Articles by Author Deborah Swenson

Words No Bars Can Hold, Literacy Learning in Prison by Deborah Appleman, W.W. Norton & Company, 2019. [box] “This is the creative life – what Oscar Wilde called the long lovely suicide. If prison is a trapdoor at rock bottom, then writing is the mortar ...

  Deborah’s Book Review  Lillian’s Legacy: Gardner Sibling Trilogy by award winning author Carmen Peone is a heartwarming and inspirational story of Lillian Gardner’s journey in her coming of age. Lillian is one of three children of Phillip and Elizabeth Gardner, characters introduced in Ms. Peone’s ...

"Beloved Over All," is a work of historical fiction, based on actual characters by Irene Sandell, an award winning author. In this novel, Ms. Sandell delves deep into early Texas history, fusing fact with fiction to tell a story of endurance, survival, tortured lives, and loves ...

Line of Glory by Thomas Clagett is a riveting book about the final 13 hours before the battle of the Alamo. A story of heart-wrenching proportions, Mr. Clagett, delves deeply into the minds of the heroic soldiers facing certain death. Reverently, he weaves a story ...

‘The Women of the West are alive within the pages of a great book.’  Welcome to the first of my Book Reviews. I had the honor of reviewing the Advanced Readers Copy (ARC) of this wonderfully written book by Author, Kathleen Morris. We met in San Antonio, ...

She had me at her first blink. Her liquid chocolate brown eyes with lashes the length any woman would envy, gazed into the very depths of my soul. Her calming aura lent a remarkable dignity for a newbie such as myself. Asking her permission, I ...