Words from a Fearless Heart: A Collection of Wit, Wisdom, and Whimsy

Laura Ingalls Wilder has long been admired for being a strong, yet sensitive, woman ahead of her time. She felt that in order to appreciate how far you have come, as a nation and as a people, you must first know where you began. Wilder believed that Americans needed only to be reminded of the things that made them great: not automobiles and airplanes, but self-reliance and character. And so it is to her rediscovered journalistic writings that Words from a Fearless Heart turns - to inform you of Laura's point of view about the things that really matter.

Stephen Hines has published both fiction and poetry but is best known as a "literary prospector" who has brought back forgotten works by famous children's author Laura Ingalls Wilder, and works by Louisa May Alcott, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. His researches have taken him from the Herbert Hoover Library in West Branch, Iowa, to correspondence with British researchers dealing with the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the United Kingdom. More than half a million copies of books he has collected and edited are in print, and he has had three bestsellers: Little House in the Ozarks, "I Remember Laura", and The Quiet Little Woman. He continues to write fiction and poetry and has been a newspaper humor columnist for seven years.