Download or read book Memories of My Parents written by Amy E. Madge and published by Inspiring Voices. This book was released on 2012-11-05 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like everyone else, John and Lorraine Madge had ups and downs in life. They loved and respected each other for sixty-three years, motivated by the idea that the hard times only made them stronger. Theirs is a simple yet inspiring story, told here by their sixth child, Amy, who faithfully cared for them in the final years of their lives, ultimately helping them cross over to the other side to meet God. Beginning with her parents childhoods, Amy chronicles John and Lorraines journeys through life as they grew up and eventually joined their lives in marriage. As they brought seven children into the world and enjoyed all that life had to offer, the couple also endured struggles, including illness and the loss of a child. While sharing applicable Scripture, Amy details their final years on Earth, not only providing an inspirational glimpse into her role as their caregiver, but also into the loneliness that accompanied her personal journey as she grieved the loss of the most important people in the world to her. Memories of My Parents is a faith-filled story of love shared with the hope that compassionate caregivers will always know they are not on this path alone.

Download or read book A Field Where Memories Grow written by Mary Lawhorn and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Field Where Memories Grow, is a collection of short stories in poetic form of my journeys through the seasons of life and the roads we all travel. I have written about world events, romance and spiritual experiences as well as the highs and lows we encounter in life. Also included are the fairy tales that I have always loved to write. Our journeys through life reminds me of the changing seasons and much of my writing is comparing nature with the human stages of life. "From one small seed a tree will grow tall and from its roots a forest will come to be. As does one seed from man when planted will flourish; thus grows a family tree."

Download or read book A Memory of Muskets written by Kathleen Ernst and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2016-10-08 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curator Chloe Ellefson is happily planning to spotlight home-front challenges and German immigrants at Old World Wisconsin's first Civil War reenactment, but her overbearing boss scorns her ideas and proposes staging a mock battle instead. And when a reenactor is found dead at one of the historic site's German farms, Chloe's boyfriend, cop Roelke McKenna, suspects murder. The more Roelke learns about reenacting, the more he fears that a killer will join the ranks. Then Chloe discovers a disturbing secret about Roelke's Civil War–era ancestors. Together they struggle to solve crimes past and present...before Chloe loses her job and another reenactor loses his life. Praise: "Veteran Ernst provides a new perspective on the Civil War woven together with a compelling mystery." —Kirkus Reviews "Extremely well-written."—Suspense Magazine "Kathleen Ernst knows how to spin a tale, weave an intricate plot, and hide clues in the embroidery. A Memory of Muskets takes two stories separated by more than a century and knits them together into one thoroughly satisfying read."—Kathy Lynn Emerson, Agatha Award-winning author of How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries, Murder in the Merchant's Hall, and other historical mysteries

Download or read book The Memory of Things written by Gae Polisner and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The powerful story of two teenagers finding friendship, comfort, and first love in the days following 9/11 as their fractured city tries to put itself back together

Download or read book Once More A Mindful Gatherin written by JD Eident and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Once More A Mindful Gatherin' is a collection of simple rhyming verses mingled with some inciteful prose. A varied collection of subjects dealing with the common plight of man are addressed in thoughtful rhyme.

Download or read book The Whippoorwill Calls written by Clara Smithson and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of nine children, author Clara Smithson was born during World War II in 1943 on her grandfathers farm in Tennessee. In The Whippoorwill Calls, she narrates the story of her life as she grew up in the 1940s and 1950s. This memoir narrates how Smithson experienced a poor and somewhat turbulent childhood that took her and her family to Tennessee, Illinois, and Missouri. She describes her parents, grandparents, her siblings, her daily experiences, the characters who played a role in her upbringing, and the memories of growing up in a different time. This nostalgic look back follows Smithson through her marriage at a young age in 1960 and offers a recap of her family. With photos included, The Whippoorwill Calls offers a glimpse into one womans past guided by her faith in God, and the history that formed who she is today.

Download or read book Miles of Memories written by Brenda Starks Miles and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Memory s Keep written by Kibler, James Everett and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mister Pink Suber, whose five children have moved away after the death of his wife, goes on tending his land and livestock while mentoring his young neighbor and friend in the ways of farming and life. It is his deep love for the land and the sensibilities of Celtic imagination that inform us in Kibler's writing, representing what the Agrarians were telling the South and the nation: a way of life that excludes the spiritual side of existence is disastrous to all phases of life.

