Cherokee Fiction

Time Period: Begins 1838 In 1838, Nellie Starr, a young Cherokee girl, is caught in the political upheaval of America's westward expansion. Forced by U.S. soldiers to leave their home in Tennessee, Nellie, her family, and thousands of other Cherokees travel the long, dangerous "Trail of Tears" to a new home in the Indian Territory of modern-day Oklahoma.

When she was seven years old, Angel saw her father brutally murder her mother. She was adopted by U.S. Marshal Caleb Jacobs and his wife Bonnie. Angel didn’t want to be a schoolteacher like her new Ma. Angel wanted to be a lawman like her new Pa. Outlaws and renegades didn’t believe Deputy U.S. Marshal Angel Jacobs was for real. They learned the truth the hard way at the end of her smoking Colt.

It’s going to be “the biggest hoss race in the world”! Homesteaders are set to race on horseback, in gigs and wagons, and even by train to stake their claim in the Cherokee Strip, the last bit of Oklahoma territory opened for settlement in 1893. For 15-year-old Becky Fletcher and her family, it's the Promised Land: their last chance for a farm they can live on free and clear. But no journey to the Promised Land is without trials, and the Fletchers soon run into setbacks. Each difficulty tests Becky’s inclination to further her own and her family's interests at all costs.

Verlieb dich nicht in einen Single Dad – Das Finale der Small-Town-Romance-Serie. Die anderen Männer aus dem Single Dad's Club würden sagen, dass es vor Jahren schon Zeit war. Zeit für einen Neuanfang. Zeit, über die Vergangenheit hinwegzukommen. Aber für Garrett war das Risiko, seine kleine Tochter zu verletzen, immer zu hoch. Doch Charlotte kann er nicht widerstehen. Sie ist alles, was er nicht wollen sollte: die kleine Schwester seines besten Freunds, die ihn in seinen verletzlichsten Momenten gesehen hat, und in seinen größten – die erste Person nach zwölf Jahren, die die Macht hat, ihn zu brechen.

Willkommen zurück in Lake Starlight, Alaska! Savannah Bailey hat nach dem Tod ihrer Eltern das Familiengeschäft übernommen und ihre eigenen Bedürfnisse zurückgestellt. Genau wie ihr Liebesglück. Dass sie auf einmal Gefühle für Liam entwickelt, den besten Freund ihres kleinen Bruders, kommt ihr mehr als ungelegen. Denn eine Ablenkung kann sie sich nicht leisten. Außerdem passt der Frauenheld so gar nicht zu ihr, mit seinen Tattoos und der spitzen Zunge. Doch in einer Kleinstadt wie Lake Starlight ist es nicht leicht, sich aus dem Weg zu gehen.

Men throughout history have questioned their existence. Some men have pondered the origins of life. Where they are from and the greatness of their ancestors. Were these ancestors’ good men, men of legend? We are Scotsman the men whom have guarded the lowlands of Scotland against her enemies for decades. We left England to avoid the persecution that would follow her victory.

It’s 1974 in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, and 15-year-old Justine grows up in a family of tough, complicated, and loyal women, presided over by her mother, Lula, and Granny. After Justine’s father abandoned the family, Lula became a devout member of the Holiness Church - a community that Justine at times finds stifling and terrifying. But Justine does her best as a devoted daughter, until an act of violence sends her on a different path forever.

Es gibt zwei Argumente, die gegen Cristian Bianco sprechen: Er ist Polizist und er ist Polizist im 18th District … das heißt, mein Dad ist sein Boss. Aufzuwachsen als die Tochter des Kapitäns und ständig unter seiner Beobachtung zu stehen, war mehr, als ich verkraften konnte. Inzwischen bin ich ausgezogen und lebe nach meinen eigenen Regeln. Na ja, meistens. Doch in meinem Job ist etwas schiefgelaufen und mein Notfallplan funktioniert nicht wie erhofft. Weshalb ich das Date, was meine Freundinnen auf der Bachelor-Versteigerung für mich arrangiert haben, nicht annehmen werde.

In the summer of 1865, Emmaline Gulledge is 11 years old and stubborn as a mule. Determined to do exactly what she sets her mind to, she explores the mountains and valleys around her home with an unquenchable thirst for knowledge and a keen eye that misses nothing. When her mother dies, Emmaline, Emmy for short, is thrust into the mystical, spiritual world of her mother's native peoples, the Tsalagi, better known as the Cherokee.

Cherokee people have lived in the Great Smoky Mountains for thousands of years. During all this time, they have told stories to each other to explain how things came to be, to pass on lessons about life, and to describe the mountains, animals, plants, and spirits around them. The Origin of the Milky Way and Other Living Stories of the Cherokee collects 26 stories that are great for kids and are still being told by storytellers today.

