It's Poland 1941 and the fortuitous event of a munitions lorry falling into his hands motivates Jan Guterman, a young Czech Jew on the run, to assemble a fighting force of men and women, with diverse skills and backgrounds, to wreak vengeance upon the Nazis, but with unforeseen consequences, as long-held prejudices are challenged and an impermissible infatuation is aroused.
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Jan Duffy is unlucky in love. Her husband ran off with another woman and even though she is having a hot romance with Andy Hudson, she just can't seem to trust love again. Her best friend tells her "Jan, you just don't know how to be happy." Jan is actually having fun ... running her caf , match-making other couples, getting herself tangled in, and untangled from, one comic situation after another. But now it's crunch time. Andy wants her to say yes ... and she just can't do it. "Jan's Romantic Decision" is the last of the four-book Jan Duffy series. Read this one or all four to find out how ... or if ... Jan finally finds love.
Jan Symons, Head Girl at an exclusive private school in South Africa, meets three young men, Bruce Ferguson, James Donahue and Morris Galliers, at the School Dance, who become important in her life. Ferguson is killed while still at school but continues to impact on her life.As a loved but rather scandalous teacher she becomes best friends with Francis, another teacher, who is shocked by the stories Jan tells her about what goes on at exclusive boarding schools, including the death of Ferguson. She persuades her to write it up as a thesis. Jan's thesis, which she converts into a book, explores the nature of elite white private education and the institution of boarding schools in apartheid South Africa and the potential impact the system might have in the 'New' South Africa and spells out the effects on boys and girls, men and women who go to such schools - as well as to their parents, mothers in particular. In the process the events taking place in the country, beginning with the 1976 Soweto Uprising, and her encounters with the Black Consciousness Movement and the mass democratic movement induce in her a political awakening.Jan's life, her loves and friendships and in particular her struggle to write and eventually publish her book in the teeth of opposition from the academic and social establishment become for her a journey through the life, feelings and experiences of little boys in preparatory boarding schools, bigger boys in prestigious colleges, young men in university residences and then the effects these experiences have on them and their families in their adult lives.
Jan's Sanctuary Walk is a novel about Jan Hendricks, a young clergywoman in her first appointment as lead pastor in a small-town Florida church during the late 1980s. Her excitement and nervousness about the assignment is soon married with worry and doubt, as her appointment is fraught with difficulties. Two tragic events devastate the small community and draw on Jan's skill and faith. She tries to comfort the town while balancing the demands of her family and church amidst discrimination against clergywomen. Will she be able to pastor this small church and strengthen her own insecurities about faith and her calling?
When CBS News Correspondent Barry Petersen married the love of his life twenty-five years ago, he never thought his vow, "until death do us part," would have an expiration date. But Early Onset Alzheimer's claimed Jan Petersen, Barry's beautiful wife, at 55, leaving her unable to remember Barry or their life together.
Jan was an outstanding teacher who inspired students and teachers alike until multiple sclerosis forced her to retire. In this poignant memoir, Jan's filmmaker husband relates the story of her journey through life and how it was shaped by things both large and small. He recounts how they chose each other to share their future, taking the reader beyond the wedding and "happily ever after" moment to portray their love story to its end. Though Jan's illness is present, this is not a book about her disease, but rather about a well-lived life, with a sad but uplifting ending.
Jan was an outstanding teacher who inspired students and teachers alike until multiple sclerosis forced her to retire. In this poignant memoir, Jan's filmmaker husband relates the story of her journey through life and how it was shaped by things both large and small. He recounts how they chose each other to share their future, taking the reader beyond the wedding and "happily ever after" moment to portray their love story to its end. Though Jan's illness is present, this is not a book about her disease, but rather about a well-lived life, with a sad but uplifting ending.
In 1971, when her husband left her with no money, no car, and two small children, Janice Yates was desperate for work. A few months later she became a waitress for the Playboy Club of Boston. Bunny Jan's Tale is a memoir of injury and chronic pain, as well as love and loss, but most importantly tremendous resilience as one woman struggles to survive.
