Forbidden Love with a Married Man: E-mail Diaries

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Riveting, thoughtful and perceptive

Must read for those who suspect.

Very Jaclyn Suzanne, Ahead of Its Time

This book nearly saved my life

Forbidden Love With a Married Man: E-mail Diaries

Forbidden Love with a Married Man: E-mail Diaries

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ASIN: 1425944264

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Forbidden Love with a Married Man; E-mail Diaries describes one couple's journey as they struggle with sexual identity and how it conflicts with right and wrong. More than 4 million women are currently or have been married to either a gay or bisexual man. Often the gay spouse feels forced by societal and family pressures into marriage, suppressing his true feelings in order to be socially accepted by appearing "straight." However, in secret these men cheat on their wives by conducting affairs with members of the same sex. This day-by-day memoir diary includes actual daily e-mails and correspondence between the author, Dennis Schleicher, and his 14-year married boyfriend. Will his boyfriend leave his wife and confess to her his love and desire to live with another man, or will he be trapped in his own insecurities and not move to a side of life he has kept hidden all of these years, risking the loss of his potential "soulmate"? Every married and single woman and male and/or those engaged in a relationship will learn the truth about two loving people who are highly challenged to reveal their innermost souls in order to "survive."

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Riveting, thoughtful and perceptive.......2007-07-18

Wow! Thank you Dennis for writing this thoughtful and unique tale of a potent topic. I am divorced for the past 6 years from an 18 year marriage and fell in love last year with a man who was married for 33 years. In fact today is the one year anniversary of our first phone call. So when I stumbled across this book I ordered it immediately. It arrived Monday and I finished the last page on Tuesday.
I found it riveting and insightful although, in certain parts, the style of writing reminds me of a cheesy romance novel. But when you find yourself living a romance novel then it's a case of life imitating art.
I've read that a sequel is in the works. I can't wait to see what happens to this couple and I look forward to any insights offered by the author's experience. Kudos.

Must read for those who suspect........2007-05-17

Because I'm not a gay male, I bought Forbidden Love with a Married Man to research for a novel I'm writing. The book gave me needed insight to understand some aspects of gay relationships, and consequently, I think anyone who even suspects their husband is gay should read this book.

I commend Dennis for his honesty in exposing his private life to help others affected by these relationships. I would have liked to see the next stage of the journey that Bryon and Dennis went through. Something along the line of How to Survive Your Boyfriend's Divorce. The reason for the 4 stars instead of 5 is because deciding to leave is different than actually leaving, thus a significant amount of the story is left out. Perhaps that was because of the need to get this portion of the story out.

Now that Dennis has shown us the journey in deciding to leave I hope he'll share his journey as the other man waiting for someone to leave and share Byron's difficult journey of coming out and actually leaving.

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Very Jaclyn Suzanne, Ahead of Its Time.......2007-04-17

You have to read it in order to believe it. Truly amazing...

This book nearly saved my life.......2007-04-07

Forbidden Love with a married man:e-mail diaries written by Dennis Schleicher was the nourishment I needed going through the darkest time in my life. I am a married gay man that has been riddled with guilt because I feel that I created victims in my wife and children for selfish reasons. I got married even though I knew I was gay but I new what societies expectations were of me and I thought marriage would somehow heal those desires. They didn't and they never will for anyone. Dennis's book not only helped me understand that my intentions weren't to do harm but to follow societies narrow expectations they have for men and woman. I truly did what I thought was right. I now have hurt my wife and children and it nearly cost me my life until this book was given to me. I have since join Dennis annonymous group for married men and he is not only wise and insightful but very compassionate and has personally helped guide me back out of the darkness of dispair that I was in. This book WILL and SHOULD become a movie. Thank you Dennis for your inspiration. Most sincerely, Aaron

Forbidden Love With a Married Man: E-mail Diaries.......2007-03-12

Too many e-mails...why not just tell a story? Too muchy not enough substance.

