Download or read book The Camping Trip written by Jennifer K. Mann and published by Candlewick. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ernestine has never been camping before, but she’s sure it will be lots of fun . . . won’t it? An endearing story about a girl’s first experience with the great outdoors. My aunt Jackie invited me to go camping with her and my cousin Samantha this weekend. I’ve never been camping before, but I know I will love it. Ernestine is beyond excited to go camping. She follows the packing list carefully (new sleeping bag! new flashlight! special trail mix made with Dad!) so she knows she is ready when the weekend arrives. But she quickly realizes that nothing could have prepared her for how hard it is to set up a tent, never mind fall asleep in it, or that swimming in a lake means that there will be fish — eep! Will Ernestine be able to enjoy the wilderness, or will it prove to be a bit too far out of her comfort zone? In an energetic illustrated story about a first sleepover under the stars, acclaimed author-illustrator Jennifer K. Mann reminds us that opening your mind to new experiences, no matter how challenging, can lead to great memories (and a newfound taste for s’mores).

Download or read book Just Pretending written by Lisa Bird-Wilson and published by Coteau Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A debut short story collection from one of Canada's most exciting new Aboriginal voices. "In our family, it was Trish who was Going To Be Trouble; I was Such a Good Girl." At times haunting, at times hilarious, Just Pretending explores the moments in life that send us down pathways predetermined and not-yet-forged. These are the liminal, defining moments that mark irreversible transitions n girl to mother, confinement to freedom, wife to murderer. They are the melodramatic car-crash moments n the outcomes both horrific and too fascinating to tear our eyes from. And they are the unnoticed, infinitely tiny moments, seemingly insignificant (even ridiculous) yet holding the power to alter, to transform, to make strange. What links these stories is a sense of characters working n both with success and without, through action or reaction n to separate reality from perception and to make these moments into their lives' new truths.

Download or read book Sacred Playgrounds written by Jacob Sorenson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacred Playgrounds explores the wisdom of camping ministry for Christian education and faith formation, examining its rich history and fundamental characteristics with compelling stories, groundbreaking research, and theological grounding. Christian summer camp is an integral part of the ecology of faith formation in North America, though it has received surprisingly little attention in the scholarly community until now. Camping ministry is often dismissed as simple fun and games or a brief spiritual high that does not last. However, camp experiences often serve as deeply relational and immersive faith experiences that have lasting impacts on participants. Five fundamental characteristics combine dynamically in the effective camp experience: participatory, faith-centered, safe space, relational, and unplugged from home. Together, they open the space for participants to consider new understandings of God, to have time for deep self-reflection, and to build intentional Christian community. These camp experiences are essential components in a larger ecology of faith formation, including the home and congregation. The insight and evidence presented in this book demonstrate that the contributions of camping ministry must be taken seriously among scholars, Christian educators, and ministry professionals.

