Download or read book Gracies Pond written by Mark R. Fortune and published by Author House. This book was released on 2004-01-06 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In everyones life there comes a loss of someone you love. Be it a spouse, parent, good friend or even a pet. Travel along with Bill, Bob, Gracie and B.J. as they walk through the trials and tribulations of this life. Share in their joy as they pass from the darkness into the light. In most books you see yourself as the character, in Gracies Pond you may see yourself. You may be going through the situation one of the characters are and follow them to your solution. To write a story well, it should be experienced. Gracies Pond is based on the authors life. The trip B.J. takes at the age of fourteen searching for love, for family, follows the exact route taken by the author many times. Gracies Pond is a book for all ages, both adults and children alike. One that parents will pass to their teenage children or visa versa. I wish you joy and hope.
Download or read book GRACIE S STORY written by Grandmatel and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2024-05-15 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was nothing like wilderness living in Kentucky. Outhouse + cow + momma = frazzled momma Log raft + boy + river = danger Mountain Man + snow + slay = bad choice Bad Indians + momma + girl = kidnapping Momma + grandma + squirrel = biscuits & gravy Rain + boy + momma = loblolly Momma + gun + green eyes = chicken & dumplings Gracie’s family left Virginia for homesteading in Kentucky. They were naïve city slickers, but God sent angels to help them. The land had to be cleared and a log cabin built. Through their strong faith in God and a lot of prayer they staked out their homestead and helped to build a community. The angels worked overtime keeping Bobby Joe out of trouble but sometimes they just watched and laughed. The Mountain Men were the “bestest” angels God sent them. Gracie was a feisty little girl almost six when they came. She was an observer and wrote their experiences in her diary when she was nine. The places are real. The last names are people living in the community and the charter members of the church. The fi rst names are my children and grandchildren. The events are fi ctional except for the building of Pleasant Ridge Baptist Church which is still there today.
Download or read book The Daughter of God written by Edward N. Conner and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Saved by Gracie written by Jan Dunlap and published by Authentic Media Inc. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There But for the Grace of Dog Go I ... Author Jan Dunlap was suffering increasingly severe bouts of anxiety after a medical misdiagnosis slapped her in the face with an acute realization of the tenuous nature of human life. A degreed theologian, Jan found her personal faith in God and His promises severely shaken and her enthusiasm for life being replaced by growing fear and debilitating insecurity. Then a rescue-shelter black lab-mix by the name of Gracie came into her life as her daughter's new pet, and Jan determined to do whatever it took to provide both her daughter and the dog with the sense of security she herself no longer felt. She quickly discovered, however, that Gracie had her own agenda, and it was all dog. From chasing squirrels to jumping fences to the occasional roll in dead fish, Gracie taught Jan that life is for living, not dreading. As she began to realize that Gracie was helping her manage her anxiety, Jan also came to a new awareness of how a loving God provides healing through His own works of creation. Part memoir and part medical exploration of the truly healing gifts that God freely offers us through our interaction with animals and nature, Saved by Gracie is a story of God's redeeming love revealed at the paws of a dog.
Download or read book Shallow Pond written by Alissa Grosso and published by North Star Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-07-08 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Babie Bunting is constantly mistaken for her siblings, but she’s determined not to end up like her family. She doesn’t plan to stick around Shallow Pond after graduation, and she won’t be ruined by a broken heart. When her sister comes down with a mysterious illness—more serious than “love sickness”—Babie starts investigating their mother’s death.
Download or read book Princess Gracie s Journey to Heaven written by J. B. Nessa and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a far, faraway land long ago, there was a great stirring. A princess had been born—a child chosen to a royal bloodline and set apart to God. Heaven—have you ever wondered what it would be like or what questions you would ask God if you could sit down with him for an hour? Princess Gracie did have this opportunity. Join her in Princess Gracie's Journey to Heaven to find out what her questions were and how God answered her.
