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Ghost Waves can still be in your stocking this Christmas but you will need to wait until after the holidays for Heroes of the Fallen.
Farm Girl, the heart-warming journey of a girl coming of age on a 1920's Nebraska farm, is an authentic account of that era. It is a story told with warmth, gentle humor and amazing detail. If you like the books of Laura Ingalls Wilder or Willa Cather, you will enjoy Farm Girl. Richly photographed throughout with over 60 authentic photos documenting the people and places of the story, this historical, easy-to-read small book is suitable for use in the classroom from fifth grade up.
Farm Girl by Karen Jones Gowen (Perfect Paperback - Jul 24, 2007) Buy new: $15.95
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Karen Jones Gowen graduated from BYU with a degree in English and American Literature. She wrote this book as a tribute for her mother's 90th birthday, never realizing how far it would go. Most publishing companies launch a book, Farm Girl launched a publishing company.
The Pirate Slayers, Book One: Ghost Waves begins in the winter of 1846, when the Brooklyn leaves New York City for a voyage that will take them twenty-six thousand miles around South America to Honolulu, and to their final destination, San Francisco. On a warm, sultry, moonless night, off the coast of Brazil, four teenage passengers fall overboard. Thomas, Elizabeth, Nicole and their Australian sailor friend, Matthew, find themselves stranded in dangerous waters. The Caribbean Sea and South Pacific are the backdrops for this adventure that pits the foursome in desperate contests with pirates, profiteers and scoundrels as they swash-buckle their way to California.
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W. Everett Prusso's love of the tropics and sailing inspired him to write Ghost Waves, his debut novel. A native Californian and a travel agent for thirty-five years, he currently calls Sandy, Utah home. He is working on the next volume in The Pirate Slayers series, Scrimshaw's Revenge.
Uncut Diamonds celebrates family-- the ordinary, the outrageous, the comical and the tragic. It is Steel Magnolias with Mormon characters. A breakthrough LDS novel, Uncut Diamonds is everything you have always wanted in the genre. It is the late Seventies. Gold medallions and disco dancing, bell bottoms and bushy sideburns, Star Wars and Saturday Night Fever are all the rage. Jimmy Carter is President during a frightening recession, with mortgage interest rates at 13% and fuel bills higher than house payments. In the heartland of the nation, in the shadow of Nauvoo, a young Mormon couple, Marcie and Shawn McGill, struggle to save their home, family and marriage, during these uncertain times. And they find help in unexpected places...Follow the lives of Marcie and her two sisters as their lives intertwine. Beautiful Cindy who is single and dating, too often the wrong guy. Linda who married rich and lives in Denver with her husband and young daughter. And the parents-- the kindly Methodist minister and his cheerful wife, who do whatever they can to help everyone out.
Uncut Diamonds by Karen Jones Gowen (Perfect Paperback - Jul 31, 2009) Buy new: $15.95
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Karen Jones Gowen is a mother of ten who drew largely on personal experience in the telling of this story. She and her husband live in South Jordan, Utah. Chat with her on her author blogs Books, Food, Family, Fun and Coming Down the Mountain.
Heroes of the Fallen is a literary work of art, presenting revolutionary viewpoints in a cross-genre's ancient American landscape. A fter a golden age of peace, lasting almost three hundred years, war is coming to Zarahemla. Men beat their plowshares into swords or call vainly to pagan gods for answers, all the while forgetting that which could deliver them. Stand alongside daring heroes with swords bared against sinister villains, never knowing which will fall--Captain Amaron and his Ten Scouts, Zelph the White Lamanite, or Anathoth the Lamanite General, agonizingly loyal to the despised King of Tullan--all must face the chillingly evil Gadianton Master Akish-Antum and his numerous followers. Witness the plans of mighty kings and lowly thieves. See the dreams of Bethia, a prophet's daughter, as she runs away from home seeking independence, only to find confusion and wickedness in a land of war. Heroes of the Fallen by David J. West (Hardcover - 2010) Buy new: $19.95
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David J. West was born in Salt Lake City, Utah but has lived throughout the United States and briefly in Mexico. He has been writing stories since he learned to read and is an avid collector of books and swords. He enjoys traveling, and visiting the many places he writes about. He lives in Utah with his wife and three children, each with more unusual names than his own. Visit him at Nephite Blood, Spartan Heart
Based on a true story, The Frozen Trail details Emma Girdlestone's 1856 trek across the United States with the Willie Handcart Company to Utah. It tells of a remarkable woman who endured a voyage across the ocean, dust storms and blizzards to join her fellow Latter-Day Saints in Zion, the land of milk and honey-- "where it was warm."
Lisa Dayley lives in Burley, Idaho with her husband and three children. An award-winning writer and photographer, she has written for newspapers and magazines throughout the Pacific Northwest. She graduated with a degree in mass communications and a minor in creative writing from Metropolitan State College in Denver, CO. She has been writing since she could pick up a pencil.
Writing Inside Loop 410 is a collection of poetry and memoirs interspersed by original artwork and photography by the middle school students at KIPP: Aspire Academy in San Antonio, TX. The students, with the assistance and encouragement of their language arts teacher Mr. Jay Gowen, have produced a lyrical and moving reading experience showing that with determination and the courage to face the blank page, all our country's children are capable of brilliant artistic achievement, regardless of race or ZIP Code. Proceeds from this book will fund KIPP: Aspire Academy's ongoing effort to send every single one of its students to college.
Jay Gowen, compiler and editor of Writing Inside Loop 410, teaches 8th grade English and Shakespeare at KIPP: Aspire Academy in San Antonio, TX, where he lives with his wife and two children. He is also founding teacher and director of curriculum for Deerfield Academy's KIPP-STEP summer program. He earned his BA in Film Studies at the University of Southern California.
Roxanne in La La Land by L.A. DeVaul (ISBN# 978-0-9796070-6-6) is a love triangle between a girl, a boy and a dream. Roxanne has just fallen down the rabbit hole of the high fashion L.A. modeling world. With her LDS family roots back in Washington, she is looking to fill the gap. Where does she turn? There is the beguiling Paul with a secret past, Alex whose lust for women almost exceeds his good looks, Jacqueline who can't keep a secret and loves a scandal, and the lost young model, Savanah.
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L.A. DeVaul is not a model and no longer lives in Los Angeles. She graduated from Utah State University in 2004 with a BS in Apparel and Textiles. As a design student, during a Manhattan fashion tour, the kernel for this story was planted. She currently lives in Salt Lake City, Utah without a husband and without a cat. Or a dog. This is her first novel. To get a taste of her clever, quirky writing style, go to her blog.
Fires of Jerusalem by Marilyn Brown (ISBN# 978-0-9796070-7-3) is a historical novel following the tale of Jeremiah, the Biblical prophet, from his boyhood until the capture of Jerusalem by Assyria. The power of Jeremiah’s testimony lies in his poetry and the strength of his sacrifice. The story of Jeremiah is one of unsurpassed dedication and commitment.
TO BE RELEASED: 2010
Marilyn Brown has won numerous awards for her poetry, short stories and novels, having published five poetry books, fourteen novels, three nonfiction books, and two musical plays. Marilyn holds a BA and MA from BYU and an MFA from the University of Utah. She and her husband Bill divide their time between St. George and Springville, and operate Springville’s Brown House of Fine Arts Gallery/Studio in the summer. Bill and Marilyn are the parents of six children. They offer the Marilyn Brown Novel Award each year through Utah Valley University for the best literary novel written about the regional culture.
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