Böcker av Ellen Eschell Murphy

Vol. 1 - The Snow Goose and Other Tales: When the enemy is at your door, you aren't always able to fight or flight. Sometimes the best scenario may be to regroup. How can one young girl do that though, with a disappointment from one of two remaining relatives and the enemy in a bed upstairs?The reader may wonder what a woman without other adults and a houseful of children can do during the civil war - which was NOT civil - and how she will ward off mercenary soldiers to protect them all. Well as you meet Nancy, you will see her successes, but help will come from a most unusual rescue she has made!How much is too much? Eileen had prayed a lot lately but nothing had changed. Her husband was gone with the troops - not heard from for almost two years, and she was left with a very small son and twin nursing babies! All her prayers hadn't seemed to be answered - really NONE of them had. So how could she possibly pick 300 trees of apples and plant acres and acres of crops?ELLEN MURPHY, AUTHOR"In A Nutshell"After retiring as Commissioner of the Revenue for Frederic Country, VA, Ellen Murphy has found a new career as an author. After the trauma of her husband passing, Ellen soon began spending more time devoted to her writing. She loves the historical research that goes into all her stories and enjoys hearing from her readers. Ellen has two beautiful and smart daughters - Suzanne and Katherine, and has been blessed with six grandchildren.

Vol II - The Lost and The Found Henry had known anything was possible in this awful civil war - But the nightmare of his son not returning was the worst! Jamie was the light of everyone's life who knew him but that didn't mean invincible! Would the hundreds of bodies and injured in Gettysburg tell him anything? VMI is an excellent school and trains young men for the military with expertise - but Mildred didn't want Robert going - but man-like nothing would do but go. Then war broke out - then he was missing - then, the war ended, and he was STILL missing. Dear Lord, I've tried to be a good wife, mother and neighbor as you would wish - but it this the result? People in the western part of Northern Virginia were not accustomed to anyone with a foreign accent but Grethen Harper, wife and mother, would charm them and with her husband Thomas would develop a huge farm - but neither friendly neighbors nor successful farming would prevent a terrible attack on Thomas because of an antiquated law.ELLEN MURPHY, AUTHORAfter retiring as Commissioner of the Revenue for Frederic Country, VA, Ellen Murphy has found a new career as an author. After the trauma of her husband passing, Ellen soon began spending more time devoted to her writing. She loves the historical research that goes into all her stories and enjoys hearing from her readers. Ellen has two beautiful and smart daughters - Suzanne and Katherine, and has been blessed with six grandchildren.

Vol III - The SurvivorsIt takes more than being shot to defeat James Smith! General Lee may be defeated, and life may be without a roof over your head or any food other than raw potatoes - but maybe - just maybe - you will stumble upon a place to rest and someone who will feed you! Well, we all have pipe dreams, don't we? Susie was a precocious eight-year-old child but didn't know it and wouldn't have understood. Right now, she just wondered how she would cook, wash and farm enough, for her ailing mother and her to survive. Then add that to an injured soldier to take care of - goodness sakes did problems never END!Major Harmon Boggs of the Union Army was just what you would think a Major would be. Military bearing and all. He had barely survived an onslaught by the South, had a "problem" of major headache with his wife, and was determined ( as Majors often are) to improve his life despite any of these "issues", now he was back in Pennsylvania - but HOW, would it help that he had been a good Samaritan?ELLEN MURPHY, AUTHORAfter retiring as Commissioner of the Revenue for Frederic Country, VA, Ellen Murphy has found a new career as an author. After the trauma of her husband passing, Ellen soon began spending more time devoted to her writing. She loves the historical research that goes into all her stories and enjoys hearing from her readers. Ellen has two beautiful and smart daughters - Suzanne and Katherine, and has been blessed with six grandchildren.