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Miss Willie
Janice Holt Giles
University Press of Kentucky, 1994
One of the most engrossing books I have ever read!
"Miss Willie" is a delightful story about a school teacher who moves from a big city to a very small community in the hills of Kentucky.
Easy to read, this book kept me spell bound until
I finished it. A real treat for readers of all ages
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Tara's Healing
Janice Holt Giles
University Press of Kentucky, 1994
Janice Holt Giles was a superb author.
I have read all of the books written by Janice Holt Giles, both the Piny woods series of which this is one and the moving west series many times. I loose myself after the first page or so and am completely immersed until I sadly turn the last page. Her research is ...
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40 Acres and No Mule
Janice Holt Giles
University Press of Kentucky, 1992
What a wonderful book!
I loved this book because it took me on a journey to a part of the United States that is not known to most readers. And to a time that is not today. And to know people who are unlike any neighbors I have ever had. I really enjoyed learning the landscape and the ...
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The Enduring Hills
Janice Holt Giles
University Press of Kentucky, 1988
A Wonderful Book about the Things that Matter
Janice Holt Giles is one of my favorite authors, and her first novel is excellent. Anyone who has ever read "Miss Willie" or "Tara's Healing" will love learning how it all started with Hod and Mary. Her descriptions of the Kentucky mountains and the lifestyle there ...
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The Kentuckians
Janice Holt Giles
University Press of Kentucky, 1988
The Kentuckians, Janice Holt Giles
This is absolutely one of the finest books about the early pioneering in our country. Giles writes in a low-key manner, but brings vivid pictures to the mind as the reader follows the travels and travails of one of those pioneers as he makes his way through the ...
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Hannah Fowler by Janice Holt Giles
Janice Holt Giles
Houghton Mifflin Co, 1956
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The Believers
Janice Holt Giles
University Press of Kentucky, 1989
Great Page Turner
I found this book in the attic covered under piles of dust. I did not know what it was about as it did not have a cover or anything telling what the book was about. I decided to give it a try and was immediatly submersed in the world of the 1800's. I could not put the ...
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Hannah Fowler
Janice Holt Giles
University Press of Kentucky, 1992
This is just a darn good book!
I've read most of Janice Holt Giles' books but this one (my first) has got to be my favorite. It certainly isn't your conventional love story; but then, Hannah isn't your conventional heroine. Nor are she and Tice a conventional couple (she asked HIM to marry HER) but ...
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Shady Grove
Janice Holt Giles, Wade Hall
University Press of Kentucky, 2002
You can't read this book without laughing out loud.
I love this book. It is the funniest book that I have ever read. I could just picture them running up on that porch in that old car that was out of control. Every time I get slightly depressed, I re-read this book. I will always have a copy. It's good medicine.
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A Little Better than Plumb: The Biography of a House
Henry Giles, Janice Holt Giles
University Press of Kentucky, 1995
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The Plum Thicket
Janice Holt Giles, Dianne Watkins Stuart
University Press of Kentucky, 1996
Beautiful story of childhood innocence and heartbreak
"The Plum Thicket" is a beautiful book. In the tradition of "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," Giles takes readers on a journey through a child's innocent point of view. By the novel's end, however, that innocent view of the world has been ...
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The Land Beyond the Mountains
Janice Holt Giles, Dianne Watkins Stuart
University Press of Kentucky, 1995
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Act of Contrition
Janice Holt Giles
University Press of Kentucky, 2005
Beautiful Love Story
Years after her death, a book by JHG has been published that is a beautiful love story between two people at a time when divorce was against religious teachings. Yet these characters demonstrate that life is good even though all others seem to be against what would be ...
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Hill Man
Janice Holt Giles
University Press of Kentucky, 2000
Hill Man Written under another name.
Hill Man was written by Janice Holt Giles under the name of John Garth. A book about rural life, which was not in keeping with the other books JHG had written. I thoroughly enjoyed the book in the 60's, and I can hardly wait to get my copy. Janice and Henry Giles ...
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Voyage to Santa Fe
Janice Holt Giles
Avon, 1978
A lovely, lively, dyamic tale
Janice Holt Giles carefully researched plains life in the early 1800's before writing this splendid work about a wagon train venturing into a new route from St. Louis to Santa Fe. Her main characters, newly married Folwlers, are surrounded by rough, quaint, hard, ...
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