[PDF] The Rooftop Christmas Tree eBook

Author : Landria Onkka
Publisher : Outskirts Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 33,90 MB
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781478740018

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Inspired by a true story, this Christmas romance ends with a miracle you will never forget. No one in the small southern town of Rosedale knows why reclusive Mr. Landis places a lit Christmas tree on the roof of his deteriorating home. But, he has hauled it up there for as long as anyone can remember, landing him in Judge Conner's courtroom every year and earning jail time just in time for Christmas. Having grown up on his street, defense attorney Sarah Wright remembers the troubled household and reaches out to help the man, but he refuses. When former best friend and law school mate, John Rivera reappears in Rosedale after a long and mysterious absence, things get interesting. Refusing to admit romantic feelings for him or to forgive him for his unexplained departure, the two are at odds until Judge Conner takes matters into his own hands. With only a few days until Christmas, the Judge imposes the task of rectifying the Landis case for good. Their deadline is Christmas Day, an impossible feat that pushes them to the limits. Forced to pull their resources together, the young attorneys must set differences aside and soon discover that not all is as it seems in their world or their troubled Mr. Landis's. Inspired by a true story, the life changing and shocking ending is a testament to unwavering faith, hope, romance, and miracles . . . just in time for Christmas.

Author : Lauren Rosewarne
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 41,54 MB
Release : 2017-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1498541828

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Film plays a vital role in the celebration of Christmas. For decades, it has taught audiences about what the celebration of the season looks like – from the decorations to the costumes and to the expected snowy weather – as well as mirrors our own festivities back to us. Films like It’s a Wonderful Life and Home Alone have come to play key roles in real-life domestic celebrations: watching such titles has become, for many families, every bit as important as tree-trimming and leaving cookies out for Santa. These films have exported the American take on the holiday far and wide and helped us conjure an image of the perfect holiday. Rather than settling the ‘what is a Christmas film?’ debate – indeed, Die Hard and Lethal Weapon are discussed within – Analyzing Christmas in Film: Santa to the Supernatural focuses on the how Christmas is presented on the deluge of occasions when it appears. While most Christmas films are secular, religion makes many cameos, appearing through Nativity references, storylines involving spiritual rebirth, the framing of Santa as a Christ-like figure and the all-importance of family, be it the Holy family or just those gathered around the dining table. Also explored are popular narratives involving battles with stress and melancholy, single parents and Christmas martyrs, visits from ghosts and angels, big cities and small towns, break-ups and make-ups and the ticking clock of mortality. Nearly 1000 films are analyzed in this volume to determine what the portrayal of Christmas reveals about culture, society and faith as well as sex roles, consumerism, aesthetics and aspiration.

Author : Fernanda Trías
Publisher : Charco Press
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 10,71 MB
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1913867056

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In a rundown apartment building, in an unnamed city in Uruguay, a father and daughter close themselves off from the world. "The world is this house," says Clara, and the rooftop becomes their last recess of freedom. A pet canary is their only witness. As Clara’s connection to the outside is stripped away—the neighbor who stops coming by, the lover whose existence is only known by a pregnancy—desperation and paranoia take hold. It's a stifling embrace, and we are there with her, our narrator, dreading what we know the future holds.

Author : Michael Sheahan
Publisher : Finest Books Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,51 MB
Release : 2010-10
Category : Children's songs
ISBN : 9781935679004

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In a holiday song, Santa Claus dances the Roof Top Hop as he makes his annual rounds.

Author : Jon Agee
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 49,74 MB
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0698142489

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Ever wonder what Santa was like as a child? Award-winning author/illustrator Jon Agee brings us the funny, playful answer in this Christmas picture book destined to become a classic. Little Santa loves the North Pole. The rest of his family? Not so much. So, when they decide to move to Florida, Santa is miserable. Lucky for him, a blizzard foils their plans. The only way out of the house is up the chimney. Up goes Santa, to look for help, and along the way, he meets a reindeer and a large group of elves, who are more than eager to join in the rescue! With the sly humor of Jon Klassen and the read-aloud pleasure of How the Grinch Stole Christmas, this tale of Santa’s beginnings is perfect for every kid’s holiday library.

