Books with author John Kennedy

After a very long, hard winter, Emily Anne and her friends are really looking forward to spring with warm temperatures, sunny days and lots of flowers and green grass. Due to a Bible lesson taught by Pastor Ed about sheep and goats, Sandi decides to adopt the flower garden of Mrs. Wilson, which she and Emily Anne tend carefully. Well, at least Emily Anne does. Even though Sandi tries to do everything she can to become "a sheep," this story doesn't have a happy ending. In the midst of beautiful spring flowers, and many kindnesses and so much fun, some real darkness enters into Emily Anne's world. How will she deal with that darkness? Read the exciting Volume #8, "Spring Flowers," to see how she overcomes these trials of life. You will be suprised!!

John F. Kennedy had long been interested in the topic of political courage, beginning with his senior thesis at Harvard. The thesis, later published as Why England Slept, was a study of the failure of British political leaders in the 1930s to oppose popular resistance to rearming, leaving the country ill-prepared for World War II. Profiles in Courage, which Kennedy dedicated to his wife Jacqueline Kennedy, received the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1957.

If you ask the people that know Jess Robinson, they’ll tell you he’s a bounty hunter. But to Jess, he’s a hunter, and he doesn’t ever let his prey get away. For several years, he’s been traveling the west, searching for his sister’s killer. Finally, he finds his way to the hometown of the man, Lightning Creek. Soon after he arrives, the town council approaches him with a win-win scenario: become town marshal, and they would allow him to take the killer without any fuss. It seems easy enough. But, what he finds is himself right in the middle of a diabolical plot of a powerful cattle baron. And what’s worse, the man who he’s been chasing this entire time may not be the killer at all! Follow Jess on his adventure of wit, daring, twists, turns, as Jess seeks to become the embodiment of what it means to exact western justice.

Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy, Harper & Brothers, 1956, First Edition BOOK CLUB EDITION. This copy has the picture of President Kennedy on the rear cover by Hank Walker. On The Cover are the words "Decisive Moments in The Lives of Celebrated Americans." In 1954-1955, Senator Kennedy's active role in the affairs of the nation was interrupted for the better part of a year by his convalescence from an operation to correct a disability incurred as skipper of a World War II torpedo boat. He used his "idle" hours to rediscover, and do intensive research on, the courage and patriotism of a handful of Americans who revealed a special sort of greatness. This Book was the result. A Powerful and Moving Novel!