An Unlikely Angel

Author : Lydia R. Hamessley
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252052408

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Unlikely Angel by Lydia R. Hamessley Pdf

Dolly Parton's success as a performer and pop culture phenomenon has overshadowed her achievements as a songwriter. But she sees herself as a songwriter first, and with good reason. Parton's compositions like "I Will Always Love You" and "Jolene" have become American standards with an impact far beyond country music. Lydia R. Hamessley's expert analysis and Parton’s characteristically straightforward input inform this comprehensive look at the process, influences, and themes that have shaped the superstar's songwriting artistry. Hamessley reveals how Parton’s loving, hardscrabble childhood in the Smoky Mountains provided the musical language, rhythms, and memories of old-time music that resonate in so many of her songs. Hamessley further provides an understanding of how Parton combines her cultural and musical heritage with an artisan’s sense of craft and design to compose eloquent, painfully honest, and gripping songs about women's lives, poverty, heartbreak, inspiration, and love. Filled with insights on hit songs and less familiar gems, Unlikely Angel covers the full arc of Dolly Parton's career and offers an unprecedented look at the creative force behind the image.

Author : Ashley Smith,Stacy Mattingly
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780062034977

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Unlikely Angel by Ashley Smith,Stacy Mattingly Pdf

In April 2005, Ashley Smith made headlines around the globe when she miraculously talked her way out of the hands of alleged courthouse killer Brian Nichols after he took her hostage for seven hours in her suburban Atlanta apartment. In this moving, inspirational memoir, the 26-year-old widowed mother of a six-year-old girl shares for the first time the little-known details of her traumatic ordeal, and expands on how her faith and the bestselling book The Purpose-Driven« Life helped her survive and bring the killer's murderous rampage to a peaceful end. Just as she told her 6'1", 210-pound captor that his ultimate "purpose" in life was to end up spending the rest of his life in prison, preaching the teachings of Jesus Christ to his fellow inmates, Smith believes her own purpose is to spread that message of love to the rest of us. Juxtaposing the minute-by-minute tale of her experience with the never-before-told tragedies and triumphs of her own life, Unlikely Angel is a gripping tale of downfall and redemption, involving addiction, violence, death, loss, faith, and love. It is a story that will leave no reader untouched.

Author : Ernie McBroom Jr.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496968999

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An Unlikely Angel by Ernie McBroom Jr. Pdf

Juel Jones could play a guitar the first time she picked one up, but nobody ever knew. A beautiful girl from a troubled family, she gets lost in the world at an early age and sells herself for money. Living in a dingy motel, barely nineteen years old, she writes the first two verses of a song that will one day be heard by the world. Her audience, a stray yellow cat. Working in a massage parlor a thousand miles from home, Juel sets out hitchhiking in a fit of anger when along comes Sammy Reed. Twenty-one the day the story begins, Sammy is drifting through life in the aftermath of an unthinkable family tragedy, California bound from North Carolina in a windowless 69 Camaro. Over the next six months and several thousand miles, ‘things happen’ in the lives of these two beautiful losers that can’t be logically explained. Things such as the song and its incredible, mysterious journey from the back of a brown paper sack to a number one hit. As the writer of this story I attempt to raise a number of interesting possibilities. The characters I use and the things they do, and say, will offend some people, I know. In their defense I’d simply say that I personally believe God meant everybody to matter. Everybody.

Author : Betina Krahn
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307785381

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The Unlikely Angel by Betina Krahn Pdf

With her soft heart and angelic face, Madeline Duncan is no one's idea of a hardheaded businessman. So when the lovely spinster comes into am unexpected inheritance and uses her newfound wealth to start a business, she causes quite a stir...especially with Lord Cole Mandeville, who has been appointed by the courts to keep Madeline from frittering away her fortune. Handsome, worldly, and arrogant, Cole knows just how ruthless the world can be--and that an innocent like Miss Duncan is heading straight for heartbreak, bankruptcy, or worse. But when he sets out to show Madeline the error of her ways, Cole is in for the surprise of his life...as he finds himself falling under the spell of a woman who won't believe the worst about anyone...even a jaded rogue like him.

Author : Jerry Langton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-17
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780470739945

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Fallen Angel by Jerry Langton Pdf

Walter Stadnick is not an imposing man. At five-foot-four, his face and arms scarred by fire in a motorcycle accident, he would not spring to mind as a leader of Canada's most notorious biker gang, the Hells Angels. yet through sheer guts and determination, intelligence and luck, this Hamilton-born youth who had the nickname of "Nurget" rose in the Hells Angels ranks to become national president. Not only did he lead the Angels through the violent war with their rivals the rock machine in Montreal in the Nineties, Stadnick saw opportunity to grow the Hells Angels into a national criminal gang. he was a visionary--and a highly successful one. Bikers are not known for their fondness for rival gangs. Stadnick and the Angels fought and defeated rival gangs, or used power of persuasion to patch them over. As Stadnick's influence spread, law enforcement took notice of the growing presence of the Angels in Ontario, Manitoba and British Columbia. However, Stadnick's success did not come without a price. Arrested and charged with 13 counts of first-degree murder, stadnick beat the murder charges but was convicted of gangsterism and is currently serving time. Fallen Angel details one man's improbable rise to power in one of the world's most violent organizations, while shedding light on how this enigmatic and dangerous biker gang operated and why it remains so powerful.

