{"title":"Beth Carol Solomon","description":"Beth Carol Solomon has worked in classified advertising in New York City. She has volunteered her time at the Clove Lakes Nursing Home and at the Silver Lakes Nursing Home for senior citizens, P.S. 16 and WIllowbrook State School for special needs individuals, the Snug Harbor Cultural Center, the Alzheimer's Foundation, and at the Staten Island University Hospital. She has a B.A. in psychology, a B.A. in English, a B.A. in history, a double B.A. in women's studies and sociology, and an M.A. in English. She has graduated with honors, and as magna cum laude and dean's list student. She took adult education classes in bookkeeping, astrology, short-story writing, and computers. She has appeared in several Who's Who publications. She published her first book, Collected Works, which consisted of several personal memoir accounts and two novellas. She had stories and poems published in several anthologies. Her hobbies include reading, writing, country\/Western music, meditation, self-help, creative visualization, and family life. She lives in Staten Island, New York.","products":[{"product_id":"finding-joy-after-sorrow-the-collected-works-of-beth-carol-solomon-paperback","title":"Finding Joy after Sorrow: The Collected Works of Beth Carol Solomon - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn her collected works, Finding Joy After Sorrow, author Beth Carol Solomon explores the impact people have on one another and the courage it takes to overcome adversity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis rerelease of the author's Collected Works-originally published in 2002-contains two parts. The first features true personal accounts, where Beth Carol Solomon fondly writes of people in her life who influenced her, recognizing the important parts they played in her life. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe second part features two novellas, each a story of children with special needs and the adults who strive to help them overcome their demons and learn to love, forgive, and understand themselves and each other. In These Three, a special education teacher with her own troubled past works with three abused teenagers, offering them love and support. In Arlene and Rubin: A Love Story, two young victims of sexual abuse help each other to overcome their dark pasts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfterward, is a list of recommended resources available for those facing challenges such as child abuse, sexual abuse, bullying, domestic violence, and special needs individuals.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67575977050335,"sku":"9781039152588","price":22.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/xCYE8Dkj9_9781039152588.webp?v=1790376842"},{"product_id":"stories-about-mothers-and-their-daughters-and-the-clock-family-paperback","title":"Stories About Mothers and Their Daughters and The Clock Family - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eTouching and original, Stories About Mothers and Their Daughters and the Clock Family is comprised of two parts. In the first, author Beth Carol Solomon, M.A., has written a collection of short stories about the relationships mothers have with their daughters, many of whom have special needs, and their day-to-day lives together. The second part of the book follows the story of the Clocks, a well-mannered, affectionate family, who love each other unconditionally, as they go about their day-to-day lives and, later, deal with the hardship of their matriarch's struggles with dementia and the decisions made around the passing of her life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection embraces both the joys and struggles of family life, mulling over the question of what it means to love someone unconditionally with care. Full of warmth and candor, this collection is well-suited to anyone with a penchant for sentimental fiction about family life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67577988677855,"sku":"9781039121324","price":14.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/AqOEguXoSJ9781039121324.webp?v=1790399548"},{"product_id":"our-daughter-our-love-our-light-our-joy-our-pleasure-heart-of-our-hearts-forever-paperback","title":"Our Daughter: Our Love, Our Light, Our Joy, Our Pleasure, Heart of Our Hearts Forever - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a story about an adolescent girl, Francine Josephine, who was abused by her mentally ill birth mother and lived in the dregs of society for the first ten years of her life. She found warmth, kindness, and happiness with her foster mother and birth father, who immediately fell in love and married. Though shut off from beauty and loved so little in her childhood, she grew up to be an empathetic, altruistic, sensitive, forgiving, thoughtful, and compassionate young woman. Such rarities this girl possesses at such a tender age. For these attributes are not often found in ordinary everyday people for they do not appreciate what life has to offer and who take God's gifts for granted. Francine, always believing in the best of all people, always giving them the benefit of the doubt and second chances, always wanting to please everybody and wanting everyone to be happy, is what she happens to be like. Although knowing her parents were estranged from their siblings, it was Francine who brought them together, thus becoming a tight-knit, close, loving family. When she met her paternal grandparents for the first time, she was warm and kind to her grandfather, who was afflicted with dementia and of whom she had no recollection of. As for her grandmother, whom she was named after, she formed a loving and close bond. She is very curious about other people in her parents' lives that she has never met or who have never knew of her existence but nonetheless thinks of them lovingly and as part of herself and her family. But one day, Social Services informed her that her birth mother wants to see her, which she agrees to do, surmising that maybe this woman had been rehabilitated and was remorseful or at least civil, as it was Francine's nature to be understanding. Unfortunately, nothing came about as she had hoped, and for that she suffered from it. But afterward, does Francine regress back into her shell after these past few years of getting to love and trust people, or does she grow up and accept what had happened to her during that one fateful encounter and become the fine young woman that everyone who knows her portrays her to be?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67607880138975,"sku":"9781664154872","price":21.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/EMTUa6WPO69781664154872.webp?v=1790473889"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/beth-carol-solomon.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}