Download or read book A Trace of Memory written by Valerie Hansen and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To stay alive, a woman with amnesia must trust a man from her shrouded past in this uplifting novel of romantic suspense. Emma Landers has amnesia. And on top of losing much of her own past, she can’t remember how she got it, why she’s injured . . . or why someone is determined to hurt her. When she lands on the doorstep of former love Travis Wright, she can barely remember their shared history. But she knows she can trust him to protect her. The handsome farmer was heartbroken when Emma left him for the big city. But there’s no way he can send her away when gunshots start flying. Now Travis must keep Emma safe while helping her piece together her memories—before it’s too late.

Download or read book Honeysuckle Memories Bitterweed Times written by Kathy Ann Chandler and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2005-05-23 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathy Ann Chandlers poignant book of turbulent times in the nation and in the small-town southern girl evokes memories in each reader of personal trials and triumphs. Her grasp of situations affecting the family members dealing with self and with realities beyond their control, encourages the reader to explore his or her own family dynamics. This second book eclipses the emotions that were stirred by her first book, But She Has Such a Pretty Face!!! Honeysuckle Memories, Bitterweed Times explores the innocence of a child, of a family and of a nation.

Download or read book Whippoorwill written by Sharon Sala and published by RosettaBooks. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A frontier saloon girl longing for excitement gets more than she can handle in the “funny, heart-warming” debut of the bestselling Whippoorwill trilogy (Deborah Smith, New York Times–bestselling author). Orphaned at age twelve, all Leticia Murphy wants is love, a family, and a happy ever after. But the Kansas territories are a difficult place, and Letty has to do what it takes to survive. Now, she’s the last saloon girl in the rough-and-tumble town of Lizard Flats, a place where happy ever afters are nothing but a dream. Until—that is—a preacher from the East comes to town. The man of God isn’t quite as holy as he seems. And when he turns up dead in Letty’s bed, off sets a chain of unfortunate and hilarious events that will take Letty out of Lizard Flats in the company of Eulis Potter, the town drunk, on a trail that no one could have seen coming . . . “Wear a corset because your sides will hurt from laughing! This is Sharon Sala at top form. You’re going to love this touching and memorable book.” —Debbie Macomber, #1 New York Times–bestselling author “Whippoorwill is a funny, heart-warming story, set in a raw, untamed land and rich with indelible characters.” —Deborah Smith, New York Times–bestselling author “Masterfully crafted players . . . and a story with a lasting sense of hopefulness.” —Romantic Times

Download or read book Night Bird Calling written by Cathy Gohlke and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From award-winning author Cathy Gohlke, whose novels have been called “haunting” (Library Journal on Saving Amelie) and “page-turning” (Francine Rivers on Secrets She Kept), comes a historical fiction story of courage and transformation set in rural Appalachia on the eve of WWII. When Lilliana Swope’s beloved mother dies, Lilliana gathers her last ounce of courage and flees her abusive husband for the home of her only living relative in the foothills of No Creek, North Carolina. Though Hyacinth Belvidere hasn’t seen Lilliana since she was five, she offers her cherished great-niece a safe harbor. Their joyful reunion inspires plans to revive Aunt Hyacinth’s estate and open a public library where everyone is welcome, no matter the color of their skin. Slowly Lilliana finds revival and friendship in No Creek—with precocious eleven-year-old Celia Percy, with kindhearted Reverend Jesse Willard, and with Ruby Lynne Wishon, a young woman whose secrets could destroy both them and the town. When the plans for the library also incite the wrath of the Klan, the dangers of Lilliana’s past and present threaten to topple her before she’s learned to stand. With war brewing for the nation and for her newfound community, Lilliana must overcome a hard truth voiced by her young friend Celia: Wishing comes easy. Change don’t.

