Linda Crew

Random House has announced a 20th anniversary edition of Children of the River to be published in the spring of 2009. The Readers' Circle Edition will include an interview and discussion questions and will feature a new cover. The artist has been sent the above photo of a beautiful Khmer dancer who looks like she could be Sundara.

Listen to Linda's recent interview on Oregon Public Radio.

Contact Linda Crew LJC1@earthlink.net

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-three 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?

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