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Joy Neal Kidney
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WWII Veteran, Dad
Reconciling Dad
Lt. Warren Neal, WWIIAn engine smoked and sputtered. One propeller began to stir on the aging bomber. Then another. The third engine started to shudder and choke—satisfying sounds of old piston engines. Finally the last one coughed to life.
A few minutes earlier I had been sitting in the pilot’s seat of that World War II Flying Fortress—an old B-17 like the one in th
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| If you've ever wrestled with unforgiveness, especially within your family, this study guide will certainly help you work through your thoughts and toward healing and peace. This follows the compelling story of Manny, the author's father and an immigr ...more | |
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| Twelve-year-old Manny born on the island of Crete grows up in poverty, with a cruel father and hopes to eventually escape to America for a better life. Barefooted, he escapes to a ship, where he finds work and a captain who mentors him. He joins the ...more | |
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A Place Called Painted Post: A Ryland Creek Novel (The Ryland Creek Saga)
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| A raccoon with an unusual red coat was born in the woods near Ryland Creek. She becomes a "ring-tailed empath," collector of things, corn pirate, surrogate mother as she grows up and learns to feed herself and navigate the dangers--human and animal p ...more | |
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“To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.”
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“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
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“I have seen great beauty of spirit in some who were great sufferers. I have seen men, for the most part, grow better not worse with advancing years, and I have seen the last illness produce treasures of fortitude and meekness from most unpromising subjects.”
― The Problem of Pain
― The Problem of Pain
“The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from — my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back.”
― Till We Have Faces
― Till We Have Faces
“Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.”
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