Download or read book Grandpa Abe written by Marisabina Russo and published by Greenwillow Books. This book was released on 1996-05-31 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mature and touching story of loss, love, and remembrance follows Sarah, a nine-year-old girl, as she comes to terms with the death of her beloved grandfather, Abe.

Download or read book Abe s Place written by NG Rippel and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-05-26 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wannasea Island is a universe almost unto itself. A small independent island, 45 minutes from the mainland. Abe Stolz has spent the entire 70 years of his life lost within the history of his family and the island. Abe knows that he should move forward but fears doing so will disconnect him from his wife and daughter, who were lost at sea 23 years before. Abe’s primary goal has become seeing that his granddaughter, Beth, the only surviving member of his immediate family, does not have her life consumed by the island and family history in the same manner. Neither the progress of the island nor his granddaughter are in tune with Abe’s efforts.

Download or read book Simpsonology written by Tim Delaney and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2009-12-02 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this amusing and informative appreciation of The Simpsons, sociologist Tim Delaney looks at the many ways America''s longest-running sitcom and animated TV program reflects American culture. For more than fifteen years, the Simpsons have touched upon nearly every aspect of the American social scene--from family dynamics and social mores to local customs and national institutions. With over four hundred episodes aired so far, Delaney finds a goldmine of insights couched in parody on any number of perennial topics: - On television''s influence on American culture, Krusty the Clown says, "Would it really be worth living in a world without television? I think the survivors would envy the dead." - On New Age religion, Homer says, "To think, I turned to a cult for mindless happiness when I had beer all along." - On the thorny issue of gun ownership and home security, Homer purchases a pistol at "Bloodbath and Beyond" and then tells Marge, "I don''t have to be careful, I got a gun." - On the theme of community spirit, Bart thoughtlessly signs up with a local Boy Scout troop while on a sugar rush from eating a "Super-Squishee." The next day he realizes what he has done: "Oh, no. I joined the Junior Campers!" To which his sister, Lisa, responds: "The few, the proud, the geeky." Delaney finds many more episodes relevant to major sociological issues such as environmentalism, feminism, romance and marriage, politics, education, health, aging, and more. Students of popular culture and laypersons alike will learn basic sociological concepts and theories in a refreshing, jargon-free work that offers plenty of entertainment.

Download or read book Grandpa s Courteous Obligation written by Cool Papa Ike and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The saga of Grandpa Sam and his grandson Professor's initiation into a society of gifted and talented gentlemen resumes. The big step is now to be taken by the young man who shall become aware of his singular wiring. This contingency introduces new anomalous characters that commingle with the old gang in that quintessential unparalleled fashion. Mystical, peculiar, wacky, the atypical unique experiences and personalities are all part of this enticing odyssey. Sam maneuvers through his obligations with courtesy and a style which is always copacetic. This allegory will inspirit your imagination, making you laugh and smile while you savor this incredible yarn. Give it a go, have some fun. That's the way Grandpa would want it.

Download or read book Ghosts and Golems written by Malka Penn and published by Jewish Publication Society. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of ten original contemporary stories of the supernatural which reflect a Jewish tradition that can be traced to the biblical story of Saul and the spirit of Samuel.

Download or read book For the Love of David written by Marie Ferris and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-09-25 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the love of David was the first written in the early part of the 1980's and the other soon followed. Both copywrited before being published. One a family drama, and the latter is a comedy called "quiet!!! Hospital zone!!"

Download or read book Abe Lincoln s Dream written by Lane Smith and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of "It's a Book" comes a funny, touching tale about the legacy of America's greatest president. Full color.

Download or read book The Father Factor written by Lilian Darcy and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE SHOCK OF HIS LIFE! Shallis hadn’t been expecting to find him sitting in his father’s chair in the small-town law practice: Jared Starke. Devastatingly goodlooking. Hotshot big-city corporate lawyer. And the former Miss Tennessee had also not expected a meeting about the mysteries of her late grandmother’s estate to lead to a sizzling secret affair…. But it had. And how! And now Shallis was unexpectedly, accidentally, pregnant. With Jared’s baby… Of course, she had to tell him. Only, she had no idea that Jared had just received another pretty major piece of fatherhood news. One that would rock his very foundations….

