'The Laurel Walk' is a romance-drama novel written by Mrs. Molesworth. The story unfolds by introducing us to our heroine, Betty Morion as she stands waiting for her sister Frances on the door-step of a chemist shop in the middle of a rainy night.
Journey into the Blue Ridge Mountains of 1918 where Laurel McAdams endures the challenges of a hard life while dreaming things can eventually improve. But trouble arrives in the form of an outsider. Having failed his British father again, Jonathan Taylor joins is uncle’s missionary endeavors as a teacher in a two-room schoolhouse. Laurel feels compelled to protect the tenderhearted teacher from the harsh realities of Appalachian life, even while his stories of life outside the mountains pull at Laurel’s imagination. Faced with angry parents over teaching methods, Laurel’s father’s drunken rages, and bad news from England, will Jonathan leave and never return, or will he stay and let love bloom?
Every morning, Laurel Stanell takes a walk on a curvy, somewhat hilly road that stretches around the lake by her North Carolina home. It is lined with trees, bushes, flowers, houses, little creatures, and a golf course. But it is here that she finds God, talks to him, and gains strength for the day ahead. Filled with encouragement, Early Morning Walks with God is a compilation of personal insights from Stanell collected over the course of a year of daily walks. Written in easy-to-read prose, these short and succinct entries expand upon the promises God has bestowed upon his people. Stanells observations on natures beauty, the ever-changing weather, and the daily encounters with her neighbors provide inspiration for those who seek a new way to look at the world. Stanell examines how growth in both nature and in our lives is nourished under Gods direction. She also focuses on the positive aspects of the world instead of the negative, turning instead to Gods message of hope, his constant companionship, and his direction. Early Morning Walks with God offers precious gems of wisdom for your daily time with God.
The author of four truly important novels - The Recognitions in 1955, J R in 1975, Carpenter's Gothic in 1985, and A Frolic of His Own in 1995 - William Gaddis is considered by many literary scholars to be one of the outstanding novelists of the twentieth century, to be spoken of in the same breath as James Joyce, Robert Musil, and Thomas Pynchon.