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Lover of Lyrical Beauty

Lover of Lyrical Beauty

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I absolutely love reading books by authors who know how to manipulate language to tell wonderful, insightful, beautiful stories about people who look like me. I adore listening to soothing sensual music by artists like Luther, Kem, Joe Sample, and Jon Lucien. I fancy brilliant sunrises and sunsets over mountains or oceans, new fallen snow--the... more »
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  • Therone Shellman, Author, Entrepreneur and Visionary

    Therone Shellman, Author, Entrepreneur and Visionary says

    Greetings!
    Survivor I Changed the Rules Part 1 available via kindle
    Therone Shellman the elder of four children who were taken away from their mother when he was four and thrown into the NYC foster care system. In and out of different homes he and his sister went. He was a child thinking about adult issues like survival and having to look out for his younger sister. At the age of fifteen dissatisfied with the dysfunctional parents who adopted them both, and a school system he felt was biased he turned his back on both and sought the streets. From hustling at fifteen, to pulling stick ups at sixteen, Shellman found himself at the age of seventeen being sentenced to ‘four to twelve” years in prison.
    In an honest and brutal way Shellman tells his life story from a powerless child to a power crazed and misdirected youth, survival of the fittest on the streets and in some of the roughest prisons in New York State. Throughout the story you witness his search for self peace and spiritual growth as he sought to balance his troubled life which would ultimately lead him through real life threatening situations where by chance and a little wit he would overcome time and time again. And finally some way some how an awakening rose up within him to change his life and write stories which would help others.
    "Survivor" I Changed the Rules is not just a memoir or biography, it is a testament about how strong the human spirit is and the ability within all of us to rise above the chains which imprison us.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Debra Phillips

    Debra Phillips says

    Hi Book Lover:

    Check this out…Take a spicy grandmother and two street-wise kids
    Take a missing mother, and stir in a killer who will
    stop at nothing to get what he wants.

    Someone must protect the children…….

    Read what happens next in the best selling Urban book:

    Love Trumps Game
    By d.y. Phillips

    The page-turner book that folks are talking about
    Reviews and an excerpt can be found on www.amazon.com

    * available at Black Expressions Book Club!!

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • DeBerryandGrant

    DeBerryandGrant says

    Thanks Angela!! So glad you enjoyed WDKY!!! We've been crazy busy these past couple of weeks and haven't been here on Shelfari in a while, but we're looking forward to seeing you Sunday!!!!!

    V&D

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Bernadette B

    Bernadette B says

    Hi Angela,
    I finally set up my account

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Kimani  TRU

    Kimani TRU says

    Stopping by to say thanks for the friendship!! :-)

    Visit Kimani TRU @
    www.myspace.com/kimani_tru
    http://community.eharlequin.com/forums/kimani/kimani-tru

    This month MySpace Kimani TRU features Monica McKayhan, author of the Indigo Summer series.

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Queenazsa

    Queenazsa says

    Hello Friend,

    Please visit my cyberspace home at: www.firstborngirl.blogspot.com where I am blogging about my current journey to publication.

    Peace & Light,
    Author
    Bernice L. McFadden

    posted 4 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Queenazsa

    Queenazsa says

    Hello!
    I just wanted to thank you for your continued support. I feel so blessed to have you as a reader! I also wanted to give you a heads up on my upcoming novel SEDUCTION which will be released under my pseudonym Geneva Holliday. You can watch the sizzling book trailer on my website: www.bernicemcfadden.com. Just click the tab: Geneva Holliday - sit back and enjoy!
    Seduction is available for pre-order discount on Amazon.com. The novel itself will be released in June 2008.
    Peace & Light,

    Bernice McFadden
    aka
    Geneva Holliday

    posted 4 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Francis Ray

    Francis Ray says

    Widow Traci Evans sits in on meetings with the lovely ladies of the Invincible Sisterhood because for a little while she can feel as if she belongs. The members are all sweet older women who have lost their husbands, but not their passion for life. However, unlike the other women in the Sisterhood, Traci's husband died while cheating on her.

    Traci has no intention of letting a man make a fool of her again. Not even if he begged. Even her newfound friend and neighbor, Maureen Gilmore, can't convince her to open her heart to love again. But when Maureen's gorgeous son Ryan admits he's attracted to Traci, she might have to rethink everything she knows about love. Maureen has some soul searching to do as well. She's interested in a sexy young policeman...and then the unthinkable happens, she starts having hot flashes

    Two women - two impossible situations.

    NOT EVEN IF YOU BEGGED new release date Jan 22.

    posted 4 years ago. ( send a note )
  • BeverlyJ

    BeverlyJ says

    Hey. Please send my thanks to your students for their support an d thanks for yours as well. Please let them know that I'll be in Atlanta over the Valentine's Day weekend. Friday the 15th at the Cnn Borders and on Saturday the 16th at the East Point Library. I hope to see them there. Thanks again. B Jenkins.

    posted 4 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Lashanda

    Lashanda says

    My girls are attending East. The world is indeed small!!

    posted 4 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Urchild

    Urchild says

    Darlin, r u a speed reader? lol. U are reading a lot of book at one time. I am reading truth be told by Victoria Christopher Murray...I just started and it is picking up and starting to be a good book. Have a good day or evening.

    posted 4 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Dariel R

    Dariel R says

    Hi Lover of Lyrical Beauty! Thanks for the recommendation. "Living Water" sounds good, too. Check out L.A. Banks. "Minion" is a bit slow IMO, "The Awakening" piqued my interest, and the third book in the series, "The Hunted", had me hooked.

    posted 4 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Urchild

    Urchild says

    I was taking a look at your shelf, and I meant to ask in my previous note, what are you reading?

    posted 4 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Urchild

    Urchild says

    I wish i could have seen the show in NY, but i am very happy i was able to witness such greatness. I will be looking out for the play recommendation, Thank You very much. Wishing you blessing for the New Year for you and your family.

    posted 4 years ago. ( send a note )
  • DeBerryandGrant

    DeBerryandGrant says

    Well of course you did! We didn't know you were "Lover of Lyrical Beauty!" Though the purple flower should have been a hint! Thanks for your continued support and we look forward to seeing you in ATL next month!
    Big Hugs,
    V&D

    posted 4 years ago. ( send a note )
  • DeBerryandGrant

    DeBerryandGrant says

    Thanks for having us on your shelf! We hope you'll check out Gotta Keep on Tryin' (the sequel to Tryin' to Sleep) when it's released on January 8.
    Happy New Year!
    Donna & Virginia

    posted 4 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Francis Ray

    Francis Ray says

    Thanks for the holiday wishes to me and my family. Hopefully we will meet again the next time I am there.

    posted 4 years ago. ( send a note )
  • womaniknow2

    womaniknow2 says

    Thanks for the add, Lyrical Beauty. I am a lover of nature and the beautiful artwork that graces our world from the dawn of a new day to the hue that harbors a warming sunset.

    posted 4 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Lawrence Christopher

    Lawrence Christopher says

    Thank you for the invite. I hope to meet you here.

    posted 4 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Francis Ray

    Francis Ray says

    Happy Holidays to you and your family. Please write back soon.
    Francis

    posted 4 years ago. ( send a note )