Download or read book Reflections in an Orphan s Eye written by A. L. Provost and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2005 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author practices Optometry in the Atlanta area, and serves as a legal consultant to optometrists and related health care professionals. He holds an undergraduate degree in Physics-Mathematics, and post-graduate degrees in Law and Optometry. Dr. Provost is a member of The Florida Bar and The Georgia Bar, and is licensed to practice Optometry in Florida and Georgia. He lives in an Atlanta suburb with his wife Evelyn, an attorney, and their four champion Persians, who have replaced in both intelligence and charm, four talented children who have gone on to careers in Optometry, teaching and real estate. The author graduated from Berry College near Rome, Georgia in 1961. While at Berry College in the late fifties the author was President of the Freshman Class, Treasurer of the Sophomore Class, Secretary, Vice-president and finally President of the Men's Student Government. At the end of his Junior year he became the first ever recipient of the Jessie Pritchett Parish Student Leadership Award, presented to the one student among the entire student body who best demonstrated leadership qualities on campus. While at Berry College the author rewrote the Berry College Handbook for Men. Following graduation in 1961, the author enlisted in the U. S. Army. He served two tours of duty in South Korea, the first as the feature writer for The Pacific Stars and Stripes newspaper, distributed daily to more than 37,000 U. S. soldiers in South Korea. The young reporter covered all meetings of the Military Armistice Commission (MAC) held at Panmunjom, and traveled freely throughout South Korea in his assigned Jeep, writing about anything of a military or civilian nature that interested him or that might be of interest to his readers. At age 24 the author was accepted as a student at the prestigious Defense Language Institute, located at Monterey, California, where he studied the Korean language for a year, graduating first in his class of thirty students. Following months of instruction at the U. S. Army Intelligence Center located at Ft. Holabird, Maryland, the author was stationed with the 502 Military Intelligence Battalion in Seoul, South Korea. As the youngest of the five prisoner interrogators and intelligence analysts, the specialist daily interrogated captured North Korean espionage agents and their 'minders" who had failed in their attempt to infiltrate the irregular coastline of South Korea. These experiences are the subject of the author's soon to be published book entitled The Wall at Inchon. In 1965 the author received an Honorable Discharge from the U. S. Army, and in 1967 was accepted as a student at the University of Houston College of Optometry. Dr. Provost graduated in 1972 with the degree Doctor of Optometry, and began his private practice of Optometry in the Ft. Lauderdale, Florida suburb of Plantation. In 1977 Dr. Provost was accepted into Nova Southeastern University College of Law, graduating in 1980 with the degree Juris Doctor. He has practiced Optometry since 1972 and Law since 1980, in Georgia and Florida. The author was born in Kinston, North Carolina in 1939, the knee baby of seven children. Following the sudden death of his father, a wartime U. S. civil service engineer, in February 1947 the seven-year-old was sent to live for a decade in historic Oxford Orphanage, located northeast of Raleigh. Dr. Provost's Reflections in An Orphan's Eye-A Decade at Oxford is the first book written about the historic 132-year-old institution since Nettie Bemis' popular Life at Oxford, published in1925. However, whereas Nettie Bemis' work centered around the history and campus life at Oxford, Dr. Provost's work, while recounting the history of the institution, is a factual, bittersweet narrative of a youngster's decade-long odyssey spent growing up 'inside the hedges." This work is a moving account of how tradition rich Oxford Orphanage and its four hundred students and staff grabbed a timid, disillusion
Download or read book The Chance Of A Sparrow written by Fay Risner and published by booksbyfay. This book was released on 2008-07-28 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An American version of Miss Marple, Gracie Evans is homesick and tired of retirement. She's bored with living in the Moser Mansion Rest Home For Women in Locked Rock, Iowa. Spring brings back pleasant memories so she prays to God to give her a chance to go back to her farm for a little while. No one is more surprised than Gracie when her prayer comes true. The renter asks her to stay at her farm for a month while he goes on vacation. Soon she decides she should be more careful what she prays for. Her thrill at finding wild strawberries to pick dulls when she sees an Indian swimming naked in her pond. After he leaves, she finds a missing neighbor's clothes on her pond bank. Gracie goes for a walk through her timber to mushroom hunt and gets shot at. That's just the beginning of bad luck for her while she's at Three Oaks to farm sit. Once the widower neighbor and Gracie's former beau finds out her problem, he keeps coming over to check on her. At least that's his excuse for showing up unexpectedly. What he really wants is to take back up with Gracie where they left off years ago. None of this farm sitting experience was what Gracie meant when she asked God for The Chance Of A Sparrow.
