Download or read book Ring Papa Ring written by Dean Ackerman Thomson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of one American family. Several family trees came together in two people, Blanche Klinefelter and Herbert Thomsonour grandparents. As writers, we are two grandsons who have corroborated to tell this story. Like weaving a tapestry, we have tried to interpret the story of our particular family in the context of unfolding European and American history. This is a book about our family and its stories. We write about eras long, long ago as well as times closer to the present day. As two cousins, we have two points-of-view about these times and places. As the French would have it, Vive la diffrence. It is easy to confuse family traditions with history. History is the enemy of memory. The two stalk each other across the fields of the past, claiming the same terrain. Remembered family stories trail off into forgotten places. Each in his own way, we are historians. We have benefited from each others approaches. Historians follow cautiously checking records. Memory can be misleading. But stories always have some basis in the past. The heart of our book is where the recollected stories and history meet.

Download or read book Ring Papa Ring written by Dean A. Thomson and published by . This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of one American family. Several family trees came together in two people, Blanche Klinefelter and Herbert Thomson-our grandparents. As writers, we are two grandsons who have corroborated to tell this story. Like weaving a tapestry, we have tried to interpret the story of our particular family in the context of unfolding European and American history. This is a book about our family and its stories. We write about eras long, long ago as well as times closer to the present day. As two cousins, we have two points-of-view about these times and places. As the French would have it, "Vive la différence." It is easy to confuse family traditions with history. "History is the enemy of memory. The two stalk each other across the fields of the past, claiming the same terrain." Remembered family stories trail off into forgotten places. Each in his own way, we are historians. We have benefited from each other's approaches. Historians follow cautiously checking records. Memory can be misleading. But stories always have some basis in the past. The heart of our book is where the recollected stories and history meet.

Download or read book Papa Please Get the Moon for Me written by Eric Carle and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a book with foldout pages, Monica's father fulfills her request for the moon by taking it down after it is small enough to carry, but it continues to change in size.

Download or read book Cracker s Mule written by Billy Moore and published by NewSouth Books. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the polio scare of the 1950s, a boy's parents send him for the summer from his small-towm Florida home to the refuge of his grandparents' farm in rural Alabama. He settles into country life with Papa and Bigmother. The locals nickname him Cracker, after the term for Florida cowboys. One day he and Papa go to a livestock auction and Papa lets him buy a small mule. The mule turns out to be blind and Cracker must suffer ridicule while caring for the animal he comes to love. Over the summer Cracker teaches the mule to respond to his voice and together they learn to plow. The summer passes with lazy days of fishing in the local creek mixed with frightening episodes involving poisonous snakes. In this idyllic setting, Cracker makes the transition from boy to young man.

Download or read book Papa s Story written by David Osborne and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1944, and war is raging in Europe and Japan. Chuck is still in high school but his dream is to join the army and fight the Germans. One day, in the spring of 1944, he was walking on a lonely road and met someone that caused him to have another dream. This dream began when he met Betty Watson, the bank president's daughter. His good fortune began when, by a chance meeting, the Desoto she was driving had a flat tire. Her misfortune became Chuck's continuing desire to marry the girl of his dreams even though she was a few years older than he was. Although the two became good friends, Betty frequently reminded him that she had a boyfriend and that he was serving his country in the military. That information, although disheartening, did not keep Chuck from pursuing her. Betty and Chuck spent weeks together going places such as the bowling alley, the skating rink and the movies, while both insisted they were not dating. Chuck's older sister spilled the beans about the couple to his father who was not thrilled. His father suggested he date girls in school that were closer to his age but to no avail. Chuck had a one-track mind and that one track was Betty. In conversations between them Betty expressed doubt about a commitment from her soldier boyfriend and that was all the encouragement Chuck needed. After avoiding Chuck for several weeks, Betty confided in him that she was pregnant and her boyfriend, Bobby, was the father of the child. The announcement was a blow to him but Chuck was still not ready to give up on marrying her. However, when Betty's parents found out about her pregnancy, they shipped her off to California to have the baby and place it up for adoption. With one dream dimming the other was still very much alive. He graduated from high school and joined the army. Even though the war in Europe was winding down, the war in Japan was still very much alive. Chuck continued to write letters to Betty but at some point, her letters stopped. Chuck's interest in Betty had to be put on the back burner because of his military duties including guarding a brothel in Japan. After his discharge from the army Chuck attempted to rekindle their story but by that time Betty had married the father of her child. Even though he was still in love with Betty, he felt it was time for him to move on with his life. Where would he go from there?

