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In this personal memoir, the author shares engaging stories about being a latch-key kid growing up in the American Midwest during the 1930s and `40s. Her father, `shellshocked' in World War I, had a dramatic impact on the family. Her mother, as a single parent, raised her through the hardships of the Great Depression. Janet grows from a lonely child to a twenty-year old mother, and blossoms into a complex woman who has uncommon experiences with family, friends, work, travel, health, and her sixty-five years of marriage to one man.

The Challenge is a contest about being self- sufficient and living off the land for five years. The cast of characters come together in many unsuspecting ways. This is a journey that takes many twists and turns on its way to a competition winner and surprising destination. The competition is a story based on true grit and living a life from days gone by in a modern world. Everyday brings a new twist to an ever changing and exciting plot. In the Challenge you never know what will happen next and something always does!

This Part 4 of "We Are A Family" covers the years 1989 - 2005. Parts 1-3 covered the years 1873-1988 with the arrival of Grandparents from Germany and Ireland, his marriage, and family life with 5 children. This book is about the author and his family living in West Palm Beach, FL.

THIS IS A fictional story of a woman turning seventy, who decided to step outside of the box. Rebecca took a trip to Europe to celebrate her big birthday and have an adventure. Within twenty-four hours, her life changed forever. Her fi rst thoughts were, "OMG, I should have worn Depends" when she saw the most gothic looking man walk pass her. The sins of our fathers sometimes play a big part in how our lives take shape. Mikael's past provides the adventure Rebecca set out to have while touring Europe. Be careful what you wish for. This story encompasses love, sex, murder and suspense. He was ten years younger than she and that only enhanced their growing relationship. Life's twists and turns will leave you breathless, the ending will leave you stunned."Teri Cobb has written a fascinating page-turner, replete with heavy doses of love, sex and suspense, not necessarily in that order. Whether you're closeted with her main character Rebecca in her hometown in Middle America or exploring nightlife in London, Rome, and Paris, you don't want to miss a second of this unpredictable yet thrilling journey. Fasten your seatbelt and hold on for an exciting and thoroughly satisfying ride." George E. Curry Journalist and author

The Baker children are visiting their grandparent's farm after the death of their father. Life on the farm was a new experience for the children who were used to city life. It is here they discover strange insects with tiny voices. The scouts, who flew about in search of threats, the keepers, who were protectors, and the royal fairies. Now the children fi nd themselves in the middle of a war between the forest fairies and the garden fairies and they fi nd themselves protecting the royals from the dreaded grasshoppers and praying mantises who want to kill them.

Colonel John Harris, U.S. Army Special Forces, goes back in time to retrieve his lost men. But something is blocking their way from leaving. Some blame the ghost of Harris’s adversary, Mhalglami, and some blame the land gone wild. Harris is afraid that this time they may bring back more than they bargained for. USA, both Teri and Masai, longs for a world where her mixed heritage does not matter. Although promised to N’Grundbligimi since childhood, their marriage is opposed by powerful forces from both within and outside the tribe. She wants to pursue her dreams. But will she find such place?

IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE MUSIC IS MAJESTIC. A WORLD HIGHLY INFLUENCED BY LYRICS. IN THIS WORLD, SOCIAL STRUCTURE, CULTURE, ETHICS, AND MORALS WERE DICTATED BY THE BEAT OF A DRUM, BY CHORDS ON THE PIANO, THE ROARING OF A GUITAR RIFT, THE THUMP OF THE BASS, THE ORGANIC MELODY OF THE ORGAN, AND THE SEDUCTION OF A SMOOTH SOUNDING SAXOPHONE. FROM INCEPTION (MANY OF US WERE CONCEIVED VIA THE HYPNOTIC EFFECT OF MUSIC) WE LOVE MUSIC, ITS RHYTHMIC MOTION CAUSES US TO SWAY BACK AND FORTH, AND DANCE A TWO-STEP THROUGH LIFE. THEN AFTER LIFE'S DANCE WE ARE USHERED INTO THE AFTER-WORLD ACCOMPANIED BY MUSIC AND LYRICS.INSIDE THE WORLD OF "THE BAND: AN INSTRUMENT FOR CONTROL," THE READERS ARE INTRODUCED TO A PARALLEL UNIVERSE. THE UNIVERSE IS AN ONTOLOGICAL CONSCIOUSNESS, WHERE A DOUBLE-ENTENDRE LACED STORY IS CENTERED AROUND MUSIC, LYRICS, AND CHURCH HISTORY. THE READERS ARE INVITED TO EMBRACE THE SURFACE DIALOGUE OR ENGAGE IN THE THEOLOGICAL DEBATE (HIDDEN WITHIN) PERTAINING TO THE FORMATION OF THE CHURCH DURING THE REIGN OF CONSTANTINE AND THE EFFECTS OF AN EMPIRE CONTROLLED CHURCH. CONTINGENT UPON YOUR LOVE AFFAIR WITH MUSIC OR YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF CHURCH HISTORY; THE LYRICS WITHIN CAN BE INSIGHTFUL, INFORMATIVE, OR INSPIRATIONAL. YOU DECIDE!

