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Misadventures
Misadventures is a unique ensemble of mishaps and anecdotes revealing the ups and downs of one woman’s life in twentieth-century London. Sylvia Smith’s deadpan patter belies the startling complexities, humour and darkness at the heart of this remarkable memoir.
Sylvia Smith-Smith
Sylvia chooses between two dates for the prom, daydreams, dresses for a Halloween party, remembers a Thanksgiving from the past, and tries to cope with her parents' divorce.
From Victim to Victor
In the opening you will find Prophetess Sylvia Smith nervously thinking about the service God has instructed her to have. Shes questing Gods choice for her to have this service but with the encouraging words from her son and husband shes ready when its time to leave. At the church as she stands at the pulpit is where she goes back in time in her mind back to the skinny little girl who lived with the secret of the people who would become her foster parents Mr. Ben who has been molesting her from the age of four and Mrs. Connie who physically and verbally abuse her daily. Her life goes from bad to worse when Mr. Ben who has been telling her he had to get her ready for him to show her a fathers love rapes her, and Mrs. Connies cousin and her friends rapes her then a nurse comes to the school she attends and talks about good and bad touches and tell the students to tell so she get up the courage to tell Mrs. Connie who puts her out of the house when there was no company over, so she starts stealing from the local grocery store to survive after getting caught stealing she tells the manager of the store why she was stealing he rapes her too her life became a survival game from there.
When Love Becomes a Nightmare
"I’ve known Sylvia Smith five decades. She is brutally honest, intelligent and witty. If she said it...Believe it!" Janie Bradford-An American songwriter most known for her tenure with Motown. With Berry Gordy, she co-wrote "Money (That's What I Want)", and used by The Beatles on their second album With The Beatles. “There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable and honest friend. Nothing! I’ve known Sylvia Smith since our Motown/Detroit days over forty years ago. I trust her heart. When representing me... as she often does, her judgement is impeccable.” Ray Parker, Jr. - Is an American musician. Singer, songwriter, record producer and actor. He also wrote and performed the theme song Ghostbusters in the 1984 movie Ghostbusters.
Appleby House
Appleby House is Sylvia Smith’s delightful, refreshingly candid account of a year spent in a shabby bed-sit in 1980s London’s East End. Smith’s engrossing, understated narrative invests the story of shared living: shifting allegiances, cleaning negotiations, debates about whose turn it is to change the toilet paper (it’s color-coded) and who’s been stealing whose hot water (50p buys 2 baths) with compulsive suspense of the highest order. As tensions build around Laura’s adamant refusal to turn down her music or pretend to care about what her housemates have to say, we find ourselves astonishingly addicted to the goings on in this tiny corner of the universe. In the most artless and amusing way, Appleby House thoroughly indulges our very human fascination with the day-to-day and the surprising, often inexplicable, behavior of our fellow members of the species.
Sigma Receptors: Their Role in Disease and as Therapeutic Targets
Originally confused with opioid receptors and then orphan receptors with no biological function, Sigma Receptors are now recognized as relevant to many degenerative diseases with remarkable potential as therapeutic targets. In this text, new information about the structure of sigma 1 receptor, its binding sites are provided as well as its expression in many cell types. It’s putative role in degenerative neuronal diseases including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, pain, drug addiction and locomotor activity. Their roles in possible treatments for blinding retinal diseases emphasize the tremendous far-reaching potential for ligands for these receptors. Exciting breakthroughs in this dynamic field in the last decade are reported herein, which will guide future investigators in determining the full potential of this unique, yet abundantly expressed protein.
Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume II
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the writers that defined the course of twentieth-century poetry. Her vivid, daring and complex poetry continues to captivate new generations of readers and writers. In the Letters, we discover the art of Plath's correspondence. Most has never before been published, and it is here presented unabridged, without revision, so that she speaks directly in her own words. Refreshingly candid and offering intimate details of her personal life, Plath is playful, too, entertaining a wide range of addressees, including family, friends and professional contacts, with inimitable wit and verve. The letters document Plath's extraordinary literary development: the genesis ...
Giovanna
"Seven months after the death of my father, my half-brother Renzo, then twenty-six-years old, delivered me to the nuns at the convent in Tripoli. I remember Renzo crying, but I can't remember my reaction to this life-changing event. Although I was leaving my home, my mother, my baby brother, and all that I called my life, the feelings of that day are gone. Perhaps after my father's death, I ceased trying to feel anything." As World War II encroaches upon North Africa, Mussolini dictates that the children from this Italian colony be sent to Italy for their protection. The anticipated four-month "vacation" in Italy in the hands of the Franciscan nuns starts in June of 1940 and lasts seven year...
A War of Her Own
A War of Her Own is a compelling World War II historical novel, set in Orange, Texas, in 1943, about a Texas version of Rosie the Riveter in search of happiness. In the summer of 1943, Orange, Texas, is a sleepy little town overrun with tens of thousands of new workers. With jobs galore at the wartime shipyards, the workers are rich with cash and looking for a good time. Bea Meade, mother of an infant son, finds her life shattered when her philandering husband announces he is leaving her for another woman. To make ends meet, Bea takes a job at a shipyard as a riveter. Meanwhile, she searches for the love missing in her life. Life is good for everyone in Orange--except Bea, who has to fight her own battles against a no-good husband, the prejudice facing women in the workplace, and the mysteries of her own past. Bea's journey to discover who she really is, a vibrant woman of her times, serves up an entertaining story of the World War II homefront you'll remember long after the final pages.
There but for the
A sparkling satire from the Booker Prize-shortlisted, Women's Prize-winning author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet 'Playful, humorous, serious, profoundly clever and profoundly affecting' Guardian 'There once was a man who, one night between the main course and the sweet at a dinner party, went upstairs and locked himself in one of the bedrooms of the house of the people who were giving the dinner party . . .' As time passes by and the consequences of this stranger's actions ripple outwards, touching the owners, the guests, the neighbours and the whole country, so Ali Smith draws us into a beautiful, strange place where everyone is so much more than they first appear... ***** 'Adventurous, intoxicating, dazzling. This is a novel with serious ambitions that remains huge fun to read' Literary Review 'Smith can make anything happen, which is why she is one of our most exciting writers today' Daily Telegraph
