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|  | | A Bowl Of Cheeries
This memoir covers Tekla's youth from age 9 through 18. She was orphaned by age 13. Her story reveals a life faced with suicide, abuse, attempt murder and going into hiding in order to stay safe and live. Through all this she and her sister, also her guardian prevail and succeed.
When Tekla was thirteen, her mother committed suicide four years after her father died. Tekla's twenty-three-year-old siter, Alyce, a working mother and abused spouse, becomes her guardian. This memoir presents their journey from a tragedy-filled life in a bleak railroad town to one of victory over impossible odds. The two sisters encounter not only death of their parents and domestic violence, but other fearsome and timeless demons: flight for their lives, attempted murder, rape, abuse, kidnapping and poverty.They also experience the kindness of strangers, delight in the humorous moments of e | |  | | Inevitable Sentences
Big Bay Point Lighthouse, on Michigan's Lke Superior, has illuminated rocky shoals for more than a hundred years. Transformed into a safehouse, these days the stout tower shelters women and children from emotional turbulence. Celeste Brookstone, as new owner and director of the safehouse, has found a satisfying life mission following the murder of her daughter, Pilar. Celeste is also taking full advantage of the proximity of the lighthouse to the new man in her life, retired prison warden, Max Whitefeather. That the shelter is so close to Hawk Haven Prison where Pilar's murderer is serving a life sentence seems immaterial to Celeste. After all, she has played a part in seeing Chad Wilbanks locked away forever in maximum security isolation. Or is he.
Inevitable Sentences is a suspense in which relationships are seen on many levels: the heartwarming love between Max Whitefeather and Celeste Brookstone, the disturbing liaison between Chad, a predator and Lizzie, a groupie who follows notorious male killers, the demands and betrayal of the friendship between Priscilla, the prison psychologist and Lizzie, the women living in the safehouse and Celeste, and the budding courtship between the distrustful Adrian, an abuse survivor and Doug the local maintenance man. It is an examination of human behavior in catastrophic and life threatening conditi | |  | | Life Sentences
There a men who take women's lives and there are men who kill their souls. This is story about both but focuses on men who kill and the wome who love them
Celeste Brookstone has the perfect life on the surface. When her daughter takes a job with the Michigan prison system she fears for Pilar's safety. But Celeste is also glad Pilar is away from the hell on earth Marcus Brookstone has created within his own house.
Pilar Brookstone is an idealist and a brilliant doctor. She thinks she can change things and make prioners' lives better. And never, ever make the mistake her mother made.
Chad Wilbanks is a charming. handsome college graduate. He is also a serial killer seving life. Eight young women were his victims. Is he about to | |  | | Mother Rabbit
Alyce Bonura is a single mother who takes a position as the Bunny Mother of the Chicago Playboy Club in 1966 to not only flee from a negative relationship but to pursue a career that guarantees financial freedom and upward mobility. Unfortunately, all is not what is assured or expected
Mother Rabbit is the true story about a woman like so many others in the 1960's, caught between living according to the traditional societal mores and pursuing the promises of the feminist movement. Alyce's stint as the Bunny Mother is set during a particularly turbulent era when even such a secluded environment as Playboy is affected by the Viet Nam War, the Apollo I tragedy and back ally abortions. Alyce's story pays tribute to the women who had the courage to break free from the oppressive standards of the day while also dealing with the universal dilemmas of single mothers including abuse, | |  | | The Warden Wore Pink
"Funny you don't look like a warden." As the warden of a men's maximum security prison near Detroit, Michigan Ms Miller was to hear those words many times. THE WARDEN WORE PINK tells the story of her 20 year career in corrections, and introduces the reader to the best and the worst among prison administration, employees and prisoners.
"The Warden Wore Pink presents an often humorous, occasionally tragic, but always illuminating account of prison life and the struggles of an exceptionally gifted woman to forge new frontiers in a previously all-male domain." From the foreword written by Perry Johnson, former Director of the Michigan Department of Corrections and Past Present of the American Correctional Association.
The memoir reads like an adventure story but teaches like a textbook. The story not only is about corrections but the struglles women had breaking into and moving up in a male dominated career still consi |
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