Tales from Portlaw Volume Eleven - Two Sisters

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ISBN 13 : 1326644009
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Tales from Portlaw Volume Eleven - Two Sisters written by William Forde and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-06 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nellie and Nora Fanning are the 'Two Sisters'. In fact, they are the two most important sisters ever to come out of Portlaw. Their entrance into the world was as momentous as their influence upon it and as mysterious as their departure from it. They were two sisters with one mind, who in their later years dedicated their existence to preserve the life of Portlaw. The story of 'The Two Sisters' is William Forde's 66th published book and the 11th book in his 'Tales from Portlaw' series of romantic stories. It is a tale of love, struggle, adventure and deep mystery. It draws upon Irish superstition along with the sinister practices that existed in West Yorkshire hundreds of years ago. The story background begins in Portlaw, County Waterford, Ireland and ends there. In between, the story moves to Liverpool and then Haworth, West Yorkshire, England.

Tales from Portlaw Volume Two - The Priest's Calling Card

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ISBN 13 : 132601322X
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Tales from Portlaw Volume Two - The Priest's Calling Card written by William Forde and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-07-02 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I grew up on my mothers stories. Although an Irish woman of small stature and imaginative mind, stories didnt come any taller than those tales told by my mother. They would stretch the bounds of ones credulity beyond the realms of possibility, and yet, she always made me want to believe them. Having been persuaded to return to writing, I decided to recount some of the stories told to me by my mother long ago. Being a person with my own imagination, I have taken the germ of her tale and elaborated it with the aid of 70 years of wisdom and a splash of literary licence to come up with the final result. The Priests Calling Card is about a Portlaw Priest who leaves his walking stick outside any house he visits as a sign of his presence there and with the clear understanding he is never to be interrupted during his home visits by any other callers to the house where he is.

Tales From Portlaw Volume One - 'The Love Quartet'

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ISBN 13 : 1326954903
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book Tales From Portlaw Volume One - 'The Love Quartet' written by William Forde and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-02-22 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Love Quartet' is a book of four romantic stories that include, 'The Tannery Wager', 'Fini and Archie', 'The Love Bridge', and 'Forgotten Love'. All four stories are a mixture of 'love won', 'love lost' and 'love found'.

Tales From Portlaw Volume Thirteen

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ISBN 13 : 0244400954
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (444 download)

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Book Synopsis Tales From Portlaw Volume Thirteen by : William Forde

Download or read book Tales From Portlaw Volume Thirteen written by William Forde and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-07-19 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a love story is about a travelling Romany who visits the home of Lizzy Lanigan in Portlaw during the year of 1955. Lizzy is a newly-wed, who was married a mere three months earlier. The peg-selling gypsy persuades Lizzy to have her palm read for the cost of two shillings. The Romany fortune teller then informs Lizzy that she will give birth to a girl child within the year who will be named 'Mary'. Lizzy is informed that she will give birth to a total of seven children during her life, but that her firstborn will be a 'special' child, who, when her time comes, will also give birth to seven children, of whom the firstborn will be a 'special' girl, also named 'Mary'. The Romany also reveals that the Lanigan legacy of 'specialness' will be passed down for generations, providing that mother and firstborn maintain its secret. If the secret is kept as instructed, the Lanigan family will be blessed, but if the secret is told to another; the Lanigan descendants will be cursed!

Tales from Portlaw Volume Four: 'The Oldest Woman in the World'

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ISBN 13 : 1326014501
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Tales from Portlaw Volume Four: 'The Oldest Woman in the World' written by William Forde and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-07-24 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oldest Woman in the World is a story about the life of a Portlaw-born man, Sean Thornton who spent many years working as a reporter for an Irish newspaper before becoming a reporting investigator for the very first edition of The Guinness Book of Records in 1955. Seans task for an edition of the annual records book was to seek out and confirm the identity of the oldest person in the world. He eventually does that, but not in time to include the factual data in the record book. In later years, he is greatly surprised that the oldest person in the world and himself share a mutual connection and that she finished up living much closer to Portlaw than Sean would ever have imagined!

