Author: Janet Beeler Shaw
Publisher: American Girl Publishing Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Wherever Kirsten goes in her hometown of Ryd, Sweden, there is one word on everyone's lips: America. All around her, crops are failing and families are one bad harvest away from starving. When Kirsten's Uncle Olav writes from America to tell about the rich farmland there, the Larsons make the decision to join him in America. Kirsten braves terrible storms and deadly disease on her journey across the ocean. After six long weeks at sea, she finally hears the welcome cry, "Land ho!" On wobbly legs, Kirsten makes her way down the ship's gangplank. What will happen now? she wonders. Will I ever feel at home in this new land? Book jacket.
Kirsten's Story Collection
Author: Janet Beeler Shaw
Publisher: American Girl Publishing Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Wherever Kirsten goes in her hometown of Ryd, Sweden, there is one word on everyone's lips: America. All around her, crops are failing and families are one bad harvest away from starving. When Kirsten's Uncle Olav writes from America to tell about the rich farmland there, the Larsons make the decision to join him in America. Kirsten braves terrible storms and deadly disease on her journey across the ocean. After six long weeks at sea, she finally hears the welcome cry, "Land ho!" On wobbly legs, Kirsten makes her way down the ship's gangplank. What will happen now? she wonders. Will I ever feel at home in this new land? Book jacket.
Publisher: American Girl Publishing Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Wherever Kirsten goes in her hometown of Ryd, Sweden, there is one word on everyone's lips: America. All around her, crops are failing and families are one bad harvest away from starving. When Kirsten's Uncle Olav writes from America to tell about the rich farmland there, the Larsons make the decision to join him in America. Kirsten braves terrible storms and deadly disease on her journey across the ocean. After six long weeks at sea, she finally hears the welcome cry, "Land ho!" On wobbly legs, Kirsten makes her way down the ship's gangplank. What will happen now? she wonders. Will I ever feel at home in this new land? Book jacket.
Kirsten's Surprise
Author: Janet Beeler Shaw
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780808580218
Category : Christmas stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Kirsten and her family celebrate their first Christmas in their new home on Uncle Olav's farm in mid-19th-century Minnesota
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780808580218
Category : Christmas stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Kirsten and her family celebrate their first Christmas in their new home on Uncle Olav's farm in mid-19th-century Minnesota
Kirsten Learns a Lesson
Author: Janet Beeler Shaw
Publisher: Amer Girl Pub
ISBN: 9780937295823
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 69
Book Description
After immigrating from Sweden to join relatives in an American prairie community, Kirsten endures the ordeal of a strange school through a secret friendship with an Indian girl.
Publisher: Amer Girl Pub
ISBN: 9780937295823
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 69
Book Description
After immigrating from Sweden to join relatives in an American prairie community, Kirsten endures the ordeal of a strange school through a secret friendship with an Indian girl.
Balthazar The Great
Author:
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
ISBN: 178603994X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Bathalzar is the world's greatest violin-playing polar bear. At least, he used to be the greatest. Now he's the only polar bear left in all the world's circuses. He misses his home and his friends, but above all he misses his Grandpa Balthazar, who gave him his first violin. One day, Balthazar is set free. He sets off on an epic journey home, and eventually, after travelling across mountains, oceans and deserts, he sees a familiar face... This visually stunning picture book about the world's greatest violin-playing polar bear and his epic journey home from the circus features beautiful illustrations kids will love and sensitively explores themes of displacement, polar bear habitats and being far from home.
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
ISBN: 178603994X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Bathalzar is the world's greatest violin-playing polar bear. At least, he used to be the greatest. Now he's the only polar bear left in all the world's circuses. He misses his home and his friends, but above all he misses his Grandpa Balthazar, who gave him his first violin. One day, Balthazar is set free. He sets off on an epic journey home, and eventually, after travelling across mountains, oceans and deserts, he sees a familiar face... This visually stunning picture book about the world's greatest violin-playing polar bear and his epic journey home from the circus features beautiful illustrations kids will love and sensitively explores themes of displacement, polar bear habitats and being far from home.
Kirsten and the Chippewa
Author: Janet Beeler Shaw
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781584854791
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
In 1854, ten-year-old Kirsten, living with her family in Minnesota, meets a raiding party of Ojibway Indians and finds unexpected help when her dog is in danger.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781584854791
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
In 1854, ten-year-old Kirsten, living with her family in Minnesota, meets a raiding party of Ojibway Indians and finds unexpected help when her dog is in danger.
