Scott Jacobs has everything – youth, good looks, intelligence, charisma, and a thriving church to pastor; yet, he has a need. He longs for a God-given helpmate. He wants a wife. Courting under the scrutiny of a congregation, however, presents multiple challenges.
Three hard-hearted mountaineers snatch college freshman Kellie Kidler and fifteen-year-old twins Ann and Nan Furman, haul them away to an isolated shack, and keep them captive for ten years, using beatings and the loss of fingers as deterrents to escape. The three Millham women survive mainly by caring for the baby they delivered to a dying mother the night of their capture. Their story is doled out as they struggle to fit back into their former lives with a mingling of shame, romance, and humor. Kellie, especially, struggles with her Christian conviction to forgive the Millham man who stole ten years of her life.
Dorothy Alease Phillips, a retired high school teacher, taught English and journalism for over 22 years. She was married to the late Dr. Chester Phillips, a Baptist minister, and aided in his ministry for over 40 years. As a teacher, minister's wife, and mother of three children, Phillips has geared her writings to various age groups in short stories, teen novels, romance novels, plays, and free-lance nonfiction. She attends writer's conferences to hone her craft and to fellowship with other authors.Phillips earned a B. S. degree from Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina, and a Master's degree from East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. Now residing in North Augusta, South Carolina, she still drives, takes exercise three times a week with Silver Sneakers, attends church services regularly, leads an active social life, and writes for publication. She considers herself blessed.
Kellie Kidman and Furman twins, kidnapped as teenagers and forced into mocked marriages to crude mountaineers, survive ten, bitter years without electricity, running water, adequate food, or any contact with the outside world. Now rescued, Kellie, 28, and the twins, 25, are thrust back into their past with families and peers who have advanced greatly during the girls lost decade. Their peers, as college graduates with husbands and children, foster a longing for education, marriage, and children as quickly as possible. With faith in the Lord, the women tackle dire challenges, sometimes with sadness but often with joy. Witchie, a 10-year-old girl born to a dying mother the first night of the girls captivity, weaves humor into the former Millham Womens lives as they edge from agony to bliss.
* Teresa Thurman, a hospice nurse traveling home late at night after watching her patient slip into eternity, is terrorized by a pick-up truck driver repeatedly ramming her car to push her off the deserted road. It takes a miracle to protect her life.* As soon as his wife dies, Marshall Killgore sits by her bedside, touching her ivory cheeks, her nose, and the lips he has never kissed. Agonizing memories make him face a heartbreaking realization.* For several months, Molly Hunter, in her grief, has blamed her husband for the death of their little girl. He now blames her. Together, they are about to learn news that will change everything.* When two senior citizens hit upon an idea to cure their "matchmaking" daughters, the plan backfires.
This unique book, based on the previously unpublished correspondence of a young San Francisco woman describing the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, graphically describes the sights of the city and gives details of everyday life in the chaos of those first days. Sarah Phillips' letters tell of walking a circuitous route of several miles in search of her mail, cooking in the streets for fear of fire, and sleeping outside for fear of aftershocks. In the second half of the book, CGS member Dorothy Fowler leads the reader through an investigation using classic genealogy methods to identify the relatives and friends Sarah identified only by their initials. This book is not only an exciting "you are there" account, it is also, as one reviewer wrote, "a Baedeker to genealogy research.
Welcome to the New Age. It is here. Now. Everywhere. From the way medicine treats the body, mind, and spirit to quantum physics and the films you see, you are noticing a changing reality. Whether you are a newcomer to this age or an adept, you will find this overview fascinating, informative, and empowering. It is a textbook designed to clarify concepts once considered alien to Western thinking. As a guidebook to expand your reality, it can change your ideas about time, space, matter, and even who you are.
Jimmy John is a teenaged plantation slave in North Carolina caught up in the firestorm of the Civil War. He wonders if the promises of President Lincoln will ever have meaning for him as he listens to rumors of General Sherman's army marching through Georgia. Marse says the North will use freed slaves for their own purposes. Then the Union army turns at Savannah into the Carolinas, and he meets Cpl. Charley Hallock, who at 16 ran away from his Connecticut home to join the fight. He's a hardened veteran of four long years of bloody battles, long marches, disease, hunger and thirst, freezing cold and relentless heat, and worst of all, the loss of friends. In the midst of swirling politics and contradictory military action, is this chance meeting a beginning of hope for them both?
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When 15-year-old DeEtta Billings, as an omen for success, gave the very strange name Billionaire Boss Billings to her infant son, she did not foresee the effect the name would have upon his future. In the first grade, the very industrious boy began a business that allowed him to entice peers. During middle and high school, his followers known as BBB executives, thrived with enterprises and learning sessions. Unfortunately, the older Billionaire got, the more eager he became to become a billionaire, mainly for his mother. In high school, life changed even as Billionaire was being welcomed to five prestigious universities. Before he could enter college, he spent five years in prison for a crime he did not do.
Coming to Ward Sanderson's beautiful Guadalajara estate to tutor his niece and escape from some problems in her life, Meredith Moore finds herself both intimidated by her handsome, brooding host and falling in love with him.
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