William Ellis Colby, Caucasian, is dead. He has willed his thriving multi-million dollar advertising agency to his daughter, Sonya Ellis Colby, and his personal assistant, Velma Hannah (the woman he planned to marry and who is African American), Claire Colby, William's wife, unable to cope with her estranged husband's death, commits suicide. Sonya vows to make Velma pay for what she has done to her (Sonya's) family. Sonya disappears, then returns home (after four years) with a vengeance. She assumes her position as second-in-command at the agency and manages to inveigle Vlema into her home where she drugs her and holds her captive. Callie Foster, a former maid of the Colby family-who has been locked in the house for the four years. Sonya has been gone and who hates Sonya as much as Sonya does Velma Hannah-comes to Velma's aid. These three women-and Bradley Morris, head of the Creative Department at the agency, and who is secretly in love with Velma-make Bitter Inheritance a thrilling must-read.

Inspired by her horoscope's prediction of an "abundant future" in a new job, Sylvia the 18-year-old daughter of a single mother is hired second cook at Bermuda's Ravello Gardens Guesthouse. Edith Thompson, the tight fisted spinster who owns the guesthouse, sends Sylvia to the Hamilton market everyday to purchase the food her cook requires for the evening meal. During her daily trips to the city, Sylvia runs into Annie Craig, an old acquaintance who once dated Edith Thompson's brother. When the librarian suggests Sylvia might be related to the Thompson family because of her freckles, she sets out to find her father

This slim volume represents the stories of many lives, exploring what it means to be human. Some are fictionalized real stories and some are real occurrences but with imagined emotional responses, and some really happened but motives and developments are fiction. All writers must start somewhere, and most start with their own life, then branch out into the stories other people tell them. They finally reach the point where the writer can understand how people talk, feel, respond, and remember the events of a lifetime and then they write books.

Fatal Coincidence takes the reader from the jungles of a Central American country to the concrete jungle of New York City. It takes the reader from the tough streets of little Italy in south Philly to the lofty privileged environment of Wall Street. Miguel, Dante, and Robert are on a collision course. Their lives are about to converge in a web of mystery, violence, jealousy, and a string of coincidences that puts them in the same place, at the same time, affected by the same tragic event, that took the lives Dante and Robert's associates.

Tully Greenwood figured prominently in the first two books in this series, "Change For The Bettor" and "Soul Searcher". In this third and final book in the series Tully's son, Craig, is the center of attention as he is shot three times behind a tavern trying to save the daughter of a high school classmate. Craig actually dies, is lifted up to Heaven and meets our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. The Lord thanks Craig for saving the girl's life, promises him a reward one year later and returns him to his hospital bed where he wakes up in front of his family. After a troublesome bullet is removed from Craig's spine he spends the next year rehabbing. He gets out of his wheelchair to walk during halftime of his son's crucial game against archrival Southport South, Craig's alma mater. Craig walks in front of TV cameras and microphones, and his son, Mitch makes a school-record nine three-pointers in the underdog East Milwaukee Greyhounds' 72-65 win over the South Cardinals. Craig goes on to live a normal life, even though he has to walk with a cane. Mitch makes First Team All-State, leads his team to the state's Final Eight in Madison and walks on at Marquette University. Meanwhile, Tully gets over his bitterness toward his friends and the shooter and becomes an even better soul searcher.