Tales from Portlaw Volume Nine - 'The Last Dance'

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ISBN 13 : 1326220772
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Tales from Portlaw Volume Nine - 'The Last Dance' written by William Forde and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-07-24 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Last Dance' the story evolves around the love of ballroom dancing by widower Nancy Swales and the new dancing partner in her life, married man Richard. Both dearly have one aim, to win the 'All Ireland Ballroom Dancing Championship'. Nancy and Richard pursue their dream; even at the risk of Richard becoming paralysed for life. Through their joint love of dancing, both Nancy and Richard find love once more. However, their Championship Final leads to their 'Last Dance.'

Tales from Portlaw Volume Three: 'Bigger and Better'

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ISBN 13 : 1326014439
Total Pages : 71 pages
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Download or read book Tales from Portlaw Volume Three: 'Bigger and Better' written by William Forde and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-07-24 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I grew up on my mothers stories. Although an Irish woman of small stature and imaginative mind, stories didnt come any taller than those tales told by my mother. They would stretch the bounds of ones credulity beyond the realms of possibility, and yet, she always made me want to believe them. Having been persuaded to return to writing, I decided to recount some of the stories told to me by my mother long ago. Being a person with my own imagination, I have taken the germ of her tale and elaborated it with the aid of 70 years of wisdom and a splash of literary licence to come up with the final result. This third volume of Tales from Portlaw, Bigger and Better is about a Portlaw boy with stunted growth goes to live with his Uncle and Aunt in America to avoid bullying, but finds that all things bigger are not necessarily better.

Action Annie

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ISBN 13 : 1326051644
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Action Annie written by William Forde and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-10-05 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of all 12 'Action Annie' stories. Annie is an imaginative and very active seven-year-old whose mind and body is always on the go. She never seems to stop. Even as she sleeps, she is dreaming about the things she plans to do tomorrow. Annie is always thinking up new ideas and inventing things. There's a little bit of Annie in every child. Are you like Annie in any of her ways?

Tales From Portlaw Volume 12: 'Fourteen Days'

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ISBN 13 : 0244946639
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (449 download)

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Book Synopsis Tales From Portlaw Volume 12: 'Fourteen Days' by : William Forde

Download or read book Tales From Portlaw Volume 12: 'Fourteen Days' written by William Forde and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This love story is about a dying man and his personal assistant in his haulage firm. During the last fourteen days of his life, the dying man's lover strikes up a new relationship in the hospital ward with a patient in an adjacent bed. After her lover's death, she disappears and the new patient, who is infatuated with her, pursues his dream across the Irish Sea, only to discover that love is never smooth.

The Valley of the Two Tall Oaks

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ISBN 13 : 1326057103
Total Pages : 78 pages
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Download or read book The Valley of the Two Tall Oaks written by William Forde and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-06-25 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true test of any great nation is not what it achieves, but how it endures. Africa is a great nation and the endurance of its people over many centuries is a testament to their capacity to survive with dignity within an all-too-often cruel and intolerant world. For many centuries, the people of Africa experienced colonisation, enslavement, economic exploitation, apartheid, disenfranchisement, resettlement and segregation. Throughout these hardships they kept their faith in their beliefs, culture, traditions, religions and dreams. Many have written about Nelson Mandela, but I wanted to write about his dream; a dream which sustained him through three decades of imprisonment; a dream held by other tribal chiefs in the Africa of old and passed on to the next generation, like a baton until it eventually ended up in the hands of Nelson Mandela, who then gave it to the world. Nelson Mandela described this story as Wonderful.

