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The Trees Inspire: Volume 1

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The Trees Inspire is a historical novel about a young woman, REBECCA WAGNER, in 1890's central Pennsylvania who aspires to become something more than a farm girl. Raised among virgin forests, she is inspired by a Native American healer who uses trees and plants as medicine. Rebecca shows early promise as healer in her own right, and makes her way to the Johns Hopkins Training School for Nurses, newly established in the growing city of Baltimore, Maryland. Back home, the burgeoning lumber business threatens both earth and man, leaving a trail of desolation in its wake. Will Rebecca's journey le...

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Joyce Kieffer is the author of "To Have . . . To Hold, a Parent's Guide to Childbirth and Early Parenting" with nearly a million copies sold in seven editions between 1979 and 2001. A champion of women's health throughout her 55-year career, Joyce began as a nursing instructor and discovered a passion for advocating for a mother's autonomy during childbirth. Joyce established the one of the first organized childbirth classes offered in Pennsylvania in the 1960s, going on to empower thousands of parents to achieve positive birth experiences. She followed her passion for health education and prevention of disease by developing several health education and resource centers for women and their families, until retiring from her career in women's health in 2001. She then began a parish nursing practice, serving her congregation for several years while also contributing to a team of philanthropists establishing a tuition-free school for inner-city boys. After retiring from her "second career" where she worked with a cadre of nurses providing health screenings for businesses and the public, she retired at age 75, when she once again picked up her author's pen to take on her lifelong dream of writing an historic novel. Drawing on her career in women's health and inspired by the forests of Juniata County, Pennsylvania, where she helped build a log cabin, Joyce envisioned a young woman's coming-of-age story. . . where a young woman began her journey to become a healer set against the backdrop of the early days of the State's burgeoning lumber industry-- as thousands of acres of virgin timber fell to ever-wealthier lumber barons. The Trees Inspire is the first of three novels that trace the heroine's odyssey from her small family farm in the forest foothills-- to the John's Hopkins Training School for Nurses--to the wild and dangerous lumber camps--and back home again as she uncovers her life purpose . . . and a few intriguing secrets along the way that change her life forever. Although the novel is set in the late 1800's and early 1900's, Joyce addresses the issues relevant to today: environmental; race, socioeconomics, and gender. Superimposed on these themes are the lush, beautiful forests and the flora and fauna that call them home, the rich cultural stories of life in rural Pennsylvania where farming is a way of life, and Native American wisdom and respect for the plants, soil, and water we all share. Joyce lives with her husband in central Pennsylvania, her daughters and their families nearby; a short hours' drive away from the mountain cabin in the Shade Mountains that birthed the idea for this story of courage, family and above all - truth.