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Faith Chronicles in Two-Part Series Box Sets 2020


Sidney St. James’ writing career began in the University Library at Texas A&M University. It was there while working behind the main desk in the Reserve Reading Room he discovered a massive collection of microfilm. Not only did this time, while attending the University in College Station, Texas, start his genealogy studies, it also began

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REMEMBER THE ALAMO! THE RUNAWAY SCRAPE!


On February 23rd, 1836, a large Mexican force totaling near 6,000 men commanded by General Santa Anna started a siege of the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas. The Texians held out for thirteen days. At four o’clock in the morning on March 6, the Mexican forces began to attack the Alamo and didn’t stop with

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NEW BOX SETS AVAILABLE FROM SIDNEY ST. JAMES


Sidney St. James Releases New Box Sets International Best Selling Author The Faith Chronicles are an anthology of Christian based novels and true stories associated with Texas History and the Runaway Scrape and the First Woman Ordained in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. All novels are available separately (see below) or bought in box sets to

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NO. 3 – FAITH – Seventy Times Seven A True Story from Ada Caston Slaton Bonds Memoirs


The third novel in the Faith Chronicles is FAITH – Seventy Times Seven. It is a true story based on the memoirs of The Reverend Ada Caston Slaton Bonds of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. She was the first ordained woman in any denomination for the State of Louisiana and the sixth woman to be ordained

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Why Do I Write Creative Historical Nonfiction


WHY DO I WRITE CREATIVE NONFICTION? How many of us have struggled during our childhood through the date-pocketed course of history, uninterested, disenchanted, and just waiting only for the end of the cobwebbed test of time.  We find, in our later years in life, that history is actually the most fascinating and stimulating of all

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