Author: Johanna Spyri
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's stories, Swiss (German)
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.

Author: Gary Crawford
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1499022263
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346

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The author of Immaculate Deception and Double Tap has penned another intriguing tale of mystery, treachery and romance. Private investigator Sam 'Mac' McCloud is hired by an old acquaintance, Heidi Fujiwara, the owner of an escort service, to find out who is making threats toward her, fearing for her beautiful daughter Emiko's safety. Because of the imminent danger and Emiko's blossoming into a gorgeous and sexy woman, Heidi has decided to find out the paternity of her daughter and has requested McCloud find the identity of Emiko's father from a short list provided by her that includes McCloud and his cousin Sven 'Swede' Anderson, the owner of the Downtown Athletic Club. Emiko's obsessive stalker becomes more belligerent as he realizes other men are showing an interest in Emiko, a relationship denied him by Heidi due to his earlier behavior, even though he is the son of one of Heidi's long-time personal clients. McCloud enlists the help of his friend, Lieutenant Danny Kelly of the Modesto police department to track down the stalker and to determine who the father of Emiko is. In the meantime Heidi renews her friendships with Swede and Mac and attempts to bring them into the fold of her rapidly expanding romantic enterprise.

Author: Heidi Daniele
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1943006954
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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In 1937, Mary Margaret Joyce is born in the Tuam Home for unwed mothers. After spending her early years in an uncaring foster home, she is sentenced by a judge to an industrial school, where she is given the name Peg, and assigned the number 27. Amid one hundred other unwanted girls, Peg quickly learns the rigid routine of prayer, work, and silence under the watchful eye of Sister Constance. Her only respite is an annual summer holiday with a kind family in Galway. At the tender age of thirteen, Peg accidentally learns the identity of her birthmother. Peg struggles with feelings of anger and abandonment, while her mother grapples with the shame of having borne a child out of wedlock. The tension between them mounts as Peg, now becoming a young adult, begins to make plans for her future beyond Ireland. Based on actual events, The House Children is a compelling story of familial love, shameful secrets, and life inside Ireland’s infamous industrial schools.

Author: Johanna Spyri
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781539191896
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 134

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Heidi is an orphaned girl initially raised by her aunt Detie in Maienfeld, Switzerland after the early deaths of her parents, Tobias and Adelheid (Detie's sister and brother-in-law). Detie brings 6-year-old Heidi to her paternal grandfather's house, up the mountain from D�rfli. He has been at odds with the villagers and embittered against God for years and lives in seclusion on the alm. This has earned him the nickname Alm-Uncle. He briefly resents Heidi's arrival, but the girl's evident intelligence and cheerful yet unaffected demeanor soon earn his genuine, if reserved, affection. Heidi enthusiastically befriends her new neighbors, young Peter the goatherd, his mother, Bridget, and his blind maternal grandmother, who is "Grannie" to everyone. With each season that passes, the mountaintop inhabitants grow more attached to Heidi.

Author: Johanna Spyri
Publisher: Maviçatı Yayınları
ISBN: 6052942304
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Johanna Spyri’s classic story of a 5 year old little Swiss orphan who is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city. It was written as a book for children and those who love children

Author: Johanna Spyri
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0375899863
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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The story of Heidi was written over one hundred years ago, however, it is far from a period piece. In the Swiss Alps, where it is set, a hundred years is just the blink of an eye. We see in her the daughter that every mother dreams of having and every little girl dreams of being. Her presence makes us happy, and so her story has endured. This deluxe Children’s Classic edition is produced with high-quality, leatherlike binding with gold stamping, full-color covers, colored endpapers with a book nameplate. Some of the other titles in this series include: Anne of Green Gables, Black Beauty, King Arthur and His Knights, Little Women, and The Secret Garden.

Author: Péter Niedermüller
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN: 9788772896861
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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At the beginning of a new millennium a new Europe is emerging, but behind this imagination we have to face old problems and unsolved conflicts of our historical past. The collapse of socialism in Eastern Europe led to decline and fall of the conceptual geography which was based on East vs. West and has shown political, social and cultural implications for both parts of the continent. Political borders and blocks have disappeared, but national ethnic, cultural and social differences are all still at work. In this book a number of leading European ethnologist investigates the complex process of the social, cultural and symbolic constructions of Europe's new geography, and shows how old lines of demarcation are revitalised, how different cultural imaginations of Europe are politically instrumentalised, and how political conflicts are being culturalised.

Author: Johanna Spyri
Publisher: EDCON Publishing Group
ISBN: 0848111311
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 75

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Bring The Classics To Life Series. These novels have been adapted into 10 short chapters that will excite the reluctant reader as well as the enthusiastic one. Let the Classics introduce Kipling, Stevenson, and H.G. Wells. Readers will embrace the notion of Crusoe's lonely reflections, the psychological reactions of a Civil War soldier at Chancellorsville, and the tragedy of the Jacobite Cause in 18th Century Scotland. Knowledge of Classics is a cultural necessity and these will improve fluency, vocabulary and comprehension through a high Interest / low readability format. Each eBookis divided into 10 short high quality illustrated chapters - Was written using McGraw-Hill's Core Vocabulary - Has been measured by the Fry Readability Formula - Defines and uses in context new vocabulary, prior to each chapter.

Author: Hunter Shea
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1787585018
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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"I don't know how Hunter Shea keeps churning out terrifying stories that feel original, but I want more." – Cedar Hollow Reviews During the height of the 90s grunge era, five high school friends living on the fringe are driven to the breaking point. When one of their friends is brutally raped by a drunk townie, they decide to take matters into their own hands. Deep in the woods of Milbury, Connecticut, there lives the legend of the Melon Heads, a race of creatures that shun human interaction and prey on those who dare to wander down Dracula Drive. Maybe this night, one band of misfits can help the other. Or maybe some legends are meant to be feared for a reason. FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launched in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices.

Author: Jim Miller
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738573038
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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In 1954, a tiny children's park inspired by a collection of storybook dolls opened in the quiet village of Glen; and, through a unique combination of independent innovation and regional cooperation, Story Land has continually grown for more than 50 years through the economic and cultural changes that undermined many other amusement parks. Original.