Shattered Sonnets, Love Cards, and Other Off and Back Handed Importunities

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cake is good!
(w)rack and red(empti)on
Somewhat Disappointing
a mystical linguistic delight

Shattered Sonnets, Love Cards, and Other Off and Back Handed Importunities
Olena Kalytiak Davis
Manufacturer: Bloomsbury USA
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ASIN: 1582343527

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In her stunning second collection, poet Olena Kalytiak Davis confirms her reputation as a breathtaking verbal acrobat, a daredevil on the high wire of life and love. Her deeply personal poems echo everything from nursery rhymes to classics, revealing poetry buried in ordinary speech. Whether remonstrating with a former lover or evoking her young children, the poet who reveals herself here is appealingly vulnerable yet gutsy, by turns blunt and tender. With dexterity and wit she stretches language to the wildest boundaries of poetic possibility: hers is a voice intimate and assured, her observations of the world delivered in love notes addressed to us all.

"did I mention my first kiss was extracted
by someone who never should have been that
lucky?" - From "Keep Some Stuff for Yourself"

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and/(n)or.......2006-10-04

I read this book hated it, read her first book loved it, read a bunch of poetry including a lot of global and non contemporary poetry realized the homgenous of contemporary American poetry, read some Dellueze and then some Derrida, and then found this book again and it blew my mind. This book doesn't just change what poetry is, which it did for me, but like the greats it offers a person a new pair of poetry glasses through which to viewheartastetouchsmell the world. Olena explores misunderstanding, picks it up and makes love with it until her children are not hers and her parents are not hers. She taught me, if nothing else, how to conceive the world (concept being, perhaps, under erasure in this statement) as sets of paranthetical ocilliating possabilities. Maybe that sounds like nothing. (But the (new) world is new (old).) (Ch)a(n)ge

cake is good!.......2004-02-07

If, as the reviewer from Asheville, NC contends, Ms. Kalytiak-Davis's latest book is "cake", then let us eat cake, and let it be our new daily bread. This "cake" combines the recipes of old (Dickinson, Yeats, Plath, etc.)with something altogether new (and secret) to create an intoxicating concoction that is both rich and dense--allowing us to become satiated and yet still pine for the crumbs... To be fair, one should go back and read Dickinson, Yeats, Plath, Hopkins, etc., then re-read Kalytiak-Davis. One will then find that hope is not the thing with feathers that perches in your soul, it is the enigmatic, unimpressionable, insensible thing that hides like a prize in the center of the cake, providing the perfect tether between ego and reason, illusion and truth, and wrack and redemption.

(w)rack and red(empti)on.......2004-01-18

Somewhere between a teen girl's love diary and a madwoman-in-the-attic's antics and a transcript of an autistic's mental music, there is this book: a decadent sublime that's about as gorgeous and bankrupt as Marie Antoinette's soon-to-be-guillotined head. One thing about the book is clear enough: there is an authentic and maudlin core of emotion that's invested in love, its betrayals, its derangements, its tender vulnerabilities. But this sincere center is so overlaid with ironies and mockeries and allusions and cageyness that the book becomes an exercise in solipsistic postures, narcissistic cake-eating. Now Plath, now Berryman, now Dickinson, now Shakespeare, now Williams--the poems sample these poets and more, as though to suggest that the tomfooleries of the project at hand were somehow aligned with the graver dangers these poets' poems faced and sang from. But the samplings are just that: samplings, embedded into poems so coy and hip they make you feel like a schmuck for not having more greasy-haired pinings for some vague love and a confident command of how to allude to the poems in the Norton Anthology. If you want the real thing, go back to Plath, to Berryman, to Dickinson, to Hopkins, etc. This book may use the f-word a couple dozen times, but in the end it's still just cake.

