Doctor Eleanor Sutherland is urgently summoned back to the family home, by her Senior Police Officer father. To her horror, with Ministerial approval she was made sole heir to the estate of the now deceased British MP, Nigel Trevisa. Her father reveals a story of covert data gathering on Nigel Trevisa. How did he achieve high office? Why did his sexual predatory tendencies go unpunished? Where did the money come from to acquire a grand lifestyle? His task turned into an obsession as the questions went unanswered. Together with trusted family and friends, Eleanor yields to her father’s request if only to untangle herself from his spooky world. As the pace accelerates, the vengefulness and brutality of Trevisa’s only offspring Cassandra, comes as a complete shock to all. In Eleanor’s battle to stay alive she not only takes on the persona of someone brave and fearless, but places her trust in one man. This makes her question if cutting herself off from emotional involvement is a good idea, as they become romantically closer. In an explosive double-headed climax three people will not survive the ordeal.
It has been two years since a tragedy shattered Amanda's perfect world. After her husband died suddenly, Amanda wondered how she could possibly raise their teenage son, Brett, on her own. But with the help of friends and family, Amanda has survived and Brett has entered college. Now there is just one thing missing in Amanda's life: love. When Amanda's best girlfriend invites her to the Hamptons for a girls' weekend, she happily embraces the idea of experiencing something new. The morning after Amanda arrives, she heads to the beach for a run and meets Colin, a handsome divorcé who lives two doors down. Their attraction is undeniable, and despite their previous emotional wounds, they jump with both feet into the possibility of love. As the weekend comes to a close, they reluctantly part, not knowing if they are truly ready for each other. But as Amanda heads home and contemplates a future with Colin, she has no idea that someone from her husband's past is about to appear in her life and change everything. In this poignant novel, a woman journeys from loss to the chance of love to a tangled web of deception in order to find a new definition of family and inner strength.
Choosing the wrong man will leave her heartbroken... Intelligent, ambitious Elinor Rae, maid at an exclusive ladies’ club in the idyllic Primrose Square, dreams of a better future. Encouraged by her kindly manager, Elinor enrols in an evening course, where she soon falls for her handsome tutor, Stephen Muirhead. However it is her attraction to charismatic Barry Howat that turns her life upside down. Breaking Stephen’s heart is bad enough, but then Barry signs up to the war effort and Elinor is left behind, devastated. When the club becomes a military hospital and Elinor takes up her new role as a nurses’ aide, she bitterly regrets her mistake and wishes she had chosen Stephen. But can she find happiness again in her beloved Primrose Square? An emotional historical saga set in Edinburgh, perfect for fans of Margaret Dickinson and Karen Dickson.
During the civil rights era, masses of people marched in the streets, boycotted stores, and registered to vote. Others challenged racism in ways more solitary but no less life changing. These twenty-three stories give a voice to the nameless, ordinary citizens without whom the movement would have failed. From bloody melees at public lunch counters to anxious musings at the family dinner table, the diverse experiences depicted in this anthology make the civil rights movement as real and immediate as the best histories and memoirs. Each story focuses on a particular, sometimes private, moment in the historic struggle for social justice in America. Events have a permanent effect on characters, like the white girl in "Spring Is Now" who must sort through her feelings about the only black boy in her school, or the black preacher in "The Convert" who tells a friend, "This thing of being a man . . . The Supreme Court can't make you a man. The NAACP can't do it. God Almighty can do a lot, but even He can't do it. Ain't nobody can do it but you." If a character survives--and some do not--the event can become a turning point, a vision for a better world. The sections into which the stories are grouped parallel the news headlines of the day: School Desegregation (1954 on), Sit-ins (1960 on), Marches and Demonstrations (1963 on), and Acts of Violence. In the last section, Retrospective, characters look back on their personal involvement with the movement. Twenty writers--eleven black and nine white--are represented in the collection. Ten stories were written during the 1960s. That the others were written long after the movement's heyday suggests the potency of that time as a continuing source of creative inspiration.
An examination of worldviews, religious belief and ritual as seen through the musical performances of one Afro-American Baptist church in a small black community in rural Mississippi. "Let the Church Sing!" Music and Worship in a Black Mississippi Community is based on years of fieldwork by an Irish ethnomusicologist, who examines, in more detail than ever before, how various facets of the Clear Creek citizens' worldview find expression through religious ritual and music. Thérèse Smith, though originally very much an outsider, gradually found herself welcomed into Clear Creek by members and officials of the Clear Creek Missionary Baptist Church. She was permitted to record many hours' worth of sermons and singing and engaged in community events as a participant-observer. In addition, she conducted plentiful interviews, not just at Clear Creek but, for comparison, at Main St. Baptist Church in Lexington, Kentucky. All of this enables her to analyze in detail how music is interwoven in the worship service, how people feel about the music that they make and hear, and, more generally, how the religious views so vividly expressed help the Church's members think about the relationship between themselves, their community, and the larger world. Music and prayer enable the members and leaders of the Church to bring the realm of the spiritual into intersection with the material world in a particularly active way. The book is enriched by extensive musical transcriptions and an accompanying CD of recordings from actual church services, and these are examined in detail in the book itself. Thérèse Smith is in the Music Department, University College, Dublin.
