Thomas & Friends: The Holiday Express
Title | Thomas & Friends: The Holiday Express PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Hill Long |
Publisher | Studio Fun International |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017-10-24 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780794440282 |
Twenty-four die-cut flaps reveal fun surprises in this holiday-adventure board book starring Thomas and his fellow locomotives on the island of Sodor.
Vanishing Ocean City
Title | Vanishing Ocean City PDF eBook |
Author | Hunter "Bunk" Mann |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2015-01-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781495139529 |
Thanksgiving
Title | Thanksgiving PDF eBook |
Author | Melanie Kirkpatrick |
Publisher | Encounter Books |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 2021-10-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1641772131 |
We all know the story of Thanksgiving. Or do we? This uniquely American holiday has a rich and little known history beyond the famous feast of 1621. In Thanksgiving, award-winning author Melanie Kirkpatrick journeys through four centuries of history, giving us a vivid portrait of our nation's best-loved holiday. Drawing on newspaper accounts, private correspondence, historical documents, and cookbooks, Thanksgiving brings to life the full history of the holiday and what it has meant to generations of Americans. Many famous figures walk these pages—Washington, who proclaimed our first Thanksgiving as a nation amid controversy about his Constitutional power to do so; Lincoln, who wanted to heal a divided nation sick of war when he called for all Americans—North and South—to mark a Thanksgiving Day; FDR, who set off a debate on state's rights when he changed the traditional date of Thanksgiving. Ordinary Americans also play key roles in the Thanksgiving story—the New England Indians who boycott Thanksgiving as a Day of Mourning; Sarah Josepha Hale, the nineteenth-century editor and feminist who successfully campaigned for Thanksgiving to be a national holiday; the 92nd Street Y in New York City, which founded Giving Tuesday, an online charity established in the long tradition of Thanksgiving generosity. Kirkpatrick also examines the history of Thanksgiving football and, of course, Thanksgiving dinner. While the rites and rituals of the holiday have evolved over the centuries, its essence remains the same: family and friends feasting together in a spirit of gratitude to God, neighborliness, and hospitality. Thanksgiving is Americans' oldest tradition. Kirkpatrick's enlightening exploration offers a fascinating look at the meaning of the holiday that we gather together to celebrate on the fourth Thursday of November. With Readings for Thanksgiving Day designed to be read aloud around the table.
The Polar Express
Title | The Polar Express PDF eBook |
Author | Chris Van Allsburg |
Publisher | Andersen Press |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 2014-10-02 |
Genre | Christmas stories |
ISBN | 9781783441815 |
Late on Christmas Eve, after the town has gone to sleep, a boy boards a mysterious train that waits for him: the Polar Express bound for the North Pole. When he arrives there, Santa offers him any gift he desires. The boy modestly asks for one bell from the reindeer's harness. It turns out to be a very special gift, for only believers in Santa can hear it ring. "Magical glowing double spread pictures . . . an original and memorable book." - Guardian "Evocative, realist pastels and atmospheric text." - Sunday Times "A thrilling tale." - Independent
This Ain't No Holiday Inn
Title | This Ain't No Holiday Inn PDF eBook |
Author | James Lough |
Publisher | Schaffner Press, Inc. |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2013-06-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1936182548 |
During its heyday, the Chelsea Hotel in New York City was a home and safe haven for Bohemian artists, poets, and musicians such as Bob Dylan, Gregory Corso, Alan Ginsberg, Janis Joplin, and Dee Dee Ramone. This oral history of the famed hotel peers behind the iconic façade and delves into the mayhem, madness, and brilliance that stemmed from the hotel in the 1980s and 1990s. Providing a window into the late Bohemia of New York during that time, countless interviews and firsthand accounts adorn this social history of one of the most celebrated and culturally significant landmarks in New York City.
All Aboard the Polar Express
Title | All Aboard the Polar Express PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 28 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780618477920 |
The Polar Express train visits the North Pole and passengers find out what the first gift of the season is going to be from Santa Claus.
Great Western Castle Class 4-6-0 Locomotives - The Final Years 1960- 1965
Title | Great Western Castle Class 4-6-0 Locomotives - The Final Years 1960- 1965 PDF eBook |
Author | David Maidment |
Publisher | Pen and Sword Transport |
Pages | 186 |
Release | 2023-02-16 |
Genre | Transportation |
ISBN | 1399095374 |
The author’s second volume about the Great Western’s classic express locomotives covers their final six years in British Railways service. In 1960 the Castles, many now modernized with double chimneys and 4-row superheaters, were still in charge of most of the Western Region’s expresses, but by the summer of 1963 their regular express work was limited to the London – Worcester route. Their declining numbers in the last couple of years covered special summer and relief trains, parcels and freight work, deputizing for failed or unavailable diesels and a flurry of excursions and railtours where their prowess could still be demonstrated. The author worked and lived alongside them in these years and the book includes much of his own personal experience on the footplate, on their trains and on shed. The book recaps briefly their first 25 years and covers their history, operation and performance in their final years and is copiously illustrated including over 100 color photographs.