The Ghost Marriage
Author: Kirsten Mickelwait
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1647420318
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
At thirty-one, Kirsten has just returned to San Francisco from a bohemian year in Rome, ready to pursue a serious career as a writer and eventually, she hopes, marriage and family. When she meets Steve Beckwith, a handsome and successful attorney, she begins to see that future materialize more quickly than she’d dared to expect. Twenty-two years later, Steve has turned into someone quite different. Unemployed and addicted to opioids, he uses money and their two children to emotionally blackmail Kirsten. What’s more, he’s been having an affair with their real estate agent, who is also her close friend. So she divorces him—but after their divorce is finalized, Steve is diagnosed with colon cancer and dies within a year, leaving Kirsten with $1.5 million in debts she knew nothing about. It’s then that she finally understands: The man she’d married was a needy, addictive person who came wrapped in a shiny package. As she fights toward recovery, Kirsten begins to receive communications from Steve in the afterlife—which lead her on an unexpected path to forgiveness. The Ghost Marriage is her story of discovery—that life isn’t limited to the tangible reality we experience on this earth, and that our worst adversaries can become our greatest teachers.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1647420318
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
At thirty-one, Kirsten has just returned to San Francisco from a bohemian year in Rome, ready to pursue a serious career as a writer and eventually, she hopes, marriage and family. When she meets Steve Beckwith, a handsome and successful attorney, she begins to see that future materialize more quickly than she’d dared to expect. Twenty-two years later, Steve has turned into someone quite different. Unemployed and addicted to opioids, he uses money and their two children to emotionally blackmail Kirsten. What’s more, he’s been having an affair with their real estate agent, who is also her close friend. So she divorces him—but after their divorce is finalized, Steve is diagnosed with colon cancer and dies within a year, leaving Kirsten with $1.5 million in debts she knew nothing about. It’s then that she finally understands: The man she’d married was a needy, addictive person who came wrapped in a shiny package. As she fights toward recovery, Kirsten begins to receive communications from Steve in the afterlife—which lead her on an unexpected path to forgiveness. The Ghost Marriage is her story of discovery—that life isn’t limited to the tangible reality we experience on this earth, and that our worst adversaries can become our greatest teachers.
Kirsten Saves the Day
Author: Janet Beeler Shaw
Publisher: American Girl Publishing Incorporated
ISBN: 9780937295915
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Ten-year-old Kirsten finds a bee tree full of honey.
Publisher: American Girl Publishing Incorporated
ISBN: 9780937295915
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Ten-year-old Kirsten finds a bee tree full of honey.
Changes for Kirsten
Author: Janet Beeler Shaw
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780937295458
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A tough Minnesota winter brings many changes to Kirsten's frontier life, including the new responsibility of helping her brother Lars set his traps and a move into a new house for her family.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780937295458
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A tough Minnesota winter brings many changes to Kirsten's frontier life, including the new responsibility of helping her brother Lars set his traps and a move into a new house for her family.
The Program
Author: Stephen White
Publisher: Dell
ISBN: 0440237262
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
They promised you’d be safe. They were wrong. It started with a convicted killer’s first threat of revenge... “For every precious thing I lose, you lose two.” DA Kirsten Lord saw her husband gunned down before her eyes. Now Kirsten is living in fear, telling her secrets to psychologist Alan Gregory ... and hiding deep in the Witness Protection Program,where every stranger is a threat, every phone call is a menace. Until she realizes ... The Program is the deadliest place of all.
Publisher: Dell
ISBN: 0440237262
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
They promised you’d be safe. They were wrong. It started with a convicted killer’s first threat of revenge... “For every precious thing I lose, you lose two.” DA Kirsten Lord saw her husband gunned down before her eyes. Now Kirsten is living in fear, telling her secrets to psychologist Alan Gregory ... and hiding deep in the Witness Protection Program,where every stranger is a threat, every phone call is a menace. Until she realizes ... The Program is the deadliest place of all.
This Is Not a Love Song
Author: Brendan Mathews
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316382132
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
A debut collection of moving and darkly witty stories from an "admirably fearless" (New York Times Book Review) writer whom critics have compared to Michael Chabon, E.L. Doctorow, and Dennis Lehane A Massachusetts Book Award "Must Read" Selection When marriages, friendships, and families come undone, to what lengths do we go to keep it all together? That question lies at the heart of Brendan Mathews's buoyant and unforgettable debut story collection. A young mother watches as her desperate husband, convinced a hidden poison lurks inside their walls, tears their home apart. Two journalists bruised by romance and revolution, one a survivor of the Bosnian war, trade tales of lost lovers. A father and his sons haggle over the family business during a high-stakes round of golf. And a lovesick circus clown tries to explain the accidents that bound him to a trapeze artist and a witless lion tamer. If Mathews's novel The World of Tomorrow was an "outsized" entertainment, a "big, expressive debut" (Wall Street Journal), then This Is Not a Love Song, two stories from which have been included in The Best American Short Stories, is glorious proof that he excels equally as a miniaturist. From rock-star flameouts to church burnings to ordinary people trying not to fall out of love, these stories are packed with vivid detail, emotional precision, and deft, redemptive humor.
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316382132
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
A debut collection of moving and darkly witty stories from an "admirably fearless" (New York Times Book Review) writer whom critics have compared to Michael Chabon, E.L. Doctorow, and Dennis Lehane A Massachusetts Book Award "Must Read" Selection When marriages, friendships, and families come undone, to what lengths do we go to keep it all together? That question lies at the heart of Brendan Mathews's buoyant and unforgettable debut story collection. A young mother watches as her desperate husband, convinced a hidden poison lurks inside their walls, tears their home apart. Two journalists bruised by romance and revolution, one a survivor of the Bosnian war, trade tales of lost lovers. A father and his sons haggle over the family business during a high-stakes round of golf. And a lovesick circus clown tries to explain the accidents that bound him to a trapeze artist and a witless lion tamer. If Mathews's novel The World of Tomorrow was an "outsized" entertainment, a "big, expressive debut" (Wall Street Journal), then This Is Not a Love Song, two stories from which have been included in The Best American Short Stories, is glorious proof that he excels equally as a miniaturist. From rock-star flameouts to church burnings to ordinary people trying not to fall out of love, these stories are packed with vivid detail, emotional precision, and deft, redemptive humor.