Charlotte Taylor lived in the front row of history. In 1775, at the young age of twenty, she fled her English country house and boarded a ship to Jamaica with her lover, the family’s black butler. Soon after reaching shore, Charlotte’s lover died of yellow fever, leaving her alone and pregnant in Jamaica. In the sixty-six years that followed, she would find refuge with the Mi’kmaq of what is present-day New Brunswick, have three husbands, nine more children and a lifelong relationship with an aboriginal man. Using a seamless blend of fact and fiction, Charlotte Taylor's great-great-great-granddaughter, Sally Armstrong, reclaims the life of a dauntless and unusual woman and delivers living history with all the drama and sweep of a novel. Excerpt from from The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor: “Every summer of my youth, we would travel from the family cottage at Youghall Beach to visit my mother’s extended clan in Tabusintac near the Miramichi River. And at every gathering, just as much as there would be chickens to chase and newly cut hay to leap in, so there would be an ample serving of stories about Charlotte Taylor. . . She was a woman with a “past.” The potboilers about her ran like serials from summer to summer, at weddings and funerals and whenever the clan came together. She wasn’t exactly presented as a gentlewoman, although it was said that she came from an aristocratic family in England. Nor was there much that seemed genteel about the person they always referred to as “old Charlotte.” Words like “lover” and “land grabber” drifted down from the supper table to where we kids sat on the floor. There were whoops of laughter at her indiscretions, followed by sideways glances at us. But for all the stories passed around, it was clear the family still had a powerful respect for a woman long dead. We owed our very existence to her, and the anecdotes the older generation told suggested that their own fortitude and guile were family traits passed down from the ancestral matriarch. For as long as I can remember, I’ve tried to imagine the real life Charlotte Taylor lived and, more, how she ever survived.”
Taylor Townshend owned a large publishing company for new authors headquartered in the Philippines. The conglomerate also has subsidiaries in the United States, with the main office in Minneapolis. Taylor speaks often with Sara, his US liaison and book critic for new authors, and they become very fond of each other by long distance. Unknown to him, she has a disability, and as it turns out, so does he. Their transpacific romance builds until she meets him in the Philippines, which reveals the novels conclusion!
A WOMAN WORTH WAITING FOR… Undercover Agent Joshua Carter had only wanted to help sweet Amanda Wainwright. Instead, her being seen with him had put the shy secretary's life in danger…and under his twenty-four-hour protection. But from the moment virginal Amanda stepped into the playboy's apartment, it was Josh's life that was on the line, because he still remembered one long-ago, stolen kiss. And although Josh had tried to act honorably by giving Amanda space, her fragile vulnerability still called to him and awakened every male instinct. Now Josh wanted a future. Could he make this inexperienced beauty see beneath the playboy facade to a heart that beat true blue?
Unless we learn to love ourselves we will become slaves to the opinions and judgments from others. A healthy self-image, on the other hand, will bring peace to our souls during life's most difficult struggles. This children's story demonstrates the struggle to live a victorious life. For, in the end, this frail little flower is strengthened as she builds her faith on the foundation of love and forgiveness. The magic discovered by this delicate little flower is not only her story but my story too. Perhaps it is yours as well! Through Sally Taylor's own trials and triumphs she has come to believe in the power of faith, love, and forgiveness as key objectives in her personal pursuit of happiness. Life's experiences have taught her valuable lessons which she has come to identify as deep-rooted convictions. She feels certain that these convictions are necessary in the pursuit of peace with one's self. Using a colorful blend of experience, talent, and imagination she dedicates her convictions to the future generations.
Profiles the winner of the fifth season of the television program "American Idol," discussing his childhood, singing career, and audition and advancement on the show.
You'll be glad you saved room for this dessert cookbook. The newly revised edition of a popular backlist title in the Book Of series, features a wide range of recipes for delicious desserts. Including recipes for both the amateur and the intrepid home cook, the budgeter and the splurger, this book yields impressive results every time.
A modernist icon, an object of forbidden desire, a symbol of loss and suffering, and an incorrigible survivor - the mother takes all of these forms in Chinese literature from the 1920s and 1930s. In an innovative analysis, Sally Taylor Lieberman explores the meanings the maternal figure acquired at a particular place and time and then engages those meanings in a feminist rereading of the master narratives of modern Chinese intellectual and literary history. Drawing on feminist literary criticism and the theories of Julia Kristeva, Melanie Klein, and Sigmund Freud, Lieberman breaks traditional analytical boundaries as she explores the place of the mother in the ideological struggles through which the modern Chinese canon attained its present shape.
A thought-provoking collection of essays on life and living Voices from the Heartland is a celebration of women’s contributions to Oklahoma’s recent past. It records defining moments in women’s lives—whether surviving the Oklahoma City bombing or surviving abuse—and represents a wide range of professions, lifestyles, and backgrounds to show how extraordinary lives have grown from the seeds of ordinary girlhoods. From former Cherokee principal chief Wilma Mankiller, First Lady Kim Henry, novelist Billie Letts, and prima ballerina Maria Tallchief, to OU basketball coach Sherri Coale, the authors share their personal reflections on finding balance as they look back on defining moments in their lives, mull over what they wish they had learned sooner, and convey the wisdom they’ve unearthed on their journeys thus far. Touching on topics from adultery to left-handedness, from losing children to losing perspective, these essays speak from the heart to reveal what it means to be an American woman today. Readers will meet activists and writers, advocates and artists—some of whom are household names, while others work outside the public eye. Voices from the Heartland speaks to readers all across America and demonstrates that women in Oklahoma represent the heart of us all.
Have you or someone you know been through a traumatic event? Are you finding it difficult to understand someone's mindset from a traumatic event? Do they struggle to open up? Do you struggle to speak up on a traumatic event? Do you have internal thought monologues that play out as your reasoning for not speaking up? Join the author as she unpacks her journey in these struggles and attempts to reach clarity and a brighter future. Jump into this journey of the author's perspective on dealing with traumatic situations with the mindset and process of her work to get past the situations and move on. Taking a deep dive into the thought process of someone who has kept the trauma to herself for many years, the author hopes to find answers to overcoming her past traumas. The author's hope is that her journey through coping and managing her past traumas could be useful to someone reading that may need a little direction or advice. Written in a diaristic form, this memoir is intended to provide understanding of someone in the mindset of struggling through traumas and be a useful tool for someone to find their own way through any traumas they may be dealing with.
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