My Published Books
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After his wife loses three pregnancies, Dr. Marc St. Clair turns the haunted storage room at Calico Acres into a private lab to investigate why the embryos failed to survive, and in the process he meets the ghost of a distant cousin who had Down Syndrome. Meredith St. Clair died at 8 years, but she's well acquainted with magic tricks in the astral realm and has her sights set on her handsome cousin Marc. Merry's games are fun at first, but she becomes a big problem for Marc, who has more than he can handle with a living family who needs his undivided love and attention. (Sequel to "The Ghost of Calico Acres.")
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SHORT CIRCUITS & BRAIN FARTS is a memoir containing bits and pieces of my writing activities over the years: slapstick, one-liners, and art work. I leave this to my family and friends to remind them how totally goofy I am.
This book was written between the writing and publishing of my novels. It served as a great writer's block breaker. I hope you have as much fun reading Short Circuit as I had writing it.
Cheers!
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A tender but fierce love story about a young Afro-Asian paramedic coming to terms
with his identity and a feisty Caucasian girl fed up with her strict American
upbringing. Paul Angers (Kimchi) and a young woman with a rickshaw meet at a
zoo and end up in each other’s arms.
It's
Kansas City, Missouri,
1977, and Paul Angers has flashbacks of his Korean mother and sister as their
small group of refugees traveled through the mountains to find safety in
war-torn Korea.
This mixed-race young man's whole life changed after his adoption by an
American couple.
Kimchi
will entertain you with his knowledge of martial arts and fire rescues, and
will soothe the racist beast that may lurk unbidden inside of you. A gritty
story of compassion and memories of his Korean mother, Cam—who abandoned him at an orphanage when he was four
years old.
This
courageous young man deals with a racist fire chief, and the girl he wants
rejects him repeatedly. He expects the racism—he's dealt with it all his
life—but he does not expect to fall in love. Available as e-book and print at Amazon.com.
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FOOTPRINTS
IN TIME
A
Walk in Sacajawea’s Moccasins
On the Lewis & Clark Trail
This book is dedicated to the brave men and women
who faced the unknown to forge trails across this wide and wild continent.
When America
was young, many pioneers left their footprints in the sands of time as they
explored the land from east to west. In 1805, a young native woman joined the
Lewis and Clark expedition, and with a papoose on her back, helped explore America’s
northwest.
This book is for readers ages 8-12 years who want to learn more about Sacajawea, her papoose Pomp, and the explorers Lewis and Clark.
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Face the Winter Naked is Historical Fiction set in the Great Depression of 1932, in my birth state, Missouri. You will definitely enjoy this novel, which some have compared favorably to The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck. I am so honored!
For fans of
Steinbeck’s timeless classic, The Grapes
of Wrath
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Daniel Tomelin, a
battle-worn veteran with PTSD—haunted by the carnage of World War 1—deserts his wife and children in the
Great Depression and becomes a hobo seeking work and relief from his nightmares.
This page-turning tale of courage
is set in a tragic era in which hope was sometimes all they had and
parallels today's economic turmoil and unemployment.
… "We in America today
are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of
any land. The poorhouse is vanishing from among us." (Herbert Hoover,
accepting the Republican presidential nomination. Palo Alto, California,
August 1928) …
It's a wife and mother providing for her children under miserable,
heartbreaking circumstances, while her husband tramps around the country
playing a banjo, searching for answers to the puzzle of Daniel Tomelin, keeping
his hillbilly sense of humor, his humanity, his love of God and nature intact,
while deep inside feeling ashamed and unworthy of the family he loves with all
his heart.
Like scores of other men who abandoned their families during the
Depression, Daniel's wounded pride for being unable to care for his wife and
children prevents him from going home.
And if her deserting husband has the guts to show his face again, his
wife, LaDaisy—who finds the strength to provide for her fatherless children
while fending off the advances of a man with the power to leave them homeless—may
feel like killing him.
Face the Winter
Naked provides an
engrossing read in which Turner interweaves history, geography, and a compelling love story.
More than that, it is a story that looks beyond the surface, delving
into the inner workings of the human mind, a powerful narrative that
illuminates larger issues of humanity that are timeless and volatile and just
as apropos today as decades ago:
War
Political strife
Economic collapse
Environmental
catastrophe
Division of families
Cruelty and oppression
Poverty, inequity, and
all the faces of prejudice.
But it is also about love
And faith
And strength
And hope, forgiveness, and perseverance.
Readers may feel they are traveling with this
simple carpenter through the Ozark hills of Missouri
as he wears out his cardboard "Hoover"
insoles searching for his next meal, an odd job that pays only pennies, or
shelter from the dust and sweltering heat that summer of 1932.
But they'll be glad they're not.
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The Ghost of Calico Acres is what I call a modern Gothic-Romance-Suspense-Mystery, and it's up to you to figure out who or what is haunting Calico Acres. I had such fun writing this one!
Down the Memory Hole is for middle-grades through senior citizens. All ages love it. I once worked as a caregiver for an elderly Alzheimer's patient, so I am quite familiar with that condition. This story is a laugh-out-loud story as seen through the eyes and heart of a 12-year-old boy who dearly loves his grandfather but wishes they weren't roommates.
As you see, I love writing about the Arctic and have a 3-book series: The Haunted Igloo, Book 1, Spirit Lights, Book 2, and Drum Dance, Book 3. Not only are these books sequels, but each stands alone and the characters age. (Books 1 & 2 are for middle-grade readers, but Drum Dance is young adult through adult. It is not for young kids, but still carries my Arctic theme. And there's a surprise in it for those who read Spirit Lights!)
My books are available from Amazon.com
. They are available in both e-books and print, which are nice for gift-giving. I would appreciate your checking them out, and, if you enjoyed reading them, please tell your friends, and also leave a brief review on the books' content pages.
I thank you . . . and my characters love you!
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NOTE: These books are temporarily unavailable from Amazon. If anyone is interested in purchasing an ebook only, please contact me via private message.
If you have MS Word, a Kindle or another ebook reader, I can send you a link to the file. (All books are priced at $2 and cash only through PayPal.) If you have a Kindle reader, you can download this app and easily transfer a link to your Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/sendtokindle/pc
Thank you!
Bonnie
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