Pennies From Heaven

Author : Jennifer L. Holm
Publisher : Yearling
ISBN 13 : 0375849262
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Penny from Heaven written by Jennifer L. Holm and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2007-12-26 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newbery Honor–winning, New York Times–bestselling, and as full of fun and adventure as it is of deeper family issues. School’s out for summer, and Penny and her cousin Frankie have big plans to eat lots of butter pecan ice cream, swim at the local pool, and cheer on their favorite baseball team—the Brooklyn Dodgers! But sometimes things don’t go according to plan. Penny’s mom doesn’t want her to swim because she’s afraid Penny will get polio. Frankie is constantly getting into trouble, and Penny feels caught between the two sides of her family. But even if the summer doesn’t exactly start as planned . . . things can work out in the most unexpected ways! Set just after World War II, this thought-provoking novel also highlights the prejudice Penny’s Italian American family must confront because people of Italian descent were “the enemy” not long ago. Inspired by three-time Newbery Honor winner Jennifer Holm’s own Italian American family, Penny from Heaven is a story about families—about the things that tear them apart and the things that bring them back together. Includes an author’s note with photographs and background on World War II, internment camps, and 1950s America, as well as additional resources and websites. Booklist: “Holm impressively wraps pathos with comedy in this coming-of-age story, populated by a cast of vivid characters.”

Author : Gretchen Gibbons
Publisher : Martingale
ISBN 13 : 1604681241
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pennies from Heaven written by Gretchen Gibbons and published by Martingale. This book was released on 2010-11-09 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combine cotton and wool in a fresh new look! With vibrant colors and a sophisticated touch, this collection features the stunning "Pennies from Heaven" design that quilters fell in love with at quilt shows across the country. The book also includes an array of smaller projects that incorporate the blocks from the main quilt. Find patterns for 10 applique blocks that add just the right touch of color and warmth Create table mats and wall hangings, as well as a table runner, pillow, and curtain valance Discover how easy, fast, and fun wool applique can be

Author : Dennis Potter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571178216
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pennies from Heaven written by Dennis Potter and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dennis Potter's most popular television drama, 'Pennies from Heaven', 'a play with music, in six parts', was first shown in 1978 on BBC1. Set in the thirties, it starred Bob Hoskins and concerned the amorous and geographical wanderings of a travelling sheet music salesman, who is both fortunate and unfortunate enough to believe in the songs in his suitcase. When it was first shown, the free-flowing movement from fact to fiction and back again, shown by characters suddenly performing to old recordings of thirties hit tunes to illustrate their longings, and then returning again to their humdrum lives, was startling and innovatory.

Author : Molly Idle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780687495054
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pennies from Heaven written by Molly Idle and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses coins as a metaphor for the idea that spirituality and faith, not money, are the secrets to deal wealth and happiness.

Author : Andrea Faust
Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1607990121
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pennies from Heaven written by Andrea Faust and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Pennies from Heaven, author Andrea Faust invites you to be inspired to make change happen in the world around you. Through the legend of the penny young Ben finds out that he can make a difference and change lives starting with just one penny Visit www.andreafaust.com to learn how this beautiful story can be used to transform lives and inspire change Read the story, share it with others and know that the power of the penny is in you

Author : Dennis Potter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pennies from Heaven written by Dennis Potter and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lorrien Crowder
Publisher : LifeRich Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1489709037
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pennies from Heaven written by Lorrien Crowder and published by LifeRich Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When he rains, it pours-only its pennies. Real pennies! Pennies from heaven. Penny Haven, USA, suffers its worst drought, the third in a row. Crops and orchards fail, and when 60-year-old Arliss Potts, the last of the small farmers in Penny Haven, loses his custodial job, he is at his wits end. The Potts family, an African-American family, are a God-abiding family, and try to live by the Ten Commandments. But when bills mount, Arlisss faith is tested. He trusts in the Lord and prays daily, but when it seems the family might lose their beloved farmstead, Arliss is just about ready to call it quits. He prays and asks for a sign. A sign for them to stay. If he doesnt get a sign within a week of asking the Lord, Arliss decides to end it all and leave his family the life insurance policy so his family will be provided for and can stay on the farmstead they love. The sign comes in a most unexpected way and tests Arliss Potts and his familys faith in ways they never anticipated.

Author : Stacey Michele Olster
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820325217
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Trash Phenomenon written by Stacey Michele Olster and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trash Phenomenon looks at how writers of the late twentieth century not only have integrated the events, artifacts, and theories of popular culture into their works but also have used those works as windows into popular culture's role in the process of nation building. Taking her cue from Donald Barthelme's 1967 portrayal of popular culture as "trash" and Don DeLillo's 1997 description of it as a subversive "people's history," Stacey Olster explores how literature recycles American popular culture so as to change the nationalistic imperative behind its inception. The Trash Phenomenon begins with a look at the mass media's role in the United States' emergence as the twentieth century's dominant power. Olster discusses the works of three authors who collectively span the century bounded by the Spanish-American War (1898) and the Persian Gulf War (1991): Gore Vidal's American Chronicle series, John Updike's Rabbit tetralogy, and Larry Beinhart's American Hero. Olster then turns her attention to three non-American writers whose works explore the imperial sway of American popular culture on their nation's value systems: hierarchical class structure in Dennis Potter's England, Peronism in Manuel Puig's Argentina, and Nihonjinron consensus in Haruki Murakami's Japan. Finally, Olster returns to American literature to look at the contemporary media spectacle and the representative figure as potential sources of national consolidation after November 1963. Olster first focuses on autobiographical, historical, and fictional accounts of three spectacles in which the formulae of popular culture are shown to bypass differences of class, gender, and race: the John F. Kennedy assassination, the Scarsdale Diet Doctor murder, and the O. J. Simpson trial. She concludes with some thoughts about the nature of American consolidation after 9/11.

Author : Ken Vail
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810848825
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Count Basie written by Ken Vail and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jazz Itineraries series, a new format based on Ken Vail's successful Jazz Diaries, charts the careers of famous jazz musicians, listing club and concert appearances with details of recording sessions and movie appearances. Copiously illustrated with contemporary photographs, newspaper extracts, record and performance reviews, ads and posters, the series provides fascinating insight into the lives of the greatest jazz musicians of our times. No.3 in the series, Count Basie: Swingin' The Blues 1936?1950, chronicles Basie's life from the Kansas City years, discovery by John Hammond, triumph in New York with the floating swing of the All-American rhythm section and tenor saxist Lester Young, through to the eventual demise of the swingingest of big bands in January 1950.

Author : Frances Stone
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 : 9780140255294
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pennies from Heaven written by Frances Stone and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 1998-06-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone knows someone who's going through the process of trying to conceive a child. For some people this effort is merely a minor struggle, but for others it can mean months, and years, of profound disappointment and heartbreak. There are hundreds of books that give advice on how to get pregnant, but very few on how to cope with such a trying ordeal. Pennies from Heaven offers much-needed comfort, support, and hope in the form of 101 daily meditations. Each entry begins with a quote or idea for the day, followed by a thoughtful discussion. Written by a couple who underwent their own difficulties attempting to conceive (with eventually happy results), Pennies from Heaven offers perspectives for both men and women, and covers issues from the mundane to the more philosophical, and everything that comes between. At once funny, tender, and wise, it provides the kind of solace that most infertility books can't, the kind that comes from the heart.