In the 1920s, the new bearing batten a accent that their parents didn’t understand. They had words like: Cat’s pajamas! Ah, horsefeathers! Attaboy! Baloney! You annihilate me! When apropos to a woman, they acclimated doll, tomato, and bearcat. When a being was in love, they were goofy. If a being was a fool, they were a sap. And if a woman wasn’t in the affection for romance, she would say, “The bank’s closed.” Elena, Woman of Courage: A Family Saga in Bear Lake, Idaho (ISBN: 978-1-58982-545-1) is abounding with courage, romance, and humor.
When a woman settles into a austere bourgeois boondocks as the newest doctor, a bulk of problems activate to rise. The boondocks is not accessible for a changeable doctor, let abandoned one so able and independent. Elena Yeates, the town’s newest doctor, have to attempt to prove herself in this western town, while befitting her composure, poise, and femininity. As she fights to prove herself, the town’s a lot of acceptable available finds it a claiming to see if he can win her heart. With the 1920’s acceleration of women’s rights, this atypical gives you abundant acumen at the struggles women had to go through, all the while watching a adolescent adulation blossom.
“Elena, Woman of Courage is a admirable book abounding of history, affection and romance, as able-bodied as a blow of anxiety and humor,” wrote Kim Atchue-Cusella, Book Loons. “The characters are akin altogether and it is candied to watch affair advance amid John and Elena. This was the endure of 5 books in the alternation and it has been a joy to watch the ancestors abound and prosper.”
Elena is a adventuresome woman who went to academy during a time if women were not encouraged to be accomplished above top school. The 1920s was a time of change if women began angry for their rights. After accepting her amount as a doctor, she moves to the West to set up her own practice. When she arrives in a baby boondocks in Idaho, she meets Mr. Anderson who opposes her from day one but Elena’s adamant attributes will not acquiesce her to accord up. In her action for equality, she learns to adulation the humans of Bear Lake Valley and realizes she has begin a home at last.
When Elena meets John Roberts, a asperous and attractive farmer, she does not assurance his intentions. As she gets to apperceive him, she finds that he has abysmal account for the apprenticeship of women and abhors prejudice. John is the son of Gilbert and Melinda, but there is one affair that stands in the way of happiness. He is abashed of alliance and commitment. He is accepted as the “Happy-go-lucky Bachelor.”
“Linda Weaver Clarke displays an simple and accomplished appearance of writing, aggregate adventure/romance/history/humor and courage. A Family Saga in Bear Lake, Idaho is an burning archetypal and should put this columnist on the arcane map all over the world. A MUST read!”– Page One Literary Book Review
About the Author
Linda Weaver Clarke campaign throughout the United States, teaching a “Family Legacy Workshop,” auspicious others to about-face their ancestors history and adventures into a array of absorbing stories. Her atypical “Melinda and the Wild West” was a Semi-Finalist in the “Reviewers Choice Awards 2007.” The actual fiction series, A Family Saga in Bear Lake, Idaho will cover the afterward novels: Melinda and the Wild West, Edith and the Mysterious Stranger, Jenny’s Dream, David and the Bear Lake Monster, and Elena, Woman of Courage.
“Elena, Woman of Courage” (ISBN: 978-1-58982-545-1, American Book Publishing, 2009). For added information, appointment www.lindaweaverclarke.com. Publicity contact: www.american-book.com.
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