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This story is an incomplete account of the starts, the fits, the stalls, the stops, and the going on again of the Herman and Irene Nightingale clan. Dad was the son of Fred and Lydia Nightingale, otherwise known as Grandpa and Grandma of Fairview, Oklahoma. Herman was just Herman until one fateful day in 1946 when my oldest sibling, Evan, was born and forever after Herman became known as Dad.
2) Donald
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A story with many facets: a country bumpkin who grew up during the great depression of the 1930s to face events that will bring you tears of both sadness and laughter. His beloved wife slips away in his presence and his wonder if she really did come back to say goodbye. Laugh with the Barbary apes of Gibraltar. The challenge of teaching a first aid c lass on childbirth to mothers, a priest and teenagers. A singing marriage proposal delivered at a...
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Bill always had big dreams. From his early youth he imagined living away from the monotonous demands of city life and urban society. For Bill being alive meant living in the great outdoors, in harmony with nature. Refusing to live within the Box of Life, that seemed to be Bills destiny; he ventured out on a lifes journey filled with risks and challenges that would cause some to ask the question, WHAT WAS HE THINKING?!
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Oh! the Places I've Been is a memoir Bernice Livingston Youtz has written primarily for her family and a few friends. She relates childhood in the Depression of the 1930s (she always knew that it was spelled with a capital D), adolescence during World War II, young adulthood, marriage, children in the post-war 1950s. She recalls an early love of reading which led, not surprisingly, to an aspiration for travel, although there was no opportunity for...
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The End is the Beginning Tyra Garlington woke one morning dizzy, disoriented, and alone on the bathroom floor. Her pain was excruciating and she could barely breathe. Unable to move or call for help, she soon closed her eyes and surrendered to what she believed was the inevitable. What happened next would change her forever. The Memory Box is a story of how one woman came to truly know and live the promise of Gods grace that had always been with heras...
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It is the story of an orphan from the Vietnam War who was raised in a Catholic family in Belgium and who received all the best one can dream in life. However, for years, Ama Deus, apparently AfroAmerican Asian, will keep secret the hurt due to rejection, molestation, anger and drugs until revealing some testimonies on the internet after experiencing complete healing. You will discover a unique virtual dialogue between the beautiful and talented singer...
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Became a publisher after a traumatic brain injury (ADEM) in October, 2005 with her original work "Gabby Goes to Washinton," a children's book she was compelled to write, she felt. In order to not only survive a neurological disorder rendering her totally disabled inh 2005 , and at the young age of only 38 years old, this Ivy League college graduate and law school drop out was able to muster all of her God-given talents as a published writer, with...
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Born in Fall River Massachusetts Summer Dee was a product of a single parent household. After he lost his mother at eight years of age in a car accident, his father (a hard working shipping and receiving manager) was forced to raise him and his younger brother with the help of other family members With the loss of his mother, Summer was still from a very stable loving family, who was companionate, caring and understanding. There was never a loss for...
10) The Loser
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I am writing a story of my life. I went into the produce business when I was 12 years old. In 1967 I met and worked for the biggest Teamster boss in the world for nine months. He was sent to prison and later on that same year I was sent to prison. Ive been in and out the prison system for 35 years and wrongly convicted three times. In 1986, I worked for the FBI and was promised 15% of all money collected in the raids, which was 4.2 million after 28...
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This book takes you to an educational tour as an eleventh grade history teacher assigned his class of twenty students a research project on lawyer James Coody Johnson, known as The Black Panther, an outstanding African-American who had made major contributions to the town of Wewoka, the state of Oklahoma and the nation as a whole in the early nineteenth hundreds.
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It is July of 1925 when, on a whim, fifteen-year-old Doris Bailey decides to keep a diarya place where she can openly confide her dreams, hopes, and ambitions. Doris is flirtatious, untamed, and romantic, imagining herself in and out of love with each passing day.
In this first volume of Th e Doris Diaries, her great-niece, Julia Park Tracey, shares Doriss journals capturing a year in the life of a precocious teenager in the rapidly changing world...
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Matthew, a sophomore at Humboldt State University, wants to study abroad. He currently excels in his studies, and he feels its time to leave the country. He one day runs to the study-abroad office on campus and asks if his school has a program for Japan. Unfortunately, the school has no program to go to the country, but they recommend him to a language program in China. Seeking freedom from boredom, Matthew, a young American college student, decides...
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"I have been asked if I have any last words before God calls me to a new assignment, and I do" Bill Bright said months before his death. At the time, facing an incurable disease, pulmonary fibrosis, his initial response was, "Thank you, Lord." His doctor believed he was in denial, but Bright's determination to declare the faithfulness and sovereignty of God for the rest of his days remained firm. His preparation for leaving this earth is chronicled...
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My storey is about my life. I was born in 1939, and my family literally broke apart when I was little. I do not recall ever living in a home with my mother and father together. There were several years I spent in foster care; and then living with Mom and then Dad, bouncing back and forth a couple of times, until I was a junior in high school. My father moved, but I didnt. I spent my final year in high school living with a local family, thanks to a...
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This book covers the remarkable success of a second-generation Polish kid who, at the age of eighteen, enlisted in the United States Air Force during the Korean War. He was one of less than a handful of basic airmen who rose to the rank of four-star general. More importantly, it covers the reincarnation of WW II Air Commandos under the code name of Jungle Jim, as well as US combat air operations from 1961 through 1967 flying obsolete B-26s and the...
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Chapter One-Mass. Warships; Chapter Two-Building BB59; Chapter Three- The Building of a Crew; Chapter Four-The Battle of Casablanca; Chapter Five-On to the Pacific; Chapter SIx-Bring Back Big Mamie; Chapter Seven -The Fall River Navy; Chapter Eight-Big Mamie's Boys; Chapter Nine-Reunions.
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