Books with title The Mountain Lamb

Country Tales by Nicola Davies with line drawings by Cathy Fisher, the collaboration behind CILIP Greenaway Medal longlisted titles Perfect and The Pond. One in a series of six illustrated short stories about young people growing up in the countryside. The Mountain Lamb When Lolly discovers a tiny orphaned lamb lost on the moor, she convinces her grandfather to let her take responsibility for raising it. As Lolly grows into this new challenge, her experience with the lamb helps her to be brave following the death of her own mother.

Seth Benton is a mountain man out of step with civilization. His era is gone, but he lingers. He's trapped with Jedediah Smith, spent many long winters in the mountains trapping beaver and dodging Blackfeet Indians. So, when an old friend, a former mountain man turned rancher asks for Benton's help in tracking rustlers, he comes down from the mountains.Benton tracks the rustlers and catches them. But, the man behind the rustling is unknown to him and his friend. They come up with a plan to catch the man, but before it can be put in place, his friend is gunned down in town. Benton races to the saloon after hearing the shots. The scene went something like this:Benton eyed the man standing at the bar, a pistol still in his hand, looking around slowly as if to dare anyone to challenge his right to do what he’d done. Benton asked him, “Why did you shoot him?” “He was going to beat me, that crazy old fool. Then he reached for his gun and was going to shoot me. I had a right to kill him. It was me or him.” A voice came from the crowd, “That’s right, mister. Old Dodd grabbed Brownie here by the shirt front and was shaking him like he was a salt holder. Then he tried to get his pistol out but Brownie beat him to it.”No one was more surprised by the shot that followed than the man called Brownie. The shot took his leg out from under him and he fell to the floor, screaming with pain and fear. Men scrambled for shelter behind tables and the bartender disappeared behind the bar. Benton moved to one side, kicked the man’s fallen pistol away, then said to the crowd, “Everyone get out of here. You, barkeep, you stay and don’t even think of bringin’ out that scatter gun you got hid down there. I want you to listen to this weasel.” Benton moved over to the groaning man, jerked him to a chair and slammed him down into it. His voice was hoarse, low and guttural when he spoke: “You got no chance at all of livin’, mister, unless you tell me who hired you to kill my friend.” Some men never seem to learn until it is too late. There are some men you can take chances with, can bluff, can stall, and can fool. There are a few who, when they’ve decided on a course and are convinced of the rightness of this course, will brook no interference, will waste no time, and will be merciless to any in their path.Seth Benton was such a man.=============This is a story that you'll enjoy. It's the Old West come alive, with characters straight out of history. This particular story shows just how tough some of these men really were. These men who risked their life trapping in the mountains, fighting heavy snows, blizzards and cold, and Indians who hunted them with the same passion that the mountain men hunted the beaver.A gunslinger in the Wild West was fairly uncommon. A cowboy chasing “cow critters” could be found throughout the Old West. In western books, historical fiction novels, or western novels, the western cowboys are a dime a dozen . (Maybe that’s where the phrase “dime novel” arose.) Cowboy stories were common on the western open range, and those cowboys told a lot of those stories, but cowboy novels were not. A “cowboy western,” was pretty uncommon during the early days of western novels. Usually, the greatest westerns were about some gunslinger in the Old West, or a marshal or sheriff made larger than life, or a mountain man (like this one), or an Indian fighter (such as Buffalo Bill). This is another western fiction novel of the highest caliber, an action packed adventure from Brevia Westerns by Voyle Glover, an author one reader said “reminds me of Louis L’Amour’s books. He was my favorite when it came to westerns.”

Moving the Mountain is a feminist utopian novel written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It was published serially in Perkins Gilman's periodical The Forerunner and then in book form, both in 1911. The book was one element in the major wave of utopian and dystopian literature that marked the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The novel was also the first volume in Gilman's utopian trilogy; it was followed by the famous Herland and its sequel, With Her in Ourland (1916).

