Fifteen Red Roses
Fifteen Red Roses

Author: Ann W. Yearwood

Publisher: WestBow Press

Published: 2018-06-14

Total Pages: 629

ISBN-13: 1973623900

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In the fall of 1962, Eve Windham begins her high school teaching career with enthusiasmIll be the best teacher they ever had! By the spring of 1969, the power of the civil rights movement reaches Janus County, resulting in a court order to integrate the public schools the next fall. Eve must face the challenge of possible violence with courage. Persevere with her to create new grading systems and group activities for her mixed classes. Ride with her to transport contestants and judge debate competitions. Sit with her in long, continuous meetings for the boys and girls. Laugh and cry with her in the interactions with family, colleagues, and administrators. Pray with her as she seeks to interpret for her teenagers war and death in Vietnam, bitter disappointment, baffling college standards and demonstrations, and a shifting culture. Then you may rightly judge the significance of Fifteen Red Roses, one for each year she taught us.

Mondays with My Old Pastor
Mondays with My Old Pastor

Author: José Luis Navajo

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 2012-06-11

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 0849950406

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A totally burned-out young preacher reignites his faith and gathers wisdom for life while spending successive Mondays with an eighty-three-year-old pastor. "Deep inside in some uncertain part of my soul persisted this strange exhaustion that was difficult to explain and hard to endure," writes pastor and author José Luis Navajo. Thinking of quitting the ministry, Navajo doesn't know where to turn until he begins meeting with a seasoned man of the cloth—his "old pastor"—who, through successive Monday visits, offers a legacy of wisdom in the form of 15 unique principles. In lyrical prose, Navajo shares the personal anecdotes, fables, and deep spiritual insights offered by the old pastor and his wife. By turns funny, heartbreaking, and thought provoking, Mondays with My Old Pastor is a comfort to anyone who struggles in his or her walk with God. As readers follow Navajo's journey from desperation to rejuvenation, they will find themselves similarly transformed and inspired. This moving, beautifully written account is sure to reignite every soul's longing for renewal.

Roses Aren't Red
Roses Aren't Red

Author: Amaka Azie

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2022-01-21

Total Pages: 576

ISBN-13:

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Roses: (noun) a shrub of the genus Rosa, with purplish-red, white, yellow or pink flowers. Fifteen heartwarming stories celebrating friendship, bonds and love in all shades. High flying executives, divas, prima donnas, second chance romances, friends to lovers, coming of age, this collection has all that and more! Roses Aren't Red consists of fifteen never-before-seen complete short stories. A Black Female Authors Project. Amaka Azie - The Wakeup Call Aminat Sanni-Kamal - A Dreamy Encounter Chidiogo Lilian Ezejelue - Dilemma Chijioke Osuji-Ekwelem - A Simple Life Diana Anyango - The One For Me Feyi Aina - The Orange Squash Glory Abah - Slide 42 L. Leigh - The Calathea Maggie Smart - Twice Bitten Maranatha Abutu - Love and Friendship Margaret Adetimehin - Keeping Mima Sally Kenneth Dadzie - Mutuals Timi Waters - Of Roses And Bloom The Fertile Chick - Edge of Desire Tope Omotosho - When Love Speaks

Pretty Girl Gone
Pretty Girl Gone

Author: David Housewright

Publisher: Minotaur Books

Published: 2007-04-01

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1429905662

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Rushmore "Mac" McKenzie has a lot of old girlfriends, but only one went on to marry the current governor of the state of Minnesota. And only one is calling him with a desperate request to meet in secret. First Lady Lindsay Barrett is carrying an anonymous e-mail that contains the makings of an ugly rumor about her husband, the man about to run for higher office---perhaps even the highest office. Someone says they have evidence that Jack Barrett killed his high school sweetheart. Lindsay says it's an outright lie, but the truth lies buried decades in the past in the small town where the governor grew up. Of course, Mac, who's richer than he needs to be and always has plenty of time on his hands, is in the business of handling such matters for his friends. So he packs up and drives straight into the governor's past with the brilliantly conceived plan to poke around and see if he can stir up a little information. He's soon got goons of all sorts poking him back, including a nasty little group of political movers and shakers who aren't above kidnapping and murder to protect their interests. It's clear that his little plan has stirred up nothing but trouble. With no choice but to stick to it, he continues shifting through a complex web of interlocking secrets and lies, some decades old and some rooted violently in the present day. It's up to Mac to sort truth from untruth before a vicious rumor becomes a political nightmare---or worse, before the "outright lie" is proved a solid, irrefutable fact.

