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Reviews
"Gray Rainbow Journey presents yet another facet of the Native American in his many struggles. A fascinating story by a new voice in Indian America."
Principal Chief William "Rattlesnake" Jackson,
American Cherokee Confederacy
"Native American Christians have long known what a struggle it is to live in two worlds…the characters in Gray Rainbow Journey speak for so many of us."
Betty Mae Jumper
Tribal Elder, Doctor of Humane Letters and auhor of Legends of the Seminoles, Seminole Tribe of Florida, Inc.
"An enlightening peek…portrays reservation life clearly and compellingly…gives a window into the challenge of making spiritual choices…"
Craig Stephen Smith (Ojibwe)
Native Evangelist and author of White Man's Gospel.
"…a heart-thumping face-off between good and evil that will keep you in suspense until the very last page!"
Dana K Cassell, Writers-Editors Network.
"…an exciting coming-of-age novel…I can definitely relate to this book's characters…I can't wait for the second book…"
Carla McKay
Indian Life Newspaper
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OakTara was founded in 2006 by two veterans of the Christian publishing world, Jeff Nesbit and Ramona Tucker,
to promote and encourage fiction by both new and established authors. They publish only inspirational fiction (for adults, teens, and children) including allegory, biblical,
contemporary, fantasy, futuristic, historical, mystery/suspense, romance, and science fiction.
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Gray Rainbow Journey |
Cheha Youngblood disappeared without a trace from the Bitterroot Confederacy three months ago, and her older daughter, Dina, is determined to find out why.
What do the clues in her mother's journal mean? Who is the giant-winged creature that so terrified her mother, a Native Christian convert? Could any of the tales that are as old as the Indian nations and told in the blackness of deep nights in the South Florida Everglades be true? And why are owls beginning to perch outside of Dina's home?
Then handsome Marty Osceola, the son of the most powerful witch on the Florida East Coast, the boy Dina had a crush on in grade school, arrives back in town...
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WINNER, National Best Books 2009 Awards
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Multicultural Fiction
Finalist in Mystery & Suspense
Finalist in Religious Fiction
Awards and Recognitions
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About the Author
Author K.B. Schaller
Author's cat, Chief--the prototype for Gray Rainbow Journey's "Eddie Was."
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K.B. Schaller wrote her first short story as a school girl—and developed a forever love for the written word.
A member of the Native Christian church and an independent journalist, the Master’s Degree public school teacher of Cherokee/Seminole heritage (who once taught in a tiny reservation Christian academy) writes primarily for Native publications.
But it was Schaller’s unrelenting desire “to create Indian characters caught between the opposing worlds of Tradition and Christian tenets” that impelled her to pen Gray Rainbow Journey.
She wove some of the terrifying tales she heard as a girl into her first-person story--and OakTara awarded her a contract. “Passionately involved” in several Indian causes, Schaller also collects Bibles (“preferably old and frayed”), and is a painter and a poet.
She lives in South Florida with her husband Jim, a design engineer. They have a blended family of four children and three cats.
"Chief," a rescued stray from the Seminole Reservation, is a prototype for “Eddie Was”, the feline interest in her novel. She is currently completing a sequel and plans a third in the Journey series.
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