What
a great lineup of new novels and awards this month! Congratulations to you all!
Janet Fisher, The Shifting Winds (Globe Pequot
Press/Two Dot) Jennie Haviland’s father takes the family west over the Oregon
Trail in 1842, tearing Jennie away from her prestigious academy in New York and
forcing her to face a lonely wilderness across the continent. In Oregon she
meets two young men, handsome British Hudson's Bay Company clerk Alan Radford
and brash American mountain man Jake Johnston. The two vie for her as their
nations vie for this rich contested territory, but Jennie wants choices of her
own.
Bonnie Hobbs, Sweet Justice.
Wounded by her fiance's betrayal, Rachel Logan returns to her father's ranch in
Arizona Territory determined to live an independent life. Kol Hawk comes home
after ten years in Yuma Prison for attempting to kill Rachel's father,
believing him responsible for the deaths of a Pima woman and her daughter. As
they come together to find the truth, can they also find solace in each other?
Sarah
Byrn Rickman, WASP of the Ferry Command (University of
North Texas Press) is the personalized story of the
women pilots who, when qualified male pilots were in short supply early in
World War II, volunteered to fly brand new trainer aircraft from factories to
the training fields in Texas and elsewhere. Then the women's job changed
dramatically when, in January 1944, they were needed to deliver sleek, powerful
P-51 fighter aircraft to the docks at Newark, NJ, for shipment to the war zone.
Ultimately, those P-51s were the key to the victory over the German Reich
because they had the range to escort and protect the four-engine bombers on
raids all the way from England to Berlin and back.
AWARDS
Julie Weston, Moonshadows,
won Finalist in the May
Sarton Literary Award in the category of historical fiction.
Donis
Casey, All Men Fear Me, is a
finalist in the fiction category for the 2016 Oklahoma Book Award.
Nancy Bo Flood, Water Runs Through This
Book (Fulcrum, photographs by
Jan Sonnenmair), an informational book about the wonder of water and the need
for conservation, has been recognized as a Green Earth qualified book.
Nancy Bo Flood, Soldier Sister, Fly Home, (Charlesbridge,
cover art by Shonto Begay), is a Junior Library Guild selection,. This
contemporary middle-grade novel is a celebration of family, riding horses
pell-mell in the dark, sharing secrets with a sister, and the beauty of the
Navajo desert.
Sandra
Dallas, The Last Midwife (St.
Martin's Press), Winner Traditional Novel, Western Writers of America Spur
Awards.
Jane
Kirkpatrick, The Memory Weaver (Revell)
earned the Finalist Spur status for Best
Historical Novel.
Historical Novel.
6 comments:
Thank you, everyone, for creating this organization and for it's support and recognition of Women Writing the West!
Some wonderful words by inspired writers. Thank you.
All so deserving!
This is such a wonderful supportive group. Thank you all.
Kudos to all who have received awards and mentions! Proud to "know" you all!
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