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Is this the Future?: An investigation into communal living
"I think growing up in communes gives you a sense of knowing that there are different ways to organise society. As a child, you begin to realise that there are different experiments. The world you live in isn't given, it's created, it's a construct. And it gives you a sense, I think, as an adult, that you don't necessarily have to accept the way things are, and you can do things differently. Or you might accept them because you feel safe. But you know that they're made and that they can be unmade."(Sean Gaston, 2010)Over two years Josephine Hall conducted several interviews and visited three intentional communities, documenting her findings along the way. A collage of fictionalised personal accounts, interviews and investigative essays, Is this the Future? is a frank and compassionate exploration into the subject of communal living.
Steeled with a Kiss
For Penny Lane, her career and her engagement are a convoluted mess. An accidental religious rock star, she sings with the band Save the Chukkas under the stage name of Margo Steale; shes engaged to fellow band member, Lenny Blue, who proposed to her on stage during the Grammy Awards. But she realizes she loves Lenny more like a friend than a future husband. This realization becomes very clear during a chance encounter with Dr. Marc Hawthorne, a local black scholar and elementary school teacher. As a romance between Penny and Marc blooms and moves forward quickly, Penny tells Lenny that she cannot marry him; a media frenzy ensues. But the situation becomes even more complex when Lenny turns up dead. The first rumors hint at suicide, though investigators are also considering his death a homicide with possible involvement by Penny. Can Marc trust that his new love is a victim of wrong place, wrong time syndrome? When the truth finally tumbles out during Lennys funeral, the final pieces of the puzzle show a deeper fracture that can only be healed by love.
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Back in the Soldier's Arms
"To the outside world, Daniel and Penny Cartwright have it all--a lovely home, a beautiful daughter, successful military careers and a rock-solid marriage. But when Daniel makes a reckless mistake, the foundations of their marriage are shaken. Now he's got to act fast to keep hold of his precious wife. Daniel launches a campaign to win Penny back: he has just a week to do whatever it takes to make her fall in love with him all over again."--P. [4] of cover.
Relative Secrets
Mary has a secret that she mustn’t tell. But in a care home, with her mind wandering, she’s starting to slip up. Clearing out her grandmother’s old room, Lucy finds something hidden that wasn’t supposed to be found – a locket sheltering a shameful family secret. She can’t tell her mother. Not with their father gone, one brother absent and another acting up. Her mother was struggling with her mental health just a few years ago. Lucy will have to make sense of it all herself. In a beautifully told drama of family secrets, Helen Stancey once again picks through the everyday of life to uncover poetry, pain and ultimately love.
Madness
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Madness, though ostensibly the story of Crownsville, is really about the continued lack of understanding, treatment and care of the mental health of a people, Black people, who need it most' New York Times In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the United States' last segregated asylums. On a cold day in March of 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the heart of a forest in Maryland. Under the supervision of a doctor, the men were forced to clear the land, pour cement, lay bricks and harvest tobacco. When construction finished, they became the first twelve patients of the sta...
Yes or No
Daniel thought he had lost his high school sweetheart, Penny, over an abortion 35 years ago. But when a woman named Alicia arrives at his assisted living center claiming to be his long-lost daughter, Daniel must face the truth of his past. With Alicia's presence, old truths are exposed and new bonds are formed. But always, Daniel remembers the promise of his abusive father, "Life never gives you shit without taking something in payment." In this powerful story of family, redemption, and the power of enduring love, readers will be taken on a journey of discovery as Daniel and Alicia await the DNA test results to determine whether they are related. If you enjoyed the emotional and suspenseful novel, Before We Were Yours, by Lisa Wingate, you will love Yes or No by Steven E. Wedel.
The Don of Siracusa
Stefano Caruso always does things the right way. With a grandfather who was forced to flee the venal Sicilian mafia and start life anew in America, Stefano now heads the corporation his father and grandfather built. Handsome and successful, he’s on top of the world...until one day he has an unexpected visitor and gets shocking news. Stefano is being cheated and lied to, and the company his family built from the ground up is in mortal jeopardy. That’s when Benito Cuggi, the face of the modern-day mafia, comes into his life. Cuggi appears to live by a strict code of morals that the laws of Western society cannot enforce. Loyalty and trust are rewarded, while betrayal is punished. Now Stefano faces a difficult choice. Can he ally himself with what he’s been taught to hate and fear? Or should he let what generations of his family built be stolen out from under him? Fraught with moral complexity, Siracusa is a fast-paced, exciting crime thriller that pits good against evil and righteousness versus deception, while asking whether good men should sometimes do bad things to punish evil.
Puddle Jumpers
Miserable. That is the only way to describe 10-year-old Daniel's life for the past 3 years. His mother is terminally ill, his father is not around, and their caretaker, his Aunt, is a ruthless beast of a woman. On the day of his mother’s death Daniel learns his life is not what it seems and his mother’s illness may not have been an accident. As the day's events unfold a mystical man appears and offers Daniel a chance to save his mother from death itself. With a magical pair of rainboots Daniel and his newfound friend Penny are transported to a picturesque land filled with a multitude of puddles. They soon learn through a pure childhood mishap that the rainboots can transport them through...
