Down The Row From Benjamin

Down The Row From Benjamin
Author: Rod Hollaway
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2012-03
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1469773198

Down the Row From Benjamin is the story of the life-long love between Ellis Ashton and his recently deceased wife, Rosa. Their life together has been full of challenges that they have met and overcome. Together they built a life and a successful textile business. In the weeks following the death of Rosa, Ellis has withdrawn and is overcome by despair, until the letter that challenges him again. The letter, written by Rosa just weeks before her death, asks one last thing from Ellis. Please, she begs, you must tell Craig about Benjamin. Tell him everything about the family that we've hidden all these years. Tell our son about his real parents and why they weren't here for him. It's time for him to know it all. And so it begins.... Ellis starts to write everything in a journal while sitting at Rosa's gravesite for hours every day. Everything goes into his journal: the guilt Ellis feels after witnessing the murder of his father. Why it was necessary to change their name before Craig had even seen his father. What was the awful truth about Craig's mother that they never told him? Who is and who isn't a part of the Ashton clan? How life began to settle and even improve when his life included Rosa, and then how quickly perfection was torn apart and his future with Rosa was no longer guaranteed. In fact, it was uncertain if he even had a future in a world torn apart by war. Ellis struggles against the well-intentioned concerns of his family over his newly diagnosed heart problem. In addition, his friends and family have noted his gradually increasing confusion and his seemingly obsessive need to complete the journal. Ellis battles exhaustion and failing health to complete the epic story for Craig as he had promised Rosa. Desperation leads to his final reckless act to conclude the story.

The Dead Lands

The Dead Lands
Author: Benjamin Percy
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2016-01-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1455528226

In Benjamin Percy's new thriller, a post-apocalyptic reimagining of the Lewis and Clark saga, a super flu and nuclear fallout have made a husk of the world we know. A few humans carry on, living in outposts such as the Sanctuary-the remains of St. Louis-a shielded community that owes its survival to its militant defense and fear-mongering leaders. Then a rider comes from the wasteland beyond its walls. She reports on the outside world: west of the Cascades, rain falls, crops grow, civilization thrives. But there is danger too: the rising power of an army that pillages and enslaves every community they happen upon. Against the wishes of the Sanctuary, a small group sets out in secrecy. Led by Lewis Meriwether and Mina Clark, they hope to expand their infant nation, and to reunite the States. But the Sanctuary will not allow them to escape without a fight.

Something About Them Wairs

Something About Them Wairs
Author: Everett D. Wair
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 115
Release: 2022-03-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1662465289

This is a story about the small town in Lancaster, California, where three prominent citizens have kept a secret long hidden of what they did. The town starts being terrorized by an unknown source and bodies start turning up.

The Forgotten Commandment

The Forgotten Commandment
Author: Anson Hugh Laytner
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2023-12-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1666772798

Locked in a vacuum-sealed glass tube, stowed away for centuries in the Vatican Secret Archives, is a manuscript appearing to be an animal rights fable but containing a dire prophetic message about humanity's destruction of the world's environment. Will it help humans to finally wake up and save life on the earth? The Forgotten Commandment is a work of historical eco-fiction. It braids together a genuine thousand-year-old fable, written first in Arabic by Muslim Sufis and, in this story, protected by the Jewish Aboab clan beginning at the time of the First Crusade in Jerusalem, traveling to twentieth century Europe and surviving the deadly perils of World War II, then reappearing in the present, when a pair of young scholars rediscover the manuscript and succeed in revealing it to the world. A story for our times, The Forgotten Commandment is deeply researched and enriched with true historical events and the lives of actual people. The characters contend with the many challenges and evils that humanity has created: tyranny, anti-Semitism, prejudice, enslavement and destruction of animals, and the apathy of the majority. In the end, this book shines with hope as humanity begins to change the path we have been treading.

