The poems in Grandma's "Good War": A Retrospective in Verse about the Forties, reminisce in rhyme about a time when the author was a young girl and when people felt that WWII was a "good war" because it would end all wars.

Grandma's "Good War": A Verse Retrospective Of The Forties

Moore, Diane Marquart

Parenting & Relationships

Border Press

Flood on the Rio Teche is a fictional account of the founding  of New Iberia, Louisiana by the Malaguenos in 1779 during the time of a devastating flood.  Seventeen-year old Antonio Romero migrates with his family and other settlers from Malaga, Spain.  The family is assailed by hardships:  flooding of their home site, disease, poisonous snake bites, crop failure, kidnapping, and family breakup.  They befriend nearby Chitimacha tribesmen who save them many times.   Antonio and his mother travel by keelboat to New Orleans where they develop smallpox.

Flood On The Rio Teche

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

The Beast Beelzebufo

Children's Books

Animals

Monks become rock stars! Chant of Death is set in a fictional Benedictine Abbey in southern Louisiana, where Spanish moss veils the landscape, and a murderous soul has found a cloistered refuge. When murder breaks out, Father Malachi finds his powers stretched to the limit in an effort to protect the innocent and identify the killer.

Chant of Death

Anders, Isabel

Pinyon Publishing

Poetry and short stories: Further back, I could see ancient ridges, oak groves, wild grapevines overarching marshmallow, yucca, and oleander, some distance from the Intracoastal Canal where I once rode in a boat bound for Cheniere au Tigre,

Old Ridges

Literary

Loring Air Force Base is in the remote, sparsely populated north woods of Aroostook County, Maine. During the 1950's, Jeanne Durand, a young Army wife living in a close-knit armed services neighborhood, turns amateur sleuth when her downstairs Canasta partner, Birdie Brun, is murdered. Jeanne suspects Birdie's abusive husband, Bill, who shot a hole through the floor of the Durand's living room upstairs. Jeanne finds no dearth of suspects. She sees Army MP Trey Fontenot lurking around her apartment. She discovers that Trey left voodoo conjuring agents in Birdie's apartment. Alan Greenbeck, a Mormon who lives with his family across the street, tries to convince Jeanne, a little too forcefully, that polygamy is a good thing. Perhaps he wants the beautiful Birdie for a wife. Jeanne identifies the murderer, but not before her life is endangered.

The Maine Event

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Goat Man Murder is based on the unsolved murder of Miss Josephine Meredith committed in the 1930's in Natchez, Mississippi. Prior to being murdered she shoots a goats whose owners live in a decaying antebellum mansion, Glendarrow, next to her perfectly groomed Meredith Manor. The eccentric "goat couple," Jonathan Darrow and Miss Livy, love their goats and become prime suspects in her murder. But so is another eccentric, Penelope, whose jealousy over her brother Donald Major's twenty-year affair with Miss Meredith leads her to contemplate suicide. Slowly going mad, she spends her days dressed in a white peignoir in the cupola of their home. However, the physical evidence for the murder points to an employee of Miss Meredith, "Old Tin," a black man.

Goat Man Murder

Alchemy is a book of poetry on various subjects including the BP oil spill in Louisiana, the world of the Anglican Sisters of St. Mary, Sewanee, Tennessee, desert fires, Poet Laureate of Louisiana, a Haitian orphan, family, and rumination about animals, nature, and philosophical questions.

Alchemy

Poetry

Hadrian Boswell, eccentric owner of The Oaks, an antebellum mansion in a small town in southwestern Louisiana, has a terrible fear of the ghosts that haunt the mansion. To assuage his fears, he instigates nighttime pranks. His black servant and companion, King, alternately despises and respects him. Because of Hadrian's shenanigans, most townspeople shun him--as do famous artists and writers after they visit The Oaks. Waverly Bradford has been in love with Hadrian despite their aborted marriage, thirty years earlier, when they were art students in New Orleans. They had married secretly, and because Hadrian could not consummate the marriage, it was annulled. Waverly, living on nearby Deer Island, plans to visit Hadrian now that he has returned to Comeaux to renovate his antebellum mansion. However the visit is short-lived. Hadrian stages a prank that causes her to flee and vow to get revenge. Meanwhile, Joseph Hollier seeks out Hadrian for art instruction, and Hadrian takes him on. On a wild boat excursion to Lost Island in the Gulf of Mexico, Hadrian permanently damages his right hand trying to escape "cachemars." Joseph moves in with Hadrian. King plots to get rid of Joseph Hollier; Joseph plots to get rid of Hadrian. Voodoo houngans enter the scene, and Hadrian is pushed or falls from a second-story gallery of The Oaks mansion. He dies in the hospital. Was he pushed? If so, by whom? Is he really dead?

Silence Never Betrays

A collection of poetry including nostalgic poems about a family odyssey to California during the 1940s, nature, birds, and other wildlife; cameos of children, friends and ancestors, and thoughts about confronting old age. Three short stories: one about a family trip to "Diddy Wah Diddy," another about a childs confrontation with loss of a parent; and last, a story about the "death of a patriarch."

Post Cards from Diddy Wah Diddy

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