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Henry and Barby are neighbors, classmates, and more. Barby's family is affluent and well-to-do, while Henry's family leads a simple life on a small income. Feelings of ambivalence pervade young Henry's adolescence as he becomes involved with both Barby and her sister. Brandy, Barby's older sister, seduces Henry, and their secret sexual escapades entrap them in a love they try to ignore. As Henry struggles to endure the love of two sisters, college and careers carry them into adulthood. Then tragedy strikes, and the two families unite as they try to hold on to some kind of normalcy. These were the innocent years. The two teenagers sat and talked while warming themselves. "Henry, I hate you." Henry looked at Barby bewildered." What did I do now?" Barby reached out and pulled his hair over his head covering his face. "Your hair looks nicer than mine. I refuse to associate with a boy who has hair like that. It's bad enough that it's longer but it looks nicer too!" He looked at her rolling his eyes back and forth. "So wash it once in a while." She slapped him across his shoulder with her open palm. "Ouch," she said. "Now you are trying to hurt me." Her face broke into a repressed grin. "Barby, you hit me, 1 didn't hit you." She pouted now, sticking out her bottom lip. "Do you think I'm pretty?" Henry put his hands over his face hiding his response. "I think Brandy is pretty," he said in a low voice-almost a whisper.

After 30 years of pioneering research with NASA, Joan Vernikos has written the first book to focus on the fundamental importance of gravity in maintaining youthful vigor. In it, she applies lessons learned from the experiences of U.S. astronauts and Soviet/Russian cosmonauts in space to ordinary people here on Earth. Highly practical, the "What You Can Do about It" section in each chapter is a comprehensive guide that will help young people, baby boomers, the elderly, and professionals make smart lifestyle choices. The G-Connection is written in down-to-earth and understandable language. Peppered with firsthand anecdotes from astronauts and interesting stories of Vernikos's own voyage of discovery, this book is both a fun and credible resource. The excitement for her work and ideas comes across clearly and is contagious. The reader finishes the book knowing what to do differently in his or her daily life to slow down or even reverse the aging process." It is a treasure trove of ideas to a geriatrician"-Harold J. Guy, M.D., Professor of Geriatric Medicine, University of California San Diego Medical School, San Diego, California" The premise is plausible and the contents thoroughly referenced and well documented. It is written in a flowing style with humor and self-assurance and with language that never patronizes the reader."-Ralph Pelligra, M.D., NASA Ames Chief Medical Officer Moffett Field, California.

WALKING CLOSER is a thirty-one day, daily devotional book inspired by therealization that it is God who desires a closer walk with us. It is God who wants tospend more time with us than we realize. As His children, we do not have to workour spiritual fingers to the bone to earn His love. Through Jesus, our Savior, wehave God's total love, grace, and mercy.The devotionals are written from the heart and written for the regular person facinglife's struggles. Regular, often broken people are who God uses to illustrate love,mercy, and forgiveness. These devotionals are simple, easy to understand, and usereal life experiences to convey a message of love and hope.God is chasing His children and wants to be a part of their daily lives. Let theadventure begin, for as His children, we are loved more than we could ever know.

Rejecting Offense, Strife, and Unforgiveness: Rediscovering the Use of the Tongue speaks the plain truth about the great power that the tongue the words spoken in the midst of relationships has to bring pain by opening up wounds. On the other hand, when Christians rediscover the guidance of the Holy Spirit and then redirect the intentions of their words, they can use the tongue for upbuilding one another, seeking peace, and offering forgiveness.The author, Samuel Davis Kioko, draws upon his own experiences of coming to faith in Jesus Christ and of following the Spirits calling to minister as a missionary, teacher, and scholar to guide his exploration of the misuses and uses of the tongue in families, communities, ministries, and businesses.Rejecting Offense, Strife, and Unforgiveness, drawing upon a wealth of passages from the Scriptures and offering seasoned and wise teachings rooted in those passages, presents an approachable and understandable examination of the insidious power of the tongue to bring about pain. It pairs that portrait with words of encouragement, explaining how the Spirit can guide the use of the tongue for good.Whether you have experience with speaking words that have injured others or with hearing words that have caused you pain, Rejecting Offense, Strife, and Unforgiveness: Rediscovering the Use of the Tongue can offer you the consolation of discovering a path to encouragement, harmony, and reconciliation.

