Come in, enjoy a cup of coffee, and sit a spell with Harriet Murphy as she regales you with her tales of family, life, and love in the early 1900's in the former gold mining town of Old Pine near Lake Tahoe in Northern California. This is a period in U.S. history of great mechanical and cultural inventions as well as a time for women attempting to gain their well deserved right to vote. Her tales revolve around a woman living alone in the hills of the Sierra Nevada with her horse, Pager, and a myriad of other wonderful and colorful characters. Her humble abode is the log cabin that her father built for her family soon after he came across the country in the great gold rush of 1849. Although he never struck it rich in the mines, he found it a unique, yet ideal, place to live and care for his wife and daughter, Henrietta.

Harriet Murphy: A Little Bit of Something

Literature & Fiction

Brennan, Janet K.

Genre Fiction

Casa de Snapdragon Publishing

A composition of life, love and the many facets of their complex puzzle. All life is a Tarantella and must be danced to the fullest in order to understand the journey.

Gentle Tugs

Poetry

Casa de Snapdragon LLC

"Tango Sunday" is a collection of fictional short stories about life on the edge. In Janet Brennan's seventh book, she never fails to seduce the reader into realizing that life is not always as it seems to be. True to Janet Brennan's style and philosophy, she titillates the ready with good doses of revenge, ghosties, life in the spiritual world and death. Author Brennan aptly demonstrates in these dark and twilight zone tales that "Life simply is"

Tango Sunday: Tales On the Edge

Contemporary

Brennan has created the most remarkable work of art, the wonder-work of a genius. It is a complete revelation of an intensely individual apprehension of death. "A Dance in the Woods" in essence, is the author Brennan herself, as she tries to find a way to recover from the trauma of her daughter death, and her burning passion searches some sign of her resurrection so that she might find peace of mind. -- Dr. Santosh Kumar, Dean of English, A.D. College, Allahabad Finalist in the 2015 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards

A Dance in the Woods: A Mother's Insight

Parenting & Relationships

Harriet “Dang” Murphy entertains us with her touching stories about life and love in this second novel in the series. Harriet, the daughter of gold miner parents, has inherited the cabin her father built for the family in the foothills of Lake Tahoe, along the Great American River. Harriet Murphy moves forward with her adventures while raising adopted daughter, Rose Tender. It is now the turn of the century. Come join Harriet as she regales you with the stories of her interesting life. You are sure to fall in love with her family, friends, loves, and yes, even a few ghosties.

Harriet Murphy: More Than Enough