Kritzer Time

Kritzer Time
Author: Bruce Kimmel
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2004-02-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 141405419X

Benjamin Kritzer is thirteen and ready to take on the world. But is the world ready for Benjamin Kritzer? In Benjamin Kritzer and Kritzerland, Benjamin has gone from adolescence to young adulthood, managing to survive his Martian family, Bad Men, a broken heart, a broken friendship and a multitude of adventures and cliffhangers in the unending serial known as his life. Now, in Kritzer Time, Benjamin must navigate the treacherous terrain of his teenage years, in a world that’s changing as fast as he is. But it’s when Benjamin meets Samantha Gilman, a girl as unique and special as he is, a girl who becomes part of his world, and a girl who will impact his life in ways that he can’t possibly imagine, that Kritzer Time reveals its true heart and soul. Kritzer Time is a time machine back to the wonderful world of Los Angeles in the early 1960s, and a heartfelt, warm, hilarious and touching story of a young boy becoming a young man.

The Parable of a True Knight

The Parable of a True Knight
Author: TJ Pohlman
Publisher: Elm Hill
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2020-01-21
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1400328977

What is the first thing that comes to your mind when someone mentions a knight-in-shining-armor? Perhaps you think of a valiant warrior dressed in plate armor (naturally), galloping across the land with his noble steed looking for wrongs he can right. Or maybe you image him facing a mighty dragon with sword and shield in hand, braving the fire-breathing monster fearlessly. You may even envision him rescuing a beautiful princess who has been locked in a castle tower by her ruthless uncle until she agrees to marry him. All of these things and more encapsulate the dreams of young Benjamin Knight. And, as he is likely to explain to you, he is not a true knight. That’s just his name. Benjamin has been raised in a loving home in a medieval setting and wants nothing more than to grow up to become a true knight. That opportunity presents itself in an unlikely manner one day when he meets a young man, Joshua, advertising the Jousting Tournament that is coming to town. Joshua recognizes Benjamin’s genuine love for the traditional knight-in-shining-armor, and takes him under his wing, teaching him that his understanding of knights, while quite popular with the masses, is incomplete. Our young hero struggles with many of the same worldly temptations we all face along the way; greed, selfishness, a sense of worthlessness and a desire to quit when things get too difficult. In the midst of his journey, he encounters an evil man who draws Benjamin into an equally evil plot to overthrow the kingdom. He is then given an ultimatum: Assist in the plot and have your dreams come true or refuse and lose everything that is important to you. What choice will he make? This book weaves and illustrates the instructive lessons Joshua demonstrates with the colorful and active imagination of a young boy. Readers should be able to relate with Benjamin and his adventures and hopefully glean from this parable some encouraging truths and moral principles to apply to their own lives.

The Formative Years of Benjamin Bird

The Formative Years of Benjamin Bird
Author: MD Gage
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2020-11-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1644622785

The story of Benjamin Bird is set in Western Oklahoma in the Dust Bowl years of the Great Depression. Benjamin was born in 1934, the third child of a sharecropper. Ben's heritage encompasses the history of late nineteenth-century frontier America, for his grandfathers were born in the aftermath of the Civil War. His paternal grandfather was the son of a former slave owner, and his maternal grandfather, the youngest son of a Confederate veteran, was from an extended family who, for generations, h

The NKJV, Vines Expository Bible

The NKJV, Vines Expository Bible
Author: Thomas Nelson
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Total Pages: 1994
Release: 2018-03-27
Genre: Bibles
ISBN: 0718098633

The Vines Expository Bible offers scriptural truth alongside guided explanations of key passages from influential preacher Dr. Jerry Vines. With biblical exposition and practical teaching culled from years of faithful ministry, helpful insights from God’s Word are presented in the warm, pastoral manner Dr. Vines is known for. Features Include: NKJV paragraph-style text with in-text subject headings 205 "Presenting the Message" detailed outlines from Jerry Vines' sermon archive 148 "Living the Message" articles with illustrations for living the Christian life 237 "Applying the Message" notes that help you see the relevance of Scriptures for your walk with Christ 311 "Discerning the Meaning" word studies that illuminate the meaning of key words in Scripture 66 Book Introductions Topical Index NKJV Concordance 10.5-point print size