Grace Ranker experiences the worst of tragedies and faces many obstacles during a slow and painful recovery. She discovers the challenges that a woman confronts in a man's sport in the late 1960s but receives support from another source that enables her to retain hope for what seems a dismal future. Luke Ranker is in Vietnam when he learns of his dad's sudden death. He returns to Texas, suffering from the horror and death he has viewed the last two years. He had been a platoon leader guiding two dozen marines and had lost five of them in combat. The guilt over these five, especially a boy from Louisiana, haunts him and alters his outlook on life. Luke left home a boy who always smiled and joked and returned a young man who was miserable and angry about a war which no one seemed to understand. Jimmie Lyn Waddell was twenty-three years old and was finally about to marry. She had found her dream guy who was taller than her six feet and thirty years old. She had always been obsessed with her height and had a poor self-image of herself before meeting Drake Davis who was six-feet-five inches. He was everything and more than she had ever imagined. They had already set a marriage date and everything seemed to be perfect until . . .

A Silver Lining in Every Cloud (Sky)

Literature & Fiction

Russell, Charles Lynn

Genre Fiction

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"Making Memories" takes up where 'A Year to Remember ends' with Bo and Lexie beginning their life together with Tommie Rose, their baby girl. Fame, illness, excitement, and tragedy confront them for the next three years from the football stadiums in Texas to the mountains of New Mexico.

Making Memories (Faith and Family)

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

My Country God's Country continues the story of the joy, disappointments, and challenges Eric Sager confronts as he grows to manhood on the hundred-thousand-acre ranch of his grandparents.

My Country-God's Country (When the Cactus Blooms)

Primedia eLaunch LLC

Eric Sager's dad has given up on him. The seventeen-year-old was constantly in trouble at school and had proven to be a bad influence on his younger brother at home. Eric's dad transports him from San Antonio to his grandparent's ranch in far West Texas and dumps him off. Luta Sager, Eric's grandmother has struggled to hold her family together after a tragedy that occurred sixteen years earlier. Her husband has remained angry and self consumed with self-pity since the incident. Her faith and church family is all that has kept her from giving up. She has prayed that Eric, coming to live with them, will have a positive effect on him and his granddad. Frank Mendenhall has moved his family from Fort Worth to a far West Texas and taken a high school principal's job after being denied a promotion in his previous school. He is plagued with doubt and guilt about relocating his wife and two girls to what he describes as "the jumping-off place." A dysfunctional family, a boy who has never been loved, a determined grandmother, and a high school principal come together in a novel that will tug at your heartstrings at times but leaves you feeling that life is full of goodness.

When the Cactus Blooms

Parenting & Relationships

A Cloudless Sky

The Gathering Storm

Romance

Sports

A New Beginning

United States

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