Bøger af Brenda Murphy

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For the twenty years of her acting career, Carlotta Monterey was counted among the most beautiful women in America. Beginning life in 1888 as Hazel Tharsing, the daughter of a California fruit farmer, she grew up determined to matter in the world. At seventeen, she left Oakland to study acting in London. She married a British aristocrat and divorced him three years later to go back on the stage. After a liaison with a wealthy banker and marriages to the twenty-year-old son of her mother's lover in San Francisco and to a famous artist in New York, she married America's greatest playwright, Eugene O'Neill, a stormy union that endured until his death. In each part of her life, Hazel reinvented herself to pursue a new ambition. Intensely shy, she learned to meet the world in the character of the actress Carlotta Monterey, by far her greatest acting role. Becoming Carlotta is a biographical novel, an imagined narrative built on a base of facts with the goal of understanding Hazel Tharsing and what it meant for her to live her fascinating life as Carlotta Monterey. Along the way, it takes us to the cities and the back country of the Old West, to Edwardian London and an English country-house life reminiscent of Downton Abbey's, to the Broadway theater in its golden age and the tough reality of the actor's life on the road, and to bohemian Greenwich Village and Manhattan's arty Smart Set in the 1920s. Through it all, Carlotta is an outsized presence, inventing endless new faces to meet the challenges that life throws her way and turning from every defeat and disillusionment to look ahead with newfound energy and determination.

At the heart of After the Voyage is an American immigrant family making its way forward on a road that is sometimes rocky and steep. From different counties in Ireland, Maggie Qualter and Richard Terrett both sail to America as young adults in 1870 after surviving Ireland's Great Hunger as children. Maggie works as a maid for a wealthy family. Richard finds work in a tannery. After the death of the young wife he loves passionately, Richard marries Maggie with the help of a deceptive go-between who brews trouble in their marriage that never goes away. They raise three children in the midst of Irish American culture, the Catholic Church, and Richard's battles for the workingman in the Knights of Labor. Their daughter Mary dreams of being a nun, while Josie seeks the freedom of big-city life in Boston. Neither reckons on the future she will face, Mary as a wife and mother of nine children and Josie as a single working woman. Son Tom escapes factory life by joining the Navy, manages to see the world in the midst of two wars, and comes home to marry his sweetheart and start a new life. Their stories are both remarkable and familiar to everyone whose ancestors made their way to and in America.The events in the Terretts' lives are as they emerge from the public record. But their inner lives, their thoughts, their relationships, their words are imagined as a route to understanding these five complicated and fascinating people.

Everyone has a past, and sometimes letting go isn't easy. But do things from your past weigh you down? Do you carry a heavy burden, chained to former things and just don't know how to let go so you can move forward Brenda Murphy explores the realities of this subject, complete with a biblical approach and practical ways to finally release yourself from all that keeps you from living to the full purpose of God in your life. And at the end, the author challenges you with tough questions and space to record your answers. Take the journey of Forgetting Former Things and experience The Power of Letting Go. You'll be glad you did.

Raw Faith is a compelling lifestyle shift about a woman's true story reflecting upon her journey to execute her trust, dependency, and reliance upon God to another level. When her back was against the wall, and seemingly insurmountable odds were against her and her family, this woman laid it all spiritually, physically, financially, and mentally at the feet of Jesus and dared to look back as her daily journey unfolded before a live, captive audience in the natural. Brenda believed that truly with the Almighty God, all was and is indeed possible. Raw Faith author, Brenda Murphy, reveals that for the first time in her adult life, the more she relinquished, released and trusted God with her life, she was no longer bound, hindered, detained or delayed by fear, tolerances, setbacks or the perspectives of others who judged her, disapproved of her or simply dismissed her. Throughout Raw Faith, Brenda chose to believe God, rest in His unfailing and unlimited provisions for her and her family, and decided to move full speed ahead in His perfect will and timing for her life and the life of her family. Through her personal testimony and life experiences, she shares through the eyes of a believer how even ones simplest heart's desire can be accomplished when your faith becomes untainted in your thinking.

