There - Russell, Janice

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Résumé :
There is a place we all have been in life or already in that place or Getting to go into. There is a circumstance that puts in a life or death situation and a survival mode. You can either stay there and die or by the Grace of God with His guidance you can come out. This story about a young boy at the age of seventeen who was put in that There situation. We will call him Johnnie. Johnnie was with his two cousins who had not been town long when trouble broke out concerning them. Because of Johnnie's trouble childhood and early problem teen years he had made up his mind that he was not going to get in any trouble anymore in life. In fact Johnnie had decided he was on the straight and narrow path. Life has a strange way of turning itself around. The two adult cousins shot one of the Big Hustlers of the community over a woman causing them to have run and leave the state. The year was 1937 in Tennessee. The law was not going to let this rest so they found them in Alabama and shipped them back to Tennessee for trial. After the trial they received 393 years and Johnnie received 93 years alone. Johnnie was seventeen sent to Tennessee State Penitentiary known as RedTop with the repetition of being one of the worst prisons in the United States. Johnnie's tells of the horrible things he saw go on. But through it all Johnnie became the 1st Documented Ordained Pastor of the Prison and started Mt. Nebo Church housed in side the Prison. God favored Johnnie after 23years Johnnie was released from prison.

Biographie:
Janice Russell is an author, teacher and life coach, and, by her own definition, a 'feisty old crone'. Her occupation now embraces writing, teaching, coaching and painting, while enjoying family time and following trails of curiousity. She is widely published professionally, taught Creative Writing for the University of East Anglia, and isauthor of several works on women ageing, notably the audio courses Rocking the Crone and Loving the Crone. She has three novels to her name. Keeping Abreast, a satirical yet passionate fiction/faction account of living the journey of breast cancer. Set in the 1990's in York, UK, themes are universal and remain relevant today. Entertaining and provocative. The Pigeon Fancier's Wife, is set in Middlesborough in the early 2000's, written in the voices of heterosexual couple Stan and Evie Ettington, both fed up and both about to embark on separate adventures in which they re -find themselves -and a whole lot more! Funny, moving, universal emotion and the perfect crime interweave. An Algarve Affair in 2013, is her third and last novel, set in the beautiful region of the Algarve.