Books

It was 1952, when Gert learns she needs a male-overseer in order to access monies due to her from an insurance policy. As a means of collecting the money she asks George, a college classmate, to marry her. Immediately upon becoming George’s wife, he purchases a pig farm in southern Minnesota against her wishes. As a “Pig Farmer’s Wife,” Gert faces many challenges, eventually finding herself abandoned at a gas station far from home. With resilience, and by utilizing skills she hadn’t previously recognized as valuable; Gert establishes a new life for herself as Miss Birdie. As such, she and five other women, unbeknownst to them at the time, become contributors to a movement referred to today as The Second Wave of Feminism.

No More Mondays—A Nautical Odyssey is a memoir of the six years LaVonne, and her husband sailed the world. They did what most people only talked about doing. As this thrilling journey unfolds, you will learn what life was like for two people who dared to forego the many amenities they once enjoyed on land for the thrill of exploring the world by water. Along the way you will encounter an intriguing string of foreign cultures and eccentric cruisers. And you will learn how they survived storms, illness, injury, broken equipment, seasickness, and cramped living space on board their 50-foot sailboat.

"Seasick Ants" is a picture book designed to excite children about the importance of participating and observing nature and marine life while understanding the importance of not disturbing the environments natural balance.

Andrea is the first book in The Canal Zone Adventure Sone series written for young adults. The main character is an American teen who struggles to find her identity after moving to Panama when her father is promoted to become a canal pilot on The Panama Canal. All attempts to fit into the new social set at the International School, and hope of finding a new best friend are thwarted until she meets Zeke, a bad boy Panamanian, who puts her life into a spin. While meeting secretly in a cave and climbing a Jacob’s ladder on the outside of a Greek freighter, she learns many things about life and who she is.

Zeke is the second book in the Canal Zone Adventure Series for young adults. Zeke’s life is transformed from poverty to one of opportunity after meeting Andrea. In the process, it is his checkered past that holds the knowledge to help the police locate Andrea’s father when he is kidnapped and held for ransom, but it is Andrea’s younger brother Jimmy who cracks the clues written in mirror image, similar to how Leonardo da Vindi wrote his diary.