Month: April 2019

Precious Silver Chopsticks

The book is about Mae Adams, the narrator, who was born in Korea in 1933 as the second daughter and abandoned by her mother for she was not a son. In the Korean family system of that time, the first-born son was a blessing as he inherited the family fortune and was responsible for the entire family. This notion brought on the unfair treatment of daughters, although most families accepted the first daughter with reluctant grace. Mae grew up in her Aristocratic family which had retreated to the f... [Read More...]

The Kidnapped Smile

Mona Lisa kidnapped? Her father, Leonardo, in tears? What will the Deliverers do? It has been a year since Alex and Bartholomew first ventured into the mystical Artania. Once again they are called upon to keep this art-created world safe. But peril waits at every turn. Traitorous Pirates. Fearful gods and goddesses. Monsters of the deep. A world’s safety lies in the hands three twelve-year-olds. Alex and Bartholomew, with their spunky sidekick Gwen, return to Artania to wrench the kidnapped M... [Read More...]

If My Heart Had Wings: A World War II Love Story

In 1943, 22-year-old Nina Raff gets the devastating news that her Army pilot husband has been killed in action. With her world upended, she quits her job, moves across the country and plunges into a powerless and abusive marriage to a man who forbids any mention of her first husband. The past stays buried for the next twenty years…until their teenage daughter finds a picture of her mother as a bride. Then a story of heartbreaking loss, family secrets, breaking free and the indelible bonds of ... [Read More...]