The Complete Works of Cornelia MeigsThis Complete Collection includes the following titles:--------1 - The Windy Hill2 - The Pool of Stars3 - The Pirate of Jasper Peak4 - Master Simon's Garden5 - The Island of Appledore

This is a story about early Colonial Life that follows Master Simon and his family to the end of the revolutionary war. Two of the main characters in the story are Simon and his daughter Margaret. Simon and his daughter are Puritans but they approach the way they live their lives and the way they view God differently than their neighbors. Simon's heart is not as prejudiced as his neighbors or as narrow minded in his view of God. When those in need come to his door he accepts them without q...

The story is set on the fictional Appledore Island and follows a group of children who spend their summer there. The island is depicted as a place full of mystery and adventure, providing a rich backdrop for the children’s explorations. As they explore the island, they encounter various challenges and uncover secrets, leading to personal growth and deepening friendships.The novel combines elements of adventure, mystery, and the natural beauty of the island setting. Meigs’s storytelling emp...

Zachariah Lawrence wants out.After working covertly for the United States government for nearly a decade, he's had enough, a feeling compounded by the fact he was forcibly turned into a vampire during his last assignment for the secretive Unnaturals organization. And with his new apprentice Riley Walker on the run after being declared rogue by their superiors, Zachariah and his partner Ashton Miller race to help her as they realize she has something much more dangerous than vampire...

They've discovered a possible cure.Can Kimberly get it to safety before all is lost?Months after the traumatic events in Atlanta, Kimberly Gellar and her new friends have established Woodside, a walled-in community of survivors led by the best, brightest, and most heroic among them. And a CDC doctor with them has created a promising cure for the virus and tested it on the man Kimberly has begun to fall for, who promptly shows strange and co...

Nothing about her world is as she believed it to be…When Woodside fell, Remy Angellette and her friends barely escaped with their lives and were left scrambling to find a new place to call home. But Brandt Evans is missing, taken by the very people he called for help. Remy is determined to find him, but she doesn’t know where to start looking. And to make matters worse, she’s dealing with strange side effects from the cure to the Michaluk Virus that could endanger ...

A family mystery is unraveled by a boy and girl visiting their uncle one summer. A fantastic tale of mystery and adventure by an incredible author in the genre! Certainly not to be missed! Meigs weaves a tale of mystery for the ages!

All he wants is to keep his family alive.A new arrival will make this impossible.It's been a year since the Michaluk Virus devastated the Southeast, and Ethan Bennett has built a new family, one that, as leader of the group, he feels a heavy responsibility for. Because of this, when a woman shows up at their safe house begging for help for her group in Atlanta, he's determined to tell her no. But fate—and his friends—have other plans.

"The Pool of Stars" is set in the American frontier during the early days of the country's expansion westward. The story follows the adventures of a young boy named Jock, who sets out on a journey through the rugged wilderness in search of his missing father. Along the way, he encounters various challenges, including natural obstacles, dangerous animals, and encounters with other travelers and settlers.Central to the story is a mysterious pool of water that Jock discovers, known as the "Po...

Tics and Their Treatment presents a comprehensive exploration of neurological phenomena through a rich tapestry of insights and methodologies. This anthology offers an engaging fusion of clinical observations, theoretical insights, and historical perspectives on tics, distinguished by its diversity of literary styles ranging from empirical studies to reflective essays. Each piece in the collection probes deeply into the nature of tics, examining their etiology, manifestations, and implicat...

Taking as her alter-ego Lily Briscoe–the painter in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse–Mary Meigs paints a portrait of herself, her family and her friends in Lily Briscoe: A Self-Portrait, a book that is both autobiography and memoir. In it, she describes the three major decisions of her life: "not to marry, to be an artist" and to listen to her "own voices." She speaks of her parents who belonged to "a generation before their own" and how they instilled in her a sense of...

The box closet was a real closet in the attic of the family house in Washington, D.C. in which Mary Meigs grew up. Bags and boxes of letters and diaries were found there after her mother’s death in 1958, and when Meigs read them she decided that they were the material for a book. In the course of reading her family’s letters and her mother’s early diaries, she no longer saw her parents as Mother and Father but as Margaret and Edward, young and vulnerable: Margaret who flirted, Edward who w...