Sheila Myers: 6 books

Winner of the 2017 Best Book of Fiction by the Adirondack Center for Writing William and Ella Durant, heirs to a bygone fortune, are recounting the events that led to the Durant family downfall during the Gilded Age. In 1931 William returns to visit the estate he once possessed in the Adirondacks...

William Durant and his sister Ella have spent most of their youth living abroad while their father, Dr. Thomas Durant, invests in land and builds a railroad empire in the wake of the American Civil War. They are provided with every opportunity that their father’s amassed wealth can buy: travel,...

Railroad tycoon Doc Durant has died and his children William and Ella are finally free of his domineering control to pursue their ambitions. William is now head of the family.  Without his father's ruthlessness and business savvy, he resorts to creative but dubious financial scheming to save what...

Winner of the 2017 Best Book in Fiction Literary Award from the Adirondack Center for Writing William and Ella Durant, heirs to a bygone fortune, are recounting the events that led to the Durant family downfall during the Gilded Age. In 1931 William returns to visit the estate he once possessed...

"...the reader will be looking forward to the next episode with the same eagerness as addicts of Downton Abbey."  In this first book of a trilogy, William Durant and his sister Ella have spent most of their youth living abroad while their father invests in land and builds a railroad...

Film and music are the language of modern culture. What messages are being conveyed in the movies and songs we love? An Unexpected Journal explores the truths embedded within popular media. Contributors "Serenity and the Theodicy of Joss Whedon" by C.M. Alvarez: An exploration...