through the Past. Veteran author Emerson published her first mystery twenty-three years ago, and this is her thirty-sixth published book. It draws on her experience in researching, writing, selling, and sustaining both her Lady Appleton series (Elizabethan England) and her Diana Spaulding series (1880s U.S.). This unique reference book also includes the contributions of more than forty other historical mystery writers. Their books backgrounds and settings are as diverse as Ancient Egypt and Rome, antebellum New Orleans, early Constantinople, Jazz Age England and Australia, Depression-era California, turn-of-the-century New York, Victorian England, and eighteenth-century Venice.