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Warriors are never victims!
What if you were a highly sensitive, super magical kid plunked down in a world of violence, sex, and danger? In this world of upside down, nothing feels real. Everything hurts and no one is to be trusted. |
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Major James Lide Coker of Hartsville, South Carolina was a gutsy man of God and an entrepreneurial genius who founded 20 successful businesses. He grew up in the Old South, but became one of the most forward-thinking leaders of the New South. His business odyssey alone makes a fascinating story, but his expansive heart and keen intellect reached well beyond commerce. He was a passionate leader of the Christian faith, a pace-setter in women’s education, and a progressive in race relations. Ahead of his times in every way, he concluded his own book on the Civil War with these words: “There is one great result of the war between the States for which we are truly thankful: slavery is abolished.”
Though high-born, he and his family were brought low. In the Civil War, he bravely defended his homeland, fighting with Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson in Virginia, where his brother was killed. In Tennessee, James’s left thigh was shattered at the Battle of Lookout Mountain, and he became a prisoner of war. Delirious with pain, he had several harrowing escapes from death before finally returning home to Sherman-devastated South Carolina.
He had lost almost everything, including the use of a leg. But with extraordinary valor, he rose up with a crutch and a hoe to re-establish his farm, and went on to lead the economic, educational, and spiritual rebound of his region in a time of crisis and carpetbaggers.
James became the wealthiest man in South Carolina, yet remained humble and down to earth. His war agonies and innate sensitivity to human need enabled him to identify with the harshest realities of the human condition and with the plight of the disenfranchised. When his ingenious and diligent post-war initiatives brought him rivers of prosperity, he let them flow through him to bless countless others in his rural state. A deeply spiritual man, Major Coker also faithfully taught the boys’ Sunday School for thirty-eight years.
Today, we have too few leaders of genuine integrity. We need more like the Major – rock solid, gallant, far-sighted, and good to the core!
For the benefit of present and future generations, his inspiring story, with fresh perspectives and previously unpublished material, is retold in Dr. Joslin’s unique style, blending biography, daring adventure, courageous faith, and the drama of American history. |
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For thirty years, Jesus lived an obscure life in Nazareth. With few exceptions, there is little known about this time period. I have taken the liberty to contemplate what those years were like for Jesus and His parents. How did His birth affect Mary and Joseph? What was everyday life like in this little town in Galilee? Did Jesus have any friends, did He go to school, and did Joseph teach Him to be a carpenter? What was His relationship with these two loving parents who must have wondered where all of this was going? This is a work of fiction but it is also a spiritual journey for me and I hope for you. Spend some time contemplating The Greatest Story Never Told. It may move you as much as it did me in writing it. |
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Powerfully Filled With Suspense and Drama
Mystery and passion saturate this inspirational true story of love. An undying quest for truth triggers a gripping journey of two women and their families. Love and courage carry them through a tumultuous road filled with twists and turns of fate. A road leading to an unimaginable ending.
“OFFERS HOPE AND COURAGE to those who have been faced with tragedy.”
D. Myers MSW, adoptee, social worker.
A MOVING PERSONAL STORY, gripping in its poignancy. A rare human document in its honesty. Highly recommend for its dramatic story and compelling invitation to personal healing through love and understading.”
R. Severson, Ph.D. author, “Adoption: Philisophy and Experience |
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During high school, band geek Dave Tripiciano had few girlfriends, and was teased and bullied by his classmates and even his gym teacher. In an effort to prove himself, and win the respect of others, he practiced three hours a day to become an accomplished musician, and then went on to study music in college. When the coeds began to notice him, he discovered another way to impress the girls, and became quite the ladies man. Married while still in college, he played in a band for extra money, but that made it easy to flirt with and meet attractive women.
As he matured and settled down, he became a faithful husband, the father of three and a school band director. But the need to “prove himself” and impress people still drove him. Becoming a self-centered workaholic, he focused mainly on his career and his hobbies, until the tragic morning that he and his children found his wife dying in a wrecked car on their way to school. Soon after her death, he also learned that due to his selfishness, she had turned elsewhere for attention and had been having an affair with another man for several years.
