Bøker av Jody Brady

When immigrating from Ireland, Robert never imagined he would end up in one of the most violent areas when the Civil War broke out. The Missouri/Kansas border was under constant attacks by Bushwhackers. The first year of the war, almost half of all battles were in Missouri. This is the story of the Battle of Lone Jack, where a unit of 500 Union soldiers had to fight against 1600 Confederate soldiers.

Colored pictures on every page take the reader to Panama where you can see the rain forest and wonderful animals like sloths and the loud Howler Monkeys. There are also tropical islands and all types of colorful birds. It''s fun to see the actual cannons that fired at the Pirates of the Caribbean - like Henry Morgan. Long ago, Henry and his thousands of raiders burned Panama City to the ground. Now, it''s a big, lively new city. Included is a simple explanation how the Canal was built and functions. The canal lifts HUGE ships up 85 feet and then lowers them back down. How do they do that? You''ll find out. Grandma teaches us we can travel and never leave home. In books we can travel in our minds.

Tom Mackenzie is a beaten man, a man that has lost all hope, his ministry destroyed, his finances in shambles, his marriage at a breaking point. He has bought the lie that his past failures cannot be redeemed and that God has forsaken him. Now he is trapped by a raging fire storm in western Wyoming because of a fateful decision to end his own life, unknowingly renewing a spiritual battle for his soul that began long before at the fall of mankind in Eden in the heavenly realms of the angelic gatekeepers.