Books with author Charles Martin

A man with a painful past. A child with a doubtful future. And a shared journey toward healing for both their hearts... It begins on the shaded town square in a sleepy Southern town. A spirited seven-year-old has a brisk business at her lemonade stand. But the little girl’s pretty yellow dress can’t quite hide the ugly scar on her chest. The stranger understands more about it than he wants to admit. And the beat-up bread truck careening around the corner with its radio blaring is about to change the trajectory of both their lives. Before it’s over, they’ll both know there are painful reasons why crickets cry... and that miracles lurk around unexpected corners.

Cooper O’Connor was a long way from home—both geographically and from the damage he caused. Now that he’s back, is healing possible? At the age of eighteen, singer/songwriter Cooper O’Connor thumbed his nose at his dad, stole most everything he held dear, and made his way to Nashville . . . where he promptly lost everything. After five difficult years, he fell in love with Daley Cross, an angelic voice in need of a song. As their friendship grows and he realizes his love for her, he’s framed for a crime, shot, and left to die in a house on fire. Miraculously, he survives but the damage is severe: he can no longer sing or play music. He quietly returns home to the mountains of Colorado, hoping to answer the questions that plague him. With forgiveness and reconciliation a distant dream, Cooper searches for a way to use his gifts for others—always hoping that somewhere along the way redemption will come within reach.

They have one summer to find what was lost long ago."Never settle for less than the truth," she told him. But when you don't even know your real name, the truth gets a little complicated. It can nestle so close to home it's hard to see. It can even flourish inside a lie. And as Chase Walker discovered, learning the turth about who you are can be as elusive--and as magical--as chasing fireflies on a summer night.A haunting story about fishing, baseball, home cooking, and other matters of life and death...from the author of The Dead Don't Dance and When Crickets Cry.

The five plush toys of PHORF (PE-horf) learn from experience what it takes to grow a heart. When their training is over will each be ready to become a Best Plushy Friend? What must a plushy know and do to make a child love them forever? Will the platypus be too different? Will the hen be too emotional? Will the opossum go to sleep on the job? Will the ram want to talk all the time? Will the fox run away? Like every lonely child, the plushies are faced with big questions.

Excerpt from Five Thousand French Idioms: Gallicisms, Proverbs, Idiomatic Adverbs, Idiomatic Adjectives, Idiomatic ComparisonsIs there a need of such a book in colleges? Edward S. Joynes, professor of modern languages in South Caro lina University, answers this question in the preface of his annotated edition of Le Cid, by Corneille: No language is so superior to its grammar as the French; no language.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Grammar teaches only the construction of a language. Idioms infuse its spirit, wit and witticisms. Grammar builds the house. Idioms decorate and furnish it. The house without the furniture cannot be inhabited. The furniture without the house cannot be used.The solemn and pure academic French language is not easily adapted to the expression of "witty remarks and Gallic gaiety". Picturesque words and comparisons are always more expressive than the conventional speech. The majority of French people, for want of a sound education, like to try their natural wit in the domain of images, all borrowed from nature, and so they create continually new expressions conveying a double meaning. What I say of the French is also true of any other language, each having peculiar constructions differentiating it from the others. We all know that a literal translation from French into English or vice versa results in a most ridiculous and laughable mixture. Mark Twain illustrated it very well, in one of his books, when he retranslated, word for word, the French translation a journalist had made of one his witty compositions.The aim of this book being to give the student a clear understanding of idioms met in reading French novels and daily literature, it is suggested that the study be begun by translating each idiom of a lesson, word for word, into English, observing how this literal translation compares with the real meaning given opposite each one. This will make a strong impression on the memory. Then the corresponding exercise should be either written or given orally, once, with the help of its model idioms, and again, without such assistance. For the following recitation, one should review aloud the idioms, thus studied, and then in turn give the corresponding English, being guided only by the ear.

When Zir rescues Amda from raiding soldiers in a dusty, remote gully, neither girl has any idea of the adventures they will soon share. As their journey together evolves, they find they have much in common as well as many vital skills to teach one another. Along with Zir’s faithful dog, Fayla, the girls face danger and good times as they make their way first through the desert and later over the sea to Amda’s city and back to Zir’s homeland. Set in a world long ago and far away—a world of nomads, traders, armies, and connected families—Zir’s Journey is a tale that challenges stereotypes of both culture and gender.

"When Maggie opened her eyes that New Year's Day some seventeen months ago, I felt like I could see again. The fog lifted off my soul, and for the first time since our son had died and she had gone to sleep—some four months, sixteen days, eighteen hours, and nineteen minutes earlier—I took a breath deep enough to fill both my lungs."Life began again for Dylan Styles when his beloved wife Maggie awoke from a coma. A coma brought on by the intense two-day labor that resulted in heartbreaking loss. In this poignant love story that is redolent with Southern atmosphere, Dylan and Maggie must come to terms with their past before they can embrace their future.

Henry Stanley Ostrich was no ordinary ostrich. He was perhaps the brightest ostrich that the world has ever seen. And that’s why he knew that there must be something more to life than eating and drinking and burying your head in the sand. So one day Henry left home to try and find what that thing missing from his life was.Unfortunately Henry had no idea what he was looking for. And he had no idea how to find it. In fact he had no real idea about anything. But, like Candide before him, that wasn’t going to stop Henry.