2 Candles for Maureen

2 Candles for Maureen
Author: Margaret Darling
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2012-08-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1477223029

Margaret had been diagnosed with a rare, aggressive type of breast cancer and desperately wanted to find someone else who had the same disease or who had survived it, as the prognosis was not good. This is the poignant story of two people who met through a cancer website and who supported each other by e-mail and telephone through very trying times and who met in person only once. It is a highly personal story that offers insight into how you can build a different kind of friendship and find happiness in each other, even in the face of adversity. Margaret Darling, a retired medical secretary, lives in Fife, Scotland, with her husband. Since recovering from cancer, she felt it was quite unusual to find an Internet friend and make such a connection as she did. She felt she had a story to tell, and this is the result.

The Book of Love

The Book of Love
Author: Kathleen McGowan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 621
Release: 2012-12-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1471105415

Once there was a gospel written in Christ's own hand: a treasure of almost unimaginable magnitude, referred to by the Cathars of medieval France as The Book of Love... Fresh from her successful search for the long-hidden scrolls written by Mary Magdelene, journalist Maureen Pascal now finds herself on the trail of the legendary lost gospel known as the Book of Love. But just as there were those who would stop at nothing to seize and suppress the Book of Love seven centuries ago, so there are those today who are equally determined that its radical message should never be revealed. In a race across Italy and France, new dangers await Maureen and her lover Sinclair as they begin to uncover secrets and shine new light on the hidden corners of Christianity. Combining expert research with dazzling plot twists, The Book of Love is sure to thrill readers as they follow Maureen's search for clues through some of the world's greatest art, architecture and history, until a potentially fatal encounter reveals the Book of Love to her -- and to us.

Bread and Salt

Bread and Salt
Author: Valerie Miner
Publisher: Whitepoint Press
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2020-09-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1944856234

Compelling and vivid, the stories in Bread and Salt use the metaphor of salvage to consider the reclamation of the natural environment, human relationships, and material objects. The characters in these stories live and travel in Tunisia, India, Indonesia, Italy, Turkey, France, and the United States and consider their individual agency in both local and global contexts. The characters' conflicts reveal how family and friendships are enriched by differences.

In Our Lifetime...

In Our Lifetime...
Author: Jeanne Pieper
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2012-06-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1468574493

The Nun The Bishop The Suburban Housewife and Mother.. What do they have in common? Sister Maureen Connally has little sympathy for the agenda of the radical feminist nuns until the U.S. Bishops edit her sensitive report on "Women in the Catholic Church" into superficial nothingness and publish it under the name of a well known male cleric. John O'Malley, Bishop of San Francisco, has never been a risk taker until his innocent attendance at a feminist Mass for a dying nun brings angry Vatican accusations that he is sanctioning priesthood for women. Linda Bonn, the loving mother of three teenagers, is a dutiful wife and the pillar of her local parish church until her husband, jealous of her sudden success as a suburban Real Estate Agent, tricks her into an unwanted pregnancy. Equally oppressed by inflexible "superiors" and forced to confront personal fears and inadequacies they have never before acknowledged, these three devote Catholics discover both problem and solution in their religion. Upset by the out of touch official pronouncements of the Vatican, as well as the dishonest machinations for the hierarchy, yet unable and unwilling to break the spiritual ties of their childhood, they come to believe that THEY are the Catholic Church. At last, with their help, the time bomb that is within the Catholic Church in American today explodes IN THEIR LIFETIME.

Constant Conundrums

Constant Conundrums
Author: Nikhita Kale
Publisher: Notion Press
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2021-12-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1685234070

Leaving her dark past behind, Raina moves to New York, hoping for a better future and finds herself working with one of the biggest companies in Manhattan, with her friends who soon become her family, in a very short period of time. Her nearly perfect life is interrupted by someone who tries to uncover the secret she strived so hard to conceal. Little does she know, this interruption will change, not just her world, but also everyone else’s around her, when someone is pushed off the edge. Will vengeance take over and destroy everyone in sight or will love conquer all?

Collected Stories

Collected Stories
Author: Bernard MacLaverty
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 644
Release: 2013-11-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1448113482

‘Characters all but leap off the page with believability in these marvellous stories of life (and death) in Belfast’ Sunday Times Melding his native Irish sensibilities to those of his adopted west-coast Scotland, these tales attend to life’s big events: love and loss, separation and violence, death and betrayal. But the stories teem with smaller significant moments too – private epiphanies, chilling exchanges, intimate encounters. Each of these extraordinary stories – with their wry, self-deprecating humour, their elegance and subtle wisdom – gets to the very heart of life.

The Haunting of Julia

The Haunting of Julia
Author: Mary Hooper
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2008
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781598898279

Before Julia can blow out her birthday candles, the flames vanish! When she watches a replay on videotape, she sees a shadowy figure standing behind her. Julia suspects a ghost has blown out the candles and has now come to haunt her.