Books with author T.M. Franklin

The second book in the Abigail’s Calendar series continues with Abigail and Charlotte returning to the beauty and wonder of Collard Farm. Here they will meet a new foal, ride Majestic, and learn about a new adventure that awaits them at the prestigious riding camp, Whistle Creek Stables. Excitement and anticipation build as the girls prepare for their very first riding competition at Whistle Creek. What the girls want more than anything is to win a blue ribbon. But some very competitive and skilled riders stand in their way. Abigail and Charlotte must work hard and overcome their doubts in order to achieve their dream of winning a blue ribbon.The girls’ brothers, Max and Joey, learn more about beekeeping and baking – their new passions which were introduced to them at Collard Farm. Joey learns to make honey and experiences the thrill and the dangers of a swarm. Max improves on his baking skills and introduces some French baking flair to his classic donuts. And so continues a summer of magical adventures, new friendships and unbreakable bonds between Abigail, Charlotte and their horses.

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin"" is one of the most important and most widely read autobiographical works in American history. From the perspective of both autobiography and history of American thought, the book has an epoch-making significance. Franklin tells his lessons of success and failure in a casual chatting way, so the whole autobiography often presents his wisdom and philosophy in easy-understand narration. The book creates the fine tradition of American biographical literature and makes autobiography be a new literary genre.

In a small Mississippi town, two men are torn apart by circumstance and reunited by tragedy in this resonant new novel from the award-winning author of the critically-acclaimed Hell at the Breech. Larry Ott and Silas 32 Jones were unlikely boyhood friends. Larry was the child of lower middle-class white parents, Silas the son of a poor, single, black mother their worlds as different as night and day. Yet a special bond developed between them in Chabot, Mississippi. But within a few years, tragedy struck. In high school, a girl who lived up the road from Larry had gone to the drive-in movie with him and nobody had seen her again. Her stepfather tried to have Larry arrested but no body was found and Larry never confessed. The incident shook up the town, including Silas, and the bond the boys shared was irrevocably broken. Almost thirty years have passed. Larry, a mechanic, lives a solitary existence in Chabot, never able to rise above the whispers of suspicion, the looks of blame that have shadowed him. Silas left home to play college baseball, but now he s Chabot s constable. The men have few reasons to cross paths, and they rarely do until fate intervenes again. Another teenaged girl has disappeared, causing rumors to swirl once again. Now, two men who once called each other friend are finally forced to confront the painful past they ve buried for too many years.