"Miss Stafford writes with brilliance. Scene after scene is told with unforgettable care and tenuous entanglements are treated with wise subtlety. She creates a splendid sense of time, of the unending afternoons of youth, and of the actual color of noon and of night. Refinement of evil, denial of drama only make the underlying truth more terrible." --Saturday Review "Hard to match . . . for subtlety and understanding. . . written wittily, lucidly, and with great respect for the resources of the language. "--New Yorker Coming of age in pre-World War II California and Colorado brings tragedy to Molly and Ralph Fawcett in Jean Stafford's classic semi-autobiographical novel, first published in 1947. Torn between their mother's world of genteel respectability and their grandfather's and uncle's world of cowboy masculinity, neither Molly nor Ralph can find an acceptable adult role to aspire to. As events move to their swift and inevitable conclusion, Stafford uncovers and indicts the social forces that require boys to sacrifice the feminine in order to become men and doom intelligent girls who aren't pretty.

Moving the Mountain is the first book in Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman's well known trilogy. The second book in the trilogy is her land mark classic Herland. Moving Mountain delivers Gilman's program for reforming society. She concentrates on measures of rationality and efficiency that could be instituted in her own time, largely with greater social cooperation - equal education and treatment for girls and boys, day-care centers for working women, and other issues still relevant a century later.

After barely escaping the capital of Baradwaythe, Agulaar and Raische find themselves fleeing into the Northern Lands, a dark domain that is controlled by the feared Mountain King. Desperate to rid themselves of Jezyra, the Ura'Nagul witch pursuing them, the two Na'Lek believe they may be able to broker a deal. But what they find is not what they expected. The Mountain King has a secret...one that will condemn them to execution for their malicious crime or provide them with an unlikely ally in the war to come.

Usually, adults understand me when I say, "Jesus really changes your life." They understand better, because they have lived through more experiences and can look back on those experiences with the perspective that God had everything in His hands. He knew what would happen. He knew when it would happen. He even knew the people and circumstances that it would take to get you to where he wanted you.I was taught from a very young age Romans 8:28, "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to His purpose." Knowing that verse as a child helped me through many of my trials and hardships.It is quite a process getting to the place where you really begin to truly understand the goal of God is not to harm you; even though it seems like everything is out to take us down, overwhelm, and crush us. The Lord is right there through even the worst of it. His plan is in motion, and what lies in store for every Christian, no matter the denomination, is more beautiful and more glorious than you could ever imagine.Although the story is directed toward children, my goal in this story is to help all people see that God is really and truly working everything for your good. He is making something perfect out of the huge mess. He is taking our lumps of coal and, with a little pressure, turning them into diamonds.

Nate's family has a secret, and it's wrapped up in a song. The problem is, his preacher father hates music, and when he catches Nate hanging around downtown Bristol with musicians like Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family, he comes down hard on him. So Nate sets out in search of himself and the song he thinks will heal his family. Set during the "big bang" of country music in the late 1920s, Nate's journey of self-discovery parallels that of a region finding its voice for the first time.

It’s 1961, and Harriet Elizabeth Oechsner has almost completed her sophomore year in high school, when she’s faced with the dreaded news that her family is moving again. This time it’s because her father Erik’s liberal theology and commitment to social justice has angered his parishioners, and he’s been forced to resign from his church after only a year as pastor. The resulting move thrusts the five members of the close knit Oechsner family into a community bathed in privilege, steeped in tradition, and staunchly resistant to change. Mountain Brook, a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama, is a community separated only by a mountain ridge from the struggle for human rights being waged on the other side. And yet, it’s a community so distanced by privilege and color from its parent city and the needs of the poor and disenfranchised within, that it may as well be on the other side of the world.Harriet must once again assume the role of the outsider adapting to another new school, her third in three years. Her encounters with new teachers and peers lead her into situations that are at times painful, lonely, embarrassing, shocking, and often humorous.Harriet’s adjustment to her new school is fraught by teenage angst and emotion; and, as a child of the Cold War and the civil rights era, she is thrust into the realities of injustice, separation, and the threat of nuclear holocaust. However, the story maintains a hopeful tone, as the plot is interwoven with themes of inclusiveness, loyalty, friendship, and reconciliation.Readers who fell in love with Hattie Robinson in Hattie’s Place and In the Fullness of Time, will be happy to know that Over the Mountain takes up two generations later, with Hattie’s granddaughter and namesake, Harriet, as the main character.