Until the Robin Walks on Snow

Until the Robin Walks on Snow
Author: Bernice L. Rocque
Publisher: 3houses
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2012-09
Genre: Immigrants
ISBN: 9780985682217

It is 1922. The midwife and an immigrant family struggle to save an extremely small premature baby. Inspired by true events, this novella about determination, family, faith, and friendship includes a story chapter about the family's Polish and Lithuanian Christmas Eve traditions. Appendices include a List of Sources Consulted and Author's Notes about the facts, family history, and research behind the story.

How to Be Made Whole

How to Be Made Whole
Author: Robin Steele
Publisher: WestBow Press
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2020-03-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1973685248

Most people go their entire life longing to be whole, yet failing to find it. We want our life to mean something. We want to matter. The problem is that life is filled with episode after episode where we face trouble and complications. We feel like it is impossible to find wholeness without living a flawless life. How to Be Made Whole follows the true story of Kennady Steele, born with a several brain disorder. She was only given 12-18 months to live along with a haunting disclaimer by her doctor to both parents that their daughter “would not have an meaningful life” How to Be Made Whole walks the reader through a journey from brokenness to wholeness and how unanswered prayers for miracles often result in far greater blessings.

Snow in August

Snow in August
Author: Pete Hamill
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2009-10-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0446569666

Deeply affecting and wonderfully evocative of old New York, Snow in August is a brilliant fable for our time and all time -- and another triumph for Pete Hamill. Brooklyn, 1947. The war veterans have come home. Jackie Robinson is about to become a Dodger. And in one close-knit working-class neighborhood, an eleven-year-old Irish Catholic boy named Michael Devlin has just made friends with a lonely rabbi from Prague. Snow in August is the story of that unlikely friendship -- and of how the neighborhood reacts to it. For Michael, the rabbi opens a window to ancient learning and lore that rival anything in Captain Marvel. For the rabbi, Michael illuminates the everyday mysteries of America, including the strange language of baseball. But like their hero Jackie Robinson, neither can entirely escape from the swirling prejudices of the time. Terrorized by a local gang of anti-Semitic Irish toughs, Michael and the rabbi are caught in an escalating spiral of hate for which there's only one way out -- a miracle....

East of the Mountains

East of the Mountains
Author: David Guterson
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2012-05-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1408834758

When Dr Ben Givens left his Seattle home he never intended to return. It was to be a journey past snow-covered mountains to a place of canyons, sagelands and orchards, where, on the verges of the Columbia River, Ben had entered the world and would now take his leave of it.

The Farthest Shore

The Farthest Shore
Author: Alex Roddie
Publisher: Vertebrate Publishing
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2021-09-02
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1839810211

In February 2019, award-winning writer Alex Roddie left his online life behind when he set out to walk 300 miles through the Scottish Highlands, seeking solitude and answers. In leaving the chaos of the internet behind for a month, he hoped to learn how it was truly affecting him – or if he should look elsewhere for the causes of his anxiety. The Farthest Shore is the story of Alex's solo trek along the remote Cape Wrath Trail. As he journeyed through a vanishing winter, Alex found answers to his questions, learnt the nature of true silence, and discovered frightening evidence of the threats faced by Scotland's wild mountain landscape.

Amy Snow

Amy Snow
Author: Tracy Rees
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 576
Release: 2016-06-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1501128396

Winner of the UK’s Richard & Judy Search for a Bestseller Competition, this page-turning debut novel follows an orphan whose late, beloved best friend bequeaths her a treasure hunt that leads her all over Victorian England and finally to the one secret her friend never shared. It is 1831 when eight-year-old Aurelia Vennaway finds a naked baby girl abandoned in the snow on the grounds of her aristocratic family’s magnificent mansion. Her parents are horrified that she has brought a bastard foundling into the house, but Aurelia convinces them to keep the baby, whom she names Amy Snow. Amy is brought up as a second-class citizen, despised by Vennaways, but she and Aurelia are as close as sisters. When Aurelia dies at the age of twenty-three, she leaves Amy ten pounds, and the Vennaways immediately banish Amy from their home. But Aurelia left her much more. Amy soon receives a packet that contains a rich inheritance and a letter from Aurelia revealing she had kept secrets from Amy, secrets that she wants Amy to know. From the grave she sends Amy on a treasure hunt from one end of England to the other: a treasure hunt that only Amy can follow. Ultimately, a life-changing discovery awaits...if only Amy can unlock the secret. In the end, Amy escapes the Vennaways, finds true love, and learns her dearest friend’s secret, a secret that she will protect for the rest of her life. An abandoned baby, a treasure hunt, a secret. As Amy sets forth on her quest, readers will be swept away by this engrossing gem of a novel—the wonderful debut by newcomer Tracy Rees.

Some Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Some Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1911
Genre: Robin Hood (Legendary character)
ISBN:

Twelve selected adventures of Robin Hood and his outlaw band who stole from the rich to give to the poor.

May B.

May B.
Author: Caroline Starr Rose
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2012
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 158246393X

When a failed wheat crop nearly bankrupts the Betterly family, Pa pulls twelve-year-old May, who suffers from dyslexia, from school and hires her out to a couple new to the Kansas frontier.

Tenth of December

Tenth of December
Author: George Saunders
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2013-01-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1408837358

The prize-winning, New York Times bestselling short story collection from the internationally bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo 'The best book you'll read this year' New York Times 'Dazzlingly surreal stories about a failing America' Sunday Times WINNER OF THE 2014 FOLIO PRIZE AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2013 George Saunders's most wryly hilarious and disturbing collection yet, Tenth of December illuminates human experience and explores figures lost in a labyrinth of troubling preoccupations. A family member recollects a backyard pole dressed for all occasions; Jeff faces horrifying ultimatums and the prospect of Darkenfloxx(TM) in some unusual drug trials; and Al Roosten hides his own internal monologue behind a winning smile that he hopes will make him popular. With dark visions of the future riffing against ghosts of the past and the ever-settling present, this collection sings with astonishing charm and intensity.

Finally Winter

Finally Winter
Author: V. Theia
Publisher:
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2018-11-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9781790476435

IT'S TRUE BEHIND EVERY JOKE IS A VEILED SECRET.Sergeant at Arms and resident joker, Snake was prime example.He loved the sense of pride the Renegade Souls gave him being bodyguard to his Prez.And he was never without a punchline. It was his thing.He loved his kids.But the missing piece became clear when he saw her.Could he bring a sweet librarian ...a good girl... into his murky lifestyle?Opposites don't always attract ... unless they explode in unforeseen passion.His heart was wide open to the snow queen, but could she accept all of him?SECRETS WERE SHARED. DESIRES EXPLORED.Happiness came at a price for Winter Deseille who only wanted to knit, be a little obsessed with Captain America's rear end and live her life away from oppressive influences.Enter the sexiest outlaw DILF from stage left.The price was high to fall in love with a biker...Especially when trouble comes from an unsuspecting source.Disclaimer: This MC book contains a bad boy, a good girl .... and a belt. So it's intended for 18+ audiences.