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The story of a young woman and her older husband immigrating to the US shortly before the Civil War. Her husband enlists to secure the bounty, expecting it to improve their lives after the war. When her husband does not return from that war, this charming young woman is determined and eager enough to overcome the many obstacles confronting her. She strives to enhance her life and that of her children, while she considers whether to become romantically involved with a suave man-of-the-world, or is he a scoundrel?
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In Looking Through the Water, it is the summer of 1973 in Tipton, Missouri. Cassie Marvin is a very precocious, imaginative seven-year-old whose whole world consists of a few blocks surrounding downtown Tipton. Cassie's home life lacks in so many areas. A relationship with her mother is almost nonexistent. The emotional needs of one, The lack of emotions in the other will take you on a journey through childhood fun times and situations that make Cassie mature before her time. Beautiful and realistic, Looking Through the Water is a vivid depiction of the challenges of love, hope, and forgiveness we can experience in life. Ginny Karoub's poignant novel will touch your heart and inspire you to appreciate the good things in life.
James Choung narrates this imaginative dialogue between three young friends attempting to come to terms with Christianity's loss of cultural capital, tectonic shifts in spiritual temperament from one generation to the next and the persisting feeling of God summoning them to an embodied faith despite everything.
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Nurse Shannon Grady, is working with a distinguished research doctor to develop a procedure allowing the transplant of an early human embryo directly from a woman not wanting the child, to another unable to conceive. Her painful challenge is to accept the first transplant. However, she learns the baby’s father is black, and relives memories of the rape she endured at seventeen, resulting in the birth of a biracial infant placed for adoption. Another nurse who is black receives the second transplant. Both women must hold this in strict confidence even from their fiances and family for three months in case of the embryos’ rejection. Tempers erupt when they do tell. Although not an abortion center, anti-abortionists—infiltrated by white supremacists, appear with threats. Threats and vandalism terrorize the center, a young black student is beaten and threatened with death to both him and his white girlfriend, the doctor’s daughter. A snipers bullet kills an infant. Fear encircles all but the focus remains with Shannon who must decide if such terror should prohibit publication of the procedure’s success which was to provide a third choice to women.
William and Melinda Smith are a loving couple from the suburbs of New York City who longed to have a family and always dreamed of having children, but when they receive the news that they are expecting multiples, they are excited, expecting them to be twins or triplets, but when they find that they are having sextuplets; six babies/fetuses in one pregnancy, they get more than they bargained for and yet they find that they love all six of their babies and best of all; Melinda goes into labor on Christmas Eve and Melinda and Bill find that they end up receiving the most wonderful Christmas gifts that they could've ever received