The Girl from the Blue Ridge Mountains
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Sprache:Englisch
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ePUB
Kopierschutz
Nein
Family Sharing
Nein
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
28.01.2026
Verlag
Archway PublishingSeitenzahl
280 (Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
404 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9781665786133
The Girl from the Blue Ridge Mountains is based on the early life of Margaret
Hamilton Riggs, a Virginian neglected and abused as a child, who was rescued
by her grandparents to live an impoverished but joyful life until she met her
abusive husband, who tried to kill her. All of the prime characters were real
people, and the major events in the book are true. Margaret was the grandmother
of Lisa Anne Turner's good friend, Twila Brewer. Turner and Brewer worked
together as 911 emergency operators, often sitting side by side. Brewer assembled
more than eighty pages of notes and anecdotes written by her mother, Ella
Mae Riggs Lenz, about her life and the tremulous journey she and her mother
Margaret; along with her little brother Andrew Jackson Riggs (aka AJ), made
from Virginia to Arizona. The notes detailed Margaret's desperate e orts to
free her innocent brother from jail, her bewildering weeks-long detainment
by the FBI, which erroneously thought they had snagged the girlfriend of
Pretty Boy Flloyd, and her near drowning at the hands of her husband. Turner
expanded from the foundation of those notes to create The Girl from the Blue
Ridge Mountains, a novel built from historical fact. The Girl from the Blue Ridge
Mountains is an authentic piece of Americana, showing that the bravest of us
can salvage meaning from the cruelest circumstances, and survive to prosper
and embrace joy.
Hamilton Riggs, a Virginian neglected and abused as a child, who was rescued
by her grandparents to live an impoverished but joyful life until she met her
abusive husband, who tried to kill her. All of the prime characters were real
people, and the major events in the book are true. Margaret was the grandmother
of Lisa Anne Turner's good friend, Twila Brewer. Turner and Brewer worked
together as 911 emergency operators, often sitting side by side. Brewer assembled
more than eighty pages of notes and anecdotes written by her mother, Ella
Mae Riggs Lenz, about her life and the tremulous journey she and her mother
Margaret; along with her little brother Andrew Jackson Riggs (aka AJ), made
from Virginia to Arizona. The notes detailed Margaret's desperate e orts to
free her innocent brother from jail, her bewildering weeks-long detainment
by the FBI, which erroneously thought they had snagged the girlfriend of
Pretty Boy Flloyd, and her near drowning at the hands of her husband. Turner
expanded from the foundation of those notes to create The Girl from the Blue
Ridge Mountains, a novel built from historical fact. The Girl from the Blue Ridge
Mountains is an authentic piece of Americana, showing that the bravest of us
can salvage meaning from the cruelest circumstances, and survive to prosper
and embrace joy.
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