This compelling volume offers the first full portrait of the life and work of writer Lillian Smith (1897-1966), the foremost southern white liberal of the mid-twentieth century. Smith devoted her life to lifting the veil of southern self-deception about race, class, gender, and sexuality. Her books, essays, and especially her letters explored the ways in which the South's attitudes and institutions perpetuated a dehumanizing experience for all its people--white and black, male and female, rich and poor. Her best-known books are Strange Fruit (1944), a bestselling interracial love story that brought her international acclaim; and Killers of the Dream (1949), an autobiographical critique of southern race relations that angered many southerners, including powerful moderates. Subsequently, Smith was effectively silenced as a writer. Rose Gladney has selected 145 of Smith's 1500 extant letters for this volume. Arranged chronologically and annotated, they present a complete picture of Smith as a committed artist and reveal the burden of her struggles as a woman, including her lesbian relationship with Paula Snelling. Gladney argues that this triple isolation--as woman, lesbian, and artist--from mainstream southern culture permitted Smith to see and to expose southern prejudices with absolute clarity.

Including many simple exercises, interviews with experts, and potent, transformational concepts, this book is a practical guide to improving the vital personal communication skills of speaking and listening. --

I have my Associate's degree in Social Sciences from Brookdale Community College in Lincroft, New Jersey, my Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey and my Master's degree in Education and Deafness Rehabilitation, SCPI (Sign Language Profi ciency Interview) from New York University in New York. "She has weathered more storms than most people have that I have ever known. Yet, she still perseveres and conquers her fears, never letting an ounce of weakness tell her that she cannot do something... Because she knows that she can. Most of the struggles that I have seen, suffering alongside with her frequently as she has fallen down only to pick herself up. "Hear" I am!! Is like poetry to the poet as medicine is to the patient. Every reader will relate to something somewhere in the book. Each time it is read, it will even relate to the same person differently as they progress through various challenges in their life. I wish Jen many years of continued success in her relationships, employment, overcoming obstacles with her health and wellness, financial security, and in her continuation to showing others that there is always hope." P.S. College graduate in New Jersey You may contact me through Facebook on heariam_jennifer or on AOL: [email protected]

He Heard Me is meant to ignite the fire that might have grown dim in us over the years, to refresh and restore our faith. The ultimate goal being a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ. Brenda’s deepest desire is that your eyes are opened to see God’s hand working in everyday life. This book will reveal that God is involved in every detail of our lives, whether we realize it or not. He wants to be there to help us and give us the desires of our hearts—when they line up with His own. These poems and stories will give you hope when you feel abandoned or when problems arise, and encourage you with the love of our Almighty Father.

Ronald H. Nash, Gabriel Fackre and John Sanders offer three evangelical views on the destiny of the unevangelized.

DO YOU HEAR THAT BEAT is gathering rave reviews as "a compendium of just about everything you'd need to know about Wisconsin's rock 'n' roll history" (Live at Five, WISC-TV, Madison, WI). With entertaining stories & an amazing body of information, the book covers over 350 recorded bands & artists from 1950-1969. Part one features those who achieved positions on Billboard Magazine's national pop charts. The second section tells the story of Cuca Records, perhaps the most prolific regional label ever. Part three details dozens of Milwaukee bands, while the fourth segment covers nearly 50 additional record labels. Section five recognizes hundreds of musicians from all other areas of the state. With facts from hundreds of interviews, collector's resources & personal memories, author/musician Gary Myers has painted a colorful picture of the Dairy State's contribution to the first two decades of the rock 'n' roll era. The book is sure to be a hit with fans, trivia buffs & record collectors. As the Wisconsin State Journal says (1/3/95), "It has them all!" Order from: Hummingbird Publishing, P.O. Box 4777, Downey, CA 90241-1777. 310-927-7536.

Our story has its quiet beginning at a convention in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. Susan B. Anthony attended, and it was here her legacy began. This convention launched the suffrage movement. This novel is based on actual events in history, although it is written as creative fiction. There are two parts to this Victorian Romance, Women's Rights, and State's Rights. It gets underway after the convention in the summer of 1860 with four young women, known throughout the reading as the four musketeers, who are all single and graduate from the Hampton Women's College in Virginia. It follows their courtship with handsome men from all walks of life, Colonel Richard 'Dick' Jackson, Reverend Russell James Keiner, Brett Meyer, and an Italian opera star, Carlos Orsi. The lead character in the novel is Dianne Jenkins, who is portrayed as man-hater… but is she really! The rights usually enjoyed by women were often taken away when she married. As a matter of fact, a woman gave up so many civil and property rights upon walking across that threshold that she was said to be entering a state of "civil death." One such woman who would not stand for this inequality was Dianne Jenkins. She loves Reverend Russell Keiner with all her heart but hates him with all her mind. Her moving speech as Magna Cum Laude at Hampton's College describes her feeling toward inequality while not pulling any punches. Married women were not allowed to make contracts, devise their last will and testament, or take part in other legal transactions. Women, once married, were not in control of the wages they earned. In our story, Dianne Jenkins is an outspoken woman. She disliked the fact that women were expected once they married to do the maintenance of the family from sewing a pair of socks to doing the laundry to cooking the meals and, of course, bearing as many children as she could until it killed her. Because the laws were written by men, a married woman was supposed to remain home and take care of the cooking, cleaning, and getting pregnant every time she hung her husband's pants on the clothes' line. As the first of this two-volume novel unfolds, we find our four women standing beside their fathers while our country splits, and they fight for the glory of the 'Star-Spangled Banner' in State's Rights. Or, do they take up arms with the Confederacy? At the same time, one of our women fights not to be controlled by a man she so dearly loves. The problem is that she loves him and desires him with her heart, but something from her past keeps her mind from letting him into her heart! Some quotes from women during this story: "The best protection any woman can have is courage." – Elizabeth Cady Stanton "I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." – Susan B. Anthony "There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth." – Susan B. Anthony "I never doubted that equal rights were the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me, there's nothing complicated about ordinary equality." – Alice Paul

As an Indigo, a wise soul in a young body, Sasha is passionate about evolving others through the upcoming change in consciousness and into the next dimension. In the current state of humanity there is a need for individuals to focus their attention on the feeling of love, rather than fear.