The Pear Tree

Author : Karen M Sandrick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781947605015
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pear Tree written by Karen M Sandrick and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-17 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1942 Czech Resistance fighters assassinate the head of Nazi-Occupied Czechoslovakia. On the flimsiest of evidence, the Nazi high command sends troops to demolish the small Czech town of Lidice, execute the town¿s men, and abduct and racially profile its women and children. The Pear Tree tells the story of the assassination and its effects on:

Author : Luli Gray
Publisher : Penny Candy Books
ISBN 13 : 9780999658468
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pear Tree written by Luli Gray and published by Penny Candy Books. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esperanza tricks Señor Death but realizes the death is a necessary part of life and alleviates much suffering in the world.

Author : Nancy I. Sanders
Publisher : Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN 13 : 0807566802
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Very Oldest Pear Tree written by Nancy I. Sanders and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating history of a tree that's older than our nation. In the 1630s in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, a Puritan settler planted a pear tree—the first pear tree in America. More than a century later, the tree still bore fruit, impressing a famous poet and one of the first US presidents. The pear tree survived hurricanes, fire, and vandalism, and today, more than 350 years after it was first planted, it's alive and strong, and clones of it grow all around the US. This is the amazing true story of the Endicott Pear tree, and how it grew up with our nation.

Author : Pamela Allen
Publisher : Puffin
ISBN 13 : 9780140564976
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pear in the Pear Tree written by Pamela Allen and published by Puffin. This book was released on 2000 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another original Pamela Allen book to share with the very young. As with her award-winning Who Sank the Boat?, there is something for all of us to learn from this simple but amusing story of John and Jane's attempts to pick a pear from the pear tree

Author : Victor Perera
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520206526
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cross and the Pear Tree written by Victor Perera and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the dramatic lives, through 500 years, of the old and distinguished Sephardic Jewish family from whom he is descended, Victor Perera brilliantly re-creates the history not only of his own people but of an entire culture. The story he tells begins in Spain in the fifteenth century, when the Sephardim are offered a choice of conversion, exile or death. It is the story of a richly flourishing tradition - intellectual, religious, worldly and spiritual - interrupted by massively cruel events; a story of persecution, escape and renewal, carrying us from the Iberian Peninsula across Europe to the Holy Land and Central America. And the Pere(i)ras whose lives we enter are both fascinating in themselves and emblematic of the Sephardic diaspora created by the Inquisition and the Expulsion - some of them, under threat of torture and execution, capitulating to the Cross or becoming Marranos, crypto-Jews who practiced their ancestral religion in secret; others remaining loyal to the pear tree that became their symbol and crest. Among the Marranos: Ana Pereira, a merchant's daughter, a Sephardic convert in Portugal who, at age fifteen, was sentenced to wear penitential raiment and undergo spiritual penances in prison, where, under torture, she incriminated fifteen of her close relations. Among the reclaimed: the fabulously wealthy magnate and author Abraham Israel Pereira, who participated in the excommunication of philosopher Baruch Spinoza; and the beautiful Maria Nunes, who was abducted to Shakespeare's England, and rejected the marriage proposal of a duke and Queen Elizabeth's entreaties on his behalf, marrying instead a cousin in Amsterdam's first Jewish wedding. In nineteenth-centuryFrance we follow the meteoric rise of the brothers Emile and Isaac Pereire, who founded the French railroads and the Credit Mobilier banking system. Over the centuries, the stories of Pereras in all walks of life - among them rabbis and Kabbalistic scholars in the Holy Land - unfold

Author : Bernadette Conte
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578854212
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Under the Pear Tree written by Bernadette Conte and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FROM A YOUNG AGE the author was intrigued by her mother Gaetanina's storytelling. She took seriously her mother's urging to scrivi e ricorda ("write and remember"). Itri, Italy nestled in a valley south of Rome, surrounded by the Aurunci Mountains, is home to the Santuario of Maria SS della Civita, and to her parents and ancestors. Many of the Itrani people, including the author's parents, immigrated to the small town of Knightsville in Cranston, Rhode Island. Their faith, courage, and hard work in the face of severe hardships left a lifelong impression and a resolution to one day tell their story and fulfill the commitment made to her mother to write the family history. In this telling it is hoped that all generations, present and to come, will remember their familial roots and the people who have come before them. Told by the perspective of this one Itrani family, Under the Pear Tree is a moving account of the trials, traumas and emotional life surrounding the Italian immigrant experience at the turn of the 19th century. This story is sure to inspire the reader to discover one's own ancestral past.

