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An arranged marriage, contracted when the groom was just a boy. A missing necklace, causing an innocent lass to be outcast by her family. And a love worthy of sacrifice. These elements begin the story of George Hempleman and Margarette Duffy, 'star-crossed lovers' fighting for their right to love in eighteenth-century Hessen-Cassel, a German state south of Prussia. But when George's intentions are questioned, and Margarette's honor is suspect, will they find the strength to uphold their Honorable Deception?
As Patrick Henry and other revolutionaries rouse the colonies into war against England, a similar battle wages in the Hempleman household. George longs to fight for his country but his wife, Margarette, sees enough turmoil and bloodshed. What she doesn't realize is that George's brother, Siegfried, his half-sister, Bertha, and even her own brother, Anthony, are already involved in the war efforts. Siegfried and Anthony are conscripted from the Hessian army to fight for the British army, and Bertha is charmed by a dangerous British officer. All of them pursue different paths. Will the war divide the Hemplemans' home? Or will they be able to stand together during this Honorable revolution?
Sold on the block as indentured servants during a January snowstorm in 1752, George Hempleman and Margarette Duffy must carve out their separate existence, she on a Richmond tobacco plantation and he in the cotton fields of South Carolina. The star-crossed lovers hope to reunite after their four long years of servitude. Will they survive the back-breaking toil, the scant meals, the deplorable living conditions, and the uncertainty of a thousand tomorrows? Befriending black slaves widens their horizons and strengthens their determination. A thrilling escape plan unfolds as 1755 draws to a close. Meanwhile, George II of England and George Washington of colonial America move the pawns of the chessboard, leading to checkmate! Wait a minute--who is that wearing the Hempleman emerald necklace heirloom around her lovely neck?
Rescued from the German Ocean, destitute of family and fortune, George Hempleman and Margarette Duffy find themselves indentured on a ship bound For The New World. When Margarette awakes on the Chimera, she has no time to dwell on painful past events but instead must face the perils of the present. George has been shot and is seriously injured, and Margarette has quickly become the target of a mysterious and evil fraulein. Will the star-crossed lovers survive multiple malevolent schemes before they reach America? Will George succumb To The rampant ship fever stalking the Chimera? Can a theft cause the Hempleman emerald necklace heirloom to resurface? From a castle to a convent to murderous intrigue on the high seas, Honorable Passage plunges the reader into a tale of many twists and turns. -Georgia Kohort, award-winning columnist and author of Heritage of the Heart, Secrets of the Lockkeeper's House, and Heart and Hearth - Christmas on the Farm
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Hulda Dimeras Vaughn was born 11 February 1808 in Elizabethtown, Ontario. Her parents were Charles Vaughn (1775-1858) and Elizabeth Morgan. She married Alpheus Harmon (1798-1842), son of Martin Harmon and Tryphena Poole, in 1823 in Conneaut, Pennsylvania. They had nine children. She married Loren Elias Bassett in 1844 in Hancock County, Illinois. They had five children. She died in 1886 in Clarkston, Utah. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Utah and Wyoming.
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Speaking directly to experienced and novice clinicians, educators and students in speech-language pathology/speech and language therapy via an informative essay-based approach, Children’s Speech Sound Disorders provides concise, easy-to-understand explanations of key aspects of the classification, assessment, diagnosis and treatment of articulation disorders, phonological disorders and childhood apraxia of speech. It also includes a range of searching questions to international experts on their work in the child speech field. This new edition of Children’s Speech Sound Disorders is meticulously updated and expanded. It includes new material on Apps, assessing and treating two-year-olds, ...