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Unexpected Gifts

Mallery, S.R.

Mockingbird Lane Press

Ellie & The War On Powder Creek (The Dolan Girls)

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Independently published

History, Mystery, Action, and Romance All Rolled Into One CollectionWinner of READERS’ FAVORITE Gold Medal, these eleven short stories range from drug traffickers using hand-woven wallets, to a U.S. slave sewing freedom codes into her quilts. From a cruise ship murder mystery with a quilt instructor and a NYPD police detective, to a couple hiding Christian passports into a comforter in Nazi Germany. From an old Salem Witchcraft wedding quilt curse to a young seamstress in the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. From a 1980's Romeo and Juliet romance between a Wall Street financial 'star' and an eclectic fiber artist, to a Haight-Ashbury love affair between a professor and a macramé artist gone horribly wrong…just to name a few.

Sewing Can Be Dangerous and Other Small Threads

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

A TRUE AMERICAN FAMILY SAGA: Can we learn from our ancestors? Do our relatives’ behaviors help shape our own? In "Unexpected Gifts" that is precisely what happens to Sonia, a confused college student, heading for addictions and forever choosing the wrong man. Searching for answers, she begins to read her family’s diaries and journals from America’s past: the Vietnam War, Woodstock, and Timothy Leary era; Tupperware parties, McCarthyism, and Black Power; the Great Depression, dance marathons, and Eleanor Roosevelt; the immigrant experience and the Suffragists. Back and forth the book journeys, linking yesteryear with modern life until finally, by understanding her ancestors' hardships and faults, she gains enough clarity to make some right choices.

Set in Nebraska during the 1800s, whorehouse madams, ladies of the night, a schoolmarm, a Pinkerton detective, a Shakespeare-quoting old coot, brutal outlaws, and a horse-wrangler fill out the cast of characters. Adult themes are added to the mix, along with colorful descriptions of an 1856 land rush, Buffalo Bill and his Wild West Show, Annie Oakley, bank/train robberies, small town local politics, and of course, romance. Two, in fact!

The Dolan Girls

Tea, Anyone?: A Brooke & Abby Cozy Mystery Book 1

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Murder. Corruption. Romance. Movie stars. A modern day TV shoot 'em up? No. It's 1926 Old Hollywood, and a film producer is gunned down in cold blood. In comes Rosie, a pretty bit-player, who, in spite of her stage-mother's expectations, just longs to be happy. Silent screen idols Clara Bow, Gloria Swanson, Lon Chaney, and Rudolph Valentino float in and out, as Los Angeles' corruption is exposed, the era described, and a chase to find the killer revs up before there's another hit.

Trouble In Glamour Town

History

Americas

When In Rome (A Brooke & Abby Cozy Mystery)

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Unexpected Gifts

Ellie & The War On Powder Creek (The Dolan Girls)

Sewing Can Be Dangerous and Other Small Threads

Unexpected Gifts

The Dolan Girls

Tea, Anyone?: A Brooke & Abby Cozy Mystery Book 1

Trouble In Glamour Town

When In Rome (A Brooke & Abby Cozy Mystery)