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Books are a must but on top of the head you can trust they'll be on a charm school girl. Graduate ahead of the class with the Charm School Girls! The Primrose School of Charm isn't easy as these eight young girls soon find out. They must learn a lesson on how to behave like proper young women. Join the girls for a charm school lesson you'll never forget!

Books are a must but on top of the head you can trust they'll be on a charm school girl. Graduate ahead of the class with the Charm School Girls! The Primrose School of Charm isn't easy as these eight young girls soon find out. They must learn a lesson on how to behave like proper young women. Join the girls for a charm school lesson you'll never forget!

Books are a must but on top of the head you can trust they'll be on a charm school girl. Graduate ahead of the class with the Charm School Girls! The Primrose School of Charm isn't easy as these eight young girls soon find out. They must learn a lesson on how to behave like proper young women. Join the girls for a charm school lesson you'll never forget!

A SACKFUL OF QUARTERS is a collection of short stories set throughout the twelve months of the year. Each story is a seasonal account of one particular character's life experience. The glue that holds them all together is that each woman or girl originally perceives herself through familial or societal eyes, and comes to a better understanding of who she really is as a result of the incidents that occur within the story.

January: FRESH SLATE, USED CHALK
This story recounts the liberation of the abused wife of a prominent doctor, and how she leaves him only to discover that she is immediately drawn to an individual who, although outwardly the complete opposite of her husband, has the potential to do her harm. How she deals with the revelation establishes the foundation for a new life filled with promise.

FEBRUARY: ETUDE FOR A WINTER'S AFTERNOON
A fifth grade girl spends the Valentine season learning about unselfish love and class prejudice in this fifties piece set in Chicago neighborhood. The great melting pot is not as advertised. The reflection she sees in the mirror is not necessarily how others view her and she has miles to go before she sleeps.

MARCH: ERIN GO BRAUGH!
A prostitute in a seedy motel considers how she came to such an end. She recalls how she started out with high expectations and remembers her first real love, a mechanic in the town garage. She comes to terms with her past finally resolving the conflicts that caused her fall.

APRIL: GOT THOSE AIN'T WHERE YOU ARE, PARK BENCH BLUES
Once great blues singer, Jonna Knight finds herself past seventy, penniless and at the bottom of the barrel, living homeless on the streets of New York City. After spending the night under a blanket of newspapers on a Central Park bench, she encounters aspiring songstress Mona. The young Jewess joins her after dropping her portfolio, scattering its invaluable contents in the early morning wind.

Mona vents her frustrations, almost oblivious of the old black woman who seems most interested in her diatribe. She's tired of "paying her dues", exhausted from daily rejections from prospective employers more concerned with her obvious ethnicity than her talent, and depressed enough to call it quits and retreat to the comfort of her affluent home. A morning chat with the legendary vocalist teaches her an invaluable lesson and earns her a surprise to boot.

MAY: BLOSSOM TIME FOR MAUDE ROSE
Maude Rose, a spinster who spent the fruitful years of her twenties and thirties traveling the globe with her widower father, enjoys an early summer evening on the porch with her gentleman caller. They sip lemonade. She offers him cookies, shares gossip and makes observations about the flawlessly beautiful but barren apple tree in her front yard. Her caller never speaks, but as Maude Rose rambles on his silence reveals some meaningful insights about herself and others in their small Southern community.

JUNE: GEMINI WITH SCORPIO RISING
Twins, one plain and one fair, come to terms with their individuality in the liberated seventies. They are both dating the same man who is equally attracted to them for different reasons. As the story unfolds, the plain sister falls deeply in love, and her beautiful counterpart learns something about her own emergent sexuality that she is both frightened and eager to share with her twin.

JULY: AN ANATOMY OF THE AMERICAN DREAM GONE ASKEW
A newlywed in June, pregnant in July, and far too soon for a yuppie husband who has their storybook life planned down to the last white picket in the fence that will surround their custom built house. But times have changed, and she's come a long way baby, to where it is supposed to be the woman who decides what happens to her body and all it contains or have they?

