A Literary Triumph: Winner of 13 Awards (and Counting)
Deftly blending historical details inside a character-driven thriller
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A quietly fierce secretary, a brash young scientist, a town cloaked in silence, and an entire region under threat...
"Original, exceptional, emotionally engaging, memorable, and raised by its author to an impressive level of literary excellence, TANGLES is especially and unreservedly recommended for community and public library Contemporary Fiction collections." -- The Midwest Book Review
"A beautifully written, important story. Tangles packs a punch and hits close to home."
--Robert Dugoni, New York Times Bestselling author of the Tracy Crosswhite Series
"In her knockout debut, Smith-Blum skillfullyblends historical detail and nail-biting suspense."
-- Kevin O'Brien, New York Times Bestsellingauthor of Everyone a Stranger
"Gorgeously recreated, this story
speaks to us all."
--Steve Olson, Award-winning author of
The Apocalypse Factory
"A brilliant, captivating ride that reveals much
about our radioactive legacy."
--Joshua Frank, Award-winning author
of Atomic Days
"The juxtaposition of two memorable characters
keeps the reader guessing...I could not put it down."
--Michele Gerber, phd, author of On the Homfront: the cold war legacy of the hanford nuclear site
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feisty deeds
Volume II:
historical tales of batches and brews
Mixtures to soothe, heal, and thrall fill these pages, where lovers take revenge, mothers protect their children, and feisty women make choices in a challenging world. Twenty-five tales transport you far afield in time and place: third century Ireland, medieval Europe, twentieth-century Australia. Read your way from a hippie commune to a WW II internment camp in the Philippines; from a Renaissance palace to a Polish village wracked by war, the hills of Appalachia, and a sleepy Ontario town. Available for preorder now.
Feisty Deeds: Historical Fictions of Daring Women
Co-edited by Carolyn Korsmeyer, Christy Matheson, Elaine Aucoin Schroller, Kay Smith-Blum and Kimberly Sullivan
THE STORIES IN THIS COLLECTION depict ordinary women from the 1470s to the 1970s meeting life's challenges with fierce determination.
An unhappy housewife in 1950s California gathers the courage to escape an abusive marriage. As local men are shipped off to WWI, a young Yorkshire woman joins others to keep a munitions factory at peak operation. As her land and way of life are threatened, a 19th-century Chickasaw wife and mother rekindles the strength of her ancestors. A midwife strives to protect mothers from accusations of witchcraft. A Victorian portrait artist possesses a rare sought-after talent that dispatches unwanted relatives.
Foreign invaders, rigid domestic authorities, strictures of society and religion, the supernatural and love and family bonds serve as catalysts for the feisty women in these tales.
