Poems of Poetry By: Dorothy Elizabeth West Poems of Poetry: Memories of Life in Poems was composed while drawing on the author’s memories. Her memories span from a time when she felt poor and disadvantaged to the moment she looked toward heaven and realized that God truly does exist. Her poems discuss love, loss, and hope. Her poems convey her deep, sincere love of poetry.
If you've ever wondered what would happen if you could meet a ghost, talk to it, or even touch it, this book is for you! Paranormal investigator Chris Taylor really wants to see a ghost. So he invents a remote control that tunes them back into the physical world. Hoping to help stranded spirits, he sells the rights to a TV network, only to see his gadget disrupt both earthly and unearthly society. The tuner's effect on humanity threatens the dimension that houses the afterlife, known as the Realm. Its Directorate sends an emissary, Callahan, to oversee a solution: Chris must persuade people to stop using his invention. The living don't want to give up the tuners - and neither do the dead. Chris enlists help from his friends, Callahan, and a groovy Seventies ghost and begins a clumsy romance with activist Hannah Lively. But when a scientist bent on glory tweaks the tuner and opens a dangerous portal, they're forced to devise a perilous plan to stop her. What follows takes Chris on a journey he never imagined, one that could ultimately cost him everything.
Happy for all her maternal feelings was the day on which Mrs. Bennet got rid of her two most deserving daughters . . . The weeks leading up to the nuptials of literature’s dearest couple, Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet, are full of romance, jealousy, and gossip! How might the time from betrothal to bride have passed for Elizabeth and Jane Bennet? The news of Lizzy’s engagement to Mr. Darcy comes as not just a shock for her sister, but her entire family. The Bennets attempt to understand how the courtship occurred while the different circumstances of Jane and Elizabeth threaten their wish of a double wedding. Day by day, both sisters become more loyal their future husbands, learning they cannot please each other and their intendeds. No one, including Jane, can avoid drawing unflattering comparisons between Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy. Meanwhile, Mr. Darcy’s peculiar behavior makes Mr. Bennet uneasy about the man’s intentions toward his favorite daughter. When the banns for one sister are read aloud in church, but not for the other, chaos ensues. After Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy escape to London to avoid the challenges of Hertfordshire, the displeasure of Mr. Darcy’s aunt, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, returns to thwart their plans. Further intimidated by a mysterious marriage contract, the path to the altar is fraught with peril. Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam struggle to keep their passions in check while they wait for the day to finally say, “I do.” Happy Was the Day is a sequel to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice with mature scenes of a couple fiercely in love. A favorite of thousands of readers worldwide, enjoy this tale by Elizabeth Ann West that was over two years in the making.
Robotics engineer Johnathan Michaels knows all about biding his time. For three years he's worked next to his best friend and idea of a perfect woman, Alexis Rodriguez. Their friendship sparks into a heated attraction while saving the company's first multi-milion dollar contract. Johnathan's life appears to be on track. He owns a successful company and he's won the woman of his dreams. Life is perfect until a previous one-night stand returns Johnathan's shirt. Pregnant. And it's his. Now Johnathan's too distracted to keep up at work, wondering if the baby is his, and if so, exactly how does he tell Alexis? CANCELLED is a tale of one man's romantic adventures, as Johnathan strives for life beyond bachelorhood. The book bends the genre rules of contemporary romance and chick-lit with a male POV and a twist on the ending."--Amazon.com website summary.
African Spirituality in Black Women's Fiction: Threaded Visions of Memory, Community, Nature and Being is the nexus to scholarship on manifestations of Africanisms in black art and culture, particularly the scant critical works focusing on African metaphysical retentions. This study examines New World African spirituality as a syncretic dynamic of spiritual retentions and transformations that have played prominently in the literary imagination of black women writers. Beginning with the poetry of Phillis Wheatley, African Spirituality in Black Women's Fiction traces applications and transformations of African spirituality in black women's writings that culminate in the conscious and deliberate celebration of Africanity in Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God. The journey from Wheatley's veiled remembrances to Hurston's explicit gaze of continental Africa represents the literary journey of black women writers to represent Africa as not only a very real creative resource but also a liberating one. Hurston's icon of black female autonomy and self realization is woven from the thread work of African spiritual principles that date back to early black women's writings.
After losing her father in autumn and falling in love with Mr. Darcy, Elizabeth Bennet quickly feels the frustrations of settling her newly widowed mother and making her debut in London society. Tackling adventures in three counties, the Bennet sisters find new paths opening up before them. A mistake by one sister places the whole family at risk and it takes the full Bennet family strength and friends they can rely on to help Darcy and Elizabeth march down that wedding aisle! BOOK TWO of the Seasons of Serendipity series, a sweetheart historical romance novella line starring the beloved characters of Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice. Other Books in the Series: A Winter Wrong, Book One of the Seasons of Serendipity
In this collection of speculative fiction from Tunerville author A. Elizabeth West, you'll find tales of a farmer's unexpected encounter with the fair folk, an enduring relationship across time and space, a shuddering realization of what can happen if you don't read the terms and conditions, and more.
