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Athena Lee had returned home to her planet of birth. She is home to visit the family she has not seen for over 16 years. Her ship the James Cook is there to repair damage caused by the O'Malley pirates. She finds that her once peaceful agrarian world is overrun with corruption and graft. Her own family is wrapped up in a daily power play for control of the planet and its resources. What was a nice family visit has become a trial of wills. What about the marriage they arranged for her? Oh Hell No! This engineer now has to fight her own family to survive. A reckoning is approaching will she be ready for it?
Secresy was Eliza Fenwick’s only work for adults—a fact that may help to explain why this extraordinary novel has been so thoroughly overlooked. On one level this is a book that presents fascinating challenges to traditional structures of class and gender. Whereas Mr. Valmont, the villain of the piece, rejects merely the surface forms of fashionable society, the story of his niece Sibella and her friend Caroline implicitly rejects the substance as well as the trappings of a system that rested on class privilege and on female dependence. Secresy is also, though, a remarkable novel of human relationships: of sexuality (Sibella’s pregnancy is the occasion for the secrecy that gives the book its title), and of romantic love, but also the female friendship between Sibella and Caroline that is very much at the heart of the book. The relationships—and the grand themes—are expressed through an epistolary technique through which Fenwick (in the editor’s words) shows "a breadth of sympathy which can find comedic pleasure even in what is disapproved.”
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Family Matters in the British and American Novel examines the literature that challenges and alters widely held assumptions about the form of the family, familial authority patterns, and the function of courtship, marriage, and family life from the late-eighteenth century to the present day.
Her voice has been heard by millions. From being one of the most iconic soloists performing "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" on Disney's animated film, The Lion King, to working with some of the world's greatest entertainers-the life of Kristle Murden is one of America's greatest untold stories. Set in the backdrop of the latter half of the 20th century, It Took a Miracle and Then Some, is a story of courage, determination, and overcoming. In her own words, Kristle Murden recounts the secrets that nearly destroyed her. Coming from true desperation and a fate that seemed destined to end badly, Kristle rises against all odds to be a two-time Grammy nominated, world renowned, singer/songwriter and an ordained minister. Kristle's journey of faith to miracles, heartbreak to healing, from her happiest days to her darkest hours, is unpacked in this beautiful, gripping and inspiring story.
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Matt Woodcock returns with this sequel to the bestselling ‘Becoming Reverend’. Follow Matt’s journey as he starts work at one of Hull’s oldest, biggest and emptiest churches. It’s a shadow of its former self, with a small congregation and huge bills to pay. Adding the entrepreneurial (and somewhat excitable) Matt to their clergy line-up is the last throw of the dice for this 700-year-old institution. But is Matt ready for such a tough first assignment? Are his new flock – or his new colleagues – ready for the whirlwind that’s about to descend? And can Matt realize his vision of a thriving church without wrecking his home life in the process? As this real-life diary reveals, Matt’s life being Reverend can be every bit as fraught, funny and fascinating as it was becoming one.