Download or read book My Life My Love My Legacy written by Coretta Scott King and published by Henry Holt. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in 1927 to daringly enterprising parents in the Deep South, Coretta Scott had always felt called to a special purpose. While enrolled as one of the first black scholarship students recruited to Antioch College, she became politically and socially active and committed to the peace movement. As a graduate student at the New England Conservatory of Music, determined to pursue her own career as a concert singer, she met Martin Luther King Jr., a Baptist minister insistent that his wife stay home with the children. But in love and devoted to shared Christian beliefs as well as shared racial and economic justice goals, she married Dr. King, and events promptly thrust her into a maelstrom of history throughout which she was a strategic partner, a standard bearer, and so much more. As a widow and single mother of four, she worked tirelessly to found and develop The King Center as a citadel for world peace, lobbied for fifteen years for the US national holiday in honor of her husband, championed for women's, workers' and gay rights and was a powerful international voice for nonviolence, freedom and human dignity.

Download or read book Story of My Life written by Sunny Morton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capture the stories of a lifetime Record the stories of your life--or a loved one's--for posterity! The Story of My Life workbook makes it easy: Simply follow the prompts to preserve memories from your entire life. The book includes sections on parents, siblings, childhood, high school, career, and adulthood. There’s also space to note vital statistics about yourself and immediate family members as a genealogical record. The workbook features: • Fill-in pages with thought-provoking prompts to capture key moments that define your life • Advice and exercises to reconstruct memories from long ago • Interactive pages for family and friends to share their own stories • Special forms for spotlighting important people, places and times A great gift for your children to learn about their parents' lives or the jumping-off point for writing a memoir, the Story of My Life workbook will help you preserve your memories for generations to come.-

Download or read book Life Duty written by Les Joslin and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The fact of being a citizen of the United States of America offers the opportunity—not the guarantee, but the opportunity—to live an extraordinary life,” Les Joslin writes in the introduction to Life & Duty, an autobiography in which he proves his thesis as the relives the first seventy years of his American adventure. He shares these years in twenty chapters that comprise this three-part volume. Part I covers his family heritage and early years from 1943 to 1967, Part II his U.S. Navy career from 1967 to 1988, and Part III his life in Oregon from 1988. From Part I, Chapter 5, Summer 1965 on the Toiyabe National Forest... That wasn’t the first time I’d dealt with an armed citizen, and it wouldn’t be the last. Some of the challenges of my fire prevention job had nothing to do with wildfire prevention but everything to do with the fact I was sometimes the only public servant around to handle a situation. It had to do with that sometimes gray area between official duty and moral obligation. The previous summer, on my way to Twin Lakes, I detoured to check the dump I’d burned a few days before. Suddenly, I heard shots, just as the Lone Ranger and Tonto did in the opening scene of almost every episode, and what I saw as I neared the dump scared me. A big, beefy, fortyish man standing next to a late-model Cadillac sedan was firing a high-powerd rifle.... He’d heard me coming, and turned as I stopped the patrol truck. He didn’t look particularly threatening. But there were serious unknowns. I didn’t know him. I didn’t know what he might shoot at. I didn’t know he wouldn’t shoot at me. From Part II, Chapter 10, November 1979 aboard USS Kitty Hawk... On November 28, I got up, showered and shaved, put on clean khakis as usual, and started toward the wardroom for breakfast. The usual scent of salt and jet fuel was in the air, and I had a lot on my mind. I descended two ladders to the hangar bay, only to be brought up short by bumping my head on a helicopter that wasn’t supposed to be there. A quick look around revealed seven more RH-53D Sea Stallion helicopters that their HM-16 markings told me belonged to Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron Sixteen, not part of the ship’s air wing. So that’s why the swing south to Diego Garcia! They’d been flown there, probably in C-5As, and had flown aboard last night. Had I actually slept through flight quarters? I forgot about breakfast, climbed the ladders back to the 02 level, and knocked on the door of the flag N-2’s office. “This isn’t going to work,” I said as he opened the door. “We can’t fly those helicopters into a city of five million hostiles and rescue fifty hostages.” “They don’t want to hear that,” he replied, and closed the door. From Part III, Chapter 15, Summer 1992 on the Deschutes National Forest As I walked toward the fire, I began to think. Am I doing the right thing? After all, I’m just a contract wilderness information specialist, not part of the fire organization. I hadn’t been to the Deschutes National Forest’s fire school. I didn’t have fire clothing. I didn’t have a fire shelter. Except for a canteen, I didn’t have any water. And I’d turned in my last red card—the fire qualification card that rated me as a crew boss—in 1966 when I’d left the Toiyabe National Forest to go on active duty in the Navy. That was twenty-six years ago! Should I be doing this? Sure, I answered my own question. I’d started out in the “old Forest Service” where everybody did everything. I’d done this many times before, in the days before fire shirts and Nomex britches and fire shelters. I’d had five fire seasons on the Toiyabe, been on a couple big fires. ... I knew this business. I knew how to keep out of trouble. About the time I resolved that little issue, I was at the fire....

