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Henry Valdez was born in Houston, Texas, on May 25, 1950. He moved to the small town of Kokomo, Indiana, at the age of sixteen years. He graduated from Kokomo High School in January 1968 and enlisted in the US Navy in January 1969. He was discharged honorably in December 1976 from active duty and rejoined the US Navy Reserves in January 1981, where he served until 1991. He was honorably discharged and settled in Louisville, Kentucky. He attended Watterson College of Business, where he earned his associate's degree in business. He married his wonderful wife, Sandra K. Pilkerton, on April 9, 1971. They have two children, Steven and Stephanie; two grandchildren, Robbie and Sadie; and one great-grandchild, Skylar Michael Valdez. Henry retired from Toyota Motors Manufacturing, Georgetown, Kentucky, on August 16, 2013, and decided to write short stories with all the spare time on his hands. He worked many part-time jobs after retirement until he found valeting cars was where his heart lay. People love to talk, and Henry loves to listen to their stories. He lives in the city of Louisville, which is known for its kindness and generosity.
Veronica and Susan are two young women who met when they were four years old in preschool who could understand each other without speaking. Being young, they thought everyone could do what they did. As they got older, they realize that they were the only ones who could. Susan became a lawyer and Veronica owned a world-famous event-planning and catering company. Veronica is Black and Susan is White; they become best friends until Susan's untimely death in the hands of a man she thought loved her. Even after death, by some twist of fate, they were still able to talk to each other.
Author Richard Kramer's From a Simple Man asks you to imagine. Imagine suddenly having moments of the most beautiful peace come upon you. Moments of joy where everything within you, that was troubling you, suddenly feels as though it is taken away, leaving behind the most amazing quietness. Imagine yourself having reoccurring moments where the softness of your tears were an expression of saying "thank you." Imagine every time you felt that kind of joy, there came with it a message that was to be told. This is a true picture of a tried, tested and broken man of God who the Lord revealed Himself to in very unique ways. The Simple Man obeyed and wrote what he saw."...definitely for the spiritually mature. It is thought provoking and convincing..." - LORRY COX - WORD OF LIFE OUTREACH MINISTRIES"...spiritually enlightening and very moving. This book actually gave me chills..." - SANDY LOTZ"...I found it filled with life that can only come from our Heavenly Father..." - STEVE KRAMER"...an encouraging testimony of how Christ is using another brother to serveothers..." - STAFFORD & SUE HARDER"...a warm feeling overcame me while reading this book." - JOYCE GROFFEO
This is the story of a Vietnam Vet who becomes a Doctor. The story will take the reader through the experiences of one man's journey through the Beatitudes. It was 5 A.M, the alarm was sounding like a bullhorn going off in his room. Josh looked out his window. Last night he graduated from Med. school and was looking forward to what life had in store, then his mind went back to Vietnam, he could see the rice paddy, hear his men's screaming going through his ears as if it were happening right below him. He was receiving his degree that day and would become the doctor he wished he was when his men were dying in that paddy. Yet he felt a sense of guilt. Why did he survive and some of his men did not?
We must ask ourselves about what is happening in our world today and where is humanity headed. Extinction? Certainly not in a time frame that anyone living today could possibly imagine. But we can look to the long-ago past and the present as our window into the possible far-off future. What can we see through that window? The book paints a landscape of events occurring today that are disturbing. It tells how we have been treating our Mother Earth since we arrived on the scene and how she is responding. We have not been kind siblings.
When the DEA raids Jake Grummond's dairy in the wee hours of an August morning they find no drugs but they devastate the dairy and turn Jake's wife into a basket case. With little help from the legal system, Jake takes the hunt for who falsely fingered him, into his own hands. County Sheriff C.W. Blakenship also tries to unravel the reason for the ill-fated raid. They keep meeting, locked in a dance neither acknowledges, as their hunts reach an explosive climax neither foresaw.
In the short span of Dr. Elizabeth James-Akpojosevbe's Christian life, she has discovered that many people generally do not know why they were created. Each one of us has a purpose designed for our life by God. Man does not exist by chance. Many believe life is about growing up, going to school, getting married, and getting a job and/or starting a business. However, Elizabeth has discovered in the course of her walk with God that each one of us has been given a glorious destiny.Predestination: The Christian Experience is an insight into discovering the essence of being. Until one walks with God, one cannot discover that unique destiny that has been allotted to each. Hence a lot of people live drifting with the tide of life without meaning and direction. This book is unique because this topic is seldom addressed even in Christendom. Anyone who reads this book will find it compelling to know what their purpose in life is. It will draw people to God and will drive them to seek to know more about Him. The book will also enable the reader to re-order his priorities and be purposeful about their decisions for progress in life.
