Author : Rick Kantola
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,95 MB
Release : 2011-01-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1456808109
Intelligent, pretty, and talented, nineteen-year-old Heather Keller appears to have a brilliant future ahead of her—until she is seduced into a Northern California cult. Heather travels the perilous borders between faith, mysticism, devotion, and fanaticism, while confronted with the psychological and political levers designed to tip spirituality into madness. Her mother, with the help of others in her small town, fights back to reclaim her daughter.
Author : Muriel Emanuel
Publisher : Mitchell Vallentine
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,82 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN :
"For half a century these children, now dispersed and in their sixties and seventies, were unaware of the person to whom they owed their lives. To Winton, it was 'just a job'. Even his wife knew nothing of what is undoubtably his greatest achievement, until 1988, when clearing out the attic she came across documentation relating to the episode. From that moment, Winton's life was never the same again.".
Author : Reg Green
Publisher : Booktango
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 21,91 MB
Release : 2012-01-05
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1468900153
"The Nicholas Effect" is the story of the shooting of seven-year-old Nicholas Green. It tells how the Greens' decision to donate their son's organs saved the lives of five Italians and restored the sight of two others. It covers the murder trial, the making of "Nicholas' Gift," the Jamie Lee Curtis made-for-tv movie, the bell sent by Pope John Paul II to the Greens for their memorial tower and their unceasing campaign to bring attention to the tens of thousands of deaths caused every year by the worldwide shortage of donated organs. Running through it, like a thread, is the hearbreaking journey of Nicholas' parents and little sister to make something good come out of a senseless act of violence.
Author : Peter Sís
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,12 MB
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1324015748
A Finalist for the 2022 Jane Addams Children's Book Award An NPR Best Book of 2021 A New York Times Best Children's Book of 2021 A Washington Post Best Book of 2021 A Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Book of 2021 A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book of 2021 In December 1938, a young Englishman canceled a ski vacation and went instead to Prague to help the hundreds of thousands of refugees from the Nazis who were crowded into the city. Setting up a makeshift headquarters in his hotel room, Nicholas Winton took names and photographs from parents desperate to get their children out of danger. He raised money, found foster families in England, arranged travel and visas, and, when necessary, bribed officials and forged documents. In the frantic spring and summer of 1939, as the Nazi shadow fell over Europe, he organized the transportation of almost 700 children to safety. Then, when the war began and no more children could be rescued, he put away his records and told no one. It was only fifty years later that a chance discovery and a famous television appearance brought Winton’s actions to light. Peter Sís weaves Winton’s experiences and the story of one of the children he saved, Vera Gissing. Nicky & Vera is a tale of decency, action, and courage told in luminous, poetic images by an internationally renowned artist.
Author : William Chadwick
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 13,21 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 1848765045
The story of the Prague Kindertransports and the splendid achievements of Sir Nicholas Winton and Trevor Chadwick in getting some 660 children to safety has often been told. This was only part of a much larger rescue operation. Before Winton and Chadwick even arrived, Doreen Warriner was making Lists of those most in danger, negotiating for visas and shepherding trainloads of people to safety. When she left Prague in April 1939, spirited out of the country before the Gestapo could arrest her for smuggling ‘wanted’ refugees on her trains, her successor was the indomitable Canadian Beatrice Wellington, who was more than a match for the Gestapo, and indeed for a slow-moving British officialdom. These two were directly responsible for saving some thousands of men, women and children. This book reveals the full extend of the British rescue effort for the first time. It devotes a chapter to each of the major participants – each one a fascinating character, and four of them willing to drop whatever they were doing in their lives to come to the aid of those in danger.
Author : Nicholas Edwards
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 34,58 MB
Release : 2009-04-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780312367688
Eleven-year-old Emily's nightmares of drowning lead her to an injured dog near her family's coastal Maine home, and as she nurses him back to health, she becomes aware that they have a strange psychic connection.
Author : Nicholas Herrera
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,47 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780888998545
The folk artist describes his life and how he left his wild life behind after surviving a near-fatal car accident to follow in his family's footsteps to create paintings and sculptures of saints and scenes from the Bible with a modern-day interpretation.
Author : Nicholas Carolan
Publisher : Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 33,47 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
A highly illustrated study of Daniel Francis O Neill who was Chief of Police in Chicago at the beginning of the century.
Author : Robert D. San Souci
Publisher : Puffin Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,92 MB
Release : 2000-07-28
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 9780140565201
Based on an old folk legend and brought to life with color illustrations, this story is about a "merman" from the ocean who can walk like any man. While on land, he falls in love with Margaret. Together they defy her father, outwit the jealous sea-folk, and even stand up to the king himself!
Author : Gloria Whelan
Publisher : Bethlehem Books
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 30,99 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781883937188
When Alexi learns from his babuskha that a Russian village church has been closed for sixty years, the resourceful young boy decides to prepare it for a Christmas miracle.