Sleezy the Fox

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ISBN 13 : 1326045164
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Sleezy the Fox written by William Forde and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-05-07 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Sleezy the Fox' is a book of four stories about the overarching theme of 'second chances'. On the surface it deals with the immigration of a married couple and their seven children into a strange country, the bullying of neighbours, the ostracizing of offenders from the community as a whole and the alienation that often exists between man and wild beast and beast and wild man! Each of us shall experience or perpetrate some wrong in our lives. At the critical stage of reconciliation and healing, it is vitally important that we are able to give others and ourselves the benefit of a 'second chance'. And if you are like I used to be growing up, you may need to receive a 'second chance' many times before you eventually get it right.

Bes - The Omnibus

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ISBN 13 : 1326060996
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Bes - The Omnibus written by William Forde and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-12-23 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bes is a story suitable for the New Millennium reader aged between 9-13 years. It tells a story that loosely links with the three character types I introduced in 'The Bear with a Sore Head', 'Solo and Solomon' and 'Elephants Cry Too.' It is the first day of a New Millennium and the 'maker of all time' who is disappointed with the humans of the earth, sends a three dimensional spirit to the earth in the form of a strange looking animal. that is part bear, part sheep and part elephant. The three-dimensional spirit is 'Bes', whose form is in the shape of part bear, part elephant and part sheep. Bes is given 40 years in which to spread a message of peace and love to all of the earth's creatures. If Bes can persuade the animals to live in 'peace and love' its purpose will have been served and as a reward to the animal kingdom, the 'maker of all life' will give all animals supremacy and rule over all humans.

Douglas the Dragon - Omnibus Edition

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ISBN 13 : 1326040693
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Douglas the Dragon - Omnibus Edition written by William Forde and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tales from Portlaw Volume Ten - 'The Woman Who Hated Christmas'

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ISBN 13 : 1326222147
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Tales from Portlaw Volume Ten - 'The Woman Who Hated Christmas' written by William Forde and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-07-24 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was the marked contrast between people who loved and the people who hated Christmas, which inspired this story. 'The Woman Who Hated Christmas' tells the story of one such person, Beth Malone. As a child of ten years around Christmas Day Beth's mother dies in childbirth along with the stillborn infant. Sickened with grief, her father becomes emotionally unstable, is committed to the psychiatric ward of a local hospital and commits suicide. Left on her own with two younger sisters, Beth and her sisters are taken into Care of the Local Authority. The family is forcibly separated and do not see each other again. Beth rebels. Her foster homes are firstly resented by her and then come to be gravely feared by her. The story follows Beth through her life, first in Ireland, then in the mills of West Yorkshire, then on the streets of Manchester and finally back in Ireland where the story ends. For Beth, the experiences of Christmas are ones she would prefer to forget. Enjoy

Fighter

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ISBN 13 : 132606746X
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (26 download)

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Maw

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ISBN 13 : 1326948504
Total Pages : 128 pages
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Download or read book Maw written by William Forde and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of 'Maw' is suitable for any reader over 8 years. It is written in the style of the 1950s when the sport of boxing and football tended to dominate the world of growing boys and some girls. Because its story theme focuses on the sport of boxing and football, some girls may not feel it to be suitable for them. Maw is born exceptionally small and enters secondary school life to face the school bully. He confronts the bully and challenges him to a boxing match. On the very start of his fourteenth year of life, Maw makes a wish upon a shooting star and from that moment, his life changes. He awakes with super human powers, but quickly learns that with all power comes a responsibility to discharge such power humanely. Later, the school loses its striker from the football team at the semi- final stage of the School League Football Cup and Maw is asked to stand in as the striker. A super story told in the adventure style of writing that was more common in the 40s and 50s.

Nancy's Song

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ISBN 13 : 1326919148
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book Nancy's Song written by William Forde and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-01-15 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musically talented 10-year old Nancy loves to explore the nearby woodland and feels at home with all aspects of nature. The story tells how Nancy and her mother cope with the news of her father's terminal illness. The author addresses the subject of bereavement in a sympathetic and realistic way while successfully encouraging the young reader to accept death as an inevitable stage of life itself.