"A Carolyn Feagans book is like a warm bath -- it's easy to slip into, and once you're there, you don't want to leave", says Darrell Laurant, with the Lynchburg News.

They are called books of hope, stories of faith that are cleverly interwoven with historical information.  Set primarily in the '30s,'40s, '50s and '60s they interestingly humanize history while focusing on the Great Depression, World War II, the "happy days' of the fifties and the turbulent sixties.

Learn about the mysterious Indians of Central Virginia.  "The author has folded the Monacan's twentieth century story into dialogue, so now our children can appreciate the human side," says Dr. Peter Houck, Virginia Historian.  "Buried in the story of prejudice against "the other" is a subtext of virulent racial policies of mid-century that attacks our preconceptions of class, education and human worth," concludes David M. Sokol, Books of Interest, Lynch's Ferry.

Visit the Peaks of Otter and step back in time to the Mons Community of Bedford that no longer exists and discover what used to be there!  Walk the downtown streets of earlier Lynchburg, a small southern town, and then enjoy the awesome beauty of the majestic Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia and North Carolina while unfolding drama makes you laugh, cry, and ponder life.

Paradoxically sad but uplifting, these are books you cannot put down!

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