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Troy and his family and friends are five years into their future. Still trying to escape the lifestyle he was born into; Troy tries to navigate his way through relationships and fatherhood.
Troy is a young man trying to navigate his way through the dangerous crime family he was born into--desperately trying to find a way out, all while trying to protect his younger brother.
This book is the first book, first in its series teaching young readers about the fruit of the Spirits in the Bible. This book is a fun way to learn about God's love for us and how to spread His love to all.
Imagine a world where laughter no longer exists, where it has been gone for so long that no one even remembers it. Then one day, as a random ray of sunlight finds its way past the somber, gray clouds and through the window of a delivery room in the Elmer Memorial Hospital, a strange sound is heard reverberating through the hallways. It's coming from Baby Nula, who is making her first appearance in this very serious world. Now imagine what happens next...
One youngster needs help finishing his soap box race car for the race. A new boy moves in across the street, But how can he help... he has crooked legs!
Athena's Legacy is a compelling story about the struggles of a Principal at a small private school in New Jersey. Within the first year of becoming Principal, Athena observes what she perceives as gaps in the educational curriculum. As a result, she embarks on an ambitious plan to add three new courses to the curriculum. The courses are deemed unconventional, even radical, and the novel details her efforts to implement these new courses and embed them in the standard curriculum. She faces opposition at every turn, from parents, teachers, students, and the school board. Occasionally, she finds aid in unexpected places. We follow her life, and the results of her efforts with the students over a twenty-year span.You will be transported to this small private school beginning in 1979, at a time when someone's beliefs could effectuate meaningful change in a small private school atmosphere. The premise of this novel is clever, interesting, and thought-provoking! This essential read will encourage you to reconsider the true potential and purpose of education, and how it can help develop our children.
Stories for My Grandchildren is, for all practical purposes, a collection of brief narratives detailing the life experiences of the author from the time he was three years old until four months after his eighteenth birthday, when he left home and joined the US Air Force.##
What does love look like? What does love feel like? Is love the most attractive man in the room? Is love the man that buys you everything you want? Is love, marriage...is love a slap across the face even when he says he won't do it again? Is love accepting all the lies when you really know the truth? Is love when two hearts meet from across the room without ever saying a word? Is love looking the other way when I know there is another woman? Is love staying with someone through every sickness and tear? Is love walking away from family when family has walked away from you? Is It Really Love? is a phenomenal journey down the pathway of life of one young lady that only wants one thing--it is so hard to find it, but we all want it...we all need it--love.
This is a brief description of what a wasted life really looks like, when your family and daughterdon't even speak to you and you have no one to blame but yourself. So, I decided not only tochange my life but to help other people change their lives also, because It's a hard road totravel all alone.
Yesterday seemed so long ago, and then I remembered. It's in writing, my writings. Growing up in a small northern Michigan town, graduating high school in the mid-fifties, writing has always intrigued me. In my late twenties the opportunity to write a weekly column in the local newspaper was a wonderful gift from the editor. From then on it was a thought here, a memory there; jot it down for later. A sixty-two-year marriage, three sons, two grandchildren, five great-grandchildren, owning and operating a Hallmark shop, raising sheep, living on a small farm what's not to write about? Think of the opportunity to lead our church's choir for twenty-nine years without a formal music education; later becoming a lay speaker in our denomination. I never imagined a book would become a gathering place for my memories. There are a long line of yesterday's, waiting in this book. I hope you'll read and enjoy them with me.
Meet the players:Mike, the protagonist, is a friendly and engaging man who desperately wants to have a loving, or at least friendly relationship with his twenty-two-year-old daughter, Zoe.He also wants to get his life back on track, but frequently gets in his own way.Scotty and Joe are Mike's two best friends since grade school:Scotty was a chubby red-haired kid who was picked on by the school bullies, now an easygoing, affable gent who wanted to be a landscaper but ended up building houses.Joe was the peacemaker; a couple of quiet words from him sent the bullies away, their fists loosened, their sneers faded, their feet dragging. Of the three boys, Joe is the one who realized his dream: he married his high school sweetheart, Kathy, and created a successful business, a bar which they named Joe's Place.Zoe, Mike's twenty-two-year-old daughter, had been programmed by her mother to hate her father. In today's world, she wants nothing to do with him. She's already a senior teller at a local bank, and if rumors are to be believed, in line for a promotion.
While offering only a glimpse into Caribbean novels, it is hoped that the reviews in this book will familiarize readers with some of the region's authors and their works. And that non-regional as well as regional readers will want to search out other outstanding writing from the Caribbean, and become acquainted with the many, many authors and their stories that the region has produced. Chief among these writers are the geniuses, Nobel Laureates, Trinidadian, Sir Vidia Naipaul, and St. Lucian Sir Derek Walcott. Other notable authors are Wilson Harris, George Lamming, Marlon James, Lawrence Scott, Robert Antoni, Monique Roffey, Amanda Smyth, Edwidge Danticat, Maryse Conde, Anthony C. Winkler, Elizabeth Nunez, Olive Senior and Edgar Mittelhozer to name just a few. And among these excellent writers, there may be yet one or two future Nobel Laureates. 'Best West Indian Stories Edited by Dr. Ken Ramchand' is an anthology of short fiction and presents wonderful stories by authors of an older generation. The review of 'Best West Indian Stories' in this book was written and published in the Trinidad Guardian about forty years ago.
