Author: Joe Pitts
Publisher: New Generation Publishing
ISBN: 1785075861
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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"The world has never been in a more vulnerable position: asteroids, tsunamis, earthquakes, flooding, and terrorist threats; our energy resources are being used up at an alarming rate; oil and gas supplies are running out; global warming; the ozone layer. But, if the NHBs have the technology we think they have, they should be able to help us. That's where you come in." How can Professor Egbert a renowned authority on Quantum Communications help? How can Annie Brown a reclusive young woman in the suburbs of Bradford help and what secrets does she hold? Who would want to stop the leading World governments from making contact and why?
Author: Romaine Stauffer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This historical fiction about Annie who was born in a Mennonite home in Ind. takes the reader eastward in 1892 when eight-year-old Annie and her family return to their native Lancaster Co., Pa. The rapidly changing world shaped by two World Wars, a Great Depression, two divisions in her Mennonite church, and a multitude of scientific discoveries and inventions, revolutionized the everyday lives of these ordinary people. Travel through sorrow and joy, poverty and prosperity, sickness and health, disappointment and triumph. How did she manage to change with the times without changing? Where did she find the strength to continue when her personal world caved in and collapsed? (634pp. illus. Author, 2003.)
Author: Dave Eggers
Publisher: McSweeney's
ISBN: 9781952119071
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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You may have heard of ships. You may have also heard of the sea and the night. But did you realize there's nothing more beautiful than a ship and its lights on the sea at night? In warm and witty prose, this picture book's narrator asks the reader to consider the splendor of glowing lights cast by ships on a shimmering waterway. Meet a trawler, a steamship, a RoRo, an exploratory vessel and more across richly illustrated pages, alive with the glowy, otherworldly nighttime scenes of boats as seen from a child's perspective. Includes a 29" X 18" full-color fold-out poster.
Author: Annie F. Downs
Publisher: Revell
ISBN: 1493425897
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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A New York Times Bestseller! We know there are certain things we must have to survive--food, shelter, and safety to name a few. But there are also aspects of life that truly allow us to be joyful and fulfilled. For popular podcaster and bestselling author Annie F. Downs, fun is close to the top of that list. Few would argue that having fun doesn't enrich our lives, but so much gets in the way of prioritizing it. Tough days, busyness, and feelings that are hard to talk about keep us from the fun that's out there waiting to be found. With That Sounds Fun, Annie offers an irresistible invitation to understand the meaning of fun, to embrace it and chase it, and to figure out what, exactly, sounds fun to you--then do it! Exploring some research and sharing some thoughts behind why fun matters, she shows you how to find, experience, and multiply your fun. With her signature storytelling style and whimsical vulnerability, Annie is the friend we all need to guide us back to staying true to ourselves and finding the fun we need.
Author: Annie Lyons
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0063026082
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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USA TODAY BESTSELLER! "One adorably British odd couple . . . Charming." — People “An exquisitely poignant tale of life, friendship and facing death . . . heart-breaking yet ultimately uplifting . . Everyone should read this book.” — Ruth Hogan, author of Queenie Malone’s Paradise Hotel Infused with the emotional power of Me Before You and the irresistible charm of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine and Be Frank with Me, a moving and joyous novel about an elderly woman ready to embrace death and the little girl who reminds her what it means to live. It's never too late to start living. Eudora Honeysett is done with this noisy, moronic world—all of it. She has witnessed the indignities and suffering of old age and has lived a full life. At eighty-five, she isn’t going to leave things to chance. Her end will be on her terms. With one call to a clinic in Switzerland, a plan is set in motion. Then she meets ten-year-old Rose Trewidney, a whirling, pint-sized rainbow of sparkling cheer. All Eudora wants is to be left alone to set her affairs in order. Instead, she finds herself embarking on a series of adventures with the irrepressible Rose and their affable neighbor, the recently widowed Stanley—afternoon tea, shopping sprees, trips to the beach, birthday celebrations, pizza parties. While the trio of unlikely BFFs grow closer and anxiously await the arrival of Rose’s new baby sister, Eudora is reminded of her own childhood—of losing her father during World War II and the devastating impact it had on her entire family. In reflecting on her past, Eudora realizes she must come to terms with what lies ahead. But now that her joy for life has been rekindled, how can she possibly say goodbye?
