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NOW FOR THE 2011 HOLIDAYS! The Reluctant Belsnickel of Opelt's Wood Novelette (23k words) – YA / General Adult / Romance – When Father Nicholas Bauer becomes the pastor of St. Walburga's in a rural Pennsylvania Dutch community he make it his mission to revive some of the Old World Traditions including Belsnickel. According to the local legend, Belsnickel was an old man who lived in the woods and visited children on the evening of December 6th to see if they've been bad or good. He recruits his childhood friend Gretchen Fritz who owns a quilting shop called the Calico Cuckoo. Both of them grew up with Oliver Eberstark and Father Nick is determined to get Oliver to play Belsnickel for the local children. When they were young Oliver was a popular athlete and local heart-throb but now he is a recluse he lives alone at his grandfather's sawmill deep in Opelt's Wood. As the plans for Belsnickel and Christmas progress Father Nick hopes to understand what happened to Oliver and why he is now a hermit and Gretchen rediscovers why half the girls in town had crushes on him. $1.49 KINDLE • NOOK • SMASHWORDS
	Download the FREE sampler today! Romance, Crime, Good Food: The Kathleen Valentine Sampler 4 short stories • 3 chapters • 2 essays • 8 recipes PDF (read online or print) | MOBI (for Kindle) |  EPUB (for other e-readers)
99¢ Novelettes and Short Stories in e-format. Available for Kindle, Nook, and other e-readers.
Arthur's Story: A Love Story YA/Coming of Age Kindle • Nook	The Crazy Old Lady In The Attic Psychological Horror Kindle • Nook	Ghosts of a Bech Town in Winter Suspense / Ghosts Kindle • Nook	Two Short Stories about Revenge Crime / Horror Kindle • Nook
		The new expanded and redesigned edition of Fry Bacon. Add Onions: The Valentine Family & Friends Cookbook: five generations of good eating Amazon.com     |     Barnes & Noble Paperback: 178 pages ISBN-10: 0978594045 ISBN-13: 978-097859404
In this combination memoir and family cookbook blogger and novelist Kathleen Valentine combines 30 posts from her blog with nearly 400 recipes collected from family and friends. Growing up in a "mostly Pennsylvania Dutch" family she collected and recorded recipes from grandparents, great-grandparents, aunts, cousins, friends, etc. which were combined in the first Valentine Family & Friends Cookbook published in 1981. This was expanded in the 1992 edition and now, in this third edition, nearly 400 recipes combine with essays recording memories of growing up in rural Pennsylvania and photographs from six generations. Essays topics include making sauerkraut and soltz (sultz) (a German pickled meat loaf), toasting marshmallows and catching fireflies, the old-country Christmas traditions of making stollen and visits from Belsnickle, old world ghost stories, their grandmother's quilts, and more. Traditional family recipes include schmarn, panhaas, moultasha, a variety of sausage recipes, hassenpfeffer, and liver dumplings, a wide variety of pickles and relishes, as well as keuchels (a type of fried dough), apple dumplings, and rhubarb crisps and pies. Contemporary recipes from the younger generations of the Valentine family expand the collection with everything from dips and cocktails to chowders, cakes and cookies. Among the more popular recipes first featured on Valentine's blog are: three maple syrup pies apricot-apple crisp with maple cream caramel peachy-pear pandowdy honey & white peach pie Pennsylvania Dutch hot and sour soup Though this collection is a memoir in food of the Valentine family it could be the story of any first, second and third generation immigrant family.
		Each Angel Burns is now available in paperback or e-format from Amazon.com Barnes & Noble.com and other online booksellers READ THE FIRST CHAPTER! Available for Kindle or Nook
Each Angel Burns by Kathleen Valentine In the latter part of the 19th century the Monastery of St. Gabriel the Archangel was built on a cliff overlooking the ocean on a peninsula in Maine. From its earliest days there were rumors of strange activity there --- tunnels through the cliff were reported to give access for smugglers, a miracle-working nun was said to live there, and a group of drunken lumberjacks who stormed the convent to kidnap wives claimed to have been vanquished by a giant angel with a flaming sword. One hundred years later, when the last of the old cloistered nuns was removed to a retirement home, the decision was made to close and sell the convent. That's when it was discovered that he convent's treasure, a marble statue of the Archangel Gabriel by Italian sculptor Giovanni Dupré, was missing. More......
NOW AVAILABLE FOR KINDLE #1 Top Rated Lace Knitting book & #20 Top Rated Needlework book on Kindle
Just got my hands on your e-book "Mermaid Shawls", and am absolutely delighted! Thanks for all the tips, suggestions ~ and heart ~ that are in the book. It is wonderful! - KathyO in Ferndale, WA I just bought your book, after looking at the inside. It is just what I have been looking for, Your illustrations and  commentary have eased my fear of starting a shawl. - Margaret in Canada		PAPERBACK NOW AVAILABLE!!! From AMAZON         From BARNES & NOBLE Worth every cent, in my opinion. This is one I will read and re-read. - MMario on Knitter's Review. I just purchased and downloaded your e-book. How fabulous it is!!! The download was easy and zippy fast. - kknitterkc on Ravelry Note: As soon as you complete your purchase your screen should be redirected to the download site. If you wait more than 2 minutes and do not see the PDF file (7.5MB) please email me and I will send you the link for downloading. Please be advised that some email programs have been filtering out the redirection, AOL especially may do this. If you are not redirected, email and I will send the link. The Mermaid Shawl: Shawls, Cocoons & Wraps by Kathleen Valentine Inspired by the popularity of The Mermaid Shawl first featured on Parlez-Moi Blog, this book provides instruction for the Mermaid Shawl and two variations, the Gypsy Shawl, and the Shawl of Falling Leaves and Shooting Stars. In addition there are chapters on creating Emily's Shawl, four stoles and wraps and how to convert a rectangular shawl into a cocoon. Photographs, charts, and illustrations. Available as an eBook or as a paperback.
		"A beautiful story, beautifully told." - Susan Oleksiw, A Murderous Innocence "A timeless lovestory rich in maritime lore."      - BookLovers Alert 2007 Rising Star Nominee "People ask me if I, as a fisherman, ever encountered a mermaid. I have in this book and they are better than I imagined. This is hot."       - Mark S. Williams, F/V Black Sheep Order from Amazon Read the First Chapter • WATCH THE VIDEO Visit the Old Mermaid Inn Website
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		My Last Romance & other passions by Kathleen Valentine Eight stories that celebrate the wonder of finding love... These stories sweep the reader into sensuous worlds where ordinary people discover, or rediscover, love. Foolish love, forbidden love, married love – even murderous love, each story is a seductive jewel populated with characters that seem like someone we could know – or someone we could be. Each of the stories in this collection is an exquisitely rendered portrait of people from a broad range of ages each proving that passion and love are eternal, regardless of life's far-ranging challenges. Buy from Amazon.com or BarnesandNoble.com