Mystery and tragedy dangles on the horizon as Carmeli'ta' hangs onto life. Roberto' and Simone's love is tested as they walk through the fires of the doubts and mysteries haunting them as they watch Carmeli'ta' fight for her life. Roberto's in pain and uncertainty, of Simone' and his future, followed her to Tuscany to discover her long held secret, did not know it would lead to tragedy and a possible loss of his only child. Simone's agitation is heightened, as the clock slowly ticks away the hours that seem to take Carmeli'ta' life with it. The Diary Simone' clutched so closely to her breast has disappeared as well. Simone' held the keys to open all doors and clear-up the hanging doubts. What will the future for Carmeli'ta' and Simone' and he hold? The Epic Saga of Simone' Begins and now this engrossing three-part novel continues to highlight the way we live our lives has long reaching repercussions on the people we care for the most. Leftovers from our past yesterdays, as if the flow of a stream follows us into adulthood and throughout our lives. How we chose to handle the situation tears at the heart because of love and at the mind because of the fear of the shadows and what discovery might reveal...So the delicious romance continues...
The book Changes: From Spiritual Hopelessness To Spiritual Hope carries readers on a journey of pain, heartache, loss of a loved one, loss of spirituality, anger, blame, an encounter with the world, and the journey back to God after the discovery.
Chunchula, Alabama, was no different than any other small, rural community in the 1960s. There was a divide between whites and blacks, and the civil rights movement played a role in the lives of all its residents. In I Lived on the Other Side of the Line, author Carlotta Maria Shinn Russell describes the times through the eyes of ten-year-old Shane Washington and others who experienced the events personally. I Lived on the Other Side of the Line establishes a descriptive and effective atmosphere for the times leading up to, during, and after the civil rights movement. It offers a twofold look at this era, examining Shane’s direct contact with the Ku Klux Klan as well as other youth impacted by racist events. It also shows how the KKK’s ideology affected how people thought and acted, including the pain, hurt, and fear inflicted on blacks in the community. Presented through a child’s perspective, this narrative addresses the themes of freedom, discrimination, and segregation during one of the nation’s most difficult and important times in history.
We Smoked Our Sister: Stories from a childhood carries the reader back to the wonderful days of the 1960’s; a time of excitement in the growth of America. The life of a rural family in Chunchula, Alabama, a suburb of Mobile County is portrayed between these pages. Though it was a time of financial hardships, the family was held together by a loving mother and father, who worked hard and raised their children to be disciplined/focused, productive, motivated, and successful as werll as creating a love for learning and the importance of family and heritage taught through stories passed down from family ancestry, as well as stories created by the Seymour children who lived these stories. Family life was like a work of art. Also, this book looks at a part of family life and the methods used to discipline children in the south. A picture of a rich life comes through to the reader, which could describe the simple everyday lives of any family in the south. The south has such rich undiscovered family history. The reader will not be able to put it down; it totally involves you in the life of the Seymour family and the siblings with their wonderfully hilarious antics. The reader will be able to picture a time in America when life was totally different. We long for those days again, where there was peace, harmony and caring among the citizens. So take a journey though the sixties and relive the days that are so precious to many southern families. This book contains stories that are timeless in beauty and wonderfully intriguing.
This is a journey through love, romance, passion, and heartache. The journey of life, which started at fourteen years of age, would take Simone’ and her family into a maze of pain, heartache, and separation because of choices in love and decisions made while she was young and inexperienced, even to the decisions made after her marriage to protect her family. She found herself in an endless vortex, a downward spiral laced with fear because of the fervent love she had for her family. She felt trapped like a bird in a cage. These decisions were almost detrimental to her daughter and her husband whom she loved with all her soul. Instead of protecting those she loved, her decisions had painful consequences rather than healing remedies. The influencing actions and devastating circumstances all surrounded and involved one woman, who wore a veil of mystery, even to her Father.
Chunchula, Alabama, was no different than any other small, rural community in the 1960s. There was a divide between whites and blacks, and the civil rights movement played a role in the lives of all its residents. In I Lived on the Other Side of the Line, author Carlotta Maria Shinn Russell describes the times through the eyes of ten-year-old Shane Washington and others who experienced the events personally. I Lived on the Other Side of the Line establishes a descriptive and effective atmosphere for the times leading up to, during, and after the civil rights movement. It offers a twofold look at this era, examining Shane’s direct contact with the Ku Klux Klan as well as other youth impacted by racist events. It also shows how the KKK’s ideology affected how people thought and acted, including the pain, hurt, and fear inflicted on blacks in the community. Presented through a child’s perspective, this narrative addresses the themes of freedom, discrimination, and segregation during one of the nation’s most difficult and important times in history.
Simone’, the epic saga continues, in this engrossing three-part novel, highlighting the way we live our lives has long reaching repercussions on the people we care for the most. As well, the people our lives touch on a daily basis, regardless of the continent they live. The author makes several emotionally compelling and undeniable points. There are times in our lives, not just Simone’s, but all human lives, when they encounter situations, as she did, in this moving and tenderly expressive novel, leftovers from our yesterday’s past, like the flow of a stream, follows us into adulthood or throughout our lives. It is not so much the situations or events, which needs no names, oddly so, it is how we choose to handle them.
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