Mrs May's Tea and Toast
A Harrington Family Story
Published on 9. January 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
340 pages
978-0-6480250-3-0 (ISBN)
Description
A beautiful story of hope, love, friendship, the great love that changes everything and what happens to the secrets we leave behind
All I know is I have to be more than this person who can't face the daylight or remember to put on pants.
Life was supposed to be easier, Ainsley was supposed to have her life together by now, instead she's buried at the bottom of a bottomless pit, trying to find her way out. And she had to move back home with her parents.
Ainsley rediscovers the healing beauty of family and the kindness of friendship. Mrs May will save Ainsley in more ways she could dream and Ainsley will do more than she could ever have imagined.
She doesn't expect her new dreams to come with broken and brash Christian Harrington. But underneath the Armani suit and the pinched brow is a beautiful man who only wants to love her. Together they will travel to the otherside of the world to solve the puzzle and the secrets Mrs May leaves behind.
An action packed, emotional story of second chances and grabbing hold of life with everything you have.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Australia
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
553 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-6480250-3-0 (9780648025030)
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Tamara Martin is originally from Cincinnati, Ohio. She and her husband moved to Northern Arizona in 1999 to work at Sage Hospital in Ganado, on the Navajo Nation (an area the size of West Virginia). During their five year stay, Tamara saw a huge need to help stray, abandoned, injured and sick animals. Dog carcasses littered the sides of busy highways and every grocery store/gas station had a pack of strays who survived on tourist handouts. She found other people in the area who were trying to save animals by themselves and they formed a non-profit group, Blackhat Humane Society. The group is still thriving and remains a foster home-based rescue.
Tamara came up with the idea of a book for Navajo children that focuses on the life of one dog and how it can change very quickly. She felt that a Navajo illustrator was crucial to the project so she contacted Ernest John who provided the brightly colored pencil sketches for the book.
Today, Tamara lives in St. Johns, Arizona, and has started a second foster-based rescue named Good Dog Rez-Q. The organization not only focuses on Reservation land but the rural areas that surround it. Animals stay in foster care for a minimum of six weeks while they are vaccinated, dewormed, socialized and treated for existing medical conditions. Using social media and networking with other rescues, potential adopters are screened and home visits made. In 2018, the group took in over 400 animals; saved from highways, convenience stores and tourist overlooks. The Navajo Nation has made many positive changes for animals since Bluebird was written. There is now a Tribal mobile clinic that goes to small towns to spay/neuter. Rescue groups and mobile clinics from Durango, Denver and Phoenix frequently come to help by doing spay/neuter and taking litters of puppies (and their moms) from Navajo Animal Control into foster care back home.
Tamara has a dream that one day there will be a Navajo Nation Humane Society with veterinarians and hundreds of caring volunteers to help the staff find solutions for dogs, cats, horses and sheep who are no long valued. She is waiting.