One Christmas Mystery
One Christmas Mystery

Author: M. Christina Butler

Publisher: Tiger Tales

Published: 2021-09-07

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 1680102591

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It's almost time for the Little Hedgehog's Christmas party--but someone has taken ALL of the berries and pine cones in the woods that the friends were planning to use for decorations! Can Little Hedgehog and his friends figure out who it is? It's almost time for Little Hedgehog's Christmas party, and Little Hedgehog waits patiently for his friends to come over with the decorations. But when they get to his house, they're very upset! Someone has taken ALL of the holly berries and ALL of the pine cones in the woods, and now, there is nothing to decorate Little Hedgehog's house with. So the friends set out to see if they can figure out what's going on. Along the way, they find some very BIG footprints. Who could they belong to? Little Hedgehog and the other woodland animals are the best of friends! Their exciting adventures take them to different places in the forest and center around friendship, teamwork, determination, and gratitude. Each of the books in the Little Hedgehog & Friends series promotes being helpful, building a sense of community among friends and neighbors, and learning how to be a leader with a can-do attitude while working together to solve problems.

Anastasia’s Book of Days
Anastasia’s Book of Days

Author: Cindy Maynard

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-07-19

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1483472922

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From the vestiges of the Holy Roman Empire in Europe to the creation of the nation we now know as Germany, the life of Anastasia Burkart reflects the momentous changes sweeping across her beloved Black Forest homeland. As the oldest of several children, Anastasia takes care of her younger siblings, particularly when her mother struggles. She must grow up quickly. At the age of nine, her parents give her a leather-bound book of days, in which she may write what she sees, thinks, and feels. And as time goes on, she tells the story of her life-that of a never-wed mother of three in a conservative Catholic society. Hers is a story filled with strife, hardships, and love, spanning most of the nineteenth century. Based on Anastasia's purported diaries, this novel presents her life story, turning a family genealogy into the flesh and bones of a real woman who passed the family name down through the generations.

The Courier and Other Tall Tales
The Courier and Other Tall Tales

Author: Tom Badgett

Publisher: Page Publishing Inc

Published: 2022-04-28

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 1662456719

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Mystery. Humor. Happy stories. Sad stories. The unusual. This little book of short stories covers it all. And overall, you meet a range of interesting, real-life people. You will identify with the residents of a small town, probably not unlike your own. You will laugh as you follow an elderly couple on an overnight getaway trip. You will empathize with a young girl who becomes a woman under some of the harshest circumstances you could imagine. You will follow another young mother who does what mothers do, anything to protect the safety of her daughter. You will think back on your own relationship with your father as you read a young man's memories of many fishing trips. There's a mystery in Boston and in a small southern lakeside town. If you never played outside as a child, you will learn how a kid's life used to be before cell phones and the Internet. This book offers a collection of people, places, and stories that will pique your interest, touch your memories, entertain, and surprise you.

As the Cannon Roar
As the Cannon Roar

Author: Dwight Murray

Publisher: Dwight Murray

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 061542676X

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A glimpse inside the pages of As the Cannon Roar: Hundreds upon hundreds of stories have been written about the American Civil War. Although set in the Antebellum era of the “Old South” this story is not one of them. This is an in depth study of a family’s struggle to hold onto the only home and the only family they have ever known as the war rages all around them. It is a gritty but true to life story. It is both heartwarming and heartbreaking. It is full of despicable men doing despicable things. It is a story of love. It is a story of a marriage that is - in that time - frowned upon. Yet in order to tell this heart-rending story of war and love, and as a way to introduce the dreadfully wounded Confederate Artillery Captain, Thaddeus Biggs and his love of a country girl, one battle, that known as “Malvern Hill,” is used as a backdrop. Lillie Beth is the daughter of a poor dirt farmer, Tink Strickland. Tink is an evil man and void of all humanity. His jealousy of the successes of his neighbors tears at him and he will stop at no depravity in his efforts to obtain similar wealth. Therefore, his family suffers greatly at his hands. Wounded and near death, a handsome, young Confederate Artillery officer is brought to Lillie’s father’s log cabin which has recently been appropriated as a field hospital. There she soothes the man’s heated brow with a wet cloth and cool well water and appoints herself as his nurse. Little does Lillie know the wounded man suffering on the tick-mattress upon the floor is from the wealthiest family in all of North Carolina. But knowing only poverty, such wealth has no meaning to her. Her life changes drastically when Captain Thaddeus Biggs’ father arrives to take his son home. The Biggs family has nearly disintegrated upon learning their beloved son and brother has been wounded in battle, while the Strickland family near the battle of Malvern Hill dissolves so completely it will never recover.

