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Dear Beneficiary
Best Exotic Marigold Hotel meets Last Tango in Halifax in this hilarious debut novel by Janet Kelly. Life begins in her fifties for Cynthia when, released from a dull and dutiful marriage by her husband’s demise, she embarks on a passionate affair with a thirty-eight-year-old Nigerian man called Darius. The passionate romance is suddenly truncated when he has to return to his homeland to help his sick parents. Cynthia’s grandson helps her get on the internet in a bid to speak to her former lover via email, but when she receives a spam message requesting bank details for a friend who needs medical help, she assumes Darius has been in contact to ask for her support. Hilarity ensues when Cynthia finds herself travelling to Nigeria to try and trace the scammers and her life savings. Join Cynthia on her laugh-out-loud adventure as she proves that women of a certain age can live and love like never before!
Diary of a Dying Aids Patient: Death by Betrayal
As an only child of a devout Christian couple, Kelly is raised to become the kind of daughter any parent would be proud of. Every choice she makes is grounded on the values and lessons her parents instilled in her. Kelly has a steadfast hold on her beliefs, one of which is to give herself only to the man she will marry. Her boyfriend believes otherwise and when Kelly refuses to give in to his desires, he leaves her for another woman. Kellys attempts to get over her heartbreak and establish a successful business both fail. She decides to take her chance in New York where a job as a real estate broker awaits. Living a fastpaced life lifts Kellys mind off her previous disappointment. With a gre...
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.
Taint
Rebecca White, a senior at the top of her class at Plains High School in 2001, is a Kansas girl going places...until the rape. She wants the rapist to pay for his crime and go to jail. Unfortunately, nothing is that simple, and she wasn't the one raped. This is the story of how Rebecca seeks revenge for her best friend, Luke Warren, who was raped by the principal's son, Weston. While the senior class chooses corsages and boutonnières for prom, Rebecca plots revenge against Weston. She must find a way to make him pay without revealing Luke's secret. The solution she finds is chilling. Set in a small town in the American Midwest when the terrorist attacks in New York City brought life to a standstill, Taint by Janet Kelley portrays how friendship and justice are tested when the unthinkable happens.
Audacious Reforms
Audacious Reforms examines the creation of new political institutions in three Latin American countries: direct elections for governors and mayors in Venezuela, radical municipalization in Bolivia, and direct election of the mayor of Buenos Aires in Argentina. Diverging from the usual incremental processes of political change, these cases marked a significant departure from traditional centralized governments. Such "audacious reforms," explains Merilee S. Grindle, reinvent the ways in which public problems are manifested and resolved, the ways in which political actors calculate the costs and benefits of their activities, and the ways in which social groups relate to the political process. G...
Bread of Tears
A Christian murder mystery. An explosive novel of power, corruption, betrayal and murder. A once vital church comes apart and it will take hard work and courage for those who remain to put the pieces back together. Scott Henry is called in to investigate financial mismanagement. A new board has been elected and too many questions remain unanswered. But what Scott finds doesn't stop at church finances. Members of the old board were up to much, much more. With support from the new board, and some members of the congregation finally coming forward, the web of deceit, a high flying lifestyle and flagrant disregard for others finally emerges...with shocking results.
Contemporary Native American Cultural Issues
Duane Champagne has assembled a volume of top scholarship reflecting the complexity and diversity of Native American cultural life. Introductions to each topical section provide background and integrated analyses of the issues at hand. The informative and critical studies that follow offer experiences and perspectives from a variety of Native settings. Topics include identity, gender, the powwow, mass media, health and environmental issues. This book and its companion volume, Contemporary Native American Political Issues, edited by Troy R. Johnson, are ideal teaching tools for instructors in Native American studies, ethnic studies, and anthropology, and important resources for anyone working in or with Native communities.
Pioneering Paths in the Study of Families
Meet the men and women whose groundbreaking work elevated the field of family studies! In Pioneering Paths in the Study of Families: The Lives and Careers of Family Scholars, you'll find 40 autobiographies written by leading scholars in sociology, family studies, psychology, and child development. Their fascinating stories demonstrate how their family experiences, educational opportunities, and occupational endeavors not only shaped the disciplines they chose but also shaped the theoretical perspectives they utilized and the topics they researched. From the editors: “These autobiographies document the experiences of scholars from the early twentieth century to the present. The descriptions...
Wait For Me
New York Times Bestseller, USA Today Bestseller, Wall Street Journal Bestseller, Digital Book World Bestseller & IndieReader Bestseller! A woman without a past… After a tragic accident left her with no memory, Kate Alexander struggled to fit in with a husband and world that didn’t feel right. She’s had no reason to question what friends and family have told her, not until her husband is suddenly killed and she finds a photo of a young girl in his office. A girl who can’t be anyone but a daughter Kate didn’t know she had. A man desperate for a reason to live… Ryan Harrison lost his wife in a plane crash five years ago. To cope with the pain of her loss, he dedicated himself to his...
