Historical fiction book brings readers to South America
L. Norman Shurtliff launches new book campaign for ‘Eldorado’
TAYLOR, British Columbia – Author L. Norman Shurtliff has a tremendous love for the people of South America. He has lived in Argentina and Peru for two years when he was a young man, and now he has revisited these enchanting lands many times since. In “Eldorado” (published by AuthorHouse), Shurtliff pens a fictional love story and an incredible modern day adventure set in South America.
In the Andean Mountain setting in Peru, the historical novel is the second in a three-book series about the treasure that eluded the Spanish Conquistadors during the conquest of Peru and a modern day effort to find it. The story follows Peter Martin, a young geology graduate student from the University of California. Peter is doing an internship and research assignment on the secret underground tunnels under the City of Cusco. Monica Rodriguez, the heir to Inca Royalty, works as a government employee for the tourism department. Peter and Monica were kidnapped in a sinister plot by a terrorist group, which is really a much larger design to find the lost treasure of the Incas.
“The love story and adventure that is portrayed is quite captivating and very entertaining. The novel is historically correct and is written to bring this great colonial saga to life in a way that will be enjoyable to the reader,” the author describes the book’s story.
Shurtliff believes that readers will enjoy the book for having lots of entertainment. “Everyone likes a good love story that has lots of adventure and intrigue,” the author adds.
“Eldorado” City of Kings”
By L. Norman Shurtliff
Hardcover | 6 x 9in | 240 pages | ISBN 9781452098005
Softcover | 6 x 9in | 240 pages | ISBN 9781452097992
E-Book | 240 pages | ISBN 9781452098012
Available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble
About the Author
L. Norman Shurtliff was born in St. George, Utah and grew up on a small vegetable farm in Southern Nevada. Shurtliff was able to serve a mission for the LDS Church in Argentina for two years where he learned the Spanish language and the culture of the wonderful people of South America. He attended Brigham Young University and received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1979. After his mission nearly 40 years ago, he was able to visit and see firsthand the magical land of the Incas. The author has spent a lifetime studying and visiting South America and has a unique passion for this people and their legends. Shurtliff and his wife Christal have four sons and three daughters and continue to live in Taylor, British Colombia. He now owns and manages several businesses of his own with his wife as his business partner, including the original greenhouse and landscaping business.
AuthorHouse, an Author Solutions, Inc. self-publishing imprint, is a leading provider of book publishing, marketing, and bookselling services for authors around the globe and offers the industry’s only suite of Hollywood book-to-film services. Committed to providing the highest level of customer service, AuthorHouse assigns each author personal publishing and marketing consultants who provide guidance throughout the process. Headquartered in Bloomington, Indiana, AuthorHouse celebrated 15 years of service to authors in Sept. 2011.For more information or to publish a book visit authorhouse.com or call 1-888-519-5121. For the latest, follow @authorhouse on Twitter.
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International Art Quilt
Invitational Exhibition
June 16 through Aug. 31, 2017
There’s a French flair to the Brigham City Museum’s International Art Quilt Invitational Exhibition set for June 16 through Aug. 31, 2017. Beatrice Bueche of Alsace, France, is the exhibit’s Featured Art Quilter. The crème de la crème or best of the best in her portfolio is presented in the exhibition, including her interpretation of the deadliest foreign attack on American soil on Sept. 11, 2001. The quilt is titled “Why?”
Also “piecing the world together” are quilters from Israel, Japan, Australia, Canada and the United States.
The museum is located at 24 North 300 West. Admission is free. Hours are Tuesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 1 to 5 p.m. The museum will be open July 4. For further information, please phone (435) 226-1439 or visit www.brighamcitymuseum.org.
For a number of years the museum has been the global center for elite art quilters such as Colorado’s Lea McComas who is sharing “Bike Boys,” which won two awards at the 2014 International Quilt Association’s show in Houston, Texas. The quilt depicts six men cycling on one bike in the late 1800s.
Jennifer Day’s prize-winning quilt “Cuban Ballerina” is a vivid description of two dancers from the renown Cuban National Ballet rehearsing in a building in downtown Old Havana. The building, which was once a grand structure with marble floors, elegant arches, gilt ironwork and statuary, is now in disrepair. Day is from New Mexico.
Ann Horton, who lives in California, uses her vibrant palette to replicate in fabric the striking colors, peculiar perspective and familiar subject matter of Vincent van Gogh’s famous painting “La Chambre a Coucher,” also known as “The Bedroom,” created in Arles, France. Horton’s version has a quilt draped over one of van Gogh’s chairs.
Quilts on view that express a concern for the problems and injustices of society – both past and present – are “Shadows of Conscience ll” by Do Palma of Wyoming, “Eager to Learn” by Gillian Shearer of Australia and “Isolation” by Allison Wilbur of Rhode Island. Palma’s quilt is a lasting memorial to the four million black slaves that toiled in the American South before the Civil War. Shearer’s piece brings attention to female education in Afghanistan where girls are poisoned, beaten and kidnapped for attending school. Wilbur’s artwork brings into sharp perspective the need for gender equality worldwide.
Less serious themes are Sue Bleiweiss’ whimsical quilts “Tutti Fruitti Main Street” and “The Hummingbird” and Jeannie P. Moore’s “Cockatoo in Paradise.” “Critters” such as lizards, beetles and leafhoppers appear in Jane Sassaman’s and Suzanne Marshall’s quilts. Bleiweiss is from Massachusetts; Moore, California; Sassaman, Illinois; and Marshall, Missouri.
Depictions of fruit in art date back 3,000 years to Ancient Egypt. Fruit still flourishes in works today as seen in Shani Leser’s painterly quilt “All Roads Lead to Jerusalem.” Pomegranate trees are the centerpiece of this landscape. Leser is from Israel. Images of fruit are also sewn into the quilts “Visions of Apple Pie” by Laura Fogg of California and “Watermelon Wine” by Ruth Powers of Kansas.
***Article written by Mary Alice Hobbs
Captions for photos:
“Bike Boys” by Lea McComas, Colorado
“The Hummingbird” by Sue Bleiweiss, Massachusetts
“Hong Kong Taxi” by Jean Renli Jurgenson, California
“Why?” by Beatrice Bueche, France
“Bijou (Jewel) by Christine Alexiou, Canada
“Contraste” by Beatrice Bueche, France
“Cockatoo in Paradise” by Jeannie P. Moore, California
“Norway Album Quilt” by Aileyn Renli Ecob, California