Download or read book The Memory of Gills written by Catherine W. Carter and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catherine Carter's first volume of poetry exudes a genuinely classical quality-cool-eyed and clear-eyed, intelligent, unsentimental, self-aware, and witty in the fullest and best sense. Carter takes our evolutionary development in the womb as a departure point for remembering or imagining our links with nonhuman animals, which make us feel both alien and alive. She writes of being "raised by wolves," that "everyone marries into another species," and of "hearing things" in the voices of the rattlesnake plantain or the apple core. With an offbeat, sometimes-gallows humor-the poems' subjects range from roadkill to stingray-human sex to a traffic ticket for avoiding toads on the road-that looks at our connections of blood, home, and exile, The Memory of Gills nonetheless speaks of hope that we belong where we are.Last night or rather this morning she called on the telephone in my dream. She thought it was Thanksgiving, and she didn't know she was dead. I didn't want to tell her she was dead, or going to die this May, which in the dream was still next May. I told her about the job I still had last Thanksgiving, tried to remember. My mother was there and spoke to her; no one knew quite what to say except love -- and before that I woke up. She called, across six months, six feet; she called us, and we didn't know how to go or what to say. Dead was too heavy, we couldn't say that; we couldn't say anything really. Except love, which this one time ought to have been enough, but, as it always is, was nothing like enough. -- "The Telephone in My Dream"

Download or read book The Memory House written by Linda Goodnight and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Honey Ridge, Tennessee, and a house that's rich with secrets but brimming with possibilities. Memories of motherhood and marriage are fresh for Julia Presley--though tragedy took away both years ago. She finds comfort in running the Peach Orchard Inn, then a man and his son come into her life and they both find something in one another that fills deep voids. With the chance discovery of a dusty stack of love letters, the long-dead ghosts of a Civil War romance begin to develop between the two.

Download or read book Down Memory Lane written by Irene Neville and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-08-04 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southern Illinois through the eyes of a lady who has lived almost the entire twentieth century. It is presented in a simple, easy to read format using her own words. She found the simple, honest, and hard work of country life to be very rewarding. This is her story.

Download or read book The Whippoorwill Trilogy written by Sharon Shala and published by RosettaBooks. This book was released on 2020-06-24 with total page 815 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the New York Times–bestselling author “at top form”—includes Whippoorwill, The Amen Trail, and The Hen House, all in one volume (Debbie Macomber). From bestselling author Sharon Sala comes the trilogy following Leticia Murphy on her adventures that take her from the Kansas Territories to Denver City, and from reluctant saloon girl to happily married woman. Orphaned at age twelve, all Leticia Murphy wants is love, a family, and a happily ever after. But the Kansas territories are a difficult place, and Letty has to do what it takes to survive. Now, she’s the last saloon girl in the rough-and-tumble town of Lizard Flats, a place where happily ever afters are nothing but a dream. Praise for The Whippoorwill Trilogy “Sharon Sala has created a one-of-a-kind, unforgettable character in Letty Murphy. Her rags-to-riches story is a mythic journey filled with moments of devastating emotional truth and soaring triumph.” —Susan Wiggs, #1 New York Times–bestselling author “No one does love and laughter like Sala. You’ll definitely want to take a journey down The Amen Trail.” —Joan Johnston, New York Times–bestselling author “Sharon Sala works her familiar magic and creates a story line that grabs your attention, along with a cast of unlikely characters who work their way right into your heart.” —Jasmine Cresswell, USA Today-bestselling author “Wear a corset because your sides will hurt from laughing! . . . You’re going to love this touching and memorable book.” —Debbie Macomber, #1 New York Times–bestselling author

Download or read book A Place a Warrior a Boy and the Atlantic Charter written by G. W. Canning and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-07-09 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August of 1941, American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Englands Prime Minister Winston Churchill meet at Ship Harbour, Placentia Bay, Newfoundland. World War II is by now raging, so the German military is desperate to learn the reason for their meeting and the purpose of a new naval base being constructed. A German U-boat is dispatched to confirm the status of construction as well as the arrival of the president and the British envoy. The U-boats navigation officer is a young lieutenant named Erwin Kissling, the product of a German military education. Its here, in Newfoundland, where Erwins trajectory collides with that of Charlie OSullivan. Early in life, Erwin experienced a period of great political, social, and economic upheaval following the end of World War I and eventually saw the rise of the Nazi Party. Charlie also lived through political unrest and survived the Great Depression. Once separated by an ocean and a great cultural divide, they now take their places in history as the Atlantic Charter alters the course of war.