Books with author Lisa Carol Williams

Thirteen-year-old Kyra has grown up in an isolated community without questioning the fact that her father has three wives and she has twenty brothers and sisters. That is, without questioning them much - if you don't count her secret visits to the Mobile Library on Wheels to read forbidden books, or her meetings with Joshua, the boy she hopes to choose for herself instead of having a man chosen for her. But when the Prophet decrees that she must marry her sixty-year-old uncle - who already has six wives - Kyra must make a desperate choice in the face of violence and her own fears of losing her family forever.

Sixth grade is over and Elyse Donaldson is ready for a perfect summer. She's going to read her favorite books and write her first novel. She's even determined to get along with her older sister, Jordyn. But her plans quickly unravel.Granny's Alzheimer's is getting worse. So she moves in with Elyse, Jordyn, and their mom, and the girls watch over her while their mother is at work. Sometimes she's fine, but sometimes she slides into the past and doesn't even recognize Elyse. It's frightening to realize that her beloved grandmother is slowly slipping away. Then Elyse gets involved in a neighborhood newspaper, and her mom starts dating for the first time since her father died. Elyse doesn't think she can stand any more changes, any more loss, but she's a lot stronger than she knows. This is the summer she'll learn to stand up for herself and to help the grandmother who has always helped her.From the Hardcover edition.

Fourteen-year-old Carolina has been through a terrible loss. As she struggles to speak openly to her new boyfriend and to relate to her distant, sad mother, the reader slowly realizes the nature of their shared tragedy. Through letters to her sister and by using her father's camera, Carolina tries to see the past clearly and find a path to an uncharted future. Though she feels she cannot bear any more pain, her strong character sees her through the wrenching changes in her life. Carolina's clear vision and sense of humor help her to find her way and connect to her boyfriend, her mother, and a life with new purpose and hope. "Williams’s story of family, friendship, and romance is heartfelt and sympathetic. . . . Illustrates the complexities of relationships, especially how appearance and reality can differ." — Booklist"This is a finely crafted novel in which Williams’s spare, lyrical prose depicts an adolescent blossoming into a thoughtful, caring young woman." — School Library Journal

"Crossing the Chemo Room," Book One of the nonfiction trilogy "Survival Stories," tells the true tale of Lonna Lisa Williams’ battle with cancer. After enduring a tragic childhood, early motherhood, and divorce to a Navy pilot, Lonna met her second husband at the university where she got her Master’s degree in English. They married and had a daughter. When she was pregnant with their second child, Lonna noticed that something was wrong, and soon after Jonathan was born, she discovered she had cancer. Walk with Lonna as she takes you through the physical and emotional challenges of surgery, chemotherapy, and recovery. Meet the other patients, health workers, and friends who helped Lonna along this path. Discover how Christ’s resurrection power strengthened Lonna to write about miscarriages and wildfires in "I Saw You in the Moon." Journey across the landscapes of New Zealand, Russia, and Turkey in Lonna’s third book, "Fire and Ice," as she survives the loss of her California life and family but rises like a phoenix to teach English overseas.

Fourteen-year-old Carolina has been through a terrible loss. As she struggles to speak openly to her new boyfriend and to relate to her distant, sad mother, the reader slowly realizes the nature of their shared tragedy. Through letters to her sister and by using her father's camera, Carolina tries to see the past clearly and find a path to an uncharted future. Though she feels she cannot bear any more pain, her strong character sees her through the wrenching changes in her life. Carolina's clear vision and sense of humor help her to find her way and connect to her boyfriend, her mother, and a life with new purpose and hope.

Glin, a normal human boy, was born on a planet where genetically modified humans live as slaves. Arztlan, a beautiful and temperate world, is a carefully managed game park and religious pilgrimage destination for a predatory species of aliens, called the Hrast. The human slaves on Arztlan have been genetically modified for size and strength, to have claws and night vision, and for aggression. Glin was born without any of these qualities, so he’s a freak to them. He serves the Hrast, but he can’t hunt, so he’s not much use to them or to the human hunters. In their primitive society, freaks don’t live very long. To avoid a violent end, Glin leaves the hunting lodge where he was born and sets out to escape, and then to explore. Arztlan is beautiful, but dangerous. Glin faces challenges, both physical and mental, as he is learns to survive on his own. If he lives, will it all have been worth it? Or will always feel alone?

Lonna Lisa Williams survived a tragic childhood and cancer. Then she realized she was an abused wife. But instead of striking out for a new life, she retreated into prescription medicine that her doctors gave her. A wildfire burned her California mountains, and Lonna left the charred land and flew all the way to New Zealand with her two trusting children. She lost an international trial and returned to California where she lost everything in divorce. Her castle of a home was gone, her children hidden from her, and Lonna’s downward spiral into drugs continued. She crashed her car in the mountains. Another wildfire scarred the land when she was staying in a motel. When Lonna finally abandoned all her medication, she did so without the help of doctors and almost bled to death. But, like the mythical phoenix bird and through the power of resurrection, Lonna rose to a new life of teaching English overseas. Walk with her on this journey of adventure, across the frozen rivers of Russia and to the sunset seas of Turkey. Discover how the extremes of fire and ice can shape a person’s life. Catch a flame and snowflake in a camera’s lens and listen to the music of this writer.

"IT WAS ME" takes us into the life of a young scared mother raising her teenage boy in the city of Baton Rouge, La. where the spirit of murder was running rampant. Nightly she would sit on the edge of the bed and watch the news, observing the violent crimes (homicides) being committed almost every night.Some of these crimes were in her area. Silently she would whisper to herself a prayer for all the mothers and families that were hurting due to the loss of their loved ones. The life of a mothers pages turn who had been given a new journey. This was a journey that she didn't expect and wasn't quite sure that she was ready to take. This was a journey in which she questioned if she could even survive. "IT WAS ME" will take you down a path of traveling grace, and up a mountain of Great Faith. Journey along and see how through this mothers unwavering faith, and through her journey of endless days and sleepless nights of tears she made it. Turn the pages of an inspiring story that unfolds how she turned her tragedy into a victory.