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Rita Berman born in London, England, has made the USA her home since 1954. For more than forty years she has written and published fiction and non-fiction stories.
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Carla Shuford lost her left leg when she was a teenager. If there is a true test of mettle, this is one. In this biography of her life, career and her devotion to volunteer service, Rita Berman tells Carla’s story with style compassion. She conveys the burden of Carla’s many challenges and the triumph of her many successes. Also included as a gift are Carla’s stories and poems.
Also available on Amazon KDP I was watching the television program "Blind Date" recently and found it amusing to see how younger couples were behaving on a first date that had been set up by the producers. A television host introduces us to the pre-matched couple who smile broadly, and appear eager to have a good time. A camera crew accompanies them on the date so that the audience observe while the couple dine, dance, soak in a hot tub or go on action dates of their choice, such as playing basketball, bowling, receiving instruction in martial arts, sewing, or glass blowing.
Watching someone else negotiate dating pitfalls can be helpful to those of
us who because of divorce or death are looking for a new relationship. A
speech balloon frequently pops up on the screen to clue viewers as to what
the participants are thinking as well as saying; a thumbs-down sign
appears when they commit dating no-noes.
In one episode, a woman
waited until the last five minutes of a 10-hour date before mentioning
that she was the mother of a young child.
In another, a man
repeatedly bragged about his former girl-friend, and ignored the bored
look on his date's face.
Neither of these
situations led to a second date.
Tension builds
as to how the date will end.
Will they want to see
each other again?
Will
they hug, kiss, or have sex on the first date?
The
camera crew retreat only when the decision is to have sex.
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The Key" is a mystery-romance set in a
small town in the American south. Dan, a carpenter in his mid-thirties is
one of the construction crews working on a housing development. He
is proud of his work and develops an obsession with a lakefront house that
he is building. The mystery begins when Emily, a young, single
woman, who works in the U.S District Court, buys the house and moves in.
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Rita Berman's latest book reaches back to
her childhood experiences of growing up in the East End of London, England
during World War II. Rita and her cousins are descendants of a blacksmith
and tailor who fled to England in the late 1880's to escape the European
anti-Semitism. The result is a collection that parallels
and sometimes differs on how their family suffered through those wartime
events of food rationing, evacuations, and the bombing of their
grandparent's house and factory.
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Ariana Mangum and I were friends for more than 25 years.
We were readers and
writers and shared many hours discussing the books we had read and what we
were writing. I had been working as a freelance writer since early 1970
and Ariana, who had taught English Literature and reading before retiring,
was working on nonfiction and fiction drafts. For almost twenty years, we
were neighbors and in earlier years took walks together in the
neighborhood. About fifteen years ago, when we were both on vacation in
England we attended the week-long Writers Summer School in Derbyshire.
A mutual friend, Carla
Shuford, recently said what Ariana and I shared was “not only an ability
and skill at writing, but even more importantly, a NEED to write that was
as necessary as food, water, and shelter.”
Ariana fought through
declining health to keep on writing.
In spite of her
hospitalizations she took a lively interest in current events and
persisted with her efforts to express her opinion on many subjects.
Her columns and letters
to the Editor for the Chapel Hill News drew the reader’s attention to
current events, sometimes relating them to her own life. Mark Schultz,
editor of the newspaper, handled her letters.
In a tribute he noted
that “she wrote about war, politics, and social mores, each short essay as
fixed as her gaze.”
Ariana
Holliday Dickson Mangum was 88 years old when she died March 2, 2017.
She was raised in
Richmond, Virginia and got her B.A. in English Literature from Penn State
College (now University).
After
marrying William Goodson Mangum of Chapel Hill they had five children.
In the 1980s she moved
to Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland.
Here she spent about
seven years teaching and writing before moving back to the United States.
She was in
Ireland when Belfast was bombed and Ulster was in a turmoil with sectarian
hatred. Many of her life experiences were later included in her books.
After returning to the
USA she lived in Chapel Hill and volunteered at Glenwood Elementary School
helping the students to improve their reading skills.
She also completed
various manuscripts and had them published.
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