Joel Lee Russell's Books

Angels Under Fire, Is It the Beginning of the End?

By: Joel Lee Russell

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Angels Under Fire, Is It the Beginning of the End?

By: Joel Lee Russell

Angels Under Fire, by Joel Lee Russell, is a riveting fictional account based on true-life events. Joel suffers an unimaginable act of brutality at the age of 10. To drive out the mental demons that plague him, Joel joins a gang as a young man and his life spirals out of control; that is, until he joins the Marines and receives a little black book from his brother, Mike who returns from Vietnam. Joel's other brother, Patrick is sent to Vietnam during the 1968 Tet Offensive, the most dangerous time of the war, on a mission and Joel seeks to joins him-with his black book. The story concludes with the events leading to December 21, 2012, and the threat of total annihilation of enemy forces in Israel. Joel finds salvation, hope, redemption and meets another angel of sorts-his wife to be-Sunne, a Red Cross nurse who nurses Joel back to life after a near-death experience. His brilliant narration moves from one beautiful epiphany to the next while taking the reader on a humorous, joyous and triumphant journey. You will believe in angels after reading this bittersweet and beautifully rendered novel. Author Bio: Joel Lee Russell is a writer, musician, and entrepreneur. He was awarded the Purple Heart and Navy Achievement Medals for action in Vietnam. He has written an autobiography, The Book of Joel-Book II and lives with his wife, Sunne in Bonney Lake, Washington.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

396

Published Date

ISBN 10

1608600645

ISBN 13

9781608600649

Escaping Death's Sting

A Combat Marine's Life Story

By: Joel Lee Russell

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Escaping Death's Sting

A Combat Marine's Life Story

By: Joel Lee Russell

The most compelling way to learn to love anything is to realize how close you are to losing it. How deep into the depths of despair must author Joel Lee Russell descend before he learns to open his body, mind and soul to the magnificence of devotion and faith? After surviving a tortured childhood, Russell's challenges continue when he arrives in Vietnam during the height of the Tet Offensive. While Russell's outfit of Marines dwindles from 250 men to 79 in a matter of four hours, he beseeches God to save him and promises to dedicate his life, from that moment on, to something greater than himself. Even though we think we are eager to learn our lessons and to improve ourselves, the training we endure is often complicated and challenging. After Joel Lee Russell, nicknamed Last Days Joel, repeatedly escapes death's sting, he opens himself to a divine beauty that soars beyond his belief. About the Author: Author Joel Lee Russell was born in 1948. He is the eleventh child and the seventh son in a family with 12 children. Throughout his upbringing, he suffered brutality that would have tested the strongest of men.When Russell wrote his memorable autobiography, Book of Joel - Book II, he was laying the foundation for his current work, Escaping Death's Sting. Russell earned a Purple Heart and a Navy Achievement Medal for his daring acts in Vietnam. He now lives in Bonney Lake, Washington. Publisher's website: http: //sbpra.com/joelleerussel

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

319

Publisher

Strategic Book Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1612045472

ISBN 13

9781612045474

Book of Joel, Book II

By: Joel Lee Russell

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Book of Joel, Book II

By: Joel Lee Russell

“The true life story of the adventures of Joel, from the frozn wasteland of Northern Ohio to the sweltering battlefields of South Vietnam, Joel takes you into the battles with him during the Tet Offensive. Read about the radical transformation of a dope smoking weirdo into a man of destiny. Excellent reading.” -- Patrick Russell “A great book of life, taking us on a roller coaster ride of the Spirit. Many laughs and many tears as you follow through the humor and pain. Very strong testimony that will win souls!” -- Buster Curtsinger