Hiram Bookers became disenchanted with his life on the east coast and sold his merchant fleet involved in the Slave Trade and bought a large parcel south of Santa Barbara. After he built his home, he advertised for a mail order bride. While on a hunting trip, Hiram was shot and left for dead. He was found and taken to the hospital by Tommy Sanchez, the son of Sitting Bull and his wife Sarah who'd been married to Crazy Horse, the Indian hero of the Battle of the Little Big Horn. When Hiram recovered, he was suffering from amnesia. Tommy Sanchez and his wife took him in and employed him at their ranch. The county sheriff, seeking reelection sensed that Silas Smith, as Bookers was now called, may have been involved in a robbery of a special train, carrying thirty thousand in money for a new bank in Santa Barbara. The sheriff harassed Silas until he uncovered evidence pointing at him as one of the train bandits. It was Tommy Sanchez who found the clues pointing to someone else. He came up with a plan to free Smith, uncover his past and identify the actual train robber.

God Is Our Everything emphasizes the importance of faith, prayer, and turning to God in challenging times. Rev. Dr. Ogden King II continues to preach the gospel, reminding us to humble ourselves, pray, seek God's face, and turn from wicked ways to experience healing and forgiveness.

Evil people are out there. How they always seem to surface in Mike Robert's orbit is a mystery to him, but it's happening again. Mike Roberts was the unanimous choice to be Scoutmaster of his son's troop. As a trustworthy, loyal, helpful, etc. person in everyday life he lived the scout law. True to form, life will spiral to depths he seems to go too often, taking his wife and daughter down with him, this time.

Rita H. Joyce was born in Seattle, Washington, graduating from Franklin High School. She attended some classes at the University of Washington, but her college career was curtailed when a home emergency forced her to go to work to help support her family. She has a birth daughter, an adopted daughter, five stepchildren, and is twice widowed. Following her dreams led her and her second husband to move to Florida in 2000, where she has lived ever since.Joyce is the author of three self-published books- Her first (Gozzy Goose's Christmas Gift) (e-book only) was chosen in 2002 for the Under Nine Literacy Promotion at Universal Cineplex, City Walk, Universal Studios and promoted as one of the Stories From the Silver Screen! A limited revised edition was also self published in 2015 but is out of print. Two sequels were written but not published. There was also a Read-Along CD with an original song that is being considered for release as a DVD.

Today is a teacher's day. What that means is teachers are free from instructional work, and they can focus on official meetings, planning, etc. for the next work-day with the students.With a great imagination and with the company of her friends, a young girl fills her day out of school learning without the tutorage of a teacher, which produced fun, danger, and lead to an electrifying fishing adventure. Of course, when that day was over and school resumed, Emelee and her friends had a story for a show and tell time. The story was so outlandish; it was unbelievable to the teacher and the whole class-in fact the whole school!

This is a book about a woman that met this man at work. He preyed on her like an animal to get what he wanted from her. He earned her trust on top of everything. She had a hard time getting away from him. Now she is away from him; it puts her into a deep clinical depression from all the trauma he puts her through, along with mental abuse. Now years later, she is having a hard time getting on with her life when she always feels that he might be around the corner, waiting. She has to watch her back aline to keep herself safe in the city she lives in. He still walks the streets, finding ways to get even with her, even if it means killing her. He has come close a time or two. There are those possibilities he is up to something to get even. Like in this case, he has tried killing her in her car but failed, but he will come up with some new ways of getting back for what he thinks is her fault or reasoning for him getting into trouble, but you got to remember, he is a sociopath. In a sociopath's mind, it's everybody else's fault that they are in trouble. She has to keep an eye open all the times because he may be closer than she thinks to harming her-or even kill her to get her out of the way.

Three young boys obtain jobs working for an old farmer in Eastern Kansas. Their first assignment together is to haul a trailer full of cattle across an old, worn-out bridge. They tag each other with the nicknames of Runt, Mule, and Kid. Those nicknames become their identities forever.Soon, they band together to take on the town bully. A rivalry develops that lasts for years. Their childhood experiences bond them together. They become closer than family. However, it comes at a high price.As they grow older, the paths they take put a strain on their relationships. What was once fun and games as kids become life and death as adults.

