When virtuous Hannah Bunch set out to trap herself a husband at the spinsterly age of 26, she hardly dreamed she'd be compromised by a blue-eyed stranger. Her reputation shattered, she promises to honor and cherish him always--never suspecting that his secret will threaten her life. From the author of Courting Miss Hattie.
Thalia persuades her sisters, Muses Era and Polly, to help her avoid an arranged marriage, but their plan goes awry and Zeus sends the girls to Earth--only instead of arriving in ancient Athens, Greece, they arrive in modern Athens, Georgia.
In The Heaven-Sent Leaf, Katy Lederer draws on her experience as both acclaimed younger poet and "brainworker" at a hedge fund in midtown Manhattan to produce an uncannily prescient work of high lyric. Though on its surface The Heaven-Sent Leaf addresses that most taboo of subjects--money--what it ultimately confronts is what it means to be, as Wallace Stevens put it, "finally human." Working in the tradition of the flaneur, Lederer charts her speakers' interior landscapes according to the city's highly monetized geography, viewing life in the big city through the lens of expenditure--not just of money, but of all that money signifies. In poems that are both heartfelt and ruthlessly critical of our current financial milieu, in which the fates of individuals are packaged, priced out, and then bundled for sale on the open market, Lederer proves Robert Graves's famous observation wrong: though there may be no money in poetry, there is indeed poetry in money. "Sparkling and strange, acrobatic but never evasive, clear-eyed about its own emotional life even as it takes semantics for a tumble, Katy Lederer's book-length sequence of not-quite-sonnets measures up to its contemporaries as a chronicle of love in and out of a life, in dramatis personae and in the poet's own soul: it excels all those contemporaries, and swerves away from almost all its precedents, in following at once the love and the money."--Stephen Burt "These lyrically crisp poems chronicle the poet (gendered female) as 'brainworker' in contemporary New York. Where is prayer? Where nature? Where love? They are not to be found on the dizzying streetscape as seen from the top of an office building, but in the head and the heart of the poet buffeted by money-drenched dreams. 'I hate to be alone' Lederer writes, in the perfect 'Parable of Times Square.' But in this poem, and indeed this book, the remedy to the cold solitude of cash-getting is not other people but poetry."--Jennifer Moxley Katy Lederer is the author of the poetry collection Winter Sex (Wave Books, 2002) and the memoir Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers (Crown Publishers, 2003), which Publishers Weekly included on its list of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2003 and Esquire named one of its eight Best Books of the Year in 2003.
Between her dedicated nursing at Mercy Hospital and plans to be a missionary in India, Ketura Lindsey had no time to think about marriage. But to follow God’s plan, she had to acknowledge that love was part of His higher purpose for her life. Yet did He really intend her to find wedded bliss with her high school nemesis, Jared Pierce? Jared, the star of the baseball team, had hurt tall, gangly Ket with his teasing. Now an intern at Mercy, he was a constant presence in her heart and mind. But would Jared, who dated beauty queens, ever notice—let alone propose to—a plain Jane?
Angels come in many guises; some have broken wings... Evie's life is in tatters. She has a father she barely knows, a step-dad she'd rather she didn't and a best friend going off the rails. Then there's the brace she has to wear for her wonky spine. So when the gorgeous Gabe crashes into her world, claiming he's been sent to save her, Evie's desperate to believe him. But Gabe isn't all he seems and Evie is drawn into a whole new set of calamities. Can she ever be saved? Can he? Heaven Sent is a story of love, trust and redemption in a world where not everyone is the perfect fit.
Heaven Scent is based on Salvation and your walk with Christ Jesus Romans 10:9-10, there are a variety of topics included, But all under the guidance of our Father in Heaven Pamela is a Deaconess in her home church where she has written several poems for the auxiliaries there including friends and family Writing comes naturally through the will of God Pamela hopes and prays your Hearts will be lifted as you Walk through these series of poems that something in them will inspire you to seek Jesus Christ for your personnel Savior as she and her family has done
Heaven's Scent is an adventure in romantic and poetic imagery filled with deep spirituality. Entering this world of love and romance melts into the folds of a realm reaching into the fabric of our soul. Travel together with two lovers looking for the intimacy born of desire. To love and to be loved. Sometimes this journey takes years for the searching soul to find. Ultimately it might be right at the heart's door crying for a reply. Come away with me my beloved and enter into the delicacies of my rich and aromatic embrace.
The Sexy Sixties! Charlie was part of it, but he wasn't. He had the key but they changed the locks. Charlie and the staff of the Sandown Chronicle soon have something to take their minds off sunshine summers of love, when the sleepy seaside resort is rocked by a series of mystery explosions. Is it the Isle of Wight Rebublican Army? Charlie and his fellow hacks are hot on the trail, but time is running out on a very short fuse.
The inspiration behind the book A Better Way! The first thing that inspired me to bring out this book was I started going to church & felt a change come about in my life. I started putting my thoughts & feelings on paper & started reading them back to myself. The words were so profound that I was compelled to share them with others. After sharing them with others that was confirmation that I needed to bring out a book. I believed in my manuscript & trusted in God that it would be a success. The blessing is others may come to believe in the Lord in the name of Jesus. Amen