Powerful...Poignant...Inspiring As a child growing up in South Central Los Angeles, Gregory Marshall was enamored with the fast life. Money, women and cars were the things to have and Greg was determined to get them-by any means necessary. It wasn't long before the innocent youngster had turned into a cold-hearted gangster known around town simply as G Man. His ruthless life of crime made him a legend in South Central LA-and the go-to man for everyone from Tupac Shakur to the notorious Monster Kody. But a drug deal gone bad eventually left him shot and near death...forcing him into the ultimate struggle for survival. Faced with intense rehabilitation and paralyssis that had crippled the entire right side of his body, Greg had two choices, give up or get up. He chose the latter. And with the use of only one finger, he wrote his story through gritty, breathtaking, and sometimes brutal details...including his anger at injustices, the pain of abandonment and one unlikely act of kindness that started him on the path of healing and forgiveness.
Marshall Gregory argues that teachers at the university and high school levels can achieve teaching excellence by grounding their teaching in pedagogical theory that takes into account students' abilities and the ultimate goals of teaching: to develop students' capacities for thought, reflection, questioning, and engagement to their fullest extent.
When Jim Torrance rode into Sundown, he came to the end of a bitter trail -- a hunt for outlaw Steve Bordereau, who had killed Jim's parter and framed Jim for the murder. Seeing Bordereau in a saloon, Jim went after him. Seconds later, Jim fled to the hills with gambling hostess Sally Dawn, who had shot Bordereau to save herself from a vicious intrigue. Perilous days on the dodge followed until Jim learned Bordereau wasn't dead and that the country was aroused over a series of hold-ups committed by a gang supposedly run by Jim Torrance himself! Jim knew Bordereau was behind the raids, so he got himself made marshall of Sundown -- and rode out to deliver justice with blazing Colts!
Shot five times during a drug deal gone bad, Marshall died three times on the operating table and was miraculously revived. While recovering, he searched his heart and soul for a path to redemption, and he now shares his experiences in hopes of helping others stay away from or leave a life of crime.
William L. Clayton was "the principal architect of American post-war foreign economic policy" (Newsweek), yet his seminal contributions to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the Marshall Plan, and the Truman Doctrine have been largely ignored over the past four decades. This gap in the story of free-world cooperation is filled by Gregory Fossedal's vivid biography.
Pegram Kimble, an above-average storekeeper, is on his way to Tedesco in the Vasco de Gama system. For years, the Federation Navy dumped its malcontents here. As a result, morale suffered and the system became vulnerable. Kimble's task-to whip the main supply base into shape, the first step in the Navy's return to Vasco de Gama. From the day he first sets foot on Tedesco, however, Kimble finds shoot outs, smugglers, ambushes, pirates, mercenaries, traitors in his own ranks and even the eyes of Tedesco's most powerful beautiful and powerful women. Kimble must take on new duties and missions far above his abilities, moves that may cost him his life. Kimble and an overwhelmed Navy must rebuild a broken system and hold the line against a brutal enemy hell-bent on bringing its fruitless war to Vasco de Gama and imperiling the lives of millions.
Gregory J. Page, the author of Tale of Two Champions, comes from the same great state as Homer Hickam. Greg will tell you his story of how great challenges confronted him and his community. Take the journey with Greg as he reveals in great detail how both Buffalo and Marshall Football overcame tremendous adversity to win their first State and National Championship in 1992. You also get an inside view of a West Virginia country boy growing up in Wayne County. Throughout the adventure you will see how teachers and coaches from Buffalo High School provided motivation and direction for one of their own that eventually carried through to Marshall University. Greg currently teaches and coaches at Spring Valley High School and is the Associate Pastor at Locust Grove Baptist Church. The High School Gymnasium he graduated in is now a favorite place that he enjoys coaching.
Growing up in a small town is different from life in cities. In a rural community, you know everyone, and most everyone knows your success stories and failures. Author and award-winning journalist Greg Peck grew up in such a town, the southern Wisconsin village of Marshall, where he absorbed a farmer's work ethic and learned about Midwestern values. In "Memories of Marshall," he shares stories of a community where close ties magnify each triumph and each tragedy."--Amazon.com
Sonnets of Love Lost, Love Sought and Love Found is Marshall's first published collection of original poems since 1983. In the present work the poet has taken one hundred and eighteen of his sonnets written over a twenty-four-year period and assembled them into a three-part sequence in which the sadness and joy of love unfold in a moving display of imagery, meter and rhyme. The lover of poetry will delight in the result of applying a centuries-old form to an eternal theme: love poems that can be read and enjoyed again and again, and which resonate in the heart and mind of the modern reader.
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