Melissa Newman is an acclaimed author whose literary voice is deeply rooted in the landscape and culture of Southeastern Kentucky. Drawing on her extensive background as a journalist and editor, she crafts narratives that explore the complexities of human relationships and the hidden secrets within seemingly ordinary lives. Her work is characterized by a profound understanding of her characters and the Southern experience.
Leading Relationships with Stakeholders
Focusing on the management of nonprofit organizations, this book offers practical insights into effectively engaging with key stakeholder groups. It explores the distinct application of management principles and theories in the nonprofit sector compared to for-profit entities, equipping readers with strategies for successful stakeholder relationship management.
An invitation to the private world of Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman, one of America's most iconic couples, in a lavishly illustrated oversize photo book affectionately curated by their daughter Melissa Newman. číst celé
Annie Cleaving watched her young son take his last breath trapped inside the mangled wreckage of her car. The drunk driver walked away without a scratch. A year later breast cancer took Annie's mother, a tender and genteel woman.As a means to escape painful memories Annie attempts to sell the old Cleaving house, leaving the only home she has ever known. Only then she discovers the botched deed and her only choice, to find her mother's siblings and convince each to release their claims.From crazy Aunt Veda, who thinks a televangelist is sending her secret love messages, to Uncle Asher who has given up his Wall Street career and joined a hippie commune, Annie is thrust into a bizarre new world where it seems the Cleaving family history has been altered.Her journey reveals the many secrets woven throughout the Cleaving family, including a murder, involve her mother.
The discovery of human remains at a construction site forces eighty-seven-year-old Viola Garland to confront long-buried secrets from her past. For over sixty years, she has kept silent to protect her family, but now the truth threatens to surface, unraveling the choices she made as a young woman. This poignant narrative explores themes of memory, guilt, and the impact of hidden truths on family dynamics.
Dancy Wilder and her sister Marla are navigating childhood successfully in spite of their father's crazy romantic encounters a spiritualistic grass-smoking hippie, a double-D cup kleptomaniac known over the CB airwaves as Hot Ginger, and an olive-skinned Greek goddess, just to name a few. Dancy and Marla's father, Everett is raising his two girls alone. A perpetual bachelor and successful lady's man, Everett can have just about any woman he wants. Problem is he wants them all and likes them all a little crazy. Follow Dancy and Marla as they grow into strong, capable, common sense women who have taken something of benefit from each of their father's many love interests, including their Momma Lou, a biker chick, who they learn has a secret profession that keeps the Wilder financials in the black.