Tess is just getting her catering business, Just Desserts, off the ground when she separates from her philandering lawyer husband. She begins dating and becomes a willing but naive tourist adrift without a guidebook in the Naughty Nineties. Tess experiences it all--from tentative nibbles to gourmet sex.
Sheila White grew up in several states. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Her mother moved her family to Minnesota for better opportunities when Sheila was twelve going on thirteen. Sheila stayed with her dad and his family in Illinois for one school year. Pregnant at sixteen, the Court system emancipated her at the age of sixteen, going on seventeen. She was not raised in church, but she went to church with her dad's mom at times when she and her dad's other daughter, through her mother, would visit Big Mamma, so she knew a little about church. She was raised by her mother with great earthly values, but she did not grow up going to church. She did not want to be the woman at the well, having been married and divorced four times. At the time, her Heavenly Father told her it was time to finish the book. She was shacked up with a man who would have been her fifth husband. Just before COVID-19 shut things down, I had just gone through a grief recovery class. It was after completing this course that she realized she had been creating these situations with men and their children, only to be rejected by them. Her Heavenly Father told her that she did not have to do this anymore; You are a part of his family, a royal family. Immediately, God, our Heavenly Father, told her it was time to finish the book. She began to work to finish the book. The book is her journey as a teenage mother, the loss of that same child, the struggle to live as a Christian woman of God, free of obvious sin. It is the road that she traveled to finally get to the point of realizing that it is possible to live a life free of sexual sin. She wrote this book out of instructions and obedience to her Heavenly Father for her to write the book. There is someone who needs to hear her story. There is a chapter added to the book after the book was completed about life after deliverance.
A fascinating compendium of stories chronicling the creation of local nature conservancies, and the people behind them, on seventeen islands on the Salish Sea from the 1990s to the present day. Voices for the Islands brings together the stories and experiences of those who rose to protect areas at risk within their island communities. Narratively linked by author Sheila Harrington’s three-year sailing journey among the islands to interview more than fifty veteran conservationists, the book shares an in-depth view of local protests and the history and evolution of local conservancies from their timely emergence through legal battles and successful partnerships. It highlights how local, provincial, and national support was won, through the collaborative efforts of dedicated locals, resulting in hundreds of new protected areas and parks within one of the most at-risk ecological communities in Canada—the islands of the Salish Sea. Beginning in the 1980s, when logging and development threatened the fragile ecosystems and natural habitats, and culminating in the creation of more than seventeen local conservancies and the Gulf Island National Park Reserve, Voices for the Islands will inspire readers to turn apathy into action and support the cause of conservation and reconciliation in an era of species extinction and climate change. Full of colour photos, maps, and fascinating first-hand stories by unsung heroes of conservation—many of whom are now elders—this book reveals how local people and grassroots movements have the power to transform the future of our precious planet.
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