Picture Me coming down from heaven to rescue you from all trials and tribulations. Be ready for My return. Live in expectation that this could be the day. Live your life for what truly matters. Devote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert with an attitude of thanksgiving. Be ready, for I will come at an hour that you do not expect. Are you seeking encouragement for living a Christ-centered life? If so, author Brenda Sue Randolph can help. Inspired by her prayer journal and the guidance of the Holy Spirit, Downloads from God presents a one-hundred-day devotional designed to present you with principles to guide you in your goal. Written in first person, from God’s point of view, these entries exhort you to surrender yourself to God’s will, a step that can change your life in profound ways. Success comes to you when you give your life to the One who created the world. Uplifting and heartening, this devotional offers biblically supported inspiration for ways to walk humbly, step by step, with the Lord.
Picture Me coming down from heaven to rescue you from all trials and tribulations. Be ready for My return. Live in expectation that this could be the day. Live your life for what truly matters. Devote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert with an attitude of thanksgiving. Be ready, for I will come at an hour that you do not expect. Are you seeking encouragement for living a Christ-centered life? If so, author Brenda Sue Randolph can help. Inspired by her prayer journal and the guidance of the Holy Spirit, Downloads from God presents a one-hundred-day devotional designed to present you with principles to guide you in your goal. Written in first person, from God’s point of view, these entries exhort you to surrender yourself to God’s will, a step that can change your life in profound ways. Success comes to you when you give your life to the One who created the world. Uplifting and heartening, this devotional offers biblically supported inspiration for ways to walk humbly, step by step, with the Lord.
Nancy Tremblay is a multi-millionaire who brings sparkle, energy and money into this novel. There is family drama and estrangements that readers can relate to and brings their emotions to the very core of their being. Suzanne and Nancy are thrust into a world of foreign intrigue, murder and profound turmoil. International art crime theft is at the crux of Beyond Murder. The home base for this novel takes place in Boston, MA. Madaline Mason, acclaimed actress friend of Suzanne Morse hires a private detective to find the person or person's threatening her life. Madaline has kept a secret hidden for years. After being raped as a young girl she was forced to give up her baby for adoption. Kyle Mason, the son of Madaline, has been accused of killing his gay lover, art curator, Curtis Jones. A world the women never knew existed transports them on a wild chase from museums to exotic places including death defying confrontations with the Yakuza (the Japanese Mafia). Suzanne's personal life is in crises mode on several fronts. Her strong religious convictions are tested when her oldest daughter intends to convert from Judaism to Christianity. In Beyond Murder Suzanne and Nancy, with the help of the FBI, Interpol and the Japanese police, find the killer of Curtis Jones. They also learn about the enormity of dollars that is lost, each year, in the world of international art crime and artifact crime theft. Suzanne and longtime love, Stephen, are at odds of his non commitments to divorce his habitually intoxicated wife and marry Suzanne. Nancy meets her love when the two women arrive in San Diego to help Kyle in his defense in the murder of Curtis Jones. Rich is the lead detective of homicide in San Diego.
“Brenda Wineapple’s wonderful account of the Scopes trial sheds light not only on the battles of the past but on the struggles of the present.”—Jon Meacham In this magnificent book, award-winning author of The Impeachers brings to life the dramatic story of the 1925 Scopes trial, which captivated the nation and exposed profound divisions in America that still resonate today—divisions over the meaning of freedom, religion, education, censorship, and civil liberties in a democracy. “Propulsive . . . a terrific story about a pivotal moment in our history.”—Ken Burns “No subject possesses the minds of men like religious bigotry and hate, and these fires are being lighted today in America.” So said legendary attorney Clarence Darrow as hundreds of people descended on the sleepy town of Dayton, Tennessee, for the trial of a schoolteacher named John T. Scopes, who was charged with breaking the law by teaching evolution to his biology class in a public school. Brenda Wineapple explores how and why the Scopes trial quickly seemed a circus-like media sensation, drawing massive crowds and worldwide attention. Darrow, a brilliant and controversial lawyer, said in his electrifying defense of Scopes that people should be free to think, worship, and learn. William Jennings Bryan, three-time Democratic nominee for president, argued for the prosecution that evolution undermined the fundamental, literal truth of the Bible and created a society without morals, meaning, and hope. In Keeping the Faith, Wineapple takes us into the early years of the twentieth century—years of racism, intolerance, and world war—to illuminate, through this pivotal legal showdown, a seismic period in American history. At its heart, the Scopes trial dramatized conflicts over many of the fundamental values that define America, and that continue to divide Americans today.
This book recounts the life of Annie Oakley, sharpshooter and entertainer, who demonstrated that a woman could participate in athletic endeavors and still be a lady.
Jed Buchanan is one of the Blue Ridge mountain people displaced by the formation of the Shenandoah National Park. Through a quirk of fate he is offered a job as a farm manager on one of the loveliest farms in the Shenandoah Valley. Though he loves the life, dire danger lurks in the form of a fanatical, old-style Ku Klux Klan klavern that has been operating in the rural areas of Northern Virginia. Jed falls in love with two very different women: the beautiful, sultry sophisticate, Virginia Chadwick, whom he saves from being savaged by a vicious dog. This leads to the humble hillbilly giving regular lectures to one of the most powerful groups in Washington DC., Then theres lovely, spunky Sage Kelly, who has left three men at the altar. However, Jed has good reason to suspect that she and her brother, Tom, are members of the Ku Klux Klan. Sequel to the widely acclaimed "Falling Leaves and Mountain Ashes", this compelling epic novel, set in the1940s and 1950s, displays once again what a master storyteller George is.
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