Johanna van Zanten

About The Author

Johanna Van Zanten is an immigrant to Canada from The Netherlands (1982). As she continued her job as a social worker, she discovered the life-altering gift of writing later in life when she began writing short stories. When some of these stories made the shortlist in contests and were published, she took courage and expanded into writing novels. Now retired from her day job, she enjoys her life writing, dividing her time between Canada and Mexico.

Books by Johanna van Zanten

Imposter
By Johanna van Zanten
Johanna is one of the daughters of a migrant cobbler from the eastern backwoods of Pomerania, born in the German Empire of the 1880s. Aching for a life of accomplishment and respect, she resolves to escape her dad's fate of early death, the stigma of his mixed Slavic-German heritage, and the pove...
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place

A Dutch Policeman Fighting the Nazi Occupation

By Johanna van Zanten
Between a Rock and a Hard Place is set in the Netherlands during World War II. Jacob van Noorden is a military policeman with a wife and two children, and a third on the way, just assigned his first job as chief of a crew in a rural town close to the German border.When the German army invades and...
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