Silver Lining on sale for $20 at local stores through holidays

From now through the Christmas holiday season, Silver Lining in a Funnel Cloud: Greed, Corruption, and the Joplin Tornado will be on sale for $20 at its local retail outlets.

Copies of the book are available in Joplin at Always Buying Books, Changing Hands Book Store, and The Book Guy.

The book details the events in Joplin from the May 22, 2011, tornado through the "retirement" of Joplin R-8 Superintendent C. J. Huff.

It tells the stories of how Joplin city government and the Joplin R-8 School District dealt with the tornado and the recovery, concentrating on such leading figures as Huff, Mark Rohr, Mike Woolston, David Wallace, and Angie Besendorfer.

The local stores also have copies of my other books including No Child Left Alive, Let Teachers Teach, Scars from the Tornado, 5:41: Stories from the Joplin Tornado, and Spirit of Hope available.

The price of Silver Lining has been reduced from $24.99 to $21.99 on Amazon and its Create Space website and some Amazon sellers have it priced lower.