Ambre Nicole Dabney is a young woman who grew up in Nova Scotia, Canada. As a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Ambre is preparing to serve an 18-month mission for the Church, and has been called to serve in the Chicago Mission. As with all young men and women who leave home to serve missions, Ambre is full of excitement, fears, expectations, and wonderment at being away from home and serving in a totally different country. Meanwhile, Royce Airyn O'Malley is a vivacious young woman who excells at anything she tries, both academically and personally. However, just weeks before turning sixteen, tragedy strikes her family. Shortly after this tragedy, Royce finds out a shocking truth. When these two meet in one of Chicago's public parks, Ambre in her innocence and excitement, just wants to share the gospel with Royce. But Royce is jaded and street-wise now. Will Ambre's enthusiasm about the gospel help Royce find the peace and happiness she is so desperately needing? Or will Royce's life from the past five years come back to cause trouble for both of them?
Four individuals from four different countries experience their unique trials as young people caught up in the struggles and tragedies of the 2nd World War. Each has their own story of determination and courage leading to a common goal of survival and repair in dealing with their own circumstances. Each will reach a place of challenge and growth to find love and family. Some paths will cross but it is the result of their persistence and strength that the future will bring them all together in a strange land. These are stories of immigration, and opportunity, celebrating their legacy.
Olgen Williams traces his dramatic journey from embittered, drug-using Vietnam veteran tonationally acclaimed neighborhood activist and deputy mayor of Indianapolis, Indiana. His suddenmiraculous orientation from drugs and despair to faith and freedom will inspire all thoseconcerned with the social and personal costs and consequences of illegal drugs anddrug-related crime. In December 2002, for his crime of having stolen less than eleven dollarswhile serving as a postal worker in 1971, Olgen Williams received one of seven pardonsgranted by President George W. Bush. Today, Olgen Williams is firmly grounded in family,faith, and neighborhood in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he served for thirteen years as directorof Christamore House, a community center in the settlement house tradition. He haspioneered and nurtured many programs--ranging from carpentry to theater, from communitypolicing to parenting and seniors programming--that serve the diverse needs of a multiethnic inner-city neighborhood. His book is not only the story of an extraordinary life-in-progress but alsoa working handbook for neighborhood activism and transformation.
Tood and his family have been collecting weird junk for years in the land of Between. The Fourland Storms deposit junk all over. Most of it is helpful for his mundane life. A junkman's job can be downright miserable and degrading. You see, the citizens of Between only know Tood as a trashy junker. There are a few good times. It is a fine day when he comes home and experiences savory aromas dancing throughout the air of the estate or when he uncovers a treasure that makes his entire season. Unraveling a rare find can change a life forever. Through a routine, yet amazing discover, Tood's unexpected adventure begins.
Ashton Fontaine and Skylar Cranston have known each other all of their lives. Their families are practically inseparable. Skylar has loved him since she was a child, but the inevitable trials of life seem to always be standing in their way. But even heartache and loss cannot keep the two of them apart. With a little time, exploration, family antics, and a dash of an ancestral mystery though, they finally have to open their eyes to the possibilities that they can no longer fight their destiny to be together.
This book shows my values, my mischievous ways, my discernment, my trust and distrust, how I listened to my mom, how I wanted to be like my mom and dad, how I looked like my mom and acted like my dad, how I am not jealous of anyone, how I love traveling and adventures, and how women can get caught up in men's messes. Some of the names were changed to protect the individuals.
