Author : Bonnie Pennington
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,54 MB
Release : 1999-08
Category : Alaska
ISBN : 9781888125511
Bonnie Pennington moved to Alaska's Kenai peninsula with her family in 1981. After graduating from Soldotna High School, she earned her Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Washington. She returned to her home in Alaska to work in a local art gallery. Bonnie, who now resides in Anchorage, enjoys traveling, photographing, and painting rural Alaska. She has received many awards in juried art exhibitions.
Author : Nikki Mark
Publisher : Union Square & Co.
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 20,73 MB
Release : 2024-01-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1454951052
A moving memoir that reminds us of the power of play to inspire, unite, and heal—and that sometimes what brings us the most pain can be the source of our greatest inspiration. In April 2018, Nikki and Doug Mark’s perfectly healthy twelve-year-old-son, Tommy, went to sleep one night and never woke up. They’re still not exactly sure why. Devastated, Nikki embarked on an unconventional journey to create a legacy for Tommy and to heal her heart. She created a plan to transform neglected land in a Los Angeles public park into a state-of-the-art athletic field, honoring Tommy’s love of soccer and sharing his spirit of play with others. After family, friends, and LA’s soccer community banded together to raise over a million dollars for the project, park neighbors resistant to change threatened to derail it. Throughout Nikki’s journey, a remarkable string of incidents convinced her that her recently departed son was guiding her through the process. Ultimately, Tommy’s enduring spirit and the beautiful game he loved taught her how to navigate the challenges she faced along the way.
Author : Cindy W. Hollingsworth
Publisher : PC Kids
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 38,93 MB
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781946198235
Tommy loved trains and the sounds trains made. He played with his toy train: a red engine, boxcars, fuel car, flat car, passenger car, and yellow caboose. Tommy's parents surprised him with a ride on a real train! They rode the historic train and heard all the train's noises. From big, wide seats, they watched the big train wheels turn around, passed forests and hills, chugged upward slowly, and flew down fast. They saw many toy trains in the store afterward. Tommy would never forget that train ride! Neither will you.
Author : Richard van Emden
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 41,51 MB
Release : 2011-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1408810077
For soldiers in the Great War, going over the top was a comparatively rare event; much more frequently, they were bored and lonely and missing their families at home. Needing an outlet for their affection, many found it in the animal kingdom. Tommy's Ark looks at the war through the eyes of the soldiers who were there, and examines their relationship with a strange and unexpected range of animal life, from horses, dogs and cats to monkeys and birds - even in one case a golden eagle. Animals became mascots - some Welsh battalions had goats as mascots, some of the Scots had donkeys. And then there were the animals and insects that excited curiosity amongst men drawn into the army from the industrial heartlands of Britain, men who had little knowledge of, let alone daily contact with, wildlife. Civilians turned soldiers observed the natural world around them, from the smallest woodlouse to voles, mice and larger animals such as deer and rabbit. Richard van Emden explores his subject far more radically than previous attempts, revealing how, for example, a lemur was taken on combat missions in the air, a lion was allowed to pad down the front line trenches and how a monkey lost its leg during the fighting at Delville Wood on the Somme. Illustrated with more than sixty previously unseen or rarely published photographs, drawn mainly from the author's own extraordinary collection.
Author : Oliver Chin
Publisher : Immedium
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 10,33 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1597020087
Timmy and Tammy love to play with toy trains and hear train stories, and when their parents take them on a real train ride the experience is everything they imagined it could be.
Author : A J Denny
Publisher : New Generation Publishing
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 38,68 MB
Release : 2017-07-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1787193179
Tommy's story begins in an impoverished Salford of a bygone time. It follows Tommy through his childhood and youth. This leads into the main part of the story about Tommy's experiences as a British soldier seeing combat in the Libyan Desert with the British 7th Armoured Division, which leads to capture and life as a prisoner of war and eventual escape and spectacular journey to reach freedom. The story has twists and turns that will keep the reader not knowing how it will finish until the end. It contains shocking first-hand accounts of war and the harshness of living in a war environment, but also moments of hope and endeavour, and the laughter of life and romance in the most bizarre of situations. The story travels between continents and countries, highlighting the importance of how a grasp of different languages can remove cultural barriers and, in Tommy's story, probably saved his life.
Author : Kevin Cook
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 11,6 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781592402977
A tribute to the professional achievements of the father-and-son team of Tom and Tom Morris cites their pivotal contributions to the founding of golf in the 1800s, the differences in their athletic styles, and young Tom's tragic early death.
Author : Louise M. Gouge
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 40,91 MB
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0369701747
A perfect mismatch? Instant Prairie Family by Bonnie Navarro Answering the newspaper advertisement for a housekeeper was Abigail Stewart’s chance of escape from her unhappy home. But her employer, Will Hopkins, has turned out to be a rugged widower with young sons instead of a widow. A marriage in name only will allow her to remain long enough to find another job. Or until a misunderstanding becomes the means to a second-chance family… Cowboy to the Rescue by Louise M. Gouge Though Georgia belle Susanna Anders agrees to accompany her father on a silver prospecting trip to Colorado, her heart belongs to the South. Then charming cowboy Nate Northam saves her father’s life and gives them shelter at his ranch. Feeling gratitude is only natural, but falling for a Yankee? Soon shocking revelations compel both Nate and Susanna to choose between loyalty to the past or the promise of a bold new love.
Author : Robert Bigaouette
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 49,38 MB
Release : 2023-04-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 166574118X
“Twisted Love” is a work of fiction that tells the story of a deadly love triangle resulting from unconquerable obsession. Let's explore the dark recesses of human desire through plot and characterization. Tommy Landis is a young man of Italian and Irish descent who lives in Brooklyn, New York and works at a messenger center in Manhattan. He is an attractive man who seems to hide behind Woody Allen – like glasses and a shield of insecurity. As the story begins, he lives a lonely life, socializing mainly with his mother and other employees at his workplace while yearning for romance with the woman of his dreams. After trying his luck with answering a personal ad from the newspapers, Tommy is contacted by Crystal Farnsworth, a beautiful young woman with a similar yearning for love. They begin dating, and soon Tommy realizes that Crystal is the woman he has been waiting for; Crystal, on the other hand, realizes that Tommy is not her ideal man. Meanwhile, Tommy's attractive co-worker, Maria DeBlanco, has fallen in love with him, even though, he remain oblivious to her feelings while he fruitlessly chases Crystal. Tommy and Maria's attraction to individuals they cannot have devolves into obsession, and soon both are full-blown stalkers with the intent to kill. While a meaningful romance with each other is within their grasp, they choose to exchange sanity for insanity and romance for tragedy. Portraying the irrationality of obsession, “Twisted Love”, invites readers into the minds of two stalkers who begins with good intentions but end with murder. .........isn't love a bit twisted?..............
Author : Cynthia A. Jewell
Publisher : Author House
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 10,52 MB
Release : 2013-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1491826649
Our Invisible Friend is a series of ten delightful short stories. Tommy is Jyllian and Landon's friend who comes to play with them; he often brings some items and leaves others, and sometimes he takes things with him when he leaves. Mom and Dad ask the kids about the items that mysteriously appear and disappear; the kids explain that Tommy did it. Mom and Dad soon learn to accept Tommy as a member of the family. A child's imagination is endless. It's the driving force behind creativity. It should be encouraged in every direction. Our Invisible Friend teaches young and old alike to keep their minds open and dare to imagine; go ahead, take a trip down that rabbit hole. As Dr. Seuss put it, "Think left and think right, think low and think high. Oh, the things you can think up if only you try."