AUGUST: HOT FUN IN THE SUMMER TIME
Young lovers meet in a bakery where the high school senior has taken an after school job. Tom is a scuffler who dropped out of school, and Wendy is an honor student with hopes of college and career. They date amid the "beach blanket" frivolity of the sixties, and she comes to love the conscientious, noble lad who kept his kid brother innocent while he shielded him from the realities of a whoring mother. Times get rough and we get to see first hand just what offspring of children of the depression learned from their conscientious parents.

SEPTEMBER: THOSE WHO CAN, DO
Maggie, a beloved school teacher in her late thirties, and a survivor of anorexia fails in an attempt to attract an eligible bachelor that all her friends think is perfect for her. She stands on the brink of a relapse that could cost her life. After struggling with and overcoming an almost insurmountable challenge, someone from her past arrives with a new chance for happiness.

OCTOBER: A TIME FOR EVERY PURPOSE
The strength of a woman is evidenced in this tale of Sarah Taylor, a black God fearing Christian who raises her granddaughter's child after the wanton girl is murdered in a ghetto killing. This occurrence tests her deep rooted faith and readers witness her struggle and eventual submission to her maker’s will for her life.

NOVEMBER: TESTIMONY AND THANKSGIVING
By way of a touching essay, a niece bears witness to the impact her childless aunt had on entire family to whom she was heart and soul. Unimposing, mostly uneducated and not wealthy by the world's standards, the woman validated those around her with unqualified acceptance and encouraging words. The value of such a woman is weighed by one who loved

DECEMBER: INTERMISSION RIFF WITH MISTLETOE
A middle class housewife and part time sales clerk discovers there is more to life than kinder, kuchen and kirken when she comes in contact with a smooth lounge singer in a neighborhood bar. Their brief affair leaves her feeling more certain of her intelligence and appeal than she has in years. The encounter teaches the itinerant piano man that home and family should come first. Both share a memory that neither time nor consequence can erase.

A SACKFUL OF QUARTERS is a collection of short stories set throughout the twelve months of the year. Each story is a seasonal account of one particular character's life experience. The glue that holds them all together is that each woman or girl originally perceives herself through familial or societal eyes, and comes to a better understanding of who she really is as a result of the incidents that occur within the story.

January: FRESH SLATE, USED CHALK
This story recounts the liberation of the abused wife of a prominent doctor, and how she leaves him only to discover that she is immediately drawn to an individual who, although outwardly the complete opposite of her husband, has the potential to do her harm. How she deals with the revelation establishes the foundation for a new life filled with promise.

FEBRUARY: ETUDE FOR A WINTER'S AFTERNOON
A fifth grade girl spends the Valentine season learning about unselfish love and class prejudice in this fifties piece set in Chicago neighborhood. The great melting pot is not as advertised. The reflection she sees in the mirror is not necessarily how others view her and she has miles to go before she sleeps.

MARCH: ERIN GO BRAUGH!
A prostitute in a seedy motel considers how she came to such an end. She recalls how she started out with high expectations and remembers her first real love, a mechanic in the town garage. She comes to terms with her past finally resolving the conflicts that caused her fall.

APRIL: GOT THOSE AIN'T WHERE YOU ARE, PARK BENCH BLUES
Once great blues singer, Jonna Knight finds herself past seventy, penniless and at the bottom of the barrel, living homeless on the streets of New York City. After spending the night under a blanket of newspapers on a Central Park bench, she encounters aspiring songstress Mona. The young Jewess joins her after dropping her portfolio, scattering its invaluable contents in the early morning wind.

Mona vents her frustrations, almost oblivious of the old black woman who seems most interested in her diatribe. She's tired of "paying her dues", exhausted from daily rejections from prospective employers more concerned with her obvious ethnicity than her talent, and depressed enough to call it quits and retreat to the comfort of her affluent home. A morning chat with the legendary vocalist teaches her an invaluable lesson and earns her a surprise to boot.

