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ISSN: 1530-5775
July 2009, Vol.11 #7
Salvation from Georgia Jones
The Ultimate Gestalt
from David Donar
Fun with Alpha
The Mommy Connection
Day Care Toileting Accidents with Fiona Lohrenz
Living Spirit
Understand Emotional Eating
Georgia Jones
A new book on teen dating
Jane Roberts - Making History
New Poetry Program and a Special
What to call this one?
A Review of The Little Giant of Aberdeen County
Announcements from our Friends
Guess what I heard...
Your chance to say what you think
About Partners in Publishing at LadybugBooks.com
July 2009!
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From Robbie Haden, with Jennifer Farmer
Running With Angels Haley-Jo Bodine is a young runaway. She could easily be your child or mine. Readers will care what happens to her, and will identify with her pain and loneliness. Tough subjects are handled realistically but with sensitivity. I recommend this book not only for at-risk youth, but also for the adults who care about them.
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Elizabeth talks with musicimpressario Eugene Foley about poetry and song
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A new series... collections from LadybugFlights!
Ms. Elani's Recipe book.
You will find Ms. Elani's Recipe book in our book store. The View from Anywhere.
The View from Anywhere is a Signature Series Audio Book plus text, read by author Shimon Weinroth. On the Money by Beatrice Spreadmoore.
You have read her good advice, now have it in your book case.. in our book store. ![]() In this unusual book which features both audio and visual effects, Barbara Holstein reflects on her value system and the lessons of her own life through stories.
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The Truth
![]() JuneBug Winner! This collection of short stories was chosen for the 2003 best short story collection!
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4 Part Harmony by Marcie Brown ![]()
The "quilt book" Lives in Process: The Second fifty Years by Dottie Moore with portraits by Michael Harrison
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a book every woman should own
Screaming Quietly by Hadassah Bat Haim,
![]() Also from Hadassah Bat Haim: Off the Rails
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Start Writing!The perfect tool to fire that urge, focus your efforts, and improve your writing. A perfect gift for some other writer in your life as well! A Writers Adventure with Georgia Jones
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Extraordinary Ordinary Women
Winds of Change.
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Winds of Change is a Signature Series Audio Book, read and sung by author JoAnn Vickers Wilburn. Winds of Change is an interweaving of stories and songs, which deal with a relationship as it moves through changes that lead toward divorce from a fairy tale beginning through the nightmare of abuse and betrayal, to a new understanding and a new beginning. These stories are complete within themselves and also tell a complete story in their entirety. Stories and songs are written and performed by the author herself.
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Dear Jane, Thank you so much for your donation of a copy of 34 Million Friends of the Women of the World. It's generous donations like yours that make it possible for our library to exist, and your enthusiam is heartwarming. I'll make it our featured book to help spread the word about www.34millionfriends.org.
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Books to buy, read, donate, and get a discount. It is a circle we are proud of. To purchase a discounted book send information on your donation to Georgia Jones |
You will find a special section of the LadybugBooks.com site devoted to information about domestic and workplace violence. Ending Violence is an important issue all year!
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THIS MONTH:
Georgia Jones from her new book Memorable Seasons
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![]() From Deep Within is based on a true story. It is my story. In writing this book, I have found myself wondering why I couldn’t see what was right in front of me. It was sad to know that I couldn’t see the light for a long time. I tried everything in my power to stop the abuse and that meant changing everything about myself. For four years it felt as though I was in a bubble away from life and from everyone I loved. It is terrible to look back and to think that at that time I thought nothing was wrong. When the jealousy started I thought my boyfriend loved me and was trying to protect me. When the abuse started I always thought it was my fault and that I caused him to be mad all of the time. In my heart I believed that I wasn’t good enough for anyone else and that I couldn’t get anyone else who would put up with me. So, I accepted the relationship and all of the consequences that it brought. I even protected him and stuck with him because I thought that I was the cause of everything. Feeling at fault became a normal feeling for me and I blamed everything that went wrong in the relationship on myself. No matter how bad I could have been, there is absolutely no excuse for mental and physical abuse. The fear that my boyfriend created stopped me from getting help and stopped me from confiding in others. Thanks to my parents’ never giving up on me, I was able to get out of that relationship. There aren’t a lot of young women who have that support, and I am so grateful for always having my family by my side no matter what. I hurt them so much through the whole relationship because I thought my parents and others close to me were the enemy. I am in such a wonderful place right now, and I am so thankful for all the support I have received. As a survivor I want to help those being harmed or who might be harmed, and to educate those who can help prevent a violent relationship. This book has been a path to self-discovery, to close the chapter on that part of my life. I feel as though I have re-lived the abuse all over again. At times I had to stop writing, but I am glad I continued because there is a chance I will help someone in need. ![]() A portion of the proceeds from this book will be donated to LoveIsRespect.org
If you know of a woman who will no longer grace our future because of domestic violence, please send us her story, or your own. |
We invite any of you to contribute on this subject. We feel it is important to continue the discussion of domestic violence.
