Elemental by Anthony John

Elemental by Anthony John, 326 pages
Book 1 of series

The population of Earth suffered a huge blow in the form of a rat borne plague. Cities have been replaced by colonies and modern technology no longer exits. Thomas has always been an outsider in his colony because he possesses no elemental gift unlike every other resident of the island... or so he's been told. The island is buried in secrets and Thomas knows none of them until one fateful night when truths began to reveal themselves one by one. Thomas, his deaf/lame brother Griffin, and other children born in the colony, will have to use their gifts to outsmart pirates, live through a hurricane and protect their home and family.

Lewis County

Lewis County

By Joy Gilchrist-Stalnaker & Bradley R. Oldaker

127 pages

I found this book extremely interesting since my ancestors lived in Lewis County for over seventy years. A photograph of the founders of the glass industry in Weston is included in the pages, which contains my great grandfather, Rudolph Bauer.

Lewis County is an area in central West Virginia. This book provides a short history of the county mostly through photographs and accompanying text. The earliest photo was of the general store in Weston dated c. 1865. The largest town and county seat of Lewis County is Weston. Thus a large section of this publication is dedicated to the town and its history. However, other small towns such as Jane Lew, Jackson’s Mill, Roanoke, Crawford, Walkersville, Copley, Gaston, and Vandalia are pictured.  

Important commerce of the area was the glass industry, oil and gas extraction and timber.