Download or read book The Adventures of William and Gracie written by Patricia Cox Duke and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Adventures of Gracie and William are an enticing trip through many of childhood's earliest experiences, fears, and triumphs. Children will relate to the younger Gracie as she shares the same uncertainties about life that they have. Whereas they will want to be like William who is older, braver, and wiser. Join Gracie and William as they learn important life lessons while exploring their world and the animals around them. Including heart-warming Christmas and spine-tingling Halloween adventures too!
Download or read book I Gracie written by Sharon Sala and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2020-11-01 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young woman must find her way in the world again after years of nursing her ailing mother in this novel by the bestselling author of Once in a Blue Moon I, Gracie, survived . . . When Mama announced to our family that she had dementia, my brother and sisters insisted they couldn’t help. They had their own lives elsewhere, after all. So, I gave up my dreams and spent the next nine years caring for Mama alone, losing her bit by bit, and nearly losing myself in the process. I, Gracie, started over . . . After Mama finally let go of this world, I let go of that world, too. I left the nightmare of my life with Mama, my family, and West Texas to start over in a new place, far away. It took some doing, but I have a new job, a safe place to live, and even new friends and a man who loves me, broken as I am. But . . . I, Gracie, am scarred . . . Until my past is buried like Mama, I keep my man waiting—struggling with what was and not trusting what is or could be. I, Gracie . . . Am on hold . . .still trying to let go. Praise for New York Times and USA Today–bestselling author Sharon Sala “Sharon Sala is a consummate storyteller.” —Debbie Macomber, #1 New York Times bestselling author “Sala hooks you from the first page.” —Fresh Fiction
Download or read book Gracie Hall Hampton written by Codis Hampton II and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have learned over the years that there is no greater feeling of accomplishment than to give something of oneself in hopes that others will benefit from that gift. The idea was planted in my being by my fathers way of raising his children. It grew in leaps and bounds and, in fact, was magnified when actually I began to listen to stories about my family history. I took those stories passed on to me by my father, mother, grandmother, and other family members to form a story about my Grandmother Gracie Hampton. It was her lifestyle, environment, conditions and timeline in which she lived, that is the storys anchor, and my inspiration. And make no mistake, even though I have used the real names of the Hamptons family central characters, and most relatives, all words written as dialog in this book are mine and mine alone. Ive adding my words as dialog, along with a few fictional characters to facilitate a story line of how it could have happened during the events noted. At times, it was a struggle to keep an eye on my purpose in life. God knows I have been distracted many times. Often, by my own misguided actions. Yet, Ive always returned to my roots, the foundation of my upbringing, the unapologetic belief that I can not only survive but thrive and compete in any environment. I learned that from my ancestors. My youngest son, once remarked, Im not sure who I am. At the time, he was going through an identity crisis trying to find out where he belonged in life. My advice was simple, Go look in the mirror. Thats who you are and who will get you where you want to go. I hope this book helps others remember who and where they came from. Codis Hampton II
Download or read book Gracie written by Lisa Strode-Carter and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-06-03 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gracie--the Curious Little Goat is a story about the exploits of a very feisty little goat. She lives on a farm with her mother and brother and many other animals. Gracie is very curious about her surroundings, and like all little goats, she loves to go exploring. Gracie likes to get out of her meadow and wander around the other areas of the farm. She has many adventures and is so curious that the farmer has trouble keeping up with her. This story is a collection of some of her adventures and the excitement she has while exploring her world. Gracie is based on a little goat that my children owned, and she loved to get out and run around all over the farm. We would find her with the cows and in the pond with the ducks and even sometimes on the front porch with the dogs. She was a very curious little goat and was not afraid to approach any other animals, and she was very brave to wander in dangerous areas of the farm.
