Marjorie Herrera Lewis Knihy

Football is the heartbeat of Brownwood, Texas. But the war has changed everything. Most of the Brownwood men over 18 and under 45 are off fighting. Could this mean a season without football? No one counted on assistant principal Tylene Wilson to be able to convince the school to let her take on the job of coach. When the boys rally around her, she leads the team - and the town - to a Friday night and a subsequent season they will never forget. Based on a true story, this is a powerful and vibrant novel of perseverance and personal courage. Print run 25,000

Janus is a heart-wrenching story from Marjorie Lewis: a story of love, hate, poverty and adversity, and of wanderlust. Following the lives of three generations of the Lewis family, this saga is teeming with pathos and hardships as each generation tackles the same issues of the last. The trials and tribulations of family life in a more difficult time begins with a young Albert Lewis, struggling to fit in with his society and his family, in the cold and bitter early 20th century, Wales: his mother, Florence, the only real love in his life. As his family life begins to unravel, his mother whisks him and his siblings away - on a long sea voyage to the embrace of Canadian shores. What seemed like a chance for redemption and a moment of hope, the situation soon spirals out of control. Could this fresh start begin to heal the Lewis' open wounds or will the effects leave a scar on the new generations to come, enabling the same mistakes to be passed down?