Download or read book ORIGINAL PERCEPTIONS written by Alcides Vidal and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-01-29 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original Perceptions The author goes far back in time even to his beginning as an embryo to show that human beings listen and perceive a lot even before their birth. He cleverly narrates cases of his own perceptions from before he was born, during his childhood and up to his adult life. Striking cases of perception such as, "My First Perception Before Birth", "The Casket Of My Grandmother, Mercedes", "The Last Energy of My Aunt Maria", "I Had Died and I Didn't Know It", "The Last Effort For Life", "Born Again", “The Energy From Photographs" and more are incredible and fascinating. The author urges the reader to make every effort to become more alert to any form of perception however infinitesimal it may be.

Download or read book Curiosities of the Search room written by Mrs. Wm. Pitt Byrne and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness written by Jane Lazarre and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I am Black," Jane Lazarre's son tells her. "I have a Jewish mother, but I am not 'biracial.' That term is meaningless to me." In this moving memoir, Jane Lazarre, the white Jewish mother of now adult Black sons, offers a powerful meditation on motherhood and racism in America as she tells the story of how she came to understand the experiences of her African American husband, their growing sons, and their extended family. Recounting her education, as a wife, mother, and scholar-teacher, into the realities of African American life, Lazarre shows how although racism and white privilege lie at the heart of American history and culture, any of us can comprehend the experience of another through empathy and learning. This Twentieth Anniversary Edition features a new preface, in which Lazarre's elegy for Mother Emanuel AME in Charleston, South Carolina, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and so many others, reminds us of the continued resonance of race in American life. As #BlackLivesMatter gains momentum, Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness is more urgent and essential than ever.

Download or read book The Spirituality of Grandparenting written by Ralph Milton and published by Wood Lake Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Our spiritual vocation as grandparents is to delight in our grandchildren." So begins Ralph Milton, in this latest addition to the beautifully and lavishly illustrated Spirituality of... series. More than a celebration of grandchildren, this book is a celebration of grandparenting, and of the very real gifts it offers to both the grandchild and to the grandparent. Which is not to say that grandparenting is always easy or fun. While Milton shares lots of stories of hugs and giggles, of silly songs and tender moments, he also knows that many grandparents struggle with the challenge of long-distance grand-parenting, with the pain and tension of separation from grandchildren due to marriage break-up, and with the anxiety and distress of grandchildren who are in trouble or who are ill. But Milton doesn't dwell on these things. Rather, he returns, always, to the delight, wonder, and love, which is foremost in the experience of any grandparent; and to the inherent bond that exists between older adults and children. This remarkable book is for grandparents who are new to the role and for grandparents who have earned their degree in 'grandparentology' through long experience. It's for 'traditional' grandparents and for grandparents of adopted children; it's for surrogate grandparents and even for grandparents-in-waiting.

Download or read book Legacy Witches of Shadow Cove A Paranormal Women s Fiction Romance Boxset written by Jennifer L. Hart and published by Elements Unleashed. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A forty something home organizer with ADHD has no choice but to return to her bizarre childhood home with her sister witch this enchanting series by USA Today bestselling author Jennifer L. Hart. This supernatural-sized omnibus collection includes the following titles. Book 1 Midlife Magic Mirror Book 2 Midlife Magic Monster Book 3 Midlife Magic Malady Buy Legacy Witches of Shadow Cove: The Complete Series and summon the fun today! Fans of the following authors are known to enjoy this later-in-life slow burn pwf romance series: K.F. Breene, Shannon Mayer, and Robyn Peterman.

Download or read book Bittersweet Legacy written by Cynthia Moskowitz Brody and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2001 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bittersweet Legacy is a collection of poetry, short stories and art inspired by the Holocaust. It is a book born of paradox, evoking remembrances of the darkest moments known to humankind by utilizing the power and beauty of the creative force. The writers and artists represented in this book are individuals who were driven to respond to the extremities that define the Holocaust. Some are accomplished in their fields, others have created in an attempt to understand and give form to their sorrow and quest for meaning. Each voice expresses a singular reprise. Together they forge a resounding voice in response to the six million voices that were silenced.

Download or read book Ancient Curious and Famous Wills written by Virgil McClure Harris and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dark Intent written by SF Benson and published by Avanturine Press Books. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One family. One bond. Forged in evil. A centuries old grudge match, a witch hellbent on revenge, and a demon who creates chaos just because… For years, the Mercier family has despised the Red Witch. When Elsbeth comes to their town, Melisande Mercier sees the chance to get even. But before the head of the clan can exact vengeance, the sexy sorceress has to deal with the trouble brewing in her own house. Melisande’s overwhelming attraction to Kenrick Locke, her cousin, is at odds with her growing affection for another. She has no idea of the evil she’s invited into her bed until it’s too late. A son of one of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse has possessed Marsilius Mercier. The demon won’t rest until he unleashes Hell on Earth. The only way to stop him is if Melisande can put aside her hatred to team up with Elsbeth.

