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Bonny Brooks - Good Choices Thirty-five, P is a woman caught
between commitment and chaos; about to upend her current stable
life to invoke the tumult of her former, addicted one. Or perhaps
just walk into the sea. Desperately trying to 'finally do the right
things', she has back-burnered much of her own writing ambition to
be the echo of her self-absorbed Right Writer fiancee; a man with
less talent and far less raw material to draw on than her, but
whose charmed roots opened doors. When we meet her, she is visiting
old mates in Bristol, trying to write her wedding vows. One
inspirational talk delivered at her old rehab, a chance meeting
with a fellow former inpatient she used to fuck in the laundry
room, and one junkie handbag thief later, and P is on a mission to
save her engagement that takes her through the crack-houses and
blues clubs she used to frequent. But does she even want her
engagement? And what's so wrong with walking into the sea? Written
partly as a series of no-send wedding vow drafts and journal
entries, Good Choices explores the ways in which we try to impose
narrative on our lives, for the implied audience always judging.
Bonny Brooks writes with eye-watering frankness, empathetic and
full-hearted to the last.
Have you ever had a friend who knew all your secrets? A friend you
could call and pick-up the conversation from wherever you left off,
whether it'd been a day or a decade since the last time you spoke?
If so, you'll be riveted by the journey two women take through life
as they face incredible adversity, devastating poverty, family
struggles, losses through illness and death, and betrayals in love
that forms a rock-solid, forty-year friendship never to be
forgotten. Linked Lives is the kind of book that leaves a reader
feeling better for having read it.
Based on true events, this 2014 National Indie Excellent Book Award
Winner, is an inspirational story, packed with powerful emotions
and extreme risks, takes the reader on a gripping ride that stirs
the heart and encourages the soul. His charisma, good looks and
charm captivates Linda and she falls for the successful VP who
wines and dines her, until she winds up pregnant. When he tells her
to get an abortion, she searches her soul and looks for other
options before making any decision. With her plan set into motion,
Linda thinks everything is under control until a horrific
catastrophe sends her into a devastating tailspin. How will she
find the courage to survive the darkest dawn of her life?
God's Living Fragrance uses our sense of smell to talk about the
spiritual realm. Fragrance is a substance of things unseen. How can
an invisible God be made real to a visible world? What can we do to
make the spiritual world able to be perceived by others? Even when
others can't seem to hear or see spiritual things, they may still
be able to smell a heavenly scent. Our success will depend on what
scent we give off. Every day we give off either the smell of self
or the fragrance of Him. As we learn how to become one of God's
living fragrances we will give off an essence of Him that may open
the door of a closed mind or drift through the windows of the
hardest heart. As we do, we will find that His presence and power
will continue to refresh and renew us as we unplug the stopper and
spread the fragrance of Him. Here is a book that is meant to be
lived -- not just read.
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