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Pinkie Paranya has a book that is newly available: Life in a Nut Shell ![]() You won't want
to miss its short stories, essays and what-not.
“Page one pulls you into the story, and you don’t want out, even when it ends.” — New Zealand Vacation Book Review
“In the course of wearing the many hats... as publishers, editors, ‘marketeers’... we get to meet a variety of incredibly interesting and talented people. One of these is Pinkie Paranya, author of ‘Raven Woman’ . . .” — Southwest Blend Magazine
“Paranya evokes the reader’s empathy and admiration for this incredible young woman. In addition to relating an extraordinary adventure, the highly talented author makes it easy for us to care about what happens to Tiana and the people she loves.” — Reel Talk Movie Reviews
“Pinkie Paranya has written a vivid descriptive book about the strength and toughness and tenderness and zest for life and survival of the first couple generations of women in the early days before Alaska was Alaska.” — New Zealand Vacation Book Review
She is also an artist whose paintings and photographs have been shown in several galleries, a master gardener, and an advocate for children and animals. Her volunteer work has included . . .
Sample Chapters We have a special treat for those anxiously awaiting the next book, like a small taste from the kitchen before a gourmet meal, and an especially tasty sample for those whose appetite has yet to be whetted by a Pinkie Paranya book. Dig in! Enjoy! Bon Appétit!
Attention Reading Groups I am offering a free advance copy to any interested reading group moderator. If the group chooses my book, I will send laminated bookmarks and an autographed bookplate for the readers. Interested? Email me at pinkieparanya@gmail.com.
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St. Louis Sam & the Desperados
Getting from St. Louis, Missouri, in 1874 to the Arizona Territory is a frightening step for brother and sister, Garth and Samantha. They need to prove their uncle Millard Tremayne’s treachery in their father’s financial ruin and suicide. So far, their uncle retains their guardianship and inheritance. Since the uncle is secretly setting up a dynasty out West to eventually rid himself of his family and waspish wife, Sam and Garth follow his trail to a town called Powder Keg in Arizona. There the brother and sister collect a band of misfits to help them sabotage Uncle Millard. Mayhem, treachery, intrigue, humor and romance follows. A Five-Star LASR review and a link to LASR site is given here. |
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When Angels Sleep
Here is a new cozy mystery published by Black Opal Books. Some marriages are riddled with secrets and Edwina's husband left many after his death. In this story of surviving widowhood with a sense of humor, only Edwina's tenacity can unravel the mysteries of money, the mob, and how to serve a subpoena to a tatooed biker . . . |
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Heart of Jade
An archeologist searches for a lost treasure in the Mayan jungle through many adventures, encountering a fascinating man from another time who teaches her to love and trust again. SIENNA McFARLAND, archeologist, is searching for a missing piece of the Maya calendar in the jungle to support her late parent’s obsession with finding this artifact. An earth tremor opens in the ruins and throws her into a cenote, a deep well. Unconscious, she lands on the sarcophagus containing PRINCE BALAM, a shaman warrior who awakens to find her lying next to his coffin . . . |
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Raspberry Rainbows: A Celebration of Discovery
A book of memories; tearful, joyful, and thought-provoking that most women, young and old, can relate to. Regrets in life don't have to overshadow our later years but can help us begin to understand our purpose in life. |
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Sedna, North Star Raven Woman
This is the third book in the Raven Woman trilogy. When Sedna, Raven Woman, and her clan of Inuit people discover a Viking ship wrecked on the shores of their Arctic island in the spring of 975 AD, Sedna is warned by the Raven Mother not to let her people kill the lone Norseman aboard. Heeding the warning, she stands between him and her angry tribe, causing her people to shun and distrust her. Thanks to her intervention, the Viking, Rolv, lives to repair his ship and sail to his home on a nearby island, where he has been banished for a year by his father, Eric the Red, in Greenland. When Rolv leaves Sedna’s island, he kidnaps her, certain that her own people will slay her as punishment for defending an outsider. But he knows nothing of how to survive in the harsh environment . . . |
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Tiana, Gift of the Moon
Second in the award-winning Women of the Northland series, Tiana, Gift of the Moon continues the saga of the Raven Women — descendants of the Raven Mother — shaman who brave the harsh climate and the primitive nature of the earliest people of North America . . . |
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Raven Woman: Revised Second Printing Available
(The new version contains extras that the first version didn't have.) These are the adventures of Raven Woman, the first book in the award-winning Women of the Northland series about the lives of women in the ancient arctic. A young Inuit child watches her family drown when she is shipwrecked among strangers, and Umiak’s life changes forever. Alone, and perceived by her rescuers as a dangerous ilitkosiq, a troublemaker, Umiak bravely prepares to face a new world that must include defeating the angakuk, the shaman whose slave she becomes . . . |
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Practice Makes Perfect: Published by Wild Rose Press
Married and so much in love, Taylor and Rick enjoy a perfect marriage, with a great relationship both in bed and out of it — except Taylor finds it impossible to overlook her 6'3" ex-football-player husband's obsession with medical books, doctors’ websites, and vitamin consumption. She is driven to change Rick's bizarre hypochondria (she calls it the Capital H) by concocting weird tricks that get him sidetracked. She fears Rick will become so consumed by his problem he will self-destruct, while she wants a baby and he says he isn't ready. He also claims he’s allergic to all kinds of pets, yet when Taylor impulsively rescues an Old English Sheepdog from certain death at the pound, conservative Rick ends up running naked through the woods in a thunderstorm looking for the runaway dog. Opposites attract—but is the laughter and passion they share in their mixed-up marriage enough to save the day? |
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Herr Schnoodle & McBee, a different sort of mystery novel
You can order this over here. Alexander McBee is a bumbling private eye whose career is going nowhere until he rescues an ugly mutt — half schnauzer, half poodle — who starts solving cases for McBee. With a mix of humor, pathos, luck and pluck, McBee and the schnoodle roam the streets of NYC helping people and solving mysteries . . . |
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One... Two... Buckle My Shoe: Paranormal Suspense
A relentless predator drops out of nowhere, a killing machine, a parent’s worst nightmare come true. In One... Two... Buckle My Shoe, you’re about to meet THE BERNIES . . .