Little Girl Black Confronts. Love-Love at First Sight-Love, Joy, and Pain. Poetry straight up, no chaser, shaken, not stirred. This book and all my Little Girl Black poetry books Volume 1-6 celebrates and confronts dreams, religion, marriage, unfairness, sex, friendship, racism, colorism. abuse. strength, judgments, fantasy, love, education, families, power, also death and the black sheep syndrome, hurt, and many other situations. Love- my heart loves love, with an undeniable love, a love only you, my love, can love me, as your love speaks to my heart, in many languages, my heart simply pirouettes, right out of my chest, while my heart continues to beat. I know that’s a mouth full, because love is so beautiful to me, so I wear my love like a badge of honor, and my man solutes me every day and night, that’s some, ride or die love, but if it’s more die, then ride you need to send a Sos, Sista girl, brother love. Love- an unexpected chemistry, locked inside, ready to let love unload and unlock all the mystery within his or her heart, but only if you’re ready, it’s a lot of work, love can be slippery when it’s wet, no I’m not talking about what you think, I’m saying when you get down to the real nitty gritty, It’s some grown folks shit. Love-complement your beauty on the outside. beauty hidden from the naked eye. Also love will unlocks and untangles the myths of loves do’s, and don’ts, for a man, or woman. It also gives you permission to get down on one knee, to ask or even beg if need be, for forgiveness, when pride will always deprive you of the one you love. Love- is saying, love, and return love, for you have found sunshine on a cold, and raining day. But if love continues to knock you down, and give you a mental nose bleed, or physically, blacken an eye. Quickly pick up your bruises, and the rest of the love, you have for him, or her, and run like hell. But if love treats you like a king, or queen, then you should savor it, because love is love everyday even when it rains. Love at first sight- is so much more beautiful when his, or her, love meet, at the very same time, even In a room full of people, love can shine brighter than any love you ever saw before, true love is, if you feel love way down deep in your bones, if looking at love is so bright, and love hurts your eyes, at first sight, then you must pursue what your heart. wants to do. Only then his, or her, love can commence to having a conversating with each other hearts, and God. will breathe life into your love, that draws you closer, and closer, into each other’s arms at this point you are not in controlled Jesus has taken the wheel, if your smart let go and hold on tight. Love- can take you on a smooth ride, or a bumpy road, it’s all up to you, and how hard you will fight for love, or will you let love down hard, or easy, and just walk away, remember everyone is not blessed with true love, don’t throw your blessing away, you will be chasing love for the rest of your days. When it’s true love, you will know it, but please don’t blow it, love will and can stand the test of time, if it’s, give, and take, Love comes in many sizes and shapes so, don’t fuck it up, get on Love, and ride love like trigger. Poetry straight up, no chaser, shaken, not stirred.
This author is a survivor of abuse. She lived with abuse for 43 years in her marriage. The author having been through all kinds of abuse, she writes of how she prayed every day and is very thankful to God as he helped her to get away from her abusive husband. It took time but it was in Gods time. The author has many blessings and is thankful for each and every one of them. She writes of her thankfulness to God for each new day. She thanks God for giving her the pen to write about her abuse so as to help others to see that God will help them get away from abuse. The author also writes birthday poems, poems for her children and for her Starlite Caf family and friends. She also has written for anyone who needs prayers. This author loves life and hopes all who read her book will come away feeling blessed and free of domestic abuse.
To Atmos, From Gravity is a dedication the better half we often fail to acknowledge. Atmos is the man in the relationship who shoulders the responsibility to keep the Earth safe and sound. While Gravity, she keeps Atmos stuck strongly to the Earth. Earth? Herein, it implies the relationship between Atmos and Gravity. You see, as humans we often forget, love is not materialistic, rather it is spiritual. It is beyond time and will never die. If you've found your eternal, God me with you and if you haven't, God Bless You.
Through the journey of life, we will surely discover what life is all about. The path is not always perfect during our journeys so we confront several obstacles. It is fully packed with lessons, adversities, miseries, hopes and dreams, celebrations and great memories these will lead literally us to our desired destination. The Long Journey is an anthology of poems, letters and short stories written by various talented authors about life journey experiences and thoughts. The Anthology ‘The Long Journey’ is compiled by Vedha with the contribution of 50 Co-Authors.
