Bøger af Norma Smith

Preface: Midlife magic, love over (40) forty. Two independent, successful professionals meet on their way to a convention, where they found each other and a second chance at love. There is a surprise pregnancy.Both have been disappointed and heartbroken several times with the death of a spouse, divorce, and several unsuccessful romances. They are both facing mid-life alone. He has borne the load of single parenthood, and she is disappointed with her unsuccessful attempts at having a family.Before meeting, they had lost hope of finding that special someone to share their success and life with. Neither of them has time for games. The dating scene is rift with game players! Sex is easy to find, but love is another story.See how this standalone, full-length BWWM romance with a HEA unfolds.

PREFACE: Daniella & PrestonFamily demands and interference complicate a second chance in BWWM's interracial relationship with secrets that plague their romance. They accidentally meet and forge soul ties which are teetered.Follow the twist and turns of Daniella and Preston's story. See their struggles getting a second chance at grabbing the life they want but find disappointments, set back, self-doubt, and missed opportunities stymieing several chances of solidifying their connection.Passion is present. Sparks fly. See if it is enough. Do they withstand the struggles life throws at them? Is it coincidental that they keep linking up? Follow their journey as they solidify their soul-ties and eventually knit together their own family. See how forged love ties prevail in the end as they pursue their HEA-a full-length, stand-alone romance novel with no cliffhanger.

This story is about Evie Tara St. James twenty-nine years old, and Sean Marc McPherson thirty-four years old. Both, two years into a do-over of life. She from a failed marriage of five years, that involve emotional and economic abuse. The other from the death of his spouse leaving him a single parent with in-law's dramas. Both trying to get back on track for a new normal. Life dealt them both a hard hand, but they are strong, and determine not to be defeated. Fighting for happiness even if they must go it alone. When attraction they were not expecting, slowly creeps up and blind side them. This attraction is mutual but unwanted. They must decide if they are strong enough and have the fight in them to take a second chance at love again. Are you ready for the sparks to fly? Full length, Mmulticultural/Interractial, HEA, no cliff hanger.

Meet Dee Simmons and Frank Belford, WWBM and see how they accidentally came together. Friendship and community can foster love under unusual circumstances. When you feel secure, love can visit you anywhere. Men and women from different walks of life are willing to take a chance on love under unusual circumstances. Follow this couple as they get their HEA and join their friends, taking their place-a full-length novel. Part of a six-book connected series that can be read in any order, but to easily follow the updates of the stories, they are best read in order. No cliffhanger.

This is a Contemporary second chance romance, Deidra Marie Samuels, and Joshua Charles Maynard. BWWM interracial romance. See how destiny allows two people to return to the Crossroads of life and love. This couple tries to do what's expected of them, only to find that the heart wants what the heart wants. They fight family obligations, career, and societal dictates until it derails them. Each attempting to forge their own way with others. But in the end, there is no substitute for true love or friendship. See how they finally take matters into their own hands to grab their second chance to determine their HEA with Love at the Crossroads.

Norma Smith's poems come out of a long life filled with its share of grief and healing, thwarted and unthwarted love, sex, and words. HOME REMEDY reflects the tension and ease of finding the cure for what ails you at home, among family and lovers. More experienced than innocent, the poems are deeply sensual, which means they can be painful. The book is full of skepticism and hope. HOME REMEDY will take you through to a place where you can see that life is much more complicated than mortality."Norma Smith's words have their feet planted firmly, balance with certainty, and lay claim to a wealth of experience. This work is kitchen philosophy, emergency room direct and grandma's china beautiful. If poetry is medicine there are indeed cures in HOME REMEDY. 'We survive by laying down breadcrumbs,' says Smith, and I remember doing something like that. Some of us will recognize ourselves in these poems, some will see the future in these brewed tea leaf words. Not many poets create work that have the potential to change the way that their readers use language. Norma Smith may well be one of those."--Kim Shuck"How does one make a home inside the suspended breath of diagnosis, or find laughter in the face of the limited use of one's body? How can we conjure sweet, nostalgic pain with courage and open arms? Norma Smith's collection reminds us how to connect to ourselves and to one another in a world of forced battles. Her poems encourage personal healing; they call us to resist the fading and silence of inevitable change and loss. HOME REMEDY is a ceremony of recovery and re-envisioning made possible through humor, witness, and full participation in all the spaces we inhabit: from the body, to memory, to the open ocean horizon that calls us to humble ourselves before the natural world. Invite in the medicine of these poems and allow yourself to 'leap / some chasm that [lies] between / body and time.'"--Suzy Huerta Quezada"Norma Smith's HOME REMEDY is compelling, clever, and tender. Her devotion to technique and truth-telling thrive in this personal collection of poetry. Norma's swift and cunning words will both haunt you and throw you into a fit of dark giggles."--Kelechi Ubozoh"Norma Smith writes with an immediate and honest longing that cuts straight to the heart. She braves the universal subjects of disease, death, food, family and then--we get to end with sex--the slutty muse, sex on the couch and the floor! Norma fearlessly takes some surprising, exciting risks that spark joy. This work is heartbreaking and beautiful, revealing moments of beauty and love that exist inside of painful circumstances."--Jennifer BaronePoetry. California Studies.

Suffragist, social worker, first woman elected to the United States Congress, a lifelong peace activist, and a tireless advocate for political reform, Jeannette Rankin is often remembered as the woman who voted "No." Elected to Congress from Montana on the eve of the United States' entry into World War I, Rankin cast her first vote - the first vote cast in the House of Representatives by any woman - against the declaration of war against Germany. Reelected to Congress in 1940, she repeated her vote, becoming the only member of Congress to vote against the United States' involvement in World War II.Jeannette Rankin was a woman who lived her conscience, and she became America's conscience through her unflagging campaigns for children's protective legislation, women's rights, election reform, and most of all, peace. Her determined voice shines in this biography, written by her friend, Norma Smith, who paints a convincing portrait of a complicated activist based on interviews with Rankin in the 1960s. (6 x 9, 240 pages, b&w photos)