Author : Dana Heller Levitt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,41 MB
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136599967

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Many counselors learn about ethics in graduate school by applying formal, step-by-step ethical decision-making models that require counselors to be aware of their values and refrain from imposing personal values that might harm clients. However, in the real world, counselors often make split-second ethical decisions based upon personal values. Values and Ethics in Counseling illustrates the ways in which ethical decisions are values—but more than that, it guides counselors through the process of examining their own values and analyzing how these values impact ethical decision making. Each chapter presents ethical decision making as what it is: a very personal, values-laden process, one that is most effectively illustrated through the real-life stories of counselors at various stages of professional development—from interns to seasoned clinicians—who made value-based decisions. Each story is followed by commentary from the author as well as analysis from the editors to contextualize the material and encourage reflection.

Author : Dr. Seuss
Publisher : RH Childrens Books
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 42,80 MB
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0385372035

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Get in on the Christmas cheer with Dr. Seuss’s iconic holiday classic starring the Grinch and Cindy-Lou Who—guaranteed to grow your heart three sizes! Every Who down in Who-ville liked Christmas a lot...but the Grinch, who lived just north of Who-ville, did NOT! Not since “’Twas the night before Christmas” has the beginning of a Christmas tale been so instantly recognizable. From the Grinch and his dog, Max, to Cindy-Lou and all the residents of Who-ville, this heartwarming story about the effects of the Christmas spirit will warm even the coldest and smallest of hearts. Like mistletoe, candy canes, and caroling, the Grinch is a mainstay of the holidays, and his story is perfect for readers young and old.

Author : Brian Charles
Publisher : A John Scognamiglio Book
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 34,79 MB
Release : 2022-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1496736400

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In the spirit of The Notebook, Brian Charles’ Before I Go is at once a tender love story and a powerful, provocative exploration of life after loss, and the numinous links that tie all our lives together. A year after her husband’s plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean, Abby Gamble knows she needs to start moving beyond her grief. She and Ben shared a deep love, made even stronger by the heartache they went through together. But Ben would want her to keep living. So Abby throws herself once more into her cosmetics company—only to find herself at a crossroads when she meets Joel, a physician whose past is as scarred as hers. Joel has never forgiven himself for a fateful childhood decision. That guilt has spurred him on to save other lives. When he meets Abby he begins to see a way forward, though Abby is holding back, struggling with the idea of finally leaving Ben behind. Yet Ben isn’t gone. Ever since his plane went down, he’s been trying to make his way back to Abby. That journey begins on an island thousands of miles away, as Ben discovers his journal among the wreckage debris that has washed up on shore—a series of letters that recounts Abby and Ben’s love story. Rereading his letters about the life they planned, and the joy and misfortune they encountered along the way, Ben knows what he must do. Somehow, he must set out to see Abby again—even if he doesn’t know what will be waiting for him in the extraordinary event that he makes it home . . .

Author : Clement Clarke Moore
Publisher : Boston : Atlantic monthly Press
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 11,88 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Children's poetry, American
ISBN :

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A poem about the visit that Santa Claus pays to the children of the world during the night before every Christmas.

Author : David Appleby
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 24,8 MB
Release : 2014-02-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 149317066X

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In this carefully paced novella the author offers the reader an admixture of mystery and charm when an English professor promises his lover-colleague on her death bed that he will complete her landmark study of one of Britain’s most illustrious novelists. She leaves him her research notes along with a batch of letters she has written to him. Enter next The Girl with the Wistful Eyes --a strange college student and single mother of a five year old who rents the apartment above the professor‘s and sets in motion events that will send his life spiraling. The characters in Mr. Appleby’s eclectic collection of short stories are caught in isolated moments of crisis that speak to ‘the human condition’ ...a despairing university student returns to her grandmother’s house seeking a remedy for her broken heart; a young man attempts to make sense of a mysterious girl’s profound melancholy; a young women unwittingly relives a past love within the crevices of a new love, and in “The Catalog Bride,” a story rich with nuance, an aging university professor strikes a Faustian bargain--with himself. Cover Art: Erika Appleby