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

322

Publisher

iUniverse

Published Date

ISBN 10

1893652025

ISBN 13

9781893652026

William Faulkner and Southern History

By: Joel Williamson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

William Faulkner and Southern History

By: Joel Williamson

One of America's great novelists, William Faulkner was a writer deeply rooted in the American South. In works such as The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, and Absalom, Absalom! Faulkner drew powerfully on Southern themes, attitudes, and atmosphere to create his own world and place--the mythical Yoknapatawpha County--peopled with quintessential Southerners such as the Compsons, Sartorises, Snopes, and McCaslins. Indeed, to a degree perhaps unmatched by any other major twentieth-century novelist, Faulkner remained at home and explored his own region--the history and culture and people of the South. Now, in William Faulkner and Southern History, one of America's most acclaimed historians of the South, Joel Williamson, weaves together a perceptive biography of Faulkner himself, an astute analysis of his works, and a revealing history of Faulkner's ancestors in Mississippi--a family history that becomes, in Williamson's skilled hands, a vivid portrait of Southern culture itself. Williamson provides an insightful look at Faulkner's ancestors, a group sketch so brilliant that the family comes alive almost as vividly as in Faulkner's own fiction. Indeed, his ancestors often outstrip his characters in their colorful and bizarre nature. Williamson has made several discoveries: the Falkners (William was the first to spell it "Faulkner") were not planter, slaveholding "aristocrats"; Confederate Colonel Falkner was not an unalloyed hero, and he probably sired, protected, and educated a mulatto daughter who married into America's mulatto elite; Faulkner's maternal grandfather Charlie Butler stole the town's money and disappeared in the winter of 1887-1888, never to return. Equally important, Williamson uses these stories to underscore themes of race, class, economics, politics, religion, sex and violence, idealism and Romanticism--"the rainbow of elements in human culture"--that reappear in Faulkner's work. He also shows that, while Faulkner's ancestors were no ordinary people, and while he sometimes flashed a curious pride in them, Faulkner came to embrace a pervasive sense of shame concerning both his family and his culture. This he wove into his writing, especially about sex, race, class, and violence, psychic and otherwise. William Faulkner and Southern History represents an unprecedented publishing event--an eminent historian writing on a major literary figure. By revealing the deep history behind the art of the South's most celebrated writer, Williamson evokes new insights and deeper understanding, providing anyone familiar with Faulkner's great novels with a host of connections between his work, his life, and his ancestry.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

539

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0195356403

ISBN 13

9780195356403

The American History Sourcebook

By: Joel Makower

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The American History Sourcebook

By: Joel Makower

This book is the first comprehensive guide to more than 3,000 organizations, collections, and other sources of information on U.S. history, politics, and culture. It is a treasure trove for history buffs and an invaluable reference work for historians, students, writers, and researchers.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

574

Publisher

New York : Prentice Hall Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0130274917

ISBN 13

9780130274915

Escaping Death's Sting

A Combat Marine's Life Story

By: Joel Lee Russell

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Escaping Death's Sting

A Combat Marine's Life Story

By: Joel Lee Russell

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

319

Publisher

Strategic Book Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1612045472

ISBN 13

9781612045474

Candid Comments

Selected Columns from the Eufaula Tribune, 1958-2006

By: Joel P. Smith

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Candid Comments

Selected Columns from the Eufaula Tribune, 1958-2006

By: Joel P. Smith

For almost fifty years, Joel P. Smith served as editor and publisher of the Eufaula Tribune, the newspaper of record in Eufaula in southeast Alabama. For much of that time, week after week, he wrote his "Candid Comments" column, which traced the often-intersecting history of Eufaula and Smith's own life. In the selections from "Candid Comments" collected in this volume, Smith ranges from Eufaula's "top ten characters" to the history of the Chattahoochee River, from the Tribune's initial support of Governor George Wallace until it ceased to endorse him, and from marriage and fatherhood to press junkets in Egypt and Cuba.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

354

Publisher

NewSouth Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

1603060685

ISBN 13

9781603060684

Book's by Joel Lee Russell

Angels Under Fire, Is It the Beginning of the End?

Angels Under Fire, Is It the Beginning of the End?

Escaping Death's Sting

Escaping Death's Sting

Book of Joel, Book II

Book of Joel, Book II

William Faulkner and Southern History

William Faulkner and Southern History

The American History Sourcebook

The American History Sourcebook

Escaping Death's Sting

Escaping Death's Sting

Candid Comments

Candid Comments

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email