Somewhat Disappointing.......2003-11-12

Davis' first book is arguably one of the best first books of poetry published in the last decade. Unfortunately, Davis' new collection is a let down. The keen sense of conveying emotional resonance is still here, but the work has become sloppier in the name of becoming more experimental. Many of these poems are downright trite. I will keep reading Davis' poems. And I hope the next book is as stunning as her first.

a mystical linguistic delight.......2003-10-07

If you're looking for a repeat of Olena's first book, keep looking. Just opening Shattered Sonnets, one can sense a different kind of energy than from Her Soul. These poems move fast, hit hard, and then beg the reader to come back and take the ride again. It is the best roller-coaster I've ever been on. These poems are about the most musical I've ever heard, and the images come as surprises, even upon multiple readings. I found my pulse quickening, quite literally, as I read and continued to read and found myself breathless at the end of this book. Three cheers for Olena and may her next book come to us soon.

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Chamberlain's book is more of a career overview and insight into his spirituality
Inside Look at a Truly Gifted Actor
"Shattered" my respect for him and lost ME -- forever!
Autobiografía de Richard.
Illuminating Look Into The Heart Of A Gentle But Troubled Soul........................

Shattered Love: A Memoir
Richard Chamberlain
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ASIN: 0060087439
Release Date: 2003-06-03

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From his breakout role in Dr. Kildare, through more than four decades of unforgettable performances on television and in film, Richard Chamberlain has epitomized the ideal leading man. Strong and handsome, sophisticated yet kindly, his public persona has drawn fans of all ages. But despite his worldwide acclaim in The Thorn Birds and Shogun -- two of the most successful miniseries of all time -- the actor himself has never led a life of easy confidence. Even at the height of his fame he lived in constant fear that the "real" Richard would one day be discovered -- and that the love he had gained from fans, family, and friends would be ripped away.

In Shattered Love, Richard Chamberlain recounts his fascinating journey as an impressionable boy growing up in postwar California who stumbled into the Hollywood of big studios, big money, and big personas. Through long days on the set and glittering evenings on the town with Joan Crawford, Princess Margaret, Elizabeth Taylor, and a cast of other colorful characters, Chamberlain gamely and tirelessly played his Golden Boy role. As time passed, however, he longed to reconcile his deepest self with his public persona -- including his sexual orientation, a secret he has guarded until now. With candor, honesty, and wit, Shattered Love captures Chamberlain's poignant struggle to come to terms with the truths in his life -- from his tumultuous relationship with his troubled father to his lifelong quest to find spiritual truth in everyday life.

Warm, touching, and brave, Shattered Love draws on a lifetime of stories and on lessons learned from some of the most inspiring spiritual teachers of our time -- sharing with readers the author's own journey from desperate suppression to a life lived with an open heart.

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Chamberlain's book is more of a career overview and insight into his spirituality .......2007-05-17

I am a huge Thorn Birds fan and remember how popular Shogun was while growing up in the early 1980s. I bought the book believing it was going to focus on when and why Richard Chamberlain "came out of the closet" recently (and finally) to the public. Instead, most of the book focuses on his career and his spiritual journey through the years. He mentions his long-term boyfriend but there is a lot of spiritual mumbo-jumbo (hence the title of the book). A good read if you know very little about his career.

Inside Look at a Truly Gifted Actor.......2007-05-14

This book was an inside personal look of a gifted actor! Richard Chamberlain is a wonderful actor and stole my heart in The Thorn Birds. It was a great read!

