Books with author Patricia Hanley

Kate Banner, an American midwife, heads to Mexico for a three-week visit in the mid-1980s and ends up staying south of the border for eight years. From Mexico she travels first to Nicaragua and then to Guatemala, two nations torn by revolution and sunk in horrific poverty and violence. Along the way, she delivers babies, administers what first aid she can, and becomes involved with a group of activists, most of them from North America. The novel opens in the midst of a hurricane, during which a young pregnant woman goes into labor in a rowboat. Kate successfully delivers the child, but the mother dies soon afterwards. It is this event that starts the wandering midwife thinking about going home at last. When a longtime love affair with an American arms supplier to theSandinistas goes south, Kate heads to Guatemala where friends have a house for a little rest and some thinking time. All thoughts of Indiana are banished, however, when she meets her fellow lodger, Father Dixie Ryan, a priest who is struggling with his vocation. The two become lovers and decide to open Hummingbird House, a clinic and school for Guatemalan children. Unfortunately, even the best intentions can go disastrously awry, and Kate must experience terrible loss before she can find eventual salvation.

When Kate Banner, an American midwife in Nicaragua, loses another patient - a young woman who had recently given birth - she decides it is time to go home, because to care for the children of war you have to cut off pieces of your heart. Her travels home lead her to Guatemala where she again encounters the innocent victims of a country's war. Hummingbird House is a devastatingly powerful and emotionally trustworthy story of a human heart unbinding itself in the most unjust of worlds.

Special 20th Anniversary EditionNational Book Award Finalist 1999Kate Banner is a North American midwife helping flood victims in Nicaragua in the 1980s. When she loses another patient--a young woman who gave birth only the night before in the bottom of a swamped wooden boat—Kate knows it is time to go home. But her journey home leads her first into the seething secret wars of Guatemala, where she discovers her greatest challenges, and her greatest chances to love.A finalist for the National Book Award and The New Yorker Best Book Awards when it was originally published in 1999, Patricia Henley's Hummingbird House is the devastatingly powerful and emotionally unforgettable story of a human heart unbinding itself in the most unjust of worlds. This beautiful novel of women in war delivers an ending marked by its passion, strength, substance, and beauty.This special 20th anniversary edition includes a foreword by Steve Yarbrough, a Q&A with the author, and a book club reader's guide.

Special 20th Anniversary EditionNational Book Award Finalist 1999Kate Banner is a North American midwife helping flood victims in Nicaragua in the 1980s. When she loses another patient--a young woman who gave birth only the night before in the bottom of a swamped wooden boat—Kate knows it is time to go home. But her journey home leads her first into the seething secret wars of Guatemala, where she discovers her greatest challenges, and her greatest chances to love.A finalist for the National Book Award and The New Yorker Best Book Awards when it was originally published in 1999, Patricia Henley's Hummingbird House is the devastatingly powerful and emotionally unforgettable story of a human heart unbinding itself in the most unjust of worlds. This beautiful novel of women in war delivers an ending marked by its passion, strength, substance, and beauty.This special 20th anniversary edition includes a foreword by Steve Yarbrough, a Q&A with the author, and a book club reader's guide.

Gazing up at the moon above with wonder in his eyes, Tyler asks his mother one night if the moon is really a bouncy ball. She laughingly says, "It sure does look like one from here." Tyler decides he must find out for himself. Craving adventure, the curious little boy sets out with his pet bird named Chaser to travel to the moon! Tyler builds his very own spacecraft and gathers all the space gear they will need for the trip. Tyler and Chaser blast off toward the moon and meet some very interesting new friends while in outer space. When they reach their destination, Tyler Meets the Moon. He then finds out if the moon is really a bouncy ball. This charming bedtime story will bring magic into your child's life, as you share it while gazing up into the night sky. Author Patricia Hano wrote this imaginative book to share with her son, Tyler, who once asked her if the moon was a bouncy ball. Following this simple question by a little boy, a new children's author has emerged. A Florida native, Hano lives with her family between Orlando and Tampa. She is a dental assistant and plans to write more children's stories with Tyler as the hero. Publisher's website: http://www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/TylerMeetsTheMoon.html