Bøker av T J Banks

"Land has memory," Dr. Mullen tells his old friend, artist Grace Tyne. She learns the truth of those words when she inherits her godmother's home. The house and the grounds are holding on to one memory in particular: the alleged suicide of a young woman there a few years earlier. The otherworldly happenings that follow lead Grace to question many things...including the wisdom of taking on a place that is already possessed.Drawn into the mystery surrounding the girl's death, Grace receives unexpected help from two kindred souls -- an elderly neighbor and Moonlight, a telepathic Abyssinian cat. Through them, she learns that the world is indeed full of magic, not all of it good, and that ghosts may take many shapes. And that this inherited place of memories may still have the capacity to forget....

Wanting to "make a difference," young Iris Amory joins the Red Cross as a nurse and finds herself serving in a hospital over in France during World War I.Iris gets her heart broken open -- once or twice (at least) -- by it all and is transformed by the horror around her, becoming a strong, compassionate woman and an inspiration to Dawn Kailey, the young journalist she tells her story to.

We all have stories to tell. Sketch People is a collection of stories about people-their work, their passions, and their experiences. In this compilation by T. J. Banks, a woman tells the story of a message she received from an old family friend following the death of her late mother's dog. Another woman, a cancer survivor, recounts her long and complex journey from geologist to master gardener to environmental and safety engineer to goat's-milk soap maker. An actor and playwright talks about the inner workings of his craft, while actress Tippi Hedren reflects not on her film career but on her work with the wild cats of the Shambala refuge in Acton, California. The collection also includes an affectionate tribute to the late writer and activist Cleveland Amory, who more than lived up to his personal philosophy of "simply to be kind." Each sketch brings us a little closer to understanding how these particular folks got where they were going and what transformed them along the way- each person has a spark, a tale worth telling. "T. J. Banks offers interesting 'sketches' of writers, artists, photographers and others in Sketch People, highlighting passions, ideologies and historical accounts of each person's true story in her impacting and emotionally driven style." -Patricia Spork, Sporkette Gazette