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Thirty-eight-year-old Pete Mitchell declares to his sons how fortunate they are to grow up with their father. He reveals to his first and third-grade boys that he does not know his dad. He seeks the help of Nigel, his cousin, to find the man who shares the responsibility of his coming into the world. His father left the Caribbean community where he grew up before Pete was born.In his attempts to locate his father, Pete realizes that cooperation from Nigel and other family members is hard to get. With the lack of assistance, in finding his father, Pete gets creative with his search. Soon, he learns his absent father lives in England. In addition, he discovers Nigel plans to visit his own relatives in London and will try to get any information about the whereabouts of Pete's father. Pete anxiously waits for Nigel to return so he can get his father's address and phone number. However, he experiences another setback when Nigel returns and decides to keep a promise he made - a pledge not to give out Pete's Dad's contact information.Pete gets word about Dale and Ella, his siblings. Also, he finds out his seventy-two-year-old father had a stroke and is a widower. He searches for his father on the Internet and arranges to travel to London to meet him.What should be a happy family reunion is marred by bitterness between the siblings, who resent Pete re-entering their father's life. When there is a struggle over inheritance, all hell breaks loose, and family matters end up in court.
Randall Jacksmith who is on his way to the bank encounters a series of incomprehensible events that seem to fade away in obscurity as he makes his way on his daily routine. As time goes by he begins to question if it all is a collective illusion... or if it's all separate, but real. This tale of a mundane journey turned phenomena of mind splitting proportions is merely a glimpse of what Brendan Whitaker has in store for the near and far future of fiction. A book of spoilers and what's to come.
Ella Pottle's life has been a rollercoaster. It has had some loops and twists and turns and highs and lows, and sometimes it has gone around that same track more than once. In Mi Vida Loca, she shares her story, the story of a young girl who had two children before the age of nineteen.In this memoir, Pottle tells how rather than let this define her, she found a way to provide the world with a different and positive outlook. She discusses how she believes her kids are the factor that saved her from living a tragic life. They gave her a reason to work hard, and they provided her with the love she craved.To some, becoming a teen parent may look like a tragedy, but for Pottle it was a journey that gave her a reason to live and do the best she could to break the cycle of generational trauma for her branch of the family tree.
Author Mae Bea Sayes is an artist-poet inspired by life, love, and literature. She transposes poems from images that come alive from ideas about her journey with the meter of language and the characters of literature. She creates cadence through wordplay and loves rhyme whenever it works.In her new collection of poems, The Graveyard and Other Poems, she examines the journey of the souls death, reawakening, and redemption. Written in a cadence that recalls the work of Edna St Vincent Millay, the lyrics speak to the pandemic, a walk through a graveyard full of great ghosts, painful love, and the long-awaited redemption of sins after death. The ethereal spirit of the poems speaks as a voice about the mystery of the souls departure from life. She also touches on themes of love and love lost.As I lay in the graveyard,I am revealed,transmuted through snow,hidden like the rosein the translucent lightpeeking out in the early spring -from "The Graveyard"
Canelé, a traditional cork-shaped pastry from the region of Bordeaux, France, taste like crème brûlée on the palate. Its crispy and caramelized exterior hides a rich, custardy interior. Canelé are the perfect accompaniment to coffee or tea and, of course, the definition of deliciousness.Carline Senesie, who baked her first canelé in 2014 after finding a recipe on a French website, shares an innovative presentation of recipes that, while respecting and maintaining the integrity of the pastry, stretch the original version into thirty-six bewitching flavors that include nutty, matcha, black sesame, cherry berry hibiscus, malted milk, bananas foster, cookies and cream, and popcorn. While following the traditional two-two-two method of preparation, Senesie also includes photographs and valuable information on tools and molds that will lead both novice and seasoned bakers on a flavorful journey to experience canelé in an entirely new way.Can You Canelé? is a collection of original recipes that tweak the classic version of this delightful pastry to provide new flavor options for bakers around the world.
A murder in the nightMachine men with machine HeartsMonsters and manipulationWho will save the Dales from such Darkness?
The falling of the World Trade Center changed the lives of a nation but more so the lives of families facing tragedy. The Bennett family-mother Rachel and twins Samantha and Andrew-lost husband and father Ben when the towers fell and have since struggled to rebuild their lives. They now live in the Victorian cottage Ben left them on Martha's Vineyard.In this sequel to Windswept, as the twins prepare to enter high school they, and a group of friends, follow clues about a Vineyard legend of missing pirate treasure. Their research leads to a compelling two-hundred-year-old tale that is revealed as they discover more about their own lives and purposes.Sea Change is an exciting novel combining coming-of-age themes with elements of adventure and mystery. Interweaving two timelines, the novel explores the lives of a young sailor in the 1790s and two teenage siblings in the early 2000s who embark on a journey to investigate a local legend involving treasure greater than gold.
The Masserly Ingenious Clan is tasked to investigate a murder put on display in their city. However, when these demon hunters are forced to work with the Daughter of Lucifer and her team, the MIC find a demon-raising cult in the Fey Realm. The trust between the two teams will be tested when the brewing threat hits the streets of Masserly.
Come.Sit with meAmong the stars,Where we canStay foreverIn thisInfinite moment.Inspired by his coming-of-age years, Miles Goodwin offers a collection of poems that explore the concepts and ideals in both life and love.Challenging, sensual, and heartfelt, Goodwin's verses lead others through the formative years of young adulthood and how this time shapes perspectives on love in all its dimensions. While lyrically framing the musings of present-day youth, his poems vividly bridge the gap between old soul and young body while reminding us of the importance of inclusiveness and unconditional love for all of humanity.It's Not All Roses is a collection of poems that reflect on a gripping and emotional journey through the coming-of-age years.
It's almost dreamy to study in a prosperous North American university, where they welcome foreign students and enable them to become sponges for knowledge. North America offers great promise for study abroad students from developing societies. The students not only gain knowledge and learn about new traditions, but they form enduring friendships.Yes, I Belong Here traces the life of author Dhir Dayal, an international student who traveled abroad for higher studies and earned three graduate degrees. He conveys his serendipitous experiences while pursuing his studies in North America. Dayal exposes his life to future foreign students who might benefit in charting their journey in an environment radically different from their motherland.In this memoir, Dayal discusses what American university life was like for him, a student who had grown up in a small village in India. He shares the ups and downs, the joys and challenges, and the expected and unexpected as he charted his own course for educational achievements.
A leap of faith for an untamed heartto transform shadow, through alchemist arta sorcerer's apprentice traveling through timehead in the clouds, where dreams are minedcarrying memories of time once spenta willful pilgrim, honing tools of ascenttraversing patterns; the collective mindetched in memories from a once upon timethrough vices, virtues, the path to ascendto the higher self, knowing souls never endStephen Rogers connects thoughts to thoughts in a debut presentation of eight poems shared in a stream of consciousness style.In a poetic spiritual journey that combines the esoteric with the exoteric, he reflects on renewal, transformation, forgiveness, a leap of faith, the light of the one shining through man, good men who tell lies at confession to an insincere priest, an enduring love that befriends a soul, a crippling social disease eaten from the devil's table, and much more.Pieces of 8 shares a collection of eight poems that lead others through one man's explorations of God, spirituality, and the world around him.
"a journey that ebbs and flowsconditional lovedescribes the frailty of human naturethe process of growthand the purpose of painthrough abuse love and depressionhealing becomes possiblethrough awarenessin the power of the mind"conditional love is a personal healing journey chronologically written and divided into four distinct chapters: experience, feel, process, and heal. her story is a beautiful display of growth through self-love, awareness, and constant encouragement for personal reflection.
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