Miriam's World

by Kelley Lanier


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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 19/06/2006

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 260
ISBN : 9781425934521

About the Book

The Reverend Haygood Saxon leads his congregation with powerful sermons.  He also takes care of all the widows and maiden ladies, when the devil gets into them, with his remarkable secret skill.

 His children, that were born quite regularly, consisted of five boys and three girls, now ranging in age from teenagers to the mid-twenties.  Most of the siblings left their small Southern Village to find exciting and lucrative careers, but one Saxon, Miriam, refuses to go anywhere.  At seventeen she became the day telephone operator for the Village and is pleased with her station in life.  

After World War I, Sam Wallace, an orphan of Scotch parents, arrives to oversee the installation and maintaining the telephone lines in the entire region.  Miriam resents Sam for exercising his position as office manager and refuses to fully acknowledge him. Sam is smitten with Miriam and tries to woo her.  His road is bumpy. 

The Saxons, that found careers away from the Village, could not understand why Miriam refuses to leave home. They ply her with invitations to visit them.  Her life in the Village becomes quite unusual while she decides which road, if any, to take.

   Life during the first third of the twentieth century in a small Southern Village is faithful to the times.  Proper language and correct social conduct for young people, although not necessarily followed, along with the entertainment and the everyday chores asks if people today have basically changed or just the years that have changed?

 


About the Author

During her ‘growing up’ years Kelley Lanier spent much of her time at the Carnegie Library enjoying the literature and the atmosphere that the library afforded.  After completing college she began her career working in various fields of commercial art until she decided to teach and became a high school art teacher.  She has won numerous awards for her artwork. Kelley painted the cover for this book.   

As time pasted she took courses in library science at a nearby university.  But Kelley knew if she worked in a public library she would miss the students and the classroom.  After completing her library studies she solved her thorny problem.  She became a high school librarian.  Kelley knew she was doing exactly what she wanted to do and where she wanted to do it.    

Now, that she has retired, much of her time is spent writing Romance Novels.  Her other hobbies are painting and studying astrology.  

Kelley divides her time between Central Florida and the coast North Carolina.

She has a son, a daughter and two grandchildren. 

 

OTHER BOOKS BY KELLY LANIER

Just Passing Through

The Meaning of Perfect

With Dignity