title: The Healing Fountain: a novel
author:  I. B. Hunger 
description: Manuela I.B. Stafford, aka I.B Hunger is a naturalized American. She was born and raised in pre- and post-war Germany. She was an Army-wife for over 20 years, a mother of two children, and has lived over 50 years in America. She traveled extensively and familiarized herself with different cultures and languages. She has a Masters in Education and taught many years. After her retirement she published the first book, a memoir: Searching the Ruins. The theme is growing up during WWII Germany and wishing for a better life abroad. Now, I.B. Hunger, lives with her husband, Rick in New Braunfels, Texas where she strives to preserve the best of her German heritage. They love dancing and singing in a German choir. The Healing Fountain is fiction. Her novel is told through three major characters, one very old man who lives in a nursing home and two professional, single ladies. The woman connected through the Internet. Christel lives in Hamburg, and Angela resides in Dallas, Texas. They are professional women, wondering about their lives after retirement. First, they go down memory lane, share experiences and become fast friends. An old love is relived, family gatherings shared, and new aspirations evolve. They inspire each other as both friends discover new talents and desires. During one visit, they explore a peaceful border between Germany and Poland and make plans to find the "Healing fountain" Angela remembers as a child. Angela finds success and happiness in America while keeping a connection to her past. Before the old man dies, he gives names and contacts in Poland which turn out to be real life people who have descendants interested in making contact with Christel and Angela. The novel ends and a new novel is being created to be named later.
zlib_text: HEALED BY HUNGER
  THE Happy Endings resort series book 34
  THE WOLF CREEK PACK
  Crystal Rister
  HEALED BY HUNGER (The Happy Endings Resort Series Book 34)
  Copyright © 2018 by Crystal Rister
  All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or
  reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations
  embodied in critical articles or reviews.
  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events and
  incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to
  actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
  Book and Cover design by Crystal Rister
  
  First Edition: January 2018
  
  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  A huge thank you goes to Author Jennifer Benson for bringing The Happy
  Endings Resort to life. There are so many wonderful characters and stories
  that have been written there, and so many more to come. Than