Kirsten Saves the Day
Title | Kirsten Saves the Day PDF eBook |
Author | Janet Beeler Shaw |
Publisher | American Girl Publishing Incorporated |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780937295915 |
Ten-year-old Kirsten finds a bee tree full of honey.
Kirsten's Surprise
Title | Kirsten's Surprise PDF eBook |
Author | Janet Beeler Shaw |
Publisher | Turtleback Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Christmas stories |
ISBN | 9780808580218 |
Kirsten and her family celebrate their first Christmas in their new home on Uncle Olav's farm in mid-19th-century Minnesota
Changes for Kirsten
Title | Changes for Kirsten PDF eBook |
Author | Janet Beeler Shaw |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Frontier and pioneer life |
ISBN | 9780937295458 |
A tough Minnesota winter brings many changes to Kirsten's frontier life, including the new responsibility of helping her brother Lars set his traps and a move into a new house for her family.
Saving Grace
Title | Saving Grace PDF eBook |
Author | Kirsten Powers |
Publisher | Convergent Books |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2021-11-02 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0593238249 |
The CNN senior political analyst and USA Today columnist offers a path to navigating the toxic division in our culture without compromising our convictions and emotional well-being, based on her experience as a journalist during the Trump era, interviews with experts, and research on what leads people to actually change their minds. “Bracing, elevating, and essential . . . Kirsten Powers has given us a great gift at an urgent hour.” —Jon Meacham For years, New York Times bestselling author Kirsten Powers has been center stage for many of our nation’s most searing political and cultural battles as a columnist, TV analyst, and one-time participant in the thunderdome of Twitter. On a good day, there will be civil disagreement. On a bad day, it’s all-out trench warfare—nothing but a cycle of outrage and self-righteousness. More and more, Powers finds herself wondering, along with countless Americans: How are we to cope with this non-stop madness? In Saving Grace, Powers writes with wit and insight about our country’s poisonous political discourse, chronicling the efforts she’s made to stay grounded and preserve her sanity in a post-truth era that has driven many of us to the edge. She draws on lessons offered by faith leaders, therapists, theologians, social scientists, and activists working for change today. She dismantles the widespread misconception that grace means being nice, letting people get away with harmful behavior, or choosing neutrality in the name of peace. Grace, she argues, is anything but an act of surrender; instead, it is a kinetic and transformative force. Saving Grace offers a template for a different kind of America, one where we can engage with people who hold opposing views without sacrificing our values or our passionate beliefs in the causes we care about. It’s a culture that embraces repentance and repair, a process through which those who have caused harm can take responsibility and work toward righting the wrongs in which they have participated. It’s a place where we’re empowered to see the possibility in other people, even people who are driving us nuts. Provocative, original, and filled with deep wisdom, Saving Grace is an essential read for anyone engaged in the struggle to live compassionately in an era of relentless demonization and division.
Kirsten's Promise
Title | Kirsten's Promise PDF eBook |
Author | Janet Beeler Shaw |
Publisher | American Girl Publishing Incorporated |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Frontier and pioneer life |
ISBN | 9781584856962 |
Ten-year-old Kirsten regrets the promise she has made to a ragged boy she discovers alone near a wrecked covered wagon not far from her Minnesota home.
Kirsten's Story Collection
Title | Kirsten's Story Collection PDF eBook |
Author | Janet Beeler Shaw |
Publisher | American Girl Publishing Incorporated |
Pages | 390 |
Release | 2005-07 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN |
Wherever Kirsten goes in her hometown of Ryd, Sweden, there is one word on everyone's lips: America. All around her, crops are failing and families are one bad harvest away from starving. When Kirsten's Uncle Olav writes from America to tell about the rich farmland there, the Larsons make the decision to join him in America. Kirsten braves terrible storms and deadly disease on her journey across the ocean. After six long weeks at sea, she finally hears the welcome cry, "Land ho!" On wobbly legs, Kirsten makes her way down the ship's gangplank. What will happen now? she wonders. Will I ever feel at home in this new land? Book jacket.
Happy Birthday, Kirsten! a Springtime Story
Title | Happy Birthday, Kirsten! a Springtime Story PDF eBook |
Author | Janet Beeler Shaw |
Publisher | Perfection Learning |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1987-12 |
Genre | Birthdays |
ISBN | 9780812475074 |
Springtime brings a new barn and a tiny baby to the Larsons's farm. It brings worries and more work for Kirsten, too. American Girls Collection/Kirsten #4.