Seventeen-year-old Susanna must assume the motherly duties of caring for her two younger siblings. With her family counting on her, the heroine attempts to make a new life centered around a sodhouse on the unsettled Kansas prairie. Susanna is befriended by an old mountain man, who helps her through the hardship and loneliness of existence on the plains. She soon falls in love with the schoolmaster, whose past is dark, mysterious, and dangerous, and with whom she finds satisfaction and fulfillment. This novel will appeal to young readers and adults alike.

Book Two was designed to build on Book One and gives students an opportunity to learn a range of new pieces within the range of their ability.

A boy of morals, compassion and dreams becomes a man of immorality, passion and nightmares. Praise for Oh SusannaBack Cover Text Dave has crafted a compelling, deeply human story. Gayle Brandies, author of Self Storage and The Book of Dead Birds A powerful story of a complex character who Frey managed to make despicable and funny and sympathetic all at the same time. Kathryn Lynn Davis, author of To Deep For LoveTim McGowan is driving around Talbot County, deciding whether he should live or die.It wasnt supposed to be this way. Raised by his maternal grandmother in a small West Virginia town, Tim had a plan: Get an education. Become a teacher. Marry and raise kids. It didnt include the family curse of alcoholism and ruined dreams. Then, life happened.Oh Susanna follows one mans stunning reversal of fortune as it explores mankinds ability to inflict pain, sense guilt, and seek redemption. As Tim loses his teaching career, his wife and his daughter, he will confront the awful truth that he has become his own worst enemy, acting out his life based solely on a destructive pleasure principle and lust. Even knowing the consequences of error after error, Tim continues to annihilate the feelings of those he knows and loves. But there remains one last chance to save himselfand his legacy.Feelingly told, Oh Susanna is a vibrant, moving, and surprisingly funny novel of human frailty, faith and hope.

What was it really like living as a woman in rural Ohio before, during, and after the Civil War? Beckley's grandfather's grandfather was the son of an unpretentious woman who did just that. Unknowingly, she became a family matriarch; and through the use of family documents handed down over the generations, along with governmental archives, and courthouse documents, Beckley is able to reconstruct her life. His research leads him to overgrown vacant lots, dilapidated cemeteries, and down many dusty gravel roads between Ohio and Kentucky, where on the 156th anniversary of the Perrysville Battle, he lies on the ridge where his distant ancestor's brother dies in combat. No effort is spared to reveal the emotion, life, and times of this woman who is long forgotten and yet one who should be forever remembered, thanked, and loved for her devotion to her family.

Sometimes what your life is missing is an eccentric group of older ladies to take you under their wing... When Rae Sutton's mama passes away and leaves her the house where she grew up, Rae can't imagine how the little old place might restore her broken life. Mourning the recent loss of her marriage, she takes the house and settles back into her tiny hometown with her fourteen-year-old daughter, Molly Margaret, and their overweight dog. There she’s embraced by her mother's close-knit circle of friends, the Third Thursday ladies. Though almost half their age and far less confident of positive outcomes, Rae joins their ministry-slash-book-club-slash-gossip circle and allows the women to speak wry honesty and witty humor into her tired heart. As a new career and a new romance bring their own complications, Rae relies on the unlikely family she's found and begins to wonder if her future holds more hope than she ever could have imagined. "Wise, witty, and full of Southern charm,?Bless Your Heart, Rae Sutton?is as refreshing as a tall glass of sweet tea on a hot summer day!" -Denise Hunter, bestselling author of the Riverbend Romances Sweet, stand-alone Southern contemporary women's fiction Coming soon from Susannah B. Lewis: Della & Darby