Author: Julie Lawson
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 9780888783042
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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An illustrated story about a little girl who shares a love of the stars with her grandfather and who uses that love to help reconcile herself to his death.
Author: Marta Altés
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1447294440
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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My Grandpa is the stunning picture book debut from Marta Altés, author of I Am An Artist. A moving and memorable book about the very special relationship between an elderly grandfather and his adoring grandson, this unique look at old age through the eyes of a young bear is big-hearted, poignant and beautifully observed.
Author: Sarah Wildman
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101616164
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 399
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One woman’s journey to find the lost love her grandfather left behind when he fled pre-World War II Europe, and an exploration into family identity, myth, and memory. Years after her grandfather’s death, journalist Sarah Wildman stumbled upon a cache of his letters in a file labeled “Correspondence: Patients A–G.” What she found inside weren’t dry medical histories; instead what was written opened a path into the destroyed world that was her family’s prewar Vienna. One woman’s letters stood out: those from Valy—Valerie Scheftel. Her grandfather’s lover who had remained behind when he fled Europe six months after the Nazis annexed Austria. Valy’s name wasn’t unknown to her—Wildman had once asked her grandmother about a dark-haired young woman whose images she found in an old photo album. “She was your grandfather’s true love,” her grandmother said at the time, and refused any other questions. But now, with the help of the letters, Wildman started to piece together Valy’s story. They revealed a woman desperate to escape and clinging to the memory of a love that defined her years of freedom. Obsessed with Valy’s story, Wildman began a quest that lasted years and spanned continents. She discovered, to her shock, an entire world of other people searching for the same woman. On in the course of discovering Valy’s ultimate fate, she was forced to reexamine the story of her grandfather’s triumphant escape and how this history fit within her own life and in the process, she rescues a life seemingly lost to history.
Author: Julie Lawson
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459737571
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 149
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On a trip to Chinatown, thirteen-year-old Jasmine steps through a doorway back in time and finds herself in the 1880s. 1994 Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize — Winner 1994 Candian Library Association Book of the Year Award — Runner-up 1995 Silver Birch Award — Shortlisted CCBC’s Best Books for Kids & Teens (Spring 2017) Selection Jasmine is not sure she likes the idea of being stuck in Victoria while her father goes to China. But on a field trip to Chinatown, she changes her mind. Passing through a doorway in Fan Tan Alley, she mysteriously finds herself in the early 1880s. Adventure begins with a new friend, a journey to the Fraser Canyon during the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and a search for an ancient amulet. But Jasmine is not the only one searching for the white jade tiger...
Author: Edward Swift
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820321004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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The author recounts his youth in the Big Thicket region of eastern Texas during the 1940s and 1950s, and describes the distinctive way of life in the area and some of the people that lived there.
Author: Jeffrey Mason
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781955034265
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Ashley Wolff
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN: 1582462526
Category : Grandfathers
Languages : en
Pages : 33
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This book celebrates the special names that children call their grandparents (some culturally based, some wonderfully made up) and features the unique activities they do together. Full color.
Author: Editors of Chartwell Books
Publisher: Chartwell
ISBN: 0785840230
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 211
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With 200 thought-provoking and lighthearted writing prompts and exercises organized into chapters based on his life, My Grandfather’s Life guides your grandfather to begin his life’s memoir and create a fully realized record of his adventures, stories, and wisdom for you and your family to cherish for future generations.
Author: Durime P. Zherka
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1504900642
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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We admire the beautiful bright stars in the dark night up in the sky while we are doing so many wishes; also, we are putting so many connections of our activities with stars and moon, so to write about stars is interesting. With so many interesting information by Astrology awakened my curiosity, I decided to write this fiction book in honor of the beautiful and different big groups of stars that are in the constellation. Stars are shining by thermonuclear fusion of hydrogen into helium. This fusion in its core is releasing energy that traverses in interior of the star and that radiates into outer space. This lay of hydrogen into helium gives some stars different, beautiful colors, like red nebula, blue stars, or purple stars too. Their shining is bright. Because the stars have so much mysteries and different stories connected with religious and galactic navigation, since in older time, and people all around the planet connect the stars and the moon to so many activities and their wishes too, it inspired me to write about stars.
Author: Gail de Vos
Publisher: University of Alberta
ISBN: 1772123382
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 233
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Enrich your family life, connect with your children, and celebrate your ancestors by learning to tell family stories, folktales, and nursery rhymes. Telling Tales: Storytelling in the Family is a fascinating guide to the art of gathering and telling stories. Written by three renowned storytellers, Telling Tales includes personal stories, how-to tips and extensive resource lists, and builds upon the success of the acclaimed first edition.
