Books with author Dorothy. Gilman

When Emily Pollifax answers the phone that Sunday morning, she quickly forgets all about her Garden Club tea that afternoon. For the voice on the other end belonged to a man she had never seen, a man from the CIA who asked her if she could leave immediately on a mission that would take her halfway across the world! What could Mrs. Pollifax say but yes?

When Emily Pollifax answers the phone that Sunday morning, she quickly forgets all about her Garden Club tea that afternoon. For the voice on the other end belonged to a man she had never seen, a man from the CIA who asked her if she could leave immediately on a mission that would take her halfway across the world! What could Mrs. Pollifax say but yes?

Orphaned Becky Pumroy was forced to live a life of drudgery and servitude when her parents were killed during an Indian attack. She had almost resigned herself to picking up after the spoiled Leggett girls when she received some startling news: wealthy Joshua Smeed wanted to marry her.But Mr. Smeed was much older -- and rumor had it he helped put his previous wives in their early graves. Rather than meet the same fate, Becky ran away with her brother Eseck, a young man who had lived with the Indians for five years.Becky knew that the American wilderness was dangerous -- with wild animals that roamed free, with harsh and unrelenting winters, with Indians who no doubt were ready to destroy her brother and herself.But what Becky found was something very different indeed -- a place and a people that wouldn't change her life forever....

If Ben had ever felt more lonely, he could not remember when. He was new to the Bankhead National Forest, and he was without friends, even acquaintances, there. His attempt to befriend the strange Norman was rejected. He felt enormous relief when his friend Jason came from Mississippi to spend the summer with him. They found themselves deep in the forest on an unexpected adventure of a lifetime. What they could not explain was why Norman kept showing up where one would least expect him. They had several questions about him and the unusual events that they witnessed from secret places. They suspected Norman was deeply involved.

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