Reared in isolation by her father on the Western prairie, Mary Dove has been taught to fear only one thing. One sparkling October day it happens. The inevitable stranger rides in off the plains, and Mary Dove does what she had always promised her father she would--she shoots. Yet compassion overcomes Mary's fear. In remorse, she tends to the wounded stranger, and what follows is their tentative discovery of each other and a love story that weaves universal and timeless themes. The mother who died before Mary Dove could know her was African-American. And so completely has Mary Dove's father sheltered her that she cannot begin to comprehend what society would so cruelly teach her. Archetypal in their blamelessness and in how deeply they must suffer for their love, Mary Dove and her cowboy, "Red" Christopher Columbus Jones, are so thoroughly West Texan that they prove Rushing's mastery of character and place. "Get away," she said "Now I ain't gonna hurt you," he said, "and I don't want to know nothing about you that you don't want to tell." He came a step closer. "Stop right now," she said, "or I'll shoot." "You wouldn't," he said. He was so nearly right. She believed what he said--or nearly. But she had been afraid so long. And wasn't it a law of God to do what your father said? She trembled, looking into his smiling blue eyes. It would have been easier if he had been preparing to pounce, like the panther, or striking, like the snake. The rifle barrel dropped, a little. "I knew you wouldn't," he said, taking another step towards her. "I have to," she said, and with a terrible struggle to hold the gun steady, she fired.

Adolescence.

HOW WOULD LIFE LOOK IF YOU WERE READY TO RELEASE: Fear, Jealousy, Power, and Control? Sisterhood of the Dove explores the life of Mary Magdalene, or Miriyam as she called in this book. While seated in a temple dedicated to the Goddess Isis in Ephesus, Turkey; Miriyam's youngest daughter Rachel tells the 400] initiates who have come to enter the Sisterhood and accept the Dove into their hearts, of her mother's life. Rachel shares of Miriyam's childhood; her joys of sacred union and travels with Jesus, or Yeshua as he is called in this book; her love of her mother-in-law Mary and the Goddess teachings; her deep grief at the loss of her beloved; and her commitment to honor the Goddess, build a temple, create various secret societies, up to her choice of death in her late 60s. Miriyam's life is intricately connected with a soul group of 22 who incarnated to raise the consciousness of humankind by offering the opportunity to live in the absence of fear, jealousy, power, and control; by offering humanity the key to freedom and liberation. THOSE TEACHINGS ARE AVAILABLE TODAY! ARE YOU READY TO TRANSFORM?

This new book is a systematic presentation of all known information on Cabarrus County, North Carolina families from its inception until the end of the War of 1812. The author extracted her findings from the 1790 Mecklenburg County census, the 1800 Cabarrus census, court records, Mecklenburg County deed records, marriage records, wills, and newspaper obituaries. In all, the volume identifies 2,000 early families in Cabarrus County and perhaps five times as many persons overall.