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Love Lost, Love Found
The story begins with a winter storm sweeping across a summer resort town in New Jersey. Maggie, a recent widow, is alone with her grief in a rented cottage on the shore. As the wind howls and blusters around her little red house, she opens her door to a stranger whose car has broken down on a nearby road. He explains that he saw her single light burning on the deserted shore and appeals to her for help and shelter from the storm. Maggie and Walt quickly become friends . Their advanced age and wisdom afford them the luxury of knowing that life is short so they indulge each day to its fullest. Their friendship is symbolized by this single light that brought them together and rescued each of them from a life filled by loneliness and despair. Maggie learns that Walt is not a widower, but unlike herself has a wife, Mary, who has been hospitalized with Alzheimer's disease and a fatal heart condition for more than a year. Walt is despondent over his conflicting emotions. His love for Mary is strong, but she has been unresponsive for years because of her illness. Walt feels he needs to go on with his life but feels guilty for doing so.
Potomac Fever
Potomac fever is the disease or malady that people in and out of government sometimes suffer when they live and work in Washington, D.C. There is a feeling that you are in the center of the world and everything revolves around you, or is not worth your concern. You also tend to get the feeling that morality and integrity are not as important as they are back home and that your tax money belongs to the government to be used as it pleases. However, most politicians and government workers in Washington or elsewhere are dedicated public servants who love their country and their families. In this story the President of the United States finds an old love he once more is enchanted by. As his fashion plate wife concerns herself with someone else, the question is how long can this couple get away with their back street affairs?
Uncommon Love
Can a sixty year old man find lasting happiness with a 19 year old student? Will another young woman who has been deeply wounded by a true love of her youth reach out to encompass love from a man whose heritage and religion differ greatly from her own? Can a young woman from the next generation of this family defy convention in the mate selection process and reach for love from a member of her own family? Beverly Rushin has written a work of women’s fiction chronicling the Baldwin family of Rochester, New York, which spans four generations from 1892 – 1995. This saga does not center on events of the world but rather on the unusual love story it reveals. These three main characters find love, lose love and reach out to love again. The reader will laugh at them and with them, experiencing their emotional pain and their sexual passion. Most of all, those reading this book will travel with a family of heart, they will meet a cast of characters they can admire and or despise. Readers will want to follow this family from the prologue to the epilogue.
Shades of Love
Shades of Love spins a fictional story of life and prejudice that existed in a small upstate New York university in the turbulent 1960’s. Passion erupts between Beth Farley, a White freshman student and Walter Thompson, a Black college Dean of Students. Their lives twist and turn in a romantic struggle as they try to be together. Their desire causes emotional upheaval in the lives of their families and their friends. Will Beth abandon her family’s emotional support and wealthy lifestyle or be consumed by her deep desire to fulfill her love? Will Walt risk his family’s scorn, and his own long sacrifice to reach the status he has achieved? Or will the desire he feels for unrestrained rapture fuel his need to take a gamble losing his lifelong goal? As Beth and Walt struggle with a raging whirlwind seeking change in what threatens to be a color-sensitive world we follow those who are able to place people before prejudice and the result of those who take a much more narrow attitude.
Biographical Dictionaries Master Index
A guide to more than 725,000 listings in over 50 current Who's whos and other works of collective biography.
Autumn Passion
Autumn Passion is a story about love found, love lost and the roller coaster ride that results. It is the story of Laura Benning and her parents. It is the story of Mary and Matt Morgan and their family. But most of all, it is about the emotional impact of happiness and heartache, desire and deception and finally reality and renewal. Kahlil Gibran once wrote, "We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them." This family saga exposes both sides of love and loss and the courage it takes to try again.
By the Sea
How would you react if you lost someone you loved? This is a story of those who lost love and some who tried to find it again. Kimberly McManus, a recent graduate, postponed her wedding for one year to seek a brief professional career. In her absence her fiancé, Dr. Jeff Reese, felt free to explore. His adventure had disastrous results. Another man and his daughter met with tragedy when they befriended Kim. A violent and turbulent plot is unraveled as the sea finds serenity and love.
Feminist Frontiers
The most widely used anthology of feminist writings and the first to incorporate issues of sexual identity and sexual diversity, Feminist Frontiers has stood the test of time. With both classic and contemporary readings on cutting-edge topics that cut across disciplinary and generational lines, this text presents the full diversity of women's lives, exploring commonalities as well as interconnected differences. Feminist Frontiers offers analyses of the causes and consequences of gender inequality in interaction with class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, ability, and nationality. This anthology also introduces students to feminist theory and methodology. This edition maintains consistent coverage of diverse ethnicities and a global perspective, with greater attention to transgender issues and disability.
