Until the Robin Walks on Snow
Title | Until the Robin Walks on Snow PDF eBook |
Author | Bernice L. Rocque |
Publisher | 3houses |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 2012-09 |
Genre | Immigrants |
ISBN | 9780985682217 |
It is 1922. The midwife and an immigrant family struggle to save an extremely small premature baby. Inspired by true events, this novella about determination, family, faith, and friendship includes a story chapter about the family's Polish and Lithuanian Christmas Eve traditions. Appendices include a List of Sources Consulted and Author's Notes about the facts, family history, and research behind the story.
Snow in August
Title | Snow in August PDF eBook |
Author | Pete Hamill |
Publisher | Grand Central Publishing |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 2009-10-31 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0446569666 |
Deeply affecting and wonderfully evocative of old New York, Snow in August is a brilliant fable for our time and all time -- and another triumph for Pete Hamill. Brooklyn, 1947. The war veterans have come home. Jackie Robinson is about to become a Dodger. And in one close-knit working-class neighborhood, an eleven-year-old Irish Catholic boy named Michael Devlin has just made friends with a lonely rabbi from Prague. Snow in August is the story of that unlikely friendship -- and of how the neighborhood reacts to it. For Michael, the rabbi opens a window to ancient learning and lore that rival anything in Captain Marvel. For the rabbi, Michael illuminates the everyday mysteries of America, including the strange language of baseball. But like their hero Jackie Robinson, neither can entirely escape from the swirling prejudices of the time. Terrorized by a local gang of anti-Semitic Irish toughs, Michael and the rabbi are caught in an escalating spiral of hate for which there's only one way out -- a miracle....
How to Be Made Whole
Title | How to Be Made Whole PDF eBook |
Author | Robin Steele |
Publisher | WestBow Press |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 2020-03-09 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1973685248 |
Most people go their entire life longing to be whole, yet failing to find it. We want our life to mean something. We want to matter. The problem is that life is filled with episode after episode where we face trouble and complications. We feel like it is impossible to find wholeness without living a flawless life. How to Be Made Whole follows the true story of Kennady Steele, born with a several brain disorder. She was only given 12-18 months to live along with a haunting disclaimer by her doctor to both parents that their daughter “would not have an meaningful life” How to Be Made Whole walks the reader through a journey from brokenness to wholeness and how unanswered prayers for miracles often result in far greater blessings.
East of the Mountains
Title | East of the Mountains PDF eBook |
Author | David Guterson |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2012-05-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1408834758 |
When Dr Ben Givens left his Seattle home he never intended to return. It was to be a journey past snow-covered mountains to a place of canyons, sagelands and orchards, where, on the verges of the Columbia River, Ben had entered the world and would now take his leave of it.
The Farthest Shore
Title | The Farthest Shore PDF eBook |
Author | Alex Roddie |
Publisher | Vertebrate Publishing |
Pages | 307 |
Release | 2021-09-02 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 1839810211 |
In February 2019, award-winning writer Alex Roddie left his online life behind when he set out to walk 300 miles through the Scottish Highlands, seeking solitude and answers. In leaving the chaos of the internet behind for a month, he hoped to learn how it was truly affecting him – or if he should look elsewhere for the causes of his anxiety. The Farthest Shore is the story of Alex's solo trek along the remote Cape Wrath Trail. As he journeyed through a vanishing winter, Alex found answers to his questions, learnt the nature of true silence, and discovered frightening evidence of the threats faced by Scotland's wild mountain landscape.
Some Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
Title | Some Merry Adventures of Robin Hood PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 1911 |
Genre | Robin Hood (Legendary character) |
ISBN |
Twelve selected adventures of Robin Hood and his outlaw band who stole from the rich to give to the poor.
Amy Snow
Title | Amy Snow PDF eBook |
Author | Tracy Rees |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 576 |
Release | 2016-06-07 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1501128396 |
Winner of the UK’s Richard & Judy Search for a Bestseller Competition, this page-turning debut novel follows an orphan whose late, beloved best friend bequeaths her a treasure hunt that leads her all over Victorian England and finally to the one secret her friend never shared. It is 1831 when eight-year-old Aurelia Vennaway finds a naked baby girl abandoned in the snow on the grounds of her aristocratic family’s magnificent mansion. Her parents are horrified that she has brought a bastard foundling into the house, but Aurelia convinces them to keep the baby, whom she names Amy Snow. Amy is brought up as a second-class citizen, despised by Vennaways, but she and Aurelia are as close as sisters. When Aurelia dies at the age of twenty-three, she leaves Amy ten pounds, and the Vennaways immediately banish Amy from their home. But Aurelia left her much more. Amy soon receives a packet that contains a rich inheritance and a letter from Aurelia revealing she had kept secrets from Amy, secrets that she wants Amy to know. From the grave she sends Amy on a treasure hunt from one end of England to the other: a treasure hunt that only Amy can follow. Ultimately, a life-changing discovery awaits...if only Amy can unlock the secret. In the end, Amy escapes the Vennaways, finds true love, and learns her dearest friend’s secret, a secret that she will protect for the rest of her life. An abandoned baby, a treasure hunt, a secret. As Amy sets forth on her quest, readers will be swept away by this engrossing gem of a novel—the wonderful debut by newcomer Tracy Rees.