Maureen K Wlodarczyk: 6 books

“Birthless: A Tale of Family Lost & Found” explores the lingering effect of family secrets on three women friends and how the power of their bond gives each the strength to face a reckoning with her own past. The story asks the questions: Is it ever “too late” to confront the life-altering...

"Past-Forward" is the non-fiction account of author Maureen K. Wlodarczyk’s thirty-year search for her grandmother’s Irish ancestral roots. The book, written in the form of a letter to Maureen’s grandmother Kate, tells both the story of the thirty-year search itself along with the discovered...

Author and Genealogist Maureen K. Wlodarczyk weaves a work of historical fiction inspired by the true stories of the owners of three 1850s copies of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter: a Mississippi boy of thirteen who, along with his two brothers, is destined for the battlefields of Virginia...

Young & Wicked is the true story of star-crossed Irish-American lovers Willie Flannelly and Polly Sexton who started down the wrong path early as petty criminals. In 1893, they fled Jersey City to escape arrest, intending to disappear into the shadows of Manhattan's Bowery district. Just months...

There's no place like Jersey today and in the past. Take a trip back to the 1800s and early 1900s in New Jersey with 36 true tales of authentic people and events in the Garden State. Politicians, suffragettes, inventors, street gangs, cyclists, yachtsmen, Lady Liberty, boxers, show biz, con men...

On New Year’s Day 1901, reporter Jorden Lang is summoned to the newspaper’s office to find the police waiting. Jorden’s business card was found in the pocket of an unidentified woman struck and killed by a train the night before. As the police investigation of the woman’s death goes on, Jorden...