Are you a member of a book club whose book you have never read?The Bible is the best-selling book of all time. It adorns coffee tables and church pews. We swear on it in court and politicians take their oaths of office on it, yet few have actually read the Bible in its entirety and even fewer rightly divide and apply it.However, what is most troubling are the ones who say that their beliefs and practices are based upon the eternal truths of the Bible, but nothing can be further from the truth as those beliefs and practices are cultural derivations that are contrary to the God revealed in the Bible.Furthermore, if the Bible is properly interpreted and applied, it is a book of unity and not division for we are all equal before God in creation, we are equal before God in sin, and we are equal before God in salvation.This book has taken some of the most divisive and hotly debated topics of the day and run them through the prism of the Bible. The primary source of this book is the Bible. Therefore, this book is replete in scriptures from the Bible. Please take self-assessments in each chapter to determine if what you believe and practice aligns with the dictates and directives of the scriptures. For those who are unbelievers, please take into serious consideration what the Bible teaches about the person, promise, and power of Christ, not the misrepresentations of the Christ of culture. For those who consider themselves believers, truly honor and worship Him by realigning and recalibrating your beliefs and practices in accordance with the dictates and directives of the scriptures as indicated.But be aware that God in His foreknowledge knew that we would fail to live up to His standard of righteousness; therefore, Christ is the Lamb of God slain before the foundation of the world. So since all have sinned and fall short of God's glory, this is not a book about us versus them. This is not a book of condemnation, exclusion, and hate. This is a book of justification, inclusivity, and love for we are all equal before God in creation, equal before God in sin, and equal before God in salvation.The good news is no matter who we are or what we have done, God extends His mercy, grace, and love through faith alone in His Son and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ because righteousness could have been obtained by us being good enough, then Christ died in vain. We obtain right standing before God by believing what He has said in the Bible is true.The Lord Jesus Christ said in John 16:33, "These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world." Therefore, we can have peace and cheer in the midst of life's storms by trusting and depending on the person, promise, and power of Christ. Faith in Him gives the power to have victory over the world.It is this faith that hews hope out of the mountain of life's many despairs. It is this faith the size of a mustard seed that can move what appears to be insurmountable mountains of this life. It is this faith in the Christ revealed in the Bible--which is salvation--and not the faith revealed in culture--which is idolatry--that gives us power to overcome the world as we lie confidently each day and look resolutely forward with hope to a new heaven and a new earth.You see when you have the faith that overcomes the world, you have the power to be in the world but not of the world. You see when you have the faith that overcomes the world, you have power to resist the devil, and he will flee from you. You see when you have the faith that overcomes the world, you have the power to do all things through Christ who strengthens you. You see when you have the faith that overcomes the world, you have the power to live life above the circumstances. You see when you have the faith that overcomes
Dimmy is a star that does not shine. He is belittled by other stars and finds his own shine through the magic of Christmas.
This book was created out of love for God and poetry. It teaches the alphabet in a poetic way using rhymes and illustrations of biblical history and ideology. The author's hope is that questions will arise from the curiosity of children that parents can answer for their children, bringing them closer in a relationship with Jesus Christ.
FBI special agent Jessie Ridge and her skilled team work together to solve several new murder cases in Venton, Iowa. Things become dangerous when a corrupted senator is discovered operating a scam. All this happens as she tries to overcome her past before joining the bureau.
The world of Richken is growing darker with evil growing ever increasingly in the hearts andminds of its inhabitants. The gods of good and light are deeply concerned that soon all will belost, and evil will dominate this once beautiful world. They agree that to take action themselveswill only cause the gods of darkness to work that much harder in influencing the beings andcreatures of Richken. What they need is a hero. A hero that is identifiable to all, not just thehumans, or the elves. A hero that cannot be tainted and will fight with his all to defend everybeing of Richken and to insure justice and peace. They enlist the aid of Nadeth, an ancientand wise Northern elf to help guide Arkan along his path.
David Xu ran for US Senate from PA in the GOP primary during 2021 and 2022. He ran on ashoestring budget and a prayer. There were many angry and hilarious voters along the way inthe story who helpfully inform Dave that he is dumb, ugly, and lazy. He fights for limitedgovernment and the original US constitution. Government is too big, costly, corrupt, andabusive. Most laws passed by the RINOs and Democrats are unconstitutional, socialist,communist, anti-American, or just plain dumb. We need more God, Jesus, the Bible, andlimited government to make America great again
My hope for this book is that people will educate themselves and young LGBT people willRealize that they are not alone, especially in the mountains of southeastern Kentucky or anyarea of this small planet. Hopefully there will be an awakening in part all over the world aboutequality and human rights. The heinous murders of people like Allen Schindler in Sasebo,Japanese Navy man who gave his life to be who he was, forever changed me. I plead that youread this book with an open heart and mind! People around the world face violence andinequality" and sometimes torture, even execution because of who they love, how theylook or who they are. Sexual orientation and identity of gender are integral aspects of ourselves and should never lead to discrimination or abuse against anyone.
The Last Hanging in Ripley is a historical novel about the brief, troubled life of John F. Morgan, an uneducated farmhand.Based in rural Appalachia in the late 1800s, the book offers a fascinating account of a disturbed young man who gruesomely ended three precious lives one early autumn morning.The family innocently woke that morning, sharing the belief that Morgan was a trusted friend. But unfortunately, this quickly turned to disbelief and horror as their so-called friend brutally struck them down one by one as they went about their farm chores.Why did he do it? What would cause Morgan, a newlywed and loving father, to slay his hunting buddy viciously, his longtime mother figure, and the young woman who had once embraced him with his first kiss?Did monetary greed lead to their demise, as the local inhabitants have surmised for over a century? Perhaps some other motive led this young man to carry out his horrific crime.The author introduces us to the realistic aspects of farm life in West Virginia in the 1890s as he weaves the details about the private side of John Morgan's life and a glimpse into the public spectacle of his death.
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