Download or read book A Prairie Christmas Collection written by Tracey V. Bateman and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience Christmas on the historical American Great Plains as retold by nine different multi-published authors, including Tracie Peterson and Deborah Raney. Follow pioneers, immigrants, and orphans through their adventures, heartaches, challenges, victories, and romances. You are sure to find more than one favorite among the nine holiday romances in this unique collection to warm your heart and inspire your faith.
Download or read book A Little House Christmas Treasury written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2005-09-27 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate the holidays with Laura and her family with stories from the beloved Little House books!
Download or read book Christmas at Holly Hill written by Martha Rogers and published by Charisma Media. This book was released on 2012 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Winds Accross the Prairie Holiday Novel. After serving time in prison for his part in a train robbery, Clayton Barlow is determined to make a new start. Can he prove he has changed his ways and find love?
Download or read book My Book of Little House Christmas Paper Dolls written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published by HarperFestival. This book was released on 1996-10-03 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate the joys of the Christmas season with Laura, Mary, Pa, Ma, Baby Carrie, the bulldog Jack, Mr. Edwards, and even Santa Claus himself in this enchanting sequel to the bestselling My Book of Little House Paper Dolls. This collection includes outfits for each doll, numerous accessories and props, and two giant pull-out screens, plus a stowaway pocket for storage. Full color.
Download or read book Christmas in the Big Woods written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1997-09-20 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long ago, a little girl named Laura Ingalls lived in a little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin with her Pa, her Ma, her sisters, Mary and Carrie, and their good old bulldog, Jack. Winter was just around the corner, and Laura worked hard to help make the little house ready for the cold days ahead. Soon there was frost on the windows and snow on the ground, but Laura and her folks were warm and cozy in their snug little house in the Big Woods. Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books have been cherished by generations of readers. Now for the first time, the youngest readers can share her adventures in these very special picture books adapted from Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved storybooks. Renée Graef's warm paintings, inspired by Garth Williams' classic Little House illustrations, bring Laura and her family lovingly to life.
Download or read book Christmas Comes to Prairie Dog Village written by Rick Zuroweste and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Join Pip the prairie dog on his Christmas adventure with Gretchen, a feisty dachshund, as they help the injured reindeer Thunderbolt get back to the North Pole. But treacherous terrain and all manner of hungry forest predators stand in their way. Will they make it in time for Christmas?"
Download or read book Journey Into Christmas and Other Stories written by Bess Streeter Aldrich and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains twelve short Christmas stories about reunited families, fellowship, and restored faith including 'I Remember,' a story about the author's childhood in Iowa.
Download or read book The Laura Ingalls Wilder Companion written by Annette Whipple and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eager young readers can now discover and experience Laura Ingalls Wilder's books like never before. Author Annette Whipple encourages children to engage in pioneer activities while thinking deeper about the Ingalls and Wilder families as portrayed in the nine Little House books. The Laura Ingalls Wilder Companion provides brief introductions to each Little House book, chapter-by-chapter story guides, and "Fact or Fiction" sidebars, plus 75 activities, crafts, and recipes that encourage kids to "Live Like Laura" using easy-to-find supplies. Thoughtful questions help the reader develop appreciation and understanding of Wilder's stories. Every aspiring adventurer will enjoy this walk alongside Laura from the big woods to the golden years.
Download or read book A Christmas Blizzard written by Garrison Keillor and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inimitable Garrison Keillor spins "a Christmas tale that makes Dickens seem unimaginative by comparison" (Charlotte Creative Loafing) Snow is falling all across the Midwest as James Sparrow, a country- bumpkin-turned-energy-drink-tycoon, and his wife awaken in their sky- rise apartment overlooking Chicago. Even down with the stomach bug, Mrs. Sparrow yearns to see The Nutcracker while James yearns only to escape-the faux-cheer, the bitter cold, the whole Christmas season. An urgent phone call from his hometown of Looseleaf, North Dakota, sends James into the midst of his lunatic relatives and a historic blizzard. As he hunkers weather the storm, the electricity goes out and James is visited by a parade of figures who deliver him an epiphany worthy of the season, just in time to receive Mrs. Sparrow's wonderful Christmas gift. Garrison Keillor's holiday farce is the perfect gift for the millions of fans who tune into A Prairie Home Companion every week.
Download or read book My Prairie Christmas written by Brett Harvey and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 1993 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elenore's first Christmas on the prairie is very different from Christmas back in Maine. There are no relatives to help celebrate. The ornaments are still in Maine, and there's no cranberries to string for the tree. Still Mama has some good ideas--and Elenore experiences a prairie Christmas that she'll never forget.
Download or read book A Northern Nativity written by William Kurelek and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1976-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A uniquely moving book on the theme that Christ came to all people everywhere.
Download or read book Lake Wobegon Days written by Garrison Keillor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1990-04-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Lake Wobegon Days is about the way our beliefs, desires and fears tail off into abstractions--and get renewed from time to time. . . this book, unfolding Mr. Keillor's full design, is a genuine work of American history.” —The New York Times “A comic anatomy of what is small and ordinary and therefore potentially profound and universal in American life…Keillor’s strength as a writer is to make the ordinary extraordinary.” —Chicago Tribune “Keillor’s laughs come dear, not cheap, emerging from shared virtue and good character, from reassuring us of our neighborliness and strength….His true subject is how daily life is shot with grace. Keillor writes a prose that can be turned to laughter, to tears…to compassion or satire, to a hundred effects. He is a brilliant parodist.” —San Francisco Chronicle
Download or read book Christmas on the Prairie written by Sherry L. Duda and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-12-17 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The week before Christmas on the prairie, the animals were holding a special meeting about how the prairie should be decorated before Santa arrived. All the animals were in a special cave, that they had decorated with a Christmas tree and some prairie grass garland and had a warm fire going.Things were getting quite festive
Download or read book Prairie Christmas written by Catherine Palmer and published by Heartquest. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The headline novella in "Prairie Christmas" continues Catherine Palmer's "Prairie" series, "A Town Called Hope". Each new story by favorite authors celebrate faith, love and the joy of Christmas. Includes a favorite Christmas recipe from each author.
Download or read book A Northern Nativity written by William Kurelek and published by Tundra Books of Montreal ; Plattsburgh : Tundra Books of Northern New York. This book was released on 1976 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty paintings of the Holy Family transferred to various locales, accompanied by a lyrical text.
Download or read book The Burglar s Christmas written by Willa Cather and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-11 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Burglar’s Christmas was originally published near the beginning of Willa Cather’s writing career in 1896 under the pseudonym of Elizabeth L. Seymour. The story follows William Crawford on the cold streets of Chicago as he contemplates the multiple failures plaguing his life, including his time at college and careers in journalism, real estate, and performing. Distraught, he tries one more role: thief. Attempting to burgle a residence and caught in the act by the lady of the house, William must come to terms with the choices that led him to that moment. Cather provides a heartwarming short story of redemption and love at Christmas, a timely reminder that kindness is in everyone, just waiting to be uncovered.
Download or read book Christmas in Minnesota written by Marilyn Ziebarth and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2005 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like the warmth of a cabin fireplace and the twinkle of lights along the edge of a frozen lake, Christmas in Minnesota evokes memories of holidays long ago.
