A collection of short stories to touch the heart. Those who are acquainted with Teddy Stallard and his teacher, Miss Thompson, will enjoy further stories of this teacher's ability to touch the lives of her students. Other stories include " The Christmas Nandina" which tells of a dying woman's effort to make her last Christmas special for her three young boys. "Big Rocks Cafe" shows us another aspect of the homeless while "The Mirror" shows us another face of aging. These and other stories will touch you and perhaps cause you to look at those around you in a different way.
Sisters Kate and Beth are best friends, and Beth is devastated when Kate becomes sick and dies. Then she discovers the fan that Kate made for her, which helps her stay connected to her sister after her death.
This is a collection of Christmas stories from Elizabeth Ballard to brighten the Christmas season. The stories touch our hearts and make us think. They are timeless and heartbreakingly beautiful.
A nostalgic view of life in the southern military town of Jacksonville, North Carolina during the 1960's. Touching, hilarious and full of small town anecdotes and antics.
This is the life story of Charlotte Anne Gurganus, a down east North Carolina girl, who grew up on Rattlesnake Island where there were no neighbors, friends or other children. She found life very different on the other side of the river when she entered first grade and spent the next 12 years in a struggle to reconcile herself and her very different family to the lives she encountered in the town of Meadow View. Finally leaving both the island and the town behind, vowing she would never go back there to live, she began to make a different life for herself, a life with love and normalcy. Then tragedy came and she returned to the town she hated. Reconciled to the path she seemed destined to walk, she forged a life that seemed honorable and sustainable, a life that brought love to her, at last, from a most surprising source.
A collection of short stories to touch the heart. Those who are acquainted with Teddy Stallard and his teacher, Miss Thompson, will enjoy further stories of this teacher's ability to touch the lives of her students. Other stories include " The Christmas Nandina" which tells of a dying woman's effort to make her last Christmas special for her three young boys. "Big Rocks Cafe" shows us another aspect of the homeless while "The Mirror" shows us another face of aging. These and other stories will touch you and perhaps cause you to look at those around you in a different way.
Sisters Kate and Beth are best friends, and Beth is devastated when Kate becomes sick and dies. Then she discovers the fan that Kate made for her, which helps her stay connected to her sister after her death.
This is a collection of Christmas stories from Elizabeth Ballard to brighten the Christmas season. The stories touch our hearts and make us think. They are timeless and heartbreakingly beautiful.
Mr. A. Markham Gillespie was a most unique individual in that his self-image and his self-esteem were on equal terms with each other. He truly thought others believed him to be the superior person he believed himself to be. This fact would have come as a surprise to the townspeople, however, since A. Markham Gillespie was the most despised man in town. His first wife, Juliette, had been the love of his life. As for wives #2 and #3, the less said about them the better as far as he was concerned! It was his fourth wife, Kimberly, who accomplished what A. Markham had failed to accomplish. She was, perhaps, his real legacy to the citizens of Kohlgreitz.
A nostalgic view of life in the southern military town of Jacksonville, North Carolina during the 1960's. Touching, hilarious and full of small town anecdotes and antics.
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