Dr. Matthias Mort Samael, the Angel of Death, is seeking a psychiatric consultant to travel through time with him and keep him from falling apart while he does his hardest jobs. Dr. Susan Fernandez has an incurable brain stem cancer that he tells her can be healed by Raphaella, the Healing Archangel. Together they address the death of the Egyptian first born at Passover, then go on to treat the other great collections of death, such as the Inquisition, World War II, and Black Plague deaths and the final collection of souls at the Last Judgment.

Will Moretti can no longer ignore the gnawing sense that he's just going through the motions of living. The death of his good friend Rich is the catalyst that sends him from New York to a camp for healing in the mountains of southern Arizona. His journey takes him through a series of unforgettable trips and lessons that fracture his worldview. Guided by his instructors, Will examines the relationship of diet to human evolution, and he discovers how the wisdom of the Ancient Masters and the science of quantum physics can help us access our true potential. With the constant reminder of how fragile our lives are, Will pushes himself out of his comfort zone as he opens his heart to the young woman who tends the garden, and he discovers ways to help himself and others lead better lives.

Against all odds, George Washington fostered the world's first modern democracy and became renowned as the father of our country. At a time when the median age was sixteen, he remarkably lived to the age of sixty-seven. Washington's life was riddled with multiple life-threatening diseases and countless charges into enemy fire. With a shocking resiliency and remarkable hardiness, Washington fought fatal infections and opposing armies with a steadfast belief that a protecting and guiding Providence would lead him to fulfill his destiny of greatness. Emboldened by Providence and a conviction that he was to accomplish great endeavors, Washington set forth to lead America out of a world of monarchy and colonialism and into the new reality of constitutional freedom. George Washington's Providence is an entertaining and enlightening new book that follows the amazing survivability of one of our country's most historical figures. Filled with factual and proven information, this illuminating book shows us all why Washington truly thought he was protected by Providence. Documenting his close brushes with death not only on the battlefield but with the major diseases of his time, this wonderful book provides readers with the backstory and reasoning as to how and why he believed Providence was the answer. An in-depth and educational journey into the life of the first president of the United States, George Washington's Providence serves as a valuable historical revelation for readers everywhere. Inspired by the numerous historical references to Washington's belief in Providence, this brilliant book delves into history and uncovers the enlightening fact that Washington, and his followers, were actually very vocal about their beliefs. As the first published confirmation of Washington's belief in Providence, this amazing resource serves as an intriguing look into the complex character of one of our nation's greatest leaders. Perfect for readers of all backgrounds, this excellent book will captivate everyone from fans of history to the devoutly religious. Through its factual research and believable portrayals, this delightful exposé will have readers everywhere questioning what they knew about Washington and exactly how lucky one man can get. Filled with interesting stories and shocking disclosures this truly unique look into one of the most important historical figures, George Washington's Providence shows readers everywhere the power of belief and perhaps a glimpse into something more.

For more than three decades Jimmy McPhail has listened with an ear of disbelief as minority victims and witnesses shared their stories. While the plot and the characters changed, the theme always remained the same. Themes of injustice, hatred and discrimination were the three most reoccurring themes. From verbal and physical abuse, workplace discrimination and even police brutality, the residents of LaGrange have seen it all. Some have been threatened, others beaten, and a few killed. For far too many years, these people have been the recipients of unfair and unjust treatment. Many of them are now dead and gone, yet their stories live on. The Streets of LaGrange is a compilation of their delicate and intricately woven stories.

I must have read somewhere that art equals pain; reworked, revised improved upon, but pain nonetheless. A means of expressing the anguish and innermost jot or fury of the one so improverished. The perpetual flowing from a seemingly endless source of pathos.A relentless well-spring of:Guile and GuiltFervor and SplendorTremor and HopeA truly cleansing and uplifting experience. If poetry can be considered art, then I offer my art for your perusal and publication.

Alicia goes on vacation with her god-mother, and suddenly, she feels so tired and falls asleep. Something spectacular happens to her that changes her life forever! Discover the awe and mystery of how Alicia becomes a Superhero. How can we all plant seeds of faith, hope, and love for others? No matter what situation or circumstance we may find ourselves in, there is always a ``silver lining in every dark cloud,'' Children and adults must take every real-life opportunity to appreciate, love, respect, and be grateful to those who help them in times of trouble.

