Download or read book Santa Miracles written by Brad Steiger and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-09-18 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus! In this heartfelt collection of real-life Santa stories, Christmas lovers will learn that the jolly old elf is alive and well and still performing miracles that reflect the spirit of the season this and every Christmas. Inside you will meet such inspiring Santa Clauses as: Raleigh, the mailman, who every Christmas, donned a Santa suit to distribute gifts of toys and food to the poor families in "shanty town," because they were too proud to accept charity from someone they knew Bill, the juvenile delinquent sentenced by the judge to play Santa and distribute gifts to the children at a local orphanage—who in the process discovered the true spirit of Christmas Robert, who kept an old man from being mugged one cold December night, only to recognize him later over coffee as the local department store Santa who had brightened his childhood Christmases Not even Scrooge himself could resist these touching yuletide stories of cheer, hope, and love. If you love Christmas, you'll love this book!

Download or read book Miracle on 34th Street written by Valentine Davies and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2001 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives of three people are changed by an old man who insists that he is Santa Claus.

Download or read book Miracle and Other Christmas Stories written by Connie Willis and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-02-25 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, Connie Willis capture the timeless essence of generosity and goodwill in this magical collection of Christmas stories. These eight tales boldly re-imagine the stories of Christmas while celebrating the power of love and compassion. This enchanting treasury includes: "Miracle", in which a young woman's carefully devised plans to find romance go awry when her guardian angel shows her the true meaning of love. "In Coppelius's Toyshop", where a jaded narcissist finds himself trapped in a crowded toy store at Christmastime. "Epiphany", in which three modern-day wise men embark on a quest unlike any they've ever experienced. "Inn", where a choir singer gives shelter to a homeless man and his pregnant wife-only to learn later that there's much more to the couple than meets the eye. And more . . .

Download or read book Christmas Miracles written by Brad Steiger and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-08-17 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brad and Sherry Hansen Steiger are two of my favorite people. Their wonderful book Christmas Miracles is a treasury of uplifting stories that demonstrates the wonders that can and do accompany our lives." —Shirley MacLaine, Academy Award-winning actress and author The promise that miracles can happen is never more certain than during the holiday season, when it really does seem that your dreams and wishes can come true. From a guardian angel who finds a desperately needed job for a man whose wife is about to give birth right before Christmas to pair of grieving parents who receive a warm Christmas message from their recently departed son, these incredible-but-true, larger-than-life miracles celebrate the wondrous joys of this special time of year. Because the first Christmas—and every one since—is a miracle.

Download or read book Christmas Miracles written by Jamie Miller and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At Christmas, our hearts are touched by reports of wondrous occurrences that make us stop, reflect, and hope. This luminous book shares true accounts of Christmas miracles-- inspiring events that happened to real people at Christmas time, including: A Christmas Mystery: A deaf boy's generosity is miraculously rewarded First Christmas: Newlyweds take part in the local Christmas pageant -- and receive a surprising lesson in timeless love My Christmas Angel: A pro baseball player visits a children's ward to cheer the patients, and is himself transformed A Heart for Christmas: A series of coincidences brings new life to a little girl The Stranger: A gentle, mysterious Christmas Eve visitor awes a family Christmas Saved My Mother: A rabbi tells how his mother, fleeing the Holocaust, was spared on Christmas Eve George Misses a Shift: Sudden car trouble on Christmas night saves a couple's life... and more. Albert Einstein said, "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is." If you believe in miracles -- or want to -- let Christmas Miracles light the candle of hope in your heart this year.

