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New Found Souls Mystery Series
The first book, The Waters of Lethe, takes the reader from Virginia to New Mexico, from Atlanta and Florida to Vera Cruz, Mexico. It tells the story of Dr. Carolyn Robinson, who has lost her family, health, and career, and moves to a ranch with her daughter to rebuild her life. However, the past catches up with them and ensuing events involve a chase, a massacre, and their eventual disappearance. |   |
In the second book,
Silent Signals, a young woman is suddenly thrust from her hectic life in New York City to her past in West Virginia. She missed her brother's phone call minutes before his suicide. Heartsick, she returns to contend with the forces that led to the young boy's despair. |   |
The Piper from T'P'S'L involves a television anchor who travels to Newfoundland to film a documentary on her uncle, a world famous musician. It takes the reader from Canada's involvement in World War I to the art scene in Paris, from a Chicago network studio to the modern stage. It tragically pits brother against brother with Alexia, the news anchor, in the middle. Notably, it has no apparent relation to the first two books. First Place, National League of American Pen Women, Inc. conference. |   The third book
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The fourth book,
Frozen Music, brings the characters of the preceding three books together. |
 
| A Bag Ladye's Tayle: Gabrielle Newton is numbed by the loss of her family, betrayed and impoverished by the perfidy of her husband. She joins the family of homeless, wandering from the exclusive Chicago north shore to the islands of the Florida Gulf coast. Despair and hope become twin ventures. Gaby’s struggles to survive are noticed by young Jan Morgan and her first mate, young Billy Bateson, who offer her a sense of belonging. These new friends, their connection with the family of writer Carolyn Robinson, and the love of young Jessie and her father involve her within a storm of political mayhem that affects a small coastal village and its residents, the horrors of rape and incest, and a hurricane that changes their lives and culture. |   The fifth book in the
New Found Souls series | PasTimes Series Click here to see PasTimes Bibliography
Book one in the series, Ain's Song revolves around the remarkable life of Eleanor of Aquitane-Duchess, Queen of both France and England, and mother of both Richard Lionheart and John Lackland. Eleanor and her husbands, Louis VII and Henry II, set the tone for an era. Cover by Sarasota artist Joan Peters (Alice with Joan at book signing). Won Eudora Welty Award. |
  
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Shattered Mosaics: Book two in the Series
SHATTERED MOSAICS continues this saga of the medieval world. A generation of entertainers, healers, carvers and warriors embrace the dying world of the Cathars in the Languedoc and become heroes and martyrs in a war-torn country. Recommended by Cathar Country Tours™ Runner up, NE Book Award. |   |
The Entertainers: Book three in the Series 1st Place in Young Adult Fiction in 2017
The National League of American Pen
Women, Inc. - Florida State Association Singers, jugglers and players -- the troubadours, jongleurs and acteurs of the Middle Ages -- comprise The Entertainers in Book 3 of the PasTimes series. Tracing generations that began with the child, Ain of Poitiers, Frere Raoul -- a young priest -- celebrates his family in three stories that move the era towards its conclusion. |  |
Rays of Gold: Book four in the Series
Love, war, murder, intrigue and spectacle dominate the Dukes of Burgundy as they attempt to establish their own kingdom. Caught in the crosshairs is the family of innkeepers, carvers, soldiers and healers ... a continuation of the PasTimes series. |  |
Fire in Stone: Book five in the Series
Popes, emperors, and kings rule the world. A young boy defies his family and begins his trek to carve his way into his future. This is a story of Ferdinand and Isabella and their quest for a new world, of the ill-fated love of Maximilian I and Marie of Burgundy, of young Martin Luther running from his devils and demons, and of young Dyl -- Tilman Riemenschneider -- who becomes one of the foremost sculptures of the late German Middle Ages. Bibliography | 
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Popular Musics - A Short History POPULAR MUSICS is a reflection on societies through the ages. Prepared for the general reader, this study views cultures from the Ancient World to the Twentieth Century. Roman arenas, medieval troubadours, Italian madrigals, castrati singers, operettas and musical comedies, jazz and rock fill its pages. |  | Jackie The Sailor Boy:
1st Place in Children's Fiction in 2017
The National League of American Pen
Women, Inc. - Florida State Association Alice has written her very first children's book dedicated to new grandnephew, Ryan James Moerk, in the memory of her brother, Jack Carolan Robinson (deceased). (Click below to view full size images.)   Presented to Alice when she was just a young girl by her brother Jack, Jackie became her constant companion and remained that way throughout her life. Now, in her 70s, Alice decided it was time to spruce Jackie up and pass her prized possession on to her grandnephew.  |  Alice with Jackie in December, 2013 Color illustrations by Retired Photojournalist
and fellow Pen Woman, Ellen Di Piazza, at left.  "He listened when Alice played the piano. Then Jackie felt his feet wiggle like he had bells on his toes. He wished he could dance."
Illustrations by
Ellen Di Piazza | © 2019 Alice Moerk Website by DreamWeb | | |
