Bøger af Cindy Horrell Ramsey

Maddie Marie Miller is a smart, compassionate ten-year-old born between two sets of athletic twin brothers, but she doesn't like to play sports. She enjoys writing, seashell collecting, and family trips to the beach. Imagine the magic of seeing sea turtles hatching, telling ghost stories in the dark, or hearing ghost crabs crawling on your tent at night while camping at the beach, and you'll find yourself in the middle of Maddie's world. She has one big problem-her daddy hates her. When her fifth grade class participates in an adopt-a-grandparent program, Maddie chooses a veteran who lost both legs and one arm in the Vietnam War. Any mention of that war at home angers her daddy, and Maddie wants to know why. Her persistence sets life-altering events into motion. A medical emergency threatens the lives of two people she loves and causes discord in her family. Then a family vacation brings Maddie and her daddy face-to-face with the secret that has haunted him for more than 45 years. Maddie finds herself caught in the middle of everything.

Immediately following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 18-year-old Georgia farm boy Roy Harrison joins the Navy, leaving behind his family and 17-year-old girlfriend, Evelyn. For almost four years - except for one brief trip home in the summer of 1944 - letters are their only means of communication. For the first seven months, the correspondence is exciting and informative. Roy tells Evelyn about boot camp, being assigned to a ship, traveling up and down the east coast, and seeing sights they both had only dreamed of seeing - like the Statue of Liberty and New York City.But in July, 1942, Roy's battleship, the USS NORTH CAROLINA, enters the war in the Pacific-first stop being a ravaged Pearl Harbor. After seeing sunken battleships, oil and debris still floating in the water, and a glimpse of what he believes to be body parts, Roy is thrust into the realities of war. An uncertain future and government censorship take their toll on Roy's letters. He cannot tell Evelyn where his ship is or anything about the battles, death, and destruction he witnesses and experiences. He begins writing a forbidden diary trying to purge the truths of war from his mind before he writes home.When Evelyn graduates from high school and takes a government job that moves her from Georgia to Washington, DC, to New York City, and finally to a secret place in Tennessee, she cannot tell Roy anything about her job and little about where she lives. Their epic love story unfolds in the midst of war and secrets.

Ramsey tells the story of the battleship through the eyes of the men who served her in WW II.

Lucy Miller Brown has seen too many tragedies in her thirty-three years. Still struggling to survive her veteran husband''s death, she works tirelessly to create a good life for her three children and aging grandmother on the farm that has supported their family for multiple generations. With her family thriving and a bumper crop of fruits and vegetables ripening in the fields, Lucy finally feels a satisfying sense of control. But she can''t control the weather. Hurricane Florence barrels into the North Carolina coast as a Cat 1, leaving behind normal destruction-nothing Lucy can''t handle. But then the storm stalls and dumps over thirty inches of rain in less than three days, causing the rivers to rise to unprecedented levels. Following a harried middle-of-the-night escape to the loft of their tractor shed, Lucy guards her family as she watches the tannin stained water of the Black River swallow up their home and farm and threaten to overtake their refuge. Feeling lost and helpless, Lucy prays for help.The answer to those prayers arrives in the form of a man and his teenage son in a jonboat-strangers Lucy is fearful to trust. But with the water still rising, what other option does she have? Relinquishing much of the independence and control Lucy has fought so hard to achieve, she must make difficult decisions for the survival and future of her family.