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Vivian Gilbert Zabel
Author Email & Book Website - Link to Publisher
Stolen
(Fiction: Novel with suspense and romance)
 ISBN: 978-0-9825886-4-2, approximately 6x9" and 200 pages - $18.99 (softcover)
Special Showcase price of $15.00, including tax

When troubles and tragedies steal the joy and happiness from life, a person has two choices:  to rebuild and find a way to continue living or to give up. Torri faces adversity after adversity and finds a way to reconstruct her life. However, when the most drastic tragedy hits, she doesn't know if she can continue or not.

Other books by the same author at the festival will include:

Walking the Earth: Life's Perspectives in Poetry: with some poetry by Jacque Graham

Hidden Lies and Other Stories: with stories with Holly Jahangiri

The Base Stealers Club, a teen book, baseball and mystery: by V. Gilbert Zabel

Case of the Missing Coach: a sequel to The Base Stealers Club

Prairie Dog Cowboy: teen historical and adventure

Midnight Hours: mystery/suspense novel

Oklahoma Books and Authors Showcase 2010

Vivian Zabel, born on Randolph Air  Force Base when still Randolph Field,  Texas, followed her military father from Texas to Guam, from Oklahoma to Morocco, and finally graduated from Limestone High School, Maine.

For as long as she can remember, she told stories to friends and siblings. She doesn't know when she started writing them, but the first sample of her poetry shows it was written when she was in the third grade.

By the time she attended junior high, Vivian knew she wanted to write novels. Classmates may have laughed at the time, but they now believe she may have known her future. No one realized, though, it would be so far in her future.

 Her life experiences, including her marriage to Robert for over 45 years, provide the foundation for many of her stories, novels, and poems. Glimpses of children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren can be found in her works, as well as the joys, the sorrows, and trials of life.

After teaching English, composition, creative writing, yearbook, newspaper, and literary magazine, she decided to use the skills she honed as she taught others to write full-time. She retired in 2001, but finds she still misses working with students, especially the speech/debate teams.

Often her body moans with the aches and pains from living a full life, but at heart, Vivian remains young. She draws on reserves of emotion to bring her writing to life.

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Limited Space - Author exhibits by reservation only

October  9, 2010
Embassy Suites Hotel
Embassy Ballroom
3332 S 79th E Ave. (I-44)
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74145

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Also that weekend:

Friday Evening, October 8 - 6:00 PM
Dinner with Oklahoma Authors

to benefit Friends of the Oklahoma Historical Society Archives, Inc.
Mr. Welge will also present a short topic during the Benefit Dinner, Friday evening, October 8, 2010
$30.00
Click here for PDF Brochure

Saturday, October 9 - 9AM-3PM
Genealogical Seminar: Resources in the Research Division of OHC

Mr. William D. Welge, Director

Research Division Oklahoma History Center
Admission for the day of learning - $25.00/lunch included.
Have friends join you for lunch: extra lunch reservations - $15.00 each
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