Samantha's Anguish

Samantha's Anguish
Author: Gail Mazourek
Publisher:
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2014-06-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9780990415602

Fourteen-year-old Samantha Crow dreams of becoming a doctor in a time when it was not within reach for females. The American Revolution of the 1780s era was just over and her family was in upheaval like many others. She resents her father when he informs her that society denies her the possibility she craves. Insult is added when she learns that her father's own words may have turned Corporal Sutter away. Contention with both her parents remains high as she shares with her older brother, Jonathan, a hope for the Corporal's return. Samantha wonders if her love for him will remain only a private heartbreak of longing. If Samantha paid attention to societies opinion, she would also be denied the friendship of Cretia, a slave girl. Samantha is stirred to tears over Cretia's broken arm because she saw the deliberately vicious act that caused the violent injury to the frail girl. It is only the start of the trouble and anguish endured by both Samantha and Cretia. Discover what happiness their sweet haven of friendship provides them, but what upsets ensue along with unexpected debauchery from another quarter. Will they solve their entwined problems? Will events pull them closer or push them apart? Samantha turns 15 years old with huge problems on her shoulders, while her parents are far away and unaware of what trouble has befallen her.

Samantha's Sorrow

Samantha's Sorrow
Author: Cathy Colburn
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2011-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0982963718

A story of a girl who was sad, and people in her life kept trying to distract or change her from being sad. Once she felt the sorrow, she felt better and moved on.

Tales from Daler Cottage: Unearthing the Hidden Messages within my Children’s Stories

Tales from Daler Cottage: Unearthing the Hidden Messages within my Children’s Stories
Author: Madeleine Watson
Publisher: Madeleine Watson
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2019-03-11
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1799234517

The following story is true. This book is about my children’s mysteries written between the ages of 9 and 16. The years would have been 1975 to 1982. During this time, I was completely oblivious to a terrible truth about myself. I was living in Daler Cottage, the given name of my childhood home. At the age of 19, I would start a novel called The Lessons. This novel was fuelled by a burning fantasy world that was eating me up inside. For the next thirty years, I would struggle with this novel, unaware of this truth. The story of The Lessons is covered in my other book. Prior to my novel-writing phase, I was writing these mysteries as well as painting and devising plays. I kept a diary between 1977 and 1988, during which I attained a degree in Fine Art. I would continue to write and paint for many years to come. My diaries illuminate the circumstances surrounding the writing of my children’s stories. Unknown to me, clues to this horrific truth have leaked into all my creations like oil bubbling up through the ground. At the age of 51, I finally learned the truth. This book describes the decoding process to find the true meaning behind my children’s mysteries. Due to the nature of this book, names and certain details have been altered in order to protect identities and I am writing under a pseudonym. With images throughout.

The Heart of Grief

The Heart of Grief
Author: Thomas Attig
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2002-07-15
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780195156256

In The Heart of Grief, Attig gives us an inspiring and profoundly insightful meditation on the meaning of grief, showing how it can be the path toward a lasting love of those who have died. Recounting dozens of stories of people who have struggled with deaths in their lives, he describes grieving as a transition from loving in presence to loving in separation. The thing we long for most--the return of the one who is missing--is the very thing that we can never have, kindling the intense pain of our loss. But Attig argues that we can, in fact, build an enduring, even reciprocal, love, a love that tempers our pain. He tells stories, for instance, of a young girl taking some of her dead sister's practical advice as she enters high school, a widower realizing how much intimate life with his wife has colored his character, and an athlete drawing inspiration from his dead brother and achieving what they had dreamed of together. Far from forgetting our loved ones, Attig urges us to explore ways in which our memories of the departed can be sustained, our understanding of them enhanced, and their legacies embraced, so they continue to play active roles in our everyday and inner lives. Groundbreaking and original, inspiring and compassionate, The Heart of Grief offers guidance, comfort, and a new understanding of how we grieve.

These Dreams

These Dreams
Author: Verda Foster
Publisher: Intaglio Publications
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2004
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781933113128

Haunted since childhood by visions of a mysterious woman she calls Blue Eyes, artist Samantha McBride is thrilled to meet the woman she dreamed about for so long. But displaced hatred and an act of heartbreaking cruelty leave Samantha shattered.

