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Author: Kate Castle
Publisher:
Published: 2021-12-21
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9781916903135
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →TEENAGE GIRLS CAN BE SAVAGE. Six teenage girls. One deserted island. Removed from civilised society, can they challenge class, identity and toxic femininity to pull together and survive? Or will they descend into savagery? This is the debut novel from Kate Castle, author of the Amazon.com best-selling novella 'Born of the Sea'.
Author: Scott O'Dell
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1960
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 0395069629
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Far off the coast of California looms a harsh rock known as the island of San Nicholas. Dolphins flash in the blue waters around it, sea otter play in the vast kep beds, and sea elephants loll on the stony beaches. Here, in the early 1800s, according to history, an Indian girl spent eighteen years alone, and this beautifully written novel is her story. It is a romantic adventure filled with drama and heartache, for not only was mere subsistence on so desolate a spot a near miracle, but Karana had to contend with the ferocious pack of wild dogs that had killed her younger brother, constantly guard against the Aleutian sea otter hunters, and maintain a precarious food supply. More than this, it is an adventure of the spirit that will haunt the reader long after the book has been put down. Karana's quiet courage, her Indian self-reliance and acceptance of fate, transform what to many would have been a devastating ordeal into an uplifting experience. From loneliness and terror come strength and serenity in this Newbery Medal-winning classic.
Author: Norma Joyce Dougherty
Publisher: Elm Hill
Published: 2018-08-14
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 1595541039
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Everyone loves a good fairy tale and Island Girl: A Triumph of the Spirit, from author Norma Joyce Dougherty, fits the bill. Norma shares how in 1970, God led her, a poor, young farm girl from Prince Edward Island, Canada to live out a real-life fairy tale on the world stage. “I became a world traveler and overnight success as Miss Dominion of Canada and contestant in the Miss World, Miss Universe, Queen of the Pacific, and semi-finalist in Miss International. She found fame and fortune,” but adds, “I lost my home, my self, and a sense of belonging. It took many years to find ‘me’ again.” Women of every age will relate with her identity crisis—a crisis that is all too common in this post-modern era due to the bombardment of direct marketing campaigns designed to focus our goals on looking, acting, and being someone we're not. Norma Joyce recounts her story in a lively “fairy-tale” theme as she shares the long journey from a world where lies and deception prevail to one where the truth of Jesus Christ is her power source, her light, radiance, beauty, peace, joy and her triumph.
Author: Sandra Byrd
Publisher: Bethany House Publishers
Published: 2005-05-01
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780764200205
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Every summer thirteen-year-old Meg returns to the berry fields of her grandparents' farm on Sauvie's Island, Oregon. But this year, everything is different. With her mother remarried and a new baby on the way, Meg isn't quite sure where she fits in the family anymore. And now the comfortable familiarity of the farm has changed, too. There is a new girl, Tia...and she obviously holds a special place in Meg's grandparents' hearts. During this season of growth, Meg faces the challenge of figuring out what life, family, and friendship are all about. In order to thrive she must learn the importance of her unique characteristics and God's plan for her life. Book 1 of Friends for a Season.
Author: Jackie Muise
Publisher:
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13: 9781773660769
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The life story of Mary Elizabeth LeBlanc in Jackie Muise's Island Girl is compelling and moving, not because she was highly unusual, but because she experienced, suffered, survived, and triumphed over challenges commonly faced by ordinary people during her era. She did so with inspiring fortitude and grace. Orphaned at an early age on PEI, she lives first with lightkeepers at Souris East Lighthouse, then with a St. Georges farming couple, Dolph and Jeannette Gallant, who become her beloved lifelong parents. With wartime, Mary is transplanted to Nova Scotia, where Dolph works in the Pictou shipyards building cargo ships, and where she marries Pictou native Fred Leblanc, who becomes a soldier. Afflicted and critically ill with tuberculosis, Mary dwells at length and gives birth in the Kentville sanitorium. Prevailing, she devotes herself to the roles, sometimes draining, often fulfilling, of a military wife and mother. During postings in Germany and New Brunswick, she copes with and finally confronts her husband's alcoholism, while nurturing children through their struggles and victories. When we arrive at the end of Mary's long life and story, we deeply admire and miss her as if she were our own cherished and extraordinary relative. We agree with the Chronicles of Narnia author C.S. Lewis that "There are no ordinary people."
Author: L. Patricia Virgo
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2011-07-07
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 146341885X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Island Girl is the autobiography of a nave young lady who was born on an island in the Caribbean. Her ignorance was bliss and her lifestyle was one of content until she moved to a first world country. This new culture was very different and difficult for her to understand. Although she interacted with coworkers and fellow college students every day, in the first four years, she withdrew from reality in an effort to keep her sanity. This is a story of happiness, sadness, extreme loneliness and lessons in life.
Author: Iris Jakosalem
Publisher: Leo Andanar Lastimosa
Published: 2020-07-05
Total Pages:
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Childhood memories and yearnings, and everyday happenings in a medical student's life, as well as the truly memorable occurrences at work as a doctor, and finally, the very ordinary interactions between myself and my family and friends.
Author: June Byrd Bowen
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2012-08-09
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 1477154914
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →I am not a writer but I am a story teller with a tale to tell. This novel is based, to some extent, on things that happened during my years on and around Sullivan s Island, South Carolina. This story is about a mother, her husband and three children who lived on Sullivan s island near Fort Moultrie during World War II and several decades after the war. It includes living through hurricanes, eating what the ocean had to offer, enjoying the beach and the friends and relatives who affected their lives. In the middle of all this is another story.....a love story between the mother and a soldier, whom she introduces to her family, even to her husband as a friend. The surprise ending brings to the reader an interesting conclusion. Remember this is not a true story but one that could have happened. I was born on Sullivan s Island over 80 years ago. I grew up there and lived through most of the events from which my imagination took over and built this story. Since being married almost 60 years to my husband Bill, the love of my life, we have traveled to all fi fty states, parts of Europe, South America, Canada and cruised all over the Caribbean and the Mediterranean. In addition to our traveling we enjoy duplicate bridge, reading, senior activities at our church and writing. Writing has always been my passion but this is my fi rst attempt at writing a novel. I just love what I ve done and have another in the back of my mind. We have three daughters and seven grandchildren and currently live in the clay hills of Chapin, South Carolina but I just cannot get the beach sand from between my toes.
Author: Patricia Virgo L
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2007-10-01
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 1434326985
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Island Girl is the first portion of the autobiography of a nave young lady who was born on an island in the Caribbean. Her life was full of happiness and her ignorance was bliss until she moved to a first world country. This culture was very different. She withdrew from reality in an effort to keep her sanity in this world that she found so difficult to understand. This is a story of happiness, sadness, extreme loneliness and lessons in life.
Author: Nancy Thayer
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2014-04-10
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 1472216075
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →New York Times bestseller Nancy Thayer returns to her beloved Nantucket in this moving, entertaining tale of three sisters reunited. Perfect for readers of Santa Montefiore and Barbara Delinsky. When charming ladies' man Rory Randall dies, he leaves one last trick behind. If his three daughters - from three marriages - hope to inherit their Nantucket family home, they must spend a summer living in it...together. But can the sisters put years of tension and misunderstanding behind them? TV presenter Arden hasn't returned to the Island since she was a teenager; college professor Meg just wants to get on with her writing; and secretive Jenny is grappling with questions about her identity. As the three women discover newfound sisterhood, there are challenges still to come. And when a visitor drops by to deliver shocking news, the past comes back with a vengeance. Can the Randall sisters finally learn to forgive, and move on once and for all?
