Jodie Toohey

Books

Shattered Pearl A Taming the Twisted Novella
Series: Taming the Twisted. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 34,340. Language: English. Originally Published: January 22, 2020 by Jodie Toohey. Categories: Fiction » Historical » General
Pearl should be happy. She just married the love of her life, Lester Sinkey, and is ready to assume the role of wife and mother she'd dreamed about since she was a little girl. There's just one thing standing in her way. Every time she and Lester try to consummate, Pearl feels a searing pain like she's being sliced open with the clamming knives her family uses camping along the Mississippi...
Taming the Twisted 2 Reconstructing Rain
Series: Taming the Twisted. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 35,530. Language: English. Originally Published: April 13, 2020 by Jodie Toohey. Categories: Fiction » Historical » General
It may have appeared that the Sinkey family had tamed the twisted, but with a war disrupting their world as much as the tornado, there's even more to unravel. Alice Sinkey, Abigail's younger sister, gets the chance to tell her story in Taming the Twisted Two: Reconstructing Rain – from her estranged relationship with her best friend to dealing with a scoundrel she thought had left their lives...
Versed in Nature: Hiking Northwest Illinois and East Iowa State Parks
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 9,200. Language: English. Originally Published: May 25, 2017 by Jodie Toohey. Categories: Poetry » Themes & motifs » Nature, Poetry » Themes & motifs » Places
“White green moss grows between copper, gold, and tan weathered lines drawn by centuries of settled sediment cut away by weather.” Come along with Jodie Toohey as she hikes some of the trails in eastern Iowa’s and northwestern Illinois’ state parks. Part guidebook, part memoir, this collection of park descriptions and poems will take you on a beautiful, nature-filled journey through the Midwest...
Missing Emily: Croatian Life Letters
Price: Free! Words: 39,440. Language: English. Originally Published: August 23, 2016 by Wordsy Woman Press. Categories: Fiction, Fiction » Historical » General
By February of 1991 when Amicus Sinkey is assigned to correspond with Nada, who lives in Rijeka in the Republic of Croatia, Yugoslavia, her life has already begun to unravel. The only bright spot in her life is her favorite cousin, Emily. Ami’s life further unravels when Emily is hit by a car and dies. Ami doesn’t respond to Nada’s letters at first, but when she does, she learns having a friend...
Taming the Twisted
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 64,010. Language: English. Originally Published: November 30, 2016 by Wordsy Woman Press. Categories: Fiction » Historical » General, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime
Taming the Twisted is written in a similar style to Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books though updated for modern times. It might read as if she'd left in all of the juicy tidbits about things people didn't talk about during the time when she was writing. Taming the Twisted is a story of destruction, romance, mystery, and deceit set against a back drop of an actual historical event. In...