When her mother dies in childbirth, Louisa at seventeen is thrust into adulthood. She is suddenly responsible for running the farm household and caring for two younger siblings. Isolated in a late 1890’s Mennonite community with strict religious doctrine and expectations, she yearns to explore the “outside” world. She falls in love and marries Thomas,ContinueContinue reading “New Release ~ Falling Forward, a Woman’s Journey West by Pat Jurgens”
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New Release ~ Dudes Rush In by Lynn Downey
I’ve been publishing books and articles about the history of the American West for thirty-five years, and have been reading historical fiction and historical mysteries for longer than that. Around my birthday in 2012 I put down the latest Alafair Tucker novel by Donis Casey and said to myself, “I wish I could write aContinueContinue reading “New Release ~ Dudes Rush In by Lynn Downey”
New Release ~ Norske Fields by Anne Schroeder
“Write what should not be forgotten.” —Isabel Allende Norske Fields A Novel Based on Southern California’s Norwegian Colony As a young woman I saw a photograph of my grandfather, Oscar Olsen, watching county workers exhume the coffins of his six young sisters and brother from an old family cemetery at the corner of Moorpark andContinueContinue reading “New Release ~ Norske Fields by Anne Schroeder”
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