Download or read book Mattie the Yellow Dress written by Scott Cuffe and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story explains how a cop's soul can be destroyed by doing the job and how the passage of time can make some of the demons disappear. It also shows how the love of a caring person can make life better and how holding a hand and being loved can chase the nightmares away forever.
Download or read book Fever 1793 written by Laurie Halse Anderson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's late summer 1793, and the streets of Philadelphia are abuzz with mosquitoes and rumors of fever. Down near the docks, many have taken ill, and the fatalities are mounting. Now they include Polly, the serving girl at the Cook Coffeehouse. But fourteen-year-old Mattie Cook doesn't get a moment to mourn the passing of her childhood playmate. New customers have overrun her family's coffee shop, located far from the mosquito-infested river, and Mattie's concerns of fever are all but overshadowed by dreams of growing her family's small business into a thriving enterprise. But when the fever begins to strike closer to home, Mattie's struggle to build a new life must give way to a new fight-the fight to stay alive.
Download or read book The Diary of Mattie Spenser written by Sandra Dallas and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-05-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mattie Spenser and her new husband Luke start off to the west. As they live their life Mattie keeps a journal of the joys and frustrations of frontier life and marriage.
Download or read book The Hundred Dresses written by Eleanor Estes and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2004 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleanor Estes's The Hundred Dresses won a Newbery Honor in 1945 and has never been out of print since. At the heart of the story is Wanda Petronski, a Polish girl in a Connecticut school who is ridiculed by her classmates for wearing the same faded blue dress every day. Wanda claims she has one hundred dresses at home, but everyone knows she doesn't and bullies her mercilessly. The class feels terrible when Wanda is pulled out of the school, but by that time it's too late for apologies. Maddie, one of Wanda's classmates, ultimately decides that she is "never going to stand by and say nothing again." This powerful, timeless story has been reissued with a new letter from the author's daughter Helena Estes, and with the Caldecott artist Louis Slobodkin's original artwork in beautifully restored color.
Download or read book My Mountain Valley written by Jo Burroughs and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna is a young, caring, and loving girl. One day she meets a stranger that will forever change her life. With only a promise to return and marry her when she is eighteen, he leaves. Years pass by as Anna helps out her family and works. The day she turns eighteen, she waits patiently, but will he ever return?
Download or read book THE CENTURY written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coffee Sweet Tea or Lemonade Me written by Bobbie Hazelton and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coffee, Sweet Tea or Lemonade & Me? By: Bobbie Hazelton It is New Year’s Eve in Natchez, Mississippi. Mattie and her two cousins, Anne and Abby, are trying to decide on their New Year’s resolutions. Their final decision: attend Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Louisiana. However, while attending one of the zany Mardi Gras parades, Mattie and her cousins become separated. As prearranged Mattie goes to one of the more popular pubs to wait for the cousins to show up. There, she meets Marc LaBlanc, a handsome rancher from Lafayette. A short time lapses and the “I do’s” between Marc and Mattie are said. Thus begins this love story: one with happiness, caring, and sharing. Then along comes trouble. Big trouble! After seeing Mattie’s husband at a Fourth of July barbecue, Mattie’s ex-sister-in-law—who was a well-known stripper at Billy Rocket’s Club for Southern Gentlemen—decides she wants Marc for her own. Trouble in paradise? Most assuredly. However, Mattie isn’t ready to give Marc up just yet. Bring it on, Lilly Sue. Or should we call you… Pepper?
Download or read book It s Always Three O clock written by Babs H. Deal and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When this book was first published in 1961, Wyatt Blassingame, in the New York Times Book Review, said the author has a real gift for physical description, especially where used in connection with the passage of time. This is a device she uses often and extremely well.
Download or read book Mattie s Call written by Stacy Campbell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mattie Benson feels trapped in Grand Oak Acres Nursing Home. Abandoned by her adult children and missing her deceased husband, she takes matters into her own hands and leaves the facility. A Mattie's Call is issued, and soon, the siblings learn things about their mother they never knew - namely, her ability to bring them together through the conditions of her will."--
Download or read book The Red Velvet Leaf written by Helen Breedlove and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1933, and seventeen-year-old Rhoda Bowling is filled with indignation, outrage, and fear. Th e moment she has dreaded for quite some time has finally arrived. As her train pulls away from the depot in rural Stoutland, Missouri, Rhoda tries her best not to hate her father, but deep inside, she knows he has just ruined her life. Against her will, Rhoda is heading for Springfield to meet her future husband, one of two men who answered her father's newspaper advertisement soliciting a spouse. Afraid her life will trace the same dismal pattern as Mama's forever dependent on and subservient to an unloving, unappreciative man Rhoda disembarks from the train and heads toward Nixa, where the dreaded unknown looms before her. Rhoda knows nothing about her future husband, Zachoriah Kelmsley, except that he is widowed and the father of a young daughter. Only moments after the two strangers meet, they are married in the courthouse, forever tucking away Rhoda's hopes for love and happiness or so she thinks. In this historical romance, a young woman on a coming-of-age journey during the Great Depression must dig deep to unleash the fierce independence she never knew she had in order to realize her true destiny.
Download or read book The Devil s Lament written by Kenneth W. Harmon and published by Permuted Press+ORM. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucifer and Eve’s forbidden love is rekindled in Dust Bowl America in this “fascinating, memorable, and incredibly well-written” dark fantasy romance (Bram Stoker Award-winning author John R. Little). It is 1932. The world has turned to dust. Lucifer stills walks among us, testing the faithful at every turn. On a mission to find a man who claims he can heal the sick, he discovers the reincarnation of Eve in a Dust Bowl revival tent ... and their ancient passion threatens the world again. When Lucifer and Eve were together in Eden, their relationship changed the fate of humanity. What will happen if God brings them together again?
