Author: David E. Arner
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1636302467
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Longshot to a Miracle tells the true story of eleven-year-old Kassie Arner and her two-month fight for her life against a very fast-moving aggressive illness while at Phoenix Children’s Hospital. This story will immerse and carry you through every situation as it happens, at times leaving you emotionally drained and exhausted, while at other times exhilarated. You’ll find yourself battling right alongside the Arners as they and the medical professionals do everything possible to save Kassie. You’ll witness the actual prayers as they’re being made. You’ll feel the excruciating sense of helplessness that could only be endured, not remedied. You’ll be filled with love and witness salvation in a way that only faith allows. Longshot to a Miracle relates how all parties worked with each other in an attempt to achieve the best possible outcome. It shows the lengths the doctors and nurses went through and their willingness to think outside the box. You’ll feel the depth of each life and death decision as they happen, pushing the medical envelope, using heroic efforts never before done. Even though Kassie had only the tiniest of chances to survive, you’ll see their willingness to give young Kassie, so full of life and potential, their all. It is raw emotion tied to innocence; it is heartache shackled to guilt. It is a battle against the inevitable, it is “Life’s Not Fair” at its ultimate, leaving you wanting for more with each new chapter. Longshot to a Miracle is a rollercoaster of a story that will allow you to venture to the bottom of human despair and witness the choice to have hope against all odds in a world where sometimes there is none.
Longshot to a Miracle; The Kassie Arner Story
Author: David E. Arner
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1636302467
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Longshot to a Miracle tells the true story of eleven-year-old Kassie Arner and her two-month fight for her life against a very fast-moving aggressive illness while at Phoenix Children’s Hospital. This story will immerse and carry you through every situation as it happens, at times leaving you emotionally drained and exhausted, while at other times exhilarated. You’ll find yourself battling right alongside the Arners as they and the medical professionals do everything possible to save Kassie. You’ll witness the actual prayers as they’re being made. You’ll feel the excruciating sense of helplessness that could only be endured, not remedied. You’ll be filled with love and witness salvation in a way that only faith allows. Longshot to a Miracle relates how all parties worked with each other in an attempt to achieve the best possible outcome. It shows the lengths the doctors and nurses went through and their willingness to think outside the box. You’ll feel the depth of each life and death decision as they happen, pushing the medical envelope, using heroic efforts never before done. Even though Kassie had only the tiniest of chances to survive, you’ll see their willingness to give young Kassie, so full of life and potential, their all. It is raw emotion tied to innocence; it is heartache shackled to guilt. It is a battle against the inevitable, it is “Life’s Not Fair” at its ultimate, leaving you wanting for more with each new chapter. Longshot to a Miracle is a rollercoaster of a story that will allow you to venture to the bottom of human despair and witness the choice to have hope against all odds in a world where sometimes there is none.
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1636302467
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Longshot to a Miracle tells the true story of eleven-year-old Kassie Arner and her two-month fight for her life against a very fast-moving aggressive illness while at Phoenix Children’s Hospital. This story will immerse and carry you through every situation as it happens, at times leaving you emotionally drained and exhausted, while at other times exhilarated. You’ll find yourself battling right alongside the Arners as they and the medical professionals do everything possible to save Kassie. You’ll witness the actual prayers as they’re being made. You’ll feel the excruciating sense of helplessness that could only be endured, not remedied. You’ll be filled with love and witness salvation in a way that only faith allows. Longshot to a Miracle relates how all parties worked with each other in an attempt to achieve the best possible outcome. It shows the lengths the doctors and nurses went through and their willingness to think outside the box. You’ll feel the depth of each life and death decision as they happen, pushing the medical envelope, using heroic efforts never before done. Even though Kassie had only the tiniest of chances to survive, you’ll see their willingness to give young Kassie, so full of life and potential, their all. It is raw emotion tied to innocence; it is heartache shackled to guilt. It is a battle against the inevitable, it is “Life’s Not Fair” at its ultimate, leaving you wanting for more with each new chapter. Longshot to a Miracle is a rollercoaster of a story that will allow you to venture to the bottom of human despair and witness the choice to have hope against all odds in a world where sometimes there is none.
Miracles on Maple Hill
Author: Virginia Sorensen
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152047184
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The winner of the 1956 Newbery Medal is reissued. When Marly's father comes back from the war a different man, the family moves to Grandma's old house on Maple Hill, where miracles begin to happen. Illustrations.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152047184
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The winner of the 1956 Newbery Medal is reissued. When Marly's father comes back from the war a different man, the family moves to Grandma's old house on Maple Hill, where miracles begin to happen. Illustrations.
