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This is the heart-wrenching personal saga of a born-again child of God. She has gone through the fire and lived to tell about it. Her account of her personal odyssey to hell and back should serve to help many who are caught up on the same life-style and with similar problems to find THE way out.
A Journey To Hell and Back is a gripping saga of a young woman’s journey from adolescence to adulthood at an accelerated pace. This book is an exploration of a troubled teen’s journey into the underworld to emerge as an independent, confident, and self-assured woman. Pitfalls, tragedy, and trials that lure a young honor student into the mean streets of Atlanta and finally, New York mark the story. Her journey to hell led her through a fiery furnace that burned 70 % of her body with 2nd and 3rd degree burns, and an over three months hospital stay where God provided personal consolation and heal | |  | | A Journey to Hell and Back: The Flip side
A Journey to Hell and Back: The Flip Side is the third text in author Charlotte Russell Johnson’s series of motivational books. Ms. Johnson true to form has developed a surprisingly unique book. The two major characters alternate narration of the story. This literary technique serves to mesmerize and hold the reader spellbound. Two separate individuals on parallel descents into hell collide violently, the force of which serves as a catalyst to accelerate their demise. Then just as all visible signs of hope evaporate, in a surprising plot twist surpassing Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, the text evolves into a completely different direction.
The Flip Side expands on Ms. Johnson’s previous text, A Journey to Hell and Back, an autobiographical account of the author’s life. The Flip Side further explores the author’s life, while also giving the parallel and sometimes contrasting account of Ms. Johnson’s husband, Henry. The text begins with the lives of two separate individuals in preparation for their first encounter and then chronicles their following union. This book is appealing to a wide and varied audience, including those preparing for marriage, divorce, raising a family, or a part of a family, involved in or getting out of a relationship, recovering from past mistakes, parenting, or in contact with any of these groups. This book humorously pokes fun at life’s everyday problems. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson provide unique and sometimes competing perspectives of their life together. The text provides an insightfully honest portrait of the differing perspectives of a married couple. The varying interpretations of major events serve to keep the reader enchanted with the text. After reading this text the reader will wonder how often they have misunderstood the intention of others. The Johnson’s invite you to decide what is the actual truth. They say there are two versions of every story and then there’s the truth.
Over the years, we saw celebrities visit the American Legion, B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, and Etta James, etc. Around the first of each month, the club would be packed to capacity. There were players, pimps, and prostitutes working to perfect their games. The robbers and burglars were also hard at work. Everybody was looking to fatten their pockets. The people frequenting the club had to park their cars several streets away. This made them easy prey for the criminals waiting for an easy target.
During the summers, I had a chance to follow the older kids. This gave me an opportunity | |  | | Daddy's Hugs
The text’s major premise is that the role of fathers is essential to promote healthy child development and appropriate role modeling. The book exhorts the role of fatherhood in the lives of children. Daddy’s Hugs offers striking commentary on the plight of fatherless children. Fathers are portrayed as more than financial breadwinners. Instead, they are depicted as essential emotional caregivers. The book praises and provides examples of fathers who take an active role in parenting. There is an excellent balance of positive, negative, and neutral fathering role models. The humorous vignettes make this book an easy read. The book is able to stray away from the common mistake of male bashing. The devaluation of the role of fathers and their inadequate preparation for this role is explored in-depth. Women are not viewed as passive victims to be exploited by males, but as active participants in child rearing and parenting.
It reveals groundbreaking insight into the importance of male role models to prepare males for life and women for mate selection. It is one of the most radical paradigm shifts in child development, since Dr. Benjamin Spock's Baby and Child Care. This book is excellent for mothers, fathers, children, potential parents and partners, as well as those who will work with individuals, families, or are in need of a good laugh.
The Myths, the LiesFalse humility is really self-righteousness.Earline L. Hall My son, obey your father’s commands, anddon’t neglect your mother’s teaching.Proverbs 6:20My son, Herman, was “special before his birth.” He was always very active, rough, adventurous, or shall we just say, “all boy.” In A Journey to Hell and Back, I shared several of his escapades, and I am going to share yet another. Actually, I could write a book about his numerous adventures.During his early years, it was necessary for us to make several trips to the hospital emergency room. He was always getting into something. | |  | | Grace Under Fire: The Journey Never Ends
In Grace Under Fire: The Journey Never Ends, author Charlotte Russell Johnson coins the fourth installment in her series of motivational text. Ms. Johnson continues to share the intimate and personal events in her life to offer encouragement to those suffering. In this text, Ms. Johnson’s writing evolves emotionally. The reader is able to view her innermost secrets and emotions. The reader is seduced by the lust of the characters for love and money, while secretly retaining a desire to see their ultimate redemption. These complex characters and their labyrinth of romantic entanglements rival F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby.
