Today, I'm delighted to welcome Paul Rushworth-Brown to the #HistFicThursdays blog as part his Coffee Pot Book Club 's book tour. Today, meet Paul's new book The Lost Voices , and discover your next great read! Read on to enjoy an excerpt from this gripping book! First of all, let's meet the book... Some lives pass through history without leaving a trace. The Lost Voices is a work of historical fiction that brings to light those whose stories were never formally recorded—not because they lacked significance, but because their lives unfolded beyond the reach of power, authorship, and recognition. This is the story of ordinary people forced into extraordinary circumstances—individuals navigating a rigid social order shaped by obligation, fear, and quiet resistance. Here, survival depends as much on silence as on action, and choices are made not in moments of glory, but in private, under pressure, and with consequences rarely acknowledged. The novel explores how perso...
This week for #HistFicThursdays, I'm delighted to be teaming up with The Coffee Pot Book Club to shine a spotlight on Jerry Madden's fabulous book, Steel Valley: Coming of Age in the Ohio Valley in the 1960s!
So, let's meet the book...
For readers of The World Played Chess by Robert Dugoni
and Last Summer Boys by Bill Rivers
Love is never easy...even in easier times, like the 1950s
and 1960s in the Ohio Valley with the steel industry booming.
Second-generation immigrant families were reaching for
the American middle class. And Catholic schools-made feasible by selfless
Catholic nuns-promised bigger lives for everyone, including Jack Clark and
Laurie Carmine. As they spent years searching for their separate futures,
though, they were also stumbling toward love just as their world came crashing
down.
Steel Valley depicts a story of love longed for, lost, and perhaps still within reach, just as our nation's mythic yesterday became our troubled today, our last summer of innocence.
You can buy Steel Valley via this Universal Link!
Now, let's meet the author:
Jerry Madden grew up in the Upper Ohio Valley in the 1960s. He holds a B.A. from the College of Steubenville and law degrees from the University of Dayton School of Law and the Georgetown University Law Center. After law school, Jerry served as the sole law clerk to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, C. William O'Neill. He served in the United States Marine Corps (R) between 1970 and 1976.
Jerry has practiced law in Washington, D.C., since 1979, including fourteen years at the Department of Justice as a trial and appellate attorney. He is the principal of The Madden Law Group PLLC in Washington, D.C.
He lives in Northern Virginia with his wife, Cyndi, a retired educator. They have two children, Kelsey and Jack, both of whom hold M.Ed. degrees. They have one grandchild, Jamie Maclennan.
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Thank you very much for hosting Jerry Madden with his novel, Steel Valley, today.
ReplyDeleteTake care,
Cathie xx
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