Tom was just a normal kid who had a dog that was normal.He could chase a bull into a chicken coop and make him bellow. He wasn't scared of anything and had a strong dislike for rabbits. Whoever thought this dog would lead him on a chase across a field running from a scene that was sure to get him in trouble. With Tom crying, because he was laughing so hard. Who never knew that Tom would one day slip and fall. That no-one would be around to catch him, that he would be alone, with no-one aro...

Why is Tom's dad left sitting in a fresh pile of manure covered in milk thanks to a crack of thunder? Join Tom and Spud as they wait through a tornado in a small cellar. Follow Spud as he chases a mouse through the cellar that leaves them in the dark and Tom's dad unconscious on the floor. Find out how they make it out of this tornado alive and the sticky situation that Spud and Tom get into whilethey are looking over the damage at the house. It is a story that is sure to leave you ...

An out and back is a run that starts and ends at the same point. Along the way we are changed. In the end we are back where we started.Amber runs every morning, bakes home cooked meals, and keeps a spotless house. She homeschools her children, grows an organic garden and milks her own goats. But Amber Stonewall is not perfect. She is a mother who fails, a wife who is unable to show affection, a daughter who is absent and a sister who knows it all. When her mom dies, it all slaps he...

After ten years of marriage, Asabe and Adam remain childless. Fueled by desperation and a long held secret, Adam marries a second wife. This decision acts as the catalyst to change no one could have predicted. Read An Unproductive Woman to learn what secrets Adam has withheld that would explain his unreasonable longing and pursuit of a son at all costs.

This short life-drama originally penned by Rabindranath Tagore in Bengali begins in an idyllic setting. While the clouds and the sunshine are the two prominent players in the firmament, on the earthly stage below the main players are a little girl named Giribala and the young law graduate, Shasibhusan. 19th century Bengali culture is biased against education of girls and favors child marriage. Giribala's brothers, who go to school refuse to teach her to read and to write. Files of strange ...

Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com. Most of you will have heard that Allan Quatermain, who was one of the party that discovered King Solomon's mines some little time ago, and who afterwards came to live in England near his friend Sir Henry Curtis. He went back to the wilderness again, as these old hunters almost invariably do, on one pretext or another.[*] They cannot endure civilization for very long, its noise and racket and the omnipresence of broad-clothed humanity proving more...

Once, long ago, the ruler of a mountainous Asian nation sought counsel from a Tibetan holy man on how he could help lead his people through change. The holy man gave the leader a magic flute that would drastically change his life. This is the story of that flute which led the leader on a journey of self-realization. The flute would eventually lead him to a young farm girl who had the most divine singing voice in the world. When she sang, people wept at the beauty of it and people were also...

After a murder at Bonaire Elementary, Richard and Anna Lee Gray seek a good school for their son Nick in a safe neighborhood. Their search leads them to Malliford, a "school of excellence." When redistricting sends scores of minority students to Malliford, iron-willed Principal Estelle Rutherford declares war on kids to raise test scores and save her reputation. Dissident parents revolt, electing Richard to head the Parent-Teacher Organization, and tensions explode. Welcome to Chain Gang E...

When Anna and her best friend, Susie, finally get horses of their own, they enter a new world of horse shows, fox hunting, eventing, responsibility and boys. In this sometimes scary but always exciting environment, Anna learns what true horsemanship is, and makes two new best friends forever: a boy named Jim, and a horse named Johnny.

Seven-year old Henry Burrows is anxious to know whether Santa Claus is real. In the face of his father's lay-off and his mother's fears that Christmas might not come this year, it grows harder to believe. It would take a miracle for his family to celebrate Christmas now. The kind of miracle that only the real Santa could provide. If the old man in the Sears & Roebuck store can somehow grant Henry's wish …

THEY THOUGHT THE NIGHTMARE HAD ENDED. THEY WERE WRONG.A year after Drago burned, something sinister has returned. In the quiet town of Pinyon, a brutal string of murders leaves behind bodies ripped to shreds and whispers of something inhuman stalking the night. When a wild-eyed teenage boy named Malcolm is found wandering the woods, psychiatrist Dr. Holly Lang takes him in—unaware that he carries a monstrous secret. Malcolm is no ordinary survivor. He is something more… something t...

When a tabloid writer is assigned to dig some dirt on an A-list movie star, she ends up digging too far - and quite possibly her own grave…