Download or read book Santa s Special Miracle written by Ann Major and published by Major Press LLC. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From USA Today bestselling Texas romance author, Ann Major, comes a heart-warming Christmas story about a young widow second chance at love. “Want it all? Read Ann Major.”—Nora Roberts "Ann Major's name on the cover instantly identifies the book as a good read." --New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown Forbidden love No sooner did widowed Noreen Black’s young son tell Santa all he wanted for Christmas was a brand new daddy than who should appear but Noreen’s handsome brother-in-law, Grant Hale, the man she’d run away from years ago. He still loves her and wants her, and she feels the same way despite how hard she’s fought not to. But when he discovers she kept the baby she was carrying a secret, can he forgive her? After all, Christmas is a time of miracles…

Download or read book Christmas Miracles written by Cecil Murphey and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate the season of hope and miracles with these inspiring true stories that will warm the heart and touch the soul... A man lies gravely ill in the hospital on Christmas when he hears angels singing and immediately makes a full recovery. A little boy with dyslexia sits down to read a Christmas book and realizes that his disability has vanished. And a woman's faith is renewed by the chance discovery of a simple nativity set. Many ordinary people experience God's grace during those special moments when Christmas becomes more than just a holiday, but a time for miracles. Cecil Murphey and Marley Gibson bring you the real-life stories of everyday people who have experienced these life-changing moments of hope, comfort, and transformation—all during the most wonderful time of the year.

Download or read book The Miracles of Santo Fico written by D.L. Smith and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2007-09-03 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magical story of love...and miracles After twenty years, Leo Pizzola has come back to the Tuscan village of Santo Fico, still single and still looking for a way to get rich. The town is as poor as it was when Leo left, yet some things have changed. Of Leo's childhood companions, only little Guido, whom everyone calls "Topo," embraces him. His best friend is long dead. The woman he once adored refuses to talk to him. And, worst of all, the kindly old town priest seems to have lost his faith. Perhaps what Santo Fico needs is a miracle-even if Leo and Topo have to manufacture one themselves. Now, as one botched scheme after another unravels, something completely unexpected happens, and wonders indeed begin to transform this Italian town, including the greatest miracle of all... Published around the world, this debut novel sparkles with the Italian spirit and emotions that will dance off the page and into your heart.

Download or read book Miracles and Sacrilege written by William Bruce Johnson and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-01-05 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miracles and Sacrilege is the story of the epochal conflict between censorship and freedom in film, recounted through an in-depth analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision striking down a government ban on Roberto Rossellini’s film The Miracle (1950). In this extraordinary case, the Court ultimately chose to abandon its own longstanding determination that film comprised a mere ‘business’ unworthy of free-speech rights, declaring for the first time that the First Amendment barred government from banning any film as ‘sacreligious.’ Using legal briefs, affidavits, and other court records, as well as letters, memoranda, and other archival materials to elucidate what was at issue in the case, William Bruce Johnson also analyzes the social, cultural, and religious elements that form the background of this complex and hard-fought controversy, focusing particularly on the fundamental role played by the Catholic Church in the history of film censorship. Tracing the development of the Church in the United States, Johnson discusses the reasons it found The Miracle sacrilegious and how it attained the power to persuade civil authorities to ban it. The Court’s decision was not only a milestone in the law of church-state relations, but it paved the way for a succession of later decisions which gradually established a firm legal basis for freedom of expression in the arts.

Download or read book Mediaeval and Modern Saints and Miracles written by George Perkins Marsh and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Christmas Miracle for Daisy written by Jane Porter and published by Tule Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-22 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a GAC Family Original Movie! Media Mogul, Cormac Sheenan, had no desire to become a family man, but when his two year old goddaughter, Daisy, is orphaned, he adopts her, moving her from Montana to his home in Southern California, and becomes a devoted single father, juggling parenting duties with running his successful publishing, TV, and radio enterprise. But two years later a frightening incident at Daisy’s school, shakes Cormac, and he decides to move Daisy–and his business–back to Montana where life is simpler and he has family nearby. Now four, precocious Daisy strikes up an unlikely friendship with Marietta’s seasonal Santa Claus, and believes he’s the real thing, even though Cormac points out to her that this jolly old Kris Kringle is renting a room at Bramble House, not living at the North Pole. Daisy’s not worried but Cormac is as Rent-a-Santa has promised his innocent daughter she’ll have a mommy for Christmas. Cormac is livid with Kris. He’s not at all ready to settle down, and he’s definitely not getting back together with his old flame Whitney Alder, so Santa can stop playing match maker as it’d take a miracle to make him fall in love, never mind marriage material. But that’s exactly the kind of miracle our angelic Santa Claus has planned…

Download or read book A Christmas Filled With Miracles written by Mary Ellen and published by Conari Press. This book was released on 2000-11-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shares personal experiences of encounters with the miraculous touching the everyday world that occured during the Christmas season.