Download or read book The Sotweed Smuggler written by Barbara A. Andrews and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-11-10 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sotweed Smuggler, the 2010 historical fiction winner of the Houston Writers Guild, tells a story of suspense. Will Sherewell, the son of a prosperous merchant marine captain, learns when his fathers will is read, that he has inherited his ship. Living with his pious mother, he has little knowledge of sailing and anticipates a majestic vessel. Instead, he finds The Emperors Dictum aka The Kings Dick, notorious for smuggling sotweed and whiskey between Devonshire and Scotland. Will yearns to be like his father and sails the Dick, enduring ridicule, fierce storms, pirate attacks, and curses of legendary fairies and ghosts, while finding companionship with his runaway brother and discovering the woman he wishes to marry. In spite of his fathers spying, treachery, murder, and Scottish border intrigue, Will learns he served Scotland with honor defeating the outlaw MacGregor Clan. With the new knowledge, he believes his father is their captive. He receives a Scottish certificate with a handwritten notation dead. Did he at last find the truth? Will must choose to accept the veracity of the document, or launch a futile one-man attack on a MacGregor stronghold. Reluctantly accepting his fathers death, he sails home to his new wife at Mothercombe Bay.

Download or read book Historic Rings written by Diana Scarisbrick and published by Kodansha International. This book was released on 2004-09-24 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each ring is illustrated with one or more black and white photograph, with 500 superb colour photos of the most important pieces. Major trends in ring design are outlined, and explanations and anecdotes are given on many of the individual rings. Supplementary images provide additional visual reference for the historical context. This deluxe book introduces the finest, most exhaustive private collection of finger rings in the world: the Hashimoto Collection. Organised chronologically by culture, it begins with the Ancient Mediterranean World, and progresses

Download or read book The Year of the Sawdust Man written by A. LaFaye and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2008 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven-year-old Nissa's life has never been perfect. Living in the small town of Harper, Louisiana, with a mama like hers, circa 1933, has led to lots of mean rumors. But now Mama is gone, and all the townsfolk talk about is who she might have run off with. Nissa's memories of the Sundays her mama would come home smelling of sawdust lead her to suspect the rumors could be true. Did her mama go away with the Sawdust Man? And if so, does it mean she's never coming back? A. LaFaye's powerful first novel beautifully explicates the world of a child in distress and how she copes with something beyond her understanding.

Download or read book Where the Ox Does Not Plow written by Manuel Peña and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manuel Peña chronicles his transformative journey from migrant worker to academia in twenty-six poignant life episodes.

Download or read book Partners in Time 5 a Change of Course written by Kristen Sheley and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-10-29 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the Caribbean: Sandy beaches, sunny weather and vicious pirates Fulfilling a promise from their last adventure together, Sam Foster travels from 2006 back to nineteenth-century Oregon to visit his spunky friend, Meg Clayton. This time, though, Meg gets to choose where they will visit next, and she already has a place in mind: Kingston, Jamaica, in 1717. The Clayton family farm in Oregon is in danger of being lost, and Meg seeks a priceless family heirloom to save it. That means traveling back to Jamaica to retrieve the treasure before it can disappear even if the area in question is crawling with cutthroat pirates. The two time travelers venture to this dangerous spot with the best laid plans only to find them going woefully wrong from the start. Separated almost from the first, they are taken aboard different ships and faced with a litany of problems the history books never mentioned. Neither is prepared for the sunburn, seasickness, and squalor they experience, and their goal quickly shifts from finding Megs heirloom to staying alive, reunitingand returning home. Will Sam and Megs change of course help them return to the safety of their own time periods, or will they be marooned in the eighteenth century, left to live the rest of their lives withor die at the hands ofa band of cold-blooded pirates?

Download or read book I am Sophie Tucker written by Susan Ecker and published by Easton Studio Press, LLC. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features more than 90 beautiful color and 120 black and white period illustrations. Part fairy tale, part crime novel, part rags to riches Hollywood myth, I Am Sophie Tucker tells the outrageous story of one of showbiz’s biggest personalities. From 1906 through the beginning of television, Sophie Tucker and her bawdy, brash, and risqué songs paved the way for performers such as West, Monroe, Midler, Cher, Madonna, and Gaga. “Sophie was like the Forrest Gump of the first half of the 1900s,” says co-author Susan Ecker. “She was close friends with seven presidents, King George VI, young Queen Elizabeth, Chaplin, J. Edgar, Capone, Garland, Jerry Lewis, Sinatra and every other notable of her era.” Tucker tried to get her story published for nine years, without success. Undaunted, Sophie hired half a dozen ghostwriters, but she still had no takers for her no holds barred autobiography. Eventually, Doubleday published a sanitized version in 1945. “After immersing ourselves in Sophie’s papers and surviving friends,” says co-author Lloyd Ecker, “this initial volume is what should have been the actual autobiography of Tucker.” Though she obsessively documented her life, Sophie loved to exaggerate for dramatic effect. Over the years, she told multiple versions of each important event. At the end, not even Sophie knew the difference between truth and tall tale. “This volume is 85% fact,” Lloyd explains. “The other 15% …who knows?” I Am Sophie Tucker puts back all of the delicious bits nixed by Doubleday’s lawyers and throws in other Tucker show business dirt, intrigue, arrests, romance, murder, gangsters, and scandals. Now you can read it for yourself.