Download or read book A Family for Gracie written by Amy Lillard and published by Zebra. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the Amish of Pontotoc, Mississippi, faith and family are everything—even when they pose the greatest challenge . . . Gracie Glick is known for being the helpful one, always available for a relative in need. But now that she’s longing for a home and family of her own, it’s time to help herself. With few eligible men in Pontotoc, Gracie’s choices, and her time, are limited. So she takes a bold leap of faith: she proposes to Matthew Byler, a handsome, recently widowed, father of five. It’s not until after they’re married that Gracie learns Matthew doesn’t want more children . . . With his grief still fresh, and his children needing care while he tends to his farm, Gracie is the answer to Matthew’s prayers. But a marriage in name only suits him fine. And when he finally tells Gracie the dismaying reason why, they must decide whether to continue together—or apart. It’s a choice that will force them both to look deeper into their hearts than ever before . . . Praise for Amy Lillard and her Wells Landing novels “An inspirational story of romance, faith, and trust . . . will appeal to fans of Wanda Brunstetter and Beverly Lewis.” —Library Journal on Caroline’s Secret “Fans of inspirational romance will appreciate Lillard’s vivid characters and positive message.” —Publishers Weekly
Download or read book Trouble the Water written by Jacqueline Friedland and published by SparkPress. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abigail Milton was born into the British middle class, but her family has landed in unthinkable debt. To ease their burdens, Abby’s parents send her to America to live off the charity of their old friend, Douglas Elling. When she arrives in Charleston at the age of seventeen, Abigail discovers that the man her parents raved about is a disagreeable widower who wants little to do with her. To her relief, he relegates her care to a governess, leaving her to settle into his enormous estate with little interference. But just as she begins to grow comfortable in her new life, she overhears her benefactor planning the escape of a local slave—and suddenly, everything she thought she knew about Douglas Elling is turned on its head. Abby’s attempts to learn more about Douglas and his involvement in abolition initiate a circuitous dance of secrets and trust. As Abby and Douglas each attempt to manage their complicated interior lives, readers can’t help but hope that their meandering will lead them straight to each other. Set against the vivid backdrop of Charleston twenty years before the Civil War, Trouble the Water is a captivating tale replete with authentic details about Charleston’s aristocratic planter class, American slavery, and the Underground Railroad.
Download or read book Gracie written by Christine YOung and published by Rogue Phoenix Press. This book was released on 2023-10-08 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She’s a good girl… During a tempest, Gracie Seymor flees the hands of an abusive fiancé to find herself tossed from her horse. The blow to her head causes the loss of her memory. In the shelter of a wayside inn, she meets a man who steals her heart. From the moment the handsome man, Gordan Murray, lifts his dark brown eyes to meet hers, they are drawn together, spellbound, into each other’s arms then into the night of passion that claims her innocence sending her on a course that will change her life forever. …Nonetheless he steals her heart So dependent on the man who claims her virginity, Gracie becomes his mistress even though she understands she should refuse. She’s a good girl. Good girls don’t become men’s playthings. After the night spent with Gracie in his arms, Gordan takes her to a cottage near his home. Here they will confront the specter of her past and discover Gracie’s identity. It revolves around a tangled web of secrets coupled with a magical love that cannot be denied.
Download or read book Gracie s Sin written by Freda Lightfoot and published by Canelo. This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War puts their friendship to the test, but can they unite against their true enemy? It’s 1942 and Gracie is eager to do her bit for the war effort. She joins the Women’s Timber Corps, relieved to get away from her quarrelling, interfering parents. Her training leads her to Cornwall where she meets energetic newly-married Lou, and Rosie who is desperate to escape her bully of a brother. The three girls become fast friends and are happy to learn they will stay together for the next posting to the Lake District. Against the backdrop of rolling hills and dense forests, they soon discover that emotions are heightened in wartime. Rosie is swept off her feet by an American GI, Lou must come to grips with the prospect of tragedy when she is told her husband is missing in action, and Gracie is cast out after she falls in love with a German POW. Will the bond of friendship be strong enough for them to overcome these hardships, and do their bit for the war effort? A page-turning saga of love and loyalty, perfect for fans of Nancy Revell and Katie Flynn.
Download or read book The Secret in the Water written by Antoinette Sidberry Richardson and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2023-09-14 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secret in the Water is a story of love, courage, fear, and excitement. For sweet Gracy, life was happy and content until she chose to take another path on her walk. Her journey began with hearing a song in the distance, meeting an unknown rude man, and having a sip of water. This led her to later learn an important life lesson of how everything around you could be changed and to discover the secret in the water she drank, which saved not only her but also everyone she loved.
