A Diary’s House: Where True Love Endures
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A Diary’s House is about adventure, lost love, and the hope that dreams, even those in the final years of life, can at last prevail. It is of a young boy’s attempt to become a man, the once-lost secrets of a diary, a sweeping romance which transcends time and place. It is more than a boy’s journey into manhood, but the mysteries of so many lives unknowingly intertwined, now brought together in a climatic ending; all from the engrossing world embedded in a forgotten diary; a diary of a woman.
Born in the vast and looming mountains of North Carolina during the 1870’s, Landon Hampshire always remembered the folklore and legendary tales his father told him during his early childhood; about the people of the Kituhwa (Cherokee) and the birth of this tribal nation – an enchanting story he could never forget. Incorporating the aid of an eccentric old French trapper (old man Montague), Landon and his friends set out on an adventure, their initial intention is to discover treasure and become men. But what Landon will eventually come to discover is more than he ever bargained for.
Landon didn’t realize his boyhood adventure would yield the incredible journey he ultimately experiences – going down the mysterious and mystical Randola River. At the base of the river is an island even more mysterious than the Randola itself.
The island releases many of its mysterious, yet even many more are created when Landon discovers, on the island, a diary of a young woman who lived forty years prior during the 1830’s (Trail of Tears). The diary entries are hopeful, though haunting. It reveals, in intimate detail, the life and dreams of this very special young girl who is turning into a woman of beauty and adventure, her love for a Cherokee boy, and the trials she will ultimately face. Her story unfolds through the reading of her diary, and Landon suddenly finds himself caught up in a sweeping, empowering world of re-invention and ultimate redemption.
C. David Murphy
I am a writer; first and foremost. Anyone who reads my works will instantly know this. I have found no greater joy on this earth than to be close to God and nature; exploring the serenity of landscapes, waterfalls, epic mountains, meadows and grasslands. To sit on those spots of earth and write to where my imagination will take me yields a tremendous amount of peace and serenity.. To create characters with true and genuine emotions, feel their heartbeat thru every word I write; their trails, their hopes and ambitions; to breathe life into their eyes and see their soul become one with me and the reader is absolutely amazing. I simply love to create on that venue and canvas; to affect change in the lives of others. It is my hope, when someone picks up my stories and reads the full weight of them, that somehow I have affected change in their lives, brought them to places they could never have imagined before, and moved them to believe in humanity again – to go out into the world and create ‘goodwill towards all’.
The Diary’s House is C David Murphy’s first digitally published novel. He is also the author of two Shakespearean-style genre plays In the Years of the Ages and Hildengrass. He is currently finalizing his next novel, When Tomorrow Never Comes and The Chronicles of Good and Evil – Dracula’s Lair / The Darkest Tower, both due out later this year. Also, the sequel to A Diary’s House is in the works – The Long Journey Home due out the first part of 2013.
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i don’t have a favorite historical book
My favorite historical book is Joan of Arc by Mark Twain
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My favorite historical book is The Patriot by Nigel Tranter.
My favorite isn’t published…it’s a story about my family history.
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Little Women
I love Confederates In The Attic!
My favorite historical book is Thomas Jefferson by R. B. Bernstein. I love all books about Thomas Jefferson but this one is fantastic.
The Holy Bible. Thank you Jerri Davis
gone with the wind about the civil war
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Little Women
The Diary of Anne Frank.
The Grapes of Wrath
I love The English Patient but I will read anything about women in history quite happily (especially Helen of Troy, Anne Boleyn, or Marie Antoinette).
My favorite historical book is Eight Men Out by Eliot Asinof.
Favorite historical book huh? That’s a tough one I read so many. It is usually the current book I am reading….John Addams.
I am not sure about books, but I truly love National Geographic… Especially about Asian countries.
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dont have a favorite may be this will be it ty
The Titanic
I don’t know if they count, but they did happen in the past – Murder in the Nile by Agatha Christie
My favorite historical book? I have so many! Right now it would be “The Kingmakers Daughter” by Phillipa Gregory!
My favorite historical book is Jane Austen.
Diary of Ann Frank
lies my teacher told me
I’m still a Gone With the Wind fan.
THE BIBLE
the outlander series by diana galbaldon
To Kill a Mockingbird
I don’t have one.
My favorite is The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson.
“Burr”
I don’t have a favorite historical book.
Gone with the Wind
My favorite is Gone with the Wind.
I don’t really have a specific favorite, but I enjoy historical YA fiction. I recently read aloud to the kids, “The Door in the Wall” by Marguerite Angeli (Newbery Award book) and it was fantastic!
Don’t really have one but liked the Little Women books if that counts. lol thank you!
It has to be the Bible the best history book ever written.
I like Anna Karenina
It’s unfortunate but I am not the book reader in my household, my son is he reads a book a day. And I don’t know what his answer would be Ik he read a documentry of Abrahamn Linclon
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Vietnam: A History by Stanley Karnow
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ok does historical romance count???? i agree with some of the previous posts i really loved diary of ann frank!
The Great Gatsby!
Diary of Anne Frank. An oldie but goodie. Can’t wait for my daughters to get to the grade where they read it.
Diary of anne frank is a classic to me
The Hiding Place
My favorite historical book is “While England Slept” by JFK.
the Bible
The Holy Bible, King James verson
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The Bible