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Author : David Bruce Grim
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,66 MB
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1491733969

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Twenty-three year old Callie has lived in bondage at Oakheart Plantation since her birth. She has become a valuable asset to her cruel master, Daniel Bowen, but Callie, her two brothers, and her young daughter struggle to cope with the outrages of enslavement. Change occurs suddenly on November 7, 1861, when the Union Navy attacks Port Royal Sound in South Carolina. Slavery ends across the surrounding sea islands after the planters flee. Ten thousand newly freed people, like Callie and her family, begin life under the authority of the US government. A historical novel based on actual events from 1861 to 1863, Swift Currents describes the slaves transition from bondage to freedom through the lens of Callie and her two brothers. As they and others pursue education, work for wages, fight for freedom, and become landowners, their lives intersect with civilian and military authorities. Callies story seeks to help the nation come to terms with its racial history and serves to provide a greater understanding of shared stories, thus lessening the inherited prejudice of generations.

Author : Gary Morland
Publisher : Revell
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 12,2 MB
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1493407309

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As a teenager, Gary Morland lived in an unhappy, dysfunctional family characterized by addiction and disharmony. When he started a family of his own, he brought with him those same destructive patterns. Yet he sensed there must be a way to have a family shaped by acceptance and grace, a family that was loving, whole, and at peace with one another. The problem was, he didn't know how. In this life-giving book, Morland shares his journey of discovering the timeless tools of family peace that transformed him and his family. He shows how these tools broke the unhealthy patterns of the family he grew up in and saved his relationship with his wife and two daughters. With refreshing honesty and humility, he helps readers believe that they too can start from where they are right now--no matter how broken--to transform their family culture and their family legacy and to generously offer grace to the people who matter most in their lives.

Author : Upton Sinclair
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 14,37 MB
Release : 1925
Category : California
ISBN :

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"The central figure of this play is the writer of short stories know to all as O. Henry. His name was William Sydney Porter; "Bill" Porter to hs intimates in the Ohio State Penitentiary, where, beginning at the age of thirty-six, he served a sentence of three years and three months for embezzlement of national bank funds. This play follows, as literally as possible, the facts concerning Porters's life and behavior in prison, as revealed in his letters and other published records ... The writer of this play has had th e advantage of much conversation with Al. Jennings, who was Porter's intimate both in prision and previously in Central America, where they had sought refuge from the law ... This play deals with the soul of a creative artist, working despite ill fortune ..."--Foreword.

Author : William Goyen
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 24,61 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780810150676

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A lyrical novel of memory portrays an old house in the Texas countryside, and the family that once lived there. Each member of the family gives an accounting of events, secrets and feelings.

Author : Regnier Family
Publisher : Sophia Institute Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 16,16 MB
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1644131110

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Catholic parents who fear that their teens and adult children may leave the Faith will welcome Brick by Brick, the encouraging story of André and Angèle Regnier, whose five adult children don't merely continue to go to Mass but have all even become Catholic missionaries! Better yet, concerned parents will learn from these remarkable pages how they, too, can raise their children to have a similar personal relationship with Jesus, live their Faith dynamically, and have evangelistic hearts—even while remaining ordinary, well-rounded, approachable people passionate about life in all its aspects. The Regnier parents are often asked, “How did you do it? How did you raise children who are so active in sharing and living their Faith?” Here you'll hear the answer from each member of the family, parents and children. From their many voices, real-life stories, and often amusing anecdotes emerge many wise principles and sure methods you