Download or read book Bones written by Howard Odentz and published by Bell Bridge Books. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new short story from the creator of Little Killers: A to Z. Cooper isn't doing well in Covered Bridge, Massachusetts. His mother is filling her days with vodka and orange juice, and his psychotic little sister keeps cutting the heads off her dolls. His delusional grandfather won't stop staring at non-existent cows in the pasture, and their farm dog is acting meaner than usual. Everyone blames Cooper for the tragic accident which took his girlfriend's life. Now a group of slackers from Mount Tom Regional High School are gathering deep in a forest clearing--at the Devil's Dining Room--eager for the rising of her ghost on Devil's Night, the eve before Halloween. Cooper thinks they're all crazy. Are they? AUTHOR BIO: Author and playwright Howard Odentz is a lifelong resident of the gray area between Western Massachusetts and North Central Connecticut. His love of the region is evident in his writing as he often incorporates the foothills of the Berkshires and the small towns of the Bay and Nutmeg states into his work. In addition to The Dead (A Lot) Series, he has written the horror/suspense novels Bloody Bloody Apple and What We Kill, as well as the horror short story collection Little Killers A to Z, and a couple of horror-themed, musical comedies produced for the stage.

Download or read book The Slab written by Michael R. Collings and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1066 Oleander Place seems a typical tract house in the Southern California town of Tamarind Valley. What no one grasps is that this house is deadly: dark, dangerous, EVIL to the core. It consumes all who enter it, one by one--spiritually, psychologically, physically. Even to visit the place challenges fate--and promises a VERY BAD TIME for everyone there. In the tradition of Stephen King and Dean Koontz, a phantasmagoria of fear, horror, and terror!

Download or read book A Sudden Light written by Garth Stein and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Garth Stein, author of the beloved bestseller The Art of Racing in the Rain—now a major motion picture! The New York Times bestselling “witty, atmospheric” (People) story of a once powerful American family, and the price that must be paid by the heirs as they struggle for redemption: “A captivating page-turner” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis). Twenty-three years after the fateful summer of 1990, Trevor Riddell recalls the events surrounding his fourteenth birthday, when he gets his first glimpse of the infamous Riddell House. Built from the spoils of a massive timber fortune, the legendary family mansion is constructed of giant whole trees and is set on a huge estate overlooking Seattle’s Puget Sound. Trevor’s bankrupt parents have separated, and his father, Jones Riddell, has brought Trevor to Riddell House with a goal: to join forces with Aunt Serena, dispatch the ailing and elderly Grandpa Samuel to a nursing home, sell off the house and property for development, and divide up the profits. But as young Trevor explores the house’s hidden stairways and forgotten rooms, he discovers secrets that convince him that the family plan may be at odds with the land’s true destiny. Only Trevor’s willingness to face the dark past of his forefathers will reveal the key to his family’s future. Spellbinding and atmospheric, A Sudden Light is rich with vivid characters, poetic scenes of natural beauty, and powerful moments of spiritual transcendence. “Garth Stein is resourceful, cleverly piecing together the family history with dreams, overheard conversations, and reminiscences…a tale well told,” (The Seattle Times)—a triumphant work of a master storyteller at the height of his power.

Download or read book Salt on a Robin s Tail written by Andrea Kott and published by Blydyn Square Books. This book was released on 2020-05-25 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrea Kott thought of herself as “the welfare Jew.” The daughter of a single mother whose depression and drinking pitched them into poverty, her stormy life looked nothing like that of the Jewish kids she knew: It defied every stereotype she associated with being Jewish—having an intact family and material wealth, and becoming a bat mitzvah. Alienated and ashamed, Kott felt ineligible to be Jewish, yet hungered for connection to the tradition and to God. It took a near-fatal accident, her mother’s death, marriage and motherhood, and losing a beloved brother for her to find her Jewish home. Salt on a Robin’s Tail: An Unlikely Jewish Journey Through Childhood, Forgiveness, and Hope is a true story of love and loss, struggle and survival, despair and possibility. It shatters stereotypes and inspires reconciliation with the painful past.

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Download or read book The Sasquatch Escape FREE PREVIEW Edition First 5 Chapters written by Suzanne Selfors and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Ben Silverstein is sent to the rundown town of Buttonville to spend the summer with his grandfather, he's certain it will be the most boring vacation ever. That is, until his grandfather's cat brings home what looks like . . . a baby dragon? Amazed, Ben enlists the help of Pearl Petal, a local girl with an eye for adventure. They take the wounded dragon to the only veterinarian's office in town -- Dr. Woo's Worm Hospital. But as Ben and Pearl discover once they are inside, Dr. Woo's isn't a worm hospital at all -- it's actually a secret hospital for imaginary creatures. After Ben accidentally leaves the hospital's front door unlocked, a rather large, rather stinky, and very hairy beast escapes into Buttonville. Ben and Pearl are tasked with retrieving the runaway creature, and what started out as an ordinary summer becomes the story of a lifetime. Suzanne Selfors delivers a wild journey filled with mythical creatures and zany adventures that are anything but imaginary.

