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Tara's healing
Janice (Holt) Giles
Houghton Mifflin, 1972
Janice Holt Giles was a superb author.
I have read all of the books written by Janice Holt Giles, both the Piny woods series of which this is one and the moving west series many times. I loose myself after the first page or so and am completely immersed until I sadly turn the last page. Her research is ...
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Hannah Fowler
Janice Holt Giles, Dianne Watkins Stuart
University Press of Kentucky, 1992
This is just a darn good book!
I've read most of Janice Holt Giles' books but this one (my first) has got to be my favorite. It certainly isn't your conventional love story; but then, Hannah isn't your conventional heroine. Nor are she and Tice a conventional couple (she asked HIM to marry HER) but ...
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40 Acres and No Mule
Janice Holt Giles
University Press of Kentucky, 1992
What a wonderful book!
I loved this book because it took me on a journey to a part of the United States that is not known to most readers. And to a time that is not today. And to know people who are unlike any neighbors I have ever had. I really enjoyed learning the landscape and the ...
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Savanna
Janice Holt Giles
Houghton Mifflin, 1961
Savanna Jacket Illustration
I just discovered the authoress Janice Holt Giles and began this book a few days ago. The opening was remarkable in both clarity of description and prosaic nature. I felt like I knew and understood Savanna intrinsically. Does anyone know who the illustration on the ...
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The Believers
Janice Holt Giles
University Press of Kentucky, 1989
Great Page Turner
I found this book in the attic covered under piles of dust. I did not know what it was about as it did not have a cover or anything telling what the book was about. I decided to give it a try and was immediatly submersed in the world of the 1800's. I could not put the ...
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Shady Grove
Janice Holt Giles, Wade Hall
University Press of Kentucky, 2002
You can't read this book without laughing out loud.
I love this book. It is the funniest book that I have ever read. I could just picture them running up on that porch in that old car that was out of control. Every time I get slightly depressed, I re-read this book. I will always have a copy. It's good medicine.
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The Enduring Hills
Janice Holt Giles
University Press of Kentucky, 1988
A Wonderful Book about the Things that Matter
Janice Holt Giles is one of my favorite authors, and her first novel is excellent. Anyone who has ever read "Miss Willie" or "Tara's Healing" will love learning how it all started with Hod and Mary. Her descriptions of the Kentucky mountains and the lifestyle there ...
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Hannah Fowler by Janice Holt Giles
Janice Holt Giles
Houghton Mifflin Co, 1956
Favorite book
This book is an oldie, but a goodie. Although fiction, it gives a good representation of life on the Kentucky frontier. Hannah's experiences as she and her husband strive to create a home are described in a well-written, easy to read style.......I get it out every ...
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The Kentuckians
Janice Holt Giles
University Press of Kentucky, 1988
The Kentuckians, Janice Holt Giles
This is absolutely one of the finest books about the early pioneering in our country. Giles writes in a low-key manner, but brings vivid pictures to the mind as the reader follows the travels and travails of one of those pioneers as he makes his way through the ...
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The Piney Ridge Trilogy
Janice Holt Giles
The University Press of Kentucky, 1971
Exclusive 3 in 1 Volume: The Enduring Hills, Miss Willie, Tara's Healing. Life and love in Kentucky Mountain Country
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The Plum Thicket
Janice Holt Giles, Dianne Watkins Stuart
University Press of Kentucky, 1996
Beautiful story of childhood innocence and heartbreak
"The Plum Thicket" is a beautiful book. In the tradition of "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," Giles takes readers on a journey through a child's innocent point of view. By the novel's end, however, that innocent view of the world has been ...
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Run Me a River
Janice Holt Giles
University Press of Kentucky, 2003
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 ...
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Miss Willie
Janice Holt Giles
University Press of Kentucky, 1994
One of the most engrossing books I have ever read!
"Miss Willie" is a delightful story about a school teacher who moves from a big city to a very small community in the hills of Kentucky.
Easy to read, this book kept me spell bound until
I finished it. A real treat for readers of all ages
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The Believers
janice holt giles
houghton mifflin, 1957
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The Land Beyond the Mountains
Janice Holt Giles, Dianne Watkins Stuart
University Press of Kentucky, 1995
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 ...
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