Download or read book Songs from the Street written by Karen S. Kendler and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Songs from the Street is about a native New Yorker coming of age in the fifties, from age eleven to age twenty. The success story of a Jewish girl and her Puerto Rican friends is a combination of circumstance, luck, and learning from mistakes. Karen's story includes coping with a dysfunctional alcoholic family, days of excellent schooling contrasted with nights in the street, a drug-addicted boyfriend, a May-December romance with a high school teacher, and the culture shock encountered in educational and economic border-crossing. In addition to the story of one person and her friends, the narrative provides a universal paradigm of growth anyone can identify with. Moreover, the book includes a wealth of 1950's cultural and historical information not typically found in memoirs. This includes city tales about life on the rooftops and under the boardwalks, Forty-second Street before Disney, and Alan Freed's rock and roll shows. Whether your interest is in New York City, the fifties, or a teenager coming of age under adverse circumstances, the reader will be entertained and educated.

Download or read book Island Splashes written by Crystal G. Reece and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is important is the circles of influence that have helped me to become who I am today. God has used each splash to divinely order every step to ripple through every part of my life, ministry, and story. I pray to continually make splashes with those impacts from here to the uttermost parts of the earth, by living out each lesson learned. Never forget that regardless of the size of the splash, each one of them continues to ripple across the ocean of life. - Crystal Reece, Author "Her story is our story. It's the life of contrasts the writer of Ecclesiastes told us about. Sadness and joy, tears and victory, grief and dancing, crawling and flying ... it's all there. But, unlike so many, the fragile segments of Crystal's life are held together by the God-thread of unwavering trust. It is this very thread that reaches out and weaves you into the amazing tale of a life of selfless devotion to the God of the universe. More than a memoir, this is a story that can become yours if you let it." - Melani Shock, Pentecostals of Alexandria, and author of Eat This Book "If you expect this book to be about a young woman's call to do missions work, it is. Do you perceive it to be about prayer? You are correct. Do you view this as a how-to book on finding God's will and experiencing His provision? Right again; it's all this and more! This book illustrates how God strategically places influencers in our lives to 'splash' us, as Crystal so ably states, causing ripple effects. As you read, may your heart be stirred, causing you to splash others with the all-encompassing love of Jesus Christ!" - David and Kathy Brott, missionary envoys; Global Missions UPCI

Download or read book Helena s Legacy Heir to the Bloodlords written by Trixxi Tellings and published by Writers Republic LLC. This book was released on with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helena is a child with a hidden magical legacy. Her normal, gothic stylized lifestyle was about to turn upside down. Her family has kept many secrets from her and it is up to only her to find them out. Helena has her familiar by her side, a long haired black cat named Fergus, his soul mission is to protect her. Helena and Fergus are thrust into an unexpected adventure when Helena discovers the murder of her younger brother and the disappearance of her Mother. It is up to the nine year old little rookie witch to face deadly creatures, evil witches bent on domination, treacherous terrain and a world unlike her own. With Fergus by her side, along with his own hidden secrets, the pair must journey on to find Helena's mother and save the world before it is too late.

Download or read book Power Of One Personality And Self Development written by Mishra and published by Excel Books India. This book was released on 2009 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dawn of Liberty written by Michael Phillips and published by RosettaBooks. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political unrest shakes the foundations of a war-torn country—and of the McCallum family as they fight for their faith in the Secret of the Rose series. Many years after their daring escape from a divided Germany, Sabina and Matthew McCallum return with their son, Tad, to attend a conference on preaching the gospel of Christ in a country still scarred by the Cold War. What they discover is troubling. Western Christianity, while well intentioned, is not filling the unique needs of Christians in the East. And even though the Cold War is over, political strife is bubbling just below the surface, and Sabina and Matthew become entangled in a Communist plot to seize control of Eastern Europe. Once again, the couple must call upon their instinctive talent for survival—and their deep faith in God’s protection—to save their family.

Download or read book A Stirring of the Air a Shifting of the Light written by Wayne Luckmann and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wayne Luckmann looks back on growing up in Milwaukee's South Side during the 1930s and 1940s, sharing hard-fought lessons from his childhood and beyond in this touching memoir. In A Stirring of the Air, a Shifting of the Light, Luckmann celebrates his family, childhood friends, and many others who have played meaningful roles in his life. His recollections include Margaret and Her Children in which he shares the rich heritage of his mother's European family who immigrated to America at the start of the last century. Their deep, abiding love often unexpressed help turn him into the man he ultimately becomes. In My Father's Keeper, he explores his father's side of the family, showing how various relatives influenced his relationship with his dad. This side of the family helps shape his attitudes, perceptions, and relationships with others, especially his son. These recollections seek to preserve moments and memories of things past that were rich in flesh and blood and bone. Although they are now only flickering neural images, they made Luckmann who he is, and they have profound meaning for anyone seeking a bridge to the past and an understanding of self.