Scent of Tahiti, the novel

Published 2022 - Available on amazon.com

SCENT OF TAHITI

When the 1960s brought nuclear testing to what many think of as

a South Pacific Paradise, it also brought intrigue and espionage. 

Anne Lavalette leaves a good job in France to join Jacques Duval, 

as he has asked. When she arrives in Tahiti, what she discovers 

is more shocking than anything Anne could have imagined.

Learn what you never knew about a real place and time.

The author knows Tahiti. She lived there for nine years,

at the time that this story takes place.

"If history was told in the form of stories,

it would never be forgotten."  --Rudyard Kipling

"Scent of Tahiti", the novel

Available on amazon.com

"Scent of Tahiti", the novel set in a true place and time has been

PUBLISHED! July 2022

A novel set in Tahiti during the time of atmospheric atomic testing in the South Pacific by the French. I lived in Tahiti for 9 years at that time. As Rudyard Kipling once wrote, "If history were told in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten." Estimated publication date: 2022.

-Walking at lagoon's edge-

Punaauia Districte, Tahiti

French Polynesia - in the South Pacific Ocean

Patterns and Textures

I like patterns and textures.
I like to create patterns and textures with words.

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"Betrayal on Aruba Winds" - the novel

Betrayal on Aruba Winds

https://tinyurl.com/Betrayal-on-Aruba-Winds-amazon

KIRKUS REVIEWS

TITLE INFORMATION
BETRAYAL ON ARUBA WINDS
Tracy Novinger
Morpho Publishing, Inc. (356 pp.)
$15.99 paperback, $6.99 e-book
ISBN: 978-1-983723-89-6; March 2, 2018

BOOK REVIEW

In this novel, a businesswoman at a personal and professional crossroads discovers that the secrets of her past may help her solve problems in her turbulent present.

At 31, Alissia Aruba Saxton has a life that many would envy. She works for an import company in the United States and has a devoted fiance named Tom. While she places a premium on responsibility, she also yearns for the casual spontaneity of Aruba, the island of her birth. Shortly before her wedding, she fights with Tom, makes mistakes at work, and suffers from nightmares. Believing her present problems are rooted in her past, she returns to Aruba, where she reconnects with her mother’s dear friend Rika and recalls the people and places that shaped her life. Her father, Stass, worked for the oil refinery, and her mother, Nessa, was a housewife whose dreams of attending college were thwarted by the high cost of education. Alissia was an observant child who spent much of her time exploring the island with her friend Eddie Williams and observing the men who worked with her father. However, her memories of the island also have a dark side—one that comes into focus when she examines the lingering effects of an assault and her role in a mysterious death. Novinger’s (Intercultural Communication, 2001, etc.) novel is a sweeping historical epic that explores themes of memory, guilt, and responsibility while introducing an unforgettable heroine. Throughout, Alissia is haunted by one simple question: “Is my paradise something I made up?” Her search leads to revelations that are shocking and thought-provoking. The island setting plays an important part in the novel, as well, and Novinger creates a richly detailed portrait of Aruba in the 1940s and ’50s, highlighting aspects of everyday life and showing the importance of the oil industry to the local economy.

A vivid historical epic that’s expansive in scope yet intimate in focus.

A YouTube Review

Doctor Tomás Costal Criado at UNED in Pontevedra, Spain, posted on YouTube a thoughtful review of the first of my two published, non-fiction books:

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[Click to view video on YouTube: Intercultural Communication: A Practical Guide]

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