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Author : Augusta J. Evans
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 1429044888
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (29 download)
Download or read book St. Elmo written by Augusta J. Evans and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nora Sojourner Chalfont
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1483649199
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (836 download)
Download or read book St. Elmo's Fire written by Nora Sojourner Chalfont and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St. Elmo's Fire is a maritime phenomenon where natural electrical discharge, primarily from lightning, causes a ship's mast to glow. Its aura can be seen for miles, and it has been believed to be either an evil omen or a sign of protection and good luck at sea. Beginning in the Port of New York in fall, 1834, St. Elmo's Fire is a fast-paced story of adventure and misadventure. Twenty-year-old Donecha (DONecka) Van Fossen, bookish son of Irish-Dutch immigrant parents, manages to escape their dreary life and follow his dream of becoming a seaman. After his family's tenement is burned to the ground, Donecha is taken aboard the sailing ship Il Paradiso as tutor to the captain's son, eleven-year-old Lyle, who has been held captive at sea for most of his young life. Finding out why and by whom is the central mystery. As the bond between Donecha and Lyle grows, they discover that the true mission of Il Paradiso is twofold: to rescue Liana, Lyle's hidden sister, from the clutches of Mediterranean relatives who would seize both children and appropriate their rightful inheritance, and also to find their mysterious mother, who appears to Lyle as the "glow in the sky". Moving from the Port of New York across the Atlantic to various Mediterranean ports, and back, the travelers return shortly before the Great Fire of New York leveled most of lower Manhattan in December, 1835. Well into the nineteenth century, the stormy Atlantic was still open range for privateers, latter day pirates. Dramatic encounters and narrow escapes throughout the journey build suspense. The rescue effort involves intrigues, pursuits, betrayals, as well as merriment, humor and a touch of romance. In the end Il Paradiso succeeds where Il Purgatorio and Il Inferno have failed. In addition to Donecha and Lyle, other major characters include Mr. Crawdon, landlord, shipowner and father to Lyle; Slogo, the ship's galley cook; Lyle's sister, Liana; and Lyle's pet monkey, the Little Marqus. Characters are merry and scary, wry and sly. Linked into plot and character development are recurrent motifs of fires, secret passages, lively turnabouts of streotypes and the escapades of Lyle's clever little monkey. In the end, the wily Mr. Crawdon and the unlikely Slogo turn out to be the saviors of them all. Numerous character and plot shifts draw the reader to a surprising conclusion. St. Elmo's Fire is a family-oriented story, between 35,000 and 36,000 words, divided into 26 short chapters, It is suitable for family reading and late elementary or middle school readers, both boys and girls, or as a chapter book. The characters and situations are credible in context and historical and geographical detail is generally accurate. The story would be well illustrated with lively drawings, say pen and gouache. Cinematic potential.
Author : Philip Aleo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733922814
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (228 download)
Download or read book The History of Ouray, Colorado written by Philip Aleo and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A written and pictoral history of Ouray, Colorado, featuring pioneer, Catherine O'Brien Heit, the first woman to own property in Ouray. Catherine built and owned the historic St. Elmo Hotel, a luxury hotel on Main street that magestically stands until this day. This hotel has been instrumental in the affairs of Ouray for more than one hundred and twenty years. It is the feature of this book.
Author : James Cassaday
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781468057553
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (575 download)
Download or read book St Elmo's Fire written by James Cassaday and published by . This book was released on 2012-04-09 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some people are lucky and others are not, but a sighting of St Elmo's fire can bring good luck and bad. Ex-seaman, Jack Druce, joins the Liverpool Fire Brigade back in the 1950's and comes to rue the day he didn't look away when first he glimpsed this phenomenon when at sea. His luck goes from bad to worse when he agrees to join a renegade group of ex-firemen who are planning to steal a priceless work of art.Follow his adventures in a fire ravaged warehouse, then during a daring heist; before back at sea he runs from the law and encounters others who want to steal the work of art. The story moves quickly and twists and turns in line with the chase - it captures danger, romance, and more than a touch of Liverpool humour. In the end, Jack Druce and the readers are left with a teasing riddle to solve; one that refuses go away - It flickers and dies, then flares again, just like St Elmo's fire.
Author : Eudora Welty
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547543921
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)
Download or read book The Ponder Heart written by Eudora Welty and published by HMH. This book was released on 1967-10-18 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A wonderful tragicomedy” of a Mississippi family, a vast inheritance, and an impulsive heir, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Delta Wedding (The New York Times). Daniel Ponder is the amiable heir to the wealthiest family in Clay County, Mississippi. To friends and strangers, he’s also the most generous, having given away heirlooms, a watch, and so far, at least one family business. His niece, Edna Earle, has a solution to save the Ponder fortune from Daniel’s mortifying philanthropy: As much as she loves Daniel, she’s decided to have him institutionalized. Foolproof as the plan may seem, it comes with a kink—one that sets in motion a runaway scheme of mistaken identity, a hapless local widow, a reckless wedding, a dim-witted teenage bride, and a twist of dumb luck that lands this once-respectable Southern family in court to brave an embarrassing trial for murder. It’s become the talk of Clay County. And the loose-tongued Edna Earle will tell you all about it. “The most revered figure in contemporary American letters,” said the New York Times of Eudora Welty, which also hailed The Ponder Heart—a winner of the William Dean Howells Medal which was adapted into both a Broadway play and a PBS Masterpiece series—as “Miss Welty at her comic, compassionate best.”
