Author: Derek Ansell
Collection: Novel
Pages: 358
Publish Date: March 2013
Genre: Novel
ISBN: 978-989-51-0121-4
This is a novel about a young woman who is introduced to a vulnerable, divorced man, at her friend Claire’s house, falls for him, has an affair with him and is shocked when he takes his own life. Seeking understanding, she goes back to her parent’s home in London and when seeking for something positive that she can do with her life, her father suggests volunteering as a Samaritan. Glenda becomes a Samaritan and is successful at first, surprised at the number of distressed people; shocked at the number of sex callers but, seeking to offer more help than she is authorised to give. When she becomes friendly outside the centre where she works with another young man, Harry, a telephone caller, she has no choice but to leave. Harry however sets her a new set of problems; he is bipolar and at times of deep depression, liable also to be suicidal. Glenda and Harry strike up a strained relationship in which she becomes his personal support when in deep depression but the strain begins to extract a heavy toll on her. She tries to persuade him to come home after a harrowing suicide attempt in the Hampshire countryside. In the aftermath of this she travels back to London and seeks out an old friend of Harry’s from the past to find out more about him. When she returns home, freshly enlightened about Harry, she plucks up courage to visit and talk to her old lover David’s wife, Isabel. This meeting is illuminating but not in the way she had expected but, suitably informed she can now come to terms with her own plans for the future.
Author: United Photo Press
Collection: More than a thousand words
Pages: 214
Publish Date: December 2012
Genre: Photography
ISBN - 13: 978-989-51-0025-5
UNITED PHOTO PRESS WAS ELECTED BY THE UNITED NATIONS GLOBAL PARTNER FOR 2010 INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF BIODIVERSITY.
The United Photo Press - International Association, founded in 1990, manages the global websites, without speculation business, nonprofit or political in English Language, and a magazine translated over 52 languages, with the aim of disseminating culturally from its members throughout the world and communities in general, information regarding their activities initially identified with the areas of photography, photojournalism, audiovisual, multimedia, art and culture, enviornment, documentary as well as other related matters.
Makes the promotion of books, music and drawings, as well as promote voluntary action in the various sectors of the media where it belongs, aims to value the arts as a cultural image and therefore, promote exhibitions, workshops, roundtables, lectures, reading portfolio, projections, photography and literary issues and urban international.
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Author: Carla Duarte Cardoso
Collection: Novel
Pages: 118
Publish Date: October 2011
Genre: Novel
ISBN: 978-989-697-425-1
What if all our dreams became a reality?
What if they came true by magic?
Two lovers… separated in real life,
Joined in a dream.
In this book dreams are real, life is a fantasy.
Story by story sewing the patchwork of life…
Author: Paulo M. Franco
Collection: Poetry
Pages: 172
Publish Date: October 2011
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 978-989-6972-93-6
Beyond my self is a quest for self-discovery. It offers 80 ways of looking at Life in its multiplicity. The figure "8" is, in fact, the symbol "?" for infinity... So, in its core there are infinite possibilities and probabilities of arousing many different perspectives and interpretations.
Each poem is a wandering path, wich invites you to explore the way you view yourself and the world.
Allow your self to plunge into each poem and let your mind and heart expand from within. Savour each and every line and word gently and be ready to acknowledge what your own true Self might tell you - that Life is so many times beyond ourselves...
Author: Ester de Sousa e Sá
Collection: Romance
Pages: 172
Publish Date: October 2011
Genre: Romance
ISBN - 13: 978-989-6972-92-9
Chasing after a dream, traces the lives of Jeffrey and Sally, two characters who come from differente social backgrounds, but share the same determination to improve their situation. We meet them both when they are in their twenties, at the time when Jeffrey, an orphan who up at that time has been living in poverty and crime, decides to perpetrate one last robbery in order to acquire money to buy his passage to a new country where he will start afresh.
Jeffrey's and Sally's paths intersect at a crucial point in their lives, when both have suffered setbacks and disapointments after making mistakes. They meet by chance and are attracted to one another.
However, there is a good reason why they cannot be a couple. In fact; Jeffrey's affairs take a turn for the worse and he has to leave Sally precipitately to join the ship that will take him in a wonder-filled journey across Southern Africa.
