Download or read book Downtown Newport News written by William A. Fox and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newport News has the oldest English place name of any city in the New World, and through vivid images, maps and reminiscences, an illustrated history tells the story of the city's once popular and thriving downtown commercial, social and entertainment area, which met its end from flight to the suburbs after World War II. Original.

Download or read book Life for Us written by BJ Favor and published by PublishAmerica. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life for Us is a collection of short fiction stories. Help for a Homeless Veteran is about a homeless veteran who served in the Iraq War. A sister travels from Chicago, IL to Virginia to help her brother get out of the situation he is in. It is a moving story which shows the love a sister has for her brother. The Story of My Marriage is about a perfect marriage, or so you would think. The wife is physically abused. The husband is loved by everyone. The family tries to ignore the abuse, while Mary, the wife, is left hopelessly confounded. It leaves people wondering should families interfere with their children’s married life. Charlie’s Day is about problems faced by an overweight man who has a difficult, labor job. It shows the effect of weight on our lives and the problems we have. The stories will enlighten you about life.

Download or read book Open Arms written by Melissa Burkley and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of a strong God fearing, woman who raised her children, helped to raise her grandchildren and was a foster mom to 63. In her nineties she continues to be the matriarch of her family and a strong pillar of the community.

Download or read book Vickie S Story written by John Sherman and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-12-07 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction I still remember the first time I heard about Vickies stroke. My husband and I were on a mission trip in Florida, working with an international Bible translation team. Emails began to pop up on my computer screen with fragmentary pieces of information from home. Vickies dogs had been viciously attacked by neighborhood dogs and were in emergency surgery. Vickie asked us to pray for the recovery of her precious pets. Then the news got dramatically, unbelievably worse. Vickie herself had had a major stroke and the prognosis was not good, recovery uncertain. Information was suddenly sparse from the hospital as John and we (my husband and I) waited for the medical tests and for time to give us some idea of what was ahead for Vickie. It had been only the previous Sunday that John and Vickie had done another of their beautiful choral duets at our home church. It was less than six months since we had celebrated with John and Vickie at their wedding and reception. Vickie was too young to have a stroke. John and Vickie had just begun a new life together after suffering through broken relationships in both of their pasts. How could God allow such a thing to happen to such a couple? As I worked on the sermon I was to deliver back home the next Sunday, projected to be on the joy of the Lord, I was seized with doubts. Could I proclaim this joy with such a heavy heart? Could the congregation receive the promise of joy as we wept and waited and prayed? It was John Shermans blog that showed us the way. He began to chronicle the medical, emotional, and spiritual struggles that Vickie and he were experiencing, beginning that very first day. He drew on his deep knowledge of the scriptures. As time passed and events unfolded, John listened and considered and reflected on the painful times and the hopeful times, the frustrations with medical and insurance problems as well as the unexpected joys of love and service received from friends and hospital staff. His words and Vickies indomitable spirit through very difficult circumstances drew an ever-increasing Facebook audience, with dozens of people near and far uplifted and encouraged by their endurance and trust in the Lord. Johns eloquence in expressing all of these realities was something seldom seen on social media, something that seemed truly inspired by the Holy Spirit. I recommend John and Vickies story for your reading. If youre dealing with a similar medical issue, youll find it informative as well as encouraging. If youre just trying to live a joyful and victorious life, youll be uplifted and inspired by one couples overcoming journey toward recovery and restoration. My favorite text about joy comes from Nehemiah 8:10: Do not grieve, for the joy of the Lord is your strength. At the time this was written, the city of Jerusalem was in ruins and enemies were encircling and numerous. Nehemiah helped the people understand that when times were tough, those were the times they needed joy the most. John and Vickies story is ultimately a story of finding sustaining strength through experiencing the joy of the Lords promises and presence. Thats a message all of us need to hear. In Christ, Rev. Marie B. Allen Congregational Life and Discipleship Pastor New Town United Methodist Church Williamsburg, Virginia Friends, I know many of you are asleep now. Vickie has had a stroke and has no feeling or movement in her left side. As her doctor said, this is a life-changing episode, but I am praying for his light and glory to shine even in a dark moment. Thank you all for your continued prayers and support as we navigate through this present uncertainty. As I learn more, I promise to update you with what I know. My apologies, Facebook cant convey these thoughts with all that is filling my heart now. God bless you (John).

Download or read book My Story Pain Is a Private Matter written by Tony Valentine and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This life story will pique the interest of its readers with the breadth of knowledge, facts, and candid disclosure of life events that are articulated and illuminated in this writing. Readers will be compelled to read this book through to the end as each chapter leads the reader on a journey to the next. The book is filled with life lessons that can serve to encourage, motivate, and direct anyone who desires to admonish the voice of experience and wisdom in charting a course for his or her own life.

Download or read book Insight written by Bob Walker and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-04-26 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting at a young age, looking at events and circumstances as something to be developed and/or expanded to learn from, even if negative in nature, to please or attract others was a priority in life. My mother emphasized God's love and presence in our lives and that when strength was needed it was there we could look and reach out for it. Creating backyard rides in a wagon attached to a lawnmower as an event and renting books I saw in the house not being used, my mind was always focused on the "What else can be developed?" to enhance and improve the time, place, or situation. Life's challenges began in earnest when the accidental death of my wife and unborn child were killed in an automobile accident at my age twenty-five. From there I began to look for help in coping from my "best friend" for that purpose: alcohol. This helped for a temporary dulling of my senses but became a much too important part of my life. Through many years of finding a way to help others in business and achieving many goals and successes, this friend was always there. Eventually, this changed from friend to a disease, and one that challenged me further, even though at a significant time in my life (early retirement from a national company), I ceased this friendship and rose to other many new opportunities. After ten years of sobriety I was celebrating the successes of new business developments and expanded opportunities when I brought my friend back with a toast of one glass of wine, and life was turned upside down. Two years of that produced a loss of all I had gained materially, but a path to understanding my friend was a disease and have been able to protect myself from the disease, and continue after twelve plus years of sobriety to look to help others facing their challenges from this and how to find their opportunities.

