Sweet America

“A magnificent piece of writing, a beautiful tapestry of prose in which the stories of two of Atlanta’s most celebrated families have been woven densely into the history of the city itself.” —The New York Times The Intersection of Peachtree Street, historically the residential and...

Exciting! Romantic! Adventure! If you love Pride and Prejudice, and sweet clean Regency Romance, you'll love this series! If you favor JAFF authors like Reynolds, Wells, Kendig, and Salier, these books are meant for you! Do you love stories like Bridgerton and North and South? You are in the right place! Elizabeth, at the tender age of 19, finds herself an orphan. Her father's final wish is for her to sail to England to reconnect with the family he and her mother ran away from. Along with her faithful companions, she arrives at the coastal town of Ramsgate, where the very first person she ...

If you love Pride and Prejudice, and sweet, clean Regency Romance, you'll love this series! What if Elizabeth wasn't a Bennet? What if Elizabeth was an American? What if Elizabeth sailed to England to find her Bennet family? What if Miss Darcy met Elizabeth at Ramsgate before she could get into trouble? What if there are a dozen new characters who were not in the original Pride and Prejudice? (but of course we'll see many of our old favorites) What if Mr. Darcy doesn't like Americans? Come visit this new Jane Austen Fan Fiction series and see what other "what if's" there are as Elizabeth ...

If you love Pride and Prejudice, sweet and clean Regency romance, or historical fiction, this series is for you! If you haven't tried Jane Austen Fan Fiction (JAFF), you are missing out! Elizabeth from America is a serial series, with new episodes out every few weeks, just like in the old periodicals of the day! This book contains episodes 11 through 14 under one cover. Only the compilations are offered in print form. The novellas are released in eBook. This is the third compilation. In this series, Elizabeth is not a Bennet...or at least not completely. After her father passes away, she is...

This is book 15 of the serial series Elizabeth from America. If you love Pride and Prejudice, and sweet and clean Regency Romance, with adventure, intrigues, and humor, you'll love this series! A new episode comes out about once a month, rather like the periodicals of regency times. Each episode leads right into the next as we travel all around Regency England, and in this book, the continent also! Join Jane Austen's most beloved characters, and many others, as we travel together. In this episode, we will have another wedding, as well as a traveling honeymoon on the ship Cormorant. The ...

In the late Fifties and Sixties, iconoclastic young rebels in Chicago opened two tiny theaters—The Compass and The Second City—where they satirized politics, religion, and sex. Developing scenes by improvising based on audience suggestions turned out to be a fine way to develop great actors, directors, and writers. Alumni went on to create such groundbreaking works as The Graduate, Groundhog Day, and Don't Look Up. Many of them also became stars on Saturday Night Live. Something Wonderful Right Away features the pioneers who founded the empire that transformed American comedy.

Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848. In 1853, a Kentucky deputy sheriff named Zebulon Ward colluded with Wood's employer, abducted her, and sold her back into bondage. She remained enslaved throughout the Civil War, giving birth to a son in Mississippi and never forgetting who had put her in this position. By 1869, Wood had obtained her freedom for a second time and returned to Cincinnati, where she sued Ward for damages in 1870. Astonishingly, after eight years of litigation, Wood won her case: In 1878, a Federal jury awarded her $2,500.

Book 2 of the Elizabeth from America serial series. Join Elizabeth in Hertfordshire to meet her Bennett family, along with the rest of our beloved, and not so beloved, characters. Will Darcy stick his boot in his mouth again at the assembly? Is Fanny Bennett as scatterbrained? What about the rest of the family? Is Mr. Collins as abhorrent as in the original? Will Charlotte be interested in him? Will Bingley leave and not return? Will Caroline close up the house? What comes next? See what's next in this episode of Elizabeth from America. If you love Pride and Prejudice, you will love this ...

If you love Pride and Prejudice, you'll love this serial series! This is a sweet and clean Regency Romance which includes all of your favorite Pride and Prejudice characters, and many more. In our last episode, Elizabeth traveled to Hertfordshire to meet her Bennett relations. She grew to love them all, even if Aunt Fanny was a bit high strung for her taste. It was a bit of work to help her realize that she would never have to be cast into the hedgerows, but she must keep her family’s wealth a closely held secret. The visitors to Netherfield were as usual per canon, but this time ...

In book ten, we were left with a cliffhanger, where the lady spies in training stumble across a conspiracy to assassinate the Prince Regent! Mr. Li and the ladies rush to Brighton to foil the plot. In this episode, we meet some new characters. The most important being Jamie Otter. A former spy for the crown who now works for The Network. Where will his loyalties swing as he works with some of his old comrades, and the new ones who saved him from a dismal life on the streets. Also meet Lady Beatrice, a very good friend of Madame Rousseau. She may be a bit eccentric, but she comes through in ...

