In 1939, a young woman of 18 yrs. began to launch out onto a journey of Faith to study to become a Missionary to Africa. That plan was put aside to do her mother's bidding, and enter a marriage which ended in disaster. Her next marriage was in failure, also, and the downward spiral was well in motion. With four children to care for, this abandoned woman of God became a statistic. A liaison was formed with a kindly Preacher man, who seemed to really care. A child was conceived, and in panic, this Home Missionary Woman tried to undo what had been done. When that did not work, there was a hasty trip to fi nd the abusive, alcoholic husband, and reconciliation Within months there was a baby girl born, who became deeply loved by this precious mother, so scarred by the grievous wounds of life. Shortly thereafter, another divorce occurred, and the journey of fatherlessness had begun for this child. These letters were written from the Compassionate Heart of a Loving Heavenly Father, to this little girl of His, who didn't know she was deeply loved by Him, and who suffered excruciating emotional pain, lonliness and rejection, until the Bright Son of her Father's Love opened her broken heart and life to all the amazing possibilities of a Living Savior's Plan of Redemption at work in her life. M.S. HAMPTON
The Dream Speaks Back is a triple autobiography, bringing together the personal memories and dream-fictions of three creative individuals: - Sue Hampton, adult/children's author with 32 published books, three of them praised by Michael Morpurgo, and ambassador for Alopecia UK. - Cy Henty, comedian, stage/screen writer & mental health worker, has toured with Russell Brand and played major roles in seven of Pat Higgins' films . - Leslie Tate, UEA graduate, author of three novels and a binary memoir now turned into an award-winning film. As life-writing, The Dream Speaks Back describes growing up in unusual families, how it feels to be 'different', and the adult search for the inner child. As an imaginative journey, it explores gender and mental health issues. It's also a very funny portrait of working in the arts, full of crazy characters, their ups and downs, and their stories.
After a disastrous date with Eleanor, James wakes up to a house full of Royal Wedding fever. It may be a national holiday, but he's in no mood for romance. However, somewhere across the city, in the crowd that James does not want to be part of, is a girl from a different kind of postcode who could change his world.
The one mistake that changed two families forever. Kim Braddock and Fizzy Duvall have never met, yet their lives are inextricably linked. When the girls discover that they have been switched at birth, the revelation sends a shock-wave through both families. When their identities are overturned, Kim and Fizzy form a bond that changes them both as two families struggle with the truth. But as conflict deepens, is their connection strong enough to survive?
A collection of stories set in the past and in the present in a range of styles ? no fairy tales or fables this time, no fantasy or magic realism. INSTEAD is real.
150 pages of horror and terror from Bram Stoker Nominated Billie Sue Mosiman, author of more than 50 books. Reviews from DiaboliQ: ZOM ALIVE: 2110 5 Stars- Lori Safranek-Foreboding and hopeful, Zom Alive 2110 captures the reader, drawing one deeper and deeper into the this alternative existence. Highly recommended for zombie fans and fans of the master storyteller, Billie Sue Mosiman. PRISON PLANET- 5 Stars- Malina Roos- Billie Sue Mosiman has created a bleak society bent on ridding North America of the poor, homeless, petty thieves and the like, a society allowed to decay into a dark void of humanity. Told in such a way, the depth of characters and the feel of love shines through on every page. Reminded me of Cormac McCarthy's The Road. Brilliant tale. This is a story that will leave you thinking long afterwards... ZOM ALIVE: 2110 QUIET ROOM CYBERCHIP 3AM WITH THE JAGUAR PRISON PLANET Come along into the dark, into the DIABOLIQ, and face the horror if you dare...
Alaska is a great place to visit… and a bad place to die It is said that when the first snow of early winter—the "termination dust"—starts to fall, it's time for visitors to leave Alaska's wonders behind. For some, it's already too late. Jim Hampton's Yukon vacation takes a turn for the worse when he discovers a prospector's diary from the 1800s. And it dies when the rugged outdoorsman is arrested for the gruesome slaying of a controversial ex-Senator. But Alex Jensen isn't convinced of Hampton's guilt. And the dedicated state trooper is ready to track the bitter truth through the treacherous snows of the Yukon wilderness—and in the pages of a mysterious, hundred-year-old journal, which describes crimes remarkably similar... and deadly.
The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey who was Queen of England for nine days in July 1553. Jane grew up watching her cousins in training as heirs to the throne, little imagining that by a twist of fate she would one day be crowned. But this is Tudor England where nobody plays fair, and even a queen isn't safe from those who wish her harm.
Contraception and abortion were not originally part of the 1960s women's movement. How did the women's movement, which fought for equal opportunity for women in education and the workplace, and the sexual revolution, which reduced women to ambitious sex objects, become so united? In Subverted, Sue Ellen Browder documents for the first time how it all happened, in her own life and in the life of an entire country. Trained at the University of Missouri School of Journalism to be an investigative journalist, Browder unwittingly betrayed her true calling and became a propagandist for sexual liberation. As a long-time freelance writer for Cosmopolitan magazine, she wrote pieces meant to soft-sell unmarried sex, contraception, and abortion as the single woman's path to personal fulfillment. She did not realize until much later that propagandists higher and cleverer than herself were influencing her thinking and her personal choices as they subverted the women's movement. The thirst for truth, integrity, and justice for women that led Browder into journalism in the first place eventually led her to find forgiveness and freedom in the place she least expected to find them. Her in- depth research, her probing analysis, and her honest self-reflection set the record straight and illumine a way forward for others who have suffered from the unholy alliance between the women's movement and the sexual revolution.
Seals and Society arises from a major project investigating seals and their use in medieval Wales, the Welsh March and neighbouring counties in England. The first major study of seals in the context of one part of medieval Western European society, the volume also offers a new perspective on the history of medieval Wales and its periphery by addressing a variety of themes in terms of the insight that seals can offer the historian. Though the present study suggests important regional distinctions in the take-up of seals in medieval Wales, it is also clear that seal usage increased from the later twelfth century and spread widely in Welsh society, especially in those parts of Wales neighbouring England or where there had been an early English incursion. Through a series of chapters, the authors examine the ways in which seals can shed light on the legal, administrative, social and economic history of the period in Wales and its border region. Seals provide unique insights into the choices individuals, men and women, made in representing themselves to the wider world, and this issue is examined closely. Supported by almost 100 images gathered by the project team, the volume is of great interest to those working on seals, their motifs, their use and developments in their usage over the high and later Middle Ages.
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