Download or read book Seamus McCree U P North written by James M Jackson and published by Wolf's Echo Press. This book was released on 2019-05-13 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, this compendium includes unabridged versions of two of the best-loved Seamus McCree novels, and two short stories, one also featuring Seamus. CABIN FEVER (Seamus McCree #3): He wanted rest and relaxation. What he got was a mystery woman suffering from hypothermia, frostbite, high fevers, amnesia—and rope burns on her wrists and ankles. With his house in Cincinnati in ruins, financial crimes investigator Seamus McCree retreats to the family cabin for some well-earned rest and relaxation. His plans for a quiet, contemplative winter in the wilds of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula are destroyed when he discovers a naked, unconscious woman on his porch during a blizzard. Snowbound at the cabin, without transportation or phone coverage, Seamus struggles to keep the woman alive and find a way to get an SOS message out. What he doesn’t know is that a domestic paramilitary organization dedicated to overthrowing the government is hunting for an escaped female prisoner—and closing in on his isolated refuge. A thriller that captures nature as a character will appeal to fans of William Kent Krueger, Steve Hamilton, and Nevada Barr. EMPTY PROMISES (Seamus McCree #5): If you love the suspense and plot twists of domestic thrillers, this page-turner will be for you. Seamus McCree’s first assignment hiding a witness goes from bad to worse. His client disappears. His granddog finds a buried human bone. Police find a fresh human body. Paranoia and Promises His client is to testify in a Chicago money laundering trial. He’s paranoid that with a price on his head, if the police know where he’s staying, the information will leak. Seamus promised his business partner and lover, Abigail Hancock, that he’d keep the witness safe at the McCree family camp located deep in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan’s woods. Deserted by friends and family Abigail is furious at his incompetence and their relationship flounders. Even his often-helpful son, Paddy, must put family safety ahead of helping his father. Seamus risks his own safety and freedom to turn amateur sleuth in hopes he can solve the crimes, fulfill his promise of protection, and win back Abigail. Wit and grit are on his side in this fifth book in the Seamus McCree series, but the clock is ticking . . . and the hit man is on his way. PLUS Two Bonus Short Stories: In “Accidents Happen” Seamus investigates a series of accidental deaths at an open-pit iron ore mine. “Homework” is a coming-of-age story with a delightful twist. The Seamus McCree Series Reading Order Ant Farm Bad Policy Cabin Fever Doubtful Relations Empty Promises False Bottom Furthermore (a novella) Low Tide at Tybee (a novella) Download your copy now and join Seamus in his fight to preserve what he loves best in this country.

Download or read book MayaDan written by Mister Bill and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About 1200 B.C., a gentle warrior's soul was born. Follow Mayadan (my-a-dan) from boyhood to beyond the grave. He, his sister, mother and father are a family full of love and beauty. Their lives were changed when tragedy, death and a quest for survival became reality. He moves from boy, to leader, to father, to peace keeper, as he traverses through jungles, barren land and rivers to another land where he finds his love and a new home.

Download or read book Magnificence a Mallory O Shaughnessy Novel written by Paula Rae Wallace and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MAGNIFICENCE, VOLUME 4 of the Mallory O'Shaughnessy series, finds eighteen year old Mallory OShaughnessy struggling to overcome debilitating injuries inflicted by malicious, murderous Sylvia Brown. Relying on the watchfulness of Daniel and Diana Faulkner, and the power of the Lord, she struggles onward and upward. Can she continue trusting the Lord, even if total healing isnt His will for her life? Can she make a difference for others struggling with overwhelming physical disabilities? Can she keep DiaMo Corporation strong and profitable? Does she have the heart of David Anderson? If so, can she keep it? And what about Sylvia? Will she receive punishment commensurate with her deeds? Will her powerful and conniving mother step in, once again, on her behalf? Travels take her to the erupting volcano of Hawaii, to the Summer Music Festival in Aspen, then once more to Israel for an emergency meeting with Lilly to discuss mind-boggling development with diamonds from Pike County Arkansas. A quick trip to Spain regarding leather accessories helps fulfill one of her childhood dreams~to view Gibraltar and its fabled Apes! Life is never dull, as her personal security people struggle to protect her diamonds from theft, and ensure her personal safety. Threatened by numerous outer adversaries, she knows the greatest threat is from within: her own innate desire to rebel and do things her own way! Watch for the final title, RADIANCE. "You may contact Paula by email at [email protected]"

Download or read book Meet Me at Two Thirty written by Frona Lewis and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-05-14 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Me at Two-Thirty is an inspirational romance. This fiction story is about a young woman who becomes overwhelmed by her friends and family's problems. She finds the man she plans to spend the rest of her life with and his ex-girlfriend wants him back. When she turns everything over to the Lord she is finally able to find peace.

