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Watercress Press POD Imprint
Geron & Associates
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Beginning in January, 2011 Watercress Press has begun offering the option of 'Publish on Demand' or POD to clients who would prefer a small print run of their book, plus distribution through the Ingram catalog. Geron & Associates books are edited and designed with the same high standards as our regular imprint.
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To Truckee's Trail
Celia Hayes
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The greatest story . . . never told
Only a few avid enthusiasts have ever heard of the Stephens-Townsend party of wagon train pioneers; men, women and children, who crossed the continent in 1844, blazing a trail through the wilderness from Fort Hall in present-day Idaho, across the high desert, and over the Sierra Nevada range to Sacramento.
They walked two thousand miles across plain and desert, into unknown, trackless wilderness, on a gamble that life at the end of the trail would be better. No surviving firsthand written account of their trail-blazing adventure is known. The author reconstructs the long-lost diary of Dr. John Townsend, physician and ad-hoc leader, carrying readers through every dusty mile and hard choice, with this extraordinary group of ordinary Americans. Some are rough, some are polished . . . but all are blistered with the fire of adventure and the tribulations of an unknown trail through uncharted territory.
6 x 9 paper, vi, 259 pages
ISBN 978-0934955881
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Author's website: www.celiahayes.com |
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DEEP IN THE HEART
Celia Hayes |
A woman with many friends - but few of them would ever know her heart!
Two husbands, a large house, many friends - that was predicted for Margaret Becker Vining; that she would be a widow, left to raise her four sons in a tiny frontier town, was not mentioned in the old conjure-woman's prophecy. Austin, the makeshift capital city of the Republic of Texas, was threatened and besieged from all sides. Peace did not come with Sam Houston's victory over the Mexican Army at San Jacinto. Between old and bitter enemies and the inconstancy of unreliable friends, Margaret Becker Vining, her family, and her friends must fight to maintain their independence and security . . . while Margaret herself despairs of ever finding happiness again.
6 x 9 paper, vi, 300 pages
ISBN 978-0934955874
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Author's website: www.celiahayes.com |
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Adelsverein: The Complete Trilogy
Celia Hayes |
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The Adelsverein Trilogy, now combined in a single hardbound edition, is a saga of family and community loyalties, and the challenge of building a new life on the hostile frontier. They came from Germany to Texas in 1847, under the auspices of the "Mainzer Adelsverein" - the society of noblemen of Mainz, who tried to fill a settlement in Texas with German farmers and craftsmen. Christian "Vati" Steinmetz, the clockmaker of Ulm in Bavaria, has brought his sons and daughters: Magda - passionate and courageous, courted by Carl Becker, a young frontiersman with a dangerous past. Her sister Liesel wants nothing more than to be a good wife to her husband Hansi, a stolid and practical farmer called by circumstances to be something greater, in the boom years of the great cattle ranches. Their brothers Friedrich and Johann, have always been close - in the Civil War, one will wear Union blue, the other Confederate grey homespun - but never forget they are brothers. And finally, there is Vati's adopted daughter Rosalie, whose life ends as it began - in tragedy. But Vati's family will will survive and ultimately triumph. They will make their mark in Texas, their new land. Adelsverein: It's about love and loss, joy and grief . . . and the sometimes wrenching process of becoming American.
6 x 9 cloth, vii1, 1040 pages
ISBN 978-0934955843
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Author's website: www.celiahayes.com |
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DAUGHTER OF TEXAS
Celia Hayes |
Before the cattle drives and before the Alamo. Before the legends were born; she was there and she saw it all!
On the day that she was twelve years old, Margaret Becker came to Texas with her parents and her younger brothers. The witch-woman looked at her hands and foretold her future; two husbands, a large house, many friends, joy, sorrow and love. The witch woman would not say what she saw for Margaret's younger brothers, Rudi and Carl – for Texas was a Mexican colony. Before the Becker children were full-grown, the war for Texas independence would come upon them all and show no mercy.
During her life, she would observe and participate in great events. She would meet and pass her own judgment on great men and lesser men as well; a loyal friend, able political hostess ... and at the end, a survivor and witness. But in all of her life, there would be only one man who would ever hold — and break — her heart!
6 x 9 paper, vii, 338 pages
ISBN 978-0934955836
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Author's website: www.celiahayes.com
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