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Death Has No Dominion has a new cover Print and eBook versions are available here. How she explains her psychic powers. The electric static of the computer reacts with the energy field surrounding her psychic powers and forms the picture on the screen. Although that wasn't very scientific, it was the way she thought of it as happening. Who could explain such a thing? It just was. Death Has No Dominion takes the reader on a journey into the mind of a psychopath and the psychic detective who is the only one who could end his insatiable thirst for vengeance. |
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Amazon Treasure: Newly Republished!
Print and eBooks are available. Combine a sensually exotic, unpredictable setting, a wealthy businessman posing as an adventurous pilot down on his luck, a heroine searching for her roots, and a hidden fortune — and you have Treasure of the Amazon. Marisa Elliott is a calm, conservative teacher of learning disabled children. For as long as she can remember her father, professor of history . . . |
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Love Letters in the Wind: Available is Various Formats
Print and eBooks are available here. More options can be found here. She woke with the sense someone was watching her — she was right... Casey didn’t know how long she’d been asleep. She sat up, rubbing her eyes and staring into the unsmiling face of a man on a huge, black and gray speckled horse. For a moment, she credited her imagination. Had she been dreaming? He seemed too big to be real. No, this man’s sudden appearance at their picnic in the woods was not a part of her imagination, she couldn’t have dreamed up anyone like him. She looked toward Jake who still slept, curled in a ball, hands clasped beneath his cheek. Nothing would wake her son until he was finished sleeping. Casey leaped to her feet, hands on hips, ready to do battle. With a mouth lined in cotton, she had a hard time swallowing. Her pulses raced, and the vein in her neck throbbed. He sat easily on the horse. With his dark green wool shirt tucked in the waistband of tight, well-worn jeans and boots firmly placed in the saddle stirrups, he could have stepped from the pages of a western novel. His eyes, the color of coffee, were fringed with sooty black lashes. Observing the stranger’s impassive, stony visage, she worried about Jake. Would he wake up at the wrong time? She wondered what to use for a weapon if she had to. The man swept off his hat, gesturing with it toward the canyon walls. “This is Tyree land. What are you doing here?” His voice was deep, coming from his wide chest. Definitely unfriendly. |
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Señora of the Superstitions: Now Available!
Print and eBooks can be obtained by clicking here. Can Jowanna McFarland survive in the sinister mountains long enough to find her missing father, solve the mystery of his buried treasure and stake a claim to the elusive heart of Kane Landry? The old house stands in the desert, ringed in the distance by the ominous Superstition Mountains. In the night, winds whisper through the salt cedars, while somewhere in the dark, a puma screams a cry of death. From up the narrow, shadowy staircase come noises no one is supposed to hear, the ghostly figure of a woman at the top of the stairway, and the pervasive, faint smell of perfume. Could it be the tragic ghost of the Señora of the Superstitions, a legend that has lived for a hundred years? When Jowanna meets Kane, she is inexplicably drawn to this rough-hewn rancher but senses he holds secrets that could mean life or death to her. |
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Saga of Sourdough Red: Available from The Wild Rose Press
Print versions and eBooks are available here. Where was David? Had the ocean swept in over the ship deck and washed him overboard? Jenny’s heart raced as she peered out the porthole. The last time she’d seen her brother, he was racing across the deck of the ship, helping the crew. What did he know about walking on water-soaked decks with the ship half-tilting on its side? The steamer tossed like a . . . |
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RECIPES PAGE The Saga of Sourdough Red has some delicious and easy sourdough recipes, a few of which are available on my new recipes page. Check it out! |
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Romancing a Tasmanian Cowboy
Print and eBooks can be obtained by clicking here. Flynn’s cousin Suzy, once married to Marshall Beckett, reveals details of her awful marriage to a tyrant. She begs Flynn to see if the son she left behind is okay and locate her hidden diary, a “matter of life and death.” Flynn is at the crossroads of her life where she can renew her contract as a concert violinist and continue life as a world traveling musician or look for something she really longs for — a home and a special person to love and share her life. She arrives at Marshall’s horse ranch, Rainbow’s End, under the pretense of answering his ad for a nanny. But Suzy failed to tell Flynn that in the same ad, he advertised for a wife. Marshall is burned out of love, not trusting anyone now and wants a woman to bear him children, without investing any emotional commitments. When Flynn meets this rugged, coppery haired Tasmanian rancher, sparks fly between them . . . |
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Sebastian of King's Ransom: Published by New Concepts Publishing
Can Celeste trust Sebastian in their marriage of convenience which flares with unexpected passion while a threatening presence prowls at night in the old house. Celeste Beaumont travels to an isolated vanilla plantation to meet her estranged grandmother. When she arrived she found her dying grandmother whispering fearfully about nightly intruders wandering the rooms of the old mansion. What could they want? . . . |
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