Author Clifford “C. J.” Morris visited Peabody Township Library on Tuesday May 8. He donated two autographed books “The Stone Children” a title for young adult readers and readers who are just young at heart, and “Kessler Park” which is an adult fiction book.
The Stone Children
When four typical youngsters who are growing up in Nebraska High Plains farm country have their parents taken away from them virtually overnight, everything changes in an instant. All that is familiar and friendly is ripped up by the roots and replaced by a gnawing fear of uncertainty that has the potential to tear them apart.
Only their faith in one another and an inner strength taught by their parents bolster the children through the challenges presented by exploitive adults, Mother Nature, and their own youthful inexperience.
Abandoned by relatives and forced out by abusive foster parents, the children head out across the plains in the dead of winter to an uncertain reunion at an unknown location.
Kessler Park
When a secluded neighborhood of elegant, yet antiquated, Victorian homes is targeted for demolition and redevelopment, the lives of the elderly residents are thrown into turmoil. They’re not prepared to move. They want to live out their days in their lifelong homes.
A brain-damaged handyman leads the seniors in the fight to preserve their distinctive enclave. The power brokers at city hall, and administrators of the nearby hospital who will acquire use of the land, are equally determined to move the old folks out.
Check them out today at the Peabody Township Library!
