Karen Deal Robinson: 7 books

This book can be read in two ways. The odd-numbered chapters are about the American spy Nathan Hale. The even-numbered chapters are about the British spy John Andre. If you read all the odd numbered chapters first, and then all the even numbered chapters, you will read about events in the order in...

This book describes a journaling technique that will allow you to give words to the inner voice of wisdom that is sometimes called "That still small voice within." If you learn to listen to it carefully, you'll have a mentor, a counselor and a friend who will never forsake you.

Fourteen-year-old Star Coleman is furious when her father leaves her in the care of her aunt in rural Colorado. Her aunt and grandparents believe in a strange land called Lorlialë, a place that terrifies her father. They think Star’s nightmares about a young woman named Shantelë mean that Star is...

When Becca and Brandy first meet as children, Brandy’s magical imagination leads them to visions of a love story more than seventy years old. But as they grow up and meet Daniel, everything changes. Becca loves Brandy, Brandy loves Daniel, and Daniel loves Becca. How can they untangle what Daniel calls...

When Dorothy McLaughlin begins to have dreams about a young man named Nathan who died in Vietnam, she wonders if he's real, or just a figment of her lonely imagination. As she hikes the trails of the Colorado mountains, marches for gay rights, and shares her love of Tolkien and Oz with friends and lovers, Nathan is at her side. Or is he?

These stories, written between 2002 and 2016, range from mostly realistic (Stairway to the Stars, The Road to Emmaus) to allegorical (The Goblin Child, The Umbrella Maker and the Dreamcakes, Katie's Critique) to whimsical (Willow) to dream-inspired (The Hanged Man). Themes include Alzheimer's, hysterectomy, writing, tarot, and religion.

The Lorlialë series is presented complete in one volume. The Last Song of Leleni Mihaiën, Firithyleleni, Reunion in Lorlialë, and Shantelë's Star tell the story of Leleni Mihaiën, from her humble beginnings to her centuries as the greatest Zelimë Lorlialë has ever known.