The Girl from the Blue Ridge Mountains

Name: The Girl from the Blue Ridge Mountains
Brand: Archway Publishing
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By Turner, Lisa Anne

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The Girl from the Blue Ridge Mountains is based on the early life of Margaret Hamilton Riggs, a Virginian neglected and abused as a child, who was rescued by her grandparents to live an impoverished but joyful life until she met her abusive husband, who tried to kill her. All of the prime characters were real people, and the major events in the book are true. Margaret was the grandmother of Lisa Anne Turner's good friend, Twila Brewer. Turner and Brewer worked together as 911 emergency operators, often sitting side by side. Brewer assembled more than eighty pages of notes and anecdotes written by her mother, Ella Mae Riggs Lenz, about her life and the tremulous journey she and her mother Margaret; along with her little brother Andrew Jackson Riggs (aka AJ), made from Virginia to Arizona. The notes detailed Margaret's desperate e orts to free her innocent brother from jail, her bewildering weeks-long detainment by the FBI, which erroneously thought they had snagged the girlfriend of Pretty Boy Flloyd, and her near drowning at the hands of her husband. Turner expanded from the foundation of those notes to create The Girl from the Blue Ridge Mountains, a novel built from historical fact. The Girl from the Blue Ridge Mountains is an authentic piece of Americana, showing that the bravest of us can salvage meaning from the cruelest circumstances, and survive to prosper and embrace joy.

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Binding:: Paperback
Number of Pages:: 280
Release Date:: 2026-01-28
Publication Date:: 2026-01-28
Publisher:: Archway Publishing
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1665786124
ISBN13:: 9781665786126
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 399 g
Height:: 140 cm
Width:: 216 cm
Thickness:: 17 cm

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