Books by Shirley Raye Redmond

Heroes and World Changers

: Join the Meredith, Julia and Carmen—the gals at Magnolia Investigations—as they listen to their hearts and rely on their faith to solve each new case that comes their way. Exclusively from Guideposts.

: Join the Meredith, Julia and Carmen—the gals at Magnolia Investigations—as they listen to their hearts and rely on their faith to solve each new case that comes their way. Exclusively from Guideposts.

: Simon and Schuster has just re-released Shirley Raye’s The Dog That Dug for Dinosaurs. This is the true story of the “princess of paleontology,” Mary Anning and her dog Tray.

: Pigeon Hero! is the true story of G.I. Joe, a WWII American Air Corps messenger pigeon. The title won an Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Book Award in 2004.

: The Alamo is a nonfiction chapter book written for youngsters in 4th through 6th grades. Learn how Davy Crockett really died. Who was the black woman found dead near the mission’s crumbling wall? And what happened to the 11 and 12-year old sons of artilleryman Anthony Wolf?

: Lewis & Clark: A Prairie Dog for the President and Tentacles, Tales of the Giant Squid have both sold more than 200,000 copies. The Lewis & Clark title was a Children’s Book of the Month Clubs selection. The squid title has been a Scholastic Book Fair choice for several years.

: Patriots in Petticoats: Heroines of the American Revolution was named one of the best children’s books of the 2004 by the Bank Street College of Education in New York.

: Caring for her 9-year-old daughter Pippi is widow Wren Bergschneider’s main priority. But she becomes frightened and mystified when she receives an anonymous note hinting that her husband’s traffic death the year before might not have been an accident after all. When an unidentified shooter makes Wren and her boss, history professor Allan Partner, his targets after they emerge from the basement of a 175-year-old insane asylum slated for demolition, their lives take an unexpected—and dangerous—turn.

: At the advanced age of twenty-seven, Prudence Pentyre is on the shelf. Content to occupy her time by attending meetings of Mr. Wilberforce’s Abolition Society, Prudence is resolved to see that her younger cousin Margaret, shy and plain, does not share her own unmarried fate.

: The year is 1905. It is autumn in the village of Aztec in New Mexico territory. Amanda Dale is burdened with the responsibility of caring for her widowed sister and Ella’s two children—one a premature infant. Schoolteacher Gil Gladney is handsome, intelligent, and God-fearing. He is drawn to Amanda, but feels he cannot propose marriage until he is able to purchase the ranch he has been saving for. When Gil and his pupils discover the relics of an ancient culture among the ruins outside the village, Gil contacts an old college friend. The possibility of an archeological excavation excites the community of cash-strapped farmers, eager to earn extra money working on the site.

: Rosemary’s Glove is Shirley Raye’s most recent historical romance novel. It won the 2009 New Mexico Book Award in the romance category and was a Finalist in the Phoenix Desert Ros e Golden Quill Contest 2009 .

: FAIRIES: A True Story was released by Random House on March 27, 2012 with a 50,000 copy first printing! In 1917, two English schoolgirls shocked the world when they claimed to have photographed fairies in the woods. Arthur Conan Doyle believed them!

: Norse Mythology, released in June 2012, is part of Gale Cengage’s new Mythology and Culture Worldwide series. The book is aimed at high school students and contains everything from maps to genealogies of the Norse gods, goddesses, and monsters. Readers will learn how belief in Thor, Odin, and Frey influenced the everyday life of the Vikings—from the way they fought battles to their extraordinary seamanship. Even Christopher Columbus spent time in Iceland learning about the northern sea lanes to the New World!

: Stone of the Sun was Shirley Raye’s first book. It’s a 200-page romantic suspense novel set in Sierra Vista, Arizona. If you loved Phyllis Whitney’s books, this one’s right up your alley.

: Grampa and the Ghost—this humorous juvenile novel is set in Lincoln, Illinois and features a ghost named Tallulah, who loves John Wayne movies. The title became a Weekly Reader book in 2002.

: The Shepherd King is an historical novel set in the Jemez Mountains of northern New Mexico in 1891. Serene Partain arrives under false pretenses at Joseph Brunswold’s ranch. While furtively seeking an ancient map to the legendary Cities of Gold, Serene unexpectedly falls in love with the ranch and the shepherd king.