Download or read book Sweet Tea with My Hero written by John Bragorgos and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2023-01-23 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Their Southern Redemption Meet John McFerren, a local legend and civil rights activist in Fayette County, Tennessee, who overheard a shocking plot before Martin Luther King Jr.’s killing that’ll shock you: • McFerren, an elderly Black man, owner of a grocery store and gas pumps, befriends John Bragorgos, a white outsider with a soft heart. • Challenging Fayette County prejudiced white establishment, two colorblind men form a bond in the rural town of Somerville with deep-rooted, dark secrets. • McFerren is a savvy veteran of politics in Fayette County and coaches Bragorgos on how to survive in a tangled web of corruption, injustice, poverty, racism, and segregation. • Bragorgos helps the feisty local legend discover that his honest testimony of the King killing was downplayed and manipulated—inspiring two extraordinary men to unite and fight for justice. • The seasoned old-timer teaches Bragorgos how to play the game in the jungle of redneck hell—with roots from the Civil War. • A multilayered story with flashbacks of McFerren’s bittersweet and chilling past during the forties, fifties and sixties into the 21st century. Written from the perspective of someone who discovered a real southern gent with empathy and true grit in a bigoted county, John Bragorgos tells a story inspired by true events linked to the Civil Rights Movement. This fascinating book which praises Sweet Tea “the table wine of the South” (including recollections of America’s favorite country songs) shows the power of discrimination and humanity. A witty and warmhearted read for anyone who is suspicious about Dr. King’s killer acting alone —like the late Mr. McFerren, an unsung hero.

Download or read book The Hero Who Restores written by J. Scott Duvall and published by Kregel Publications. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we conform to the image of Jesus Christ? How do we grow in maturity as believers? How do we truly live out and experience all that God is and all that He offers to us? The Experiencing God's Story series answers these questions and more through an examination of twelve essential topics of spiritual formation. Presented through the three-step process of spiritual development--"believing, behaving, and becoming"--each topic examines a passage of Scripture, identifies and explains the theological principles of spiritual formation, and offers personal application for continued spiritual growth.

Download or read book Bringing Columbia Home written by Michael D. Leinbach and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voted the Best Space Book of 2018 by the Space Hipsters The dramatic inside story of the epic search and recovery operation after the Columbia space shuttle disaster. On February 1, 2003, Columbia disintegrated on reentry before the nation’s eyes, and all seven astronauts aboard were lost. Author Mike Leinbach, Launch Director of the space shuttle program at NASA’s John F. Kennedy Space Center was a key leader in the search and recovery effort as NASA, FEMA, the FBI, the US Forest Service, and dozens more federal, state, and local agencies combed an area of rural east Texas the size of Rhode Island for every piece of the shuttle and her crew they could find. Assisted by hundreds of volunteers, it would become the largest ground search operation in US history. This comprehensive account is told in four parts: Parallel Confusion Courage, Compassion, and Commitment Picking Up the Pieces A Bittersweet Victory For the first time, here is the definitive inside story of the Columbia disaster and recovery and the inspiring message it ultimately holds. In the aftermath of tragedy, people and communities came together to help bring home the remains of the crew and nearly 40 percent of shuttle, an effort that was instrumental in piecing together what happened so the shuttle program could return to flight and complete the International Space Station. Bringing Columbia Home shares the deeply personal stories that emerged as NASA employees looked for lost colleagues and searchers overcame immense physical, logistical, and emotional challenges and worked together to accomplish the impossible. Featuring a foreword and epilogue by astronauts Robert Crippen and Eileen Collins, and dedicated to the astronauts and recovery search persons who lost their lives, this is an incredible, compelling narrative about the best of humanity in the darkest of times and about how a failure at the pinnacle of human achievement became a story of cooperation and hope.

Download or read book My Hero written by Mary McBride and published by Forever. This book was released on 2008-12-14 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leaving her unhappy childhood in Texas behind, TV producer Holly Hicks lands in New York and is given a shot to produce a spot about injured Secret Service Agent Cal Girffin. The catch: Holly must return to Texas where Cal now recovers. Can they end up healing each other? Original.

Download or read book The Origins of Nostalgia written by Svetlana Boym and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of previously unpublished autobiographical and semi-autobiographical “snippets of experience” written by Svetlana Boym in the final period of her life capture her penchant for seamlessly melding, poetically and dream-like, the intensively personal with the everyday and the world-historical. They illuminate the formative conditions for the thinking which she was to develop into her majestic work on nostalgia. Importantly, these pieces fill in gaps in understanding the genesis and scope of her take on the world. For readers both familiar with her work and for those new to it, The Origins of Nostalgia will enable our own cultural past as well as that of the former Soviet Union to be viewed in a different light.

