Author: Gale Sears
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781598115796
Category : Christmas stories
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
It's 1931 in Bakersfield, California. America is in the midst of the Depression, and the Kamp family is struggling to get by, especially after Mrs. Kamp's untimely death. Now, with her mother gone and her father overwhelmed by doctor bills resulting from her brother's polio, little Ruthie expects another Christmas without presents or festivities. But when her father brings home one dollar in change and lets the children use it to buy special gifts for each other, the Kamp family comes to find that money isn't what makes Christmas full of joy, love, and miracles. This touching true story ... will remind you and your family of the simple joys in life and the importance of selflessness, gratitude, and charity.
Christmas for a Dollar
Author: Gale Sears
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781598115796
Category : Christmas stories
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
It's 1931 in Bakersfield, California. America is in the midst of the Depression, and the Kamp family is struggling to get by, especially after Mrs. Kamp's untimely death. Now, with her mother gone and her father overwhelmed by doctor bills resulting from her brother's polio, little Ruthie expects another Christmas without presents or festivities. But when her father brings home one dollar in change and lets the children use it to buy special gifts for each other, the Kamp family comes to find that money isn't what makes Christmas full of joy, love, and miracles. This touching true story ... will remind you and your family of the simple joys in life and the importance of selflessness, gratitude, and charity.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781598115796
Category : Christmas stories
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
It's 1931 in Bakersfield, California. America is in the midst of the Depression, and the Kamp family is struggling to get by, especially after Mrs. Kamp's untimely death. Now, with her mother gone and her father overwhelmed by doctor bills resulting from her brother's polio, little Ruthie expects another Christmas without presents or festivities. But when her father brings home one dollar in change and lets the children use it to buy special gifts for each other, the Kamp family comes to find that money isn't what makes Christmas full of joy, love, and miracles. This touching true story ... will remind you and your family of the simple joys in life and the importance of selflessness, gratitude, and charity.
Hundred Dollar Holiday
Author: Bill McKibben
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439142556
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Too many people have come to dread the approach of the holidays, a season that should -- and can -- be the most relaxed, intimate, joyful, and spiritual time of the year. In this book, Bill McKibben offers some suggestions on how to rethink Christmastime, so that our current obsession with present-buying becomes less important than the dozens of other possible traditions and celebrations. Working through their local churches, McKibben and his colleagues found that people were hungry for a more joyful Christmas season. For many, trying to limit the amount of money they spent at Christmas to about a hundred dollars per family, was a real spur to their creativity -- and a real anchor against the relentless onslaught of commercials and catalogs that try to say Christmas is only Christmas if it comes from a store. McKibben shows how the store-bought Christmas developed and how out of tune it is with our current lives, when we're really eager for family fellowship for community involvement, for contact with the natural world, and also for the blessed silence and peace that the season should offer. McKibben shows us how to return to a simpler and more enjoyable holiday. Christmas is too wonderful a celebration to give up on, too precious a time simply to repeat the same empty gestures from year to year. This book will serve as a road map to a Christmas far more joyful than the ones you've known in the past.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439142556
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Too many people have come to dread the approach of the holidays, a season that should -- and can -- be the most relaxed, intimate, joyful, and spiritual time of the year. In this book, Bill McKibben offers some suggestions on how to rethink Christmastime, so that our current obsession with present-buying becomes less important than the dozens of other possible traditions and celebrations. Working through their local churches, McKibben and his colleagues found that people were hungry for a more joyful Christmas season. For many, trying to limit the amount of money they spent at Christmas to about a hundred dollars per family, was a real spur to their creativity -- and a real anchor against the relentless onslaught of commercials and catalogs that try to say Christmas is only Christmas if it comes from a store. McKibben shows how the store-bought Christmas developed and how out of tune it is with our current lives, when we're really eager for family fellowship for community involvement, for contact with the natural world, and also for the blessed silence and peace that the season should offer. McKibben shows us how to return to a simpler and more enjoyable holiday. Christmas is too wonderful a celebration to give up on, too precious a time simply to repeat the same empty gestures from year to year. This book will serve as a road map to a Christmas far more joyful than the ones you've known in the past.
MILLION DOLLAR CHRISTMAS PROPOSAL
Author: Lucy Monroe
Publisher: Harlequin / SB Creative
ISBN: 4596254273
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
【A story by USA Today bestselling author becomes a comic!】While struggling to come up with college tuition for her brother, Audrey overhears a conversation?Vincenzo Tomasi, who became the CEO of an international bank at a young age, is now looking for a mother figure to take care of his niece and nephew. If it allows her brother to go to college, Audrey decides she wouldn’t mind dedicating her life to the children. But in the interview, Tomasi informs her that her duties will include being his wife as well as a mother to the children!
