- Jura MacLean Sherwood
Contact: Email | Website | (541)-535-4853 | 148 Meadow View Drive, Phoenix, Oregon 97535. 
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About the Author
Jura MacLean Sherwood was born in London, England. She was seven years old in 1940 when she was evacuated to South Africa, where she stayed for over five years. At eighteen, in search of adventure, she enlisted in the Women’s Royal Air Force.She and her American born husband have lived all over the United States from Alaska to California and Washington, D.C. to Washington State. Their last assignment was four years in Saudi Arabia.
While raising her four children Jura pursued her avocation of genealogy, earning a Professional Certificate in Genealogical Research from Brigham Young University.
Jura, and her husband of 55 years, live in Phoenix, Oregon where she writes historical fiction and teaches genealogy.
When the first of her six books was published in 2002, Jura started the Southern Oregon Book and Author Fair. She has followed that up with publication of a book and the Book Fair in each succeeding year.
In 2005 her first non-fiction work titled In the Shadow of the Mosque, about her life as a middle-aged woman living on a United Nations compound in Saudi Arabia, was published.
She won a writing contest in 2006. The first prize was publication, and Christmas in Time a short story, was released in time for the Christmas season.
Sometime, Somewhere, her sixth book, was published in October, 2007.
- Address for autographed copy: 148 Meadow View Drive, Phoenix, Oregon 97535.
- Books
- Sometime, Somewhere
FICTION | ROMANTIC TIME TRAVEL
Marianne Viele, an archaeologist is researching the historic value of an old abandoned restaurant when she is startled by a New York City Police Officer. Pete Wolfson recognizes Mari as the woman who visits his dreams.Neither is aware they have loved each other in many previous lives and that their present meeting was predestined by her tragic death in Colonial New Amsterdam in 1647, and his vow to find her again – “Sometime, Somewhere.”
- $19.99 | ISBN: 978-1-4257-7979-5
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- Wave Me Goodbye
FICTION | HISTORICAL
As the Punjohpur sails down the River Mersey and Liverpool disappears from view, Cilla’s noble ideas of serving her country by accompanying 241 children evacuees from Britain to safety in Canada are beginning to wane – and well they might. The year is 1940 and Britain is at war. - $16.95 | ISBN: 1-59286-251-9
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- Deceive Me Not
FICTION | MYSTERY/ROMANCE
Imagine learning at the age of forty-nine that you were adopted and in the course of tracing your birth parents, find your thirty-year marriage threatened by the outcome. Underlying the adventure, mystery and murder is the story of a love that, having thrived for thirty years is strengthened by coming close to being lost forever. - $16.95 | ISBN: 1-4137-02400-0
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- In The Shadow Of The Mosque
NON-FICTION | BIOGRAPHY
Nothing prepared me, a middle-aged American housewife, for life or for my culturally shocking,
mind-broadening experiences during my four years in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Islam dictated the rules under which I lived. Forbidden to work or drive a car, I couldn’t leave the confines of the housing compound alone and only when wearing a full-length dress with a high neck and long sleeves. - $16.95 | ISBN: 1-4137-8466-6
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- Christmas In Time
FICTION | HISTORICAL/ROMANCE
Summer is running for her life when she runs through time, and into the arms of an army officer in the Revolutionary War. On a cold, snowy night, just before Christmas, Summer Day escapes an abusive relationship by driving her little sports car north to New York. When her car spins out of control on an icy freeway, she is forced to walk…right into a 1776 outpost of George Washington’s Continental Army…and a forever love. - This book won the publisher’s 2006 writing contest. The publisher is no longer in business, but the book can be ordered directly from the author at jura@jeffnet.org. The price is $8.95 including postage.