"Secrets of the Weeping Willow" is a gripping tale of romance, suspense, manipulation, and self-discovery. The book tells the story of a girl named Elizabeth, who at the age of twelve wakes up bruised and bloodied with no memory of herself or the troubled woman who claims to be her mother. Nine years later, while watching a documentary on New Orleans, Elizabeth gets flashes of Deja vu. Elizabeth starts to believe that things might have been hidden from her by her eccentric mother, who claimed they had never been to New Orleans. Elizabeth secretly plans a trip to New Orleans with a good friend, with a cautiously optimistic belief that her lost memories are linked to this city. Unaware, of the pandora's box she is on the verge of opening. When Elizabeth arrives in New Orleans for Mardi Gras, her lost memories start to assault her confirming her gut instinct that the origin of her lost memories are far from what she had been told, unaware that an ominous presence has discovered her return to New Orleans. Along the way, Elizabeth comes across influential people and embarks on a journey of finding herself, while corruption sits on the fringe of Elizabeth awakening memories. The book is filled with suspense, romance, and evil as Elizabeth's journey uncovers a troubling past of dark truths that reveal a life lost and deceptions that kept her childhood years in the dark. As everything becomes clearer, Elizabeth's life intensifies, as she struggles to accept what has been done to her, as her memories return to reveal a hazardous past. While a current danger escalates. The answers to Elizabeth's past, bring her and a sadistic con artist closer together as the secrets long buried illuminate the true nature of evil and the sacrifice and love of the woman who brought her into this world.

Lynette is sick and tired of being sick and tired. Faced daily with a verbally abusive brother, an alcoholic father still grieving for his deceased wife and overbearing siblings, the only light that seems to shine in Lynettes life is the love of her daughter. Little does she know that lies, deceit and jealousy will challenge that love, test her strength and force her to face her family in ways she never imagined. Ayanna is carefree and spunky but longs for a better life for her and her mother. She is not oblivious to how her mother is treated and is fiercely protective. However, her world is turned upside down when shes introduced to a stranger and she learns she belongs to a family completely different from what shes known all her life. In this stirring tale, readers are introduced to Lynette and Ayanna, who demonstrate the complexity of love, parenting, maturing and navigating relationships with people who make bad choices. Filled with vivid details and relatable characters, the books themes of endurance, strength and wanting a better life for ones children draw readers in and keep them turning pages until the end as they follow a mother and daughters journey.

After a young girl tragically loses one of her siblings, she learns through many trials and tribulations how to live without someone who was once apart of her every day life. Become engulfed in the emotions, reading through each page as if you were being personally told her story, and relating it to your own life. With Weeping Willow, you'll find comfort, peace of mind, be inspired and learn something new about yourself. Open Weeping Willow and begin a journey you'll always remember.

William Shatner describes Willows Weep as one of the most haunted locations in North America. Featured on the series "The UnXplained" we learn about the transfer of ownership of this house of horrors from previous owner Brenda Johnson to Dave Spinks. Dave is now the trusted caretaker & owner of this portal to hell. You will find on the pages of this book the true accounts of what author and paranormal investigator Dave Spinks describes as nothing short of pure evil. Murders, suicides, over dose deaths, disappearances and demons are just a few of the stories that will make your blood run cold as the stories unfold on the page.. This 30 year seasoned paranormal investigator has spine tingling experiences with the demons that call Willows Weep home. The real life occurrences featured throughout the pages of this book are from multiple paranormal investigators, contributors, interview with the previous owner that will allow you to see that there is in fact a doorway to hell, and it may very well be located in Cuyuga Indiana, at Willows Weep. Published Independently by Starborn Illumination Publishing Company.

This is a bilingual (English and Japanese) story about the struggles and triumph of a young fisherman in old Japan. Inspired by the ancient Japanese feat of “Nankin Tamasudare” in which bamboo sticks are manipulated into figures, and the art of the great Japanese master Hokusai, the story was written in America, translated in Japan and illustrated in Hungary!Richard Hatch, the author, is a professional magician and co-founder of the Hatch Academy of Magic and Music. He includes his telling of this tale, illustrated with the mysterious tamasudare mat, in many performances, often accompanied by his wife, violinist Rosemary Kimura Hatch.András Balogh, the illustrator, is a children's book designer and digital painter living in Székesfehérvár, Hungary. He studied at the Free School of Fine Arts in Kecskemét where he received a strong foundation in the arts, visual creativity and traditional painting. Since 2003 he has been an invited member of the government of Bács Kiskun's country painter camp and is a full member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI). Yukishige Kadoya, the translator from English into Japanese, is a freelance translator and writer based in Nagoya, Japan. He is also a performing magician and a scholar of magic. He often serves as the interpreter for the many major foreign magicians who lecture and perform in Japan. He has written several books, including Tokyo-do Shuppan Publishing's best-selling “Eigo de Pera-Pera Magic (Let's perform magic in English)”.Children's Bookwatch, Vol. 23, no. 2 (February 2013): ""Taro-San the Fisherman and the Weeping Willow Tree" is a beautiful, traditionally illustrated, bilingual children's tale written in Japanese and translated into English for children age 8 and up. Taro-San grew up as a boy sitting on a river bank under a weeping willow tree, fishing all day long. He wanted nothing more than to be a professional fisherman. However, when Taro-San is finally able to buy a boat and cast out to sea to fish, his nets come up empty for two weeks in a row! He decides to make a special pilgrimage to a sacred Shinto shrine. When he arrived at the beautiful O-Torii gate to the harbor of the sacred shrine, he enjoyed seeing the beauty of the setting. Taro-San crossed on a bridge to approach a special well, like a wishing well, where he respectfully wrote his wish to become a successful fisherman on a piece of parchment, dropped it into the well, and struck a bell three times to summon his ancestors to hear the request he made of them. A rainbow cheers and heartens him as he leaves the shrine. Soon he meets an old man who is a successful fisherman and asks him for his secrets for success. Here Taro-San discovers he has omitted an important step in his venture: He has not chosen a name for his boat. With the guidance of the old man, Taro-San chooses just the right name and paints it on the boat in Kanji characters. After that, Taro -San is so successful with his fishing that he can barely sail his catch home each day. What was the name he chose, the name that enchanted the fish so they came to the boat willingly to be caught? Of course, it was the Weeping Willow Tree. "Taro-San the Fisherman and the Weeping Willow Tree" is presented in both English and Japanese, beautifully illustrated with a traditional appearing style of delicately tinted paintings by Hungarian artist Andras Balogh. The story of "Taro-San the Fisherman and the Weeping Willow Tree" was inspired by a traditional storytelling art called "Nankin Tamasudare," in which a bamboo mat is used to represent many different figures in the story. For a visually stunning, multi-cultural reading-storytelling experience, "Taro-San the Fisherman and the Weeping Willow Tree" is an exquisite choice for juvenile audiences age 7 and up."

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