One glance into the sky changed her world forever.
Growing up during the Depression is hard enough without the added problems of betrayal,abuse,addiction and the difficulties of a dysfunctional family. One evening at her grandparents' Rose Evans makes a wish on a shooting star. What follows is a spectacular event that instills within her an unshakable belief in the power of the stars. From her life in Pittsburgh as a small child to her journey to Detroit as a young woman, Rose faces many obstacles. As she seeks to find the life she has always dreamed about, Rose realizes that if you believe in yourself, it is possible for dreams to come true.
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I was born Rose Elizabeth Evans, at three fifty-nine one rainy September afternoon in industrialized Pittsburgh, amongst its many mills and chimneys. The Great War had ended and the industrial age had begun. Father was the one that took credit for calling me Rose, but to everyone else I was simply Rosie. My parents teased that when I was born I was such an ugly baby that they felt compelled to name me after a symbol of beauty to counterbalance my offense to society. For father, Rose Elizabeth fit the bill.
Shanghai Escapist grabs the faint-of-heart right from the get-go and serves up an ultimatum: What would you do if caught in the same circumstances? From the opening scene, the reader is tossed into the maze of daily intrigue as it existed in 1960s-70
The Six Bells of Madame Lin is the first book in The Witch of Marigold Hall Trilogy, a fictionalized account of the struggles of Lin Mang, a blind woman who manages to navigate the world during the Mongol conquest of China in the 13th Century. Withou
