How is this going to end?
People often ask me where I get the ideas for my books. For me, it’s usually sparked by something in my life or the life of a friend or maybe
In “Maude”, Donna writes the story of her paternal grandmother’s life, beginning on the day of her birth in 1892. A story filled with highs and lows, she reveals a woman who experienced the best life had to offer and the worst events imaginable. Through it all, Maude clung to her faith and kept on going.
In 1906, I was barely over fourteen years old, and it was my wedding day.
My older sister, Helen, came to my room, took me by the hand, and sat me down on the bed. She opened her mouth to say something, but then her face flushed, and she turned her head to look out the window. After a second, she squeezed my hand and looked back in my eyes.
People often ask me where I get the ideas for my books. For me, it’s usually sparked by something in my life or the life of a friend or maybe
Most moms remember well when they were trying to toilet train their toddlers. The child in question discovered early on that the best way to gain their parent’s complete attention
I have a half-dozen moments in my memory that are enormous– unforgettable. They’re the kind that come as a surprise and make you remember exactly where you were and what
I only met my mother-in-law one time. From family descriptions, I knew she was once beautiful but in her sixties, she looked pretty much like most grandmothers. I was aware
I’m into it. When the kids were little, I dressed them up in home-made costumes. One year, Melanie was a Geisha, several years, a princess of some sort, a pilgrim.
For the first two weeks of September, I was fighting a head cold. You know the kind–starts with a sore throat, progresses to a stuffy head, a runny nose, winds
In the fifth of The Manhattan Stories, it’s 1861, in the small town of Manhattan, Kansas, the Curran girls have expectations of what their lives will be.
When Roxanne Russell’s mother dies, her father is away on a business trip. The young military widow leaves dozens of messages for her father but receives no response.
In the third of The Manhattan Stories, it’s 1930, and the Sierra Nevada Mountains are home to a town of renegade Mormons.
In hopes of bringing the high rollers back to Downtown, Mayor Oscar Goodman plans to build a high-rise, glittering casino. He invests everything he has to buy the property and raises the rest of the money from old friends–friends he once defended in court. If his plan doesn’t succeed, he stands to lose more than his life savings.
Basketball superstar Andre Jeffers meets a virginal, young and beautiful Sierra Wentworth. For the first time in his life, he is not the one in control. She and her greedy mother maneuver him into leaving his family and marrying her.
Seventh in The Manhattan Stories by Wall Street Journal Top 10 Best Selling author, Donna Foley Mabry, “The Currans and The Quinns, The Manhattan Stories: The Currans, Book Three” continues the saga of the Curran Family.