Download or read book The Chronicles of My Unique Life written by Darlene House and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author was raised in the San Fernando Valley of Southern California, when the Valley was a wide-open area of orange groves, homes and estates. The large estates were owned by the movie stars such as Roy Rogers and other stars in their heyday. After marriage, my husband and I desired to raise our family in a country atmosphere with a minuscule population. We sold our first home in the valley in order to move to the tiny town of Acton, in the mountainous countryside sixty miles north of Los Angeles. The time line of book is 1928 to 2011 with many odd happening in our lives and unusual memories and pleasant days in the country. We cleared the land, put down a well, and built our home ourselves and raised a family of four children. Upon completion of the house it was necessary to move the home if we wished to continue living in it. It was a new home and yes we wanted it, but this proved to be frightening experience and a near tragic disaster! This is only one of the many unusual happenings in our life in the country. Unwanted animals are freely given to people who live in the country from friends. In this manner, we acquired a burro that soon gave birth to a strong baby burro (on its first day of birth, kicked our young son and knocked him down), several dogs, a beautiful horse and another burro. Life in the country was always surprising and a pleasant place to raise a family, sometimes difficult but nice! We knew friends in a circle of twenty miles in every direction. Our two sons still live in Acton, our daughters have moved to the beach cities in California.

Download or read book Toby and Katy Were written by Poindexter and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-08-29 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toby, nationally known race car driver, cocky, overbearing, handsome and very used to getting his way is extremely taken when a beautiful young lady passes his table in a local hotel dining room where he is having dinner with part of his race team and their dates. Katy never notices him. However, he can't seem to do anything but watch her, even though he has a date for the evening. A very possessive date. Katy is meeting an old college sister and she is busy enjoying catching up on all of her friend's news. They both have exciting news to share with each other. Toby is determined to meet this vision, one way or the other, it really doesn't matter to him, he is used to getting his way and he would never believe that there was a woman who wouldn't be attracted to him. Little does he realize how unique Katy is and where this night will lead. This book has it all, everything from happiness to sadness, suspense and extreme happiness with a lot of surprises between the beginning and the end.

Download or read book I Sleep Around written by Sue Ann Jaffarian and published by Harbor Lane Books, LLC. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If you are looking for an engaging travelogue filled with travel suggestions, RV tips and dos and don'ts - then I Sleep Around is it. With a humorous undertone at times, Sue Ann honestly writes about her dream of traveling solo and the challenges, both mechanically with her RV, and psychologically it has been. It's a rewarding tale of living her dream and sharing so others can do the same." - Kelli Harms, Marketing and PR Manager, Winnebago Industries With no camping or RV experience, author Sue Ann Jaffarian decided to chuck her life in Los Angeles for a life on the road in a van. Newly retired from her long-time career as a paralegal, she got rid of most of her belongings, packed up her laptop, and embraced a new adventure of traveling the country and writing full-time, adding travel writing to her career as a popular mystery novelist. Not always sunshine and unicorns, her experiences gave her more self-reliance, a new appreciation of nature, and a love for the quirky, interesting, and thought-provoking. I Sleep Around chronicles her first two years on the road and the time leading up to taking this bold step. All while her friends and family thought she had lost her mind.

Download or read book Because You ll Never Meet Me written by Leah Thomas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A William C. Morris YA Debut Award finalist A Carnegie Award nominee Ollie and Moritz are best friends, but they can never meet. Ollie has a life-threatening allergy to electricity, and Moritz's weak heart requires a pacemaker. If they ever did meet, they could both die. Living as recluses from society, the boys develop a fierce bond through letters that become a lifeline during dark times--as Ollie loses his only friend, Liz, to the normalcy of high school and Moritz deals with a bully set on destroying him. But when Moritz reveals the key to their shared, sinister past that began years ago in a mysterious German laboratory, their friendship faces a test neither one of them expected. Narrated in letter form by Ollie and Moritz--two extraordinary new voices--this story of impossible friendship and hope under strange circumstances blends elements of science fiction with coming of age themes, in a humorous, dark, and ultimately inspiring tale is completely unforgettable.

Download or read book The Green Enamel Kid written by John Godfrey and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a unique look at life through the eyes of a Southern Baptist (PK) preacher's kid named Johnny. His story, set in the late 1950's and early 1960's, will take you on an interesting journey beginning at his home in Nashville Tennessee, then on to summer camp. Eventually through a series of unusual events he ends up in another small rural Tennessee town in a barn with what appears to be...a dead cow! Johnny is by nature a somewhat distrusting young man and the circumstances he faces throughout this book add to his doubts and fears about his parents ultimate intentions for him. However, in the end Johnny finds out that things are not always as the seem and the truth is revealed . The "Green Enamel Kid" is an unusual adventure, so join in and enjoy the ride!

