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Patsy Culp Hull

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An Arranged Departure is my memoirs of my mother’s life, from her early difficult childhood, her young married life as a sharecropper, the birth of her eleven children, the death of four children and her husband, and her own death at age ninety, when she died of ovarian cancer.

My mother was born into a world that would be full of asperity, heartaches, impoverished and very trying times. But all of these difficulties proved to be just bumps in the road for this woman of such strength, self-determination and willpower. A Christian woman who never lost her faith and love for her Lord. A woman who never questioned God’s word, and never once asked, “Why me?” A strong woman who read her Bible daily and prayed every night before she went to sleep.

An Arranged Departure describes the true and wonderful angelic experiences my sister and I encountered the night my mother died.

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Kelley G. Culver

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In 1972, Kelley Culver was a newly married college dropout with few, if any, good prospects. Hoping to avoid the draft and Vietnam, which seemed the most likely course his life would take, Kelley enlisted in the U.S. Air Force. What started out as a short-term goal became a 23-year career. This book recounts many of the events that helped shape his career. From his beginnings as an Air Force airman, Kelley advances through the ranks to eventually retire as a major. Along the way, he finds himself in situations that are often funny, sometimes dark, but always realistic. A career that included service as an emergency room technician, nuclear missile operations officer, and commander of a squadron during Desert Shield/Storm, Kelley’s story is full of interesting people and unexpected opportunities and shows that, with a little confidence in yourself, you can accomplish much more than you ever imagined.

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 ISBN: 1-4241-4151-6, 352 pages $19.95

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Dick Stodghill

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This is the Battle of Normandy, neither glamorized nor sanitized, as seen from ground level during the bloody summer of 1944—the personal experiences of an 18-year-old 4th Infantry Division rifleman who joined his company shortly after D-Day. He quickly came to admire and respect the men of G Company, then was close by as one by one many of them died during the horrific fighting in the fields and streets of a normally beautiful and tranquil land.

Here are the realities of that war: opening the casualty blanket rolls, seeing the dead being buried in mattress covers, the sounds, the smells and the fears of men in infantry combat. A glimpse, too, of the boys who fought the battles of World War II as they grew up or matured during the Great Depression, the rigors of infantry basic training, life in England in the weeks leading up to D-Day.

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  ISBN: 1-4241-4913-4, 299 pages $ 19.95

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Flatwoods and Lighterknots is a cameo peek into Southern culture as experienced by a young boy who grew up during the years following World War II. The young boy’s experiences are captured in a series of stories that treat people of different backgrounds with tender remembrances of their special contributions to a culture changed by the demands of technological progress. As America moved forward after a long war and subsequent advent of a mobilized society, many people had to change their lives in ways that were often inconvenient, yet necessary in a new age of mass communications and mass confusion. Old ways and traditions gave way to new methods as people, steeped in old customs, began remodeling their lives to meet the challenges of a new era. Yet, there still lingers a deep respect and admiration for the contributions of those who came before us, plowing the furrows of progress.

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Henry Custer  

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What kind of floors do you live on – carpet, hardwood, or dirt? Does it affect quality of life? This is the poignant story of one boy growing up in the foothills of eastern Oklahoma, the first of eight children, loved and cared for by hard-working but uneducated parents. From the beginning of the Great Depression of 1929 to the end of World War II in 1945, you will share the day-to-day hardships and occasional disaster, as well as the daily joy of just being themselves, as the author shares his worst and finest memories of childhood. Intermingled are the nightmares and stories related by a superstitious grandmother who lived with the family for some time. The family survived as the hired hands on several dirt farms until the advent of World War II changed the very essence of their way of life.

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 ISBN# 1-59286-084-2  196 pages   $16.95

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