Diamonds on a River of Tears

Diamonds on a River of Tears

Author: Lr Penn

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2009-10

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 1438948131

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In this stunning work of historical fiction, LR Penn has concocted a breathtaking epic adventure that begins in 1890 in a small Zulu village in South Africa but spans three centuries and two continents. It is also a personal memoir that tells the story of a family torn apart by a racist totalitarian regime. The book examines a series of powerful conflicts: the cultural clash between ancient ethnic traditions and encroaching Western values; the political battle between the underground resistance movement and the repressive military strength of a modern nation state; and stirring personal conflicts, as illustrated by the impossibly difficult choices that the novel's heroes are forced to make - between the quest for liberation and the pursuit of love, between a family's security and a people's freedom. Diamonds on a River of Tears presents an in depth portrait of day-to-day life in a society altogether out of balance, playfully juxtaposing its comic absurdities and tragic injustices, but ultimately handing down a moral indictment that all of contemporary civilization will have to face.


Dancing with the Diamond Star

Dancing with the Diamond Star

Author: Daria Kathleen Sherman PhD

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2018-02-19

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 1365479439

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"When we surrender the polarized distinctions that catalogue our life experiences from dualistic perceptions, we will live in an enlightened state where there are no opposites."--Back cover


Martyr

Martyr

Author: Kathleen Woolrich

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2018-11-20

Total Pages: 117

ISBN-13: 0578419017

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Martyr was written over a three year period between 2015 and 2018. It was begun while Kathleen was living in Algiers, Algeria with her daughter and continues through the summer of 2018 in Oran, Tlemcen, Sidi Bel Abbes, Algeria and through the fall of 2018. In 2008, Kathleen's son Rayan Mehdi passed away and she was inconsolable. This book, MARTYR, is the result of three years of therapeutic writing. Kathleen writes in English but often incorporates Algerian Dardja or Algerian Arabic into her writing. Martyr is the sequel to THE BOOK OF MOULAY, published in 2015. There are also poems written after Kathleen visited Morocco in 2015. There are influences from both countries in the body of her work. Kathleen took her daughter Zahra to Algeria in the winter of 2015 2016 and lived in Algiers in an apartment in a neighborhood called Birmourad Rais. She returned to Algeria in the summer of 2018 and travelled to Batna and drove across the country and wrote and filmed.


Faith Over Fear: The Life and Sentence of Yolanda Diamond

Faith Over Fear: The Life and Sentence of Yolanda Diamond

Author: Yolanda Diamond

Publisher: Dorrance Publishing

Published: 2020-11-17

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 164957844X

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Faith Over Fear By: Yolanda Diamond Faith Over Fear signifies the closest moments of difficulties and feeling God’s presence while having served a life sentence, plus twenty-five years, in prison. By any measure, author Yolanda Diamond is one of the most caring, encouraging, and tenacious individuals, though she is the first to admit that she’s not perfect. Diamond struggled with her emotions, haunting family secrets, and the hopes of gaining parole, as she was continuously betrayed and wracked by envy and ignorance daily. She tried to become a better being as she gained an unshakable strength. When Diamond discovered the shocking news that her mother has terminal cancer, she put her fright and sadness into perspective and gained courage. For the fierce love of her children, Diamond decided to face her fears, open her heart and mind. She pursued forgiveness in this remarkable, heart-wrenching story. She courageously take readers on her journey. It is a life changing experience as she walks in strength after serving twenty years in a cutthroat penal system. Hers is unique because she is able to give you a firsthand account from true life events. Her hope for forgiveness was comprehensible during the traumatic aftermath of an unintended vehicle accident that took the lives of three family members and an unborn child.


Acres of Diamonds

Acres of Diamonds

Author: Russell H. Conwell

Publisher:

Published: 1915

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13:

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Russell H. Conwell Founder Of Temple University Philadelphia.


The Diamond Hunters

The Diamond Hunters

Author: Wilbur Smith

Publisher: Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

Published: 2018-01-01

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1785765914

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An action-packed thriller of family, business and betrayal - perfect for fans of Succession - by global sensation Wilbur Smith. 'A master storyteller' - Sunday Times 'Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are compared' - The Times 'No one does adventure quite like Smith' - Daily Mirror Some people will never have enough . . . Johnny Lance was taken in by the Van Der Byls when he was an orphaned boy, and his life has been dedicated to making his adoptive father proud. But his efforts have been in vain, his father loathes him and, in his dying breath, makes one final demand of his biological son, the jealous and vengeful Benedict: to destroy his half-brother. When Johnny is tricked by Benedict into losing his entire fortune to the Van Der Byls company, he becomes a laughingstock. Benedict's sister, the smart and beautiful Tracey, loves Johnny and buys him a concession in the diamond rich seabeds of the South-West African Coast. But the obsessive Benedict has been shaped at his father's hand and will do anything to finish what he started. Even if it means destroying everything . . .


River's End

River's End

Author: Melody Carlson

Publisher: Abingdon Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 142671274X

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With brokenness and humility, three generations of women return to their roots to discover who they are and who they are meant to be.