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An unusual warming trend brought an early spring in New York City in 1988, causing nature to awaken with trees and plants already beginning to bloom. This unique weather also awakens a junior business executive, who was recovering from a tragic loss in his life. The story reminds us that losing a loved one can be tragic and life-changing, even if you live in the tall towers or cold streets below. Sometimes even a stranger can help one find their way back from sorrow to peace. This businessman found guidance from an unusual friend who helps him appreciate his life. Brent’s awakening that stirred up his desire to embrace and start a new journey. Now he would have to uncover the secrets about his heritage. First, he must clear his mind so time can reveal the truth. The reader will find other characters who inspire Brent to move forward, to allow his heart to mend, and seek out the missing puzzle pieces of his heritage. With his mother gone, someone will reveal the family secrets, while Brent goes forward to reveal his destiny.
Traveling on Route 88 takes you to Daingerfield, N.E.Texas. But there are too many accidents taking place on the Mallory bridge on 88. The bridge has now earned the ill famous name, "The Crossing." Very few suspect that the bridge is haunted. It quickly becomes a death trap for innocent victims, a vault for their damned souls. Their souls are trapped by a larger evil, someone absolutely powerful, maniacal, already dead, now seeking to come back to life and exercise his destructive powers over all humanity. Detective Brent Card of the Daingerfield police, pairs up with the stunning evening news anchor, Deborah Guest of Daingerfield television, in solving this horrifying mystery that clutches souls of unsuspecting victims from beyond the grave; an absolute evil power monger who seeks to come alive and dominate the earth for eternity!
The Port of Los Angeles neighborhood of Wilmington was included in the 1784 Spanish land grant of Rancho San Pedro and was known as New San Pedro from 1858 to 1863, when it became the city of Wilmington. It was named by "Father of the Harbor" Phineas Banning after his Delaware birthplace. The City of Los Angeles annexed Wilmington in 1909, and today it and neighboring San Pedro form the waterfront of one of the world's largest import/export centers. Wilson College, precursor to the University of Southern California, opened here in 1874 as the first coeducational college west of the Mississippi. Entrepreneur and sportsman William Wrigley built innovative housing in Wilmington that was dubbed the "Court of Nations." From the Union Army's Drum Barracks headquarters of the Southwest in the Civil War to the port's myriad maritime activities during World War II, Wilmington has long-standing ties to the U.S. military.
In the aftermath of World War II, as longstanding empires collapsed and former colonies struggled for independence, the United States employed new diplomatic tools to counter unprecedented challenges to its interests across the globe. Among the most important new foreign policy strategies was development assistance—the attempt to strengthen alliances by providing technology, financial aid, and administrators to fledgling states in order to disseminate and inculcate American values and practices in local populations. While the US implemented development programs in several nations, nowhere were these policies more significant than in Vietnam. In Aid Under Fire, Jessica Elkind examines US na...
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Book 3 of the Turner Series. Rich Kimball was once a good guy. He was a youth Pastor, played drums in a Christian band, a member of the Jesus Freaks Christian Motorcycle Ministry and often helped hurting people in the streets of Texas. Now released from his jail cell he wandered the streets in a drug induced fog to fight back the horrible memories of turning his back on the church and his abuse to his sweet wife. She divorced him and he abandoned all his friends. Could he ever go home again? Could he be a man of God after all he'd done? He didn't expect his friends to accept him back so easily. He also didn't expect to be living under the same roof as his ex-wife and her new, giant Irish husband. This relationship challenging story will make you wonder how far you would go with forgiveness?