Finding Joy after Sorrow by Beth Carol Solomon

Finding Joy after Sorrow by Beth Carol Solomon

In 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.

This 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.

The 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.

Afterward, is a list of recommended resources available for those facing challenges such as child abuse, sexual abuse, bullying, domestic violence, and special needs individuals.

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.

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ISBN 13	9781039152588
ISBN 10	1039152589
Title	Finding Joy after Sorrow
Author	Beth Carol Solomon
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	FriesenPress
Year published	2022-07-28
Number of pages	240
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