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While the subtitle says "good friends" and most of the stories revolve around a 1967 candy apple red GTO, it is also about the authors best friends both then and now. Along with other close friends and family, the exploits and antics of these guys in particular (plus a few others)will keep the reader on an emotional roller-coaster.

Walk with me through the early years of the life of a little man who made a big difference in the lives of the people he met. Laugh with the stories and be inspired by the faith.

Adventure, laughter, tears, memories and truth. What happens in our lives shapes us and sometimes allows us help others along the way. Join the life journey that changed one man forever. His battle to overcome sexual child abuse and then in his adult years a new battle -- a traumatic brain injury caused by an undetected eruption of a brain aneurysm. See how laughter, love and determination brought about hope, recovery and the will to live so that he could help others.

MAMA PUT US FIRST! My mother’s story by Joseph Williams III, Ed.D. My mother, Janice Nadine Johnson, was born in 1949, the 2nd oldest of 5 children. Her father never acknowledge her as his daughter, and she was raised by her grandmother. She had her first child, Carl, at the age of 14. By the time she was 27, she was the mother of 6 children (4 boys and 2 girls). In many ways my mother's early life struggles are typical of many young moms who live in urban cities across America. In other ways her story is exceptional, full of risks and courage. The most important thing about her life, though, is that she turned her life to God, and she made sure that all of her children thrived! ...

This book is for all the descendants and future generations of Jacob Felix Mehren and his grandson James Francis Mehren Sr. and covers nineteen generations of the Mehren family lineage along with their spouses' lineages, who had immigrated from Germany and other countries to the United States in hope to achieve a better way of life and or religious freedom.

These are Kyra's memories of David Archuleta from the first time she saw him on TV to meeting him in person.

David Hopper, a two time felon compiled this work of writings, thoughts and letters. This book journeys through the struggles a young Black male endured during a seven year prison sentence. David details raw insight of how he was affected by anxiety and came near to mental breakdown at the start of his sentence. This is an authentic look at some pitfalls and hurdles one goes through being raised in the fiery streets of New York City while trying to maintain one's soul. This book is intended to give hope, inspiration and insight for those who take time to read it.

Charles Henry Wilson stands over the fresh graves of his grandparents, Henry and Jennie, newly buried in the Hilltop Cemetery of Independence, Oregon. It is the month of April 1922, and the temperature hovers just above a chill fifty degrees. Charles is only thirteen years old. Orphaned at birth and growing up on a farm, Charles is accustomed to hardship. In the past years, he’s stood alongside his grandmother as she struggled with her husband’s stroke, and bore the weight of Henry’s subsequent paralysis and mental illness. Charles’ loving grandparents have cared for him as their own and given him the only home he’s ever known, but now he’s lost them both in the same week, and he bear ...