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    Lilacs in the Dust Bowl: Lukia's Family Saga, #2
    Paper Roses on Stony Mountain: Lukia's Family Saga, #3
    Sunflowers Under Fire: Lukia's Family Saga, #1
    Ebook series3 titles

    Lukia's Family Saga Series

    By Diana Stevan

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    About this series

    An inspirational family saga, that started with the Award-Winning Sunflowers Under Fire, continues to resonate with readers worldwide. On Miramichi Reader's List of Best Fiction 2022. 

     

    Wars, typhus, drought and family losses could not stop Lukia Mazurec. Will her children's indifference finally break her spirit?

     

    With the Great Depression ending and Hitler's armies marching across Europe, the young in Canada are called upon to enlist. Though her children are not eligible to serve, Lukia Mazurec can't count on them to help her manage her farm in Manitoba. Her sons are at odds, their fights getting uglier every day, and her daughter, Dolly, has fallen in love with Peter, an intelligent but poor man uninterested in farming. Lukia's dream of family unity is crumbling, as one by one her children leave, forcing her to make some hard decisions. Can she rise to the challenge or is this one test too many?

     

    Based on the true story of Diana Stevan's grandmother, this is the third book of Lukia's Family Saga trilogy.

     

     

    "Prose as nourishing as cabbage soup and rye bread."

    Darcy Friesen Hossack, author of Mennonites Don't Dance

     

    "Incident after incident, character after character, I was carried into worlds that opened up in this page-turner of a novel."

    Myrna Kostash, author of All of Baba's Children

     

    "Gripping, illuminating, and personal, this story is a must-read."

    Martha Conway, author of The Physician's Daughter

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIsland House Publishing
    Release dateApr 12, 2019
    Lilacs in the Dust Bowl: Lukia's Family Saga, #2
    Paper Roses on Stony Mountain: Lukia's Family Saga, #3
    Sunflowers Under Fire: Lukia's Family Saga, #1

    Titles in the series (3)

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      Sunflowers Under Fire: Lukia's Family Saga, #1
      Sunflowers Under Fire: Lukia's Family Saga, #1

      Sunflowers Under Fire: Lukia's Family Saga, #1

      Diana Stevan
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      Finalist for the 2019 Whistler Independent Book Award   In this family saga, the first book of Lukia's Family Saga series, love and loss are bound together by a country always at war.   In 1915, Lukia Mazurets, a Ukrainian farmwife, delivers her eighth child while her husband is serving in the Tsar's army. Soon after, she and her children are forced to flee the invading Germans. Over the next fourteen years, Lukia must rely on her wits and faith to survive life in a refugee camp, the ravages of a typhus epidemic, the Bolshevik revolution, unimaginable losses, and one daughter's forbidden love.   Sunflowers Under Fire is a heartbreakingly intimate novel that illuminates the strength of the human spirit. Based on the true stories of her grandmother's ordeals, author Diana Stevan captures the voices of those who had little say in a country that is still being fought over.  

      Finalist for the 2019 Whistler Independent Book Award   In this family saga, the first book of Lukia's Family Saga series, love and loss are bound together by a country always at war.   In 1915, Lukia Mazurets, a Ukrainian farmwife, delivers her eighth child while her husband is serving in the Tsar's army. Soon after, she and her children are forced to flee the invading Germans. Over the next fourteen years, Lukia must rely on her wits and faith to survive life in a refugee camp, the ravages of a typhus epidemic, the Bolshevik revolution, unimaginable losses, and one daughter's forbidden love.   Sunflowers Under Fire is a heartbreakingly intimate novel that illuminates the strength of the human spirit. Based on the true stories of her grandmother's ordeals, author Diana Stevan captures the voices of those who had little say in a country that is still being fought over.  

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      Lilacs in the Dust Bowl: Lukia's Family Saga, #2
      Lilacs in the Dust Bowl: Lukia's Family Saga, #2

      Lilacs in the Dust Bowl: Lukia's Family Saga, #2

      Diana Stevan
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      Author Diana Stevan's sequel to the award-winning Sunflowers Under Fire. Lukia's story continues in Lilacs in the Dust Bowl, an inspirational family saga about love and heartache during the Great Depression. In 1929, when Lukia Mazurets, a widow and a Ukrainian peasant farmer, immigrates to Canada with her four children, she has no idea the stock market is about to crash and throw the world into a deep depression. Falling grain prices, the ravages of nature, and unexpected family conflicts threaten to smash her dreams of family unity in a strange land. And when love knocks on her door again, awakening desire she thought was long gone, Lukia has to choose between having a man in her life or the children she's sacrificed everything for.   Diana Stevan is the author of A Cry from The Deep, The Rubber Fence, The Blue Nightgown and the award-winning Sunflowers Under Fire. A former family therapist, she is the mother of two daughters and lives with her husband Robert in West Vancouver and on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