For ages mankind has pondered and tried to define. . G o d.., to experience His Presence, with avoiding fear and judgment, or the need for deliverance and salvation. So the worship and ceremony were persued, but encountering. God, was complicated, and the 2000 years since God in Jesus Christ, The Year of The Lord . . A . D ...., religion has reached great extremes and results.Yet still, the visitation through personal prayer, Church Service, or need for... deliverance, still does not provide. . . calling on The God, in Jesus The Christ, and that He will “suddenly come”. How amazingly great, that someone would just. . call out for Him and He would... suddenly come to that one!Not for need of desperation or critical situation, but simply to desire The Presence of God, for awesome relation, because of who He is, not what He can do, and...” paow pow “ . . He suddenly comes to you! Wow.God promised to do it . . .. . so do you want it? Then come, enter in . . and be amazed, out of this World experience.

Rangoul is a supernatural thriller set in 1950's rural Georgia. The KKK has infiltrated local law enforcement and has committed a string of murders covered up as random accidents. Jamal, an African American grocery store clerk puts a target on his back when he attempts to save a woman he believes is being attacked by a police officer behind his store. Jamal's boss Eugene, had a daughter who died under suspicious circumstances. Although her death was ruled an accident, her father always suspected the towns Sheriff was somehow responsible for his daughters death. The grieving father takes matters into his own hands trying to prove foul play was involved in her death.On his way home one evening Jamal is given a creepy doll as a gift from a strange old woman. Things begin to spiral out of control after this. Jamal begins to have visions and loses track of time with no memory of his whereabouts. Eventually the police and the Klan catch up to Jamal and he must fight for his life as well as the lives of his wife and son. It turns out the doll Jamal was given possesses the soul of a Demon named Rangoul.The doll once belonged to a young boy who's father was framed and executed hundreds of years ago in the same town. It has the power to cause great pain and suffering to those who wrong you. As Jamal learns more about this power he must decide if it is a gift or a curse. While both fighting their own demons, Eugene and Jamal's journeys intercept and set forth a chain of events that will shake the small town to its core.

I was 42 years old when my father had passed. My Aunt Lorretta travelled from Springfield, MO to attend the funeral. After the service she had gathered the family up and took pictures. One picture had my brothers, Kenneth and Howard, and myself. Howard was eleven years older than me, the oldest of us, while Kenneth was seven years older. Within the span of a year and a half when that photo was taken, Kenneth passed away. He was 54 years old. A few months later, my granddaughter, Juanita, would be stillborn. Two years after that, Howard would pass. My sister and I would be the only ones left. Then, in 2013, she would pass away, too. I'm the last one left.With my parents and siblings gone, I have no one to share my memories with. The younger family members don't care to listen. Once I die, the memories I have go with me. That's why I've written this book: to have my past remembered. I'm not going to bother writing an entire lifetime into this book. This is just a few short stories and poems I've written. There's nothing to look forward to. This is the last chapter of my life. All my dreams that never came to fruition are fading. I have no desire to love again. This pain and memories stay firmly rooted into my mind like an emotional divorce. It took me to the edge of suicide at one point. The unexpected death of my son, Erick, in 1984 had left me empty, gasping for breath. His death still haunts me. Three months later, my mother passed on New Year's Day. There were more tears and sorrow than happiness and laugher. Instead of making more memories, I've decided to share them.

The book is designed to provide inspiration for positive change through insight and personal advice. Within the suggestions in the book, personal advice is offered along with questions related to values clarification and original quote like statements. The overall purpose of the book is to make a lifelong difference in the life of a teenager.

