Laura DeNooyer

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Laura DeNooyer thrives on creativity and encouraging it in others. A Calvin College graduate, she is a teacher, wife, parent of four adult children, and an award-winning author of heart-warming historical and contemporary fiction. Her novels are perfect for fans of Patti Callahan Henry, Melanie Dobson, or Amanda Cox. A Hundred Magical Reasons won multiple awards, including the Hawthorne Prize for Fiction (May 2025). All That Is Hidden won First Place in the Firebird Book Awards for Southern Fiction and Literary Fiction (April 2025). When Laura’s not writing, you’ll find her reading, walking, drinking tea with friends, or taking a road trip.

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The Broken Weathervane

Two co-workers seek the same information. One wants to publish it; the other has good reasons to keep it hidden. As Leslie Wickersham, Raymond University grants officer, seeks information to unravel a family mystery, English professor Gregory Stafford seeks an elusive interview with one more Buckwalter relative for his upcoming author biography. In this dual timeline novel alternating between 2015 and the 1950s, loyalty is tested and secrets abound when family honor collides with truth. Leslie grapples with the trade-off: how far will a person go to help a loved one thrive?

  • A Hundred Magical Reasons

    Is it too late for this fairy tale’s happy ending? This whimsical, poignant split-time historical fiction is rooted in a girl’s unlikely childhood friendship with The Wizard of Oz Author, L. Frank Baum, and his influence across four generations.

  • Are secrets worth the price they cost to keep? In 1968, trouble erupts when northern exploitation threatens ten-year-old Tina Hamilton’s southern Appalachian town and her father’s hidden past catches up to him.