MAY: BLOSSOM TIME FOR MAUDE ROSE
Maude Rose, a spinster who spent the fruitful years of her twenties and thirties traveling the globe with her widower father, enjoys an early summer evening on the porch with her gentleman caller. They sip lemonade. She offers him cookies, shares gossip and makes observations about the flawlessly beautiful but barren apple tree in her front yard. Her caller never speaks, but as Maude Rose rambles on his silence reveals some meaningful insights about herself and others in their small Southern community.

JUNE: GEMINI WITH SCORPIO RISING
Twins, one plain and one fair, come to terms with their individuality in the liberated seventies. They are both dating the same man who is equally attracted to them for different reasons. As the story unfolds, the plain sister falls deeply in love, and her beautiful counterpart learns something about her own emergent sexuality that she is both frightened and eager to share with her twin.

JULY: AN ANATOMY OF THE AMERICAN DREAM GONE ASKEW
A newlywed in June, pregnant in July, and far too soon for a yuppie husband who has their storybook life planned down to the last white picket in the fence that will surround their custom built house. But times have changed, and she's come a long way baby, to where it is supposed to be the woman who decides what happens to her body and all it contains or have they?

AUGUST: HOT FUN IN THE SUMMER TIME
Young lovers meet in a bakery where the high school senior has taken an after school job. Tom is a scuffler who dropped out of school, and Wendy is an honor student with hopes of college and career. They date amid the "beach blanket" frivolity of the sixties, and she comes to love the conscientious, noble lad who kept his kid brother innocent while he shielded him from the realities of a whoring mother. Times get rough and we get to see first hand just what offspring of children of the depression learned from their conscientious parents.

SEPTEMBER: THOSE WHO CAN, DO
Maggie, a beloved school teacher in her late thirties, and a survivor of anorexia fails in an attempt to attract an eligible bachelor that all her friends think is perfect for her. She stands on the brink of a relapse that could cost her life. After struggling with and overcoming an almost insurmountable challenge, someone from her past arrives with a new chance for happiness.

OCTOBER: A TIME FOR EVERY PURPOSE
The strength of a woman is evidenced in this tale of Sarah Taylor, a black God fearing Christian who raises her granddaughter's child after the wanton girl is murdered in a ghetto killing. This occurrence tests her deep rooted faith and readers witness her struggle and eventual submission to her maker’s will for her life.

NOVEMBER: TESTIMONY AND THANKSGIVING
By way of a touching essay, a niece bears witness to the impact her childless aunt had on entire family to whom she was heart and soul. Unimposing, mostly uneducated and not wealthy by the world's standards, the woman validated those around her with unqualified acceptance and encouraging words. The value of such a woman is weighed by one who loved

DECEMBER: INTERMISSION RIFF WITH MISTLETOE
A middle class housewife and part time sales clerk discovers there is more to life than kinder, kuchen and kirken when she comes in contact with a smooth lounge singer in a neighborhood bar. Their brief affair leaves her feeling more certain of her intelligence and appeal than she has in years. The encounter teaches the itinerant piano man that home and family should come first. Both share a memory that neither time nor consequence can erase.

In our community, hair is an important aspect of the external appearance. Even though other areas are explored, girls and their hair are central.

This book also allows adults to reminiscence about times past when fun was doing the simple things in life and these made you happy.

Another book in the near future will be written about boys.

In our community, hair is an important aspect of the external appearance. Even though other areas are explored, girls and their hair are central.

This book also allows adults to reminiscence about times past when fun was doing the simple things in life and these made you happy.

Another book in the near future will be written about boys.

What if a young, inspired woman sneaks into a Catholic seminary, disguised as a man and becomes a priest? What if her approach to the priesthood is so refreshingly unorthodox that the Vatican, not knowing her gender, elects her Pope? This whimsical and at times hilarious look at the Catholic churchturned upside down by a single determined woman is sure to delight the religious as well as the nonreligious, Catholics and non-Catholics, and most particularly women. It is written 'For children, young and old and for women, brave and bold....' in rhyming couplets. It is a fast, delightful read illustrated by the colorful artwork of Georgia artist James Dean.