Christmas on Mill Street
Author: Joseph Walker
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781590388044
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A Christmas Story
Author: Jean Shepherd
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2010-10-27
Total Pages: 109
ISBN-13: 0307768732
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA beloved, bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana—the book that inspired the equally classic Yuletide film and the live musical on Fox. The holiday film A Christmas Story, first released in 1983, has become a bona fide Christmas perennial, gaining in stature and fame with each succeeding year. Its affectionate, wacky, and wryly realistic portrayal of an American family’s typical Christmas joys and travails in small-town Depression-era Indiana has entered our imagination and our hearts with a force equal to It’s a Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street. This edition of A Christmas Story gathers together in one hilarious volume the gems of autobiographical humor that Jean Shepherd drew upon to create this enduring film. Here is young Ralphie Parker’s shocking discovery that his decoder ring is really a device to promote Ovaltine; his mother and father’s pitched battle over the fate of a lascivious leg lamp; the unleashed and unnerving savagery of Ralphie’s duel in the show with the odious bullies Scut Farkas and Grover Dill; and, most crucially, Ralphie’s unstoppable campaign to get Santa—or anyone else—to give him a Red Ryder carbine action 200-shot range model air rifle. Who cares that the whole adult world is telling him, “You’ll shoot your eye out, kid”? The pieces that comprise A Christmas Story, previously published in the larger collections In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash and Wanda Hickey’s Night of Golden Memories, coalesce in a magical fashion to become an irresistible piece of Americana, quite the equal of the film in its ability to warm the heart and tickle the funny bone.
Noelle
Author: Gregory D. Kincaid
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1524761192
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the New York Times bestselling author of A Dog Named Christmas comes this heartwarming Christmas story about the power of family and the strength and love that comes from our pets. In this fourth installment of the poignant stories of the McCray family and their lovable canines in rural Kansas, matriarch Mary Ann McCray is determined to shake up Christmas by accepting the role as Crossing Trail's first woman Santa Claus. Mary Ann, always a bit of a rebel, is looking to offer a more progressive voice in the staunchly conservative town at Christmastime and has a few ideas up her red velvet sleeves.
Mill Town
Author: Kerri Arsenault
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2020-09-01
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 1250155959
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the 2021 Rachel Carson Environmental Book Award Winner of the 2021 Maine Literary Award for Nonfiction Finalist for the 2020 National Book Critics John Leonard Prize for Best First Book Finalist for the 2021 New England Society Book Award Finalist for the 2021 New England Independent Booksellers Association Award A New York Times Editors’ Choice and Chicago Tribune top book for 2020 “Mill Town is the book of a lifetime; a deep-drilling, quick-moving, heartbreaking story. Scathing and tender, it lifts often into poetry, but comes down hard when it must. Through it all runs the river: sluggish, ancient, dangerous, freighted with America’s sins.” —Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland Kerri Arsenault grew up in the small, rural town of Mexico, Maine, where for over 100 years the community orbited around a paper mill that provided jobs for nearly everyone in town, including three generations of her family. Kerri had a happy childhood, but years after she moved away, she realized the price she paid for that childhood. The price everyone paid. The mill, while providing the social and economic cohesion for the community, also contributed to its demise. Mill Town is a book of narrative nonfiction, investigative memoir, and cultural criticism that illuminates the rise and collapse of the working-class, the hazards of loving and leaving home, and the ambiguous nature of toxics and disease with the central question; Who or what are we willing to sacrifice for our own survival?
The Angel of Mill Street
Author: Frances Ward Weller
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780439155724
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn a snowy Christmas eve in the late 1800s, Frances and her family wait and worry when beloved Uncle Ambrose, who has a crippled leg, does not come home as expected.
In the Dark Streets Shineth
Author: David G. McCullough
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781606418314
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecounts the Christmas following the attack on Pearl Harbor, in which President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill met at the White House.
The Christmas Tree Story
Author: Danny Mishek
Publisher: Mill City Press, Incorporated
Published: 2021-11
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781662821813
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Christmas Tree Story is a familiar journey in preparing for the holidays. Through busy schedules, unbreakable traditions and caloric overload, there is something calming and comforting about the Christmas Tree process. Each household embraces different approaches but all get comparable outcomes. The time shared with each other etches in memories of music, smiles, snacks and more. From buying the tree to fully decorating it. It builds upon one's impression from season to season which quickly becomes a lifetime event worth celebrating. May your tree stand as high as the snow at the North Pole. May your ornaments shine as bright as the stars in the sky. May the magic of the holiday touch you gently as a reminder that you are loved. Danny Mishek resides in Little Canada, MN (a suburb of St. Paul). He is married with four children and a curly dog - Darby. Danny enjoys golfing, gardening, beekeeping and red wine. While writing a book was never part of the plan, sharing stories and creating memories have always come naturally. From being a 3rd generation manufacturer to an author is quite the transformation for Mishek.
Merry Christmas, Little Pookie
Author: Sandra Boynton
Publisher: Boynton Bookworks
Published: 2018-09-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781534437241
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“A fine stocking stuffer or an ideal Christmas Eve read.” —Kirkus Reviews Celebrate Christmas with Little Pookie in this captivating board book from Sandra Boynton. It’s Christmas Eve! Join Mom and her little Pookie as they bake cookies, decorate the house, sing with friends and family—and at last settle down to sleep. Told and illustrated with Sandra Boynton’s celebrated charm and pizzazz, Merry Christmas, Little Pookie is a classic holiday tale. Come sing all together, And be of good cheer! Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas! And a Happy New Year!
The Munster Republic
Author: Michael Harrington
Publisher: Mercier Press Ltd
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1856356566
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book follows the action that took place in the `Munster Republic' during the Irish War of Independence.
A to Zoo
Author: Rebecca L. Thomas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2018-06-21
Total Pages: 3583
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhether used for thematic story times, program and curriculum planning, readers' advisory, or collection development, this updated edition of the well-known companion makes finding the right picture books for your library a breeze. Generations of savvy librarians and educators have relied on this detailed subject guide to children's picture books for all aspects of children's services, and this new edition does not disappoint. Covering more than 18,000 books published through 2017, it empowers users to identify current and classic titles on topics ranging from apples to zebras. Organized simply, with a subject guide that categorizes subjects by theme and topic and subject headings arranged alphabetically, this reference applies more than 1,200 intuitive (as opposed to formal catalog) subject terms to children's picture books, making it both a comprehensive and user-friendly resource that is accessible to parents and teachers as well as librarians. It can be used to identify titles to fill in gaps in library collections, to find books on particular topics for young readers, to help teachers locate titles to support lessons, or to design thematic programs and story times. Title and illustrator indexes, in addition to a bibliographic guide arranged alphabetically by author name, further extend access to titles.