This is book 14 of the serial series Elizabeth from America. If you love Pride and Prejudice, clean Regency Romance, adventure, intrigues, and humor, you'll love this series! A new episode comes out every month, rather like in the periodicals of the day. Each episode leads right into the next, as you journey around Regency England with some of Jane Austen's most beloved characters, and many new ones. In this episode, Katherine Bennett travels with the Darcy's to Scarborough. They will be hosted by Charles Bingley as the courtship continues. Will Kate be able to adjust to the society there? ...

Exciting! Romantic! Adventure! If you love Pride and Prejudice, and sweet and clean regency romance, you'll love this series! If you love stories like Bridgerton, North and South, Persuasion, with a dash of Sherlock Holmes thrown in, you're in the right place! Elizabeth sailed from America to find her family in the beginning of our story and found her true love along the way. We fell in love, once again, with our favorite characters from Pride and Prejudice, but now it's time to continue the story and have brand new adventures! This second compilation, of books seven through ten, will take ...

The battle at sea continues in this episode of Elizabeth from America! Who will be victorious? Will one or both ships sink? Will the Royal Navy intervene? Will the dread pirate Van Eck manage to kill one of our favorite characters? Will Darcy and Elizabeth make it? WHAT HAPPENS?! We left our last episode on a cliff hanger, but this episode will answer many questions. Here's another one; what happens with Jessica and Clifford? Jessica is very independent, and she loves her job as a spy for The Network, will she be willing to give that up for love? How about Cliff? His father told him to look...

The girl everybody loves to hate has returned to the town she'd sworn to leave behind forever. As the rich, spoiled princess of Parrish, Mississippi, Sugar Beth Carey had broken hearts, ruined friendships, and destroyed reputations. But fifteen years have passed, now she's come home -- broke...

When the world crumbles, a broken man finds hope where he least expects it in the grit and quiet strength of a small Montana town. Cole Ramsey thought he’d left rural life behind for good. He poured his soul into big tech solutions for a cutting-edge smart city, only to be cast out as a scapegoat amidst corruption and scandal. He's blacklisted and adrift when a letter about his grandfather’s death pulls him back to the family ranch he had long abandoned. What he finds in Bridger’s Pass isn’t a simple homestead in disrepair. It’s a community clinging to old ways. Neighbors who ...

Teresa July has led a hard life, but now she has a chance to put her train robbing past behind her. Armed with a new job as a cook to one of Philadelphia's elite families, Teresa is determined to start her life anew, and nothing––not even her boss's stuck–up (and far too handsome)...

America The Dead Survivor Stories One contains the first two books of the America The Dead series. Begins The End: When a catastrophic natural disaster looms on the near horizon, the government releases an airborne virus designed to make the human race better able to survive. Those that do survive are picking up the pieces of their world, and those that have died lay in their death sleep, but in their bodies the virus works on, mutating, setting the stage for a second catastrophe far worse that the first. Los Angeles: An apocalypse of epic proportions has shaken the Earth to it's core. In ...

If you love books like Pride and Prejudice, and sweet and clean Regency Romances, you will love this series! If you favor JAFF authors like Wells, Kendig, Salier, and Reynolds, these books are meant for you! Elizabeth from America is a serial series, with new episodes every few weeks. Join us for an entertaining romp all over regency England, where our characters fall in love, get in scrapes, have intrigues, and even solve a few mysteries. In book 12 of Elizabeth from America, Anne de Bourgh will purge some of the ghosts from her past. Jane Fitzwilliam is expecting the heir of Pegasus Park,...

From both the right and the left today there is pressure to constrain, control, censor, and crimp private charitable giving. A decade where some philanthropy became politicized has convinced certain politicians that our donating habits need to be reshaped by government. Careful reforms could indeed be useful, and this book offers some suggestions. But there is a danger that voluntary giving in America—one of the deepest sources of our national success—could be badly damaged by political manipulators. From our founding right up to the present moment, our nation’s independent charitable...

On a moonless night in the summer of 1793 a crime was committed in the back room of a New York brothel—the kind of crime that even victims usually kept secret. Instead, seventeen-year-old seamstress Lanah Sawyer did what virtually no one in US history had done before: she charged a gentleman with rape. Her accusation sparked a raw courtroom drama and a relentless struggle for vindication that threatened both Lanah’s and her assailant’s lives.