Download or read book Christmastime 1944 A Love Story written by Linda Mahkovec and published by Bublish, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christmastime 1944: A Love Story is the fifth installment in the Christmastime Series. A WWII Christmas story of love and family that takes place on the home front (NYC and rural Illinois).
Download or read book Christmastime 1940 A Love Story written by Linda Mahkovec and published by Bublish, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Christmastime 1941 A Love Story written by Linda Mahkovec and published by Bublish, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christmastime 1941: A Love Story, Book Two, opens two days after Pearl Harbor has been attacked. War has just been declared, and New York City is in a state of chaos and panic as it tries to prepare for possible attacks. Following the same characters established in Book One, and introducing a few new ones, it tells of the power of old loves, new loves, and friendship. It continues the love story of Lillian and Charles, the adventures of Tommy and Gabriel, and depicts two bittersweet romances: that of Izzy and her fiancé Red, and that of the office manager at Drooms Accounting, sixty-year old Mrs. Murphy, and her Brendan.
Download or read book Christmastime 1943 A Love Story written by Linda Mahkovec and published by Bublish, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Christmastime 1942 A Love Story written by Linda Mahkovec and published by Bublish, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Christmastime 1942: A Love Story, Book Three, the Axis forces are winning, and America struggles to find its footing in the war. Men leave to fight and women join the workforce. New York City vibrates with energy, romance, tension, and urgency. Yet love burns brighter than ever, bringing people together and giving them hope for the future. The famous Stage Door Canteen in Times Square provides the background for one of these romances – between the proud, but wounded, Edith Mason and the Shakespearean actor, Desmond Burke.
Download or read book Christmastime 1945 written by Linda Mahkovec and published by Bublish, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the final book of The Christmastime Series, the war is over. After years of grueling combat, heavy losses, and heartbreak, the first Christmas after the war promises to be a memorable one. Millions of servicemen are hoping to make it home in time for Christmas. Lillian Drooms anxiously awaits the return of Charles, fearing a final disaster. Izzy has opened a line of communication to Red, but what her future holds remains a mystery. On Kate’s farm, her eldest son has made it home––but will her other two sons return from the Pacific? Ursula lives in dread of Friedrich’s impending departure and wonders if she’ll ever see him again. And unexpectedly, Jessica gives her heart to a returning soldier, only to be rejected by him. Can this first Christmas after the war be a happy one?
Download or read book Christmastime 1939 written by Linda Mahkovec and published by Bublish, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CHRISTMASTIME 1939: Prequel to the Christmastime Series introduces the reader to the world of Christmastime. Set in Brooklyn, we meet the young widow Lillian Hapsey and her two sons, Tommy and Gabriel. Even though the Christmas season is just around the corner, Lillian has no Christmas spirit. Alone, unhappy with her job, and plagued by financial concerns, Christmas has become a burden to her. Overshadowing everything is the war in Europe. Despite the setbacks, Lillian is determined to give her sons a happy Christmas. Can she rekindle her girlhood love for the holiday season? Rediscovering her touchstone just might be the key to unlocking the excitement and magic of Christmas.
Download or read book And So We Dream written by Linda Mahkovec and published by Bublish, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A lucidly described coming-of-age tale” [with] “a mysterious, almost mythic feminine glamour.” – Kirkus Reviews From the author of the best-selling CHRISTMASTIME series, comes AND SO WE DREAM, a coming-of-age story set in 1970. Twelve-year-old Joey Roland is sent away to family friends while his parents try to work things out. He’s eager to leave sadness and secrets behind in Chicago and head downstate to the small town of Greenberry, where the Vitale family awaits him. He thinks of their town as boyland—a world of bike riding, fishing, and going barefoot. Though initially shy of the beautiful teenage daughters—Anne, Vita, and Beth—they welcome him into their lives of adventure, beauty, and dreams. Joey especially bonds with the middle sister, Vita, and her all-or-nothing pursuit of an acting career. Joey's “there must be more” merges with Vita’s “I must make it happen” resulting in a magical summer where the town of Greenberrry becomes the crucible for two desperate dreamers.
Download or read book Valentine s Day 1946 written by Linda Mahkovec and published by Bublish, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-01-23 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The love continues in this sequel to the beloved Christmastime series. In New York City, the playful antics of Gabriel and his friend Billy bring together an assortment of people to celebrate Valentine's Day at The Red String Curio Store—with unintentional results. In rural Illinois, Jessica attempts her hand at matchmaking, against the advice of her family to leave well enough alone. In both places, love, friendship, and family come together in a heartwarming celebration of 1946 Valentine's Day. With the war over and everyone wanting to get on with their lives, will this Valentine’s Day be full of love?
Download or read book The Notebooks of Honora Gorman written by Linda Mahkovec and published by Bublish, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-10-21 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not a love story—and yet a story of love. Love for a city, the artist’s way, and dreams. When the indomitable, though introverted, Honora Gorman moves to New York City to pursue the writer’s path, she is both awed and overwhelmed by the city’s beauty and energy. Yet she’s convinced that this is the place where her true self will finally emerge. Her beloved notebooks will chronicle her at-long-last journey. Over the course of several decades, her path often veers and detours as she stumbles over the obstacles of jobs, love, places to live, growing older, and the sense that time is running out. Yet pushing her ever forward is the exuberant persistence of storytelling—her “conversation with life”—and her do-or-die determination to stay true to her dreams. Will she triumph in the end? Are such dreams attainable? The result is the fanciful story of Honora’s writing life woven together with fairytales, whimsy, and wonder.
