“The Passion of Marta” – written by Mason City native Caren Umbarger – was selected as a 2017 Nautilus Silver Award Winner. The Nautilus awards recognize book that “that nurture positive change to co-create a better world.” This is Umbarger’s second self-published novel after “The Passion of Marta,” which was a finalist for a 2017 Chanticleer Goethe Award. Umbarger lives in St. Augustine, Florida with her husband.

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