Books with author John Kennett

Emily Anne and her friends are getting ready to return to school after the Christmas vacation. Christmas is over, the Christmas play is history and Merry Robinson is now taking care of her new baby, Noellele, who was born on Christmas Day. However, the return to school is delayed by a huge blizzard which not only closes the city down, filling the streets with piles of snow, but causes the electricity to go out on the coldest day, plunging the city into darkness and cold. Emily Anne’s family and church pull together to rescue many people from the dangerous cold, giving them a place for shelter and heat. Emily Anne’s dad and some church men drag wood stoves through the driving snow to provide for heat. Emily Anne is disappointed that the restart of school is delayed, but her brother, Scotty, is loving huge snow piles to sled on. For Emily Anne, this is an example of people being willing to help others in need, even at danger to themselves. Read “The Longest Winter” to see what happens in a huge life storm to Emily Anne and her family. Read on!

By the Thurber Prize-winner and author of the New York Times bestseller, Love Poems for Married People, Talk to Me is a wry yet tenderhearted novel for our age, and a sharp look at how one man's mistake can be what leads him back to his family--and to the man he used to be.It's a story that Ted Grayson has reported time and time again as a network TV anchor: the public downfall of those at the top. He just never imagined that it would happen to him. After a profanity-laced tirade is caught on camera, his reputation and career are destroyed, leaving him without a script for the first time in years.While American viewers may have loved and trusted Ted for decades, his family certainly didn't. At the time of his meltdown, Ted is estranged from his wife, Claire, and his adult daughter, Franny, a writer for a popular website. When Franny's boss suggests that she confront Ted in an interview, it may be the chance for Ted to take a hard look at how he got here, and to find his way back before it's too late.Talk to Me is a sharply observed, darkly funny, and ultimately warm story about a man who wakes up too late to the mess he's made of his life...and about our capacity for forgiveness and empathy.

Sandi is very disappointed in Emily Anne for trying to help the low-class student, Mandy, find the home-less student, Freida. Emily Anne is trying to be friends with the kids Sandi considers to be losers, and that makes Sandi angry! Sandi is always trying to protect Emily Anne’s and her reputation by being seen with the classier students in their school, but Emily Anne just wants to be a help to others, no matter their social status. Mandy needs to find the illusive Freida, the bridge girl, and Emily Anne wants to help her d0 that, but Sandi gets wrapped up in controversy, as always, and Emily Anne tries to help Sandi improve her behavior, leading her to a better way to live. Experience Emily Anne’s journey through this crazy bridge adventure as she learns to live life more honestly, embracing what it means to be a child of God. Identify with her, laugh and cry with her, as she learns to navigate life’s harder issues, trying to help everyone just get along and be happy. That’s just what Emily Anne always does. Read this amazing, life-changing adventure which was written just for you.

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!!

Although horror shows on television are popular in the 1990s thanks to the success of Chris Carter's The X-Files, such has not always been the case. Creators Rod Serling, Dan Curtis, William Castle, Quinn Martin, John Newland, George Romero, Stephen King, David Lynch, Wes Craven, Sam Raimi, Aaron Spelling and others have toiled to bring the horror genre to American living rooms for years. This large-scale reference book documents an entire genre, from the dawn of modern horror television with the watershed Serling anthology, Night Gallery (1970), a show lensed in color and featuring more graphic makeup and violence than ever before seen on the tube, through more than 30 programs, including those of the 1998-1999 season. Complete histories, critical reception, episode guides, cast, crew and guest star information, as well as series reviews are included, along with footnotes, a lengthy bibliography and an in-depth index. From Kolchak: The Night Stalker to Millennium, from The Evil Touch to Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Twin Peaks, Terror Television is a detailed reference guide to three decades of frightening television programs, both memorable and obscure.

In this book, you get to see and hear Emily Anne, a smart and sensitive tween, experience some of life’s adventures. Yes, life can be a little scary with all those voices clambering for your attention. Someone wants you to be stronger, taller, prettier and someone else pushes you aside because you’re in their way. But wait! You are a child of the Most High God. He is Who you should be trying to please.Emily Anne lives each day, trying to walk like Jesus asks her to, and although she has some disappointments, doubts and set-backs, with the encouragement and help of her family, her church and her friends, most of them, she shows us an effective way to make it through the difficulties and storms of life. You will love her tenacity, her self-examination and her special way of finding some joy and even peace as life rushes at her. Like her, you will find yourself immersed in the planning of the birthday party, filled with laughter in anticipating a party and the beginning of summer vacation. And like her, you may shed a few tears on your way to seeing that life is not always a party, but it can always be a lot of fun, even in the hard times. Enter into Emily Anne’s world and experience some wonder, some joy and life. We double-dog dare you.