Devastated and realizing how badly he had failed as both a husband and a father, he gave up his career as a high school band director and began to devote his life and his gifts to serving God and others. He met and married a young widow with two small children who lost her husband in a plane crash. Since then he has started an outreach ministry for men and several Christian school band programs that include home schoolers. He has also authored two books and produces Christian videos. |
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An assemblage of cousins from various states, who are close and meet every year for their annual vacation, like to have fun and go to places they have never seen before. Last year their vacation together had some unforeseen adventures they didn’t anticipate, so they were looking forward to a quiet and relaxing vacation together in a rustic cabin in the beautiful Missouri mountains. The lady at the registration desk and another lady tried to scare them away from their cabin, but these ladies were strong and wouldn’t back down to any situation, so they traveled on toward their cabin and fell in love with it immediately. The registration ladies told them a wild tale of their cabin being one that Jesse James had slept in a long time ago and that he had hidden some money somewhere in that very cabin, and sometimes others would want to try to find it. All this didn’t faze the strong women who were wanting a place to relax with their favorite cousins. They meet a variety of colorful characters along the way that would be hard for people to believe if they told them. Some of these characters were good and others not so good, leading the cabin ladies to have to do things they had rather not do to survive. Not all the vacation was bad. They had good times along with the bad. The cousins were close and would stick together no matter what came their way. The lady at registration was correct when she said some people would do anything for money, and they did. |
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Grief is universal. Everyone has lost someone they loved and felt the pain and emptiness that comes with such profound loss. After Nancy Williams lost the man she fell in love with as a teenager to a brief, harsh illness, she sought a way to ease the pain of bereavement. She needed strength to move forward with life. Nancy found solace in writing poetry, releasing her emotions through the written word. Now, in A Return From Grief, she will take you through her personal journey of loss and share her emergence from grief into life once again. With honest, genuine emotion, Nancy fills the pages of this book with the lessons she has learned from living through the death of her beloved former husband. She offers solace and comfort to those enduring similar experiences. |
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Yolanda P. Tyson was born on December 29, 1983. She began writing poetry when she was only eleven years old. She started with a journal, writing feelings about her life, happiness, sadness, good times, bad times, even depression.
While she was writing, Yolanda decided to make her journal into poetry. She is still writing today.
At the age of twenty-four, she gave birth to a son on August 2, 2008. While Jeremiah was growing up, the things she saw him doing really amazed her. Some poems here are written about him.
Yolanda has had seizures since she was a year old. The medication she takes is a huge distraction. She did not do that well in school, so she stopped going. When she decided to go back, it was too late. Now she is working to receive her G.E.D. and hoping to make a living writing poetry.
Yolanda’s poems consist of fiction and nonfiction poems. She hopes her readers enjoying reading them as much as she enjoys writing them. |
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Choctaw Timeline by Dr. Kennith H. York is a critically researched book that draws upon historical documents and accounts of scholars to illuminate the prehistory, culture, language, and history of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, Indigenous People, the State of Mississippi, and world populations.
The Choctaw Indians are one of the oldest tribes in the Americas, dating from the era when the woolly mammoth roamed the Southeast. They are the native inhabitants of the area now comprising the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Mississippi. The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians continues to speak their language, maintain their unique culture, and live on their indigenous land in Mississippi. |
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Choctaw Nationalism by Dr. Kennith H. York is a wonderfully researched book that draws upon oral traditions, historical documents, and accounts of observers and scholars to illuminate the prehistory, culture, language, and history of the Chahta Okla People.
Let’s rekindle Choctaw Nationalism as they survive the Spanish terrorist attack of 1540, the French and British invasion of the 1700s, the U.S. Government Policy of Indian Removal of 1830, the great Depression of the 1930s, the Civil Rights Era of 1960s, and the current economic recession, which threatens the survival of 11,000 Choctaws. The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians stands as a shining example of a people striving to embrace their heritage while working within the constraints placed upon them by the U.S. government. |