{"id":10032162570534,"title":"A Forgiving Fire","handle":"a-forgiving-fire","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0798\/5689\/files\/Stone_Tower_100x100.png?v=1546616956\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(51, 97, 52);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor Olin Fregia\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(51, 97, 52);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN 9798991983136\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(51, 97, 52);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages 268\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn essential story for anyone who has faced injustice\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand the choice: sweet revenge or full freedom.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThat is the choice that arrests Johnnie Roy Houston since that hot-as-hell day in June, 1946 when this nineteen-year-old returns to the bottom land of his central Texas hometown to celebrate his favorite day—Juneteenth. But within twenty-four hours, he is seized by a pack of blood-thirsty lawmen for robbing the town’s prominent doctor of thirty dollars. As Houston is hauled to a holding cell, his eyes meet his twin brother’s eyes, who is being escorted out. Without a word spoken, their glances say it all—betrayal.  A blood-stained confession and a thirty-minute trial later, a jury returns the sentence: fifty years. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Forgiving Fire takes the reader on Johnnie’s journey—from family betrayal, Jim Crow injustice, and the horrors of prison, to a harder-than-prison parole—living next door to his brother-betrayer.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWill Johnnie carry out a solitary dream of getting even, or will he forgive so he can finally walk in his own sunshine, unshackled, at peace? Before him is a life-changing choice: revenge or a freedom forged by a forgiving fire. All he wants is a return of his essential, Juneteenth joy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(51, 97, 52);\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor Bio: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOLIN FREGIA, TH.M., is a seminary-trained (Dallas Theological Seminary) ordained minister, blogger, and speaker. A former television reporter, advertising agency copywriter and video producer, he has served as a church communications specialist, commercial on-air and voice-over talent, and college chaplain. 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But within twenty-four hours, he is seized by a pack of blood-thirsty lawmen for robbing the town’s prominent doctor of thirty dollars. As Houston is hauled to a holding cell, his eyes meet his twin brother’s eyes, who is being escorted out. Without a word spoken, their glances say it all—betrayal.  A blood-stained confession and a thirty-minute trial later, a jury returns the sentence: fifty years. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Forgiving Fire takes the reader on Johnnie’s journey—from family betrayal, Jim Crow injustice, and the horrors of prison, to a harder-than-prison parole—living next door to his brother-betrayer.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWill Johnnie carry out a solitary dream of getting even, or will he forgive so he can finally walk in his own sunshine, unshackled, at peace? Before him is a life-changing choice: revenge or a freedom forged by a forgiving fire. All he wants is a return of his essential, Juneteenth joy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(51, 97, 52);\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor Bio: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOLIN FREGIA, TH.M., is a seminary-trained (Dallas Theological Seminary) ordained minister, blogger, and speaker. A former television reporter, advertising agency copywriter and video producer, he has served as a church communications specialist, commercial on-air and voice-over talent, and college chaplain. He currently lives in East Texas.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}

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All four of my grandparents, Fannie, George, Louie, and Maxine, were immigrants who left Greece for America a century ago to start a new life in a new land. Their DNA helped determine my biology and chemistry, even as their stories helped shape my heart and soul. Some of them, and their close relatives, survived World War I and the Russian Revolution, worked on the Panama Canal and built chapels, were scarred by World War II and the Greek Civil War, and fought to retrieve the body of a loved one from a foreign land. But most of them lived ordinary lives with extraordinary courage and perseverance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis book retells the struggles and joys, false starts and happy endings of these four modern Greek heroes, placing each in a literary frame that weaves their stories together with those of such legendary heroes as Jason, Odysseus, and Antigone. Join me as we travel to an exotic, yet strangely familiar place where the tales and passions of simple immigrants meet and fuse with the tales, the history, and the culture of ancient Greece.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAuthor Bio: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLOUIS MARKOS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (PhD, University of Michigan), Professor in English and Scholar in Residence at Houston Christian University, holds the Robert H. Ray Chair in Humanities. 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Invited to teach business and language classes at the remote island Institute, she quickly found herself in a cold and hostile environment where her money was stolen, car dismantled, and job and income in jeopardy. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eDaily life on Sakhalin was punctuated with humorous and improbable encounters with the island residents and unsavory run-ins with the local underground mafia. She practiced survival skills in bartering for food and finding ways to communicate with the outside world as the contested island went through the turbulent times of Perestroika. Later, when a friend took a perilous fall and needed to be airlifted, she approached oil companies and arranged a Mercy flight to transport her dying friend home. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eThis is a story of a woman overcoming hardships and adversity in a dangerous environment, and without intending to, finding the meaning of friendship and trust.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #1f4e1f;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eN. L. Fix worked as a Linguistic Advisor in the United Nations, an I.P. specialist in Deqi Law Firm and is the Co-founder of Hub-Haction. She holds a B.A. from the University of California, a J.D. from Santa Clara Law School and M.I.B. from Sophia University, Japan. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2020-08-28T16:06:41-04:00","created_at":"2023-02-01T15:11:43-05:00","vendor":"Certa Publishing","type":"Book","tags":["memoir","N.L. 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She practiced survival skills in bartering for food and finding ways to communicate with the outside world as the contested island went through the turbulent times of Perestroika. Later, when a friend took a perilous fall and needed to be airlifted, she approached oil companies and arranged a Mercy flight to transport her dying friend home. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eThis is a story of a woman overcoming hardships and adversity in a dangerous environment, and without intending to, finding the meaning of friendship and trust.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #1f4e1f;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eN. L. Fix worked as a Linguistic Advisor in the United Nations, an I.P. specialist in Deqi Law Firm and is the Co-founder of Hub-Haction. 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