Janice Holt Giles Books in Order

Hod Pierce loves Piney Ridge but longs for education and the wider world. War carries him away, yet marriage, work, and Mary’s clearer eyes reveal why the stubborn Kentucky hills still call him home.

Jeff Harbin looks back on a Kentucky hill-country friendship with Faleecy John, a fierce older boy who protects, leads, and betrays him. Land, pride, family secrets, and tobacco-war violence tighten the bond between them.

Willie comes to Piney Ridge to teach in a one-room schoolhouse and improve the hill people’s ways. Instead, their pride, humor, and quiet dignity teach her a different kind of lesson.

Tara Cochrane, Hod Pierce’s wartime captain and a doctor, returns from Europe broken by war. Hod brings him to Piney Ridge, where service, faith, and neighborly need open a path back to healing.

Janice and Henry Giles leave Louisville for a rough house and forty acres in Kentucky hill country. Her memoir follows one year of farming lessons, neighborly help, backaches, humor, and deep satisfaction.

David Cooper crosses into the Kentucky wilderness seeking freedom, land, and escape from settled life. Love for Bethia, rival claims, fort warfare, and Revolutionary-era danger force him to choose what kind of home he wants.

Rady Cromwell, a poor preacher’s son in 1920s Kentucky, starts with little more than a gun, a dog, and a guitar. Charm, risk, women, land, and work shape his climb through ridge life.

Adult Katie Rogers remembers an Arkansas summer in 1913, when she visited her grandparents and roamed near a mysterious grave in a plum thicket. A reunion, wedding plans, and old guilt end childhood innocence.

After her father dies on the Kentucky frontier, Hannah Moore is taken to safety by Tice Fowler. Their marriage begins a life of cabins, claims, wolves, blizzards, raids, and the stubborn work of building home.

Rebecca Fowler marries Richard Cooper young and follows him into a Kentucky Shaker community after grief changes him. Separated by doctrine and daily rules, she must decide what faith and marriage can demand.

Major Cassius Cartwright’s Kentucky frontier life intersects with General James Wilkinson’s Spanish Conspiracy, the growth of Green River settlements, and two very different women, Rachel and Tattie, who pull at his future.

Jonathan Fowler earns the name Johnny Osage through his friendship with the Osage people. When missionary teacher Judith Lowell arrives, his loyalties, beliefs, and heart are tested against the violence of the Osage-Cherokee conflict.

After the death of her first husband, Savanna is drawn into frontier life around Fort Gibson. Trade rivalries, army politics, Sam Houston’s shadow, passion, and violence shape her hard road toward endurance.

Johnny and Judith Fowler set out by mule wagon train from Indian Territory toward Santa Fe in 1823. Flood, drought, animals, treachery, and the strain of marriage make the journey more than a route west.

Janice and Henry Giles tell how they made a rural Kentucky home from old cabin logs, hard work, and stubborn hope. It is part house biography, part country-life memoir, full of friends, family, river, and roof.

In 1861, Captain Bohannon Cartwright takes the steamboat Rambler down Kentucky’s Green River. A storm rescue brings new passengers aboard just as Union and Confederate forces begin fighting for control of the river.

Joe Fowler grows up dreaming of beaver country and becomes a mountain man in the Rocky Mountain fur trade. Freedom, danger, changing markets, and his bond with Betsy test the life he has chosen.

Nineteen-year-old Starr Fowler climbs onto the box of a six-horse stage and joins the Overland Mail world. The road west brings skill, dust, danger, rough men, and a hard education in the changing frontier.

This nonfiction history follows the 291st Engineer Combat Battalion through World War II, especially the Battle of the Bulge. Giles focuses on small-unit pressure, hard choices, and the soldiers who kept routes open under fire.

This memoir gathers pieces of Janice and Henry Giles’s home life, writing life, and family life in rural Kentucky. It moves through columns, private reflections, grandchildren, publishing struggles, and the everyday rhythms around their house.

Giles looks back on her Oklahoma childhood in Kinta, where her father served as a school principal. The memoir mixes family memory, local history, Choctaw background, and a child’s view of a small town world.

In Broke Neck, Kentucky, widow Frony Fowler narrates the comic troubles of her kin and neighbors. A new preacher, revenue officials, and unexpected suitors unsettle a community built on soil, church, songs, and family lines.

Regina, a widow, falls in love with Michael, a young doctor whose wife has left him. Their future runs into the rules of the Catholic Church, forcing Regina to weigh love against faith and sacrifice.