Healing from the Inside Out. Against all odds, Brenda Murphy did the unexpected when she recovered from a devastating propane explosion. Through hard work, determination and practical strategies, Brenda reveals the power of healing from the inside out. Brenda is a passionate individual who lives the values she cherishes everyday and when she speaks she engages people in a very personal and profound way. J.Scongack, VP. Bruce Power

In life, we often find ourselves in situations of intrusion that test our faith in God and mankind. How do we deal with such intrusions? Popular speaker and author, Brenda Murphy, departs from her normal teaching style of writing and dives into a fictional account of a successful, young Meredith who must learn to trust her faith in God instead of constantly listening to the fear inside-a fear that often leaves her second guessing herself. Will she learn all God has for her, or end up missing His best for her life because of a lack of trust in Him and particularly in one man?

Sick of living in her parents' basement and encountering her ex-girlfriend on a regular basis, former graduate student Veronica Fletcher signs on to manage the stable for Rowan House, Skye's most exclusive resort for women. After arriving at Rowan house Veronica's vow to remain celibate is tested when she meets Millie Reid.Sexy, sweet, and funny, Millie is the woman of Veronica's dreams. Or is she? When Millie's past threatens their future together, Veronica is faced with a choice she doesn't want to make. The butterfly effect has never been more personal.

Octavia Vargus had everything she wanted at Rowan House, Skye's most exclusive pleasure house, except the one thing she craved. Longing for the freedom to explore both sides of her nature, she leaves Rowan House and her mistress, for a new start in Italy with her partner Bridget Murray.Vivian Abiola is a connection to a past Octavia would like to forget, and a love she never expected to see again. After Octavia's past relationship with Vivian is exposed, Octavia and Bridget explore the limits of their desires with Vivian. When an arsonist threatens to destroy their vineyard, past loyalties and secrets endanger their lives, and the three women's relationship. Their love may be the only thing that helps them survive the firestorm of doubt, intrigue, and jealousy.

Brewing Identities is unique in that, while it focuses on the (re)production of a specific kind of ethno-national identity - Irishness - it is simultaneously transnational in scope, as the author maps the trails of products, people and symbolic constructs through a globalised world.

Understanding David Mamet analyzes the broad range of David Mamet's plays and places them in the context of his career as a prolific writer of fiction and nonfiction prose as well as drama. Over the past three decades, Mamet has written more than thirty produced plays and garnered recognition as one of the most significant and influential American playwrights of the post-World War II generation. In addition to playwriting and directing for the theater, Mamet also writes, directs, and produces for film and television, and he writes essays, fiction, poetry, and even children's books. The author remains best known for depicting men in gritty, competitive work environments and for his vernacular dialogue (known in the theater as "e;Mametspeak"e;), which has raised the expletive to an art form. In this insightful survey of Mamet's body of work, Brenda Murphy explores the broad range of his writing for the theater and introduces readers to Mamet's major writing in other literary genres as well as some of his neglected pieces.Murphy centers her discussion around Mamet's most significant plays-Glengarry Glen Ross, Oleanna, American Buffalo, Speed-the-Plow, The Cryptogram, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Edmond, The Woods, Lakeboat, Boston Marriage, and The Duck Variations-as well as his three novels-The Village, The Old Religion, and Wilson. Murphy also notes how Mamet's one-act and less known plays provide important context for the major plays and help to give a fuller sense of the scope of his art. A chapter on his numerous essays, including his most anthologized piece of writing, the autobiographical essay "e;The Rake,"e; reflects Mamet's controversial and evolving ideas about the theater, film, politics, religion, and masculinity. Throughout her study Murphy incorporates references to Mamet's popular films as useful waypoints for contextualizing his literary works and understanding his continuing evolution as a writer for multiple mediums.

This is a book-length study of the collaboration between Tennessee Williams and Elia Kazan, an intense creative relationship that lasted from 1947 to 1960 and embraced among others, the production of A Streetcar Named Desire.

The importance of Native American realism is traced through a study of the evolution of dramatic theory from the early 1890s through World War I and the uniquely American innovations in realistic drama between world wars.