How does a human being degenerate into someone willingly perpetrating acts of exceptional violence upon others? How does Jesus Christ reach past the rejections and damage of this world to claim, transform, and repurpose such a human life? A life not only swept into the dustbin of incarceration, but one who did everything they could to get themself there?Rather than attempting to answer these questions from a scriptural or theological basis, I present to you the life story of Pastor Jose Luis Hernandez Roman, entitled 'From Psycho to Christ'.
On June 14, 1940, eight-year-old Jacqueline witnesses the Nazis march into her beloved, native Paris. Two years later, she is the surrogate mother of her two younger siblings on their way to a new continent, a new culture, and new conflicts.
The year is 1878, and it all starts with a faint vision fueled by desperation and Madeira wine. Miguel Mirante, a Portuguese farmer, has a wife and four children to feed, but his crops are failing on São Miguel island. He does not read, and he has never seen a map or a globe. He knows nothing of the world outside of his island, and he has no idea what it is like to sail on a bark around Cape Horn. Little does he realize that smuggled diamonds, measles, williwaw winds, and booby birds await those, who like him, would risk everything for a better life. He only knows that staying put means destitution for his family and that there are people who are willing to pay for his passage and educate his children on the far side of the world.
When widowed high school teacher Carli Winslow returns from Europe, she finds her home ransacked. Gangs smuggling illegals and drugs wreck havoc on her small town of Parma. After the school principal is murdered, the new woman principal, an antagonistic student, and town leaders put Carli in danger. She's wary of Sam, her new mysterious neighbor, but when a flood destroys the bridge that divides Parma between the wealthy whites and the poorer Latinos, Carli and Sam's relationship changes. Secrets, greed, and hate surface. After a pontoon bridge reconnects the town, Carli's enemy strikes. She has one chance to survive.
The Pish-la-ki is one of the most well-known lost mines of the American Southwest and much has been written about it. However, most of this published material emphasizes the sensationalism of the story - the killing of the prospectors Merrick and Mitchell in Monument Valley - with specimens of the mine's silver ore in their packs. Unfortunately, this has often been at the expense of historical accuracy. This book not only rectifies that, but brings together the entire history of the mine, its discovery, the various searches for it, and even its probable location.
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