Books with author Donna Taylor

When a young woman walking in a strange forest falls into a deep pit, she must draw upon her childhood stories and a curious dream for strength and direction.Since she was a girl, Sara had been told amazing stories by her mother about heaven, Earth, and the rainbow bridge. This bridge is the actual connector between heaven and Earth that animals must cross to enter heaven. Each morning, her mother brushes her hair, sparks her imagination with a new part of the story, and then ties back her hair with a pink silk ribbon. Sara develops the habit of removing the ribbon and tying it on animals she finds who have passed away in the woods, fields, and beach near her home. She says to the animal, “I send you with some of my love to protect you, help you see clearly, and find your way home to the rainbow bridge.”Now, Sara lies at the bottom of a muddy hole, crying for help. All of those animals are in heaven with Sara’s father, listening to her hopeless desperation. They are crowded onto the bridge, looking over the edge, and they will do anything to help her. They tie together all of their ribbons to create a rope, lower it from heaven to Earth, and lift her out of the pit to safety. This is a story of how Sara’s simple acts of kindness find their way back to her.

From film stars to politicians, tycoons to writers, dissidents to lifestyle gurus, Lunch with the FT is a selection of classic interviews conducted in the unforgiving proximity of a restaurant table. The list of people who have had Lunch with the FT since 1994 reads like an international Who's Who of our times. Meet the rich and famous, the weird and the brilliant, the brave and the virtuous, brought to you by the Financial Times' global network of columnists and correspondents. The operative word is lunch: this book brings you right to the table to decide what you think of Angela Merkel or Martin Amis, George Soros or Sean "P Diddy" Combs, Angelina Jolie or Jimmy Carter. Meet not just oligarchs and royals, but the tycoon who will pay African presidents to quit, and one of the Arab world's most notorious sons. Also included are James Ferguson's famous illustrations in black and white. Lionel Barber, editor of the Financial Times, has steered the newspaper to three Newspaper of the Year awards. He has co-written several books, lectured widely, and appears regularly on international TV and radio. Barber graduated in 1978 from St Edmund Hall, Oxford University. In 2009 he was awarded the St George Society medal of honour. A long time FT foreign correspondent in Washington, Brussels and New York, he is also a member of the Board of Trustees at the Tate.

My name is Donna Ray. I was born in 1950, grew up in Detroit Michigan, and attended Detroit Public Schools. I fell in love with books after my first trip to the school library, and after that, I read everything that I could get my hands on; even my Dads hunting and fishing magazines. My Dad told me that if I could read, I could learn about anything, and go anywhere, in a book, and I love to learn new things. By the time I was in Middle School, I knew that I wanted to be a writer. After High School, I married and raised three children, who love to read. I now have grandchildren, and my youngest grandchild, who is 11 years old, and also loves to read, has decided to become an author and has written several short stories of her own! I have learned that sometimes life can get in the way of our dreams, but to never stop dreaming. Through prayer and trust in GOD, we can accomplish anything. We can even move mountains! (Mark 11:23 King James Bible).