Six great fiction stories that were put together to make one great! Jump back to the nineties where you're taken through the decade of friendship, love, and loss. Jump back further to the eighties where two people are from two different environments but cross each other's paths and spark up an unusual romance. Two brothers who are different in many ways. Vernon, the older brother, has a young fiancée named Amber that Vincent, the younger brother wants. Amber has a fling with Vincent, and Vernon eventually finds out. Her relationship with Vernon ends, and Amber moves on with her life. Next, this book takes you down to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and then during a holiday season of the mid-twenty first century where two different women in their thirties who have yet found the loving relationships they deserve. You'll love all six of these stories. They are worth reading.

Who was Jesus? A bishop recently used His biography to illustrate a good theological point when he described Him as 'an uneducated man from Nazareth, son of a poor carpenter named Joseph who preached in several synagogues'.The implication is that all the wisdom Jesus exhibits comes from God who would surely have informed Him of modern technology, whereas Jesus clearly demonstrates a detailed knowledge of Alexandrine philosophy. Then why would a poor carpenter make a long journey to Bethlehem to register for Roman taxation? The Roman taxation system depended upon identifying wealth and grabbing a portion of it.In this book we try to answer these conundrums by looking at the New Testament and attempting to separate myth from history. We arrive at the almost inevitable conclusion that Jesus was the son of Joseph of Arimathea, a wealthy merchant of Alexandria, received His education at the best of institutions of the time and married Mary Magdalene to qualify to speak in a synagogue. We use the text of the King James version and try to compare different accounts of the same incidents to see how the Christian Church came to be.

This book is for all my fellow teachers out there who enjoy poetry and believe their students will become better writers if they keep practicing. Here are hundreds of ideas to stimulate your student's imaginations; students who are often willing to write, but don't have a clue what to write about. These ideas will give them a place to start. Poetry works well for engaging student writers because it is challenging and yet flexible. There are so many types and styles of poems they can experience. There's also a lot of leeway in terms of punctuation, idioms and slang, and how the words appear on the page.Poetry lends itself to success. Anyone can do it and it's personal; it comes from the students' experiences and emotions. It's subjective; the sort of writing to be appreciated rather than judged. The emphasis in this book is "students as poets." It's not about studying the famous poets who have gone before. It's about finding a love for expressing yourself that can last a lifetime.

Although the focus is on the unsolved murders of a priest and female tourists, SANTA FE is a story about the good and the bad of its people, its cultural and social values, its politics, its beauty and its charm.The city is left in a state of chaos after the brutal murder of a priest is followed by the deaths of female tourists. Are these thrill-kills or serial murders? Uncertainty puzzles state police officials, a female homicide detective, and a district attorney. Complexities set in when the detective and the district attorney become lovers. They increase when she comes to suspect him of being part of at least one of the crimes.Meanwhile, a power-seeking separatist is vying for the mayor's seat. A powerful state senator known to sanction illicit drug deals supports him, and the outcome of the mayoral race could affect the political and cultural make-up of the city. A middle-aged businessman and an elder represent the conscience of the city and a philosophy in general. One does it by his deeds and his opinions, and the other through his experience and by simple wisdom. Through the elder, a brief history of the area is given.

TRUE TO HIS WORD, Joseph Horn Cloud presented White Bird to the Pine Ridge Indian Council for a Trial on Behalf of the four soldiers. Their verdict, which Joseph and his brother feared, was a lifetime ban from the Sioux Nation and all its followers. It was to commence in ten days, White Lance and his brother had expected a similar fate for their younger brother, but not one of that length.Their parting was one of sadness. They loved their white brother and would miss him forever. but they knew in their heart that this was just verdict and not as great as the court in Santa Barbara had pronounced.White Bird vowed to his brother that he would devote the remainder of his life to being a good man and one they could be proud of. He spent the next week in meditation at his parents' grave and at the monument at Wounded Knee. He then left the area and headed south toward Sidney. He found Rosita Riley in a dirty saloon on the outskirts of the town and asked her to forgive him. He learned that he had a son who was four years old.He told her what he'd done and what the verdict laid down by the Pine Ridge Council was. He told her he was still hunted by the authorities, but if she and the child were willing, he would marry her and take then with him. "Jacob, we've had a miserable existence the last three years, but I don't know if I can trust you. You left me once; why wouldn't you do it you?""I understand your reluctance, but I'm a difference man today and I promised my brothers that I would be a good man. My name is not Jacob Light; it's Raymond O' Caliegh. I researched records of the many wagon trains that were lost and found out who my real parents were."

