- I Laid an Egg on Aunt Ruth’s Head (humorous grammar/usage stories)
- Aunt Ruth: Queen of English and Her Reign of Error (more humorous usage stories)
- Off Balance (Joel’s faith journey through Parkinson’s Disease)
- Spoonful of Dirt (first in a series of Johnny Stevens adventures. Johnny was Joel’s great-grandfather, and much of this is about growing up in Iowa and Nebraska. Historical fiction, family safe. This book is about the family’s last year in Iowa.
- Tracks in the Snow: Johnny’s family moves by covered wagon in a trip taking twenty-three days from eastern Iowa to western Nebraska. The trip was fraught with adventure.
- Saving Arapahoe (coming soon!): The town is under threat of an Indian (Lakota Sioux). Pa (Johnny’s dad, my great-great grandfather was one of three men who organized an infantry of 120 men and boys). Again, full of adventure … I tried very hard to give the Indians and white men equal treatment. There was good and bad on both sides.
You will find more descriptions at Gennesaret Press (Gennesaret is used in the Bible, and it’s another name for the Sea of Galilee, where Jesus walked on the water and calmed the storm.)