Author: Jack Gilley
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1456759124
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 331
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Jack and Rena Gilley first met as small children and were ultimately married May-27, 1954, a year after Jack was discharged from the army. The story covers the war & 56+ years of their life together which portrays the love that grows stronger with each passing day. The story covers highlights of the Gilley family (with two children) living abroad for more than ten years where they spent time in Libya and Brazil (Their son was born in Libya in 1959) where Jack worked for TI-GSI. After reassignment to Dallas headquarters in 1967 Jack traveled throughout the world visiting/inspecting their operations before resigning to attend their family business started in 1970. It also covers two tours of duty Jack served in Korea before discharge in 1953. In 1951 while in a military hospital in Japan, a wounded soldier from his brothers unit (The 187th Airborne) in the adjacent bed told him the unit incurred heavy casualties. Jack got an early release to search for his brother (during convalescence leave) who he feared had been killed. It is truly an unbelievable story. It also covers their time in Brazil during the military takeover in the 1960s and time in Libya during the Mid-East war where the families were evacuated to Malta. The story covers the starting of Gilley Properties Inc., a land development and building business in 1970 that included six land developments. The building business employed their family members and many long term sub-contractors who worked for them 20+ years. A second business Five Star Industries Inc. was started in 1997. The story covers an exciting life of love, world travels & war. Jack retired at the age of 55, but remained active in the family business. He and RENA have been married 56-plus years...
Author: Caroline Lee Hentz
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Author: Caroline Lee Hentz
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Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Author: George Drew
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1680030809
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Just as an orchard grower, when harvesting its fruit, discards the tart, the bitter, the overripe, and the stunted, so, too, any poet tries to judiciously rejected less-than-sterling poems when assembling his Selected. Pastoral Habits is a Selected of carefully chosen poems from fifty years and five volumes of poetic harvests. If “pastoral” connotes good shepherding, or good harvesting, then George Drew’s collection with, like various varieties of fruit, includes poems about Michelangelo, Physics, Russia, all things American and the natural world, will resonate for those who value the worlds of poetry, from lyric to dramatic to narrative, and whether as background or central, the pastoral. "Few books of poetry as good as Pastoral Habits will come out this year, perhaps none better."—X. J. Kennedy THE PIETÀ Mother, have you looked on this masterpiece? Seen how you hold me as you did when I was but a child? Here joy has been exiled, and sorrow set upon the throne. You will not see it on your perfect brow draped by its kerchief. Nor on your firm chin, nor in your inward-looking marble eyes, nor even in my horror-riddled shape draped like a smock across your lap. Now do you see it? There—in your left hand: the fingers splayed like broken wings, the deeply chiseled lifeline, and the blood, or shadow, smudging palm and fingertips. Here, mother, piety and pity are the same.
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Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Author: Dr. Rena' D. Morrow
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1098041151
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 117
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Liquid Love is a journey through an abyss of paradoxical contradictions. Life has a way of playing tricks on you; first it loves you then it hates you; it supports your dreams and aspirations, and then it sabotages the very essence of the dream. Life can promise you a rose garden and fill it with thorns that try your patience, mitigates forgiveness, and proliferate bitterness. Life is funny that way. Yet these contradictions serve a greater purpose than what the physical eye can determine. It is at those most ambiguous times that love speaks to you in a way that makes everything better even when it still does not make sense. Liquid Love speaks to these contradictions and offer a way out of that deep hole. It speaks of the love of God and the power His love has to bring beauty out of ashes. It speaks to the deep hurt and offers its power to heal and deliver through pages of personal experience and God's abiding truth. Take this journey through liquid love and let it peel back another layer of discovery to a self you may not have known before. Be courageous! Take the journey.
Author: Harper & Brothers
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Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Author: Tammy Sider Powell
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1490767681
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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Rena Tasha Sykes was born under the category of leadership. She was an intelligent, strong black woman who believed in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. At the age of seven, her parents separated and soon divorced; this was the most traumatic time in the Sykes familys life. Rena became a nurturing mother at age seven; vowing to love and protect her siblings in their fathers and moms absence, and she did in every way. Soon realizing she was chosen to go through a lot of hardships, trials, and tribulations. Because of her calling from God, Rena was able to subdue and overcome lifes heartaches, disappointments, and downfalls. Rena was abused physically and mentally by a self-centered, controlling husband who never knew what love was and never loved her. After all the sadness and madness in her life, Rena is reminded of how her grandmother, who was a prayer warrior, taught her how to pray and keep the faith. Rena was able to reunite with her first love again only to find out it still wasnt enough to fulfill her needs, only part of her dreams. After the loss of her daughter and losing her first loves babies, Renas life began to spin out of control. She still had her son, but it seemed as if Luke had taken him from her too. Rena began partying more, drinking. Soon, drugs were introduced to her by a major drug dealer. She began to love this type of lifestyle; it became a part of her life until she had another life-altering experience that would change her life forever. And thats when Rena knew her life would never be the same.
Author: Fredrika Bremer
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Category : Sweden
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Author: Fredrika Bremer
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Languages : en
Pages : 478
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