Sarah Hamilton is living the dream. She earns perfect grades, has the right set of friends and wears the right clothes. She’s a golden child, and the long-awaited answer to her parents’ prayers. I walk through that life—Sarah’s life—every day, but it’s like I’m watching from some perch on a tree outside the window. I’m always searching for something: some feeling, some connection, some person. I don’t know who or what it is. All I know is that I don’t belong. I’ve known it all my life. So when I finally discover what I’ve always known in my heart to be true, the words hit with the force of a freight train, leave me hollowed out and numb. But those same words...They also set me free. Synopsis: Sarah Hamilton lives a life most people will only ever dream of, but nothing is at it seems. When secrets are revealed and everything comes crashing down, she meets Liam. He's a raging storm, all hard edges, and when they meet it's definitely not love at first sight. A haunting, heartbreaking coming of age romance that will keep you turning the pages. All Your Life is Book 4 in Lily Foster's Blackbird Series. Second chance romance, enemies to lovers, forbidden age gap and men in uniform...Find out why readers are calling the Blackbird series "beautiful, heartbreaking and sexy." Book 1: When the Night is Over Book 2: Your Hand in Mine Book 3: Ghost on the Shore Book 4: All Your Life Every book can be read as a standalone, and all are intended for readers 17 and older due to mature content

The euphoria and crushing pain of first love, the possibility of second chances, the joys and sorrows of motherhood in all its varied configurations… The Blackbird series by Lily Foster is a vivid exploration of what it means to be a woman along every stage of the journey. Heartbreaking and uplifting, each novel explores the struggle to become who we were meant to be, the staggering power of family, and the courage required to forgive, especially when the person we need to forgive most is the one staring back at us in the mirror. This collection includes: When the Night is Over Your Hand in Mine Ghost on the Shore All Your Life

In recent news coverage of the dramatic political events in Eastern Europe, Gypsies have been a favourite sidebar topic. Some of the stories have been truly horrifying, others are written condescendingly and to amuse; but what has become clear is how little we really know about this people. In a concerted effort to uncover the modern history of the Rom in Eastern Europe, the authors examine the Gypsy experience in Albania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Yugoslavia, with special attention to the Nazi Holocaust as well as to the record of the forced settlement and education programmes instituted by communist regimes.

A formidable challenge to the study of Roma (Gypsy) music is the muddle of fact and fiction in determining identity. This book investigates "Gypsy music" as a marked and marketable exotic substance, and as a site of active cultural negotiation and appropriation between the real Roma and the idealized Gypsies of the Western imagination. David Malvinni studies specific composers-including Liszt, Brahms, Rachmaninov, Janacek, and Bartók-whose work takes up contested and varied configurations of Gypsy music. The music of these composers is considered alongside contemporary debates over popular music and film, as Malvinni argues that Gypsiness remains impervious to empirical revelations about the "real" Roma.