Month: August 2012

Hear Ye, Hear Ye

Brown Bear by K. S. Brooks
I’m listening!

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Ken La Salle Announces New Release

Daughter of a One-Armed ManAuthor Ken La Salle is pleased to announce the release of his new environmentalist romantic fable, Daughter of a One-Armed Man.

After Jackson spends one night with Mari, he’ll do anything to find her again. He follows her up the coast of California and a polar bear drives the taxi. Into the forest and through frozen mountains, he talks to God and creatures of faerie alike but the final confrontation is with the wood nymph who is Mari’s mother and the father who gave up his arm for the love of his life.

Daughter of a One-Armed Man was released on July 22, 2012. It is available on Amazon.com and Smashwords as an e-book.

Spotlight on…The Home Team Part 3

Reviewer Cathy Speight

I’ve decided to give my unruly pupils a little rest from lessons. Well, their attention spans aren’t great, and since another British-hosted Olympics probably won’t happen again in my lifetime and I’m somewhat obsessed, I’m going to do another round-up of books by members of the illustrious IU team.

This time, I’m featuring books by Yvonne Hertzberger, Chris James, and Carol Wyer, each uniquely different from the other and great reads.  Continue reading “Spotlight on…The Home Team Part 3”

Video Trailer: Joan of Arc: The Mystic Legacy

Joan of ArcIn 2012, six hundred years after her birth, few people know what Joan of Arc accomplished. At age seventeen, how did she capture the attention of men in power, let alone influence their decisions? What was the source of her confidence, as she stepped onto the most unlikely of public stages during the Late Middle Ages, when the voices of women were silenced? Why was she abandoned by the French monarch who owed his crown to her? Joan of Arc: The Mystic Legacy provides the records from two fifteenth century trials that document her life as trustworthy evidence, and encourages readers to draw their own conclusions in answering questions like these.


Joan of Arc: The Mystic Legacy by Marcia Quinn Noren is available from Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, and most online retailers.