LB Johnson
LB "Brigid" Johnson is the award-winning author of Non-Fiction and Fiction and two times winner of the Reader's Favorite International Book Award. She lives in Chicago with her husband and two rescue dogs, a place she landed after hanging up her wings in a career as an airline pilot to pursue a profession that allowed her to care fo an elderly family member. 100% of her writing proceeds go to animal rescue.
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The Book of Barkley - Love and Life Through the Eyes of a Labrador Retriever
Memoir
How Much Dog Hair Does it Take to Heal a Broken Heart? Pilot turned Law Enforcement Investigator, LB Johnson thought she had the world by the tail until a bundle of mayhem disguised as a lab puppy came into her life. After heartbreak as a young teen Mom, and witnessing too much violence for one lifetime, she wasn't going to get too attached to another living creature, but Barkley had other plans for her. The Amazon #1 Best Seller The Book of Barkley: Love and Life Through the Eyes of a Labrador Retriever takes readers from the author's grief and loss at a young age to an empowering new life chock-full of love. But Johnson's life change didn't come from just her renewed faith or from friends, but instead from a black Labrador who taught her the real, innate meaning of love. In a wholly-unique and uplifting new memoir, Johnson tells the deeply personal story of her life and experiences with a rambunctious Labrador retriever named Barkley. It's not just a story of one woman and her dog, but a bold journey to discover what love really is, and why learning to live like a dog gives humanity a powerful new meaning. |
Saving Grace - A Story of Adoption
Non-Fiction, Biography
It started with a piece of paper--a birth certificate, sent to the author's parents long after her birth. There is much history in that piece of paper. For she was born to an unwed mother in the generation prior to Roe v. Wade, on a warm day in August--a small, painful beginning in which she had been an unwilling participant, yet one that would shape her destiny. She is adopted into a loving Christian home with another child that would become her beloved brother. Then as her brother leaves for the military, her mother dying from cancer, and her Dad consumed with grief, she finds herself alone, to emotionally fend for herself. Looking for a lifeline, she finds herself pregnant; she's a teen and a college student, abandoned at the news. The options are obvious, but there is only one decision she could make: to give her child up to a family praying for one and walking away. Saving Grace is more than a story of adoption. It's a deep look into family--at hope and faith and why we end our days surrounded by souls that may not bear our name or share our blood, but who are our true family. |
Small Town Roads
Christian Fiction
With a recent college degree and big dreams, rookie Law Police Officer Rachel Raines seeks a temporary place to hide a heart full of loss after losing her parents. The bequest of her late aunt's house n rural Illinois seems like the perfect opportunity for both if she can survive an old house and inevitable challenges of being the rookie on a small town force. It's a place unlike any she has lived in - a tiny town with no coffee baristas, no nightlife, and one single restaurant that has a giant cow perched on the roof. It was not the life she had expected. Sometimes God has other plans for us. Down the street, her aunt's best friend marks the passing of seasons and neighbors, long mired in her loneliness as a widow. When the young woman with scars of her own befriends her, they strike up an unlikely friendship across generations that just might help them both heal. Small Town Roads is a beautifully told, heartwarming story. It is not just a story of life in rural America; it is finding the best in people, including ourselves, in the most unlikely of places. |
True Course - Lessons From a Life Aloft
Memoir
Raised in a small factory town in the 1960s, when aviation was predominantly a male profession, with parents who didn't support her ambitions, Brigid nevertheless learned to fly. Hers was a busy life of setting limits and learning philosophies of growth and risk well beyond her years, even as she juggled two jobs, college, and a rescue Siberian husky whose wandering spirit put her own to shame. From the first solo flight to an airline career, and finally a decision to hang up her wings for another profession when her elderly father needed her care, Brigid captures with understanding, humor, and grace the moments that change the path of our lives. With a lyrical expression of her love for flight, she writes old and new stories of family, adventure, and the thrill of taking to the sky. True Course is more than a memoir or a story of the lure of aviation--it's a story of learning to let the spirit soar and unfurling the wings of personal freedom, an inspiration to adventurers everywhere. |