Brenda Duffey

New Pangaea: An Evolution into the Fifth World

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Produktbeschreibung

After celebrating her fortieth birthday, Rani Bijan is drawn to the desert and the lifestyle of the mysterious Hopi Indians living on the cliffs of Northeastern Arizona just like their ancestors did. Her mother had fled her birth country of Iran after the brutal murder of Ranis father during the Revolution of 1978. They settled in the high desert of Albuquerque, New Mexico, which was strikingly similar to their Iranian homeland. Rani leaves Albuquerque to work at the United Nations after graduation from the University of New Mexico, but childhood memories of her father and ancient stone tablets smuggled from Iran pull Rani back to the desert where she is tangled in a web of mystery, danger, and intrigue surrounding the death of a transient somehow connected to the prophecies and the stone she carries with her to the desert. Complicating the situation is her attraction to FBI agent Josh Overton which begins to break down the protective wall Rani has built to deal with her childhood trauma. As the wall crumbles, the mystery is solved, and Rani finally understands the prophecies from her faith and their interconnection to the larger global community of faith.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Parker Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 281g
• ISBN-13: 9781959071532
• ISBN-10: 195907153X
• Artikelnr.: 68329994

Autorenporträt

Brenda Duffey was born in Jefferson County, Kentucky. She came from a typically large Southern family (six children) that was raised on Kentucky fried chicken (not the same) and conservative Bible Belt philosophy. She received her BA degree in 1967 from a small Baptist college (Kentucky Southern) that is now part of the University of Louisville. In 1986, she received her MSW from the Kent School of Social Work at the University of Louisville. Part of the simple, homespun philosophy espoused by her father was hard work and "pulling yourself up by the bootstraps" through education. That is why she decided to enter the field of public education after receiving her BA with endorsements in history and English.Ms. Duffey has spent over twenty-five years in the classroom in a variety of educational settings in many states including Kentucky, Indiana, North Carolina, New Mexico, and Oregon. Her focus was always on helping students from diverse ethnic groups and economic status attain competence in English communication skills as well as understand themselves and their connection to American society through understanding their past and their collective heritage. Ms. Duffey retired from teaching in 2003. At that time, she was teaching at a correctional facility for adjudicated males in Oregon. The idea for The Peacemaker originated in 1997 when she was teaching a course in Native American history at Chemawa Indian School in Salem, Oregon.After retirement in 2003, Ms. Duffey began work on her first major novel "The Peacemaker" http: //kentuckywoman.net. This is a generational saga that tells the "true" story of American history in fictional form. That novel was first published in 2009. Now, Ms. Duffey has completed a sequel to "The Peacemaker" a novel entitled "New Pangaea - An Evolution into the Fifth World." Between novels, Ms. Duffey completed a set of four short stories entitled "Finding New Pangaea." "Springtime Comes to New Pangaea" presents the back story for the main character in "New Pangaea." Other stories include, "Juneteenth" set in Ms. Duffey's old neighborhood of Portland in Louisville and "A Thanksgiving Story." The final story "The Season" is a fantasy set in a fictional land called Mid Pangaea. The main characters in all these stories are adolescent males or females facing coming of age issues. Ms. Duffey also has completed a musical stage production entitled "A Squeaky Wheel Gets Oiled - The Musical.