Bøger af Shirley Johnson

John's life shatters in an instant. His life hangs in the balance until he meets Gail, an unassuming young nurses aid at the rehabilitation hospital. With a debilitating brain injury, John struggles to regain his life. His old life is gone forever. Gail helps John to recover and in the midst of both their lives shattering, they find love.

"Pack your pants with 44's!" We catch up with unlikely hero and anxious rebel Ernestine and the gang of remainders, hidden deep in the forest of Southern IL. There they scramble to recover away from the violent government overreach and its weaponized bureaucrats, the Relocators. With help from new friends and a growing cache of weapons and loot, the gang make their stance felt loud and clear in The Water War Episode II

Dark times ahead for Ernestine and her friends as they search for Robert and Pete. The team tries to align with the freedom loving people in the nearby town of Douglass, but only discover a brutal depravity without limit in The Water War Episode III.

In the summer of 1968 Baby Hunnicutt's mama dies and her daddy gives her to her aunt to raise. The only trouble is Aunt Clem works all day and leaves Baby in the hands of her teenage twins. Stoic protector Allen and kind and gentle Jeffrey, along with the help of their best friend, the unwashed and untamed Ed, raise up Baby the best they know how. I Heart Ed Small takes the reader back in time to the late sixties, when adventure and friendship were to be found outside in the hot sun of public pools and the smoky haze of pool halls. It's the story of how one little girl gets three lazy hippie boys to get off the couch, clean up their language, and grow up. I Heart Ed Small is the coming of age story of how Baby Hunnicutt captures the wildest heart from the very beginning and never relinquishes it from her sweet little hand. Just as Baby needs the twins and Ed the most, they leave her life. The Vietnam War, marriage and the call of adventure pull the boys away until the tragic threads of life reunite them all once again.

Two unlikely girls venture out into the real world and are brought together by fate when devout Mary Frances is asked to leave her Catholic school amidst heavy hazing and is sent to live with her Grandmother near the ocean. There she meets the technologically addicted Eleanor who lives all her life online. Eleanor just happens to run one of the most popular classic rock blogs ever and Mary Frances just happens to discover her grandmother's extensive Beatles collection up in the attic. A coming of age story all about Beatles, blogs, and best friends. Where the technologically advanced meets a friend tucked away in the delicate folds of real life.

When the nation's water supply is threatened by flesh eating bacteria, algae, brain eating amoebas, plus drought and government control, the population is relocated into camps in the nation's federal prisons. Ernestine and a small band of neighbors refuse to be relocated and take matters of survival into their own hands. One woman's journey from anxious neurotic to that as leader of a small band of new revolutionaries. The Water War will keep you on the edge of your seat and thirsty for more.

In the small town of Woodard's Star everyone's business is up for discussion. But when Charlie has had enough pressure from her best friend and all her coworkers at the weapons plant to date the wealthiest man in town, she escapes from it all to the back acres of her land and to an old friend from her past. As she lets loose a little, she gives the town even more to talk about as she goes off the beaten path with a roughneck from her childhood. Through bad injuries and broken down trucks, Charlie learns that tanks aren't soft but sometimes tough hearts are. Lock in the hubs on the 4wheel drive, because things are going off-road in Charlie, a Blue Collar Romance.

Baby Small-- the highly anticipated sequel to I Heart Ed Small, continues the love story of Ed and Baby. Baby Small delves deeper into the lives of Ed and Baby as they go against all odds to get married and start a family. Despite small town interference, the threat of the cops, nosy neighbors and a summertime tragedy, Baby and Ed will always seek the love in each others' arms.

When I left my daddy's home as a young woman in the 1960s, I could never have imagined the journey I would take in learning about the power and love of my Holy Father. From small-town living to international traveling, my gifts have allowed me to minister to those in need, including myself and those I love. This is my story of victory in the face of death and adversity. Of how sometimes, we have to leave home to find "home." When I Left My Daddy's House is a testimony, a love story, if you will, and it is my fervent prayer that as I continue to share it and walk in my purpose, that my praise shows you the way to the ultimate creator and keeper of love - The Father!