Publisher: Harlequin / SB Creative
ISBN: 4596254273
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
【A story by USA Today bestselling author becomes a comic!】While struggling to come up with college tuition for her brother, Audrey overhears a conversation?Vincenzo Tomasi, who became the CEO of an international bank at a young age, is now looking for a mother figure to take care of his niece and nephew. If it allows her brother to go to college, Audrey decides she wouldn’t mind dedicating her life to the children. But in the interview, Tomasi informs her that her duties will include being his wife as well as a mother to the children!
The Donkey in the Living Room
Author: Sarah Raymond Cunningham
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
ISBN: 1433683172
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
The people and animals present during the birth of Christ each explains what happened during the Nativity, from their own point of view.
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
ISBN: 1433683172
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
The people and animals present during the birth of Christ each explains what happened during the Nativity, from their own point of view.
The Gift of the Magi
Author: O. Henry
Publisher: Amila Jay
ISBN: 3986779213
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 11
Book Description
"The Gift of the Magi" is a short story by O. Henry first published in 1905. The story tells of a young husband and wife and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money. As a sentimental story with a moral lesson about gift-giving, it has been popular for adaptation, especially for presentation at Christmas time.
Publisher: Amila Jay
ISBN: 3986779213
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 11
Book Description
"The Gift of the Magi" is a short story by O. Henry first published in 1905. The story tells of a young husband and wife and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money. As a sentimental story with a moral lesson about gift-giving, it has been popular for adaptation, especially for presentation at Christmas time.
A Christmas Memory
Author: Truman Capote
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0385392761
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 49
Book Description
A reminiscence of a Christmas shared by a seven-year-old boy and a sixtyish childlike woman, with enormous love and friendship between them.
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0385392761
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 49
Book Description
A reminiscence of a Christmas shared by a seven-year-old boy and a sixtyish childlike woman, with enormous love and friendship between them.
CHRISTMAS KISSES FOR A DOLLAR
Author: Laurie Paige
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1460363299
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
The one sale he couldn't resist… As soon as rancher Jon Sinclair put down his twenty dollars at a kissing booth, florist Anne Hyden knew she was in for it. Mr. Sex-in-Pants certainly wasn't the type to settle for a quick little peck. But Anne wasn't expecting to actually swoon in the guy's arms. Unfortunately, Anne had a problem. She had a heart condition that ensured her life was as dull and safe as it could get—and Jon was hardly "safe." In fact, he was just the sort of guy to make a girl's heart give out altogether. And she still owed him nineteen more kisses….
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1460363299
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
The one sale he couldn't resist… As soon as rancher Jon Sinclair put down his twenty dollars at a kissing booth, florist Anne Hyden knew she was in for it. Mr. Sex-in-Pants certainly wasn't the type to settle for a quick little peck. But Anne wasn't expecting to actually swoon in the guy's arms. Unfortunately, Anne had a problem. She had a heart condition that ensured her life was as dull and safe as it could get—and Jon was hardly "safe." In fact, he was just the sort of guy to make a girl's heart give out altogether. And she still owed him nineteen more kisses….
Christmas for Tad
Author: Helen Topping Miller
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 55
Book Description
This fictional depiction of Christmas in Abraham Lincoln's household put the spotlight on Tad "Thomas" Lincoln, his youngest son. Known in real life for shenanigans such as interrupting presidential meetings and charging visitors to see his father, this depiction of the Lincoln family during the Civil War era gave readers a glimpse into what Christmas life might have looked like for this family of four.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 55
Book Description
This fictional depiction of Christmas in Abraham Lincoln's household put the spotlight on Tad "Thomas" Lincoln, his youngest son. Known in real life for shenanigans such as interrupting presidential meetings and charging visitors to see his father, this depiction of the Lincoln family during the Civil War era gave readers a glimpse into what Christmas life might have looked like for this family of four.
Christmas Oranges
Author: Linda Bethers
Publisher: Covenant Communications
ISBN: 9781591560982
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
After being transfered to an orphanage where the director punishes children for disobeying rules they have never been told, Rose looks forward to Christmas, when she will taste her first orange.
Publisher: Covenant Communications
ISBN: 9781591560982
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
After being transfered to an orphanage where the director punishes children for disobeying rules they have never been told, Rose looks forward to Christmas, when she will taste her first orange.
Dating for Under a Dollar
Author: Blair Tolman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780964455252
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780964455252
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description