Author : Raymond St. Elmo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781520443249
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (432 download)
Download or read book The Book in the Bottle written by Raymond St. Elmo and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A family finds a mysterious bottle. Within the bottle, a book. Within the book, a story. And within the story their own adventure. Supposing a book were to appear sewn from all the different parts of your favorite stories. What could it be, but a tale of change? .Frogs become princes, orphans become kings, kings become beggars, milkmaids become knights. Duels become dances, tombs become houses, a deathly chase becomes a coronation. We read to children bedtime stories that warn them and promise them: all thing change. Then we click off the light, expecting them to be unchanged when they wake in the morning. In a bottle is a book, and in the book is a city built of pieces. In that city is a beggar who became a duke, a rat who becomes a cat, a song that became a promise. Ghosts, assassins, kings and cobblers shift and dance across this city, finding who they are by what story they tell of themselves. And in the very center of the dance, a man stands balanced on a wheel.From the book: I consider. "A good adventure story has a chase through a graveyard. There shall be a duel on a cliff by moonlight or firelight or lightning. There must be treasure. A magic ring. A haunted tomb and a ruined castle. Guards tricked, villains confounded. A lost heir, disguises, an assassin, ghosts, revenge, mutant tigers -" "What?" I ignore that. "- mutant tigers, an ancient battle between good and evil, an execution, a daring escape. There must be a prophecy that actually surprises, a final battle with an unexpected ending. There must be dull villagers, street-smart orphans and an impossibly clever-but-wicked noble villain." "What book is this?" I brush that aside. "No one book. It is my list of pieces from the best. Adventures by night in a graveyard are in Tom Sawyer, in Great Expectations, The Horse and His Boy, in Harry Potter. Duels are in The Three Musketeers and The Princess Bride. The Westing Game and The Three Musketeers have mystery and disguises. The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn and The Hobbit and Treasure Island and Tom Sawyer have treasures and a mystery. The High King and The Mouse and His Child have a prophecy that actually surprises. Lord of The Rings has magic rings and ghosts and the lost heir and mutant tigers -" "Does not!" " -and The Beggar Princess and The Prince and The Pauper have the clever street-wise kids. Harry Potter and The Black Cauldron and The Sword in the Stone and Momo and The Wizard of Oz all have the crazy wizard and the orphan with a destiny and The Last Unicorn and Lud in the Mist and The Thirteen Clocks and Three Musketeers and The Princess Bride have the sly noble villain."I have to stop for breath. I must be getting old.
Author : Gay Morgan Moore
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0738594334
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (385 download)
Download or read book Chattanooga's St. Elmo written by Gay Morgan Moore and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During Chattanooga's post-Civil War industrial boom, A.M. Johnson subdivided land inherited by his wife, Thankful, from her industrialist father, James Whiteside. Located on the eastern side of Lookout Mountain, south of Chattanooga, Johnson named his new community St. Elmo after the title of the popular novel by Augusta Evans, who had visited the area before the war and used it as a setting for her book. By 1900, the community had grown to over 2,000 residents and was the home of wealthy industrialists, as well as small business owners and factory workers. Known as Chattanooga's first suburb, the St. Elmo neighborhood is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Author : Keith R. Ostling
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312466529
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (124 download)
Download or read book The St. Elmo Murders written by Keith R. Ostling and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-09-21 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third in a three-novel series featuring Dan and Etta Currie. A mysterious telegram from Matt Halliday, an old friend, led Dan Currie to travel to 1880s St. Elmo, a gold mining boom town high in the Colorado Rockies. When he arrived, his friend lay mortally wounded. Halliday died in Currie's arms. Currie vowed he would not leave St. Elmo until Halliday's murderer was captured. Dan's investigation led him to try to unravel the complex web of alliances and animosities that were the seamy underbelly of St. Elmo. With the help of a newspaper publisher and another old friend, Currie was slowly but surely sorting out the players. The murderer, apparently worried that Currie was getting too close, made several unsuccessful attempts on Currie's life. Would Currie figure it out before they killed him?
Author : Augusta Jane Evans
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book St. Elmo written by Augusta Jane Evans and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late nineteenth century novel about Edna Earl, an intelligent and ambitious young girl with a strong moral compass. Orphaned at a young age, Edna is adopted by Mrs. Murray. Edna encounters numerous conflicts with Mrs. Murray's son, the Byronic St. Elmo, a harsh, cruel man with a dark past. Edna's sweet nature touches the lives of many around her, and her ambition causes her to strive for nearly unattainable heights. Throughout the novel, Edna faces a constant battle between her passions and her conscience. In the end, Edna's convictions and her love act as a redeeming force to a suffering, desolate soul.