Author : Rachel Williams
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0763671266
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Little Pear Tree written by Rachel Williams and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Watch as a tiny seed grows through the seasons into a fine pear tree in this beautifully presented first book from Jenny Bowers. This format showcases vibrant artwork with more than twenty-five flaps that you lift to discover creatures hidden in every scene. The charming text makes this the perfect interactive primer to a key scientific topic.

Author : Parnell Hall
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0553584340
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Puzzle in a Pear Tree written by Parnell Hall and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2003-11-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chicago Sun-Times crowns Parnell Hall’s Puzzle Lady mysteries “a joy for lovers of both crosswords and frothy crime detection...Cora Felton is a lovable and unique sleuth.” Now the crime-solving powers of the inimitable Cora and her clever niece, Sherry Carter, are put to the ultimate test as they square off against a yuletide killer who hides within the white-and-black shadows of an acrostic.... A Puzzle In A Pear Tree ’Tis the season to be jolly, but Cora Felton, shanghaied into “The Twelve Days of Christmas” as a most reluctant maid-a-milking, has every right to feel like a grinch. When someone steals the partridge from the pear tree and replaces it with a cryptic puzzle she has no hope of solving, it’s almost more than the Puzzle Lady can bear. But then smug crossword creator Harvey Beerbaum solves the acrostic, and it turns out to be a poem promising the death of an actress. This is more like it! Could the threat be aimed at Cora and her thespian debut? Or at Sherry, one of the ladies-dancing? Or at Sherry’s nemesis, the pageant’s predatory lead, Becky Baldwin? Cora and Sherry barely have time for a mystery, what with trimming Christmas trees and buying Christmas presents, but rehearsals go on, under police protection--until a killer strikes elsewhere in a most unexpected manner.Ordinarily Cora Felton would be delighted to have two murders to solve. But this time she finds herself vying with a visiting Scotland Yard inspector who appears to have an all-too-personal stake in solving the crimes. Cora does too when her own niece becomes a prime suspect and the murderer strikes again. Is someone trying to shut down the Christmas pageant? Cora would be only too happy if that were the case, but she fears the secrets lie deeper. Now she is interviewing witnesses, breaking into motel rooms, finding evidence, planting evidence, and having a merry old time. In fact, she would be perfectly happy--if this wasn’t turning out to be a Christmas to die for!

Author : P. D. James
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571288618
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Maul and the Pear Tree written by P. D. James and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1811 John Williams was buried with a stake in his heart. Was he the notorious East End killer or his eighth victim in the bizarre and shocking Ratcliffe Highway Murders? In this vivid and gripping reconstruction P. D. James and police historian T. A. Critchley draw on forensics, public records, newspaper clippings and hitherto unpublished sources, expertly sifting the evidence to shed new light on this infamous Wapping mystery. This true crime novel begins amid the horror of a dark, wintry London in the year 1811. Using elegant historical detection P.D. James and police historian T.A. Critchley piece together new and unpublished sources in an original portrayal of the Ratcliffe Highway Murders. P.D. James, the bestselling author of Death Comes to Pemberley and Children of Men, here explores the mysterious and intense emotions responsible for the unique crime of murder, with authority and sensitivity. Her only work of true crime, this novel uses forensics, unpublished sources and forgotten documents to create a vivid image of early-nineteenth century London and a gripping reconstruction of the Ratcliffe Highway Murders.

Author : Ann Cole
Publisher : Little Brown
ISBN 13 : 9780316151115
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Pumpkin in a Pear Tree written by Ann Cole and published by Little Brown. This book was released on 1976 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Games and other activities for various holidays.