Hope Journey is a heartfelt account of one man's adventures through life and his discovery of the eternal reality of hope in God. More than just one man's story, Bob Hartley's life is a call to everyone to join a lifelong journey of hope in God. God desires each one of us to no longer have any form of despair or hopelessness in our life, we are to live a delighted life full of joy! The stories and principles in this book will dare you to dream again and dare you to believe in others and yourself once more. This book speaks of a true and powerful hope in God that shatters the doubt, fear and cynicism that we face, breaking through the clouds of hopelessness with the light of His presence. This true hope in God will ensure in you a confident expectation for good from Him in all arenas of life. Learn what it means to become a true hope reformer, establishing many types of hope centers in your families, your businesses, your churches, your schools, or wherever you have influence. Hope Journey will propel you into a deeper hope in God and give you the tools to bring hope to others as well. We encourage you - get aside with no distractions and read this book again and again, let the fire of hopefulness set your heart ablaze. Hope in God is not longer an option. It is a mandate. Join us on the journey.

HOPE journey

Religion & Spirituality

Hartley, Robert

Hartley, Amyann

Christian Books & Bibles

Deeper Waters Inc

Two lives come together, but then are wrenched apart, seemingly forever. She is the most beautiful woman Professor Tom Prentice has ever known, and he falls in love, even though Ginny Russo has muscular dystrophy. Because of her illness she will not consider marriage, but he maintains his love is undying, and eventually she consents. Just before the wedding she gets much worse, and they break up. Some months later Tom tries to find her, berating himself for so willingly accepting this severing, but she has disappeared. Twenty-two years later, at their old dean's funeral he learns they both are remembered in the will. With his own marriage in shambles, now his memories of Ginny and his enduring love overwhelm him, and he determines to find her in whatever desperate circumstances she may be. But his resolve is sorely tested. Written from the male point of view, THE UNFORGOTTEN bares the conflicts and emotions of falling in love with an increasingly handicapped person. Full of pathos and beauty of spirit, it may touch your heart.

The Unforgotten: a love story

Literature & Fiction

Robert Hartley

Sarah Lindsey can see the lights of a vast encampment this September night of 1862. She marvels how she came to be here among these thousands of men, and is drawn to try to help, however she can. She wanders that battle day into a barn, and encounters a bloody surgeon. She and Dr. John Rizzo work side by side as the battle surges around them. They discover she has an uncommon talent for surgery, and Rizzo mentions the possibility of medical school after the War. The next night she discovers a Confederate major under corpses in the Sunken Road, the place of the heaviest fighting. Thad Barrett is barely alive, but she assists Dr. Rizzo in the surgery and stays with him until he is out of danger. The field hospital closes and Dr. Rizzo and Barrett are transfered to a base hospital in Baltimore. Sarah visits the base hospital and Thad knows he loves this "angel" who saved him, but Dr. Rizzo also expresses his affection for Sarah, even though she later learns he has an invalid wife. Thad is paroled and goes home with a peg leg to rebuild his life. His Aunt Abigail helps him recover and resume life as a professor in a small Carolina college. The War ends and Reconstruction begins, but the old hatreds are accentuated and the local Ku Klux Klan demands Thad join their cause and leave him near dead in a ditch when he refuses. He is rescued by Negroes. Despite her battlefield experience at Antietam, Sarah cannot get into the Army Nurse Corp. because of the prejudice of Dorothea Dix, Superintendent of Nursing for the Army Nurse Corp. Rizzo puts her in touch with Mary Ann Bickerdyle, a famous Union nurse working with Grant and Sherman in the West, and Sarah becomes her understudy in the great battles ahead. With the War ended, Bickerdyke encourages Sarah to pursue her dream of becoming a doctor. But medical schools are bastions of male supremacy. Finally, an early physician, Dr. Marie Zakrzewska (Dr. Z.) in Boston becomes Sarah's mentor and helps her be accepted at the prestigious Ecole de Medecine in Paris. Meantime, Thad has been trying to find Sarah. He finally learns that she is in Paris. They barely have communicated when Paris comes under siege in the Franco-Prussian War. In the aftermath, Sarah is raped and her face slashed by a jealous classmate. She gives birth to a crippled daughter. She never replies to Thad's letters, and doggedly finishes her schooling and returns to Boston broken and spirit. Years later, Thad, now president of the small college in North Carolina, tries to admit a crippled Negro girl who may be a genius. But this inflames prejudices and the Klann violently opposes him, and Aunt Abigail is killed in the confrontation that receives national media attention. Dr. Z hears of this and sends a cryptic note to Thad.

ODYSSEY FROM ANTIETAM: A Medical Novel of the Civil War and Aftermath

Contemporary

Xlibris, Corp.

What happened to the 11 men who served as governor of Illinois from 1933 to 2003? That is what this book is about. Each life is traced from highlights and lowlights in office to the day the music stopped and life played out as a former governor. Most of them would have preferred to continue serving as the state's chief executive. But that wasn't an option. Each man faced the challenges of a new life. Some performed well, some did not. The eleven are a mixed bag of personalities, ambitions and attempts at further glory. Their stories offer a rich assortment of adventures ranging from failure to success, from further political involvement to heroic legal battles, and efforts to earn their way. Yes, stories of three who went to prison, Kerner, Walker and Ryan, are included. For the first time in print, the rest of the story is available.

Purpose, Power and Prison: Stories About Former Illinois Governors

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Xlibris US

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