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Historical Fiction, History, Nonfiction

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Alethea Williams grew up in southwest Wyoming. Willow Vale is her first novel of the immigrant experience, dealing with the Tyroleans after WWI. Willow Vale won a 2012 Wyoming State Historical Society Publications Award. Her second novel details the Irish immigrant experience and the Orphan Train movement in Walls for the Wind. Walls for the Wind is a WILLA Literary Award finalist, a gold Will Rogers Medallion winner, and placed first at the Laramie Awards in the Prairie Fiction category. Her third book is a Western American pre-history spanning the North American continent, entitled Náápiikoan Winter, an Inspirational Western Fiction Will Rogers Medallion third place winner, Best Regional E-Book- Fiction Independent Publisher Book Awards B ...more

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	Willow Vale 4.02 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Naapiikoan Winter 4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Boomer Blues Book: Staying Alive and Sane in the Modern American West it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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message 3: by Michael

Aug 25, 2014 10:44AM

Thanks for connecting on Goodreads, Althea. Wishing you continued success with your writing. Hope you'll add my new Prohibition-era mystery, The Yankee Club, to your to read list. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

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message 2: by Peter

Dec 29, 2012 03:29AM

Good to meet you Alethea I hope to see my name cropping up on your favourites lists. Although Mr Charalambus and the One Soul is not regency fiction it has elements of an other worldly victoriana about it and was said to be an intelligent version of scrooge in one review. Hope to keep bumping in to you.

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message 1: by Zoë

Aug 04, 2012 03:08AM

Hi Alethea. Thank you for Friending me. How's the writing going?

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