"Shattered" my respect for him and lost ME -- forever!.......2007-03-13

I waited four decades to read the real truth about a childhood heart-throb. Now, I regret that the book was ever written. I "loved" Richard Chamberlain as Dr. James Kildare from the time I was five years old. (For three consecutive Halloweens, I made door-to-door "housecalls", dressed as my hero.) It tortured me when I had to wait from the time the program went "off the air" until he portrayed Hamlet. I remember very well as I watched Hamlet how I got a sense of something drastically "wrong" but was too young to put into words what I "felt." The older I got, the more I failed to understand why he hadn't married. After I aged and understood the concept of what I surmised, I really believed it to be the reason he hadn't married and had a family. Then, just before the book was published, I saw a tabloid showing him and Martin which confirmed my thoughts. When I started reading the book, I kept wishing the words I did not really want to see would be magically eradicated from the paper. Ofcourse that did not happen. For the first time I just viewed The THORN BIRDS." (...back in 2003 when I first read the book and wrote this review, which I kept "on hold" -- but the review kept "coming back to haunt me" when I looked at papers on my desk. If I had put it onto Amazon, I would have been one of the first ones to review the book. I just hoped the whole thing would "go away!") For two decades, I had wanted to see the movie, but for seventeen years, we did not have television reception. He was a wonderful actor, but his personal life has much to be desired. Chamberlain is an eloquent writer, well versed, sophisticated, and intellectual, but I am sorry he ever wrote this work. I was tiring of his father being "blamed" for being the "root of all evil." It was a feeble attempt at spiritualism. He had some interesting points, but this topic was overdone. His blatant, irresponsible drug episode LOST ME FOREVER! Lastly, there seems to be a parallel (see page 64) during one of his Dr. Kildare, episodes when he states that the character Gloria Swanson played "... becomes acquainted with a much younger female patient and the two become friends..." was that a foreshadowing of a relationship yet to pass-- that of him and "young" Martin? With regard to Swanson as an actress, he continues on page 65 "... her playing was never as full again, and she knew it. I don't know when I've felt so bad for a person. I knew this performance, coming near the end of her legendary career, was probably one of this actress' last." -- not too unlike THIS BOOK being one of Richard Chamberlain's final performances. Richard Chamerlain, the good actor, whose life could be considered a bad play.

Autobiografía de Richard........2007-03-11

Las vivencias de este gran actor contadas en primera persona. Incluye bonitas fotos en blanco y negro.

Illuminating Look Into The Heart Of A Gentle But Troubled Soul...............................2006-03-06

Richard Chamberlain has always possessed an unusual aura of grace, radiance, and tranquility about him. It is an aura that many fans have been drawn to, and found very appealing. But as Richard candidly reveals in "Shattered Love," this outward persona effectively hid a much deeper sense of personal unworthiness, and persistent unhappiness.

To an outsider looking in, Richard Chamberlain, the immensely popular star of "Dr. Kildare," had little to be unhappy about. He was tall, slim, and extraordinarily handsome, with a legion of female fans who idolized him. He was personable and charming, and enjoyed great respect among his peers for his strong work ethic and unfailing professionalism. He was also extremely talented; he was a gifted actor, singer, painter, writer, and dancer. But boyhood insecurities, fed by his domineering and alcoholic father, and his own growing awareness of his homosexuality, continued to be his nemesis throughout adulthood. As Richard states in his book, he was a product of the conservative forties and fifties, and was as homophobic as anyone. He made a personal pact with himself to never reveal his shameful secret to anyone; it was a pact he would keep for many, many years.

In "Shattered Love," Richard Chamberlain provides us with an intimate and insightful look at the many struggles and successes that have shaped and colored his fascinating life. We read about the sensitive boy with the gentle spirit, and what it was like growing up under the stifling rule of his emotionally abusive, and self-aggrandizing father. We learn how, as a young adult trying to "please the crowd at all costs," Richard perfected the charming "All American Boy" persona that would be synonymous with his name for years to come. And when Hollywood comes knocking, we go along for the joyous ride, as an inexperienced and insecure actor is launched overnight into the intoxicating world of instant fame, celebrity, and financial success.