Download or read book A Gracious Heresy written by Connie L. Tuttle and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take one wildly naive, deeply flawed, completely unconventional woman and stir in God. Add to the mix that she is a lesbian, feminist, army brat, and single mom, and what you get is an earnestly radical Christian on a mission. Her response to an insistent call to prophetic ministry is acutely human and terminally messy. Prone to veer off course, she wrestles angels who repeatedly return her to her trajectory. The prophetic ministry to which she is called ends up taking place in hundreds of small daily acts rather than the great act that she had hoped for.

Download or read book Shadows Skeletons and a Southern Belle written by Jilda Leigh and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2012-07-13 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book For Love and Tacos Her Billionaire Hero s Epilogue A FREE Romance Short Stories written by Michelle Love and published by Blessings For All SC. This book was released on with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joe – the taco man who received a free stay at Whispers Resort and Spa from Baldwyn for a bottle of his ridiculously delicious hot sauce - takes his girlfriend Lola to Whispers Resort and Spa for one hot and spicy night. Will he get what he's been after for years? Or will she shoot him down– again? Inside, you'll also find the extended epilogue of "Her Billionaire Hero", giving you a deeper look into what happens after the happily-ever-after. Plus, enjoy a sneak peek of a steamy romance novel at the end.

Download or read book Pip Bartlett s Guide to Unicorn Training Pip Bartlett 2 written by Maggie Stiefvater and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bestselling authors Maggie Stiefvater and Jackson Pearce comes the second installment in a series bursting with magical creatures, whimsical adventures, and quirky illustrations. Some things Pip and Tomas will find when dealing with unicorns:SHOW-OFFS STAMPEDES MYSTERYA UNICORN WHO'S AFRAID OF EVERYTHINGSome things Pip and Tomas will not find when dealing with unicorns:PEACE AND QUIETPip Bartlett has a way with magical creatures. But even she's challenged by Regent Maximus, a unicorn who's afraid of everything. With the help of her friend Tomas, Pip has to get Regent Maximus ready for a big unicorn competition-even if Regent Maximus would rather do anything than compete. Making matters worse, someone mysterious is trying to win the competition by cheating-and if Pip and Tomas don't stop the bad things from happening, it's not only Regent Maximus who'll have reason to be afraid.

Download or read book Charity Begins At Bone written by Maddie Sutton and published by Jumping Goat Press. This book was released on with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One charity auction. Two feuding antique store owners. Three guesses as to what happens next… When local businesswoman Rosalind Murphy suspiciously goes missing before Harmony Grove’s big Charity Auction for the children's wing of the local hospital, Naomi is determined to dig up the truth. The circumstances behind Rosalind's disappearance just don’t add up, and the suspicion it casts on her business rival Tom Skinner—one of Naomi’s grandma’s close friends—is a little too convenient. But when Rosalind's body is discovered, Naomi realizes she may have bitten off more than she can chew. As she slowly fits the pieces of the puzzle together, will Naomi be drawn into danger that only her doggone best buddy can dig her out, or has this dog finally had its day? The fifth book in the southern, small town Naomi & Winston Mysteries, Charity Begins At Bone contains no adult situations or gore, only fun and high jinks as the heroine solves mysteries and chases behind her perpetually confused, endearingly curious, and continuously chatty Chihuahua. This story has a light paranormal element.

Download or read book Forgotten Heroes written by Edward Lee Smith Lt. Col. Ret. and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When author Edward Lee Smith set out to write about his life as an African American soldier and teacher in America during the tumultuous twentieth century, he had a very personal mission in mind. He needed to confront his demons. Smith and his twin brother, Fred, encountered some of the bloodiest combat in the Korean War as ri emen with the Seventh Infantry Division of the US Army. In Forgotten Heroes, he shares his life storyfrom his birth in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; to growing up in North Carolina during the Great Depression under the oppressive Jim Crow laws that pervaded the South; to his relatively happy teen years during World War II; to the bloody combat in Korea during the countero ensive of 1951; to joining the National Guard and working his way up to lieutenant colonel. As an African American of advanced age, Smith shares how he lived through Jim Crow, the Ku Klux Klan, war, the civil rights movement, economic booms and busts, the birth of rock n roll, the free love and drugs of the 1960s, the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the womens liberation movement, the tech bubble, and the Great Recession.

Download or read book Heroes of Princeton written by Christopher Bell and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-08-16 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with both comedy and tragedy, Heroes of Princeton follows the lives and adventures of seven men recruited into King Georges army as revolution unfolds in the Americas. As the Crown attempts to suppress rebellion in the colonies, the seven find themselves not only fighting their enemy but fighting themselves If you like your history personal, youll love this.

