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Meet the Author Teresa Holmgren

When Jul 22, 2018
from 01:00 PM to 02:00 PM
Where The Browser-2629 Beaver Ave., Suite 1, Des Moines, IA 50310
Contact Name info@beaverdalebooks.com
Contact Phone 515-279-5400
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Country Boy, City Girl: Trials & Triumph During the
Great Depression
The Great Depression has important and urgent lessons for 21st century young
people. This new fictionalized biography, Country Boy, City Girl: Trials &
Triumph During the Great Depression is the story they need to read for the
motivation some are sorely missing.
This captivating book is also perfect for the older generation, bringing back
memories and relatable stories of two teenagers who “want a better life” and
who must struggle through enormous obstacles to achieve that goal.
Country Boy, City Girl is told in alternating chapters, featuring the author’s
1936 Olympic-swimming mother and her farm-boy father, who rode the rails
across America in the 1930s to earn money for college. House fires, family
deaths, parental illness, and other trials challenge them, but in the end they
both triumph, one with the help of a successful businessman and the other
from an astounding encounter with the most famous athlete of the 20th
century. There are 125 historical photographs.
About the Author...
Family has always been vital to Teresa Holmgren. She and her tall blonde
husband raised their five children and still live on Iowa farmland that has been
in her family since 1876. She is a retired behavior disability teacher and has
told her favorite stories about that gig in her first book, Never A Dull Moment.
She is a long-suffering lefty who also suffers from arachibutyrophobia, which
has nothing to do with spiders.

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