I can't leave a number where I can be reached , but I'll call her when I get back . ” “ Fine , ” Molly says , jotting left town , will be back in messy handwriting Rory probably won't be able to read . Oh , well , too bad .
His name was Frank , and I had always called him that , not “ Mr. Taylor . ” And I had always liked him . So did everyone . A pleasant , avuncular man , with a motherly wife . I expected that when I got to the house I'd find Maria ...
In 1941, Brick, a boy from New York's apple country, and Mariel, a girl made shy by her bout with polio, make a journey from Brooklyn back to help Brick's elderly neighbors save their apple crop and to help Mariel learn about her past.
But the story's heart lies deeper, in an unexpected series of personal hardships that call into question what "home" really means, and what it means to grow up.
It’s August 1941, and Brick and Mariel both love the Brooklyn Dodgers.
All the Way Home is the long-awaited sequel to Mary Pride's revolutionary book, The Way Home. Building on the theme of the home as the center of life, this book...
McClelland & Stewart, A Division of Random House of Canada Limited 1 Toronto Street Toronto, Ontario M5C 2V6 Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data Braithwaite, Max, 1911- All the way home eISBN: 978-1-55199-638-7 I. Title. PS8503.
Welcome to North Pole, Alaska, where the Christmas Spirit lives all year long. Inspired by the real North Pole, Alaska and its dedicated residents who each year answer children's letters to Santa, my North Pole and the characters living ...
From an abusive German-Irish family, Augusta informally adopts Sunny Yamagata's family as her own until the Yamagatas are sent to a Japanese-American internment camp in the 1930s, but they meet again in Mississippi in the 1960s.
From Wendy Corsi Staub, the acclaimed author of FADE TO BLACK, comes a masterful new work of suspense... Lake Charlotte. A quiet little town in upstate New York. The perfect place to raise a family. Or is it?
Engaging and delightfully readable, this is a testament to one family's passion for Africa's wildlife and their conviction that nothing can change the essential nature of the land and its people.
This book is a pause; a reflection; a remembrance.
All the Way Home
In addition to the series she pens, Nancy is also the author of Falling Through Shooting Stars, and the play, Spin. Nancy lives in Connecticut with her wife, Melissa, and three dogs, Maggie, Sydney Bristow, and a husky named Jameson.
The Buddha taught that everything is impermanent; that is, all things arise and pass away. If this is a holy truth--beyond religious belief systems--then each of us must find a way to make peace with the fact that we age, we grow old.
“Every now and then, you need a house – someone's ill, someone's having a difficult pregnancy, whatever, so you find an ... “I'm a... an exotic, and I'm lost and I can't find my way home, but you sold something that came from my planet, ...
Jolene looked back at the newly poured concrete foundation, and the skeleton of a frame rising from it, "And this project is your first new home?" "Right. Up to now we've just been remodeling and restoring pre-existing homes.
Apart from the open doorway, all was dark, and the sounds of the Taurogians arranging the ramp seemed very loud in the stillness. Soon, the job was complete and the AI joined Louie and they made their way inside.
But the story's heart lies deeper, in an unexpected series of personal hardships that call into question what "home" really means, and what it means to grow up.