The Herald of Justice

The Herald of Justice
Author: Lee D. Graham
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2012-01-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1468530348

Part legal scholar, part warrior, Justice Aaron Evron is the Arbiter of Niph. In service to Themis, the blind Goddess of Law and Order, as her herald and champion on the planet, Aaron is charged with administering even-handed justice to king and commoner alike, to ensure that anarchy and chaos do not come to rule Niph. All men ultimately answer to Justice Evron for their crimes. It is a task that he performs with deadly efficiency and a virtual lack of compassion. But such power and responsibility come with a terrible price. Aaron must fight a near constant battle against a debilitating Blackness of the mind inflicted upon him by the Demon Alaset, who has a design to manipulate the Arbiter into serving him. This conflict threatens to take his sanity and destroy everything that he loves, including his relationship with the one woman that he treasures above all others, and the only one able to provide him with a measure of peace and happiness. When mysterious twin infants are given into his care and protection by a magician thought long dead after Niph is invaded by the warlike Rill, Aaron will begin a perilous journey that will force him to choose between saving Niph, or the woman that he is forever and tragically fated to love. But only if Alaset does not defeat him first.

The Redeeming

The Redeeming
Author: Jennifer Ashley
Publisher: Jennifer Ashley
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2014-01-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 098986779X

For seven hundred years the Immortal warrior Tain was held captive and tortured by a powerful demon, and retreated into madness to escape his pain. Set free by his brothers, Tain has wandered the world, but he’s drawn to Los Angeles, a city divided by demon lords and vampire masters, the death-magic creatures barely kept in line by strict rules and the paranormal police. Samantha Taylor, detective in the paranormal division, is committed to bringing down drug-selling demons and vampires who turn too many victims. Her stakeout of a demon club is blown by the appearance of a man with amazing power, who kills the attacking demons with one burst of magic. Samantha is shocked to see the man is Tain, the Immortal she helped rescue, whose healing touch burns her. Tain is back, and he needs Samantha’s help. Young demon women are being murdered, and though Tain has no love for demons, he recognizes that they are innocents. He’s also powerfully drawn to Samantha, a half demon, and fears his pull to her means he hasn’t healed from his ordeal. Tain reveals to Samantha more about herself than she’s comfortable knowing, but though she’s falling for Tain, she knows he’ll never allow himself to be tied to demonkind again. When the killer endangers them both, as well as people they love, Tain and Samantha must solve the case together and fight the growing, powerful attraction between them, a battle they are steadily losing. Welcome back to the world of the Immortals, where vamps, shifters, demons, witches, and Immortals warriors exist in the real world, and the forces of life magic and death magic struggle for balance. The Redeeming is a full-length novel of 100,000 words, which can be read as a standalone.

The Dark Dark

The Dark Dark
Author: Samantha Hunt
Publisher: FSG Originals
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2017-07-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0374282137

The acclaimed novelist Samantha Hunt’s first collection of stories blends the literary and the fantastic and brings us characters on the verge—girls turning into women, women turning into deer, people doubling or becoming ghosts, and more

Family Affair

Family Affair
Author: Lord Walker
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 566
Release: 2012-07-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1477117636

In the pursuit of wealth, power an influence, Nick Siros a disen franchised Native American will let nothing stop him from achieving his goal of becoming a major player in the burgeoning Casino industry. Bent on the drive to succeed and to overcome the obstacles of displacement by the Country he calls his home only motivates him to face these challenges. This suspense drama is based on the life of Nick Siros (Fictional Character) identified by many family’s struggle to hold on to family principles without sacrificing the true meaning of loyalty. The dilemmas of personal sacrifice leads to resentment and shame. In these dynamic turn of events, this novel will question your sense of accomplishment, and what is the true cost of success, and is it worth it. This family saga enumerates with outside conflicts in the pursuit of these goals, leading to vengeance and retribution by their deceivable and cold hearted choices.

Stepping Stones

Stepping Stones
Author: Compu-Teach Corporation
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 470
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 0615178405