      Author Diana Stevan's sequel to the award-winning Sunflowers Under Fire. Lukia's story continues in Lilacs in the Dust Bowl, an inspirational family saga about love and heartache during the Great Depression. In 1929, when Lukia Mazurets, a widow and a Ukrainian peasant farmer, immigrates to Canada with her four children, she has no idea the stock market is about to crash and throw the world into a deep depression. Falling grain prices, the ravages of nature, and unexpected family conflicts threaten to smash her dreams of family unity in a strange land. And when love knocks on her door again, awakening desire she thought was long gone, Lukia has to choose between having a man in her life or the children she's sacrificed everything for.   Diana Stevan is the author of A Cry from The Deep, The Rubber Fence, The Blue Nightgown and the award-winning Sunflowers Under Fire. A former family therapist, she is the mother of two daughters and lives with her husband Robert in West Vancouver and on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

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      Paper Roses on Stony Mountain: Lukia's Family Saga, #3
      Paper Roses on Stony Mountain: Lukia's Family Saga, #3

      Paper Roses on Stony Mountain: Lukia's Family Saga, #3

      Diana Stevan
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      An inspirational family saga, that started with the Award-Winning Sunflowers Under Fire, continues to resonate with readers worldwide. On Miramichi Reader's List of Best Fiction 2022.    Wars, typhus, drought and family losses could not stop Lukia Mazurec. Will her children's indifference finally break her spirit?   With the Great Depression ending and Hitler's armies marching across Europe, the young in Canada are called upon to enlist. Though her children are not eligible to serve, Lukia Mazurec can't count on them to help her manage her farm in Manitoba. Her sons are at odds, their fights getting uglier every day, and her daughter, Dolly, has fallen in love with Peter, an intelligent but poor man uninterested in farming. Lukia's dream of family unity is crumbling, as one by one her children leave, forcing her to make some hard decisions. Can she rise to the challenge or is this one test too many?   Based on the true story of Diana Stevan's grandmother, this is the third book of Lukia's Family Saga trilogy.     "Prose as nourishing as cabbage soup and rye bread." Darcy Friesen Hossack, author of Mennonites Don't Dance   "Incident after incident, character after character, I was carried into worlds that opened up in this page-turner of a novel." Myrna Kostash, author of All of Baba's Children   "Gripping, illuminating, and personal, this story is a must-read." Martha Conway, author of The Physician's Daughter

      An inspirational family saga, that started with the Award-Winning Sunflowers Under Fire, continues to resonate with readers worldwide. On Miramichi Reader's List of Best Fiction 2022.    Wars, typhus, drought and family losses could not stop Lukia Mazurec. Will her children's indifference finally break her spirit?   With the Great Depression ending and Hitler's armies marching across Europe, the young in Canada are called upon to enlist. Though her children are not eligible to serve, Lukia Mazurec can't count on them to help her manage her farm in Manitoba. Her sons are at odds, their fights getting uglier every day, and her daughter, Dolly, has fallen in love with Peter, an intelligent but poor man uninterested in farming. Lukia's dream of family unity is crumbling, as one by one her children leave, forcing her to make some hard decisions. Can she rise to the challenge or is this one test too many?   Based on the true story of Diana Stevan's grandmother, this is the third book of Lukia's Family Saga trilogy.     "Prose as nourishing as cabbage soup and rye bread." Darcy Friesen Hossack, author of Mennonites Don't Dance   "Incident after incident, character after character, I was carried into worlds that opened up in this page-turner of a novel." Myrna Kostash, author of All of Baba's Children   "Gripping, illuminating, and personal, this story is a must-read." Martha Conway, author of The Physician's Daughter

    Author

    Diana Stevan

    A Jill of all trades, author Diana Stevan worked as a clinical social worker, but also as a teacher, librarian, model, actress and a sports writer-broadcaster for CBC television. She’s published newspaper articles, poetry, a short story, a novelette and three novels: A Cry From The Deep, romantic mystery/adventure; The Rubber Fence, women's fiction, and Sunflowers Under Fire. Sunflowers Under Fire, historical fiction, was a finalist for the 2019 Whistler Independent Book Awards, and a semi-finalist for the 2019 Kindle Book Awards, Literary Fiction category. With two daughters grown, Diana lives with her husband Robert on Vancouver Island and West Vancouver, British Columbia.

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