July 2014: Elisa R. Balli, author of Thorns for a Grateful Lady, and Linda Rodriguez, author of Every Hidden Fear
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About the Book:
Thorns for a Grateful Lady
By Elisa R. Balli
Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-1490955254
For Elisa it was always a life of survival and endurance. Amazingly, she made the best of every challenge. She traveled in the back of a truck from Texas to Michigan with her family to work as a migrant worker from the age of nine to twenty. Elisa responded to little more than primitive instincts for survival when her own mother could not love her.
A life of abuse, challenges, battles, betrayal, and lots of hard work led her to her hunger for continual success. Her misfortune became her motivator, and not her excuse. She never forgot the many
days of hunger or the day her one meal was a cold corn tortilla spread with a little tomato sauce. Her many successes are attributed to her confidence; persistence, work ethics, and her beliefs. She was greatly encouraged by her overflowing hope and dreams.
Nothing in Life came easy for her. Life was tough, but she was tougher. Her difficulties, pain, and struggles were not accidental mistakes, instead she believes, they were hand-tailored blessings designed for her benefit and were never meant to be her curse. Elisa lives her unique and amazing story through faith and being herself, a magnificent life indeed!
About the Author:
Elisa R. Balli
Being an author adds to the many talents and achievements for Elisa Balli. She was born in Elsa, Texas, to Hispanic parents, and she was the third oldest of 13 siblings. Elisa was a migrant field worker from the age of 9 years old to 20, traveling in the back of a truck from Texas to Michigan.
She became an engineer for a large corporation, and was a general contractor for her own home building. She experienced a number of successes because her hunger for a better life was always greater than any fear. Her struggles and difficulties were many, but all of her misfortune became her motivator and not her excuse. Nothing in life came easy for her, but good things happened abundantly. She is a firm believer that if you do not work then nothing in life will work for you.
About the Book:
Every Hidden Fear
By Linda Rodriguez
Published by Minotaur Books
ISBN-13: 978-1250049155
A Skeet Bannion Mystery.
Skeet Bannion’s Cherokee grandmother has come to live with her and her teenage ward Brian, and Skeet is still trying to adjust to the change while also keeping the peace on the local college campus. Then Ash Mowbray, a bad boy from the wrong side of the tracks, comes back to Brewster as a wealthy developer, pushing plans to build a shopping mall on the outskirts of town that will destroy the town square businesses. The town council is split on his proposal, and emotions are running high.
Mowbray makes things worse by announcing that he is the real father of the high school athlete Noah Steen, having left Noah’s mother, Chelsea, pregnant as a teenager when he fled town after high school. Chelsea and her husband Elliott are horrified that Mowbray has publicized that Elliott is not Noah’s father and afraid that he will steal their beloved son from them. Noah is shocked to learn the truth of his parentage and furious with Mowbray. It’s not long before Mowbray turns up murdered with Noah as the prime suspect. Brian and Noah’s girlfriend Angie turn to Skeet to find the murderer and save their friend.
Every Hidden Fear is a thrilling and emotionally-resonant mystery, told by a masterful writer in full command of her craft.
About the Author:
Linda Rodriguez
Linda Rodriguez is a winner of the Malice Domestic Best First Traditional Mystery Novel Competition. As a poet, she has won the Thorpe Menn Award and the Midwest Voices and Visions Award. Her first mystery novel, Every Last Secret, was selected by Las Comadres National Book Club, was a Barnes & Noble mystery pick, and is a finalist for the International Latino Book Award.
Rodriguez is president of the Borders Crimes chapter of Sisters in Crime, a founding board member of Latino Writers Collective and The Writers Place, and a member of Wordcraft Circle of Native American Writers and Storytellers, Kansas City Cherokee Community, and International Thriller Writers. Linda lives in Kansas City, Missouri.