Tinder Street Saga by Nick Russell (#1-2)
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Overview: New York Times bestselling author Nick Russell published daily and weekly newspapers in Washington, Oregon, and Arizona before becoming a fulltime RVer. Then he and his wife Terry spent almost 18 years living a nomadic lifestyle exploring America’s back roads and writing about them in their popular Gypsy Journal RV travel newspaper and presenting travel seminars at RV rallies across the country. Now they spend part of the year at their home on Florida’s Intercoastal Waterway and travel several months a year. Nick is the author of the bestselling Big Lake mystery series, Dog’s Run, Return To Dog’s Run, Black Friday, and the John Lee Quarrels mystery/thriller series. His nonfiction books include Highway History and Back Road Mystery, Highway History and Back Road Mystery II, Meandering Down The Highway – A Year On The Road With Fulltime RVers, Work Your Way Across The USA – You Can Earn A Living And Travel Too!, The Frugal RVer, Overlooked Florida, and Overlooked Arizona.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
1. Tinder Street
A simple trip to town, a chance meeting with a pretty young woman, and a few words was all it took for Lucas Wirtz to flee his family farm and the abusive father who dominated it. Following Rachel McNally to the big city, he had no idea how much his life and the world around him would change.
Chronicling the days leading up to World War I and the events that followed, Tinder Street is the first book in a saga that will take readers from rural farms to a major industrial city in the Midwest, across an ocean where German U-boats lurk waiting for a target to come within range of their deadly torpedoes, to the bloody trench warfare of France, and home again. And of how, back at home, the soldiers of a victorious Army try to put their experiences behind them and pick up the pieces of the lives they once had, to look toward a future bright with promise. Lucas was one of those soldiers, a man who hated the thought of killing, but did his duty. A duty that would haunt him long after the last shots were fired.
This is also the story of the simple working class people who built America. Farmers, factory workers, streetcar conductors, midwives, and public servants. Their joys and sorrows, their wins and losses, and how these people who struggled together to build a better life for themselves and their children changed a place named Tinder Street to Tender Street, a reflection of one family’s devotion to their neighbors.
2. The Good Years
The Roaring Twenties. A prosperous era of flappers, bootleggers, speakeasies, bathtub gin, and women pushing the conventions of society. These are the things the newspapers are talking about. But that is only a small part of what is happening. Not everyone is celebrating the good times. For most people, life goes on as it always has, though maybe with a few new conveniences.
With the Great War behind him, Lucas Morgan is content to return to Tinder Street and start raising a family with his wife. Still haunted by nightmares of things that happened on the bloody battlefields of France, Lucas tries in vain to help his younger brother Samuel overcome his own demons from those same battlefields.
Life continues its ebb and flow on Tinder Street in the first half of the decade. Automobiles are quickly replacing horses, Elizabeth McNally and her daughter Rachel are busy tending to their midwife duties, and the McNally children are now young adults. Thomas McNally has left the production department of the News Bee and is making a name for himself as a crusading reporter focusing on the criminal element running rampant in Toledo. His younger brothers are facing their own challenges and triumphs as they make a place for themselves in a world vastly different from that of their parents and those who have gone before them.
Meanwhile, Jacob Wirtz has coaxed his estranged wife back to the family farm following the death of his abusive father and hopes to pick up the pieces of his shattered dreams. But he discovers that they are two very different people who want very different things from life.
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