Author : Nadine Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : London (England)
ISBN : 0451194675

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The Unlikely Angel by Nadine Miller Pdf

The daughter of a wealthy merchant devotes her life to London's orphans, many of whom are the result of society's rakes and their conquests. Considered an old maid at twenty-five, she has no use for anything except donations. But when a handsome Viscount becomes her landlord and doubles her rent, she readies herself for battle. When they eventually meet she is caught off-guard by his disarming charm, and suddenly feels the long-ago stirring of innocent young charges....

Author : Betina M. Krahn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Man-woman relationships
ISBN : OCLC:809698686

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The Unlikely Angel by Betina M. Krahn Pdf

Author : Rachel Joyce
Publisher : Bond Street Books
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385677738

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Perfect by Rachel Joyce Pdf

From the author of the international bestseller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, comes another exquisite and emotionally resonant novel about the search for the truth and unconditional love. On a foggy spring morning in 1972, twelve-year-old Byron Hemming and his mother are driving to school in the English countryside. On the way, in a life-changing two seconds, an accident occurs. Or does it? Byron is sure it happened, but his mother, sitting right next to him in the car, has no reaction to it. Over the course of the days and weeks that follow, Byron embarks on a journey to discover what really happened--or didn't--that fateful morning when everything changed. It is a journey that will take him--a loveable and cloistered twelve-year-old boy with a loveable and cloistered twelve-year-old boy's perspective on life--into the murkier, more difficult realities of the adult world, where people lie, fathers and mothers fight without words, and even unwilling boys must become men. Byron will have to reconcile the dueling realities of that summer, a testament to the perseverance of the human spirit and the power of compassion.

Author : Jason Chrisandale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1481215957

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An Unlikely Angel by Jason Chrisandale Pdf

Nate Williams starts his day with the long anticipated plan of firing his prized antique rifle. However, when he takes a carefully aimed target shot his typical day off suddenly takesa huge turn. When the echo of the powerful rifle goes silent he realizes is not where he is supposed to be. To add to his confusion a beautiful lady now holds his gun and it's pointed in his direction. When he is able to see past her beauty he noticesher clothing looks to be from the 1800s. Bewildered by it all he recalled an old letter he found in the gun case and thought it might have something to do with it all.Then a visit from a stranger changes the course of everything. However, he had always wondered if there were really angels among us. ***Rebecca looked at the bare shelves of the old pantry and knew time was running out for her. She had been brought to the remote cabin by her father to wait out the war. However, months had passed and she had not heard any word from herfather or her fiancé. With her supplies running out, the old rifle that had sat in the corner gathering dust was her last hope if she was going to survive.

Author : Steven Pinker
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780143122012

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The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker Pdf

Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think this is the most violent age ever seen. Yet as bestselling author Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true.

Author : Monica Hall,Kathleen McGhee-Anderson
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Angels
ISBN : 0849958016

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Unlikely Friends by Monica Hall,Kathleen McGhee-Anderson Pdf

With the guidance of an angel, fifteen-year-old juvenile offender Jason discovers the rewards of working with and helping Kelly, who is in a wheelchair.

Author : Kevin West,Frederick Edwards
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781476794013

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Angel in Aisle 3 by Kevin West,Frederick Edwards Pdf

In the tradition of An Invisible Thread and Same Kind of Different as Me, Angel in Aisle 3 is the “heartwrenching yet hopeful” (Publishers Weekly) true story of an unlikely friendship that began with a chance meeting in a grocery store between a bank executive bound for prison and an elderly stranger. When Kevin West resigned from his job as vice president of a bank after making fraudulent loans, he spent the time before his trial managing a family-owned, small grocery store in Ironton, Ohio. Dealing with serious marriage problems and with a prison sentence almost certainly in his future, Kevin was overcome with remorse and without a scrap of hope. It was at his lowest moment that Kevin called out to a power beyond himself for help, and God answered his prayer in the form of an elderly vagrant named Don. What began as a chance meeting between two individuals whose lives seemed headed for certain ruin turns into an unlikely friendship that saved them both. It was this friendship that helped Kevin thrive in prison, restore his failed marriage, and gave Don a chance at a new life that went beyond anyone’s imagination. Moving and awe-inspiring, this story of a pure friendship sheds light on the redemption and hope that can grow out of relationships based in faith.

Author : Genie Gabriel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1493640542

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Unlikely Angel by Genie Gabriel Pdf

A child psychiatrist running from violence and a former bodyguard grieving the wife he couldn't save form an unlikely alliance to rescue her kidnapped children. In a crumbling mine tunnel on Christmas Eve, their lives depend on a mutt rescued from the streets, a determined mother and an Unlikely Angel.

Author : Laura Schroff,Alex Tresniowski
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451648973

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An Invisible Thread by Laura Schroff,Alex Tresniowski Pdf

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Author : Connie Willis
Publisher : Spectra
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1993-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553562736

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Doomsday Book by Connie Willis Pdf

Connie Willis draws upon her understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the ageless issues of evil, suffering, and the indomitable will of the human spirit. “A tour de force.”—The New York Times Book Review For Kivrin, preparing to travel back in time to study one of the deadliest eras in humanity’s history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of the rendezvous location where Kivrin would be received. But a crisis strangely linking past and future strands Kivrin in a bygone age as her fellows try desperately to rescue her. In a time of superstition and fear, Kivrin—barely of age herself—finds she has become an unlikely angel of hope during one of history’s darkest hours.