Michael O'Halloran

10 best books like Michael O'Halloran (Gene Stratton-Porter): With Lee in Virginia, The Angel Knew Papa and the Dog, The Little Duke, Aisling of Eire, Moods, The Calling of Dan Matthews, Still Glides the Stream, The Heart of the Family, To My Sons: Lessons for the Wild Adventure Called Life, The Marquis' Secret

With Lee in Virginia

Author	G.A. Henty
ISBN	0486434567

Over the last few evening my family (ages 5-39) has listened to this excellent audio, which we concluded tonight.

What I appreciated most about this story was contemplating the Civil War from the South's perspective. It enrages me to realize that we were only taught one side in public school.....which...

The Angel Knew Papa and the Dog

Author	Douglas Kaine McKelvey
ISBN	0998311227

Without Mama, life in the log house at the forest's edge can be lonely for a little girl. But there's Papa for company, and the two mules, Bartholomew and Thaddeus Frisco, and the big old dog that mysteriously showed up at the end of winter. Everything about her little homestead seems sheltering and secure--that...

The Little Duke

Author	Charlotte Mary Yonge
ISBN	1406955302

On a bright autumn day, as long ago as the year 943, there was a great bustle in the Castle of Bayeux in Normandy. The hall was large and low, the roof arched, and supported on thick short columns, almost like the crypt of a Cathedral; the walls were thick, and the windows, which had no glass, were very small,...

Aisling of Eire

Author	Dorothy M. Keddington
ISBN	1930980833

A novel within a novel, and a haunting love story that spans the generations, Aisling of Eire is a memorable "must read."

Successful author Catharine Cavanagh has long been fascinated with the legendary life of her Irish gt. gt. grandmother who ran away with her coachman and came to American....

Moods

Author	Louisa May Alcott
ISBN	0813516706

Moods, Louisa May Alcott's first novel was published in 1864, four years before the best-selling Little Women. The novel unconventionally presents a "little woman," a true-hearted abolitionist spinster, and a fallen Cuban beauty, their lives intersecting in Alcott's first major depiction of...

The Calling of Dan Matthews

Author	Harold Bell Wright
ISBN	0809587637

. . . This story began in the Ozark Mountains. It follows the trail that is nobody knows how old. But mostly this story happened in Corinth, a town of the middle class in a Middle Western state. There is nothing peculiar about Corinth. The story might have happened just as well in any other place, for the only...

Still Glides the Stream

Author

D.E. Stevenson

Will Hastie is home from the war. But everything has changed. Will's childhood best friend, Rae Murray, will never come home, and his family will never be the same.

One of the tragedies of war is the lasting effect on families and their heritage. Will knows that his friend Rae's estate is entailed...

The Heart of the Family

Author	Elizabeth Goudge
ISBN	0899661041

Despite the “crinkled pink petals strewn in the path of those who would have preferred red,” four generations of Eliots have survived the War and are moving forward. The family’s remarkable matriarch Lucilla is still with them, though she’s facing the dark night of the soul.

David...

To My Sons: Lessons for the Wild Adventure Called Life

Author	Bear Grylls
ISBN	1434703584

This humorously illustrated book is a collection of wisdom that renowned adventurer Bear Grylls wants to share with his sons about the risks, tumbles, and victories of a well-lived life.

Mountain climber, world-record holder, and internationally known television personality Grylls...

The Marquis' Secret

Author

George MacDonald

If only the current "Christian romance" genre would go back to the shadows where it belongs, and leave some shelf space for this kind of book--more "Christian" and "romantic" in any of the good senses of those words than all the Oke, Livingstone and Fisher to be had.

The more I read him, the more...

The White Robin

Author	Miss Read
ISBN	0395294525

When a white robin comes to the quiet village of Fairacre, it becomes the focus of nationwide attention.

Nicknamed 'Snowboy’, 'Snowball’, 'Snowflake', the villagers adopt him as their own. But their pride is short-lived and their hopes brutally dashed to the ground when tragedy strikes....