The Painter's Lover
The Painter's Lover

Author: Eduardo Manet

Publisher: Ecriture

Published: 2015-01-15

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 235905192X

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In this beautifully crafted novel, Eduardo Manet, a Cubanborn French novelist and playwright, tells the story of a woman’s passion for a famous artist. The artist is his grandfather, the painter Édouard Manet, and the woman his grandmother, Eva Gonzalès, Manet’s only pupil and an extraordinary painter in her own right, whose profound understanding of the human soul shines through all her work. The relationship between Manet and Eva is seen through the eyes and the words of Jeanne, Eva’s younger sister. In her journals, she chronicles the vicissitudes of love in a time of war and exile, of social and cultural upheaval. From the Franco-Prussian War through the Paris Commune, the fall of the Second Empire and the birth of Impressionism, this story celebrates love as a blind, blinding, yet quintessentially life-giving force, embodied by the extraordinary Eva. She is surrounded by memorable and larger-than-life characters: her beloved sister Jeanne, her charismatic Aunt Dolorès, (the voice of French-born Eva’s Spanish family), Suzanne Leenhoff, the somewhat enigmatic wife of her lover Manet, and Berthe Morisot, her rival in art and in love, all presented against the backdrop of the dizzying art world of nineteenth-century Paris.

Lloyd’s Register of Yachts 1897
Lloyd’s Register of Yachts 1897

Author: Lloyd's Register Foundation

Publisher: Lloyd's Register

Published: 1897-01-01

Total Pages: 1468

ISBN-13:

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The Lloyd’s Register of Yachts was first issued in 1878, and was issued annually until 1980, except during the years 1916-18 and 1940-46. Two supplements containing additions and corrections were also issued annually. The Register contains the names, details and characters of Yachts classed by the Society, together with the particulars of other Yachts which are considered to be of interest, illustrates plates of the Flags of Yacht and Sailing Clubs, together with a List of Club Officers, an illustrated List of the Distinguishing Flags of Yachtsmen, a List of the Names and Addresses of Yacht Owners, and much other information. For more information on the Lloyd’s Register of Yachts, please click here: https://hec.lrfoundation.org.uk/archive-library/lloyds-register-of-yachts-online

A Memoir in Letters
A Memoir in Letters

Author: Hadwig Gofferje

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2005-06

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 059534271X

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A Memoir in Letters: My Life on Both Sides of the Iron Curtain is the touching autobiography that first chronicles the young life of German-born Hadwig Gofferje, born during World War II, then living under communist rule. She describes her journey to freedom, complete with an American university education, and a new life in the United States. During her war-torn childhood in Germany, Hadwig lived in her own world, where she occupied herself for hours with drawing and playing with her dolls and imaginary friends. But at night, she endured many terrifying bombing raids by the Allied Forces in her family's basement bomb shelter. In 1945, after packing one carefully-chosen favorite toy in her suitcase, Hadwig and her family fled the approaching Russian Red Army and immigrated to a small village in Thuringia. Hadwig describes not a peaceful beginning to her life, but a life in which actions and choices were incredibly influenced by World War II and the division of Germany. Eventually moving, without her parents, to West Germany and later to the United States, Hadwig receives the university education that changes her life forever. In this remarkable personal narrative, Hadwig Gofferje describes how she was able to escape oppression and seek freedom, ultimately achieving personal peace, inner-strength, and a greater understanding of the world around her.