Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Cook holds signing at Dove's Nest Friday

Jacquelyn Cook, Georgia author, will hold a book signing at the Dove’s Nest in Fitzgerald on Friday, August 15 from 2-4 p.m.

She has written the book, “Sunrise”, a new epic novel following the book “Magnolias”.

"Sunrise" is a unique novel of Georgia and Alabama history from 1849-1857, that tells the story of Anne Tracy and her railroad baron husband, William Butler Johnston. Extensive research enhanced by family reminiscence entrusted to the author by their great-grandson, George Felton, makes the Johnston’s unusual love story come alive as they tour Europe and return to Macon to construct what is known as the last great antebellum house built in the South before the Civil

War. The intricate Italianate architec­ture of the Johnston-Felton-Hay House makes it a treasure now open to the public.

The bloody boots of the Civil War and Reconstruc­tion change everyone’s lives. Only when Sidney Lather’s (Georgia’s poet laureate) transcendent love brings Anne Tracy Johnston to the freeing power of forgiveness can she find the happiness that could not be bought with all of their gold.
 

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