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BOOK SPOTLIGHT: STEEL VALLEY

I am pleased to spotlight the book, Steel Valley, by Jerry Madden in The Coffee Pot Book Club Blog Tour held on February 22nd, 2024. Steel Valley: Coming of Age in the Ohio Valley in the 1960s is a Historical Fiction published by Potomac Publishing Company on  January 20, 2023 (350 pages).

Below are highlights of Steel Valley and Jerry Madden’s author biography.

Tour Schedule Page: https://thecoffeepotbookclub.blogspot.com/2024/01/blog-tour-steel-valley-by-jerry-madden.html

HIGHLIGHTS: STEEL VALLEY

Steel Valley: Coming of Age in the Ohio Valley in the 1960s
By Jerry Madden

Blurb:

For readers of The World Played Chess by Robert Dugoni and Last Summer Boys by Bill Rivers

Love is never easy…even in easier times, like the 1950s and 1960s in the Ohio Valley with the steel industry booming.

Second-generation immigrant families were reaching for the American middle class. And Catholic schools — made feasible by selfless Catholic nuns — promised bigger lives for everyone, including Jack Clark and Laurie Carmine. As they spent years searching for their separate futures, though, they were also stumbling toward love just as their world came crashing down.

Steel Valley depicts a story of love longed for, lost, and perhaps still within reach, just as our nation’s mythic yesterday became our troubled today, our last summer of innocence.

Buy Link:

Universal Buy Link: https://books2read.com/u/3nGw5K

AUTHOR BIO: JERRY MADDEN

Jerry Madden grew up in the Upper Ohio Valley in the 1960s. He holds a B.A. from the College of Steubenville and law degrees from the University of Dayton School of Law and the Georgetown University Law Center. After law school, Jerry served as the sole law clerk to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, C. William O’Neill. He served in the United States Marine Corps (R) between 1970 and 1976.

Jerry has practiced law in Washington, D.C., since 1979, including fourteen years at the Department of Justice as a trial and appellate attorney. He is the principal of The Madden Law Group PLLC in Washington, D.C.

He lives in Northern Virginia with his wife, Cyndi, a retired educator. They have two children, Kelsey and Jack, both of whom hold M.Ed. degrees. They have one grandchild, Jamie Maclennan.

Author Links:

Website: https://steelvalleymadden.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/JerryMadden1948

Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Jerry-Madden/author/B0BV19VM3F

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/199752995-steel-valley

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