The author himself is a deeply spiritual and soul-searching man, who has looked to psychologists and spiritual teachers to guide him back from a life lived in fear, to a life transcended by love. Some of the philosophies that have been so helpful to Richard personally, and are presented here in his book, may not resonate or be understood by all of his readers. But even the most complex ideas are never offered with an "I HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS" attitude, or with the mindset of "IT'S MY WAY OR THE HIGHWAY." Rather, this genuinely humble and warm-hearted actor simply offers up spiritual ideas to contemplate, that have proven instrumental to his own current state of self-contentment..........a state that he worked so long and tirelessly to achieve.

"Shattered Love" is an inspiring book, beautifully written with a sincere sense of joy, and heartfelt optimism. It is an emotionally honest rendition of the life and shortcomings of Richard Chamberlain--a man who strives to be open-hearted, but freely admits to being "absurdly judgmental" at times. Though normally an intensely private person, Mr. Chamberlain temporarily shelves that reputation with the publication of his book; a book that provides a rare glimpse into the gentle soul of the man behind the public image. What emerges from these pages is a picture of a man of uncommon class and grace........one who possesses an endearing sense of humility and graciousness about him. Though well into the sunset years of his career, Richard Chamberlain still enjoys tremendous personal popularity among fans throughout the world. After spending time reading "Shattered Love," it is easy to understand why he still generates so much genuine affection--his class and appeal are truly timeless.

Another Place at the Table: A Story of Shattered Childhoods Redeemed by Love

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If you want to know what it is like to be a foster parent or a foster parent that wants to know your not alone...read this book.
AUTHOR RETURNABLE GIRL about teen in foster care
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Another Place at the Table
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Another Place at the Table: A Story of Shattered Childhoods Redeemed by Love
Kathy Harrison
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ASIN: 1585422002
Release Date: 2003-04-14

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For more than a decade, Kathy Harrison has sheltered a shifting cast of troubled youngsters-the offspring of prostitutes and addicts; the sons and daughters of abusers; and teenage parents who can't handle parenthood. What would motivate someone to give herself over to constant, largely uncompensated chaos? How does she manage her extraordinary blended family? Why would anyone voluntarily take on her job?

Harrison is no saint, but an ordinary woman doing heroic work. In Another Place at the Table, she describes her life at our social services' front lines-centered around three children who, when they come together in her home, nearly destroy it. Danny, age eight, is borderline mentally retarded and a budding pedophile (a frequent result of sexual abuse in boys). No other family will take him in. Tough, magnetic Sara, age six, is dangerously promiscuous (a typical manifestation of abuse in girls). Karen, six months, shares Danny's legal advocate, who must represent the interests of both. All three living under the same roof will lead to an inevitable explosion-but for each, Harrison's care offers the greatest hope of a reinvented childhood.

For readers of The Lost Children of Wilder, Expecting Adam, and Somebody Else's Kids, this is the first-person story of a woman whose compassionate best intentions for a child are sometimes all that stand between violence and redemption.

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If you want to know what it is like to be a foster parent or a foster parent that wants to know your not alone...read this book........2007-10-05

This book is about Kathy Harrison's real life as a foster mother and the story about a couple of the children that came into her home. She talks about her true emotions and feelings as she tries to hold these "shattered" children together with, as she puts it, just love and "band aids."

Augusten Burroughs (author of Running with Scissors) said about this book...."Shocking, brutal, heartbreaking and ultimately redemptive, This is the riveting and profoundly moving story of a hero, disguised as an ordinary woman. And like every hero, it's the children she is out to save."

Unlike Augusten I did not find the book "shocking" but honest and realistic to what every foster mom goes through. I could not believe how close our stories were as I read this book. You could have taken out the names of her children and drop in some of mine, tweak their story a little, and it wouldn't ring any truer then what we have seen and gone through.

I cried as she wrote about letting Lucy go to an adoptive home. She loved Lucy but not in the same way as the children she adopted. She wanted to keep her but also wanted Lucy to have that unconditional, total love she deserved. The pain of letting Lucy go tore open those feelings and what we went through with two little boys I had for three years.