Author: Betsy Corona
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1607913704
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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"Annie's Song" is the true story of the unusual friendship between two ten year-olds, set in the 1950's. Emma is funny and smart and lives with her Italian family, across the way from Annie, who is mentally challenged. Emma's home is full of music and great cooking while Annie's home is somber and quiet. Together, however, they learn just what makes the other 'tick' and prove along the way, that love does, indeed, conquer all. This story is a glorious tribute to special needs children everywhere and everyone who would befriend them. For forty years Betsy Corona wanted to write the story of Emma and Annie. She finally got her chance in 2006. After working for several years in her parish elementary school's library, she came to realize the audience for such a story and began to write. "Annie's Song" was written as a legacy for the real life "Annie." Betsy is married and lives in Michigan where she and her husband, Rick, enjoy their many children and grandchildren.
Author: J. Fran Baird
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1440185166
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 645
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An amazingly rich family saga fueled by an obsessionredemption. Narrated by three distinctly different Jewish women, each representing her own generation, Annies Portion offers a candid new view of an historic story by means of wonderfully diverse characters, settings and secrets. Sarahs journey from an old-world shtetl to Manhattans Eastside is related through the eyes of an eight-year-old. Her eventual victory over a lifethreatening illness and the indifference of an alienated family, is a testament to her courage and moral fiber, setting the standard for her progeny. Annie, Sarahs unconventional daughter, struggles with conflicting values, recounting a tale of family tradition, deprivation, promiscuity, and prosperity. Impulsively, she takes her family across a continent from New York to Hawaii where she succeeds beyond imagining. A fiftieth birthday initiates another change, more shocking and defining than any that had come before. Untouched by past tribulations of mother and grandmother, Sam, Annies teen-age daughter, has led a carefree life in Hawaii. Her mothers abrupt pronouncement forces Sam to embark on a self-exploratory journey. She develops a passion with ill-fated consequences, and brings us to the emotional, unexpected conclusion.
Author: Roz Denny Fox
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1460316223
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 157
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Turns out home may be where the heart is, after all… Briar Run, Kentucky, is where Annie Emerson grew up, where her grandmother Ida raised her. Annie, now a social worker in L.A., left years ago but returns home when Ida’s health fails. She’s devastated to lose her—and shocked to discover how badly the town has deteriorated. But she’s inherited some money and uses it to help rescue Briar Run. Police chief Sky Cordova is dealing with an overabundance of crime, severe budget cuts and a battle over the custody of his five-year-old son, Zack. The last thing he needs is a woman with a cause stirring up trouble. Despite that, he’s captivated by Annie and her passion to revitalize her neighborhood. He’s not the only one, since Zack falls for Annie, too. Sky starts to realize that her way of bringing the town back to life—one house at a time—might work. Just as she’s brought his heart back to life, one smile at a time…
Author: Ann Westervelt Potts
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615479934
Category : Lighthouses
Languages : en
Pages : 135
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This book is a history of the last manned kerosene powered lighthouses in the world. These lighthouses were built in the Bahamas in the nineteenth century by the British Imperial Lighthouse Service and are now maintained by the Bahamian Government. It is mainly a photographic essay with additional written text.
Author: Diane Chamberlain
Publisher: MIRA
ISBN: 1488052093
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Lose yourself in this captivating tale of love and betrayal, lies and forgiveness, from New York Times bestselling author Diane Chamberlain. Dr. Olivia Simon is on duty in the emergency room of North Carolina’s Outer Banks Hospital when a gunshot victim is brought in. Midway through the desperate effort to save the young woman’s life, Olivia realizes who she is—Annie O’Neill. The woman Olivia’s husband, Paul, is in love with. When Annie dies on the operating table, she leaves behind three other victims. Alec O’Neill, who thought he had the perfect marriage. Paul, whose fixation on Annie is unshakable. And Olivia, who is desperate to understand the woman who destroyed her marriage. Now they are left with unanswered questions about who Annie really was. And about the secrets she kept hidden so well. Originally published in 2011