The author explores the importance of hope, love, and forgiveness in marriage. This book is excellent for anyone who has experienced love, heartache, betrayal, deception, divorce, remarriage, anticipates becoming married, or working with any of these populations.
They say that you should never burn the bridge that has brought you through, but at what point is the bridge a safety hazard? This is the first question Ms. Johnson leaves the reader pondering. If it is true when one door closes another opens, what should you do when the wind continues to open and shut both doors simultaneously? After reading Grace Under Fire, these and many other questions will spark spirited debates.
Ms. Johnson is able to hold the reader spellbound and enchanted until the book’s surprise ending. Ms. Johnson invites the reader to view her life and experience love, grace, and redemption.
| |  | | In the Lord's Eyes: Mama's Pearls
Mama’s Pearls is the sixth book in author Charlotte Johnson’s series of motivational text. This book is a very poignant chronicle of the faith, wit, and the down home charm of Ms. Johnson’s mother, Evelyn Russell. Loyal fans of Ms. Johnson have already developed a feeling of closeness to her mother, affectionately called “Mother Russell.” Throughout Ms. Johnson’s books, her mother serves as a spiritual mentor teaching her about love and redemption through her selfless love. Mother Russell loves, when it seems that her daughter is beyond change and is unwilling to embrace her mother’s instructions.
Mother Russell is a paradox. She is both a spiritually mature student of the Bible, while maintaining her down home folksy charm, sharp tongue, and nostalgic stories of her youth that serve to entertain the reader. These stories offer inspiration, encouragement, hope, and motivation. More importantly, these oral traditions serve as method of handing down the wisdom of times past. A mother’s love can be essential to a child’s emotional well-being and character development.
Charlotte Johnson shares her mother with the world to offer hope and encouragement in troubled times. This book is excellent for those in need of hope, seeking a miracle, searching for a way to maintain their faith, or looking for an uplifting and humorous book.
Mother Russell grew up in a family where oral storytelling was a method of passing family wisdom and traditions to the younger generations. She passed these stories onto her children. These stories are a combination of Mother Russell’s life experiences and oral traditions passed from her father. My heart was touched when Ms. Johnson wrote earlier in her series, “Mama why do you still care?” Mama’s Pearl answers why a mother still cares when all hope is gone and the world has given up on her child.
As Ms. Johnson explores her family’s past in order to bring light and perspective to the present, Mama’s Pearls is reminiscent of Alex Haley’s Roots. Ms. Johnson’s story is the story of America that each generation learns and passes on. The collective knowledge of the family promotes growth in each subsequent generation. Although an apple doesn’t fall far from a tree, it is able to roll downhill away from the foundation. The essential seed from the tree remains in the core of the apple.
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Charlotte Johnson’s series of motivational texts. After twenty-two years of battling addiction and multiple incarcerations, the family appears to have reached a state of calm. This is merely the calm prior to the greatest storm this family has ever faced. Just as the family begins to deal with the effects of years of institutionalization and the residual effects of chronic drug use, a surprise visitor arrives in town throwing the family into chaos. After a family secret and conspiracy is revealed, the reader along with Ms. Johnson is forced to reevaluate everything they have previously known about the family. As the plot progresses, the layers of the conspiracy are subtly exposed revealing a depth of sin and deceit reminiscent of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. Will the family be able to weather this storm?
This book reveals a level of honesty
infrequently seen in authorized biographies and memoirs. Ms. Johnson is able to bring to life the effects of substance abuse on the user and the entire family system. She is able to acknowledge her co-dependent behavior and its affects on her children. Although hopeful that the family will be able to overcome its past now that Mr. Johnson is clean and sober, they soon realize that every action has a consequence. Can a man take fire into his bosom and not be burned?
Ms. Johnson explores how negative
behavioral patterns can be learned and transmitted over multiple family generations and within a community. This is an excellent book for those living in or working with substance and alcohol abusing families, co-dependants, counselors, or those experiencing divorce, married or preparing for marriage, a member of an extended family, anyone recovering from betrayal, forced to reevaluate their life goals or in need of a great book.
The surprise ending will leave the reader questioning along with Ms. Johnson; “Can you ever really know someone?” One thing is very clear after reading this book. “All that glitters is not gold and every good-bye ain’t gone.” Once again Ms. Johnson invites her readers to view her life as an open book and experience God’s Grace and unmerited favor.
When I decided that I was tired of a drug induced life style, I began a campaign to make Henry stop using the drugs. There were times when I threw his drugs away. There were other times
when I tried to knock the works (needle) out of his hands. I became adept at blowing his high.
One day in an act of desperation, I tested him. Although, he assured me that he loved me more than the drugs, I doubted this. He said that he
loved me ‘more than a hog loves slop.’ We were at home sitting in the living room. Henry had tried repeatedly to find a good vein in his arms or legs.
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