Download or read book Murder After Christmas written by Rupert Latimer and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Murder After Christmas] supplies cheerfully calculating relatives, decorously brutal dialogue, and a fiendishly intricate set of Chinese boxes before the surprising reveal...no, they don't make them like this anymore."—Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review "A war's on and a murder has been committed—and we sit here talking nonsense about almond whirls and mince pies!" Good old Uncle Willie—known for an insatiable sweet tooth and being an epic pain in the rear—has come to stay with the Redpaths for the holidays. As luck would have it, he's found dead in the snow, in a Santa suit on Boxing Day. It seems as though someone may have poisoned his chocolate...or was it the mince pie? As the police flock to the house, Willie's descendants, past lovers and distant relatives are drawn into a perplexing investigation to find out how the old man met his fate, and who stands to gain by such an unseasonable crime. First published in 1944, Murder After Christmas is a lively riot of murder, holiday desserts, and misdirection, cleverly twisting the tropes of Golden Age detective fiction to create a pacey, light-hearted package admirably suited for the holiday season. Featuring an introduction by CWA Diamond Dagger Award-winning author and series editor Martin Edwards.
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on with total page 1560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Having a Wonderful Christmas Time Film Guide written by Terry Rowan and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-04-27 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive Holiday look at the films that are the joyful part of the year and our lives. The story of the film people who bring you joy during the holiday season. Plus many other Christmas traditions, customs, decorative ideas, and other tales as well as facts from this festive time! Plus a Christmas Media Trivia Quiz.
Download or read book Mistletoe and Holly written by Janet Dailey and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heartwarming holiday romance by one of America's all-time bestselling authors. With one leg in a cast and a heart hardened by bitter holiday memories, Leslie wanted only one thing for Christmas: a quiet and restful vacation at her aunt's Vermont home. But that was before she met the new neighbor, handsome Tagg Williams. As the holidays heat up, Leslie finds herself in an awkward dance of attraction with Tagg, mesmerized by his warm smile and strong embrace—and charmed by his sweet daughter, Holly. The more time they spend together, the more it feels like home. But even as her passion deepens, Leslie knows she will have to choose between the ghosts of her past and the once-in-a-lifetime chance to give herself and her heart to Tagg—forever. In a captivating novel filled with Christmas magic, Janet Dailey proves once again why she is one of the best-loved storytellers of our time.
Download or read book The Christmas Encyclopedia 4th ed written by William D. Crump and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-12-22 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the manger of Jesus Christ to the 21st century, this encyclopedia explores more than 2,000 years of Christmas past and present through 966 entries packed with a wide variety of historical and pop-culture subjects. Entries detail customs and traditions from around the world as well as classic Christmas movies, TV series/specials and animated cartoons. Arranged alphabetically by entry name, the book includes the historical background of popular sacred and secular songs as well as accounts of beloved literary works with Christmas themes from such noted authors as Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, Pearl Buck, Henry Van Dyke and others. All things Christmas are available here in one comprehensive volume.
Download or read book Film Noir Guide written by Michael F. Keaney and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 700 films from the classic period of film noir (1940 to 1959) are presented in this exhaustive reference book--such films as The Accused, Among the Living, The Asphalt Jungle, Baby Face Nelson, Bait, The Beat Generation, Crossfire, Dark Passage, I Walk Alone, The Las Vegas Story, The Naked City, Strangers on a Train, White Heat, and The Window. For each film, the following information is provided: the title, release date, main performers, screenwriter(s), director(s), type of noir, thematic content, a rating based on the five-star system, and a plot synopsis that does not reveal the ending.
Download or read book Christmas in Germany written by Joe Perry and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010-09-27 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For poets, priests, and politicians--and especially ordinary Germans--in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the image of the loving nuclear family gathered around the Christmas tree symbolized the unity of the nation at large. German Christmas was supposedly organic, a product of the winter solstice rituals of pagan "Teutonic" tribes, the celebration of the birth of Jesus, and the age-old customs that defined German character. Yet, as Joe Perry argues, Germans also used these annual celebrations to contest the deepest values that held the German community together: faith, family, and love, certainly, but also civic responsibility, material prosperity, and national belonging. This richly illustrated volume explores the invention, evolution, and politicization of Germany's favorite national holiday. According to Perry, Christmas played a crucial role in public politics, as revealed in the militarization of "War Christmas" during World War I and World War II, the Nazification of Christmas by the Third Reich, and the political manipulation of Christmas during the Cold War. Perry offers a close analysis of the impact of consumer culture on popular celebration and the conflicts created as religious, commercial, and political authorities sought to control the holiday's meaning. By unpacking the intimate links between domestic celebration, popular piety, consumer desires, and political ideology, Perry concludes that family festivity was central in the making and remaking of public national identities.
