When their Tennessee town announces plans to seize her family's 175-year-old house through eminent domain, twelve-year-old Louise Mayhew needs to come up with a way to save it.
In 1856, 15-year-old Bella Lee Dunkinson began hanging around the local railroad in western Tennessee. Engineer John Hardiman took a liking to the spirited girl and gave her a boy's responsibilities--helping with the engine. One stormy night, the engine was slipping dangerously on wet rails. While John was putting sand on the tracks, Bella found herself alone in the cab driving the train up a steep and dangerous mountainside. After her heroic and triumphant climb to the mountaintop, she was hailed by the miners who met her there as the "Belle of the Mines and Mountains.".
Explores how President James Polk sought to hide from public knowledge the fact that, while he was president, he was secretly buying as many slaves as his plantation revenues permitted.
a daughter remembers the father she lost in Vietnam-and the mother who held her family together
Zacharias, Karen Spears
2005
Karen Spears reflects on how her father's death in Vietnam impacted her family and shares the story of how her mother worked to keep their family together.
A slight error left Olympic diving-hopeful Bryce Graham in a five-year coma and now, at twenty-two, she must adjust to a world that went on without her and to visions that may or may not be real.
A guide to hiking the Appalachian Trail through Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee, with forty-five day hikes and overnight backpacking trips, including information on parking, camping, and water resources.
Widow Stella Rothchild moves to Memphis with her two children to start a new life and soon finds herself attracted to handsome landscaper Logan Kitridge; however, things get complicated when she encounters a ghost who does not approve of her new relationship.
The diaries of thirteen-year-old Zoey, who lives in modern day Tennessee, and Prudence, who lives in 1811 Missouri, tell how the two girls survive the New Madrid earthquakes and the subsequent floods after Zoey travels back in time.
