John Markham
John Markham

Author: Kathleen Shelby Boyett

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2015-08-13

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9781516879380

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John Markham operated a mercantile business in Alexandria, Virginia from the 1680s through the early part of the eighteenth century. To fill his coffers, he traded back and forth with his native England for goods that the Colonies needed and vice-versa. He was said to be a daring, greedy rascal who did not mind hurting others to get what he wanted. Handsome and dashing, he was also popular with the ladies of the period. Then one day in March of 1683, he turned a corner in his privateering career, a turn that led him into outright piracy. Yet, there are those who say John Markham never existed. Who is telling the truth? Here for the first time, the family stories are told and analyzed so as to get as close to the truth as is possible. Was Lewis Markham, respectable sheriff and associate of the Washington family, the father of Elizabeth Markham? Or was her father John Markham, the devilish pirate? Set sail on the high seas and discover the answer with noted Family Historian Kathleen Shelby Boyett.

West with the Night
West with the Night

Author: Beryl Markham

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780865471184

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Autobiography detailing the author's life in Africa and career as a pilot.

The Far Away Brothers
The Far Away Brothers

Author: Lauren Markham

Publisher: Crown

Published: 2018-05-22

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1101906200

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The deeply reported story of identical twin brothers who escape El Salvador's violence to build new lives in California—fighting to survive, to stay, and to belong. Growing up in rural El Salvador in the wake of the civil war, the United States was a distant fantasy to identical twins Ernesto and Raul Flores—until, at age seventeen, a deadly threat from the region’s brutal gangs forces them to flee the only home they’ve ever known. In this urgent chronicle of contemporary immigration, journalist Lauren Markham follows the Flores twins as they make their way across the Rio Grande and the Texas desert, into the hands of immigration authorities, and from there to their estranged older brother in Oakland, CA. Soon these unaccompanied minors are navigating school in a new language, working to pay down their mounting coyote debt, and facing their day in immigration court, while also encountering the triumphs and pitfalls of teenage life with only each other for support. With intimate access and breathtaking range, Markham offers an unforgettable testament to the migrant experience. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW | WINNER OF THE RIDENHOUR BOOK PRIZE | SILVER WINNER OF THE CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARD | FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE | SHORTLISTED FOR THE J. ANTHONY LUKAS BOOK PRIZE | LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/BOGRAD WELD PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY

Markham Street
Markham Street

Author: Ronnie Williams

Publisher: Bookbaby

Published: 2022-02-24

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9781667811291

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"Markham Street" is more than a story about systemic racism, police violence, or brutal murder, although it is all of those. Above all, it is the story of one man's enduring love for his lost brother and his devotion to his grieving parents, who kept silent for two and half decades to protect their seven surviving children. Through the lens of his then-thriving Black community of Menifee, Ronnie Williams vividly describes the suffocating misery and debasement of Black families who worked in the cotton fields or as domestic help for white families and businesses. He shares in loving detail how his parents made ends meet through constant work and resourcefulness and raised eight children, six of whom became educators like himself. He also shares his memories of the night his brother died, a night when a literal tornado tore apart his home, while only miles away, a tornado of rage and hate tore apart his family. Most of all, he writes poignantly about his brother Marvin - a prodigy who graduated from high school at the age of 15, Marvin desperately tried to escape the grinding poverty of field labor. He joined the Navy and later the Army, where he became a respected U.S. Paratrooper. At age 20, he was a beloved son, husband, and father. He had a good job, a second child on the way, and a bright future - until the night he was unlawfully arrested on Markham Street and bludgeoned to death by police. The book resounds with the author's unresolved grief over his brother's terrible death, his righteous determination to get justice for Marvin, and his own remarkable, ground-breaking career in the same city where his brother was killed.

Chosen in Him
Chosen in Him

Author: James Edward Markham

Publisher: Xulon Press

Published: 2008-12

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 1607912163

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"Chosen in Him." This is the book that America has been waiting for! Another motivational masterpiece bordering on the lines of "Pursuit of Happiness." This is one for the entire family. It is not only a motivational story but also a love story that warms hearts with an identifiable and inescapable tragedy that has touched the lives of many. The experiences in "Chosen in Him," takes us on a reflective Siddharthian journey as we see how an American family bounces back from a tragedy of the unexpected death of a young wife and mother named Necie, who leaves behind her beloved husband James and their four children: James II, Jude, Candace, and Jonathan. Pastor James E. Markham was born in Los Angeles, California to Thallious and Cella Stine Markham. He has been a math teacher for seven years in the Los Angeles Unified School District and ten years in the Rialto Unified School District. In 1982, the late Bishop James Cummings assigned him as pastor to Emmanuel Temple CME church in Victorville, California. For the past 27 years he and the Emmanuel Temple church family have been successfully emphasizing church and spiritual growth through the power of prayer. He and the membership are known throughout the High Desert for their evangelistic outreach through preaching, charities, benevolence, feeding, and compassionately praying for the bereaved and the sick and shut in. Pastor Markham has a simple four point ministry: 1) Soul winning 2) Prayer 3) Preaching 4) and Tithing. His favorite slogan that he is known by is: "God is Good-All the time and All the Time-God is Good." He is thankful to Bishop Henry Williamson, Bishop William Graves, Bishop E. Lynn Brown, Bishop Nathaniel Lindsey, Rev. Elliot & Sis. Mason, and prophetess Pearl Young and a host of leaders for their inspiration in leadership.