Böcker av Kim a Smith

Life for 12-year-old Ashley Doherty and his two brothers is safe and unremarkable until their father dies on Memorial Day weekend in 1963. After that, their lives become tumultuous, as their mother struggles to raise three boys alone while coping with her grief and depression. Within a year, the Doherty family implodes, destroying their relationships. Based on true events, What will People Think? follows Ashley as he tries to rise above the chaos in his family and achieve his ambitions. Along the way, Ashley encounters weird people, a nasty priest, incompetent teachers, a sick psychiatrist, an obtuse judge, and seductive women. The animosity his mother and brothers aim at him is appalling. Yet, you will admire Ashley's humor and resiliency. This story will be familiar to anyone from a dysfunctional family. .

As chronicled in The CE-7 Revelation, the news media identified Emma Ulrich as the first Chanot-Human. The story of Emma's life since then is told in this sequel. A genius and an outstanding athlete, Emma graduated from high school at 15 and then attended Stanford University to play soccer. But along the way, Emma must deal with the prejudice directed at Chanot-Humans. She joins with a defrocked Episcopal priest to fight for the civil rights of Chanot-Humans. They succeed using Emma's amazing computer skills. But Emma's story is more complicated, as her life often takes startingly new directions.If you enjoy reading books about aliens, corrupt government officials, over-zealous police, transsexual universe jumpers, clueless fathers, defrocked Episcopal priests, and sex, this is the book for you:

The War Brides Act of 1945 allowed alien spouses, natural children, and adopted children of GIs to enter the U.S. as non-quota immigrants after World War II. After the war, 300,000 women married American servicemembers and immigrated to the United States. This novel is about the experiences of five war brides who followed their husbands to Bozeman, Montana. Adapting to the way of life in Montana was not easy in those days, but they persevered and built good lives there. While A British Wife is a novel, it is based on stories I heard from my British war bride mother and her friends. Most of the war brides have passed on now, but they contributed much to their adopted country in so many ways.

Peter Simon had decided he was an atheist in high school and rejected his Catholic faith to the sorrow of his devout mother. He'd never reconsidered his decision until his father gives him a DNA ancestry test for his birthday. Shortly before he receives the results, the Vatican notifies him that he is a direct descendant of the apostle Saint Peter. Even if true, that seems unimportant to Peter, merely an accident of birth and nothing more. But as he digs deeper, he discovers that DNA testing is being used to determine the identity of remains discovered by archeologists at sacred sites dating from 2,000 years ago. The results both contradict and confirm Biblical accounts of the creation of Christianity. Peter is challenged to think more deeply about his religious beliefs and who he is as a man.