All emotions come out in this book. You will laugh, cry, cheer, and experience anger, sadness, joy, and surprise as families are divided, families are found, friends are left behind, and friends are found.
Lisa is a curious child. Her parents have always referred to her as their 'why child', and how she has a most pressing question to ask. Why did God let bad things happen to nice animals in the story of Noah? When she decides to ask her teacher, Miss Susie, a whole new set of problems arises. Because Susie has a question of her own: How can she make a difference in these children's lives under the superintendant's oppressive regime? Susie and Lisa get the perfect opportunity to have their questions answered and make a difference in the lives of those around them when the class is invited to a Halloween party. The church hosting the party is in the 'ghetto', and Dottie, who fancies herself the 'woman in charge', is determined to give them what she considers a suitable outing, despite their love of the host church's leader, a man fondly referred to as Jonah because of the whale-like bus he uses as transport. But when the children become stranded and Dottie's heels are breaking down, Jonah shows up and everyone takes a ride in the whale. Ride along with Susie, Lisa, and Dottie as they all learn lessons about Noah's story and what a privilege it is to be one of Jonah's Kids. Lilian Clarke is an accomplished author and playwright. She lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Lorinda Kemp, a businesswoman from the big city, comes home to her parents western South Dakota prairie ranch, to do cattle chores, while her father goes hunting. She needs this time to spend with her elderly mother on the quiet peaceful ranch, where her childhood friends and neighbors welcome her home with open arms. A strong-willed, tough woman, at forty-seven, divorced for many years and raising a child alone, she figures she has seen it all. This week will change her mind. She ends up being held hostage in her parents barn by a terrified young man. Then the new rancher shes fighting hard not to love turns out to be someone more than a rancher. The shocking conclusion of her now-ruined vacation is to find that some of her beloved friends are hiding a secret; they will kill to keep it hidden.
2021 Nebraska Book Award My Omaha Obsession takes the reader on an idiosyncratic tour through some of Omaha's neighborhoods, buildings, architecture, and people, celebrating the city's unusual history. Rather than covering the city's best-known sites, Miss Cassette is irresistibly drawn to strange little buildings and glorious large homes that don't exist anymore as well as to stories of Harkert's Holsum Hamburgers and the Twenties Club. Piecing together the records of buildings and homes and everything interesting that came after, Miss Cassette shares her observations of the property and its significance to Omaha. She scrutinizes land deeds, insurance maps, tax records, and old newspaper articles to uncover a property's singular story. Through conversations with fellow detectives and history enthusiasts, she guides readers along her path of hunches, personal interests, mishaps, and more. As a longtime resident of Omaha, Miss Cassette is informed by memories of her youth combined with an enduring curiosity about the city's offbeat relics and remains. Part memoir and part research guide with a healthy dose of colorful wandering, My Omaha Obsession celebrates the historic built environment and searches for the people who shaped early Omaha.
Evolution of Management: The board is a bunch of standards identifying with the elements of arranging, sorting out, coordinating and controlling, and the utilization of these standards in bridling physical, money related, human, and educational assets productively and adequately to accomplish authoritative objectives The board in some structure or another is a vital piece of living and is basic any place human endeavors are to be attempted to accomplish wanted targets. The essential elements of the board are consistently affecting everything, regardless of whether we deal with our lives or our business.
I?n distinct contrast to “grandma-Bessie”, ??the “Geechee Lady”?, who was born in 1888, on a little South Carolina sea-island among the humble descendants of the Cherokee “Trail of Tears”- survivors, crammed together with the descendants of black-slaves into one little, down-trodden island-community?)?,....... grandmother-Sarah, a “?Wesort-Mulatto-Indian”,...(was born one year after Bessie in 1889, in the somewhat more up-to-date, southern city of La Plata). * * * * * * * * * * * Sarah Proctor came into the world among her people, ?the genteel, colored-elite; ...?an intermediate color-caste, who were the “free-people-of-color” of southeast Port Tobacco & La Plata, Maryland,... known as the proud, self-sufficient, well-educated, softly-spoken, well-mannered, very well-dressed, and always smoothly-coiffured, “good-haired” & ?light-skinned? “Wesorts” • It was during an era when ?RACISM was “KING”;? ?a stark-white, ruthless & headless monarch that ranted, ruled, and raged through America. • However, ironically on the other hand, there were those proponents of ?COLORISM? who were said to be found mostly among “lighter people”, who exhibited social airs which caused them to be perceived by most other “Coloureds” as “privileged” little princes & princesses” ?who,.......somehow ?always seemed, to their darker brothers & sisters (?who misunderstood them), to be loyally-emulating their eminent ruler, that metaphorical raging “KING”! • But, for the most part, they were NOT really as disloyal as they were perceived to be,...but, ?“stuck in the middle”? as they were,...they were ?simply ?a very ?misunderstood? group of very good American citizens.
Two novels in the beloved Fairacre series, full of “delicious wit, quirky characters . . . and certainly love and laughter” (Jan Karon). In the English village of Fairacre, retired schoolteachers Dolly Clare and Emily Davis enjoyed a remarkable friendship. Childhood playmates in Beech Green, they would remain close throughout their long lives, eventually sharing a cottage in their retirement. They felt grief when a village family was lost on the Titanic and each experienced young love and then heartbreak when the First World War interrupted both of their romances. In this two-in-one volume, the triumphs and tragedies of their days are depicted with all the humor, humble tenacity, and human warmth for which Miss Read is known. “Miss Read’s Books . . . have deservedly received the highest praise from both English and American reviewers.” —The New York Times Book Review “Miss Read reminds us of what is really important. And if we can’t live in her world, it’s certainly a comforting place to visit.” —USA Today “[Read’s] heroes are the good, the uncomplicated, and those who do the unsung work of the world. It’s a warm, comfortable, part of the picture.” —Kirkus Reviews
A highly efficient, thoroughly unsentimental secretary has her plans for a quiet Christmas upset by her brother's sudden plea that she care for his children over the holidays
Make a visit to this English village: “What you will find in the novels of Miss Read is an aura of warm happiness.” —The Columbus Dispatch In the quaint English village of Thrush Green, a terrible fire has burned the rectory to the ground. Now, kindly vicar Charles Henstock has been appointed to the neighboring town of Lulling and its combined parishes. But while he enjoys the beautiful Queen Anne house provided for him, and his pleasant new surroundings, going to a new church is never easy: Poor Dr. Henstock has encountered some very redoubtable females in Lulling; a full-scale power struggle erupts over the question of kneeling cushions for the Lady Chapel; and other difficulties revolve around the crotchety old sexton Albert Piggott. Meanwhile, a mysterious stranger arrives at the Fuschia Bush café, and its rivalry with the Two Pheasants becomes more acute. One knows, however, that Miss Read will set everything right in the end. “Affairs at Thrush Green will surely delight all those addicted to Miss Read . . . and may well make converts of those who read her here for the first time.” —The Plain Dealer
Enchanting and affectionate stories of everyday country life in the idyllic Thrush Green. 'There is something profoundly consoling about a novel by Miss Read' The Lady Contains: THRUSH GREEN, WINTER IN THRUSH GREEN, NEWS FROM THRUSH GREEN, BATTLES AT THRUSH GREEN, RETURN TO THRUSH GREEN, GOSSIP FROM THRUSH GREEN, AFFAIRS AT THRUSH GREEN, AT HOME IN THRUSH GREEN, THE SCHOOL AT THRUSH GREEN, FRIENDS AT THRUSH GREEN, CELEBRATIONS AT THRUSH GREEN, THE YEAR AT THRUSH GREEN, CHRISTMAS AT THRUSH GREEN
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