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Pearls My Mother Wore

Author: Terry Sue Harms

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2010-01-21

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 0982607008

'Pearls My Mother Wore' is about loss and recovery, resentment and forgiveness. The novel opens on the day that forty-three-year-old 'nice girl' Kelly Tremblake buries the ashes of her forty-two-year-old husband, Grayson. Devastated by his sudden and unexpected death, Kelly finds the sweet, uncomplicated life she has intentionally crafted for herself screeching to a halt. As she pulls increasingly inward in response to this psychic blow, what she finds is complicated and decades old.Compounding the agony of her loss and the flood of memories is the sudden and unexpected arrival of Grayson's twenty-three-year-old 'bad-boy' nephew, Mitchell. Kelly can not stand this young man for a number of reasons, chief among them the fact that years earlier he stole a pearl necklace and earring set that had belonged to her deceased mother. This combination of events throws Kelly into a spiral of grief, bitter resentment, paranoia, and despair. To find relief, she must get those pearls back.

My Mother's Pearls

Author: Catherine Myler Fruisen

Publisher: Cedco Publishing Company

Published: 2000-04

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 9780768321777

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A little girl helping her mother get dressed recounts the story of her mother's pearl necklace, handed down through eight generations, and a bit of history about each woman who wore it. Color illustrations.

She Always Knew How

Author: Charlotte Chandler

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-12-11

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 1471105849

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Sex goddess Mae West is responsible for some of the most quoted lines in film history: * Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just happy to see me? * When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. * It's not the men in my life that counts - it's the life in my men. She was a performer from childhood and debuted on Broadway in a play she wrote entitled "Sex" which was a success until it was raided for immorality and Mae was jailed for ten days. This book is packed with stars from George Raft to Cary Grant and W.C. Fields, with whom she made "My Little Chickadee", the most successful film of Fields' career. Charlotte Chandler recorded Mae West over a period of roughly a month towards the end of the star's life. She was still as vital and lively as ever, and this book will convey all of Mae West's legendary attitude.

The Strongbox

Author: Terry Sue Harms

Publisher: She Writes Press

Published: 2020-10-27

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1631527762

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Following the unexpected death of her alcoholic mother, and worn down by the unceasing taunts of “bastard” from her hostile and mentally unstable stepfather, plucky sixteen-year-old Terry Sue sets out to find her biological father—believing this man, whom she has never met, could change her life for the better. But before she can find him, she must identify him, and the unfamiliar names on her birth certificate perplex her. She comes to realize that tenacity must run in her family, for as determined as she is to find her father, he appears equally determined to remain hidden. In The Strongbox, Terry Sue offers readers a forthright and inspirational account of her challenges, as well as her against-all-odds successes. This decades-long personal journey reads like a detective novel, full of setbacks, false leads, jaw-dropping discoveries, and heartening triumphs. The narrative’s twists and turns also pull back the curtain on many of today’s inconvenient truths: child abandonment, multigenerational alcoholism, sexism, economic inequality, domestic violence, mental illness, and illiteracy. Undaunted by the many blind alleys she encounters, Terry Sue forges on in her hunt for the loving care and emotional support she never received from her parents, and she ultimately finds it—but it arrives in forms she never expected.

The Voice of the Mother

Author: Jo Malin

Publisher: SIU Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9780809322664

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"Analyzing this narrative practice, Malin examines ten texts by women who seem particularly compelled to tell their mothers' stories. Each author is, in fact, able to write her own autobiography only by using a narrative form that contains her mother's story at its core. These texts raise interesting questions about autobiography as a genre and about a feminist writing practice that resists and subverts the dominant literary tradition.".

SEALed At Sunset

Author: Sharon Hamilton

Publisher: Frog Haven Press

Published: 2020-02-18

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 1945020776

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SEALs Don't Poach on another Team Guy's girl. Navy SEAL Andrew Carr needs a lot of mindless beach time as he comes home from his first deployment. He visits a friend he met in BUD/S at a small Florida coastal town. But what he finds is something he cannot have: another SEAL brother’s girl. Aimee Greer is running from the stress in her life, and knows the beach, and the arms of her hot new boyfriend should do the trick. But when Andrew Carr comes to visit, she’s not prepared for the explosive chemistry that develops between them. When Carr is forced to defend her from her past, she realizes she has found the one she’s been searching for her whole life.

Sources of Light

Author: Margaret McMullan

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780547076591

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It's 1962, a year after the death of Sam's father, Sam and her mother must move, along with their very liberal views, to Jackson, Mississippi. Needless to say, they don't quite fit in. As racism ensues, Sam learns to focus with her camera lens to bring forth the social injustice out of the darkness and into the light.

And the Sun Kept Shining ...

Author: Bertha Ferderber-Salz

Publisher:

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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Great Dames

Author: Marie Brenner

Publisher: Crown

Published: 2010-03-10

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 0307556492

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"Fascinating, gossipy, entertaining. . . ." — New York Times Book Review They are ten outstanding women of the century. Each had an aura, including Thelma Brenner, the first great dame her daughter ever knew. Their lives were both gloriously individual and yet somehow universal. They were mighty warriors and social leaders, women of aspiration who persevered. They lived through the Great Depression and a world war. Circumstances did not defeat them. They played on Broadway and in Washington. They had glamour, style, and intelligence. They dressed up the world. "Vivid, intimate portraits . . . a splendid tribute to ten of the century's grandest, most powerful women." —Us "These women were our geishas, whispering in our ears to influence all aspects of American life." —Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times "Delectable, classy . . . a runaway hit." —Liz Smith "An engrossing introduction to a way of life that's now extinct, for better or for worse." —Chicago Sun-Times

Maria in the Moon

Author: Louise Beech

Publisher: Orenda Books

Published: 2017-08-16

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1495628167

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"Long ago my beloved Nanny Eve chose my name. Then one day she stopped calling me it. I try now to remember why, but I just can't." Thirty-two-year-old Catherine Hope has a great memory. But she can't remember everything. She can't remember her ninth year. She can't remember when her insomnia started. And she can't remember why everyone stopped calling her Catherine-Maria. With a promiscuous past, and licking her wounds after a painful breakup, Catherine wonders why she resists anything approaching real love. But when she loses her home to the devastating deluge of 2007 and volunteers at Flood Crisis, a devastating memory emerges, and changes everything.