Phil Stong: 11 books

Separated from her husband in New York and between jobs, Louise Storr finds herself at the steps of her grandfather's Iowa farm. Grandpa Storr, full of years and wisdom, is a patriarch who has been the master of the Storr lands for generations. Witty and grand, he rules his homestead with a serene...

The Prince lives in a wonderful stable, has everything he wants, and demonstrates great intelligence and skill as a harness racer, except, well, he feels a little melancholy.  Prince’s owner and his trainer try everything. They teach him tricks and exercise him more, and offer him a choice...

During the early 20th century, county fairs were anticipated with a passion that might only be compared to the modern fans’ fervor about an approaching Super Bowl.  For most rural families the excitement built all year long, transmitted through the community and magnified to unendurable proportions...

  The life of Catherine I , Empress of Russia, was said by Voltaire to be nearly as extraordinary as that of Peter the Great himself.   Although there are no documents to confirm the date or place of her birth, it is thought that Marta of Muscovy came from Lithuanian stock and was...

Edgar’s crew was made up of five people: the hoghead, the hothead, the front snake, the back snake and the conductor ― the fathead, or swellhead.  But, much to Edgar’s disgust, his crew argued all the time.  Argue. Argue. Argue. Chaw. Chaw. Chaw. In fact they argued so much that they...

Two ten year old boys, Waino and Ivar, returned from hunting one cold winter's day and skied back to the livery stable where Ivar's father boarded horses and mules. As Waino pinged his air rifle at a fence he dreamed about the moose he could have shot. All at once there was a very sad sound. It went...

The neon lights and promised excitement of Hollywood are sure different from the peepers and the cicadas of an Iowa night ― lots better ― at least according to Pa Boyers who had retired to the tinsel city after a fulfilling but hard life as an Iowa farmer. Although Boyers still gets a few hundred...

As a nine-year old city boy travels from Des Moines, Iowa by train to visit his grandfather's farm in the early 1900s, he imagines how he will impress his cousins ― with stories of skyscrapers and trolley cars, automobiles and the Union Park Zoo, Ingersoll Amusement Park, and the Capitol ― things...

Bert was nine years old and really needed a dog.  So along came No-Sitch. He was a dog that mooed and  galloped, loped, singlefooted, paced or cantered and often tried to do them all at once.  As a puppy he  stood about two-feet-six in his bare feet and was about three cats long....

As a nine-year old city boy travels from Des Moines, Iowa by train to visit his grandfather's farm in the early 1900s, he imagines how he will impress his cousins ― with stories of skyscrapers and trolley cars, automobiles and the Union Park Zoo, Ingersoll Amusement Park, and the Capitol ― things...

An essential addition to the library of any cocktailians, entertainers, nostalgics, or those who just like to relax with a cold beverage, Shake 'Em Up delivers all the joy of a Jazz-Age cocktail party, without the fear of temperance officers knocking down your door. As the authors say: Shake...