![]() ![]() Tallie, though she seems perfectly put-together, isn’t any less heartbroken than Emmett. The morning comes, and with it a kind of comfort and thankfulness that allows soft-spoken Emmett to reveal to Tallie not only his name but also the pain that brought him to the bridge. He won’t reveal his name or much else, but that doesn’t stop Tallie from inviting him to her home to spend the night. Thankfully Tallie’s bravado in approaching the stranger catches him off guard and delays him long enough that he agrees to back off and get a cup of coffee with her. A therapist by trade, she doesn’t hesitate before rushing out of her car, ignoring the traffic and the rain, to dissuade the man from jumping. ![]() While driving home from work one rainy October evening, Tallie Clark, 40 and divorced, spots a man preparing to jump from a bridge. Set in author Leesa Cross-Smith’s native Kentucky, This Close to Okay is the story of two strangers coming together to sort out their fears and disappointments. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She left Short Junction at age fifteen, the same day Jude Taylor was murdered. ![]() Sugar had been abandoned by her mother in the nearby town of Short Junction and was reared by Sara, May, and Ruby Lacey, sisters who were proprietors of the town’s whorehouse. ![]() Taylor befriends Sugar Lacey, a prostitute who has recently moved into the house next door, which was left to Sugar upon the death of her mother. In the subsequent years, Jude’s mother has socially withdrawn, except for her steadfast reliance on religion and the local church. Most of the novel’s action takes place in 1955, but the story begins in 1940 with the brutal rape, murder, and mutilation of Jude, the young African-American daughter of Pearl Taylor in the small, mainly black fictional town of Bigelow. McFadden’s debut novel, Sugar (Dutton, 2000), introduced readers to the title character, Sugar Lacey. The series is a story of acceptance with a backdrop of the segregated South. The two novels center on a brutal murder of a young girl in 1940s Arkansas and the personal redemption of Sugar, an emotionally broken prostitute with a turbulent past. McFadden, is the protagonist in Sugar and its sequel This Bitter Earth. Sugar Lacey, a fictional character created by novelist Bernice L. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() She begins with the tragic story of Abelard and Heloise, whom she names the "patron saints" of French love. Rather, Yalom, who writes both congenially and informatively, takes us on a sweeping adventure through French love literature. Unfortunately, this book somewhat broaches these questions but not sociologically. In reading this, I wanted to learn: why do we associate the French so strongly with love? is the French emphasis on love fact or fiction? how do the French treat love differently from other cultures? I was expecting a sociological exploration of this belief. ![]() Stereotype or not, it seems to me that the French, both throughout history and today, are much more devoted to the pleasures of love. But to my romantic American Francophile mind, the French seem to have cornered the market on love. So I was led astray by the title of this book How the French Invented Love-doesn't that suggest a sociological explanation of the significance of love in French culture? Now of course, love is important in every culture. ![]() ![]() Some content used under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3. Images - Nightshade Diary,, images in the public domain or available through fair use. Music –, Kevin MacLeod (), Myuu (), Lucas King (/LucasKingPiano) See More files, also links to video seriesĪLSO LOOK FOR NIGHTSHADE DIARY ON ALL MAJOR PODCAST PLATFORMS Who's hiding in the closet? What's under the bed? You'll be asking yourself these questions after you listen to these creepalicious tales that'll have you leaving the lights on when you go to sleep. Podcast of classic horror, mystery, skulduggery, adventure and ghost stories. ![]() Narrator and Producer Marlene Pardo Pellicer The Phantom Isle and The Wraith of Fergus McGinty, featuring the psychic detective Shiela Crerar. ![]() |