By Steve Johnson After bouncing all night in cold, cramped steel boats, then waiting all day in broiling heat, the men of the Allied Expeditionary Force got the word: shortly after sundown, they would finally be getting off their floating, seasick prisons. All they had to do then was run straight into machine gun fire…
If you like A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Young Francie Nolan, having inherited both her father's romantic and her mother's practical nature, struggles to survive and thrive growing up in the slums of Brooklyn in the early twentieth century. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Like Betty Smith's classic novel, these adult domestic fiction titles embrace similar themes, such as growing up in poverty…
If you like The Devil Wears Prada
Andrea Sachs, a small-town girl fresh out of college, lands the job "a million girls would die for." Hired as the assistant to Miranda Priestly, the high-profile, fabulously successful editor of Runway magazine, Andrea finds herself in an office that shouts Prada! Armani! Versace! at every turn, a world populated by impossibly thin, heart-wrenchingly stylish…
If you like I Am Number Four
In rural Ohio, friendships and a beautiful girl prove distracting to a fifteen-year-old who has hidden on Earth for ten years waiting to develop the Legacies or powers, he will need to rejoin the other six surviving Garde members and fight the Mogadorians who destroyed their planet, Lorien. I Am Number Four I Am Number…
If you like Graceling
In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace of killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king. Graceling There are two other books in the Graceling trilogy: Fire and…
If you like Nancy Drew
Nancy Drew: The Palace of Wisdom by Kelly Thompson Nancy Drew is seventeen and good at everything, especially solving crimes. But her totally-in-control-and-obviously-running-perfectly-smooth-(but-not-really) life hits a snag when a mysterious message drags her back to the hometown she left behind. There she'll have to find out which of her friends are still her friends, which…
Overwharton Parish, Stafford County
From: Old Churches, Ministers, and Families of Virginia In Two Volumes By Bishop Meade Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1894. From volume II pp. 197-206 ARTICLE LXIV. Overwharton Parish, Stafford County. I come now to Overwharton parish in Stafford county. The county and parish take their names from the corresponding ones in England. Stafford county once…
A Visit to Aquia Church
Travelers who take a turn off of busy Route 1 near Aquia Harbor find themselves viewing a living monument to colonial Virginia's past. Protected from the surrounding sprawl by its location, nestled on a hilltop surrounded by trees, this beautiful church dates to the decades before the Revolutionary War. Its long and sometimes difficult history—preserved…
Deafness: Choices in Communication
One of the first things hearing parents ask themselves when they discover they have deaf children is how they will communicate with them, and how, eventually, will their children communicate with the world. The decision is not an easy one. There are many factors to consider, including how much hearing remains, whether or not a…
A Discussion of African American History in the Development of Fredericksburg
From the Central Rappahannock Regional Library Black Laws of Virginia: A Summary of the Legislative Acts of Virginia Concerning Negroes from Earliest Times to the Present by June Purcell Guild. A fascinating and disturbing volume originally published in 1936. Civil Rights: Fredericksburg's Story. In this forum sponsored by the Young Adult Department of the Central Rappahannock…
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