Winner of the 2023 College Language Association Book Award Finding Francis, finding family, freeing history Francis is found. Beyond Francis, a family is found—in archival material that barely deigned to notice their existence. This is the story of Francis Sistrunk and her children, from enslavement into forced migration across South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. It spans decades before the Civil War and continues into post-emancipation America. A family story full of twists and turns, Finding Francis reclaims and honors those women who played an essential role in the historical survival and triumph of Black people during and after American slavery. Elizabeth West has created a remarkable "biohistoriography" of everyday Black resistance, grounded in a determination to maintain enduring connections of family, kinship, and community despite the inhumanity and rapacity of slavery. There is inevitable heartbreak in these histories, but there is also an empowering strength and inspiration—the truth of these lives will indeed set us all free.
Following the westward route of the Orphan Trains, itinerant photographer Shea Waterston is searching for the infant son she was forced to give up ten years ago. To pay her way, Shea photographs everything from church choirs to outlaws, and is setting up her camera at a hanging when she lands in Judge Gallimore's jail. Colorado Territorial Judge Cameron Gallimore, a strong but just man, damned himself years before with one fateful decision. But when Shea is hurt saving his life, Cameron takes her to his ranch--against his own better judgement--to recuperate. While there, Shea begins to suspect the Judge's ten-year-old son is her own lost child. But the boy's identity isn't the only secret Cam has, and just as Shea begins to heal the empty places in his heart, Cam's past catches up with him. Now Cameron must stand against his enemies to protect his boy and win Shea's love forever. AWARDS: Top 1001 Historical Romances, RT Book Club REVIEWS: "Grayson has a master's touch... in this seamless, wondrous Western tale." ~Book Page "You'll cherish the sheer wonder of a story that will make you cry and sigh with happiness." ~Kathe Robin, Romantic Times THE WOMEN'S WEST SERIES, in series order So Wide the Sky Color of the Wind A Place Called Home Painted by the Sun Moon on the Water Bride of the Wilderness
When Ardith Merritt promised her dying step-sister she'd take her niece and nephews to their father in Wyoming, she knew it meant confronting Baird Northcross, the man who, on the eve of their wedding, jilted her and eloped with her sister. Exiled to a ranch in Wyoming by his aristocratic British family, Baird Northcross is a failure, a scoundrel, and a cad. But the rugged beauty of the land, the unexpected satisfaction of hard work, and the presence of a woman like no other awakens the possibility of happiness... if only he can keep from destroying this last, precious chance to win Ardith's love. REVIEWS: "...a beautiful tale of redemption and reclaiming lost love. There is a power to Elizabeth Grayson's story that will move readers." ~Kathe Robin, Romantic Times "Each character suffers disappointment and loss--but in the end, they come together, learning what it means to be a family." ~Publisher's Weekly THE WOMEN'S WEST SERIES, in series order: So Wide the Sky Color of the Wind A Place Called Home Painted by the Sun Moon in the Water Bride of the Wilderness
Nature's a fickle thing. When four days of rain occur earlier in Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice to trap Jane and Elizabeth Bennet at Netherfield Park, new romances, misunderstandings, and alignments are made. Volatile tempers never did well cooped up together. Not even when there's a chessboard to help pass the time.Fall in love with the romance of Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet all over again in this new variation by author Elizabeth Ann West. A stand-alone novel of over 300 pages in paperback, this story is sure to make you sigh and swoon many times over!
When Jane Bennet's illness at Netherfield ends up not being just a trifling cold, but an epidemic that sweeps through Hertfordshire, the lives at Longbourn are turned upside down. Elizabeth Bennet finds herself lost without a cherished loved one and the interferences of one Fitzwilliam Darcy most aggravating. Combating the bombastic behavior of Mr. Collins, Elizabeth runs to London for the protection of her aunt and uncle. But acquaintances and introductions bring Mr. Darcy back into her life and Elizabeth discovers he might mend her broken heart. A sweetheart romantic novella, A Winter Wrong is the first in a series of seasonal episodes following the Bennet family after the loss of their patriarch. Winter explores the feelings of grief and loss we all have experienced, while still retaining a silver lining for that dark cloud.
Wells presents a scholarly study of the American musical West Side Story, viewing the work from cultural, historical, and musical perspectives. --from publisher description.
The Guides, who describe themselves as "your heart's deepest love and your soul's greatest wisdom," offer a year's circle of daily lessons, contemplations, practices, exercises and inquiries to support and assist those who are on the path to realizing and embracing their own highest nature. In the context of these practical and specific lessons, they ask that we soar, that we reach for our most profound gifts, while at the same time reminding us never to abandon our connection to nature and to our vital lives here on Earth. Their basic message is quite simple: we are all inherently divine, and our hearts--often veiled or shuttered--are the seats of unfathomable Godforce. They teach us to open to the vast capacity to love and be love which we already possess, to learn to bring that transcendent love into the mundane, to infuse our daily grind with celestial light, to live luminously in each breath we take. The way is not always easy, though, and The Guides are the first to acknowledge that. They are there with reassurance and practical advice when fear, habit, reaction and self-doubt obscure the path, and they extend encouragement and inspiration when we are stuck. "Love Is The Way" is both a hands-on manual for living with greater joy and freedom in this world, and an introduction to The Guides' understanding of the cosmos and our place in it. The channel and author, Elizabeth West, has been receiving and sharing The Guides' messages since 2002.
A West Point English professor discusses teaching literature to young men and women preparing for war, describing the changes that have occurred since September 11, what it means to be a civilian teaching at a military academy, and what books and movies mean to her students.
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