Desiree Part II: Desiree Is Going Home By: Sherry Myrick Desiree Browne Quinn has settled down in the life she has made with her husband, Doctor Jock Quinn. They share their home with five children. The Browne tobacco plantation has been under changes. Desiree is going home to assist her father and brothers for the family business. The events of change are interrupted by the visits of Brock Porter's mother. Even after his death, Brock Porter is still bringing threats to Desiree and her family. This novel will keep a reader interested of the days of retaliation from the Browne family against Brock Porter’s threats.
It's Your Destiny Desiree: Part 1, Desiree By: Sherry Myrick It is 1875 and Desiree Browne Porter lives in Texas with her four sons. Desiree has the love and support from her father and brothers who live on a nearby tobacco plantation. With her mother’s encouraging last words, Desiree begins a journey to end her marriage with her estranged husband, Brock Porter. She begins her new life with a new love in Doctor Jock Quinn, a new local doctor who has come from New Orleans to practice in Texas. An inspirational novel of spirit and emotion blended with historical fact, It's Your Destiny Desiree is sure to uplift any reader.
Sacora Hill’s dreams of having a family became an impossible dream with the divorce from her husband, Barton Haynes. Finding a new life in surprisingly unplanned circumstances, Sacora’s impossible dream is still her focus. This is an inspirational novel of never giving up.
No more postponing, no more delaying, the day is here. The time has come for Sidney Grace Dalton to break the silence and to reveal the hidden truth. She has to inform her sons of the situation of danger, suspension, and fears behind the fate or chance of how their family came to be. From the beginning to the end, a reader will have anticipation as the hidden truth is revealed.
Sacora Hill’s dreams of having a family became an impossible dream with the divorce from her husband, Barton Haynes. Finding a new life in surprisingly unplanned circumstances, Sacora’s impossible dream is still her focus. This is an inspirational novel of never giving up.
It's Your Destiny Desiree: Part 1, Desiree By: Sherry Myrick It is 1875 and Desiree Browne Porter lives in Texas with her four sons. Desiree has the love and support from her father and brothers who live on a nearby tobacco plantation. With her mother’s encouraging last words, Desiree begins a journey to end her marriage with her estranged husband, Brock Porter. She begins her new life with a new love in Doctor Jock Quinn, a new local doctor who has come from New Orleans to practice in Texas. An inspirational novel of spirit and emotion blended with historical fact, It's Your Destiny Desiree is sure to uplift any reader.
No more postponing, no more delaying, the day is here. The time has come for Sidney Grace Dalton to break the silence and to reveal the hidden truth. She has to inform her sons of the situation of danger, suspension, and fears behind the fate or chance of how their family came to be. From the beginning to the end, a reader will have anticipation as the hidden truth is revealed.
Desiree Part II: Desiree Is Going Home By: Sherry Myrick Desiree Browne Quinn has settled down in the life she has made with her husband, Doctor Jock Quinn. They share their home with five children. The Browne tobacco plantation has been under changes. Desiree is going home to assist her father and brothers for the family business. The events of change are interrupted by the visits of Brock Porter's mother. Even after his death, Brock Porter is still bringing threats to Desiree and her family. This novel will keep a reader interested of the days of retaliation from the Browne family against Brock Porter’s threats.
Well-designed infrastructure brings social value that far exceeds its initial construction expenditure, but competition for scarce government funds and a general public perception of infrastructure as mere efficiency, has often left design ill-considered. This book provides designers with the tools needed to argue for the value of design: the ‘design capital’ as the authors term it. In naming and defining design capital, design can once again become part of the discussion and realization of every infrastructure project. Design Capital offers strategies and tools for justifying public spending on design considerations in infrastructure projects. Design has the ability to make infrastructure resonate with cultural or social value, as seen in the case studies, which bestows infrastructure with the potential to accrue design capital. Support for this proposition is drawn from various methodologies of economic valuation and Bourdieu’s theory of cultural capital, explanation of design methodology and education and a series of historical and contemporary case studies. The book also addresses some of the more controversial outcomes associated with contemporary infrastructure: gentrification, globalization and consumer tourism. With this book, designers can make a stronger case for the value of design in public infrastructure.
The pioneering anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner combines her trademark ethnographic expertise with critical film interpretation to explore the independent film scene in New York and Los Angeles since the late 1980s. Not Hollywood is both a study of the lived experience of that scene and a critical examination of America as seen through the lenses of independent filmmakers. Based on interviews with scores of directors and producers, Ortner reveals the culture and practices of indie filmmaking, including the conviction of those involved that their films, unlike Hollywood movies, are "telling the truth" about American life. These films often illuminate the dark side of American society through narratives about the family, the economy, and politics in today's neoliberal era. Offering insightful interpretations of many of these films, Ortner argues that during the past three decades independent American cinema has functioned as a vital form of cultural critique.
With the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill in 1848, fortune-seekers from around the globe descended on California, among them a sprinkling of enterprising women. Author Sherry Monahan explains, ""Living in the wild American West provided women with equal opportunity - for both success and failure. Conventional wisdom suggests that women became prostitutes only because they were desperate. . . In fact, many of the women were smart entrepreneurs and saw a way to acquire fast and, in several cases, vast wealth. Rich in details combed from historical archives, California Madams uncovers the enigmatic and salacious lives of twenty-four women who ran houses of ill repute in the Golden State from the 1840's to the 1940's. Here are the hedonistic and sometimes heroic exploits of Margaret Appel, Diamond Jessie, Hattie Wells, Ah Toy, and Lee Francis, but also the unsung sagas of Emily Edwards, Cora Lee, Sylvia Daniels, May Ellis, Alma, Jewett, and many more.
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