Join the fun You are invited to the wedding of John Lapp and Nurse Hal. Family and friends have gathered to cook, clean and plan. Men put up a tent for the guests. So put on your bonnet or felt hat, hitch up the buggy and take a ride by scenic pastures and rolling cornfields to Wickenburg, Iowa. Take a seat in the tent on a bench next to Hal's parents. They will be glad to explain the ceremony because they came armed with Aunt Tootie's book on Amish customs. You will find a few surprises at the wedding. Little Daniel Lapp interrupts the bishop when he asks if any object. Oh and Stella Strutt...

Try this first in the Stringbean Hooper Series. Sheriff Stringbean Hooper's description for the sheriff's job of Sully Town, Montana is relaxing with is feet on the his desk while he watches the town's citizens ride by. All that changes when the town's doctor's wife disappears. Hooper finds himself in a murder investigation, bushwhacked, threatened and in the middle of a family feud between cattle baron Mac Sullivan, the missing woman's father and his son-in-law, Doctor Strummer, the missing woman's husband. Hooper's only help is a nervous deputy/pig farmer, Whiskers Parker, and the gun...

Short stories on a variety of subjects. Many of them suitable for Halloween. Such as a ghost in an Iowa barn, a mysterious teapot on a fireplace mantle, or a robot houseman that's hard to get rid of.

A strong willed, independent woman, all Ella Mayfield wanted was to help her widowed mother and siblings survive during the Civil War. Invasions by Union soldiers and Kansas Jawhawkers into Vernon Co. Missouri forced Ella to join a Bushwhacker band. Brave and daring, Ella dressed like a man, was a crack shot and superb horseman. Her dangerous exploits are legendary while she served as a spy and faught to protect her home near Montevallo, Mo.

This late 1800's story was inspired by stories told me by Veder Bishop Bright, my grandmother, who lived a tale very much like this one in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Riner, Virginia. In her words, the family was as poor as church mice, but so was everyone else on the ridges. This historical book looks at the Bishop family's way of life.

Taking care of my father for ten long years while he battled Alzheimer's disease gave me experience and a insight that has taught me how to take care of others suffering from the disease. They each have a window that needs to be opened. In this book, I'll show you how I did it.

An American version of Miss Marple in 1903, Gracie Evans, a retired spinster farmer, tries to resign herself to the fact she now lives in Moser Mansion, a rest home for women, in Locked Rock, Iowa. That small town is never the same again as long as Miss Gracie Evans is watching all that goes on at the neighbors. She wrestles with boredom as she remembers how active she was on the farm. Her only diversion is rocking on the front porch while she watches the neighbors. Melinda Applegate, another resident, joins Gracie in spying on the neighborhood through peek holes Gracie tore in the vines...

A stranger shows up for Molly Moser's wedding. He claimes to be Melinda Applegate's nephew. An American version of Miss Marple, Gracie doesn't believe him. She's determined to prove he's up to no good. Gracie tries to warn the others, but they think she's jealous because Melinda's not having anything to do with her now. At the same time, all sorts of upheaval takes place at the mansion while Molly's gone on her month long honeymoon.

The Moser Mansion residents are summoned to the county seat to testify against Mavis Jordan at her murder trial. The county seat turns out to be a dangerous place for Gracie Evans. A man stalks her with the intention of killing her, but that's not all. She starts to wish she'd never visited the big city and actually misses Locked Rock, Iowa. She fears she will be the next victim of The County Seat Killer.

An American version of Miss Marple, Gracie Evans is homesick and tired of retirement. She's bored with living in the Moser Mansion Rest Home For Women in Locked Rock, Iowa. Spring brings back pleasant memories so she prays to God to give her a chance to go back to her farm for a little while. No one is more surprised than Gracie when her prayer comes true. The renter asks her to stay at her farm for a month while he goes on vacation. Soon she decides she should be more careful what she prays for. Her thrill at finding wild strawberries to pick dulls when she sees an Indian swimming naked in...