Download or read book The Nile written by Terje Tvedt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] vivid travelogue.” New Statesman “Has much to offer.” The Spectator "Sparks the imagination." BBC History Magazine "A fascinating study." BBC History Revealed Magazine “Essential reading." All About History "Valiant, valuable and entertaining." Times Literary Supplement The greatest river in the world has a long and fascinating history. Professor Terje Tvedt, one of the world's leading experts on the history of waterways, travels upstream along the river's mouth to its sources. The result is a travelogue through 5000 years and 11 countries, from the Mediterranean to Central Africa. This is the fascinating story of the immense economic, political and mythical significance of the river. Brimming with accounts of central characters in the struggle for the Nile – from Caesar and Cleopatra, to Churchill and Mussolini, and on to the political leaders of today, The Nile is also the story of water as it nourished a civilization.

Download or read book A Hero s Journal written by Templeton Walker and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-01-09 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine the world that we live in and all of the people that you know and have ever met. Some are family, others friends and associates, but suppose that 1 out of every twenty of them is something more than a mere man or woman; they are alien beings from the planet Venus, and though they are superior to us in every way they have lived peacefully amongst our kind for the past several decades. But now, a faction of their race has decided that their time for humility has come to its end. They send cyborgs out on a global campaign to capture and detain all of mankind until the day of Harvest, but thanks to your best friends intervention you are one of the few to escape.Such is the plight of the storys main character, Derek, and written in journal form are his personal experiences and thoughts of a world where humans are no longer the dominate species on earth. Taken in by Kiitos family, who are also Venusian, Derek goes through the motions of learning all that he can about their kind, and by chance he discovers that he himself is a Hybrid. Half human and half Venusian, the fact that he has the same capabilities as his full blooded counterparts thrills him to no end, but the responsibility that he feels in regard to his newfound power compels him to reluctantly join in the Rebellions effort to liberate mankind through war with the tyrannical Conglomerate. Nevertheless, before he has the time to make peace with that decision he is presented with an opportunity to help make the world a better place than it was before; a planet where personal agendas are a thing of the past, political gain plays no part in doing whats right for society and people are once again free to sleep with their doors unlocked. It is a state of being for which Derek has always dreamed of, and all that he has to do in order to bring it to fruition is form a secret alliance with a third party. Blinded by the possibilities, he fools himself into believing that accepting the offer and keeping it a secret is in everyones best interest, but, when the time comes to fulfill that oath he realizes the ramifications that his treachery may bring. Because his insight comes too late to warn the Rebellion of the intended ambush upon their forces, a personal sacrifice has to me made, but will it be enough to protect them and all of mankind from what lurks on the horizon.

Download or read book Heroes of an Unknown World written by Ayize Jama-Everett and published by Small Beer Press. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the final novel of the Liminals, a found family of Black superheroes has one last chance to save the world. After traveling back in time to rescue his fostered daughter, Taggert has returned to the present and found himself in his favorite place: up against the wall. But the world they’ve returned to is not the one they left: everything is slightly grayer, the music is boring, joy is just out of reach. The liminals’ entropic enemies, the Alters, are trying to bring about the end of the world by sucking the life—literally—out of enough people to tip the balance their way. Traveling from Jamaica to London to Indonesia to the heart of the whirlwind in the desert at the heart of all deserts, Taggert and his found family of liminals and supporters have to find a way to bring back the joy before they’re all ground down into the gray dust.

Download or read book Cadence and the Pearl written by K.L. Noone and published by JMS Books LLC. This book was released on 2020-04-11 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time, on a rocky island with enchantment under the ocean ... Cadence Bell left the windswept Northern Isles and his parents’ inn for the theaters and royal masques and glitter of Londre, swearing he’d make his fortune as a playwright and poet, trading fish stew and rain for fame and adoration and a place at the Queen’s Court. Now his parents are gone and Cade’s inheritance brings him back home, where he’d never wanted to return. But magic lurks beneath the waves, a stray pearl might be a key to another world, and even the quiet local schoolteacher has secrets of his own. Jeremiah Carver never meant to hide secrets. But he promised to tell no one about the other world he’s seen, and he keeps his word. Even if that means concealing magic from Cadence Bell. Which is difficult, since Cade’s not only a dazzling literary success, but also the person Jeremiah’s loved from afar since their years-ago childhood. And he’s afraid he’s falling for Cade all over again now. When Cadence falls under the siren spell of the ocean’s magic, Jeremiah has to make a choice and return to a world he’s left behind once before to rescue his heart from the sea.

Download or read book Stalking the Warden written by Carlos Reid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-12-17 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the smaller handbook size of the original Stalking the Warden book. Join this bungling Game Warden as he stumbles on the most disturbing and funny situations. This is a perfect read for any hunter or fishermen.