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OCTOBER 2025
BECOMING HATTIE MAE
BY CAROL GUTHRIE HEILMAN
APPALACHIAN 1929
In Becoming Hattie Mae, author Carol Heilman has created a
gritty, determined young mountain girl who wants to escape her
birthplace in order to better herself. She is up against all the
disadvantages of a poor, coal-mining community of the
Great Depression, but we the reader both identify with and root
for her as she seeks a way out. Heilman also populates her story
with a variety of colorful characters, from the moonshine-
making Pa, to the snake-bitten Pentecostal preacher, to the self-
taught herbalist doctor known as Widow Baker. Engaging,
thoughtful, and ultimately full of hope, this story is a delightful
read.
~ Ann Tatlock, novelist, editor, writing mentor
"If you want to change the world, pick up a pen."
Martin Luther
"Start by doing what's necessary, then do what's possible, and suddenly you're doing the impossible."
Saint Francis of Assissi
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Agnes Hopper Shakes Up Sweetbriar, The Adventures of Agnes Hopper Series by Carol Heilman
Nominated as a Pat Conroy Southern Beach Music Mystery! Summer's steamy haze coats North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, but feisty Agnes Marie Hopper discovers the heat isn't the only thing causing her blood to boil. After a kitchen fire destroys her home, Agnes moves in with her daughter, Betty Jo. Three months later they come to an understanding: neither can tolerate living with the other. So on a sultry August morning, Betty Jo drives Agnes and her few belongings to Sweetbrier Manor, a local retirement home and former house of ill repute. With no intention of staying, Agnes devises a scheme to sneak out of the Manor and find another place to live. Before she can make her exit, though, she runs into her best friend from high school, along with some other quirky characters. With a nose for trouble, Agnes learns some of the residents are being robbed, over-medicated, and denied basic cable and Internet access. Armed with nothing more than seventy-one years of common sense and a knack for pushing people's buttons, Agnes sets out to expose the unscrupulous administrator, protect her new friends, and restore Sweetbriar Manor's reputation as a "rewarding and enriching lifestyle." But the real moment of truth comes when Agnes is forced to choose between her feisty self-reliance and the self-sacrifice that comes with caring for others. Available on eBook, Paperback and Audio Book |
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Agnes Hopper Bets On Murder, The Adventures of Agnes Hopper Series by Carol Heilman
When Agnes Hopper travels to Beulah Land Cemetery to inform her late husband, Charlie, of the dire financial pickle she’s in, she discovers the shoeless and quite dead body of Charlie’s best friend laid out on a concrete bench. Despite the indifference of the local sheriff, Agnes’ nose for trouble smells something foul and she vows she won’t rest her aching knees until Josiah Goforth can rest in peace. But as she and her sometimes-love-interest, Smiley Abenda, uncover a growing list of suspects and illegal activities in their small town, they must also rally the fellow residents of Sweetbriar Manor to help prevent the sale of their home to a halfway house for female inmates. The antics these senior citizens pull would surely make Charlie roll over in his grave! Can Agnes curtail her spending and stop the sale while looking for a murderer? Or will the murderer stop her first? Available on eBook, Paperback and Audio Book |
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AGNES HOPPER TACKLES MAYHEM AT THE MANOR,
BOOK THREE OF THE AGNES HOPPER SERIES BY CAROL GUTHRIE HEILMAN |
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After Agnes Hopper purchased Sweetbriar Manor, the retirement home where she resides, she anticipated a tranquil lifestyle as southing as sharing a cup of tea with her friend and love interest, Smiley.
Instead, when she suspects Mr. Lively, the administrator, of embezzling funds, life gets complicated. More distractions arise when an edgy ex-convict, Zelda Dee, appears from the local halfway house and pressures Agnes to hire her as a manicurist. Mayhem mounts with kleptomania to confront, a horrific fire to overcome, and a storm of the century bearing down on the community. How will Agnes tackle all of the harrowing issues before her? Will her suspicions about Mr. Lively be confirmed? Is Zelda Dee innocent of her crimes as she claims? Will Agnes' resilient spirit help her, once more, to overcome the many thorny issues that arise at Sweetbriar Manor? |
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Just Go! Taking Hope To The Hurting
by Joyce Barnett and Carol Heilman Steve Revis is an agricultural, well-drilling missionary. He and his wife, Judy, also minister to Haitian children, both hearing and deaf. As the Lord has lead them through both good and bad times, two constants remain at the core of their ministry: they get involved in the people s lives and they show them a God who is real. Part One Judy and Steve Revis s missionary journey unfolds through specific experiences presented alongside an actual journey into the remote Northwest Mountains of Haiti. Part Two Opportunities to serve, presented in a narrative/story form, informs those who have the hearts to go and work among the Haitian people. "Barnett and Heilman weave events, emotions, thoughts and faces into a moving picture of life in Haiti with Steve and Judy Revis, who have been missionaries there for twenty-five years. It is an amazing story of God in a country where voodoo is common. You will see afresh The Lord and how he moves to reach lost people." ~ Lula Mae Briggs, teacher and Bible scholar |