Bøger af Sharon Murphy

For twenty-five years, Lola has endured a tumultuous marriage marred by her husband Jack's infidelities and abuse. Despite his betrayals, she clung to the hope that things would change when Jack landed his dream job as university president.However, Jack's new position thrusts them into a sordid scandal involving the sexual exploitation of student athletes by the athletic director. Haunted by his own history of misconduct, Jack resorts to his usual tactics: bribery and cover-ups. But when one of his past victims surfaces as a faculty member, the web of deceit threatens to entangle them both.As the stakes escalate, Lola finds herself at a crossroads. Will she continue to enable Jack's misdeeds, sacrificing her dignity? Or will she summon the courage to break free from the cycle of abuse and help others find their voice?

Transforming the Land and Cities: A Training Manual for Healing Our World by Sharon Murphy is going to help us to learn about prayer that results in healing and transforming our cities and nations. This training manual provides empowering truths that allow us to change the world by co-laboring with the work of Jesus. Sharon Murphy examines scriptures which confirm the need for us to partner with the Creator for the land to be healed. This manual reveals the process for believers in removing the roots of sin in the land and how this is done by partnering with the completed work of Jesus Christ. In relationship with the Father every believer can participate in the transformation of the land and cities. We are sons and daughters of our Father God and we have the amazing ability to carry out His redemptive will on the earth. By reading this manual you will learn how you can be an active part of the transformation of the land where you live. You will be inspired to take on your destiny in God's plans for His beloved creation.

"I heard drawers and closet doors open and close as the policemen continued their search in the bedrooms. My files were stacked in the office. Those papers could connect my name and my face. My picture albums were piled on the floor. If the officers opened them, they'd see that I was the mother they were looking for. I thought of everything they might find to bring my charade crashing down around me." With the intensity of a mystery novel and the heart of a true life drama, this heartbreaking memoir details Murphy's years spent on the run with her young son. Disappearing Act is a gripping story that reveals the saga of an ordinary woman's struggle against the influence of her ex-husband's powerful mother, famed author Maya Angelou. With extraordinary honesty, Murphy recounts her marriage to Angelou's charismatic son, Guy Johnson. Guy becomes violent, but not before the author gives birth to their son Colin. To protect Colin, Sharon pursues a divorce. But money, power, and influence put Colin in Guy's custody, despite his violent behavior. Realizing that neither she nor her son would ever live in peace and safety, Murphy makes the controversial decision to kidnap her own son. Disappearing Act chronicles the harrowing years Murphy and Colin spent on the run, as Guy and Angelou attempt to track them down. Eventually Sharon is caught and Colin is returned to his abusive father. Her subsequent incarceration and release are recounted in painful detail. The author has found an astonishing emotional truth about these events that both scarred and defined her family. As the years pass, Murphy comes to recognize and identify the hopes, fantasies, weaknesses, and family patterns that led to the decisions she made. The issues that she brought to her marriage, and to her relationship with her son begin to crystallize and provide a kind of platform from which to move on with her life. Entangled in a situation she did not understand, Murphy reflects in Disappearing Act on the choices she made that turned out to have consequences beyond her imagination. An intensely personal story, this memoir ultimately describes a universal journey of love, acceptance, and redemption. Praise for Disappearing Act A Mother's Journey to the Underground "Sharon Murphy has written a gripping, all-too-real memoir about her custody battle and her flight "underground". Murphy is both bold and humble as she confronts an abusive husband who is also an abusive father and his formidable mother, the writer Maya Angelou. Her scenes with both Angelou and with the writer's son ring true. They are chilling, informative, dramatic. Brilliantly, Murphy managed to protect her child for five years. When she is found, Angelou herself came to collect her grandson, and returned him to his father. "This is a writer's book. It is also a mother's book. Murphy had strong sisters who helped her and a network of supportive women, including feminists and lesbian feminists. Murphy was also turned in by a woman. As the author of, Mothers on Trial. The Battle for Children and Custody (1986, 2011) and Woman's Inhumanity to Woman, (2002, 2009) I can assure you that Murphy exaggerates nothing." Brava, Sharon! Phyllis Chesler Ph.D is an Emerita Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies at City University of New York. She is a best- selling author, a legendary feminist leader, a psychotherapist and an expert courtroom witness. "Disappearing Act is a story of a woman's fierce bravery and tenacity, and her refusal to be destroyed in the face of experiences that might so easily have crushed her. I love the pluck and humor and above all the big heart of this woman, and her willingness to reveal not only her moments of rare courage but just as much so her failings, as she fights not only for her son but for her own survival against extraordinary obstacles." Joyce Maynard Joyce Maynard is the author of fourteen books, including Labor Day now a major motion picture.

BBC My Story, runner up for 'Overcoming adversity'. Infant Lena Oleary was a convict. Her 'rap sheet' was for being homeless. Imprisoned for 15 years, she suffered starvation, neglect, psychological, physical and sexual abuse. Her carers, the Irish Government and the Catholic Church, ran terrifying establishments that were part orphanage, part workhouse, part school and all hell. Comfort was never nearby. At 15 Lena was liberated. With no intellectual tools, the road ahead was to become one tribulation after another. By 17 her yearning to have her own family was her ambition in life. Her quest for love found her in a turbulent marriage and by 19 she suffered the greatest of tragedies a woman should not have to endure. Facing the next fraction of her life was to become years of toxic, septic and grievous existence. It was time to pull of the plasters that temporarily soothed the scars of a tormented individual, and begin to renovate her mutilated soul. Through homelessness and subsequent rescue by the Soho Centrepoint, a new slice of a prospective future was at large. Her spirit began to develop and soon education became her focus, and her saving grace. This is a tragic and dreadful tale, truthfully told in an unvarnished style. Yet, it is also a story of intrepidity, courage and determination, against all odds.