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Throwing Bricks
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Nancy didn’t have the happiest childhood. Neglected and abused by her parents and rejected by the people who should have been her allies, she left the past behind to sculpt a better life. Things were finally progressing according to her carefully laid plans. She had landed the job of her dreams as a music professor at a prestigious college and was married to her best friend. She thought she had it made, that she knew her husband so well- until the night he was arrested and everything fell apart. Was he guilty? Sometimes innocence is not enough and freedom is just an illusion.
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A Single Grain of Sand
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History is made by the silent and forgotten.
Tempeste Courbon is a pampered young Creole woman growing up in the privileged upper crust of Martinique society. Tempeste's father is one of a rarified group of colored plantation owners who have risen to power in a society dominated by whites. When Tempeste loses everything in the eruption of Mt. Pelée in Martinique, she buries her papa, along with any hope for a future with Thibault, the man she loves.
Tempeste travels to Panama to participate in the engineering venture of the century—the construction of the Panama Canal. Working alongside her fellow West Indian laborers as a laundress, she faces segregation and squalid living conditions, untamed jungle, and the dread disease, yellow fever.
With many of her fellow countrymen and women dying around her, Tempeste vows to rise above the fear and squalor to make something of her life. She may fall but she will never give up.
She moves out of the jungle to the city and builds a new life as a hotel concierge. Her lost love reappears and begs her to return to Martinique with him but she can't let go of her past to allow herself a future. In the end, the completion of the canal will determine her fate.
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Wave Dancing
Jesse Barnham is a depressed artist contemplating suicide until finding an abandoned baby sea otter brings her back to the land of the living. She may not be able to recall a happy past but she can still, just barely, imagine a happy future.
Ted Wallace is a marine veterinarian, who has neglected his health for too long, thinking that ignoring the signs of his progressing illness will make them go away.
When Jesse and Ted meet in an attempt to save the baby sea otter, it’s unclear whether they can move beyond their differences. Each clearly sees the other's failings but not their own. And as Jesse begins putting her life back together Ted is slowly losing his.
This heart-warming tale is a reminder that the things that we save, often hold the power to save us.