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Exceptional Women are Our History and Our Future:
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![]() Jane Roberts ~ Making History We have carried Jane's articles in here for some time and LadybugPress published her book, 34 Million Friends of the Women of the World, but it is hard to get Jane to talk about Jane. Since we know what an extraordinary woman she is, we thought it was time to acknowledge that, and what better way than to print what she has said about what matters to her. When the World Takes Care of Women, Women Take Care of the World
On Common Ground must expand the discussion to the entire planet. What we do here in this country has an effect on the entire world’s view of women, on their status, on their role in human affairs. Here are some facts which everyone should know. There are approximately 200 million pregnancies in the world every year. Of these, twenty percent end in abortion i.e. 40 million. Of these 40 million, half (20 million) are unsafe and illegal. These 20 million unsafe illegal abortions result in 68,000 deaths of women and girls, and 5 million injuries, infections and hemorrhages most requiring hospitalization if indeed a hospital is within reach. Any honest person would have to say that laws against abortion are not effective, that throughout human history abortion has been and no doubt will always be a “method of family planning” which women use in great numbers. What do we all say about this? Everyone should know that about 9 million children under 5 years of age die every year and of those 9 million, 40 percent die in their first month, many in their first hour. The underlying cause for these deaths is the ill health of the mother. The babies were born weighing two pounds. The mother’s diet was inadequate. The pregnancy was close on to the preceding pregnancy and birth. Very probably the woman had no access to family planning. Imagine the pain. When the world takes care of women, women take care of the world. The world is doing a terrible job. Millennium Development Goal 5 “Improve Maternal Health” is the least likely to be achieved because in many poor countries, maternal health is a low priority. Maternal health budgets are shortchanged and there is a huge dearth of healthcare workers. Five hundred thousand women are still dying in childbirth every year and the promise of universal access to reproductive health and family planning made at the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, Egypt in 1994 has been more honored in the breach than in the implementation.Please take a look at Millennium Goal 5? Could we all find Common Ground in Millennium Development Goal 5? A good case can be made that gender inequality is the moral scourge of the age. Hillary Clinton during her confirmation hearings to become Secretary of State said: “Of particular concern to me is the plight of women and girls who comprise the majority of the world’s unhealthy, schooled, unfed, unpaid.” Can we all work on this? When you look around the world, the countries which are the most prosperous, stable, and democratic are those where women have the highest status. With high status usually comes decision making autonomy in the area of fertility. What do we think about that? When you look around the world, you see that the countries where there is fairly definite separation between church and state are the most stable and where gender equality is the most pronounced. This is no accident. This is cause and effect. Can we discuss this? More than 60 million (it may be 100 million) women and girls are “missing” in Asia and Africa due to sex selective abortion, female infanticide, and neglect of the girl child. Can we all get our heads around that? (There has been a recent report that there appears to be more than the natural percentage of boys born among Asian families in the U.S.) Any Common Ground here? Last Thursday, in the Washington Post, Secretary Clinton wrote a column “Fighting Modern Slavery” lamenting worldwide sex trafficking. The root causes of sex trafficking are poverty, illiteracy, and powerlessness. Gender inequality is the basis for all three. I quote Stephen Lewis of the Stephen Lewis Foundation and former U.N. ambassador to Africa for AIDS: “I challenge you to enter the fray against gender inequality. There is no more honorable or productive calling. There is nothing of greater import in this world. All roads lead from women to social change.” Can we all find Common Ground here? I think we are all "Pro-Life" but in different ways. I have spent the last 7 years urging my fellow Americans to support the United Nations Population Fund through 34 Million Friends. UNFPA is a worldwide champion of women’s and girls’ education, health (particularly reproductive health including family planning) and human rights. To me Pro-Life and UNFPA are synonymous. I repeat. When the world takes care of women, women take care of the world. What does taking care of women mean? It means that people rejoice equally at the birth of a girl or a boy. Every single human being ever born has come from the womb of a woman. Women risk their very lives to ensure the propagation of the species. If women lack health and education and choices in their lives, humanity suffers. If women disappear, humanity disappears. It is really that simple. So take care of women! Can we find Common Ground here? Yes we can!
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