It Wasn't All for Nothing

It Wasn't All for Nothing

Author: Bill Hill

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2023-06-13

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1666765937

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Jump aboard this emotional roller-coaster ride through a painful past. A life full of suffering, rejection, loneliness, hatred, and heartbreaking memories of the author and his three sisters. The ways in which they were traumatized, abandoned, and made to fend for themselves. The author’s experience of dealing with an alcoholic mother, being bullied, and turning to drugs, alcohol, and violence to cope with harsh reality. He shares his experiences of going in and out of jail and the hospital due to street fighting. He describes the joy of having a son and the pain of losing his mother, getting married, having a daughter, and being cast in the overwhelming role of being a parent without any experience of knowing what a normal family looks like. He shares with you the things that led him to God and how he experienced true healing. His hope is for others to find peace with their painful past too. God is your heavenly Father and will forgive you of your sin, but there are consequences; he will discipline his children. The author found this out the hard way when he wrote this book, facing ninety-one years in prison.


It Ain't All for Nothin'

It Ain't All for Nothin'

Author: Walter Dean Myers

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-10-06

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0061975001

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Life in Harlem isn't easy, but Tippy and his grandmother are doing okay. Then Grandma Carrie gets sick, and Tippy goes to live with Lonnie, his father. Lonnie's got his own thing going on, and he doesn't have much room in his life for a son he barely knows -- unless, that is, Tippy is willing to walk the far side of the fine line between right and wrong. Grandma Carrie always said if he had Jesus in his heart there wasn't anything to worry about, but sometimes it's not that simple. When the chips are down, will Tippy be able to call for help -- and is there anyone out there who will listen?


All for Nothing

All for Nothing

Author: Walter Kempowski

Publisher: New York Review of Books

Published: 2018-02-13

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1681372061

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A wealthy family tries--and fails--to seal themselves off from the chaos of post-World War II life surrounding them in this stunning novel by one of Germany's most important post-war writers. In East Prussia, January 1945, the German forces are in retreat and the Red Army is approaching. The von Globig family's manor house, the Georgenhof, is falling into disrepair. Auntie runs the estate as best she can since Eberhard von Globig, a special officer in the German army, went to war, leaving behind his beautiful but vague wife, Katharina, and her bookish twelve-year-old son, Peter. As the road fills with Germans fleeing the occupied territories, the Georgenhof begins to receive strange visitors--a Nazi violinist, a dissident painter, a Baltic baron, even a Jewish refugee. Yet in the main, life continues as banal, wondrous, and complicit as ever for the family, until their caution, their hedged bets, and their denial are answered by the wholly expected events they haven't allowed themselves to imagine. All for Nothing, published in 2006, was the last novel by Walter Kempowski, one of postwar Germany's most acclaimed and popular writers.


Deadlock

Deadlock

Author: Sara Paretsky

Publisher: Dell

Published: 2011-02-09

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0307781283

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“V.I. Warshawski is one of the best . . . smart, tough, sexy.”—Daily News (New York) “Sara Paretsky makes excellent use of local backgrounds in a carefully plotted tale of murder and great misdeeds in the world of Great Lakes cargo shipping.”—Chicago Tribune When Chicago Black Hawks hockey legend Boom Boom Warshawski slips off a wharf and drowns in Lake Michigan, his private-eye cousin questions the accidental death report and rumors of suicide. Armed with a bottle of Black Label and a Smith & Weson, V.I. follows a trail of violence and corruption to the center of the Windy City's powerful shipping industry. Dodging elaborate attempts on her life with characteristic grit and humor, the one-of-a-kind detective wends her way through a maze of grain elevators and thousand-ton freighters, ruthless businessmen and gorgeous ballerinas, to ferret out Boom Boom's killers before they phase her out of the picture—permanently. “Hard-boiled detective fiction . . . a swift-paced and engrossing read.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer “Slithers with suspense!”—Chicago Sun-Times


Migratory Birds

Migratory Birds

Author: Melda Sherman

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2021-02-11

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1664157220

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In the United States, Melda is about to receive the “Best-Selling Female Author of the Year” award from the famous talk show host Oprah Winfrey at a ceremony attended by the president of the United States. She’s walking on air. She has shown that she can fulfill her dreams and be a success story despite a host of challenges. On her way to the ceremony with her family, she pores over her past life, the heroes of her book, and their intersections in life. Her novel Migratory Birds is a tale of her life, others’ lives, how they changed the course of their lives, and how they adapted to their new ones. A tale of rebirth, a tale that became everyone’s story. This is a story of the struggle for life in the face of fears and challenges. Today, yesterday, even two centuries years ago . . . This is the story of Lady Mary and Lord Charles de Veille, who escaped the French Revolution and ended up in Boston. After a difficult two-month cruise, they embarked on a new life with her pregnant sister and their parents. The story tells of their arrival in Boston after a stormy voyage and how they settled down, their struggle with the Mohawk natives, and becoming Americans. This is the saga of Reyhan, who lived in Ankara, Turkey, in the 1970s, and her violent, womanizing tailor husband and how she came to America. Her story of clinging to life with her abusive husband in Boston. Her divorce and meeting her second husband, André, the love of her live, and becoming Madame Renée. A story about raising two children and becoming a strong woman. Charlie migrated from Ireland, leaving behind his alcoholic, aggressive brothers, and came to New York at the beginning of the 1900s to live the “American Dream” after seeing it on a brochure calling Irish people to America. He settled in Massachusetts after working on skyscrapers in New York. And of course, Leyla’s story . . . The tempestuous story of award-winning architect Leyla Vardar and her husband, Yaz. Events that unfolded right during the best period of their lives led to them starting all over again in another country. All these people came to America like migratory birds and made a new life. The challenges underlying their new lives, envied from the outside; the prices paid; and the lives gained . . . Aren’t these lives and stories the stories of all people?


