Dancing Backward in Paradise
Dancing Backward in Paradise

Author: Vera Jane Cook

Publisher: Bublish, Inc.

Published: 2007-06-12

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 0986404837

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Life for Grace Place is all about sucking on “meat jerkys” and Lenny Bean, her handsome lover. However, Grace’s mother has loftier plans for her daughter. She insists that Grace save her money and move to New York City so she can find fame and fortune as an actress. Grace works as a cleaning lady for wealthy Betty Ann Houseman so she can pool her pennies for the trip north. Betty Ann has a passion for men more pronounced than her overbite, and it isn’t long before she’s parting the sheets for Lenny Bean. But just before Grace leaves Hixson,Tennessee for New York City, she uncovers an insidious plot: the Bean family is trying to steal Betty Ann’s estate. Without being able to help Betty Ann, Grace flees to New York, where she faces her darkest hours. In a world of surprises, Grace truly discovers paradise. poetic,mystery,southern fiction,womens fiction,humorous,southern writers,southern books,1960s books,lesbian character,1960s stories,civil rights themes,love stories

Dancing Backwards
Dancing Backwards

Author: Salley Vickers

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2010-08-03

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1429979887

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Violet Hetherington has taken the rash step of joining a transatlantic cruise to New York to visit Edwin, an old friend. As she makes the six-day crossing, she relives the traumatic events that led to her losing Edwin's friendship and abandoning her career as a poet for the safety of marriage and domesticity. Despite her natural reserve, she meets a rich variety of passengers traveling with her, who affect her understanding of her own past. Most significant, she meets Dino, the dancing host, whose motives in befriending Vi are shady but who teaches her to ballroom dance and inadvertently helps her to recover from her past. Moving between the late sixties and the present day, Dancing Backwards is written with the lightness of touch and psychological insight that characterize Salley Vickers's acclaimed work. This bittersweet novel is subtle, poignant, and wonderfully entertaining.

The Memory of Music
The Memory of Music

Author: Vera Jane Cook

Publisher: Indies United

Published: 2022-05-25

Total Pages: 522

ISBN-13: 1644564505

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Kissing a lot of frogs is what Fanny Fournier does best...... But she's always known the love of her life though she loses him to time, circumstance, and misunderstanding. Will she find him again amidst the debris of her mistakes or is she buried too far under to see what's right in front of her? Follow Sheela's daughter, Fanny Fournier in this third installment of The Fourniers as she struggles for her identity in this contemporary bi-racial saga of loss, mistakes, and miracles. A compelling book of woman's fiction about friendship, loss, and the bonds we form with those we love.

Glamor Girl
Glamor Girl

Author: Vera Jane Cook

Publisher: Indies United

Published: 2021-09-06

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1644563401

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Escaping from her childhood, Sheela, flees her aunt's motel where she is forced to work as a cleaning maid and provide ‘favors’ for wealthy guests and winds up in Miami in Kit Malone's fancy brothel. Beautiful and stately, Sheela becomes a high-class prostitute, a millionaire’s mistress and a Billy Rose showgirl. When she meets the love of her life in Manhattan, the charming but naive Julius Clark, life blossoms into something both frightening and titillating. But when Sheela gives birth to her daughter, Fanny, it is this shadowy and stormy relationship that alters the course of both of their destinies and defines their future.

Nobody's Road
Nobody's Road

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Publisher: Indies United

Published: 2022-01-19

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 1644564130

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n 2045 America is ruled by ‘The Brain’. It’s a country of dried-up rivers, computer project educations, holographs, and robots. Most species have died off and even fresh air is scarce. Children don’t form bonds and therefore can’t love. They become drones – dangerous killers. The answer lies on a road in Pindar Corners but to find it is to risk the loss of your soul. In need of a hero, Harry Erin Cooper steps up to the plate and, along with his wife, Adina, they restore what should have been.

Annabel Horton, Lost Witch of Salem
Annabel Horton, Lost Witch of Salem

Author: Olivia Hardy Ray

Publisher: Bublish, Inc.

Published: 2011-06-03

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 0986404845

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From the Salem Witch trials through the Nineteenth Century and beyond, Annabel Horton, one of God’s most powerful witches, is pursued by the devil’s disciple, Urban Grandier, a demonic spirit bent on possessing her. In order to save herself and her family, she must take the bodies of those that the devil favors and uncover the motive behind the illusive Ursula, also known as Louis Bossidan, a scandalous cross-dresser who is pursuing her beautiful granddaughter. Most importantly, she must learn how to use her impressive power. But will it be enough to save her husband from Urbain’s fiery inferno? Will it be enough to save her children from demons greater than themselves? Reader Reviews: “A hauntingly beautiful and well-written tale of the Lost Witch of Salem.” “This is not just a novel, it is an experience.”

Annabel Horton and the Black Witch of Pau
Annabel Horton and the Black Witch of Pau

Author: Olivia Hardy Ray

Publisher: Chatter Creek Publishing

Published: 2019-10-01

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 1950282759

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“...enchanting… Just the tale for a dark winter’s night.” — Grady Harp, Hall of Fame, Top 100 Amazon Reviewer Despite Annabel Horton’s frantic search through time, her beloved husband, Michele has been missing for years. It’s during the horror of Jack the Ripper in London, 1888, that he’s finally discovered, hopelessly trapped in the bowels of White Chapel England. Annabel and her family attempt to rescue Michele from the Black Witch’s cage, but it’s a trap concocted by the Black Witch in exchange for her freedom, and now the devil has Annabel all to himself. Ensnared in a web of death, the only person that can save them is the Black Witch. But will she give up her taste of freedom to help Annabel and her loved ones escape the devil’s grasp?

The Story of Sassy Sweetwater
The Story of Sassy Sweetwater

Author: Vera Jane Cook

Publisher: Bublish, Inc.

Published: 2012-06-12

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 0986404829

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After thirteen years on the run Violet McLaughlin returns to Carter’s Crossing, South Carolina, in 1962, with her young daughter, Sassy. The Crossing is right outside of Beaufort and the turmoil of the Civil Rights movement will forever leave its scars on the young and impressionable girl. As Sassy stands before the imposing white farmhouse for the first time, with no knowledge of her history but that the McLaughlin's are her kin, Sassy begins a journey that will tear her apart before it heals her. Growing up among secrets that will forever damage her relationship with her mother, she attempts to make sense of her past. But will her passion for art and her love for Thomas Tierney be enough to sustain her future? Will the journey she must take to discover the truth be worth it?