Download or read book Tales from a Far Off Place Called Home written by D. E. Hendrix and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up in Hickshaw has not been easy for Mave and Shirley. In a town with long-standing traditions and ideals, it is best to follow than rebel. In the place they called home, at least they always had their friendship. As unexpected challenges arise and come their way, will their friendship and relationships be able to survive the small-town world? As they travel on their journey, the two young women will find just how far they have to travel to find a true home of their own.
Download or read book Chicken Soup for the Soul Home Sweet Home written by Jack Canfield and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether your home is an apartment, a house, or a condo -- rented or owned -- the 101 stories in this book all about the place you call home will warm your heart. Home is where the heart is. Be it your childhood home or where you lay your head now, you will find joy, laughter, and inspiration in these 101 stories about cooking, family meals, decorating, remodeling, repairing ... everything we do to make a home.
Download or read book Chicken Soup for the Soul Canadian Acts of Kindness written by Amy Newmark and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small gestures can make a big difference in someone’s day, even someone’s life. This collection of 101 uplifting, true stories, written by Canadians and for Canadians, will help you see the beauty in the small, meaningful gestures Canadians share with one another. From random acts of kindness to doing what’s right, this book shows how the positive attitudes and the good deeds of Canadians can not only change their country, but the world. This book shines a bright light on the widespread goodwill of the Canadian people as everyday heroes demonstrate acts of kindness, compassion and commitment to their fellow countrymen. The stories in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Canadian Acts of Kindness will uplift you, inspire you, and brighten your day.
Download or read book The Bushman Winter has Come written by Paul John Myburgh and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a true story of exodus, the inevitable journey of the last of the First People, as they leave the Great Sand Face and head for the modern world and cultural oblivion. Paul John Myburgh spent seven years with the 'People of the Great Sand Face', a group of /Gwikwe Bushmen in the Kalahari Desert. They were years of physical and spiritual immersion into a way of life of which only an echo remains in living memory. But all does not end there. In The Bushman Winter Has Come, the author imagines a continuing journey towards a place where we may, once again, know who we are in the context of our life on this earth ... towards a time when we may answer the /Gwikwe's morning greeting, Tsamkwa/tge? (Are your eyes nicely open?) with a confident Yes.
Download or read book Norfolk Folk Tales for Children written by Dave Tonge and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From dark dangerous dogs and wily wicked wyrms, to poor penniless pedlars and lanky, long-limbed lads, Norfolk is steeped in stories. Some had their beginnings here, growing in the telling until they were as big as Norfolk's skies. Others were brought here by travellers from far away — even Viking raiders long ago. Stories that in time would change to suit our Norfolk ways, for as everyone knows — we do different! This is a collection of tales reworked and rewritten by Dave Tonge so that children might learn something of this most special county: its places and people, its strange and wondrous dialect. In this collection of stories, each introduced with snippets of local history, we journey to a place where fact, fiction, truth and lies become as one.
Download or read book The Prophecy and Other Stories written by Drago Jancar and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-05 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These newly collected short stories reveal a master at the top of his game. Drago Jancar possesses an acute understanding of the human psyche, enabling his stories to resonate beyond their particular milieu. This collection features seven pieces, drawn from four different collections, that together present the struggle of individuals against powerful forces. The characters try to make sense of a world of shifting borders and changing names that make the idea of a "homeland"—either literal or figurative—a dream rather than a reality.
Download or read book 50 Years a Veterinarian Stories of Animals and their People written by Donald V. ÒDocÓ D.V.M. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald V. "Doc" Tebbe rolled into the town of Fort Recovery, Ohio, in June 1962 ready to get work as a veterinarian. More than fifty years later, he's still practicing his craft. It's a career he knew he'd embark on as a young boy, when his prized cow, Shirley, suffered complications while giving birth. He watched on in horror from a hay chute as the veterinarian, Dr. Steinke, began cutting off the calf's legs, head, and ribs, yelling to no one in particular, "I hate to do this, but it's our only chance to save the cow." Both the cow and the calf died, and it broke Tebbe's heart. That day, he vowed to become a better veterinarian than Dr. Steinke to make up for what he did to his Shirley. Tebbe has since had colossal failures that have made him realize how bad Dr. Steinke must have felt that day he failed. For instance, on his very first day of work, he accidentally killed a cat. Join a small-town veterinarian on some very big adventures in 50 Years a Veterinarian.
Download or read book St Nicholas written by Mary Mapes Dodge and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bengal Partition Stories written by Bashabi Fraser and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through oral histories, interviews and fictional retellings, 'Bengal Partition Stories' unearths and articulates the collective memories of a people traumatised by the brutal division of their homeland.
