Books with author Alice McDermott

You will enjoy 125 short stories that include: How Redtails Learned to Dance Owl Trumps Hawk The Adoption of Regal Horned Lizard A Black-headed Grosbeak's Motherly Advice Take one or two stories a night before bedtime. Adults need bedtime stories too. The child within needs the pleasure, and the adult needs reminding. Who am I? The child knows. The adult must remember. Remember.

Sharing the word of God with your children has become even easier! The "My Bible is Cool" series are specially formulated to attract the attention of children between the ages of 8-12 years old. Each volume holds a total of twenty five short bible stories that are poetically illustrated and has their references in the Old Testament scriptures. From the story of Creation, to Israel's enslavement by the Egyptians, your child will definitely agree that the Bible is Cool!

Take this book of bedtime stories that feature the desert and it's creatures to read to your little ones or read to the child within. You will enjoy 125 short stories that include: How Redtails Learned to Dance Owl Trumps Hawk The Adoption of Regal Horned Lizard A Black-headed Grosbeak's Motherly Advice Take one or two stories a night before bedtime. Adults need bedtime stories too. The child within needs the pleasure, and the adult needs reminding. Who am I? The child knows. The adult must remember. Remember.

A multigenerational commune in a walled state, the Colony has been a fixture in the small Pacific Northwest town for over a hundred years. When Sammy O'Doul impulsively trespasses, he watches a strange ritual, where an old woman is dug up alive from the forest. Before he can escape, he's surprised by a strangely simple old man who tells him all is not as it appears. Gradually Sammy uncovers surprising secrets that challenge not only his impressions of the Colony but of himself.

On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens the gas taps in his Brooklyn tenement. He is determined to prove—to the subway bosses who have recently fired him, to his badgering, pregnant wife—“that the hours of his life belong to himself alone.” In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Savior, an aging nun, a Little Sister of the Sick Poor, appears, unbidden, to direct the way forward for his widow and his unborn child. In Catholic Brooklyn, in the early part of the twentieth century, decorum, superstition, and shame collude to erase the mans brief existence, and yet his suicide, although never spoken of, reverberates through many lives—testing the limits and the demands of love and sacrifice, of forgiveness and forgetfulness, even through multiple generations. Rendered with remarkable lucidity and intelligence, Alice McDermotts The Ninth Hour is a crowning achievement of one of the finest American writers at work today.