READING CHILDREN OF THE RIVER IN CAMBODIA. Peacecorps worker Daniel Labarca is using my book to teach English to his eager students. Click on the Children of the River page for more.

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For a brand new Q & A interview with Linda Crew, click Powell's Books.

Linda plays "Honorary King" at the 2009 King Family Reunion held in Kings Valley, Oregon, on the site homesteaded by Lovisa King and her husband, Rowland Chambers, the main characters in A HEART FOR ANY FATE: WESTWARD TO OREGON 1845. Wouldn't Lovisa have been amazed at these great kids, her direct descendants, showing up here 163 years later?

Meeting Rachel Tobie, designer of the striking new cover for Ooligan Press's edition of A HEART FOR ANY FATE at their recent book launch at the historic McLoughlin House in Oregon City.


The Oregon State Library has named A HEART FOR ANY FATE to its list of 150 Oregon Books for the Oregon Sesquicentennial-- books presenting "a comprehensive view of the Oregon experience."

Contact Linda Crew LJC1@​earthlink.net





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Linda Crew is the award-winning author of nine novels. Her readers range in age from children who enjoy the Nekomah Creek books to adults who have appreciated her recent cross-over titles such as Brides of Eden: A True Story Imagined, and A Heart for Any Fate: Westward to Oregon 1845. She and her husband live in her hometown of Corvallis, Oregon, at Wake Robin Farm, where they were married in the backyard thirty-five years ago. When not writing, she enjoys working on their forest properties.



Brides of Eden: A True Story Imagined
A mysterious man tears a small town apart with his seductive new religion.
A Heart for Any Fate: Westward to Oregon 1845
A spirited young woman joins her family in an overland journey to Oregon that will test each one of them to the limits of their faith and endurance.
Children of the River
In in the wake of the Cambodian holocaust, a young Khmer girl struggles to make a new life in the United States.
Fire on the Wind
An eighteen-mile wall of fire is roaring toward Blue Star, the logging camp where 13-yer-old Storie lives with her family. Can they get out in time?
Long Time Passing
Against a backdrop of the 1960s, high school sophomore Kathy Shay wants to establish her own identity and connect her life with the turbulent world around her.
Someday I'll Laugh About This
Thirteen-year-old Shelby has always looked forward to vacations at the family's beach cabin, but this year, everything's different. Everything's wrong.
Nekomah Creek and Nekomah Creek Christmas
Robby Hummer loves his family, even if they are somewhat unusual...
Ordinary Miracles
Betsy Bonden longs for a baby. Why does this "ordinary miracle" that seems to come so easily to others continue to elude her?