Download or read book Chicken Soup for the Girl s Soul written by Jack Canfield and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Barbies to your first bra, from holding your teddy bear to slowdancing with your first boyfriend, from knowing everyone in elementary school to trying to make new friends in middle school. . . . When dealing with these changes, it's no wonder preteen girls can freak out from time to time.
Download or read book Folk Stories Fables written by and published by [Boston] : Houghton, Mifflin. This book was released on 1907 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Portent and Other Stories written by George MacDonald and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1909 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Girl from Jaffna and Other Stories written by G. Rajeswaran Thampi and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2023-03-09 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ....another person yelled near the carcass of the buffalo. A lady screamed, “She seems dead!” The little girl Ramayee asked, "Patti, you sold me just for thirty rupees?” the girl sobbed and accepted the old lady's proposal. Was it good or bad? Nethuni asked, "What happened to my neighbours?" Kani replied, "They wiped off the people on those two or three streets. Most of them including men, women and babies fled to the North. On the way, many perished due to the shelling and…”
Download or read book A Far Off Place written by Laurens Van der Post and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1978 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Nonnie and Francois, both on the brink of adulthood, a thousand-mile trip across Africa's Kalahari Desert becomes a pilgrimage of self-discovery.
Download or read book Thottuva Tales of an Ox an Elephant and a River written by Johny Chengalan and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-12-13 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buffaloes and oxen normally do not lock horns. What would be the outcome if they do? The contest would be a short-lived affair resulting in the victory of the stronger buffalo. This popular notion is challenged by a feeble male calf on the verge of death. Under the loving care of a cattle-loving household, the calf grows into a beautiful and strong ox. He takes on several hitherto unbeaten heroes to become the undisputed champion among the oxen of the locality. He then dares to challenge the supremacy of a buffalo. Will the ox merge victorious in this contest? Ayyappankutty, a tame elephant gone berserk, becomes a threat to life and property in the hamlet of Thottuva. He wreaks havoc on the south bank of the river Periyar in Kerala for nearly a week. The Travancore Maharaja deputes his sharp-shooting police officer to account for the menacing beast. A diminutive mahout has a different plan. Both converge in Thottuva on the same day. Will Ayyappankutty fall to the bullets of Veeran Mudaliar? Will the courageous mahout bring him into submission and save his life? River Periyar’s magnificent sandbank in Thottuva is ravaged by the sand mining unions with the government agencies remaining mute spectators. Rivalry among the unions affects normal life. While the riverbed sinks by several metres due to both lawful and unlawful sand mining, the vice of liquor addiction overpowers several young men, disrupting their family life. The protagonist, Jivan, a silent and innocent teetotaller, gradually takes to drinking with very dangerous consequences!
Download or read book Defending the Dillinger Gang written by D.M. Testa and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-10-05 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1930s women practicing criminal law were often held in the same low regard as the clients they served. When a corrupt prosecutor was determined to send as many of the notorious John Dillinger gang to death row as possible, female attorneys Jessie Levy and Bess Robbins rose to the challenge. They skillfully represented six of the gang members, a number far greater than any of their male counterparts. And yet, their story of deals gone bad, wrongful convictions and success against the odds has all but vanished from history. The recent discovery of interviews, personal correspondence, and court transcripts--a treasure trove untouched for over 80 years--forms the basis for this book, which traces the careers of Jessie Levy, Bess Robbins and the John Dillinger gang in detail for the first time.
Download or read book The Greatest Works of Kate Douglas Wiggin Illustrated Edition written by Kate Douglas Wiggin and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-06 with total page 3931 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greatest Works of Kate Douglas Wiggin (Illustrated Edition) features a collection of some of the most beloved works by this influential author. Known for her charming and heartwarming stories, Wiggin's literary style is characterized by its sensitivity to human emotions and its ability to capture the essence of childhood. This illustrated edition provides a visual accompaniment to her timeless tales, enhancing the reader's experience and understanding of the stories. Kate Douglas Wiggin, a prolific writer and educator, drew inspiration from her own experiences working with children and teaching, which is evident in her works. Her deep understanding of the human psyche and her compassion for children shines through in her stories, making her a cherished figure in the world of literature. I highly recommend The Greatest Works of Kate Douglas Wiggin (Illustrated Edition) to readers who appreciate enchanting and heartfelt stories that celebrate the innocence and purity of childhood. This collection is a true testament to Wiggin's talent and legacy as a writer, and it is sure to captivate and inspire audiences of all ages.
