Lilacs In The Dust Bowl

Author Diana Stevan's sequel to the award-winning Sunflowers Under Fire. Lukia's story continues in Lilacs in the Dust Bowl, an inspirational family saga about love and heartache during the Great Depression. In 1929, when Lukia Mazurets, a widow and a Ukrainian peasant farmer, immigrates to Canada with her four children, she has no idea the stock market is about to crash and throw the world into a deep depression. Falling grain prices, the ravages of nature, and unexpected family conflicts threaten to smash her dreams of family unity in a strange land. And when love knocks on her door again, awakening desire she thought was long gone, Lukia has to choose between having a man in her life or the children she's sacrificed everything for.

Author Diana Stevan's sequel to the award-winning Sunflowers Under Fire. Lukia's story continues in Lilacs in the Dust Bowl, an inspirational family saga about love and heartache during the Great Depression.

In 1929, when Lukia Mazurets, a widow and a Ukrainian peasant farmer, immigrates to Canada with her four children, she has no idea the stock market is about to crash and throw the world into a deep depression. Falling grain prices, the ravages of nature, and unexpected family conflicts threaten to smash her dreams of family unity in a strange land. And when love knocks on her door again, awakening desire she thought was long gone, Lukia has to choose between having a man in her life or the children she’s sacrificed everything for.

Diana Stevan is also the author of the novels, A Cry from The Deep and The Rubber Fence and the novelette The Blue Nightgown. A former family therapist, she is the mother of two daughters and lives with her husband Robert in West Vancouver and on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

It is the summer of 1958, and life in the small Texas community of Graham Camp should be simple and carefree. But not for twelve-year-old Sammie Tucker. Sammie has plenty of questions about her mother's "nerve" problems. About shock treatments. About whether her mother loves her. When her mother commits suicide and a not-so-favorite aunt arrives, Sammie has to choose who to trust with her deepest fears: Her best friend who has an opinion about everything, the mysterious kid from California whose own troubles plague him, or her round-faced neighbor with gentle advice and strong shoulders to cry on. Then there's the elderly widower who seems nice but has his own dark past. Trusting is one thing, but accepting the truth may be the hardest thing Sammie has ever done.

A Romantic Mystery and Adventure of a Love So Powerful It Spans Several Lifetimes. “Catherine is all the things I look for in a heroine.”—Author, Margaret Conway “Has all the elements of a great escape novel.”—Author Peggy Morehouse Strack Catherine Fitzgerald, an underwater photographer, is about to go on a hunt for an old Spanish ship. Heading the dive team is a notorious salvager who’ll stop at nothing to get what he wants. As if that isn’t trouble enough, Catherine buys an old Claddagh ring and begins to have nightmares of a woman from another time. Who she is and why she’s haunting Catherine becomes as compelling as the hunt itself. While unraveling the mystery, Catherine questions her own struggle to find true love. Will it be her ex, a psychiatrist, who still loves her, or the handsome but unavailable marine archaeologist on the dive team? Or is she destined to be alone? Set in Provence, Manhattan, and Ireland, this time-slip novel exposes not only two women’s longings, but also the beauty of the deep, where buried treasures tempt salvagers to break the law.

Personal recollections recreate experiences of two Dust Bowl communities

During one of the most trying periods in American history, the Dust Bowl Era, a little girl nurtures a courageous seedling she found. She knows the blooms would bring a smile to her Mama's tired face, as she has heard stories of her former gardens. What she doesn't know is that the little flower promises something even more precious: Hope.

When Dr. Joanna Bereza, a passionate intern, challenges Dr. Myron Eisenstadt, her supervising psychiatrist, on his aggressive use of shock treatment, she risks not only her career but also her marriage. It doesn't help that she's working alongside a seductive intern, who looks more like a rock musician than an aspiring shrink.

" West Virginia boasts an unusually rich heritage of ghost tales. Originally West Virginians told these hundred stories not for idle amusement but to report supernatural experiences that defied ordinary human explanation. From jealous rivals and ghostly children to murdered kinsmen and omens of death, these tales reflect the inner lives—the hopes, beliefs, and fears—of a people. Like all folklore, these tales reveal much of the history of the region: its isolation and violence, the passions and bloodshed of the Civil War era, the hardships of miners and railroad laborers, and the lingering vitality of Old World traditions.