Many people would like their work more. As a result, your typical workweek behavior may spiral from the Monday morning blues to hump day Wednesday to living for Friday. It's a struggle to check the clock throughout the day continually. But there has to be another way. Instead, start with a scripture-each-employment day from Win at Work. This encouraging devotional with years' worth of wise and inspiring insights and expertise from ministers and pastors will undoubtedly bring you the absolute joy experienced by a camel on Wednesday or at the end of your workday on Friday. You may work a forty-hour week and spend one hundred thousand hours laboring over a lifetime. Yet, you desire to put your best foot forward at your new job and achieve a rewarding career; you want to excel and grow. You are a person of vision and dreams. You want more out of our 1106 job. You want something unique and excellent in your life. But, most of all, you want God's blessing in your life. You spend the more significant part of your life working, so wouldn't it be great to win at work and faithfully press toward your work goals, equip, and uplift yourself?-To find absolute truth about work and greater job satisfaction.-To bond you to promises that link you to fast-tracking your work goals.-To pray for success to reveal how serious you are about your goals.-To spend time in God's Word and find deeper meaning daily.
Santa's reindeer are all ill. Santa may have to cancel Christmas. A moose named Michael comes to the rescue. He helps Santa deliver the Christmas presents. Along the way Santa learns about the true meaning of Christmas.
Words leave a lasting impression on us that greatly exceeds their dictionary definition. Words Matter explores the significance of words through a collection of short stories, essays, and quotations that reveal serious thought, emotion, and laughter. The collection covers a wide variety of subjects, including philosophy, climate, our animal friends, and all the things that make life beautiful.
Information is totally important no matter what you are involved in. When I decided to become a singer I just jumped in. I was blessed in getting a great voice teacher, but you can really be in trouble when you get a bad teacher and have your throat damaged and your hopes destroyed. I wrote this book to give prospective singers information which will help you on your road to success.
If life's adversities could be accurately measured or by some extraordinary mechanism the pressure exerted by tribulation were quantifiable, the turmoil experienced by author Dorothy Nyabadza would easily read a warping 9.0 on the hardship Richter scale. The book Justice to The Tent, A Triumphant Breast Cancer Walk not only allows you to travail a real cancer journey, it also highlights the undeniable benefits of God's loving presence when pain, difficulty, and bad news loom. You will gain a better understanding of the daily perplexities experienced by a breast cancer patient and amass mind transforming revelations on the reality associated with fighting life-threatening diseases. More importantly, however, is the real life testament that with God on your side, nothing is impossible. Your faith will enlarge and your zeal for living will be rejuvenated as you see God's faithfulness and the beauty of His grace.
Ever thought you would like to own a casino? Be careful what you wish for.A young couple inherit a small offbeat casino and lodge. It also comes with being cursed. They both come equipped with casino backgrounds. As they work with restrictions to operate and make this casino profitable, they experience several curses-one deadly. They try everything within their power to defeat the curses before it is too late.¿It is either destroy the curses, give up the casino, or die trying.
Max had it all: A promising career, a loving mother and a gorgeous girlfriend. But everything changed when he had an accident. His girlfriend, whom he wanted to marry, dumped him because he is now a "cripple". The career path that Max wanted to take is now nowhere in sight. What will he do succumb to mental presure and depression OR get up lick his wounds and prove to all that despite everything he has what it takes to climb to the top.
A Baker's Dozen is a gripping story of a husband, wife and their thirteen children. Escaping some legal trouble in Texas, the husband, Chet, would hide in Mobile, Alabama and come back once or twice a year to see his family. Gambling to make a living while he was in hiding, he left the farm in the hands of his wife, Ann, and their thirteen children, who farmed the land, tended the cattle, and canned the produce. The farm is Texas was a Christian home, and the mom saw that the children went to church every Sunday and did what they were supposed to do-all but one child. the eldest son, with troubles of his own from mustard gas poisoning, ran the farm, helped with finances with the bank, saw that the boys did the hunting and made sure the family had what they needed. This baker's dozen had many ups and downs, which are brought to life in this historical fiction by author, Marjorie Mogonye.
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