War School

War School

Author: Julian Manieson

Publisher: eBook Partnership

Published: 2019-06-27

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 1912924706

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Deep in the heart of Nazi Germany, an elite school, War School, is training the best and brightest teenagers to rule the world.But Hugo Safin and his sister Lottie aren't like the other students.They're Jewish.Nobody knows this but them and their mother. What better place to hide from Hitler than right under his nose?They are about to have the adventure of a lifetime, along with their friends Jens Goebbels, Andrea Ducasse, and Oliver Muller.Sent deep into the Russian winter, they are given an impossible task: kill Joseph Stalin, the Soviet leader, and win the war for the Nazis...


Waiting for the Other Shoe

Waiting for the Other Shoe

Author: Maggie Handsley

Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 1906510555

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A story of a family turned upside-down by the adoption of a child with Reactive Attachment Disorder.


Pieces of Eight

Pieces of Eight

Author: Hope Anika

Publisher: Hope Anika

Published: 2022-04-01

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13:

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Book Four of The Guardians Series When the young boy Thea Marlie is mentoring goes missing, she knows there’s only one man for the job: FBI Special Agent Max Prescott. But Thea and Max have history, and asking him for help means confronting the darkest time of her life. FBI Agent Max Prescott has been waiting years for the only woman he ever loved to need him. He’s ready to face the past and accept its consequences, to do whatever it takes to win Thea back…even if he fears some things are too terrible to forgive. Thea wants only to move forward, while Max is determined to look back. But when they learn the boy has been taken by people hunting the lost treasure el Tesoro del Corazon, they will have to get beyond their stalemate. Because the race to unearth the hidden chest of cursed Spanish silver is on, and to save him they will have to work together to find it…before the curse of el Tesoro finds them. Don’t miss the fourth installment of this intense, suspenseful romance series! Keywords: Romantic thriller, romantic thriller series, new romantic thriller, linda howard, Susan Stoker, Toni Anderson, Rachel Grant, Romantic suspense series, romance series mystery, romantic thriller, romantic thriller series, romantic suspense anthology, romantic suspense, mystery romance series, mystery romance, FBI romance, Barbara Freethy, FBI romantic suspense thrillers, military romance, first love romance, found family romance, lost love romance, alpha male romance, action adventure romance, romantic suspense box set, romance box set, serial killer romance, law enforcement romance, contemporary romance, contemporary romantic suspense, contemporary romantic thriller, popular romantic suspense, popular romance, new romance, new romantic suspense.


Dawn's Light

Dawn's Light

Author: Terri Blackstock

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 2008-09-09

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 0310296218

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As the electronic pulses that caused the power outage finally come to an end, thirteen-year-old Beth Branning witnesses two brutal murders. She narrowly escapes the killer and runs away in terror. But he knows who she is, and it’s just a matter of time before he comes after her. Torn between fear and compassion, Beth tries to help the grieving wife of one of the victims. But will her bravery cost Beth her life? As the power begins to be restored, the Brannings face their toughest crisis yet. Will God require more of them this time than they’re prepared to give? New York Times bestselling suspense author Terri Blackstock weaves a masterful what-if novel in which global catastrophe reveals the darkness in human hearts—and lights the way to restoration for a self-centered world. “Blackstock is absolutely masterful at bringing spiritual dilemmas to the surface and allowing readers to wrestle with them alongside her characters.” —RT Book Reviews, 4.5 stars (of Dawn’s Light)


The Footnotes

The Footnotes

Author: Ray Stickle

Publisher: FeetMustFollow Press

Published: 2013-09-19

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 1311712577

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There was the thin man up the beach walking with a noticeable limp, pinched eyeglasses perched on his nose, a pair of white slacks and a billowing white shirt, his Korean face further hidden by a low-worn white sun hat. Galden had been following the man for more than a week. An easy job for a beach bum. But a trip to South Korea soon changes things. Because the thin man on the beach has a history steeped in the shadows of the country he served, the country he fled: North Korea. Galden soon finds himself involved with a sociopathic gangster hell-bent on uncertain ends, an ex-military elite on a mission of vengeance spurred on by his traumatized wife, a beautiful woman who hides her identity behind a slowly crumbling façade, and, perhaps most threatening of all, his own alcohol-addled conscience’s attempt to grapple with hard decisions. How Galden navigates the kidnappings, explosions, and betrayals will determine whether he has an impact on the outcome or becomes nothing more than just a footnote to the affair.