Author : Sandra V. Konechny
Publisher : Word Alive Press
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 47,4 MB
Release : 2024-09-16
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1486624367
What if there is more to this world than our five senses of sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch inform us? Some people really do have strange experiences that defy logic. In this story, a group of cousins are supernaturally conveyed to another world that is yet created by the same Creator as their own. As they participate in a thrilling adventure, will they be tempted to go along with the evil deception plotted against them and their new friend?
Author : Sandra V. Konechny
Publisher : Word Alive Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 16,20 MB
Release : 2025-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1486624340
January 2, 1981 The story continues… Margo Fischer-Owens’ life falls out from under her immediately following her brother’s wedding, necessitating an urgent intervention and rescue from the newlyweds. Her return to Minitonas for care, support, and restoration takes several unexpected turns as she gradually gets back on her feet. Hugh R. Fischer isn’t pleased to have to deal with more family problems in the wake of his marriage to Ellie. Nevertheless, that doesn’t quench the joy he finds in having a loving wife and continuing to transform his property… until the discovery of the big hidden secret. Ellie Bauman-Fischer’s determination to build a family is clouded by her apparent barrenness, which threatens to cause a relapse into depression. How should she live if she can’t make life go the way she wants? What, and who, will give meaning to her life if childlessness is her fate?
Author : Will Harlan
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 12,98 MB
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0802192629
The inspiring biography of the adventuresome naturalist Carol Ruckdeschel and her crusade to save her island home from environmental disaster. In a “moving homage . . . that artfully articulates the ferocities of nature and humanity,” biographer Will Harlan captures the larger-than-life story of biologist, naturalist, and ecological activist Carol Ruckdeschel, known to many as the wildest woman in America. She wrestles alligators, eats roadkill, rides horses bareback, and lives in a ramshackle cabin that she built by hand in an island wilderness. A combination of Henry David Thoreau and Jane Goodall, Carol is a self-taught scientist who has become a tireless defender of sea turtles on Cumberland Island, a national park off the coast of Georgia (Kirkus Reviews). Cumberland, the country’s largest and most biologically diverse barrier island, is celebrated for its windswept dunes and feral horses. Steel magnate Thomas Carnegie once owned much of the island, and in recent years, Carnegie heirs and the National Park Service have clashed with Carol over the island’s future. What happens when a dirt-poor naturalist with only a high school diploma becomes an outspoken advocate on a celebrated but divisive island? Untamed is the story of an American original who fights for what she believes in, no matter the cost, “an environmental classic that belongs on the shelf alongside Carson, Leopold, Muir, and Thoreau” (Thomas Rain Crowe, author of Zoro’s Field: My Life in the Appalachian Woods). “Vivid. . . . Ms. Ruckdeschel’s biography, and the way this wandering soul came to settle for so many decades on Cumberland Island, is big enough on its own, but Mr. Harlan hints at bigger questions.” —The Wall Street Journal “Wild country produces wild people, who sometimes are just what’s needed to keep that wild cycle going. This is a memorable portrait.” —Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature “Deliciously engrossing. . . . Readers are in for a wild ride.” —The Citizen-Times
Author : A.P. Hernández
Publisher : Babelcube Inc.
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 10,67 MB
Release : 2021-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1667412280
Andrea and Jamie, 9 and 7 years old, are siblings, and this summer they’re going to spend a few days with their grandmother because their parents have won a raffle and are going on a trip. Their parents’ instructions are very clear: “Be very good,” “Take good care of Grandma,” and “Grandma is very old, look after her.” However, left alone with their grandmother, Andrea and Jamie are in for a huge surprise. Grandma may not be as boring as they had thought after all ... A fun book with humor, action and adventure for boys and girls! Recommended reading for children aged 7 and up.
Author : Caylin Louis Moore
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 37,37 MB
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1400209927
In this inspiring and provocative memoir about a young black man, Caylin Moore tells the against-all-odds story of his rise from racial injustice and cruel poverty in gang-ridden Los Angeles to academic success at the University of Oxford, with hope as his compass. A Dream to Big is for readers who want to … enjoy a compelling, true, hard-to-believe inspirational story; thoughtfully embrace a long-overdue conversation about equality and justice in America; and be inspired and find hope from a firsthand account of redemption through even the most painful life experiences. When Caylin Louis Moore was a young child, his mother gathered her three young children and fled an abusive marriage, landing in poverty in a heavily policed, gang-ridden community. When Moore’s mother suffered from health complications and a devastating experience in the hospital and his father was sentenced to life imprisonment, Moore was forced to enter adulthood prematurely. His hope was fueled by embracing his mother's steely faith in a brighter future. Moore skirted the gangs, the police, and the violence endemic to Compton to excel as a student and athlete, eventually reaching the pinnacles of academic achievement as a Rhodes Scholar. Moore's eye-opening, against-all-odds story reveals that there is no such thing as a dream too big.
Author : Denny Carnell
Publisher : LifeRich Publishing
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 31,41 MB
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1489739858
The book is about three young people who are friends and have established a club called the Three Amigos. These young people are neighbors who have an intimate relationship with each other as their parents are good friends who also grew up together. Terry is the main character. Terry's grandmother now lives with them since his grandfather passed away. Terry's grandmother is on vacation at one of his aunt's house. One day as Terry passes his grandmother's room, he notices a light shining under his grandmother’s bed. He gets his friends who were downstairs playing video games to come upstairs with him to investigate the light in his grandmother’s room. As they nudge each other to go in her room they finally went in the forbidden room (because his grandmother did not give them permission.) They discovered that it was his grandmother’s bible which gave off the light. Being afraid that his mother would come and discover that they were in his grandmother’s room Terry pulled the blanket off of the bed over them, pulled the bible out from under the bed as it was shaking and opened the bible. They were then sucked into the bible and off to a bible adventure. They experience a bible adventure every time they open the bible.
