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Ellen Gray Massey
Bio: Ellen Gray Massey is a speaker, writer, editor, and teacher from southern Missouri. She has published numerous articles, short stories, essays, a two-act musical play, four non-fiction books and ten novels. In 1995 she was inducted into the first Writers Hall of Fame. She has received awards from the Missouri Writers Guild and is a two-time Golden Spur Finalist from Western Writers of America. Her specialty is the Ozarks and western Missouri, where her family still owns and operates the prairie farm where there is no longer any evidence of the bloodshed and destruction that occurred on the Missouri-Kansas border before, during, and after the Civil War.
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New Hope
by Ellen Gray Massey
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In the Ozarks in 1935 Claudia begins a new school with an optimistic name, New Hope. Still smarting from being jilted years before in front of her students, she has since dedicated her life to her students. She has a good year in her isolated one-room school on a river bluff. Falling for a first grade boy and his older sister, she becomes incensed when their father, Harve, won't let the girl attend school. Accosting him, she discovers his need of his daughter's help and his background of an alco... more info>> (Published: 2004)
Words: 63556 - Reading Time: 181-254 min.
Category: Romance/Historical Fiction
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The Burnt District
by Ellen Gray Massey
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During the Civil War in western Missouri, Hannah and her three small daughters are moved as military prisoners to a detention camp because they did not obey Order # 11. The order demanded everyone in four counties along the Kansas border evacuate within fifteen days. With ingenuity and bravery, the four of them evade the former Redleg Kansas Union captain, outwit the Bushwhackers who take over the deserted, burnt area, and, with the help of an Osage scout, find Hannah's severely wounded, Union a... more info>> (Published: 2001) EPIC eBook Award Finalist, Missouri Writers Guild Award Winner
Words: 101763 - Reading Time: 290-407 min.
Category: Historical Fiction
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