Bøker av Annie Pearson

True stories of the real Norwegian bachelor farmers and their Danish neighbors. A Boy from Wannaska shines light on a northern Minnesota farming community, where first-generation Scandinavian immigrants built new lives in modern America at the turn of the century.This memoir includes details of farming and household practices, plus hilarious stories of backwoods farmers in a new environment: learning to drive, hunting moose, building new social institutions-and competitive potlucks at the local Lutheran Church, made up of "37 souls and 7 Danes."Marjorie Wright Mortensen collected the heritage of tales told among the children and grandchildren of Scandinavian immigrants in Roseau County. The text includes historic photos, recipes, and an appendix with genealogy of the Danish forebears and American descendants of Jens and Ellen Mortensen, who immigrated from Odense County, Denmark in 1889.

A second-chance at love, Jane Austen style, on motorcycles. Or is that fire sparked by a 900cc bike sliding sideways down a backcountry highway? Or is it merely a soggy journey from Tumalo to Denio to Winnemucca to Zion, while the White-Bone Demon seeks to destroy hope? Eliot Arden is a Seattle artisan and handywoman. Her put-together life worked well until she met Destiny, a teenage orphan who needs stability and mentoring as an artist. Eliot needs cash, right now, to secure Destiny's future. A short-term job slams Eliot back a decade, riding her rebuilt BMW R100RS down the road not taken. Sean Frederick Wentworth, the manga artist, has the artistic career of his dreams. He's producing a new mini-series that tells his mythic story backwards: the journey through the U.S. West that was the creative genesis of his famous steampunk characters. The only catch: a demonic ex-partner who seeks to destroy Sean's new project. Ten years ago, Eliot and Sean enjoyed a brief affair of the heart. However, they couldn't conquer the contradictions: artist versus artisan, East Coast versus West Coast, fame versus solitude. On this new Journey to the West, though, dreams and desires might heat up like red slickrock in the sun. Artemis in the Desert is a workplace adventure story-where the workplace is a motorcycle journey across the American Great Basin. This story includes colorful language and sexual situations, plus humiliating scenes where motorcycles are dropped by the riders.

A Girl from Sellwood, a brief memoir, provides insights into Marjorie Wright's childhood in Portland between 1921 and 1939. Taught by her grandmother to respect the endeavors and fruits of her ancestors, Marjorie Wright recorded portions of the family history, to be discovered later by family members who had in turn been taught to preserve family stories. Besides details of day-to-day life in that era, A Girl from Sellwood also includes an appendix with extensive genealogy of the historic Brewster and Barrell families of New England, as well as the author's Wright and Tozier ancestry.

Can you find true love without a non-disclosure agreement after your picture is on the cover of Rolling Stone? Two musicians meet by accident in Seattle. Jason, the infamous singer-songwriter, is a victim of falsehoods spread on the Internet. Susi, a classical musician whose previous career came off the rails, is building a new life as a music teacher. Their professional yearnings quickly become entwined in unexpected ways. Jason wants Susi to sing the haunting songs he's written for her, if he can get his ex-wife out of his recording contracts. Susi doesn't want to sing in public, and complains that Jason disturbs her hard-won serenity. Each tries to hide deep secrets from the other. However, in love-and on the Internet-who really has secrets? Passion, mistaken identities, and a menacing stalker twist a love-at-first-sight story into a roller-coaster ride through the backstreets of Seattle, where tourists never go. Where both karma and sunshine can be so unpredictable in April. Nine Volt Heart is a light-suspense romantic comedy. It contains explicit sex scenes and the undeleted expletives you'd expect at rock recording sessions in Seattle.

They say you can't go home again-not when chaos reigns.A murder in a Seattle coffee house. A murder on a decaying boat dock. Samsara Byron, the post-punk security expert, insists this has nothing to do with her. She's busy fending off an attack on the world's cyber infrastructure-if only she could get a cell signal. Sam's a rock star in the international security community: speaking at Black Hat conferences; investigating conspiracies with the FBI and NSA. But Sam's family called her home to exurban Limberlost: her hippie father is accidentally embroiled with gangsters. The boy next door is hiding from the men who killed his partner. And the local weather guru says the Puget Sound Conversion Zone will see record snow. Seattle is paralyzed when it snows. This soft-boiled thriller longs for romance, if anyone can find time. The story does contain inexplicit sex scenes and the language you'd expect from gangsters, porn farmers, and retro Riot Grrrls.