Download or read book The War at Home written by Nora Eisenberg and published by Leapfrog Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucy Lehman grows up in the 1950s Bronx as her father struggles with returning from World War II.

Download or read book My Suburban Shtetl written by Robert Rand and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel about growing up in Skokie, Illinois, home to one of America's largest communities of Jewish Holocaust survivors.

Download or read book Guardians of the Frontier written by Joseph L. Gavett and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guardians of the Frontier: The Cross Family Chronicle, 1836-1903, is a story of three generations of the Cross family following their arrival from England in 1836. In 1849, Isaac heads west from New York to fulfill his dream of seeing the frontier before the inevitable inroads of civilization destroy it. Arriving in St. Louis, he takes a job as a carpenter with the American Fur Company and is sent to Fort Pierre. Isaac maintains contact with his twin brother, Edward and family, through a series of letters, sent from the frontier. He revisits St. Louis, in the Company of Alexander Culbertson, following the death of his friend and fellow carpenter, John O’Connor. In time, he becomes a skilled hunter and scout. Among the Sioux lodges at Riverview, 35 miles north of Fort Pierre, his friendship earns him the name, Little Brother. Moving on to Fort Union, he develops a strong friendship with His Horse Was Wounded, an Assiniboine Indian. Like many of the early frontiersman, he marries an Indian. Her name was Lodge Pole, younger sister of his Assiniboine friend. Together they have a son. Lodge Pole, who by now is known as Manna, is killed at Fort Randall while Isaac and the fort's soldiers are in pursuit of James All Yellow, a renegade Yanktonai Sioux Indian and his followers. Isaac returns to her village in the company of Bear’s Child and Speckled Wing. There, he leaves his son, William First Boy, in the care of His Horse Was Wounded and his wife, Yellow Bird. Isaac travels to Fort Abercrombie, located along the Red River of the North. Colonel Abercrombie hires him to serve as a scout and hunter. Here, he is killed by his nemesis, James All Yellow. After Isaac’s death in 1859, his nephew, Abe Cross, leaves New York and makes his way to Fort Abercrombie to gather his uncle’s belongings and find his son. He is successful in locating William First Boy, but while at Fort Union in 1862, he learns of the outbreak of the Civil War. He joins several other men in returning to St. Louis to join in the fight. Together, the men join the 10th Missouri Volunteer Cavalry. In 1864, the men of the 10th, under the command of Major Frederick Benteen, participate in the Battle of Mine Creek. Abe receives a letter 1865 notifying him of the death of his parents, Edward and Charlotte. Following the war he returns to their family farm near Hawkins Landing, New York, to settle his affairs. Departing New York, he returns to the frontier in search of Isaac’s son. While at Fort Berthold, Abe learns that Sweet Bears, a Hidatsa Indian and wife of his deceased friend, Judd Strong, is alive and well, following her escape from her Sioux captures. She becomes his wife, and together they search out William First Boy. When His Horse Was Wounded is killed hunting buffalo, Abe, Sweet Bears, Yellow Bird, and William First Boy, leave the Assiniboine village, never to return. They make their way east toward the Mouse River, resettling along the Wintering River, Dakota Territory. Smallpox, contracted from three broke, down and out, white prospectors, takes the lives of Sweet Bears and Yellow Bird in 1866. Abe and William establish the Cross Ranch along the Wintering River, where they develop a new breed of horses and raise a few Texas Longhorns. William marries Rebecca Stevenson in 1880. Their son, William, is two and one half when his father, suffering from bouts of extreme depression, commits suicide. In time, Rebecca remarries Kincaid, a trusted friend and long-time employee/partner of Abe Cross. Death comes to Abe in 1903, followed by Rebecca in 1908. Kincaid lived for few more years, dying in an automotive accident 1911. The Cross Ranch is sold, breaking it up into several farms. All that remains to remind new generations of the days of yesteryear along the Wintering River is the small, weathered cemetery of the Cross family. William Cross married Hilma Youngquist. After living in several small towns in McLean and Ward Counties, the