"When heirloom seeds are shattered prematurely, no amount of sunshine, rain, or tender loving care will make them grow. So, too, are the seeds of humanity when destroyed by WAR." THE SCATTERED SEEDS TALES FROM THE GREAT MELTING POT M. CLU GALLAGHER, AUTHOR
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ANEW, ("SOFIA'S STORY") Book I, THE SCATTERED SEEDS TALES FROM THE "GREAT MELTING POT" was first published in 2013 when this self-published author set it as another edition of her first manuscript, THE SHATTERED SEEDS: “SOFIA’S STORY” (self-published in March 2011 through amazon.com). It is a mainstream accessible, biographical, literary fiction, set in history in Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Berlin, and Saigon. It is suitable for young/adult readers and adult readers of all ages.
The novel is a story within a story, depicting the devastating effects of war on the lives of two women . . . one young and one old. Their stories reveal the intimate details of their lives as citizens of multiple countries in the 20th Century, their hopes and dreams, and their struggles with their devotions to family and country as determined by war (s). The main character, Sofia, ran away from her Nazi husband in 1944, an ill-fated flight through Normandy that killed her two young children and left her with no family and no country. Disguised as a young refugee of unknown descent, a German/American family helped her become a U.S. citizen by taking her into their home in Pittsburgh and treating her as if she was family. With their love, Sofia tried to relinquish her German past and embrace the future as an American. Fast forward to 1972, Sofia is now a widow to an African/American soldier killed in Korea in 1950. She mourns again . . . this time the death of their bi-racial son, Randy, a helicopter pilot shot down in South Vietnam. To Sofia everyone and everything she has ever loved is gone. She finds solace in memories of her beloved grandmother and the heritage quilt she had left behind when she had fled Berlin in 1944. Fast forward again to 2008, Sofia, now a famous writer of children's books about a "Magical Quilt" that had been made into a series of blockbuster animated movies, and the little-known founder of worldwide children’s centers meets a young writer named 'Janene McDeenon', also an immigrant to the United States. Only an infant when the Viet Cong had destroyed her village outside of Saigon in 1972, Janene became another victim of a senseless war that destroyed her family and left her orphaned. An American soldier, Bill McDeenon, adopted her and raised her in Atlanta as an American. Janene found Sofia on an internet search doing research for an article she is writing for a magazine. However, she hopes that the research will also help her in her search for the biological parents she never knew, a Vietnamese woman and an African American soldier. As the two women share their stories, they form an indelible bond that transpires time and the distance of three continents.
This is the original edition of the book and the author has made it available again to readers in the Kindle after an unfortunate episode of internet phishing in 2016 forced her to withdraw all of the eBook editions of her novels. It is a stand-alone and non-sequential novel also available in paper and the first of the author’s new series on immigrants titled, THE SCATTERED SEEDS TALES FROM THE GREAT MELTING POT. The books are available in worldwide distributions through Amazon, as print-on-demand at bookstores, through select libraries, and as part as the KDP Lending Program at amazon.
Maura began writing using the pen name 'Clu Gallagher’ in 2007 but has since preferred her author name, 'Maura Clu Gallagher'. She was born in 1947 in Pittsburgh PA where she continues to live with her husband of forty-three years, their two daughters, and six grandchildren.
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We are a country of immigrants and every one has a story to tell.
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BOOK I
ANEW ( THE SHATTERED SEEDS: "SOFIA’S STORY") THE SCATTERED SEEDS,
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BOOK II
DARBY’S ROAD (THE ROAD TO RIGHTEOUSNESS)
THE SCATTERED SEEDS
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BOOK III
A MEMORY FOR MIRRY, THE SCATTERED SEEDS BOOK 3
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Based upon my first manuscript, "The Quilt', written in 2007 using my pen name 'Clu Gallagher'
AUTHOR'S NOTE:
The novel is fiction and the story line spans over a hundred years. However, it opens in 2008 in Pittsburgh. Two women immigrants to America, one young and one old, both writers and meeting for the first time, are strangers on the surface but each had their life destroyed by war. A story within a story, they discover a commonality. As each woman explores the mysteries of her heritage and culture, they share the most intimate details of their lives through a weekend of marathon story telling. Their stories take the reader on a journey through Time and the distance of three continents. I included a surpise ending that suggests there may be a sequel to this, the first book in my new collection and based upon my beloved first novel, SHATTERED SEEDS: "SOFIA'S STORY" which placed in the Quarterfinals at ABNA in 2010 . . . I have added two more volumes in the series. They are not sequential but stand alone literary, historical American fictions: DARBY'S ROAD and A MEMORY FOR MIRRY.
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In 1855, hiding behind a mask of lies and deception, an Irish murderer becomes America's newest immigrant and warrior in its Civil War.
AUTHOR'S NOTE:
In today's world, Darby Martin, an Irish murderer, would be considered an illegal immigrant to the United States. However, in his world in 1855, he joined thousands of other Irish who left their beloved homeland seeking refuge and freedom from oppression. Many of them never made it to their destinations. Rather, they found graves in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean. Darby was one of the fortunate ones and his 'Road to Righteousness' was paved with lies and deception as he tried to hide his past. He became America's new hero in a Civil War about abolishing slavery. Unfortunately for his children, especially his son, Tommy, his lies become his children's legacy delivered in a message from his grave.
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Childhood memories become a nightmare for a little girl growing up in her great grandfather's lighthouse in WWII America.
AUTHOR'S NOTE:
In 1950 America saw the growth of 'Baby Boomers', those born after WWII. It was a time of change but especially for women and their roles in American society. As I remembered growing up during this time, I was inspired to write this novel about a little girl who loses her innocence due to senseless violence and how her widowed young mother deals with it. 'Numquam Obliviscar' is the Scottish Motto for her paternal great grandfather's family of lighthouse keepers. It means 'I will never forget' but despite living at the MacIvor family's first lighthouse in America during her early childhood, she has no memory of those early days with her beloved 'Grandpa Mac'. Now, all grown up with a child of her own, she returns to the lighthouse that she had inherited, a place that harbors all the secrets of her past.
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The "Scattered Seeds Collection" is available at amazon in worldwide distributions and as print-on-demand at books stores and libraries.
THE SCATTERED SEEDS TALES BOOK 1
THE SCATTERED SEEDS TALES BOOK 2
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