Download or read book When I Was Your Age Volume Two written by Amy Ehrlich and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ehrlich offers more of a good thing in this second volume of memoirs of adolescence by renowned, contemporary YA authors." – Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Tell me a story of when you were little," children everywhere love to ask. In this acclaimed collection, ten award-winning, well-known writers comply by reaching across their own childhoods to those of their readers. Whether telling of growing up in Japan or upstate New York or the California coast, recalling The Great Depression or World War II or the 1950s, describing children’s victories or heartaches, the writers of these stories make it clear that despite the difference between one childhood and another, all children share a complex humanity and a deep capacity for joy.

Download or read book The Mystics of the Osprey Six written by John Jones and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Bizarre Story begins in Newport News, Virginia (U.S.A.) at the Deep Creek Marina located at the end of Deep Creek Road. Six young men lifelong friends having just completed their advanced educations studying Marine Biology have formed their own Marine Research Company; The Osprey Six Marine Research Company (OSMRC). To support this new company they have purchased an Old Ocean going Trawler Boat they have renamed “The Osprey Six”. Unbeknown to them this old boat comes with a Covenant that protects it (The Boat) by using Mysterious Sprits (Mystics). The way these Mystics develop, protects and controls them and this old boat will overwhelmen your imagination.

Download or read book Newport Girl On The Balcony written by a.j. Lombardi and published by a.j Lombardi. This book was released on 2021-11-13 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love, mystery, and intrigue follow first-year law student Alan J. Roberts who enters Newport's world of the rich and famous finding the girl of his dreams and an unexpected path into a world of wealth and power. Behind the walls of the famous Branders Inn, young Alan becomes entangled with the mystery and intrigue of the lives of Newport’s rich and famous. His life-changing path is about to begin the day he enters the doors of the rich and famous at Brander's inn...

Download or read book Iron Thunder written by Avi and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2010-02-12 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When his father is killed fighting for the Union in the War Between the States, thirteen-year-old Tom Carroll must take a job to help support his family. He manages to find work at a bustling ironworks in his hometown of Brooklyn, New York, where dozens of men are frantically pounding together the strangest ship Tom has ever seen. A ship made of iron. Tom becomes assistant to the ship's inventor, a gruff, boastful man named Captain John Ericsson. He soon learns that the Union army has very important plans for this iron ship called the Monitor. It is supposed to fight the Confederate "sea monster"--another ironclad--the Merrimac. But Ericsson is practically the only person who believes the Monitor will float. Everyone else calls it "Ericsson's Folly" or "the iron coffin." Meanwhile, Tom's position as Ericsson's assistant has made him a target of Confederate spies, who offer him money for information about the ship. Tom finds himself caught between two certain dangers: an encounter with murderous spies and a battle at sea in an iron coffin

Download or read book When I was Your Age written by Amy Ehrlich and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2002-02-18 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten writers reflect on special childhood moments and provide individual explanations of how they became writers.

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Download or read book The Man Who Made Babe Ruth written by Brian Martin and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-03-12 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At six-feet-six, the hulking Martin Leo Boutilier (1872-1944) was hard to miss. Yet the many books written about Babe Ruth relegate the soft-spoken teacher and coach to the shadows. Ruth credited Boutilier--known as Brother Matthias in the Congregation of St. Francis Xavier--with making him the man and the baseball player he became. Matthias saw something in the troubled seven-year old and nurtured his athletic ability. Spending many extra hours on the ballfield with him over a dozen years, he taught Ruth how to hit and converted the young left-handed catcher into a formidable pitcher. Overshadowed by a fellow Xavierian brother who was given the credit for discovering the baseball prodigy, Matthias never received his due from the public but didn't complain. Ruth never forgot the father figure who continued to provide valuable counsel in later life. This is the first telling of the full story of the man who gave the world its most famous baseball star.

Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

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Download or read book The Big Ship written by Frank O. Braynard and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The S.S. United States book is the first comprehensive work on the vessel in decades. This volume includes many rarely seen photographs from the liner's golden years to her forlorn and lonely twilight years. Follow Frank Braynard, the nation's leading maritime historian, and Robert Hudson Westover as they chronicle the life of the S.S. United States. The United States, which still holds the West-bound speed record on the North Atlantic, is the greatest ocean liner this country has ever built, and this book stands as a fitting tribute and celebration of her maiden voyage.The Big Ship: The Story of the S.S. United States is the fascinating behind-the scenes story of one of the fastest ships in the world and one of the most luxurious passenger liners to cross the Atlantic. With new introductory material by the SS United States Conservancy, this classic volume includes photographs of celebrity passengers and of the majestic liner from her golden years, when she spurred the rebirth of America’s maritime glory, to her twilight years. Follow Frank Braynard, one of the great American maritime historians, as he chronicles the life of the S.S. United States, the incredible feat of engineering that still holds the westbound speed record on the North Atlantic. This book stands as a tribute of her maiden voyage, a celebration of her recent rescue efforts by the Conservancy, and an inspiration for future generations to restore the legacy of the greatest ocean liner this country has ever built.