Download or read book A BLESSED LIFE Updated written by Linda Anne Monica Schneider and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For once, Linda Anne Monica Schneider now is writing strictly about what she does know: her life and its circumstances. She tells the story of what it has been like for a middle-class American descended from Italian and German immigrants. It is the story of a girl who grew up and found her law vocation during the 50’s through 70’s and who happens to be blind and hard of hearing. During her life, she has used a series of wonderful guide dogs as traveling companions. Like the two discouraged, disillusioned pilgrims who fled from Jerusalem after the death and still disbelieved resurrection of Jesus, she is still in the lifelong process of finding the Lord. This book updates and supersedes the earlier version published in 2012 under a slightly different title.

Download or read book A Door Just Opened written by Dorothy Stephens and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-08-22 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen-year-old Anna's passionate dream is to go to high school, the first girl from her tiny farm community back in 1910 to do so. She is determined not to stay at home like her older sister, Mary Ellen, helping their mother and waiting to marry a local farmer. But there is no money to send her to River Heights, seven miles away, and anyway, her mother needs her. When sixteen-year-old Mary Ellen is sexually assaulted by a local boy, the situation gets worse. No one suspects Mary Ellen is pregnant until she gives birth to the illegitimate baby. The surprise birth threatens to ruin the family's standing in the community and Mary Ellen's reputation. Anna wrestles with helping her parents and sister while still striving to make her burning desire to go to high school a reality. Meanwhile she becomes involved in solving the mystery of a missing ring, and in stopping another attack by the boy who assaulted her sister. But how will that help her realize her dream?

Download or read book Walk in Love written by Margot Dolgin and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-01-11 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1844-Belle Bradbury, a thirty-three year old widow and her two grown daughters, Iris and Heather reluctantly brave The Horn to arrive in Yerba Buena (San Francisco) a Mexican hamlet. Johnny Bradbury, (the girl's uncle) now Don Ricardo, introduces them to the resplendent life and love afforded him by marrying a daughter of the country. The California Missions have been secularized. The Mission Indians are scattered. WALK IN LOVE also relates the poignant story of Meguel Pedro, an Ohlone Indian and his beautiful blue-eyed mestiza daughter, Estrellita. The Bradbury women experience love and passion in a California that has little restraint on their provincial New England life style. There is romance, adventure and a thread of mystery that drastically alters all their lives.

Download or read book Delphi Collected Works of Sabine Baring Gould Illustrated written by Sabine Baring-Gould and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2021-04-28 with total page 13316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould was a late Victorian novelist, antiquarian and eclectic scholar. He is remembered particularly as a writer of famous hymns, notably, ‘Onward, Christian Soldiers’. He was a prolific author of diverse subjects, producing over 200 books by the time of his death at the age of ninety. Among his most enduring works are his seminal ghost stories, revealing the author’s interest in occult studies. This comprehensive eBook presents Baring-Gould’s collected works, with numerous illustrations, many rare texts digitised for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Baring-Gould’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and major texts * 26 novels, with individual contents tables * Features many rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Includes the original illustrations accompanying the works * Excellent formatting of the texts * Wide selection of Baring-Gould’s non-fiction and songs * Features a bonus biography – discover Baring-Gould’s intriguing life * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Novels Through Flood and Flame (1868) Mehalah (1880) John Herring (1883) Court Royal (1886) Red Spider (1887) Eve (1888) The Pennycomequicks (1889) Grettir the Outlaw (1889) Arminell (1890) Urith (1891) In the Roar of the Sea (1892) Through all the Changing Scenes of Life (1892) Cheap Jack Zita (1893) Kitty Alone (1894) The Icelander’s Sword (1894) Noémi (1895) The Broom Squire (1890) Perpetua (1897) Guavas the Tinner (1897) Bladys of the Stewponey (1897) Domitia (1898) Pabo the Priest (1899) Winefred (1900) The Frobishers (1901) Miss Quillet (1902) In Dewisland (1904) The Shorter Fiction Jacquetta and Other Stories (1890) In a Quiet Village (1900) A Book of Ghosts (1904) The Songs Songs of the West (1890) Selected Hymns The Non-Fiction The Book of Were Wolves (1865) Post-Mediaeval Preachers (1865) Curious Myths of the Middle Ages (1866) The Lives of the Saints (Volumes I-III) (1872) Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents and Strange Events (1874) The Vicar of Morwenstow (1876) Historic Oddities and Strange Events (1889) Old Country Life (1890) In Troubadour Land (1891) Strange Survivals (1892) An Old English Home and its Dependencies (1898) A Book of Dartmoor (1900) Brittany (1902) A Book of North Wales (1903) A Book of the Riviera (1905) A Book of the Cevennes (1907) A Book of the Pyrenees (1907) Devonshire Characters and Strange Events (1908) Cornish Characters and Strange Events (1909) A History of Sarawak under its Two White Rajahs (1909) Cliff Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe (1911) A Book of Folk Lore (1913) The Biography The Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould’s Memoirs (1923) by Stewart M. Ellis Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

Download or read book Mother Goose written by and published by Sterling Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1969.

Download or read book Nothing Here But Stones written by Nancy Oswald and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1882, ten-year-old Emma and her family, along with other Russian Jewish immigrants, arrive in Cotopaxi, Colorado, where they face inhospitable conditions as they attempt to start an agricultural colony, and lonely Emma is comforted by the horse whose life she saved.