She writes about her desire to reach ever child that walked into her home and the heartbreak when she realized love, food, clothes, a home, and safety wont/cant heal all their wounds.

She talks about the times caseworkers have such caviler attitudes to their lack of action that keeps a child in the system longer then need be, or keeps them off the adoption list longer. It reminded me of the unfelt and off the hand "sorry" and "oh, well" I have heard so often. But like her, I don't know how to change things, nor do I have the time to try because there is "another child coming through my front door that needs me."

I understood as she talked about the times she stood tall and strong when she felt the weakest, because it was best for the children. Telling the emotions every foster parent feels behind closed doors. The love she has for the strength and unbelievable timing her husband had at being there when she needed him. I understood the times she wanted to yell at a parent for smoking around the baby in her care but struggles with what is good for the baby and the need to keep the communication open between them. The honest hate she felt for some of the parents that have abused the children in her care but at the same time struggle as she realizes that most likely the bio-parents were children in the same situation when they were young and haven't learned anything different. The hope that what she was doing would change things in some way screamed what every foster parent prays is true. It made me think she had a hidden camera in my home that could read my thoughts and feelings I never let others see.

The hardest part of the book, for me, was the roller coaster of emotions they went on as they tried to adopt Karen. She is elegant in relating the fear of loosing a child that, in your heart, is already yours. A feeling that can't be explained or even come close to being logical. She maps out the joys of moving forward, the pains of more hold ups, the relief that the children are in your care, but the lingering dread that things could change in an instant. She revels how everything is devastatingly out of our control and we have to stay on till the ride is done.

She is most honest about not being a saint, or perfect, or even close to perfect. I laughed so hard when she wrote about the attachment case workers visit. She says she remembers her weakest moments (when she said something she shouldn't of or didn't handle a situation the right way) when people call her a saint; so do I. It only takes one or two human reactions to realize we are not saints or perfect; but she honors us with "a warrior" doing our best.

However, she also shows why we keep doing what we do for these children. The ability to see more in these children then others do and the wonderful feeling we get when the children reach not their potential (because it is rare we get to see this) but better then when they came to our door and father then others thought they could. This might be a simple smile, or a giggle, a sentence everyone understood, going a week with out an out burst, a day with out harming themselves, or the ability to care about something other then themselves for a second or two.

I could go on and on but if you want to see what it is like to be a foster parent....read this book! If you are a foster parent and want to know you are not alone....read this book!

AUTHOR RETURNABLE GIRL about teen in foster care.......2006-07-12

I loved this book. As a therapist who has just written a book about a teen girl in foster care I think it's important to focus on the incredible work that foster parents do. They are our unsung heroes! Thank you Kathy!!!!! For a fictional, uplifting account of the journey of a teen in foster care (inspired by the foster children I've worked with in the past) check out my soon-to-be released young adult novel, RETURNABLE GIRL. Maybe it will inspire you to bring a child home.

a reader.......2006-01-18

I could not put this book down!! I like to read about foster children because I am studdying that in college. Kathy Harrison
is a great author as well as a great foster mother as well. I hope she continues to put out more stories about foster mothering, she does so well at both!! She is very honest in her book, and states that she has a tough time with some, and an even tougher time with others. She is definitely a fighter, and it gives me more respect towards her as aperosn that she shares her tough times as well as some joyous situations while enduring the challenges as a foster mother. I also like the fact that her husband was backing her up 100%. If anyone else knows where I can read more books by her (or in relation to this same subject) email me at tbyrd6969@yahoo.com
Otherwise, happy reading!!!

Another Place at the Table.......2005-02-15

Being a foster parent myself for almost four years, I know how difficult it can sometimes be to explain to others what my world is like. Kathy Harrison was right on the mark with this book. It was consistent, educational and emotional. It brought so many of the "zany" parts of foster parenting together and made it real for others. Kudos Kathy, I hope this book encourages many others to join us on the zany ride!

