Biography & Memoirs

A Cross Bearer's Deliverance is a memoir of my life beginning in poverty stricken 1950’s Danville,Virginia and chronicles my experiences as I was moved up and along the east coast growing up in Boston,Massachusetts.While constructing my story it brought forth memories I suppressed of love, betrayal, devotion and revelation shown through those closest to me. It demonstrates that even though everything in my surroundings suggest I go on a self deprecating journey........I choose one of enlightenment. Join me on that journey!

Out of a few instances and "Run-ins" with the law, the Author has utilized every aspect of his study and applies it with thrilling results. The Author has learned that in which is never taught in school. He has actually been studying about the truth and the factors of systematic obligations... He is now in the predicament to go full force and keep moving forward with his beliefs or be put away for a definite amount of time. What's it gonna be?...

Parents usually hope their kids learn from the mistakes they made when they were their age. They tell them stories about when they were kids and how life was different. Occasionally, the life of a child mirrors the life of a parent. How the child reacts to those similar situations is largely affected by how the parent raised them—or didn’t. This series of essays—often humorous, sometimes downbeat—chronicles the author’s life from birth to just shy of forty, demonstrating how events in his life mirror those of his mother. Their situations while seemingly very different, were often eerily similar. How each reacted and the results that followed, however, are quite different. With ex ...

A small white child lives with a Stone Age tribe, absorbing their culture and language. Then, as a teenager, she is left alone in an alien country, where she struggles to understand a new culture, a new civilization, a boarding school, and why she is now a misfit. Follow her journey as she struggles with fear, loneliness, and relationships while longing for stability. Witness the ultimate results of faith, hope, and love at work throughout her life.

In this book you will see the journey of a strong, independent, single mother's strength whill she faced the hardest challenge of her life: battling breast cancer. She displays her strongest and weakest moments mentally, physically, and emotionally. How her faith helped her to maintain a great and positive outlook throughout this battle.

One thing I have wanted to do for many years is to put together a book featuring my mother Florence's stories. I want her spirit to live on through her folktales. Her stories are magical. My mother's legends have stayed with me all my life. I'm sure my brothers and sister heard the same yarns, but this book is written the way I remember them. I believe mom gave me her imaginative stories so I could write about them when I grew up. I wouldn't have written this book if I had not gone to college. I was in my forties and going to the University of Colorado at Denver when I discovered I had a talent for writing. One course I took in Women’s Studies was autobiographical writing. I began ...

This is the compelling true story of the author's parents, who lived as missionaries among Stone Age Spinifex aborigines in the Australian outback for almost two decades. Exciting adventures - vast cultural differences - living day to day under challenging conditions - became the undreamed-of reality for Bob and Ethel Stewart, an average American couple. In 2003, an Australian government official toured outback aboriginal communities. He was stunned to discover that, more than 35 years later, the aborigines of Western Australia not only remembered them, but still highly revered their Tjamu and Lyunku.

Receiving a call to the ministry at a very young age, Charles (Chuck) Higgins was driven to obey that word. He began his first pastorate in 1951, and for over 50 years faithfully ministered as senior pastor in six Nazarene churches and as an interim pastor in another five. He and his wife Marge also traveled all over the world as evangelists, preaching and touching the lives of thousands of people with their gift of music. Each story is a vehicle for a larger narrative with Christ in the center, proving that nothing in our lives is so insignificant that Christ cannot use it to instruct us and mold us into what He intended us to be from the moment of our creation. You will find this story ...

At the home of great aunt, Helen Kendall Cooke, a portrait hangs on a bedroom wall. It is large and has a presence that fills the room. My aunt laughed when she introduced me to the portrait telling me that she would hang a towel over it when her grandchild stayed in the house because he was frightened by it. “This, she said, is your great, great, great grandfather, Stephen Davies.” I should admit that I did have a moment when I sympathized with her grandson. There is no unkindness in the portrait’s face; it must be the seriousness of purpose in his eyes. There was a story in that face, of that I was certain, a story that gave it reason to hang in a home after more than ...

Two countries, France and America. Two careers, pastry chef and truck driver. Philippe Vandorme was born in Lille, France and at age sixteen became a pastry apprentice. His experience and expertise would ultimately lead him to the finest hotels in Bermuda, the Caribbean and America. Follow him from Lambersart, France to Atlanta, Georgia as he narrates the story of his life. His memoir spans over sixty years and includes a wealth of unique personal experiences, from walking on the frozen North Sea, which occurs an average of once every hundred years, to baking a birthday cake for Henry Ford II.