Download or read book White Reindeer Kudzu Monster Other Tales of Wonder written by DJ Lyons and published by PublishAmerica. This book was released on 2009-12-21 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 32 short stories and novellas by DJ Lyons: * “White Reindeer”?Lost on a Norwegian mountain, DJ faces rock slides, raging waterfalls and other challenges. Miraculously, a white reindeer appears and leads her to safety. * “Kudzu Monster”?An unlikely love story involving a young frontier girl and the Kudzu Monster who saves her life. * “Trapped in Beaumaris Castle”?Gwyn agrees to spend the night in a haunted castle. What he sees finally puts to rest a 700-year-old question: How did the king's archer die? * “Grandmother Lyons' Tales”?True stories about a tornado, a Civil War love story, a scam, a premonition saving two lives and a scary Rag Man. * “12 Tales of Wonder” plus “12 Stories for the Young At Heart”?Exciting adventures involving ghosts, wishes, secrets, bullies, animals, amazing characters, a Broccoli Monster, fairy godmothers, magic and fun.
Download or read book Breathe Child Breathe written by Mary White and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-03-26 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary White's "Breathe Child, Breathe" is a fascinating story of tragedy and triumph. In researching and telling the story of her family and ancestors, Mary offers the reader incredible insight into what life was like growing up as a Black woman in the Deep South before the Civil Rights movement. If the book was just that, it would be a most interesting read, but Mary goes on to share with readers her own pains and struggles, her search for meaning and truth, and ultimately, her close walk with God which has sustained her from the very day she was born. "Breathe Child, Breathe" not only is an incredible historical treasure, it is an inspirational story that each of us can celebrate her. Bill Speer, Publisher/Editor of the Alpena News
Download or read book The Meadow Girls written by Sheila Everett and published by Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously published as The Watercress Girls A warm-hearted and nostalgic family saga from the bestselling author of THE WINTER BABY and THE NURSEMAID'S SECRET. Suffolk, 1914 Twelve-year-old Mattie and her little sister Evie lead an idyllic life in the countryside, exploring the meadows and picking watercress in the streams. But little do they know that this perfect childhood won't last. With the onset of World War I, the country is thrown into turmoil . . . As the years pass, the girls go on to live very different lives. Mattie travels to Canada and America, whilst Evie remains in England. More than fifty years later, through marriages, deaths, births, war, heartbreak and distance, will these sisters finally be reunited to have their time in the meadows again? 'This charming, drama-filled novel certainly packs in all the warmth, wisdom and heartfelt emotions that were the trademarks of Sheila's writing.' My Weekly 'This gently uplifting story is a saga to savour . . . this charming, drama-filled novel certainly packs in all the warmth, wisdom and heartfelt emotions that were the trademarks of her writing . . . a delicious and wonderfully poignant read for long summer evenings.' Lancashire Evening Post - - - Praise for Sheila Newberry: 'So gloriously nostalgic . . . a perfect example of her talent.' Maureen Lee, bestselling author of The Seven Streets of Liverpool 'Like having dinner with your mother in her warm and cosy kitchen.' Diane Allen, bestselling author of For the Sake of Her Family
Download or read book When Aunt Mattie Got Her Wings written by Petra Mathers and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Aunt Mattie dies, best friends Lottie and Herbie console each other and celebrate Aunt Mattie's life by scattering her ashes and preparing her favorite snack--peanut butter and jelly sandwiches (with bananas).
Download or read book Black Widow written by Randy Wayne White and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-03-18 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cult of death. A weapon of apocalyptic horror. Juan Cabrillo must stop them both. THE "FASCINATING" ( BOOKLIST) NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Some women you love. Some women you hate. Some women you survive. Doc Ford is drawn into a deadly battle when his goddaughter Shay is blackmailed. Someone filmed her at an out-of-control bachelorette party, and they want big money to keep it quiet. When Ford investigates, he finds that the woman responsible is an agent of corruption unlike any Ford has ever encountered before. And she may be the last encounter he ever has.
Download or read book The Planter written by Willis A. Thoen and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Planter is a remarkable story of a boy who grew up in one of the servants houses that belonged to a very wealthy plantation owner in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The story starts out in Louisiana where he plays and works the fields of endless cotton, corn and beans. The setting took place approximately forty years after Abraham Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation which set the slaves free, at least on paper. For most of the slaves, there were still many hardships to endure. Peter was fortunate in being brought up on a plantation that was owned by a generous and caring man. He was also blessed with a superior genetic inheritance of his own that was later discovered from a box of papers in the mansion library by Mattie, the plantation owners daughter. Peter was an intelligent and observing boy who reached for the high road in life. He thoroughly enjoyed the surroundings of his childhood and playing with his peers as well as the beauty of the European architecture and the setting of the plantation along a lazy winding river. But most of all he was overwhelmed by the plants and animals that were everywhere around him. He was physically and emotionally involved with pollination and the breeding and crossbreeding of plants and animals. Peter had a hungry mind and was the first generation of his family who became educated. He learned to read in part from Mattie, and his Sunday School teacher, as well as his loving Grandma. It was by his observations and experiments that he gained a windfall that paid his way to go to a prestigious New York University and from there on to a University in Bordeaux, France to further those studies. While all of those studies were bigger than life to him, they mostly contributed to his own maturing and romantic relationships along the way, that came from inside of Peter, himself.