The Family Table.......2004-06-18

This account of providing a home for children who were in dire need is heartwarming and encouraging. Many of the children who had a place at this table had parents who were in jail or were deemed legally unable to care for them. Each child came equipped with major emotional baggage.

The love and acceptance and diligent, dogged efforts on behalf of each child in this home have indeed raised the bar. Instead of being a stark and grim account akin to Dickens, this work instead is uplifting and hopeful. One can only feel that each child who found a place at this table was very fortunate indeed.

This is a book that belongs on our collective bookshelves; in our collective hearts and libraries. I cannot recommend this book highly enough.

The Road To Forgiveness: Hearts Shattered by Tragedy, Transformed by Love
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Reader From New Hampshire

BELIEVING IN GOD

A Healing Story

Life-changing

The Road To Forgiveness: Hearts Shattered by Tragedy, Transformed by Love
Bill Griffiths , and Cindy Griffiths
Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson
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ASIN: 0785266917

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The Road to Forgiveness is the story of how Cindy and Bill Griffiths came to forgive-and eventually befriend-the woman who, while driving drunk, killed their daughter, Robyn, and Cindy's mother, Janice, in a horrible automobile accident in June 1996. It is a moving, first-person account of the transforming work God can do in the midst of tragedy.

Readers will be inspired to examine their own lives, and to follow this powerful, true example of letting love and mercy triumph-even in the face of tragedy.

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Reader From New Hampshire.......2001-07-14

Once I picked up The Road To Forgiveness at our local bookstore, I couldn't put it down. Bill and Cindy Griffiths, having lost an eleven year old daughter and Cindy's mother in a car accident, through their faith, understanding and love were able to forgive and change the life of the American Native woman that was the cause of the crash, while driving under the influence of alchohol. They take the reader on an amazing journey, one that I will try with all my being, now and in the future to emulate. Certainly one of the great examples of true Christianity/Judiasm I have ever read. Bravo, my hat's off to them. It had to have taken an enormous amount of determination and courage to write such a heart rendering piece of literature.

Reader From New Hampshire.......2001-07-14

BELIEVING IN GOD.......2001-07-14

This is the best book one can read to learn to forgive others, in order to have a healthy outlook onthe pitfalls which occur in everyones life.Through this book we can learn to love our enemies as Jesus taught us to do,in his word in the bible.This testimony shows how we can have courage and understanding.I salute Bill and Cindy for their faith in such adversity.If everyone could follow their example there'd be no wars.

A Healing Story.......2001-07-14

The whole world needs to read this book - which will help promote understanding love and forgiveness. We heal our spirits and mend when we forgive others. Holding a grudge only makes us unhealthy. The Lord must be very much with Bill and Cindy. Jesus forgave those who crucified him and all humanity thereby besowing salvation to all who believe and forgive.

Life-changing.......2001-07-10

In short, The Road to Forgiveness has changed my life. I would recommend it to anyone dealing with their own or someone elses anger and hatred. Pastors will find it a useful tool in counseling anyone who needs to forgive anyone of anything.

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a good book

Miscarriage: A Shattered Dream
Sherokee Ilse
Manufacturer: Wintergreen Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0960945636

Book Description

Miscarriage offers a sensitive, comprehensive, and insightful perspective on possible causes, medical terminology, choices and decisions, emotional aspects, coping suggestions, choices for the future, and resources for families experiencing a miscarriage. Those who have suffered a miscarrisge will find emotional and medical support that far surpasses any other book on this subject. Family and friends will learn about miscarriage and how to help their loved ones.

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a good book.......2001-02-03

Here you will find medical and emotional support on possible causes, medical terminology, choices, decisions and helpful coping suggestions. As a grief counselor, I recommend it.

