Molly Anne Warring (1937- ) Molly Anne is an accredited public relations practitioner having worked in that field for over 50 years. She is the President of her own company, Warring Channels Inc. She has worked in the public and private sectors. Molly Anne worked in the Alberta Legislature as an Executive Assistant to two Ministers of the Crown as well as EA to the Alberta Government Telephone Commission Board, the predecessor to TELUS. She totally enjoyed working for Dow Chemical as the Public Relations Director for Western Canada. Molly Anne served on many boards and commissions such as the Capital Health Board, Health Facilities Review Committee as the Vice Chairman for six years, and the Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation Board. She has volunteered for multiple charities including the Salvation Army and the Herb Jamison Center and the Hope Mission.

For her volunteer efforts she was decorated with the Queen Elizabeth Golden Jubilee Medal. Further recognitions were the Alberta Centennial Medal of Distinction and a citation and honour by the Premier of Alberta, the award of the Centennial silver medal given to Albertans for outstanding charity work in their respective communities.

There is nothing more impressive than seeing a human showing their love toward their pet and that pet returning that love; but much more so… in fact tenfold more!

This book is a labour of love by Molly Anne Warring for her over 80-year lifetime. It follows her life since she was a small child growing up on a poor farm starting in the late 1930s. Particularly interesting is how all her pets on the farm interacted with her to make her life a total blessing on earth. She writes about how she served as the midwife delivering piglets when she was only 5 or 6 years old. It tells you about the horses, calves, and even her pet hens, Pricilla and Bernice. However, the story focuses mostly on her pets of the last few years. Her beloved Emma, the Yellow Lab which she and her husband, Lou loved and adored for over 11 years. It focuses on her present pets, Ellen, her 17 year old Calico cat, and her two grey male cats, Emil and Marko with whom she now shares her life. Molly Anne has even included the thoughts of her animals as she perceives them to be. The story explains her belief in the Rainbow Bridge and the army of her loving pets who are waiting for her at that bridge to greet her when she passes to the other side and how they will all enter heaven together.

It is a story well worth reading for people of all ages!

This book is Molly Anne Warring´s fourth and it will be followed by a book entitled The Judas Factor. Her first three books were entitled; Paradise Acres, which rose to the best sellers list for 8 weeks, this was followed by Lost Paradise and Return to Paradise. All three books were nominated for the Governor General´s Literary Award.

Molly Anne Warring is the author of the best selling novel, Paradise Acres; The Stry-Ker Family Saga and Lost Paradise. Both novels were Governor General Nominees in 2005 and 2007. Return to Paradise is the last novel in the Stry-Ker Family Saga trilogy...the Paradise Series. This riveting novel starts in 1953 where Paradise Acres ends. The new colorful, intense, sensitive, kind and somewhat roguish characters emerge, including: Bohdan Barbaruk; Nurse Marilyn MacLean; Gus Kartofilous; Norma Louise Kaditz; Rob McLellan and Luc Demers of the RCMP; Sue Ellen and Ellie Sue Hatfield from Kentucky; Bishop Demitri; and father Yuri of Ukraine. These and the surviving characters from Paradise Acres and Lost Paradise make this story one you won´t want to stop reading! Franki Stry-Ker upholds his Ukrainian traditions. He continues his workaholic ways while Sandi tries to fit in but resents the unreasonable goals which he´s set for himself. Almost until the end, Franki wonders why life is treating him unfairly until he finds the true meaning of life. Nicky and Susan Stry-Ker, the children of Franki and Sandi, struggle with their complicated lives. A most unlikely source witnesses a grisly scene which affects almost everyone in the novel. There are as many twists and hair-pin turns in this novel as there are in a mountainous road and a mountain road plays a major role in this story. Betrayal and loss of trust also play significant roles in the character´s lives. Many of the remaining mysteries are solved before the novel ends.

Molly Anne Warring's riveting saga of the Stry-Ker family continues in "Lost Paradise". This historical novel tells a timeless tale of how human greed can destroy a family for generations, but also how the intertwining lives of ordinary people result in murder, mystery, lust, and most importantly, love. Set in western Canada, Lost Paradise spans the period from 1931 to 1976, and encompasses not only the everyday lives of everyday people, but also the effects of world events on past and future generations. This heartwarming tale reveals the richness of human nature and the never-ending strength of the human spirit which survives in all of us and weaves through generation after generation in the tapestry of life. The main characters include: Emily Pushinsky; Angela Tassky; Moe Chadi and his father, Ali; Helenka, Joseph, Olana and Stefka Pushinsky; Father Bill; Dr. Tatonga, the native doctor; Dr. Owler, the psychiatrist; Mike Murphy, the Bostonian; Frank Saccomanno; Oscar Lacombe; Mitchell Penarsky and Vito Pantaloni.

This work of historical fiction begins in 1903 in Sosnitcha, a remote small village in the Empire of the Hapsburgs in Austria. The main protagonists are Evan and Tainka Stracher. However, when they decide to immigrate to Canada, the various train and shipping agents as well as the Canadian Immigration officials changed their name to "The Stry-Kers." Paradise Acres: the Stry-Ker Family Saga highlights the adventures and hardships of Evan and Tainka in the pioneering days on the Canadian prairies. It shows how their faith in God helped them cope with the severe conditions of their new land and helped them endure bitter experiences. It also reveals some of the Ukrainian traditions they brought with them into the new land. These traditions, well contained in their former village in Austria are shaken by unusual relationships, by unsavoury neighbours, by medicine women, and by midwives. Paradise Acres: the Stry-Ker Family Saga is set generally in Shady Hollow and particularly in Edmonton, Alberta. However, the story reaches as far as Kentucky and Europe during the Second World War. It tells an intriguing tale about moonshine stills from Prohibition to the Second World War, the cottage industry of raising Clydesdales and race horses, and the discovery of oil in Alberta and its effects on families. This novel is heart-warming and suspenseful and absorbs the reader in the joys, sorrows, and challenges of an exceptional pioneer family, the Stry-Kers.