Location: United States
Member Since: June 29, 2011

Betty Casbeer Carroll


Agent info

Am retired federal employee (from Wright-Patterson AFB, OH). Currently prepare taxes for individuals during tax season, and write books (novels) for young adults in my spare time.

Where to find Betty Casbeer Carroll online

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Blog: http://www.PODbookshed.blogspot.com

Books

Atheist in a Foxhole (One Man's Quest for Meaning)    by Betty Casbeer Carroll
Price: Free! 59660 words. Published on June 3, 2012. Nonfiction.
Dick Langhinrichs, who was awarded two medals for valor during WWII, proclaimed: "There are atheists in foxholes, because I’m one." At War's end, he headed to New York City for a stage career while writing a novel and pursuing his lifelong quest for meaning (questioning what he believed were superstitious Christian beliefs). Then a mid-life crises changed the course of his journey.
The Foothill Spirits: Book Two - Shawnees & Runaway Slaves    by Betty Casbeer Carroll
Price: $1.99 USD. 38150 words. Published on August 4, 2011. Fiction.
This is the 2nd book in the Foothill Spirits Series, set in 1832, depicting the fictional Douglas family. Heather Jean awakens on Maggie Sue's grave and quickly moves off. She inadvertently stands on Morning Glory's burial mound and thereby desecrates it. Her spirit travels back to 1832, and inflicts on Morning Glory the same conditions that afflicted Maggie Sue in Book One.
The Foothill Spirits: Book One - Frontier Life & the Shawnees    by Betty Casbeer Carroll
Price: $1.99 USD. 33470 words. Published on August 3, 2011. Fiction.
This is a historical novel set in 1803 for teens and parents. It uses fantasy and time travel to engage young readers with the fictional Douglas family, who are squatting in the Ohio wilderness near a family of defiant Shawnees, who believe the land belongs to everyone and refuse to move to Indian Territory in northwest Ohio. Both families are hiding from the militia (ordered to evict them).
The Mystery of the Red-Brick House    by Betty Casbeer Carroll
Price: $1.99 USD. 31930 words. Published on July 19, 2011. Fiction.
This is a mystery book for children and their parents. The story involves five siblings who move into a house that's dissipated and looks haunted. Strange things begin to happen: muddy footprints on the porch, voices in the night, and a trapdoor to the attic that closed by itself. As they investigate these mysterious happenings,even greater danger lurks inside the red-brick house.

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