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A Day to Pick Your Own Cotton (Shenandoah Sisters Book #2)
A Day to Pick Your Own Cotton (Shenandoah Sisters Book #2)
A Day to Pick Your Own Cotton (Shenandoah Sisters Book #2)
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A Day to Pick Your Own Cotton (Shenandoah Sisters Book #2)

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Book 2 of Shenandoah Sisters. Mayme and Katie, from entirely different worlds, have been thrown together in the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War. Just teenagers, they are left to survive only by their own wits and shared experiences. Gradually, they are learning to appreciate each other's strengths and to shore up each other's weaknesses. Out of their efforts to simply stay alive comes a growing awareness of the Lord's love and care for them, as well as the dim outlines of a plan to keep Rosewood Plantation operating. The book continues the story begun in Angels Watching Over Me, of two very appealing but contrasting characters and their secret mission to provide a sanctuary for others who have been left alone and adrift by a tragic war.
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Release dateMay 1, 2003
ISBN9781441208477
A Day to Pick Your Own Cotton (Shenandoah Sisters Book #2)
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Michael Phillips

Professor Mike Phillips has a BSc in Civil Engineering, an MSc in Environmental Management and a PhD in Coastal Processes and Geomorphology, which he has used in an interdisciplinary way to assess current challenges of living and working on the coast. He is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research, Innovation, Enterprise and Commercialisation) at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David and also leads their Coastal and Marine Research Group. Professor Phillips' research expertise includes coastal processes, morphological change and adaptation to climate change and sea level rise, and this has informed his engagement in the policy arena. He has given many key note speeches, presented at many major international conferences and evaluated various international and national coastal research projects. Consultancy contracts include beach monitoring for the development of the Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay, assessing beach processes and evolution at Fairbourne (one of the case studies in this book), beach replenishment issues, and techniques to monitor underwater sediment movement to inform beach management. Funded interdisciplinary research projects have included adaptation strategies in response to climate change and underwater sensor networks. He has published >100 academic articles and in 2010 organised a session on Coastal Tourism and Climate Change at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris in his role as a member of the Climate, Oceans and Security Working Group of the UNEP Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts, and Islands. He has successfully supervised many PhD students, and as well as research students in his own University, advises PhD students for overseas universities. These currently include the University of KwaZuluNatal, Durban, University of Technology, Mauritius and University of Aveiro, Portugal. Professor Phillips has been a Trustee/Director of the US Coastal Education and Research Foundation (CERF) since 2011 and he is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Coastal Research. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Geography, University of Victoria, British Columbia and Visiting Professor at the University Centre of the Westfjords. He was an expert advisor for the Portuguese FCT Adaptaria (coastal adaptation to climate change) and Smartparks (planning marine conservation areas) projects and his contributions to coastal and ocean policies included: the Rio +20 World Summit, Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts and Islands; UNESCO; EU Maritime Spatial Planning; and Welsh Government Policy on Marine Aggregate Dredging. Past contributions to research agendas include the German Cluster of Excellence in Marine Environmental Sciences (MARUM) and the Portuguese Department of Science and Technology.

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    The continuing saga of young orphans Katie Clarbourne and Mayme Jukes chronicles their challenges as they attempt to pick up the pieces of their lives and make a home for themselves and two others who happen upon their doorsteps. They are challenged by the prejudices of the Southern culture in which they live, along with the very real dangers faced by newly freed blacks in the post-war south. Additionally the under-aged pair have no real legal standing in a world where men rule and children under 18 are at the mercy of their elders with no legal recourse. Katie is fearful that her father's brother would take the plantation from her and banish her new found friends should he find out they are alone. Her mother's two brothers include a ne'r-do-well uncle who comes around only when he needs help and another who is presumed dead. Two hefty loans coming due on the property threaten them with foreclosure. A fascinating account of how persons faced with adversity, but forging a beginning faith and helped by more mature Christian friends can counter the challenges that beleaguer them.

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    A Day to Pick Your Own Cotton by Michael Phillips: (book 2 of 4); (4*)Mayme and Katy are now fifteen and they share the secret that all of Katy's family & slaves are dead. The two girls have decided to continue to live at Katy's plantation, Rosewood, on their own and pretend that Katie's mother is still alive. As if that were not difficult enough, now they must protect three other people as well. Emma, a former slave and her baby, William, are hiding at Rosewood from William's father who is the son of Emma's former master as well as Mayme's, though the girls did not know one another. (Emma being a house slave and Mayme being a field slave)Also a little white girl, Aleta has found them and needs care & protection. She and her mother were running away from the girl's drunken, abusive father when their horse went down and the mother was killed. So she also is living at Rosewood and is determined not to return home to her father.Mayme and Katie have other worries as well. A loan is due soon at the bank and if they don't pay they will not be able to protect their secret and Katy will lose Rosewood. They also have secretly learned that one of Katy's uncles went to California in the gold rush days and may have left some gold in her mother's keeping.I highly enjoyed this series of books and recommend them to anyone interested in Civil War fiction &/or good Christian books.

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