Allie's Story
Author: Allie Krehbiel
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1615791868
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Allie's Story...of the Miracles of God is a biography of the life of one of God's bondservants, Allie Krehbiel. Allie's story has been 91 years in the making. She was raised in eastern Kentucky mining country and saved at an early age in a mainline church, but Allie really received transformation and began to serve God and preach the Gospel after the loss of her children. Her marriage was marred by physical abuse and grew out of control with the addition of ten children in a violent home. God brought her through, gave her victory, restored her family, and used her to preach the Gospel for almost 60 years. It is an amazing story of God's helping the helpless. Allie Krehbiel has been active in Christian ministry for almost six decades. She has taken the Gospel message to Israel, Mexico, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and also traveled to Russia, Austria, England, Italy, France, and Canada. She held breakfast prayer meetings in the King David's Hotel in Jerusalem. Mrs. Krehbiel pioneered and pastored churches in Michigan, Texas, and Mexico. She attended Beulah Heights Bible College in the 1950s in Atlanta, GA. She preached on a local TV station in the Rio Grande Valley, and worked on Trinity Broadcasting Network's prayer line in Harlingen, Texas. She was most recently credentialed by Anchor Bay, Maryville, Illinois. A Scripture favorite: "And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony..." Rev. 12:11.
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1615791868
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Allie's Story...of the Miracles of God is a biography of the life of one of God's bondservants, Allie Krehbiel. Allie's story has been 91 years in the making. She was raised in eastern Kentucky mining country and saved at an early age in a mainline church, but Allie really received transformation and began to serve God and preach the Gospel after the loss of her children. Her marriage was marred by physical abuse and grew out of control with the addition of ten children in a violent home. God brought her through, gave her victory, restored her family, and used her to preach the Gospel for almost 60 years. It is an amazing story of God's helping the helpless. Allie Krehbiel has been active in Christian ministry for almost six decades. She has taken the Gospel message to Israel, Mexico, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and also traveled to Russia, Austria, England, Italy, France, and Canada. She held breakfast prayer meetings in the King David's Hotel in Jerusalem. Mrs. Krehbiel pioneered and pastored churches in Michigan, Texas, and Mexico. She attended Beulah Heights Bible College in the 1950s in Atlanta, GA. She preached on a local TV station in the Rio Grande Valley, and worked on Trinity Broadcasting Network's prayer line in Harlingen, Texas. She was most recently credentialed by Anchor Bay, Maryville, Illinois. A Scripture favorite: "And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony..." Rev. 12:11.
The Gray Rocks Story
Author: Anita Stewart
Publisher: New York : Wieser & Wieser
ISBN: 9780914373162
Category : Gray Rocks (Quebec) History
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Wieser & Wieser
ISBN: 9780914373162
Category : Gray Rocks (Quebec) History
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The Legend of the Candy Cane
Author: Lori Walburg
Publisher: Zonderkidz
ISBN: 0310866448
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
One dark November night a stranger rides into a small prairie town. Who is he? Why has he come? The townspeople wish he were a doctor, a dressmaker, or a trader. But the children have the greatest wish of all, a deep, quiet, secret wish. Then a young girl named Lucy befriends the newcomer. When he reveals his identity and shares with her the legend of the candy cane, she discovers fulfillment of her wishes and the answer to her town's dreams. Now will she share what she has learned? Warm, lavish illustrations by James Bernardin bring to life a timeless tale by Lori Walburg, a story that will help families celebrate the mystery and miracle of Christmas—for many Christmases to come.
Publisher: Zonderkidz
ISBN: 0310866448
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
One dark November night a stranger rides into a small prairie town. Who is he? Why has he come? The townspeople wish he were a doctor, a dressmaker, or a trader. But the children have the greatest wish of all, a deep, quiet, secret wish. Then a young girl named Lucy befriends the newcomer. When he reveals his identity and shares with her the legend of the candy cane, she discovers fulfillment of her wishes and the answer to her town's dreams. Now will she share what she has learned? Warm, lavish illustrations by James Bernardin bring to life a timeless tale by Lori Walburg, a story that will help families celebrate the mystery and miracle of Christmas—for many Christmases to come.
The Netanyahus
Author: Joshua Cohen
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681376075
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2021 A WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2021 A KIRKUS BEST FICTION BOOK OF 2021 "Absorbing, delightful, hilarious, breathtaking and the best and most relevant novel I’ve read in what feels like forever." —Taffy Brodesser-Akner, The New York Times Book Review Corbin College, not quite upstate New York, winter 1959–1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian—but not an historian of the Jews—is co-opted onto a hiring committee to review the application of an exiled Israeli scholar specializing in the Spanish Inquisition. When Benzion Netanyahu shows up for an interview, family unexpectedly in tow, Blum plays the reluctant host to guests who proceed to lay waste to his American complacencies. Mixing fiction with nonfiction, the campus novel with the lecture, The Netanyahus is a wildly inventive, genre-bending comedy of blending, identity, and politics that finds Joshua Cohen at the height of his powers.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681376075
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2021 A WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2021 A KIRKUS BEST FICTION BOOK OF 2021 "Absorbing, delightful, hilarious, breathtaking and the best and most relevant novel I’ve read in what feels like forever." —Taffy Brodesser-Akner, The New York Times Book Review Corbin College, not quite upstate New York, winter 1959–1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian—but not an historian of the Jews—is co-opted onto a hiring committee to review the application of an exiled Israeli scholar specializing in the Spanish Inquisition. When Benzion Netanyahu shows up for an interview, family unexpectedly in tow, Blum plays the reluctant host to guests who proceed to lay waste to his American complacencies. Mixing fiction with nonfiction, the campus novel with the lecture, The Netanyahus is a wildly inventive, genre-bending comedy of blending, identity, and politics that finds Joshua Cohen at the height of his powers.
