Author : Gudrun Pausewang
Publisher : Puffin HC
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 32,42 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Children's stories, English
ISBN : 9780140378009
Alice is eleven years old, and it is wartime. She is on a train with no seats, no lights, no sanitary facilities. Her parents and her grandmother are missing, and Alice doesn't know where she is going. Maybe she will get to play outside again, maybe she will see her parents. But as the train rolls on, Alice begins to realize that just when you think things can't possibly get any worse, they do.
Author : Susan Pattinson
Publisher : Torchlight Publishing
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 46,56 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0981727395
Author : Peter C. Mancall
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 24,8 MB
Release : 2009-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0786747870
The English explorer Henry Hudson devoted his life to the search for a water route through America, becoming the first European to navigate the Hudson River in the process. In Fatal Journey, acclaimed historian and biographer Peter C. Mancall narrates Hudson's final expedition. In the winter of 1610, after navigating dangerous fields of icebergs near the northern tip of Labrador, Hudson's small ship became trapped in winter ice. Provisions grew scarce and tensions mounted amongst the crew. Within months, the men mutinied, forcing Hudson, his teenage son, and seven other men into a skiff, which they left floating in the Hudson Bay. A story of exploration, desperation, and icebound tragedy, Fatal Journey vividly chronicles the undoing of the great explorer, not by an angry ocean, but at the hands of his own men.
Author : R. E. Tolbert
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 45,87 MB
Release : 2021-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781952485404
Author : James Dodson
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,99 MB
Release : 1997-10-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0553375644
James Dodson always felt closest to his father while they were on the links. So it seemed only appropriate when his father learned he had two months to live that they would set off on the golf journey of their dreams to play the most famous courses in the world. Final Rounds takes us to the historic courses of Royal Lytham and Royal Birkdale, to the windswept undulations of Carnoustie, where Hogan played peerlessly in '53, and the legendary St. Andrews, whose hallowed course reveals something of the eternal secret of the game's mysterious allure over pros and hackers alike. Throughout their poignant journey, the Dodsons humorously reminisce and reaffirm their love for each other, as the younger Dodson finds out what it means to have his father also be his best friend. Final Rounds is a book never to be forgotten, a book about fathers and sons, long-held secrets, and the lessons a middle-aged man can still learn from his dad about life, love, and family. Final Rounds is a tribute to a very special game and the fathers and sons who make it so.
Author : Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Publisher : Calder Publications Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,77 MB
Release : 1988
Category : French fiction
ISBN : 9780714541396
When it was published in 1932, this revolutionary first fiction redefined the art of the novel with its black humor, its nihilism, and its irreverent, explosive writing style, and made Louis-Ferdinand Celine one of France's--and literature's--most important 20th-century writers. The picaresque adventures of Bardamu, the sarcastic and brilliant antihero of Journey to the End of the Night move from the battlefields of World War I (complete with buffoonish officers and cowardly soldiers), to French West Africa, the United States, and back to France in a style of prose that's lyrical, hallucinatory, and hilariously scathing toward nearly everybody and everything. Yet, beneath it all one can detect a gentle core of idealism.
Author : Barry Adkins
Publisher : Red Willow Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 30,60 MB
Release : 2011-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781936539055
Inspiration meets adventure in Barry's book that chronicles the tragicdeath of his teenage son, Kevin, due to alcohol poisoning, and his epic, 1,400-mile journey, from Arizona to Montana, with Kevin's ashes in his backpack. With a sense of humor that is rare among parents who have lost achild, Barry's book is a combination of faith, inspiration and adventure. Yup, his book will make you laugh, cry, and when you finish his book, you will simply smile. Everyparent that reads Barry's story will hug their precious children a littletighter. Barry wrote this book with audiences of all ages in mind. In movieterms it is rated "G."
Author : Deborah Howard
Publisher : Crossway Bibles
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,39 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Death
ISBN : 9781581346459
A hospice nurse shares her experience to provide comfort for those who are dying or who have a loved one who is dying. Writing for everyone in a hospice situation she integrates a keen medical knowledge with hope in Christ.
Author : David L. Galbut
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,14 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Death
ISBN : 9781934440452
The author, a world renown heart surgeon, traces the last months of his fathers life, revealing the role a vibrant Jewish identity played in solidifying a family who are about to lose their patriarch. Davids father enjoyed life without taking it for granted. His ability to face adversity with dignity, and the way his family stands by him, will serve as a fitting example for families everywhere
Author : Henning Mankell
Publisher : Random House
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 11,19 MB
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1849398623
Joel is fifteen and has left school, wanting to become a merchant sailor and travel far away from his home town in Northern Sweden. But first he must face up to the past and meet his mother who ran off when he was little. After such a long time how will Joel and his dad cope with such a reunion and will Joel ever sail the seas as he dreams. . . ?