Download or read book Meet Me at the Moon Tree written by Shivaun Plozza and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2023-07-04 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dad said everything is magic ... and science is just figuring out how magic works. For Carina Sugden, nothing is more special than a moon tree – a tree grown from the seeds taken on the Apollo 14 mission into space. Her father taught her everything she knows about them. But he passed away before they found one together. When Mum relocates the family to the Otway Ranges, Carina becomes determined to find a moon tree on her own. Like a scientist, she carefully searches the forest behind her new house. But after a mysterious encounter with a black cockatoo, Carina realises there's magic in this forest. And if magic exists, anything is possible, like seeing her dad one last time...

Download or read book The Patriot written by Dewey Goldsmith and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2005-07-14 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative book, author Dewey Goldsmith explores the probability that decades of failed national policies have changed the character of our country and will lead to a second war of independence. He identifies the social, economic, and political changes that deliver free people into common servitude. We see the plight of a free people betrayed by their leaders then he brings to life the flame of liberty in the betrayed. In these pages Goldsmith offers an illuminating analysis of the concentration of power in a corrupt central government. We see how apathy fuels the erosion of civil liberties that lead to autocracy and persecution. He makes us ask ourselves, could the specter of such a tragedy someday haunt America?

Download or read book Along the Way written by Jake Jacobson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would you believe that a magazine article started the whole thing? After reading that article, Jake got excited and came up with his "Wild Hair". When he told his wife Kris about it, she wondered if he had lost his mind. She thought that his idea of riding their bicycles across the country was simply absurd. After all, they both had good jobs to think about, and they had a hard time just riding across town. But Kris finally changed her mind, and so began their amazing odyssey. Along the Way tells the story of their three month journey from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean. It also tells about their year of training and preparations, during which they discovered recumbent bicycles. You've probably seen them, those long, low, sit down bikes that caused a stir wherever Kris and Jake went. Along the Way also tells about their unusual experiences, the interesting people they met, and some amazing places they visited. Join them as they ride over the river and through the woods, over the mountains and across the plains, to see this country as few others have ever had the chance to do.

Download or read book A Faith Destroyed written by Leanne Hathaway and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I find your offer sir, to be an agreeable one." This signaled to the crowd that there would not be a hanging, and many began to sullenly walk away upon being denied the once in a lifetime opportunity of seeing an infant strangled: from Bessie's Smile Life often produces monumental pain and suffering, and yet it is so easy for too many of us to ignore the pain of others we see around us. Five Unexpected Endings is a collection of five short stories, which depict various characters from various backgrounds who all have one thing in common: They are part of the human race. The stories are meant to entertain, but they are also intended to show that we all have the same fears, insecurities, needs, and desires. We must always consider those we are on the planet with, and we must never consider anyone as less important than we are. Five Unexpected Endings is meant to uplift and comfort, but it is also meant to warn that there are consequences when we do not respect the humanity of our fellow man.

Download or read book For a Minute I Lost Myself The Past and Present of a Schizophrenic written by Scott Gann and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about the causes, effects, and coping strategies pertaining to Schizoaffective Disorder. The story is an account of my struggle with this difficult mental illness. The book is a description of a descent into madness, the repercussions of that descent, and the things I did to get my life back on track after my frightening and bizarre experience with Schizoaffective Disorder. If you or someone you know is suffering from Schizoaffective Disorder, Schizophrenia, Bi-Polar Disorder, or severe depression, then you should think about reading this book. This book provides insight into the mind of a person affected by this most misunderstood illness and explains the steps necessary to make a full recovery from it. Readers of this book will come away with an understanding that there is much hope for people suffering from mental illness, and that if the illness is taken seriously, a meaningful and productive life can still be lived regardless.