Thirteen-year-old Uwohali has not seen his father, Sequoyah, for many years. So when Sequoyah returns to the village, Uwohali is eager to reconnect. But Sequoyah's new obsession with making strange markings causes friends and neighbors in their tribe to wonder whether he is crazy - or, worse, practicing witchcraft. What they don't know, and what Uwohali discovers, is that Sequoyah is a genius, and his strange markings are actually an alphabet representing the sounds of the Cherokee language.

Set in the rugged frontier of the West, this unforgettable sequel to Janet Dailey's best selling novel The Proud and the Free begins when Lije Stuart, the handsome son of Temple and The Blade Stuart, returns to the Cherokee Nation after 4 years at Harvard. As the American Civil War rages across the country, the Stuarts, too, are torn apart by an old family feud.

This captivating historical novel takes listeners inside the Cherokee Nation's tumultuous struggle for justice in the early 1830s and sweeps us away in a surprising and unforgettable love story. Temple Gordon is the daughter of an educated Cherokee leader and a young woman of uncommon beauty. Raised on her family's grand Southern plantation, Temple is fiercely devoted to Cherokee traditions and her lover, The Blade Stuart, a visionary committed to a new future for the tribe.

Millions of Americans are violently protesting; many more are refusing to pay federal income tax. States are threatening to secede from the United States of America; the president is desperately trying to avoid a civil war. While Tucker is offering a solution, his family is under attack from the most intelligent person in the world - a person self-diagnosed as a sociopath and psychopath.

Eigentlich wollte ich gar nicht an dem Ehemaligentreffen meiner Highschool teilnehmen, doch meine Freundinnen haben mich überredet. Sie waren es auch, die bei der Bachelor-Versteigerung in meinem Namen auf ein Date mit meinem ehemaligen Highschoolschwarm geboten haben. Ja, richtig gehört, selbst als ich "Fatty Maddie" genannt wurde, stand ich auf den Quarterback unseres Footballteams.

Das Leben von Prinzessin Annika und Soldat Lennox könnte unterschiedlicher nicht sein. Während Annika von Luxus und Komfort umgeben ist, muss sich Lennox im meilenweit entfernten Königreich tagtäglich als Krieger seines Hofes behaupten. Auch in Sachen Liebe sind die zwei völlig verschieden. Annika träumt von einer romantischen Hochzeit, obwohl ihr Vater plant, sie aus politischen Gründen zu verheiraten. Für Lennox hingegen sind Gefühle nichts als eine dumme Ablenkung.

The body of a young woman is found – piece by piece. The ghastly mementos are being delivered to Detective Lucas Stonecoat and psychiatrist Dr. Meredyth Sanger, signaling the beginning of a gruesome game. But who's playing it? Why? And how far will it go next? Arthur and Lauralie are an average couple--in every way but one. In the privacy of their isolated farm, they share a taste for the macabre. Utterly devoted to each other, they'll do anything--to anyone--to keep their love alive.

Verliebt in den Produzenten - die erfolgreiche Baileys-Serie von Piper Rayne geht weiter! Phoenix Bailey hat seit der Highschool nur einen Traum: Sie möchte Sängerin werden. Als der berühmte Musikproduzent Griffin nach Lake Starlight zieht, kann sie ihr Glück kaum fassen. Sie nutzt die Chance, sich zu bewerben, und bekommt eine Zusage. Was sie dabei jedoch überhört hat: Griffin ist auf der Suche nach einer Nanny für seinen Sohn und nicht nach einem neuen Talent. Phoenix beginnt als Babysitterin und versucht, Griffin von ihren Gesangsfähigkeiten zu überzeugen.

A deputy White House counsel is found dead. His death is ruled a suicide. Twenty years later, the love of Tank Alvarez’s life is kidnapped. The ransom: “Investigate and disclose the truth about the death of the White House Counsel.” The former first lady becomes a suspect. Tank is caught in the crossfire between a vengeful megalomaniac seeking retribution for decades old past sins, a mercenary trying to protect an international consortium from terrorism, and an overly ambitious former first lady.

The world’s best thinkers, strategists, forecasters, scientists, and policy makers are collectively unprepared to deal with the chaos that follows the intriguing and almost apocalyptic results of the terrorist’s activities. A changing Earth coupled with the unchanging evil of humankind becomes a challenge for Tucker and Maya Cherokee who use science, perseverance, and compassion to help the President of the United States beat back a deranged, though brilliant, psychopath.