In this Q&A with the author, we prepared some possible book club questions that could be posed. Lucyk-Berger provides her insights and the background to writing the characters' lives in...

In August 1948, the farmers of the Reschen Valley awoke to a storm alarm. The sky was blue. But water was seeping into their fields. The company that was building...

In recent weeks, many of my readers have sent me links to various articles about how the remnants beneath the Reschen Lake Reservoir have “come...

In light of the memorials that have been destroyed and taken down from public spaces this past year, historian Hannes Obermair examines how monuments and memorials should depict both perpetrator...

So, what in the series is true and what has been “manipulated” for the sake of story in the Reschen Valley series? Here’s a list...

The Hamlet of Arlund  Katharina Thaler: Opa’s granddaughter, the last remaining relative of the Thaler family, in Book 1, she wants to inherit the farm; in...

Here’s a list, in alphabetical order, of the foreign words most commonly used in the series (links to Google images included for most):  Ahnenpass the...

Here is a resource of maps from the series that will help you with the geographical orientation. Map of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire in 1914 (before WW1) Map...

Welcome to the Reschen Valley Have you ever been to the northern province of Italy called the Alto Adige / South Tyrol? Come with me....