Ceremony of Innocence
Ceremony of Innocence is Maud’s 30 year labor-of-love, a sweeping love story and thriller depicting San Francisco's glory days as the gay liberation and women's healthcare movements blossomed in the early 1970s.
Ceremony of Innocence is a deeply personal work for Maud, inspired by her real life experience as an out lesbian student activist at Stanford, and her conversations with women who joined the Symbionese Liberation Army that kidnapped Patty Hearst. Nerman knew both the lesbian heroes Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon as well as Camilla Hall and Miz Moon. The latter joined the violent Symbionese Liberation Army and kidnapped Patty Hearst.
Ceremony of Innocence weaves together the stories of three young women who struggle to right history’s wrongs. Steeped in racial violence and civil injustice, America will not go gently into the light. Violence explodes, forcing the women to make life and death choices. She folds her experiences into this page-turning thriller that depicts the battle for the soul of America, back when she believed gay liberation offered the key for justice.
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Blood Evidence
In the late 1990s, one of Nerman’s medical students confided in her about the details of an appalling medical experiment she had been privy to - one that had claimed multiple lives. Unable to right a grievous wrong, Maud turned that information into “Blood Evidence”, a medical thriller set in San Francisco in the 1990s. The story opens with the murder of a renowned physician. Two detectives arrive at the scene with few clues except the manner of the doctor’s death - a brutal form of bloodletting. They soon learn the accomplished doctor was hiding dark secrets - both at the hospital and at home. Plenty of people have reasons to want him dead. When the doctor’s secretary is slaughtered, the detectives must race to find the answer before more medical personnel are killed.
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The Art of Healing
The Art of Healing is part memoir, part healing manual, weaving together tales from throughout Nerman’s life, informed by her forty-two years as a physician. The book draws from the strength and wisdom gifted to her by her ancestors, mentors, lovers, and her thousands of brave patients. In The Art of Healing Nerman reveals what she’s learned about the body’s amazing healing ability, and how love is an essential ingredient. Art of Healing offers hope and tools for all healing.
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