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THE SITTING SWING: FINDING WISDOM TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BY IRENE WATSON
The Sitting Swing: Finding Wisdom to Know the Difference shows us how guilt, fear and ignorance are borne by our children. Two distinct parts of the book look at an abusive child rearing and the process of recovery that takes place years later. On many levels this is a classic story showing us that change, growth, forgiveness and recovery are possible.
It is also a heartwarming healing story and a testament to the strength and courage of the human spirit. In the end it gives hope and freedom to those that accept the past and move forward by rewriting life scripts that have been passed down for generations.
Charlotte Mercer is a WASP trainee who hopes to fly for her
country. Her career nearly ends before it begins when an
army major removes her from training after she refuses his
proposition to do something other than fly. Ordered to work
at a defense plant with the FBI, she meets her new riveting
partner, Agent Eleanor Frazier. Char quickly goes from pilot
to Rosie the Riveter to undercover agent after a ring of
German spies. She never gives up hope of earning her silver
wings, even as she makes a perilous flight with a Nazi
demolitions expert holding a gun to her head.
Nemesis -not for the faint-hearted- is the second in a
series of books from author Vincent Cobb, which explore childhood
cruelty and psychopathic killings.
Cobb explores the dark side of life in a raw uncompromising style
which some might find disturbing. He also majors on the depressive
aspects of the victims – factors with which he can empathise as a
fellow sufferer.
“We all trust that childhood should be happy and contented and free
from fear and harm but in reality for an unfortunate minority their
early formative years are a catalogue of cruelty, terror and abuse.”
The first of his books ‘Leave a light on for Jesus’ published in
2005 was essentially a true story and Cobb drew heavily from his own
childhood experiences in the North of England during the 1940’s of
a violent abusive father, a lack of help from social services and
betrayal by the catholic church.
There is a commonality of the fragility of the mind and subsequent
torment this creates in this previous book, in Nemesis and also in
his third book ‘Contrition’ due to be published next year.
‘What really happens to the “lost children” of this world and what
really goes on in the mind of a serial killer. Nemesis links a young
psychic girl’s vision to a paedophile serial killer’s seven young
victims and her efforts to identify the murderer to a young woman
police officer before a total mental collapse. The killer remains at
large, the horror ceases but for how long?”
Still reeling from the murder at the grand opening of her B&B inn, Trina is beset with yet another mystery. While making renovations, Trina learns that the inn's dumbwaiter is in fact the tomb of someone who died years ago. Soon, Trina finds that there are several other mysteries surrounding her--like the lovely Alexandra who keeps waiting at the inn for her husband, who never arrives; the sexy Rhiannon who meets a strange man late at night and the chanteuse at a local French dinner club who Trina observes becomes extremely upset at the appearance of Lieutenant Klonski. Though Trina tries to solve all these puzzles, she finally realizes that there's a greater mystery in the dumbwaiter than merely an old skeleton.
Most of us have moments we'd rather forget. Diana Archer is living a lifetime of those moments. She's anxious, dissatisfied, and fearful, and her own behaviors seem strange and unfamiliar to her. She's running hard, yet feels like she's standing still.
But all that changes when Diana meets a powerful teacher who speaks directly to her heart. She awakens to a profound awareness of the preciousness of life and discovers that the secrets of the universe really aren't secret. And although her path is shadowed by mystery and peril, she finds miracles and romance as The Way of Opportunity reveals to her, and to us, the inner meaning of the most essential truths of all: life, love, and happiness.
Diana's story gives us the tools and the courage we need to transcend our destiny, and shows us how to create happier relationships, reclaim our vitality and well being, attain financial stability, and place ourselves in harmony with the natural world. Diana is searching for the answers that everyone is seeking, and by finding them, teaches us all...
ReBecoming is a hopeful and humorous spiritual saga, merging fiction with ageless wisdom. Find out how a tale of today can improve your future forever.
LOLLY WINSTON, born and raised in the glamorous insurance capital of Hartford, Conn., Lolly Winston holds an MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College, where she studied with Alan Gurganus, and wrote a collection of short stories as her thesis.
In the early eighties she went to Hawaii for eight days and stayed for eight years, boogie boarding and working as a corporate copy writer and public affairs officer at a local trauma hospital.
She moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in the early nineties, where she continued to work as a public relations professional. Her first foray into freelance journalism was as a stringer for Automotive News. After falling off the corporate ladder she began working from home as a freelance writer for high-tech companies, and the San Jose Mercury News. Since then her work has appeared in the magazines Redbook, Family Circle, Working Mother, New Woman, Sunset, Lifetime and others. She has published short fiction in The Sun. She has also taught classes in freelance writing.
She lives with her husband in Northern California.
Favorite Authors:
My favorite authors, in no particular order, include: Flannery O'Connor, Vladimir Nabokov, Nick Hornby, Walker Percy, Mary Karr, George Saunders, Michael Cunningham, Aimee Bender, Melissa Bank, Jane Austen, Dave Barry, David Sedaris, Andre Dubus III, Sylvia Plath, Raymond Carver, Ethan Canin, Christie Hodgen, Ellen Sussman, J.D. Salinger, Tobias Wolff, Donald Barthelme. It's hard to stop naming them. I'm a groupie at heart. My all-time favorite novels are probably, The Bell Jar, Lolita, About a Boy, Anna Karenina, The Hours, and The Moviegoer.
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READING GUIDES FOR BOOK CLUBS
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