Day Is Ending: A Doctor's Love Shattered by Alzheimer's Disease

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Outstanding - A must read tearjearker!!!
Inspirational and informative
A Truly Dedicated Person
Day Is Ending
A true love story

Day Is Ending: A Doctor's Love Shattered by Alzheimer's Disease
Richard W., M.D. Zalar , and Walter G. Meyer
Manufacturer: C&W Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0974055808

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Outstanding - A must read tearjearker!!!.......2005-07-28

I have known people with Alzheimer's but this book reveals to me the true nature, the depth of anguish, the devastating impact on a family. This book is a must read; it is as educational as it is compelling, poignant, and heartbreaking. Kudos to Dr Zalar for his incredible love and caring. This book has had such a profound affect on me, I pray it will become a movie so it's knowledge can spread nationwide.

Inspirational and informative.......2004-07-28

Day Is Ending deals with the meeting and courtship of Dr. Zalar and his wife and follows their lives up to his wife's demise at the hands of Alzheimer's disease.
I found her letters that were her keepsakes over the years relating to their relationship and marriage to be inspirational.
This is a very thought-provoking book. I have read it several times and each time I get something new out of it.

A Truly Dedicated Person.......2004-05-30

This moving book says it all.He was dedicated to his profession,his children and to his beloved wife my dear Aunt Trude.I too hope that this moving book is movie material

Day Is Ending.......2004-04-25

"Day Is Ending" provides people with a touching and insightful journey treating and caring for a loved one through a difficult disease. The love between Dr. Zalar and Trude is inspiring and his dedication to her and her humane treatment during challenging times provides guidance for all loved ones who may one day face the same challenges involved in caring for a loved one.

A true love story.......2004-04-25

Moving love story of dedication, loyalty, compassion with care. Touching read.

Stained Glass Marriage: Hope for Shattered Homes

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Stained Glass Marriage: Hope for Shattered Homes
Dale Forehand , and Jena Forehand
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When the Lamp is Shattered: Desire and Narrative in Catullus

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When the Lamp is Shattered: Desire and Narrative in Catullus
Michaela Janan
Manufacturer: Southern Illinois University
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The poetry of the Late Roman Republican poet Gaius Valerius Catullus, a rich document of the human heart, is the earliest-known reasonably complete body of erotic verse in the West.

Though approximately 116 poems survive, uncertainties about the condition of the fragmented manuscript and the narrative order of the poems make the Catullan text unusually problematic for the modern critic. Indeed, the poems can be arranged in a number of ways, making a multitude of different plots possible and frustrating the reader’s desire for narrative closure.

Micaela Janan contends that since unsatisfied desire structures both the experience of reading Catullus and its subject matter, critical interpretation of the text demands a "poetics of desire." Furthermore, postmodern critical theory, narratology, and psychoanalysis suggest a flexible concept of the "subject" as a site through which a multitude of social, cultural, and unconscious forces move. Human consciousness, Janan contends, is inherently incomplete and in a continuous process of transformation. She therefore proposes an original and provocative feminist reading of Catullus, a reading informed by theories of consciousness and desire as ancient as Plato and as contemporary as Freud and Lacan.

The Late Roman Republic in which Catullus lived, Janan reminds us, was a time of profound social upheaval when political and cultural institutions that had persisted for centuries were rapidly breaking down—a time not unlike our own. Catullus’ poetry provides an unusually honest look at his culture and its contradictory representations of class, gender, and power. By bringing to the study of this major work of classical literature the themes of consciousness and desire dealt with in postmodern scholarship, Janan’s book invites a new conversation among literary disciplines.

Harlequin Intrigue: Shattered Vows, for Love or Money, Crimson Holiday and Deja Vu (Harlequin Intrigue, A Decade of Danger and Desire)

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Harlequin Intrigue: Shattered Vows, for Love or Money, Crimson Holiday and Deja Vu (Harlequin Intrigue, A Decade of Danger and Desire)
Rebecca York , MJ Rogers , and Patricia Rosemoor
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Anthology the of four famous Harlequin novels. Introduction by each author at the beginning of each book.

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