Author: Gerald Luecke
Publisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 1618622145
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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These were the years of the high-flying 1920s and the dreadful Depression of 1929. The Depression years were particularly difficult, especially for my family. ... The end of World War II changed our lives as a family. It was 1946, and we again became a family—with Mae as the center of the hub. Listen as God's word speaks to you through the interpretations of a brother writing his invalid sister. Inspirational uplifting sermons throughout the church year are preceded by personal messages from a brother to his beloved sister. Each week of the church year Jerry wrote Mae, his sister. Included in each letter was a summary of the week's church sermon he and his wife listened to the week before. Each week brought a different lesson that not only helped Jerry through his life, but helped Mae hold on to a part of her life that was most important to her—her faith. Letters to Mae is a brother's attempt to describe his sister's virtues, accept her death, and instill a bit of those virtues in his readers. Letters to Mae is a book about faith in Jesus Christ and what that faith means and how it is expressed in action.
Author: Mae Stier
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578599793
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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A poetry and essay collection inspired by Lake Michigan.
Author: Henrietta Maria (consort of Charles iIB, king of Gt. Britain.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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Author: Marrissa Dick
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595186874
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Irene and Shelly are sisters. Irene watches helplessly as her sister continues to live in an abusive relationship with a wealthy orthodontist. Irene thinks her sister could use a pen pal to brighten her day, but Shelly is against it. She's too frightened that Kenneth, her husband, will find out. Irene decides to pursue the pen pal herself, but what she uncovers while they correspond will change her life forever.
Author: Howard D. Vanderwell
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 153264082X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 119
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All those who enter the pastoral ministry desire to succeed. Yet they all find, surprisingly, that a number of key issues come up for consideration. Most pastors find that most of these issues appear during the first ten years of pastoring. During those years the pattern is determined, which will point to the success or to the development of habits that will reduce effectiveness and produce stumbling. In this warm, personal, from-the-heart book, a long-time pastor not only identifies twenty-one potentially harmful issues if not handled well, but he also provides counsel and direction in how they should be faced and handled. Pastors in small rural churches where ministry seems simple, and those in suburban churches which are a bee-hive of activity, as well as those in city parishes with new challenges every day, will all find fresh insight here. Ministries will be enhanced by learning from these issues that the author identifies. All will be grateful for the warnings issued and the advice given.
Author: Cal Shrock
Publisher: WestBowPress
ISBN: 1490805028
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Letters to Laura started as a single letter telling how God saved a life, but the letters continued, becoming a series of stories of survival that amazed even the author. Cal has survived a garage door blowing off the wall, near electrocution, wild rides as a hitchhiker, escape from being run down in traffic, an encounter with a wild badger, and moremore than he had realized until writing these letters to Laura. Cal shares his candid conversations with a God who gets involved. He gets mad at God, apologizes, asks favors, and confides, expecting a responseyet finding the unexpected. Each letter is one or more stories of deliverance, humiliation, success, wonder, or sobering reality. Cal is honest as he reconstructs what really happened, yet is completely amazed at how carefully God has guided and guarded his life, all his life. I should not be here. I just wanted to encourage Laura, but these letters have encouraged me. I had not realized how many times my life has been saved, is his wondering discovery.
Author: Ellery Adams
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698137299
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Restaurant owner and aspiring novelist Olivia Limoges is busy planning a delicious menu for Oyster Bay’s biggest soiree of the spring. But she’ll need to serve some justice as well after one resident gets eighty-sixed… Everyone’s got their hands full in Oyster Bay, North Carolina. Aside from two upcoming weddings, there’s also the historical society’s annual fund-raiser: the Secret Garden Party and Candlelit Ball. Adding to the excitement, Olivia witnesses the discovery of a time capsule in the foundation of a local church. The historical society president hopes to display its contents at their party, but when the items are finally revealed to the public, Olivia notices one of them has vanished. After a frightening find beneath the pier—the body of Ruthie Holcomb—Olivia is certain there’s a connection between the young woman’s death and the missing piece from the time capsule. With the help of her fellow Bayside Book Writers, Olivia sets out to uncover some clues and ensure a killer has no reason to celebrate…
Author: Andrew J. Huebner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190853948
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
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Americans today harbor no strong or consistent collective memory of the First World War. Ask why the country fought or what they accomplished, and "democracy" is the most likely if vague response. The circulation of confusing or lofty rationales for intervention began as soon as President Woodrow Wilson secured a war declaration in April 1917. Yet amid those shifting justifications, Love and Death in the Great War argues, was a more durable and resonant one: Americans would fight for home and family. Officials in the military and government, grasping this crucial reality, invested the war with personal meaning, as did popular culture. "Make your mother proud of you/And the Old Red White and Blue" went George Cohan's famous tune "Over There." Federal officials and their allies in public culture, in short, told the war story as a love story. Intervention came at a moment when arbiters of traditional home and family were regarded as under pressure from all sides: industrial work, women's employment, immigration, urban vice, woman suffrage, and the imagined threat of black sexual aggression. Alleged German crimes in France and Belgium seemed to further imperil women and children. War promised to restore convention, stabilize gender roles, and sharpen male character. Love and Death in the Great War tracks such ideas of redemptive war across public and private spaces, policy and implementation, home and front, popular culture and personal correspondence. In beautifully rendered prose, Andrew J. Huebner merges untold stories of ordinary men and women with a history of wartime culture. Studying the radiating impact of war alongside the management of public opinion, he recovers the conflict's emotional dimensions--its everyday rhythms, heartbreaking losses, soaring possibilities, and broken promises.
Author: Jean Toomer
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9781572334700
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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"Mark Whalen's compilation offers a vital document for understanding the contexts, intellectual debates, and tensions undergirding Toomer's work, including his simultaneous feelings of attraction to and estrangement from rural southern life, the influence of technology on race and urban existence in America and the contradictory pulls of folk culture and modernist experimentation. The collection also charts the motives underlying Toomer's abandonment of the style that distinguished Cane, and his growing fascination with the teachings of the mystic G. I. Gurdjieff in 1924."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Donna Ball
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101464437
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255
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Love is in the air in this delightful novel-third in the bestselling Ladybug Farm series from award-winning author Donna Ball. Renovating a broken-down mansion in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley gave three lifelong friends a welcome second chance. But after taking the biggest risk of their lives, are these women also willing to risk their hearts? All the effort Cici, Lindsay, and Bridget have put into transforming an historic but overgrown farm into an upscale winery and special events business is paying off-Ladybug Farm has been chosen to host a society wedding. What this really means is that they are about to be invaded by warring mothers-in-law, a Bridezilla, and a completely clueless groom. They have their hands full keeping Ladybug Farm from descending into total chaos. But there's something about a wedding...
