Bean blossom dreams

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Kate Maloy

"A Stone Bridge North is the author's own story of "miracles found and fears allayed" in the journey out of a confining urban existence and into a simpler, more joyous life. The journey begins with Maloy's return to her Quaker faith and proceeds through a series of spiritual risks that lead her to her soul mate and her true home. To tell her story fully, Maloy must look through changed eyes at her past - at childhood anxieties, family disaffection, failed marriages, late motherhood, restless boredom, and, paradoxically, a talent for joy. She learns that she has been guided by faith even when she thought she had none. She begins to discern purpose and design both in her stories and in the light by which she sees them - a light refracted through a Quaker lens that searches for the sacred in all people. As the four seasons turn, Maloy celebrated the loves of her new life - family, friends, language, silence, and the extraordinary landscape of Vermont."--BOOK JACKET.

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Susan Fenimore Cooper

Reminiscences of a city woman's experiences in the country revealing the nostalgia of a rapidly urbanizing and industrializing nation for rural life.

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Mary Kloska

"Mary Kloska's experience as a Siberian Missionary was inspired by an appeal from Our Blessed Mother, who prophesied at Fatima, "I shall come to ask for the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart, and the Communion of Reparation on the First Saturdays. If my requests are heeded, Russia will be converted, and there will be peace; if not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, various nations will be annihilated. In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, and she will be converted, and a period of peace will be granted to the world..." And so, Mary Kloska's days in Russia began. (Our Lady of Fatima, July 13, 1917)"--Back cover.

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[Hartmut Hegeler

www.anton-praetorius.de Anton Praetorius was born in 1560 in Lippstadt / Westphalia in Germany. He studied theology and became principal of the humanistic Latin school in Kamen/ Westphalia. Here Praetorius got married, but he lost his wife by the pestilence. In 1597 he was appointed as protestant pastor of the earl of Buedingen/ Ysenburg (near Frankfurt/Main). Here he witnessed the torture of 4 women accused of being a witch. He got so upset by the torture that he protested violently it says in the court documents. He succeeded in stopping the trial against the last still living woman. As a consequence he got fired by the earl. Then Praetorius wrote the "Gruendlicher Bericht ueber Zauberey und Zauberer" to protest against the trials against witches and against torture. At first he published the book in 1598 by an assumed name ("Johannes Scultetus"). In 1602 he dared to publish it by his own name. The book was widely spread and published again in 1613 and posthum in 1629. Praetorius died in 1613 in Laudenbach/ Bergstrasse (near Heidelberg). The biography is called "Anton Praetorius, Kaempfer gegen Hexenprozesse und Folter" (fighting against trials of witches and fighting against torture). The book is written in German, it has 270 pages, about 100 pictures (30 colour photos of the places where Praetorius has lived), an index of the names and places, bibliography and about 1000 footnotes.