Bøger af Jan Smith

Crossing the Arctic is the story of a Norse Fjell Trollet, a mountain troll. Ridiculed because of is lack of cleanliness, Fy decides to follow in his father's footsteps and make his way from Norway to the New World in order to start a new life for himself. Receded fjord waters impacted by glacial movement and ice jams in the Arctic allow Fy to take advantage of his huge height and walk across. Two Nisse, small Norse troll people, accompany him and the three fact adventures on the journey to the New World.

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FY and AINA, A New World Love Story, is a sequel to the first book in the Norse Trollology Series entitled CROSSING THE ARCTIC, A Norse Troll Story. In that book, Fy, A Norse Fjell Trollet or mountain troll, does cross the Arctic Ocean on foot from the Nordic World to Greenland and the New World in the days when there was more glacial ice. This second book begins with Fy from his mountain cave close to the ocean hearing plaintive cries for help. The story finds Fy struggling with loneliness, performing a water rescue, searching for a soul mate, and grappling with the hardships of living in an untamed New World. It is a look at what can happen if people of two oppposite culture like the Fjell trolls and the Nisse, who are small dwarf-like trolls, have compassion for the other's lifestyle. FY and AINA is a Norse fiction troll story, interspersing factual Nordic and North American geology with a mythological explanation of how the New World became populated with a diversity of people.

... a look at the daily life of a homesteading family of five's survival in the year 1890 as they adjust to prairie schooner travel, sod house living, log cabin life and the clearing of land ...

Jamie's 8th grade science project gets an early test when his sister Brit bumps the Red Button. The transporter is sent back in time to Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Jamie and Brit become part of the acts in the show as they search for Rascal, their Schnauzer.

Cooking on the Oxcart and Wagon Trails 1858 is a woman's journal, written along the trails which ran for her from Fort Riley Kansas to Fort Abercrombie, on the border of the Minnesota and North Dakota Territories. She details the difficulties of travel for the oxcarts, wagons and people. The journal includes frontier recipes for food and remedies which were prepared over campfires or using camp ovens in rudimentary settings.

A window of life in the early 1900's, GOOSE CROSSING represents a typical small community with a Scandinavian background in the Red River Valley area on the Minnesota and North Dakota border. It is the story of personal relationships that arise through the social interactions of the business people who develop the area. Jan's Smith forte, writing historical fiction, means zeroing in on a time period in a locality, researching the events that affected those people and its land, and creating additional characters to enhance the story line to make it enjoyable reading. Smith, a former teacher, writes in the classical style, enlightening her readers of means and methods of survival in new surroundings.

AMERICA BOUND, The Journey West, is the story of eighteen year old Bjorn Hanson who is considered an adult in the Nordic European mountains and seeks his fortune in the New World in 1790. His adventures of working his way on a raft, a three-masted schooner, and as a scout on an oxcart and wagon train place him in unfamiliar and exciting situations as he pursues his dream of seeking his fortune along the Red River of the North in the Northwest Territories labeled the Land of Milk and Honey.

Remembering the Maine continues the story of young Nivek James, introduced in the previous book Homesteading the Land. Leaving his family homestead in Minnesota, he becomes a newspaper correspondent during the Spanish-American War, 1898. With his boyhood friends, Wing, an Ojibwa Indian, and Jesse, from Medora, North Dakota, the young men travel across country by horseback, train, and stagecoach on their journey to join the Rough Riders and Theodore Roosevelt. This book is the story of their journey, the training of the troops, and the war in Cuba. It is a coming-of-age tale of bravery, courage, hardships and patriotism set against the background of emergence of the U.S.A. as a world power. Nivek's dispatches to the Minnesota News give a personal account of the times. 201 pages - author illustrated

Curiosity surrounding a bottomless pit prompts Tina to tell Berg, thirteen, the Nordic creation story she learned as a child about Odin and the formation of the Nine Worlds. Worlds created from Nothing by the All Father. A Time between Time. A world of silence that lead to the formation of the world today.

I thought all children lived as I did. The self-hatred, loneliness, and mutilation were taught before I was old enough to realize my lifestyle was not my fault. A later marriage gone terribly wrong, suicide attempts, panic attacks, a doctor who freely prescribed mind-deadening drugs, and constant failures were all my doing.My life was unbearable, but it was the only life I knew at the time. I was miserable, but I was comfortable in my prison. It was the only thing I knew, until I turned it around. I left my husband, threw away five pounds of medication, graduated from college with a degree in literature, worked in emergency medicine, went back into the army as a medic, and am now retired from the fire department emergency management division.I always had the choice to change my life, but was not ready. I believe I was chosen to live to share this book, so maybe someone else will be spared, if they too choose another path.This true, horrifying ordeal of an abused child subjected to alcoholism, drug addiction, witchcraft, and devil worship is the story of my life and how I managed to turn it around to become a successful professional.Jan Smith grew up in North Carolina. "In the fifties, some things were not talked about. The skeletons still rattle their chains, the scars on my arms are still there, but I can survive."Publisher''s website: http://sbprabooks.com/JanSmith

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