Download or read book Down The Row From Benjamin written by Rod Hollaway and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Down the Row From Benjamin is the story of the life-long love between Ellis Ashton and his recently deceased wife, Rosa. Their life together has been full of challenges that they have met and overcome. Together they built a life and a successful textile business. In the weeks following the death of Rosa, Ellis has withdrawn and is overcome by despair, until the letter that challenges him again. The letter, written by Rosa just weeks before her death, asks one last thing from Ellis. Please, she begs, you must tell Craig about Benjamin. Tell him everything about the family that we've hidden all these years. Tell our son about his real parents and why they weren't here for him. It's time for him to know it all. And so it begins.... Ellis starts to write everything in a journal while sitting at Rosa's gravesite for hours every day. Everything goes into his journal: the guilt Ellis feels after witnessing the murder of his father. Why it was necessary to change their name before Craig had even seen his father. What was the awful truth about Craig's mother that they never told him? Who is and who isn't a part of the Ashton clan? How life began to settle and even improve when his life included Rosa, and then how quickly perfection was torn apart and his future with Rosa was no longer guaranteed. In fact, it was uncertain if he even had a future in a world torn apart by war. Ellis struggles against the well-intentioned concerns of his family over his newly diagnosed heart problem. In addition, his friends and family have noted his gradually increasing confusion and his seemingly obsessive need to complete the journal. Ellis battles exhaustion and failing health to complete the epic story for Craig as he had promised Rosa. Desperation leads to his final reckless act to conclude the story.
Download or read book The Formative Years of Benjamin Bird written by MD Gage and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-04-22 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Benjamin Bird is set in Western Oklahoma in the Dust Bowl years of the Great Depression. Benjamin was born in 1934, the third child of a sharecropper. Ben's heritage encompasses the history of late nineteenth-century frontier America, for his grandfathers were born in the aftermath of the Civil War. His paternal grandfather was the son of a former slave owner, and his maternal grandfather, the youngest son of a Confederate veteran, was from an extended family who, for generations, had subsisted squatting on public land beyond the edge of the farming frontier. Like nomads, when the frontier was closed, they owned no land. Benjamin's first memory was when, in late 1935, his farm family moved into a two-room frame shack whose plastered walls were pasted over with 1932 newspaper front pages, to seal the cracks. Benjamin was a happy boy who found joyous harmony in the natural world on the hardscrabble farm on which they subsisted, while the 1932 newspaper headlines kept him inquisitive about the world beyond his boundaries. He was secure in the love and support of his parents, his brother, and his sister. Nearby, Ben's grandparents, uncles and aunts, and sturdy, competitive cousins provided a support system, sharing what they had, a blood-related social security system, a workforce during harvest, a force to turn to for help in crisis. He loved them all and remained loyal to them throughout his formative years, even after he detected among them certain blemishes of character, even after their occasional hurtful words made him seem inferior, even after he began to doubt the infallibility of their fundamentalist religious convictions, even after he developed a secret, forbidden, gripping crush on a handsome, roguish older neighbor boy. In conflict of conscience, will Ben defy his heritage and lose his beloved family's love and support by rejecting their religious fundamentalism? Will they condemn him and shun him as a heretic? How will Ben cope with confusion about his sexuality without being guilt-ridden, inhibited, closeted, or shunned, filled with self-loathing? * * * * * Watch for the forthcoming sequel, The Adolescent Years of Benjamin Bird.
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Download or read book The Devil s Stocking written by Nelson Algren and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Devil’s Stocking is the story of Ruby Calhoun, a boxer accused of murder in a shadowy world of low-purse fighters, cops, con artists, and bar girls. Chronicling a battle for truth and human dignity which gives way to a larger story of life and death decisions, literary grandmaster Nelson Algren’s last novel is a fitting capstone to a long and brilliant career.
Download or read book Benjamin s Gardens written by J. Walther and published by Babelcube Inc.. This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the death of his parents, 19-year-old Benjamin lives alone in his family house. Stuck in his memories, he drifts without knowing what he wants to do with his life. Even if he doesn't see any prospects for himself in his home village, he is cocooned into nature and the idyllic surroundings. He can't imagine moving to the big city. But one day the mysterious Marek turns up in the abandoned villa. Benjamin has to make a choice ... Coming of Age novel, about 155 pages
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Download or read book Dear Ben written by Michael Koski and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-10-04 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On his last night, the great man is compelled to tell the true story of his life to his friend and manservant, Bobby, including the unsavory bits history books will gloss over. Franklin knows he has only one night to atone for his sins. He has come to abhor slavery and offers to free Bobby, who hesitates, fearing the outside world. Bobby wants to know how his master rose from obscurity to wealth and fame. "Read my book," (his autobiography) Franklin tells him. "What's not in the book?" Bobby asks, unleashing the story of the unknown Benjamin Franklin. Franklin unfurls a sprawling saga of intrigue, romance, epic battles, love and loss. Bobby learns why Franklin never married his common-law wife, Deborah, or Margaret Stevenson, with whom he lived in London for fifteen years. Franklin tells a story fraught with illegitimate offspring, fathered by himself, his son, and his grandson. Who was the mother of his own bastard son, William? It is a confidence Bobby will take to his grave. Franklin's towering achievements in science and diplomacy are sullied by his tragic relationship with his son. Too long oblivious to William's treachery, he keeps him by his side as William weaves a pattern of betrayal and eventual treason. In a final meeting at Southampton, William begs his father for reconciliation and forgiveness, which Franklin fails to grant. Bobby's decision to accept Franklin's offer of freedom, only moments before Franklin succumbs, leads "Dear Ben" to a surprising conclusion.
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