Augustown
Author: Kei Miller
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101871628
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
11 April 1982: a smell is coming down John Golding Road right alongside the boy-child, something attached to him, like a spirit but not quite. Ma Taffy is growing worried. She knows that something is going to happen. Something terrible is going to pour out into the world. But if she can hold it off for just a little bit longer, she will. So she asks a question that surprises herself even as she asks it, "Kaia, I ever tell you bout the flying preacherman?" Set in the backlands of Jamaica, Augustown is a magical and haunting novel of one woman’s struggle to rise above the brutal vicissitudes of history, race, class, collective memory, violence, and myth.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101871628
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
11 April 1982: a smell is coming down John Golding Road right alongside the boy-child, something attached to him, like a spirit but not quite. Ma Taffy is growing worried. She knows that something is going to happen. Something terrible is going to pour out into the world. But if she can hold it off for just a little bit longer, she will. So she asks a question that surprises herself even as she asks it, "Kaia, I ever tell you bout the flying preacherman?" Set in the backlands of Jamaica, Augustown is a magical and haunting novel of one woman’s struggle to rise above the brutal vicissitudes of history, race, class, collective memory, violence, and myth.
Scary Stories for Young Foxes
Author: Christian McKay Heidicker
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1250181437
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
A 2020 Newbery Honor Recipient! Christian McKay Heidicker, author of the Thieves of Weirdwood trilogy, draws inspiration from Bram Stoker, H. P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe for his debut middle-grade novel, a thrilling portrait of survival and an unforgettable tale of friendship. "Clever and harrowing." —The Wall Street Journal "Into the finest tradition of storytelling steps Christian McKay Heidicker with these highly original, bone-chilling, and ultimately heart-warming stories. All that’s needed is a blazing campfire and a delicious plate of peaches and centipedes.” —Kathi Appelt, Newbery Award honoree and National Book Award finalist The haunted season has arrived in the Antler Wood. No fox kit is safe. When Mia and Uly are separated from their litters, they discover a dangerous world full of monsters. In order to find a den to call home, they must venture through field and forest, facing unspeakable things that dwell in the darkness: a zombie who hungers for their flesh, a witch who tries to steal their skins, a ghost who hunts them through the snow . . . and other things too scary to mention. Featuring eight interconnected stories and sixteen hauntingly beautiful illustrations, Scary Stories for Young Foxes contains the kinds of adventures and thrills you love to listen to beside a campfire in the dark of night. Fans of Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Auxier, and R. L. Stine have found their next favorite book. A Booklist 2019 Editors' Choice Selection
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1250181437
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
A 2020 Newbery Honor Recipient! Christian McKay Heidicker, author of the Thieves of Weirdwood trilogy, draws inspiration from Bram Stoker, H. P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe for his debut middle-grade novel, a thrilling portrait of survival and an unforgettable tale of friendship. "Clever and harrowing." —The Wall Street Journal "Into the finest tradition of storytelling steps Christian McKay Heidicker with these highly original, bone-chilling, and ultimately heart-warming stories. All that’s needed is a blazing campfire and a delicious plate of peaches and centipedes.” —Kathi Appelt, Newbery Award honoree and National Book Award finalist The haunted season has arrived in the Antler Wood. No fox kit is safe. When Mia and Uly are separated from their litters, they discover a dangerous world full of monsters. In order to find a den to call home, they must venture through field and forest, facing unspeakable things that dwell in the darkness: a zombie who hungers for their flesh, a witch who tries to steal their skins, a ghost who hunts them through the snow . . . and other things too scary to mention. Featuring eight interconnected stories and sixteen hauntingly beautiful illustrations, Scary Stories for Young Foxes contains the kinds of adventures and thrills you love to listen to beside a campfire in the dark of night. Fans of Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Auxier, and R. L. Stine have found their next favorite book. A Booklist 2019 Editors' Choice Selection
The Annual American Catalogue 1886-1900
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Author's Digest
Author: Rossiter Johnson
Publisher:
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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