Download or read book A Lumberjack Christmas written by Janet Elaine Smith and published by PageFree Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can two lost hearts find their way back together? Can the old tree still make miracles? Is it too late to save the spirit of Christmas and the memories of miracles past?

Download or read book Marvels and Miracles in Late Colonial Mexico written by William B. Taylor and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miracles, signs of divine presence and intervention, have been esteemed by Christians, especially Catholic Christians, as central to religious belief. During the second half of the eighteenth century, Spain’s Bourbon dynasty sought to tighten its control over New World colonies, reform imperial institutions, and change the role of the church and religion in colonial life. As a result, miracles were recognized and publicized sparingly by the church hierarchy, and colonial courts were increasingly reluctant to recognize the events. Despite this lack of official encouragement, stories of amazing healings, rescues, and acts of divine retribution abounded throughout Mexico. Consisting of three rare documents about miracles from this period, each accompanied by an introductory essay, this study serves as a source book and complement to the author’s Shrines and Miraculous Images: Religious Life in Mexico Before the Reforma.

Download or read book Miracle at St Anna written by James McBride and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction, and Deacon King Kong James McBride’s powerful memoir, The Color of Water, was a groundbreaking literary phenomenon that transcended racial and religious boundaries, garnering unprecedented acclaim and topping bestseller lists for more than two years. Now McBride turns his extraordinary gift for storytelling to fiction—in a universal tale of courage and redemption inspired by a little-known historic event. In Miracle at St. Anna, toward the end of World War II, four Buffalo Soldiers from the Army’s Negro 92nd Division find themselves separated from their unit and behind enemy lines. Risking their lives for a country in which they are treated with less respect than the enemy they are fighting, they discover humanity in the small Tuscan village of St. Anna di Stazzema—in the peasants who shelter them, in the unspoken affection of an orphaned child, in a newfound faith in fellow man. And even in the face of unspeakable tragedy, they—and we—learn to see the small miracles of life. This acclaimed novel is now a major motion picture directed by Spike Lee.

Download or read book The matter of miracles written by Helen Hills and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates baroque architecture through the lens of San Gennaro’s miraculously liquefying blood in Naples. This vantage point allows a bracing and thoroughly original rethink of the power of baroque relics and reliquaries. It shows how a focus on miracles produces original interpretations of architecture, sanctity and place which will engage architectural historians everywhere. The matter of the baroque miracle extends into a rigorous engagement with natural history, telluric philosophy, new materialism, theory and philosophy. The study will transform our understanding of baroque art and architecture, sanctity and Naples. Bristling with new archival materials and historical insights, this study lifts the baroque from its previous marginalisation to engage fiercely with materiality and potentiality and thus unleash baroque art and architecture as productive and transformational.

Download or read book Carry Me Home written by Mark Folse and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection of short essays in Carry Me Home begins as a lament for what in September 2005 looked to be the lost city of New Orleans. Over the following two-and-one-half years, these brief essays become a lyrical celebration of the city and the people, and a journal of a 20-year expatriate's decision to move home after the flood. Mark Folse is a former journalist who, after a twenty-year remove first to Washington, D.C. and later to the upper Midwest, returned with his family to the city of his birth. He currently resides in the Mid-City neighborhood of New Orleans with his wife Rebecca, and their two children Killian and Matthew. He continues to chronicle his life in the city of New Orleans at his weblog Toulouse Street -- Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans (www.toulousestreet.net)