Lots of possibilities to add to our last-minute Christmas shopping list! Congratulations!
Susan
Wittig Albert A Wilder Rose
Brilliance
Audio will bring out the audiobook edition of this historical novel, to be
published at the same time (March 17, 2015) as the Lake Union reprint edition.
The book tells the true story of the mother-daughter collaboration (Laura
Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane) that produced the Little House books.
Janet
Jensen’s new release Gabriel's Daughters (Jolly Fish Press)
has also won a silver award in religious fiction from Readers Favorites. The
novel wrestles with issues of polygamy, homosexuality, and modernity through
the lives of the large, loving, and polygamous Martin family. The story is told
primarily through the eyes of Zina Martin, a young girl who, upon discovering
she is impregnated by her "sterile" teacher—and will soon be married
off to a man three times her age—escapes the enclosed polygamous town of
Gabriel's Landing, Utah. Zina then embarks on a journey full of self-discovery,
yet she can never completely escape the longing she has for her family and even
the controversial and outdated lifestyle she once lived.
Leslee Breene “The Christmas Gift”, an Ebook short story for the holidays. In
1883, Miriam Cole travels to Denver at Christmas to deliver her orphaned
baby nephew to her married sister. The sweetness of his touch upon her cheek
makes her heart tighten. When the time comes, how will she ever let him go?
“With both verve and delicacy, Ms. Breene reminds us that miracles are indeed
possible.” ~ Jane Choate RWA author of Keeping Watch – Harlequin
Diane Gardner, OregonState Penitentiary (Arcadia Publishing) As the only maximum-security prison in
the state, the Oregon State Penitentiary (OSP) has housed some of the most
violent criminals on the West Coast, including brutal serial killers Charley
Panzram in 1915 and Jerry Brudos in 1969. Sixty men have been executed inside
OSP. The prison was originally built in Portland in 1851 but moved to Salem 15
years later, after Oregon became a state. From that time forward, the Oregon
State Penitentiary grew from 23 prisoners in 1866 to 1,912 by 1992.
B J Scott The Rail Queen,
fifth novel in his Tales of Strong Women series. This novel, set in 1884, tells
the story of Montana schoolgirl Ryka Sundstrom's unquenchable dream to build
her own railroad. Her struggle is interwoven with the blossoming of the
American railroad as it knits together the east and west coasts in a brief
glorious period when all things were possible, even for a teenager with an
outlandish dream and the will to pursue it. bjscotthistoricals.wordpress.com, amazon.com
createspace.com/5028104
Penny Sidoli The Intersection of Daydream and Driving Slow is a collection of
short stories by, with the setting of the contemporary American West. The book is available on
Amazon.com as either paperback or ebook. “A collection of wildly original tales packed with
descriptions of the broad landscape of the American West, and lively characters
who jump off the page into your heart.”
Patricia
Grady Cox Chasm Creek A hangman's
noose stands between Morgan Braddock and the family he loves. Esther Corbin
clings to a marriage with a man who has abandoned her and their four children.
Ruben Santiago scorns his native heritage after being kidnapped from the
Navajos and raised in Mexico as a Roman Catholic. Three unlikely friends. Three
lives based on lies. Until ghostly visitations and violent confrontations shatter
their illusions, and each must find their place in the merciless Arizona
Territory. Chasm Creek incorporates
aspects of the Navajo Long Walk into a story of love, loss, and fates entwined.
AWARDS
Deanna Dickinson McCall
Mustang Spring Stories and Poems won
Poetry Book of the Year at the annual Western Music Convention and Awards in
Albuquerque NM. Mustang Springs is a book about the
real people of the West. Their stories are told in poetry and prose that will
make you laugh and cry. She also won the Georgie Sicking Award for an
individual poem, “Cow Country Code.
Anne
Schroeder's break-out novel, Cholama Moon, has been named favorite
non-traditional Western novel in True West's List of Favorites for 2015.
Cholama Moon is a gritty historical romance set in California's Central Coast.
Karen Casey-Fitzjerrel, ForgivingEffie Beck is a finalist for the 2014 EPIC Award for Historical fiction. In this Will Rogers Gold Medallion Award-winning work of fiction. Mike LeMay, a Federal Writers’ Project interviewer arrives in a small Texas town days before the town eccentric, Effie Beck, is reported missing. While conducting his interviews, Mike learns that the enigmatic, elderly Miss Effie has moved through the lives of the town’s populace "like brown smoke" after having suffered a harsh childhood under the discipline of a cruel father.
