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The Rebel Nun
Marj Charlier’s The Rebel Nun is based on the true story of Clotild, the daughter of a sixth-century king and his concubine, who leads a rebellion of nuns against the rising misogyny and patriarchy of the medieval church. At that time, women are afforded few choices in life: prostitution, motherhood, or the cloister. Only the latter offers them any kind of independence. By the end of the sixth century, even this is eroding as the church begins to eject women from the clergy and declares them too unclean to touch sacramental objects or even their priest-husbands. Craving the legitimacy thwarted by her bastard status, Clotild seeks to become the next abbess of the female Monastery of the Hol...
The Candlemaker's Woman
Based on true events, a traumatic story of mass migration as relevant today as it has been since humans walked out of Africa. Desperately fleeing murderous Huns in old Germania, the Suevi sell Melia, a girl on the cusp of womanhood, into slavery, hoping to bribe their way into Gaul. Caught in the middle of the chaotic diaspora, Melia survives the cruelty of her owner, a candlemaker, and excels at making beautiful tapers and votives. She falls in love and plans an escape. But when the Suevi storm across the frozen Rhine at midnight, New Years Eve, AD406, with thousands of other barbarians, Melia's life is ripped apart again. Reunited with her family in the calamitous invasion, she is called upon to use her skills and cunning to save them from warring Franks. But will she ever recover the love of her life, the father of her son? Her story imagines how one family, forced from their home by violence and hunger, endures one of the most disruptive and transformative events in history.
Gracie's Revolution
An uplifting story of passion versus power: Johnson Station, Iowa, has seen better days. Downtown businesses are closing. Once stately Victorian homes and tidy ramblers sit vacant and crumbling as the population ages and dwindles. And no one is doing anything about it. Strong-willed, middle-aged Gracie, the local librarian sees the town's potential for revitalization, if it would welcome all comers, regardless of religiton, politics, or ethnicity. But the ambitious politician Gregory has a different vision for the town. The wealthy ex-farmer is determined to drive out immigrants and turn back the clock. His first campaign in a push toward a statewide office is to strip the library of books he doesn't like: those that mention sex, atheism, Island, socialism. He rallies the town's conservative businessmen around him. As Gracie is about to lose hope for freedom of speech in Johnson Station, she learns a secret about Gregory that could destroy him, but revelaing it could hurt the teenaged girl she's taken under her wing. Setting a heartening example of female resilience and grace, Gracie starts a revolution that will change the town and many of the people in it.
Marcia's Revenge
All along, Marcia knew she couldn't stay in Johnson Station. Her father said so. Unjustly fired from the town bank, she yearns for a city job to cap off her career with the patina of success. Waylaid by friends' need for help in reversing the town's stagnation, she's torn between an offer in Seattle and contributing to the town revitalization.
Jackie's Campaign
This sequel to Gracie's Revolution proves the battle for the soul of Johnson Station, Iowa, is far from over. The old guard who watched over town thought Gracie's departure from the library meant their control over the town was once again secure. But once Jackie signs on as campaign manager for Armand, a historian and an old flame, in his race for mayor, it will take more than magical thinking for them to turn back the hands of time and stop the revolution the old librarian started. Talented, but at a loss for meaningful work after retiring as an English teacher, Jackie joins the battle to forge a future for the town. Her ability to make a difference necessitates postponing the inevitable en...
Putt for Show
Putt for Show is a mid-life coming-of-age novel set in the beauty of the Cascades. Lena Bettencourt, stuck in mid-management at one of America's most mediocre companies, jettisons her job and devotes more than a year of her life to competitive golf. Along the way to the top, she re-encounters a violent ex-husband she thought she had left behind. Disillusioned by love and career, Lean perseveres by trading solitude for a community of friends. Lena's story is about unraveling a riddle of the past to help chart a fulfilling future.
Drive for Dough
Just when she is finally establishing her credibility as a CEO in the Internet world, Lena Bettencourt faces the worst kind of crisis for an online-company executive: a hacker who threatens to expose her customers' credit card information. And, to make matters worse, the blackmailing Internet scofflaw chooses to exploit the problem with her website's security right before she's about to get on a plane for her first vacation in three years. In this sequel to Putt for Show, Lena, a winner of the USGA Women's Senior Amateur Tournament, takes on many challenges: running a company, sexism in the tech world, Internet security, and the plague of $5 golf balls lost in the woods. Her detractors try to undermine her success by chipping away at her confidence and destroying her credibility with the venture capitalists funding her business. When she discovers a scheme to discredit her leadership, she must figure out who is behind it to save her job and her reputation.
Professional Lies
Sidney Stapleton had won five LPGA tournaments, and as a tall, graceful beauty, she was the Tour cameramen's favorite, even when she wasn't winning. A car accident ended her professional golf career, she married a Seattle millionaire and started a charity for young women. But Sidney craves her lost celebrity, and as her marriage falters and her charity doesn't attract donations, sports agent Peter hires her as a high-end escort, bringing in thousands of dollars for her cause. Now the risks and costs of her illicit activities are piling up, and Sidney stands to lose both her credibility as a philanthropist and the first true love of her life.
The Working Press of the Nation
V.1 Newspaper directory.--v.2 Magazine directory.--v.3 TV and radio directory.--v.4 Feature writer and photographer directory.--v.5 Internal publications directory.
Making It Up
A workbook to accompany workshops on planning and drafting a debut novel.