Jason Brown, a bank robber and killer, was comfortable taking anything he wanted. When he made a proposition to Sarah Sanchez and was rebuffed, he kidnapped her and made his getaway to the Santa Ynez Mountains. Tommy Sanchez, the son of Sitting Bull, reverting to his days as an Indian Brave, went in search of his wife. He used all his skills he learned at the feet of his famous father, to track down the two. The reader will be mesmerized at the final confrontation between the two men.

Tommy Sanchez, the son of Sitting Bull, the victor at the Battle of the Little Big Horn and his captive wife, found out early in life what prejudice was for a half-breed. Initially, he was able to overcome the stigma, but one fateful day his entire world turned upside down ad he was pursued from town to town by a vengeful sheriff who forced him to continually moved once he was established in a community. Sarah Hansen was captured by Indians when she was a teenager and forced into a marriage with Crazy Horse, the war chief of the Sioux. Upon his death, she had to fed for herself and two children in a white world that treated her with contempt, viewing her as a white squaw and the widow of a savage.Unaware of each other, Sanchez and Hansen began a quest for self respect, overcoming many obstacles and finally meeting in the beautiful Santa Ynez Valley in California.

A Friend is something Special because Jesus calls us His Friend. John 15:13 says "Greater Love hath no man that he lay down his life for his Friends." In the book of John 15:14 Jesus said "Ye are my Friends if ye do whatsoever I command you." Apostle Dr. Elbert Bolden is my friend. Over 20 years ago he followed the instructions of GOD that prophesied that I would someday have a ministry serving the Lord. Due to the friendship; mentorship, leadership and guidance of Apostle Dr. Elbert Bolden this prophecy has come to pass.

Streetcar Sandwiches is a screenplay showing the efforts the owner of a sandwich shop in Uptown New Orleans undertakes to keep her business running. Not only does she have to deal with a menagerie of all types of employees, she has to comply with onerous and often conflicting regulations from several government bureaus. How she handles what turns into an ordeal threatens to change her naturally optimistic and pleasant personality. It leads directly to an outcome that could only have occurred in the Big Easy.

Oh what a tangled web we weave....Jill Kelly is an intelligent high school student who knows exactly what she wants in life. Unfortunately, her vision does not fall in line with what her father wants. He wants her to go to medical school; she wants to become a professional singer. It seems she has no choice but to attend Indiana University and major in biology-or so everyone thinks. After Jill begins classes her freshman year, she secretly visits the career counseling center to change her major and audition for the Jacobs School of Music. After she learns she has been accepted, Jill decides to shun her good girl image, not tell her parents, and resort to an existence fueled by lies and deception. But as her rebellious behavior leads her to find love and the personal happiness she has always wanted, Jill has no idea she is about to pay a hefty price for her choices. Okay, So I Lied shares the story of a young woman's journey of deception as she attempts to achieve her dream of becoming a rock star.

The main character in this book, a true, real-life person, was an unassuming man brought up in a large, working class family. His life would begin in 1918 and he and his family would survive the depression on near poverty wages. He would go on to serve as a decorated airman in World War II and come home to restart his life suffering from PTSD. With that, life would deal him many adversities and challenges, many of them self-inflicted, but each time he would overcome. He would struggle with the effects of combat on civilian life and would use alcohol to substitute for counseling much to his dismay. Tilly as he was called by his wartime air crew, returned home and went back to work to put the war behind him and get on with life. He would have a family of his own, raising three children on near poverty wages and suffered from alcoholism and depression most his life while his family suffered the effects of life's challenges. Much later in life, he began talking about his wartime experiences and this would help him to readjust to life as he knew it. However, returning to alcohol would bring him and his family hardships that would be difficult to reconcile. Every person who served in a combat role feels the effects of war and deals with those effects in varying degrees of tolerance. Many returning veterans restore their lives and go on to become productive members of society, but never forgetting their combat experiences. Many go on to college and become successful professionals in their fields of endeavor and lose the effects of war it would seem.