The girl who cried daddy.! is a book of heart-wrenching, but deeply ultimately, uplifting story of family, love, loyalty, about the Author, an autobiography of little girl, that grew up without a loving mother, wandering through her early life as a young girl and lady, unaware of danger, wrong and right, because she had no one to teach her anything about the facts of life, Her mother passed when she was only 2 years old. She was just 11 years old , when she was taken from her previous step parents, whom she thought were her biological parents, she was taken after when her dad rst became a preacher, she learned that she didn't have a real mother, when she began staying with her father and two brothers at the age of 11, a young girl that age really needed a mother's love and someone to give her advice. but she managed to get through Grammar school, living with her step parents, and she lived with grandmother, which was my dad's mother the first year of high school, even though was called a holy roller girl, and teased by other kids, by the little head coving I was made to wear, by my 3rd step mom, and I never went to my high school prom, because our holy family didn't think it was appropriate, and none of the boys would talk to me, also it was against her family religion ,her dad didn't allow her to have a boyfriend ,or even talk to boys, so after high school ,she went on and finish her nursing, at Ga Medical Institute, Atlanta GA in 1993, doing things, little girls did was all missed , SHE WANTED TO be A CHEERLEADER IN HIGH SCHOOL, BUT HER DAD SAID THAT THE SKIRTS THEY WORE WERE TOO SHORT! and no daughter of his is gonna wear anything like that, those were his rules, that I had to live by! as long as I were a minor in his house, my father Bishop Smith ,was a very strict, Preacher. , with his 3 kids, family and his church. But any time anyone in the church or in our family had any type of problems, they would always cry to my Daddy! Bishop Please pray for me, but my father failed to realize , is that his three children especially his only Daughter, was Crying all the time asking God why did her Biological Mother!! DIE? So young! At age 24, never ever got to see us reach puberty, or even start school, I was a Sad Girl for years missing the Love of a REAL Mother.

This is my ode to God and spending time with yourself on the road lost, motivated-mad to reach an aspect of success and freedom at the same time. This is a difficult task. Collection of poems I created focusing on being open with everything with my higher power/GOD/myself. Dedicated to peace around the world, we need it or else it is blow-up time again! Tired of dropping bombs, drop books!

This book is purported to encourage and assure us that we are destined to live in victory. There are people living in disparity, mediocrity, and unfulfilled. We are formed by our creator to live above and not beneath. We are to abstain from procrastinating and step up to soar to excellence. We will soar when we walk in obedience with our creator.This book is an avenue for me to encourage you as a wonderful person you are to soar to success. You may, in your current status, feel prosperous and wealthy but yet you are not in God's plan for your life. Seek and ask God your creator to lead you in perfect peace to discover His divine purpose for your life.

The Dark Runner is the story of an African holy man who travels by running.  Arriving at his sister’s village, he discovers she has been kidnaped by slavers and traded to the captain of an American ship.To rescue his sister, he trades himself for her release.  He doesn’t understand it but he finds he is driven by an inner impulse to fulfill an unknown destiny in North America.It is this journey and his impact on all those he meets with a brief telling of their stories and redemption that best describes the story of the Dark Runner.

Moving from Brooklyn as a child to Long island, to Florida, back again to Brooklyn and back again to Long Island is a story of exciting and adventurous experiences that fostered and stimulated perseverance, faith and strength of character. He has provided commentary on his various career changes from education to the world of business and hopes readers will be encouraged in their pursuit of happiness. The author lives in Bonita Springs, Florida and is still involved in the Fire and safety Industry. He spends a good deal of time with family and friends, some travel and quite active with the sport of tennis which is his passion. His story allows the readers of all ages to experience the many exciting journeys during his travels to over fifty countries.

STRATEGIC PRAYER IS THE WOMB OF REVIVAL Invading The Kingdom Of Darkness and The Power Of Prophetic Prayer. This book offers practical teaching to arm, strengthen, deepen, and sharpen your prayer life. It serves as compass to navigate misconception of spiritual warfare and transform the movement of highly intellectual and Self- Satisficed religious churches in America and around the world. This book will inspire you to pray until the kingdom of this world becomes the Kingdom of our God."

If trees could talk, what would they say?Trees have played a major role since the beginning of time ,starting in the Garden of Eden and throughout the the word God. We will take you on this journey throughout God's word and share with you how TREES have  played such a significance role and have  been depicted in the Bible. When you finish this journey you will have a different view with history of TREES. Trees provide so much for us. Take a look at this short list: carbon dioxide,paper,pencils—just to name a few.

A HISTORY OF ORTHOPEDICS portrays the beginning of orthopedic surgery from ancient times to the current era. It follows the gradual development of a specialty from Egypt to the European continent and England and from there to the United States of America. After the discovery of anesthesia and x-rays in the 19th century, a more rapid development of surgical endeavors led to the current situation where arthroscopy could view and treat deranged joint mechanics, and painful arthritic joints could be replaced. Many of the important persons who helped reach this current state are listed with their contributions. Whereas in the 19th century orthopedic surgery was still considered part of general surgery, in the 20th century the two specialties became separated. In addition, there was a struggle between conservative practitioners (the "Strap and Buckle" doctors) and those who felt surgical intervention provided better results.