It Started with a Letter
It Started with a Letter

Author: Velerion Damarke

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2014-06-09

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1312250593

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A lonely young girl finds a letter mistakenly dropped on the street near her home. When she reads it, she's moved by the emotions expressed by the man who wrote it, and she begins to fixate on the sender. When she sends him a letter of her own after sending the letter on its way to its intended recipient, he's less than pleased about his letter being read by other than its intended, which is a woman who he intends to marry. Things get more complicated when the writer apologizes, and they begin a correspondence, which her best friend, and the writer's intended wife learn of and don't agree with.

Betrayal
Betrayal

Author: Naomi Chase

Publisher: Kensington Books

Published: 2014-03-25

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 0758284373

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After being acquitted of murder, Tamia looks to rekindle her relationship with Brandon, but when the love of her life decides to marry his pregnant ex-girlfriend, she resolves to try one last gambit to win him back.

A Cowboy for Christmas
A Cowboy for Christmas

Author: Stella Bagwell

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2012-07-16

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 145928755X

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Just What Lucinda Needed: A Cowboy Lucinda Lambert was on the run when rugged Chance Delacroix came to her rescue. But the haven she found in his arms was a joy she knew couldn't last. Leaving was the only way to keep Chance and his family out of danger. Just What the Cowboy Wanted: A Christmas Angel Like an angel, she came out of the raging blizzard—and into his life. Now Chance wasn't about to let this sweet woman go, no matter what kind of stories she told him about "other commitments." By the time Christmas came around, he hoped to get a commitment of his own from Lucinda….

American Cowboy
American Cowboy

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2002-11

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13:

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Published for devotees of the cowboy and the West, American Cowboy covers all aspects of the Western lifestyle, delivering the best in entertainment, personalities, travel, rodeo action, human interest, art, poetry, fashion, food, horsemanship, history, and every other facet of Western culture. With stunning photography and you-are-there reportage, American Cowboy immerses readers in the cowboy life and the magic that is the great American West.

An Artist Goes to War
An Artist Goes to War

Author: Victoria Ann Granacki

Publisher: Archway Publishing

Published: 2024-02-13

Total Pages: 454

ISBN-13: 1665739479

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Like so many others who served in World War II, Leon Granacki was an ordinary guy from a working-class immigrant family drafted into the US Army and thrust into the horrors of war in the South Pacific. But through sheer luck and pluck, he leveraged his art talents to survive and thrive, catapulting himself from private infantryman to Master Sergeant and mapmaker for General MacArthur in the Americal Division’s Intelligence section. Inspired by the Southern Cross as his troop transport crossed the equator, he designed the Americal Division patch for the Army’s only named division, created in New Caledonia. Overseas for three-and-a-half years without any stateside furlough, he labored over maps of enemy positions in a primitive tent in the steamy, mosquito-infested jungles of Guadalcanal and Bougainville. In An Artist Goes to War, author Victoria Ann Granacki paints a portrait of her father, Leon, through his original maps, jungle watercolors, journal illustrations, scrapbook photos, and letters home to “Dear Gang”—his extended Polish American family crowded together in a Chicago “six-flat” apartment building. Despite only slyly alluding to awful conditions to evade the censors’ scissors, his indomitable optimism always comes through. The Polish-language letters directed to his beloved parents are filled with childlike tenderness as he tries to reassure them he’ll be safe. His plaintive longings for family, holidays home, fishing, and a woman to love are poignant reminders of the personal effects of war on reluctant soldiers.