Author : Augusta Jane Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book St. Elmo written by Augusta Jane Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : S. Fowler Wright
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Siege of Malta (St. Elmo) written by S. Fowler Wright and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Siege of Malta (St. Elmo)" by S. Fowler Wright. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Stephanie St. Pierre
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780679888994
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (889 download)
Download or read book Elmo's Valentine (Sesame Street) written by Stephanie St. Pierre and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1997-12-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The valentine that Elmo makes is passed from friend to friend until it eventually ends up back in Elmo's hands. A cardboard valentine can be moved from page to page throughout the story.
Author : Andrea Posner-Sanchez
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 059312247X
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)
Download or read book Elmo's Lucky Day (Sesame Street) written by Andrea Posner-Sanchez and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Sesame Street St. Patrick's Day board book starring Elmo and his friends! It's St. Patrick's Day, and Elmo wants everyone on Sesame Street to celebrate. There's a yummy meal of corned beef and cabbage, some high-kicking Irish step dancing, a fun holiday parade, and even a search for a leprechaun! Boys and girls ages 2 to 5 will enjoy this introduction to St. Patrick's Day, starring their favorite Sesame Street characters, including Elmo, Grover, Cookie Monster, Julia, Abby, and Big Bird. Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street, aims to help kids grow smarter, stronger, and kinder through its many unique domestic and international initiatives. These projects cover a wide array of topics for families around the world. Sesame Street is the most trusted name in early learning.
Author : Susan K. Harris
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521428705
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (287 download)
Download or read book Nineteenth-Century American Women's Novels written by Susan K. Harris and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1992-03-27 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study proposes interpretive strategies for nineteenth-century American women's novels. Harris contends that women in the nineteenth century read subversively, 'processing texts according to gender based imperatives'. Beginning with Susannah Rowson's best-selling seduction novel Charlotte Temple (1791), and ending with Willa Cather's O Pioneers! (1913), Harris scans white, middle-class women's writing throughout the nineteenth century. In the process she both explores reading behaviour and formulates a literary history for mainstream nineteenth-century American women's fiction. Through most of the twentieth century, women's novels of the earlier period have been denigrated as conventional, sentimental, and overwritten. Harris shows that these conditions are actually narrative strategies, rooted in cultural imperatives and, paradoxically, integral to the later development of women's texts that call for women's independence. Working with actual women's diaries and letters, Harris first shows what contemporary women sought from the books they read. She then applies these reading strategies to the most popular novels of the period, proving that even the most apparently retrograde demonstrate their heroines' abilities to create and control areas culturally defined as male.
Author : Augusta Jane Evans
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book St. Elmo written by Augusta Jane Evans and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : St. Elmo Nauman
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504067991
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Exorcism Through the Ages written by St. Elmo Nauman and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars of the occult explore the phenomenon of demonic possession and expulsion through centuries of Western history in this essay anthology. Instances of exorcism have been widely documented for centuries, with references to demonic possession and expulsion appearing in the Bible as well as ancient Roman epic poetry. In Exorcism Through the Ages, scholars examine the historical record, analyzing exorcism practices in Jewish, Catholic, and Greek Orthodox traditions. Numerous cases—such as the Devils of Loudon, the nuns of Aix-en-Provence, and the possession of Elizabeth Knapp—are considered in detail. Other essays discuss the legend of the Golem, the concept of the Dybbuk, the history of the devil, and more.
Author : E.B. Sledge
Publisher : Presidio Press
ISBN 13 : 0891419195
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (914 download)
Download or read book With the Old Breed written by E.B. Sledge and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 2007-09-25 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Eugene Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir, With The Old Breed. He became a chronicler, a historian, a storyteller who turns the extremes of the war in the Pacific—the terror, the camaraderie, the banal and the extraordinary—into terms we mortals can grasp.”—Tom Hanks NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In The Wall Street Journal, Victor Davis Hanson named With the Old Breed one of the top five books on epic twentieth-century battles. Studs Terkel interviewed the author for his definitive oral history, The Good War. Now E. B. Sledge’s acclaimed first-person account of fighting at Peleliu and Okinawa returns to thrill, edify, and inspire a new generation. An Alabama boy steeped in American history and enamored of such heroes as George Washington and Daniel Boone, Eugene B. Sledge became part of the war’s famous 1st Marine Division—3rd Battalion, 5th Marines. Even after intense training, he was shocked to be thrown into the battle of Peleliu, where “the world was a nightmare of flashes, explosions, and snapping bullets.” By the time Sledge hit the hell of Okinawa, he was a combat vet, still filled with fear but no longer with panic. Based on notes Sledge secretly kept in a copy of the New Testament, With the Old Breed captures with utter simplicity and searing honesty the experience of a soldier in the fierce Pacific Theater. Here is what saved, threatened, and changed his life. Here, too, is the story of how he learned to hate and kill—and came to love—his fellow man. “In all the literature on the Second World War, there is not a more honest, realistic or moving memoir than Eugene Sledge’s. This is the real deal, the real war: unvarnished, brutal, without a shred of sentimentality or false patriotism, a profound primer on what it actually was like to be in that war. It is a classic that will outlive all the armchair generals’ safe accounts of—not the ‘good war’—but the worst war ever.”—Ken Burns