Author : Helen Batten
Publisher : Allison & Busby Ltd
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 30,23 MB
Release : 2021-09-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0749026626
'A vivid tale of a woman born for the stage, stardom and scandal' - Holly Kyte, author of Roaring Girls: The Forgotten Feminists of British History'One of the most irrepressible women I've come across'- Jane Robinson, author of Ladies Can't Climb Ladders'I rode on the stage in such style, that the men in front forgot I was a girl, and also forgot to laugh.'From humble beginnings with the threat of the workhouse looming, Emily Soldene rose to become a star of the London stage and a formidable impresario with her own opera company. The darling of theatreland, she later reinvented herself as a journalist and writer who scandalised the country with her outrageous memoir. Weaving through the grit and glamour of Victorian music halls and theatres, taking encounters with the Pre-Raphaelites and Charles Dickens in her stride, Emily became the toast of New York and ventured far off the beaten track to tour Australia and New Zealand. Batten paints a vibrant portrait of an almost forgotten star who trod the boards, travelled the globe and tore up the Victorian rule book.
Author : M.E.B.M. Kirwin
Publisher : Grosvenor House Publishing
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 37,33 MB
Release : 2024-07-11
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1803819901
Our story begins in the pretty and remote village of Elfington, surrounded by a vast forest of ancient trees, set in the hollow of an enormous and long extinct volcano. Freddie Fountain, is a happy-go-lucky 10 year old boy with blond hair and bright blue eyes, who lives in the idyllic village of Elfington. Because he is always ready to help and fix problems for his friends, family and the villagers, they call him, FREDDIE FIXIT. When Freddie's not helping people, he can be found exploring the forest 'his forest' as he calls it, where he spends many happy hours. One day a chance discovery draws Freddie into a world of long forgotten magic and mystery. His journey leads him into dangerous, mystical and magical adventures where his very life is at risk. Freddie becomes involved in a prophesy made by the Five Great Wizards that ruled the land of Enchantica more than a thousand years ago. He is pulled into a world that he never imagined could possibly exist. He becomes instrumental in the vanquishing of invading ancient inter-dimensional and supernatural monsters bent on destroying his world, but he needs the help of a powerful wizard that lived a very long time ago. Follow Freddie Fixit on his incredible adventures, feel joy in his success, share in his tears, watch as he achieves the impossible and be in awe of the power of magic.
Author : Mary Ann Kinsinger
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 33,28 MB
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1441240640
Lily Lapp is moving with her family to Pennsylvania to join a new Amish community. In this small town where changes--and newcomers--are greeted with suspicion, Lily must adjust to a new school, new friends, and Aaron Yoder, an annoying boy who teases her relentlessly. Still, there are exciting new developments, including an attic full of adventure and a new baby brother. But why, Lily wonders, can't God bring her just one sister? The second novel in the charming Adventures of Lily Lapp series, A New Home for Lily gives children ages 8-12 a fascinating glimpse into the life of the Amish--and lots of fun and laughter along the way. It combines the real-life stories of growing up Amish from Mary Ann Kinsinger and the bestselling writing of Amish fiction and nonfiction author Suzanne Woods Fisher. With line illustrations throughout, this series is sure to capture the hearts of readers young and old.
Author : Laura Tropp
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 44,1 MB
Release : 2018-11-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 149857579X
This book investigates the changing culture of grandparenting. Depending on the group, the period, and the family, grandparents have been powerful patriarchs and matriarchs, reliable second parents, dependents, burdens, or community figures. The book examines the history of grandparenting and the changing depiction of grandparent culture from “old” to “hip,” including the development of the celebrity grandparent, the emergence of media technologies that allow for new communication and relationships between grandparents and their grandchildren, new rituals associated with grandparenting, the growth of the marketing of grandparenting as a new stage of life, and the impact on our culture of the commodification of grandparenting. Prior to the twentieth century, within the United States the idea of the modern grandparent likely did not even exist. Many people did not live long enough to reach the grandparent stage of life. Today, people are living longer, and grandparenting is occupying a longer phase in one’s life. Grandparenting is becoming its own life stage, where new rituals exclusive to grandparents are emerging. Newer technologies, such as Skype, Google Hangout and FaceTime, allow grandparents who are far away to establish relationships with their children. Many grandparents also use social media and blogs to chronicle their experiences. Some grandparents have turned their grandparent lifestyle into a business. The representation of grandparenting in popular culture is shifting as well. Grandparents are becoming their own figures on television and film programs, including reality shows. Others have been thrust into the public eye across social media. Marketers have realized the power of this new consumer subgroup and have begun to direct marketing campaigns to grandparents. Yet, despite the pervasive images of grandparents, some of which present empowered figures, grandparent representation in popular media continues to mimic many of the stereotypes commonly associated with aging, encouraging people to laugh at versus laugh with these figures. The Third Act: Grandparenting in a Digital Age examines grandparenting through history, interviews, and popular culture to study the changing image of grandparents in society.
