Dusty Kohl: 7 books

This novel is #2 of the SWIM COACH! series. The characters survive high school graduation and begin full adult life while in college. Diving in deep is not about the water, but about Shane’s life. His circumstances continue to take unpredictable twists and turns as he begins to outgrow his need...

This is the first novel in the Swim Coach series. Book # 2 is Swim Coach Diving in Deep. Shane comes of age before his senior year. He tells his story of self-discovery, self-disdain, and self-destruction. Fortunately, his childhood friend, Mikey, sees Shane going down. He reinstates the friendship...

Nellie loved her parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters. When they fled crop failure back home to find a temporary living in Oklahoma, all of them believed they could pull through the worst of circumstances. Instead, they barely scraped by with enough to eat. Nellie’s aunts teased her...

Book 1 in the series: In 1909 at the age of thirteen, Nellie camps with her family in the new State of Oklahoma. They fled crop failure at home in East Texas. She loved her parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters. All of them believed they could pull through the worst of circumstances. Instead,...

"Where Home Is" comprises the fourth book in this series, In Those Days. Nellie is still wishing to go back home to Whitehouse, Texas. In this book, they move to Oklahoma City just prior to 1920. She has a growing family to feed, a husband who doesn’t want to work, and relatives...

In 1870, Ulysses S. Grant is President of the United States, coal is king in Pennsylvania, and slavery is dead. But indentured servitude's final traces remain for those poorest of Europeans desperately seeking a new life in America. Bip is an orphaned indentured servant living at a coal mining...

At less than twenty years old, Nellie birthed three children. Her friends’ husbands return from the beginning of World War I, dead or mortally wounded. When the local draft board sends for her husband’s conscription, he loads their buckboard and takes them far from civilization. She must find...