Vi Travilla is about to take on a challenge unlike anything she's ever done before. Vi knows that her dream will not be easy to achieve, but she is little prepared for the complications that await her. Who will come to her aid as she confronts the unknown forces that are determined to end her mission? What must she do to win the hearts of the people she wants to serve? Will her faith sustain her as she faces distrust and danger? The fourth in the A Life of Faith: Violet Travilla series, Violet's Bold Mission is based on characters created by Miss Martha Finley, a nineteenth-century novelist who penned a series of best-selling books about the Christian life. Her books inspired millions of readers in her own time. Mission City Press is pleased to continue Miss Finley's tradition of Christian storytelling in these new adventures of Vi Travilla---a young woman committed to live her faith every day through service to others.

Vi is confident that her problems have been resolved, but mistrust and misunderstanding lead to one of the most difficult challenges of her life. The happiness of her new family is at stake, and if Vi doesn't act wisely, hearts will surely be broken.

Meet Violet Travilla. Books one through four. Adapted from the nineteenth-century novels by Martha Finley, this fresh and relatable series of books for modern readers continues the saga of the next generation of Dinsmores and Travillas through the dramatic experiences of Violet Travilla, the middle daughter of the famous Elsie Dinsmore Travilla. Artistic and imaginative, Violet is a Victorian era teenager growing up in the late 1870s. Vi looks forward to all that life has to offer a girl in the post-Civil War South. She has hopes of pursuing academics, travel, and new opportunities in her future. But in book one, fourteen-year-old Vi faces a severe crisis that overshadows her good nature and causes her to hide troubling doubts and fears-emotions she is reluctant to share with anyone. Vi must learn valuable lessons about her family and her faith in this beautiful coming of age story in which Vi confronts the many challenges teens of all eras face. In books two through four, Violet's life's destiny unfolds as new prospects take Vi to exciting places-like Rome and New York City-and plunge her into circumstances that will test and shape her into a young woman of virtuous character and courage. Ultimately, Vi's travels will lead her back home to the adventure of a lifetime-a bold mission and the chance to see her dream of impacting a whole city come true. But mysterious villains will stop at nothing to deter her mission. Journey back in time and join Violet Travilla in some of the most significant and life-changing events of a girl's life. You'll find that this charming nineteenth-century heroine is not so differnet from you. Once you meet Violet, you will never forget her.

Violet faces several challenges as she runs Samaritan House, a mission for the poor, including helping two orphaned children, dealing with the return of an old enemy, and understanding the mystery surrounding a new resident.

This boxed set of the popular fiction books for girls includes books 5-8 of the series: Millie's Steadfast Love (Book 5), Millie's Grand Adventure (Book 6), Millie's Reluctant Sacrifice (Book 7), and Millie's Fiery Trial (Book 8). 'Excellent for Homeschool Use'

In the Vampire Stratocracy of Cain, human blood is scarce. For centuries, councils have enslaved and bred humans, turning them into profitable supply units. Wavorly is bound to serve her blood willingly to her master for the rest of her life, but as one of only a few humans not bred in Cain, she knows freedom and is determined to escape.

In the 1830s, Laylie Colbert and her brother Luke attempt escape from the Southern Carolina plantation where they are slaves, and their faith helps them along the way.

Violets and Other Tales (1895) is a collection of stories and poems by Alice Dunbar Nelson. While working as a teacher in New Orleans, Dunbar Nelson published Violets and Other Tales through The Monthly Review, embarking on a career as a leading black writer of the early twentieth century. “If perchance this collection of idle thoughts may serve to while away an hour or two, or lift for a brief space the load of care from someone's mind, their purpose has been served—the author is satisfied.” With this entreaty, Alice Dunbar Nelson introduces her first published work with a humility and caution rather unfitting an author of such immense talent. In this collection of reflections, vignettes, short stories, and poems, Dunbar Nelson proves herself as a writer immersed in the classics, yet capable of illuminating the events and concerns of her own generation. In “A Carnival Jangle,” she provides a vibrant description of New Orleans during its legendary season of celebration. “The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ” presents itself as a newly discovered manuscript revealing Jesus’ travels in India. Dunbar Nelson’s brilliant prose style is nicely juxtaposed with her expertise in poetic form as she moves fluidly from love poems to religious verses, narrative poems to heartbreaking elegies. Only twenty years old when this collection was published, Dunbar Nelson executes a brilliant debut to a long and distinguished career in literature. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Alice Dunbar Nelson’s Violets and Other Tales is a classic of African American literature reimagined for modern readers.