Books published by publisher Angels' Portion Books

Although a best seller in its day, The Cricket on the Hearth is seen by many of this generation as standing in the shadow of Charles Dickens’ more popular volume <i>A Christmas Carol</i>.Undeservedly so!A more-than-delightful trace through a Victorian Christmas, Dickens tells the story of a kindly couple and their mysterious lodger, a poor toymaker and his blind daughter, a lost son, and a parsimonious toy merchant set upon marrying a virtuous young maiden against her better desires.But as you’d expect from Dickens, a magic of sorts is stirring amidst the story’s participants—all under the watchful eyes of a songful cricket that, as Dickens takes hold of your imagination, may prove to be something so much more.

"Indeed, the story is aimed at kids, but it isn't a story that stays there. It's a story about youth venturing into the world of adults. It's the tale of a boy seeking adventure in the frighteningly treacherous world of gentlemen and scoundrels, of loyalty and mutinous betrayal. The boy, Jim Hawkins, learns swiftly that if he is to survive in such a world, he will need to provide for himself, and to do this, he'll need a plentiful supply of courage... Will Jim become an honorable gent like Dr. Livesey? Will his last days be as the drunken fool, Billy Bones? Will his finale prove he's cut from Long John Silver's cloth, ultimately becoming a man twisted by greed for gold, a man willing to betray even those he'd call 'friends'? Silver thinks so, and there are times throughout when the reader will think so, too. However, even as these questions hover in the background, another maintains its place at the forefront: Who will get to the treasure first--Long John Silver or Jim Hawkins?" -- From the Introduction

A short but tantalizing adventure novel, The Call of the Wild follows the life of Buck, a sturdy Saint Bernard-Scotch Collie mix stolen from his easy life in California and put to the test among the merciless terrains of Yukon, Canada. All along the way, while in the care of both the cruel and the kind, Buck discovers a deeper, more primal skill for outwitting and outlasting man and nature—and ultimately proving himself legendary.

The year is 1790. The Revolutionary War has settled, but the ghosts of combat remain.One particularly vengeful specter—a Hessian soldier whose head was most unfortunately removed by a cannonball—is rumored to haunt the borderland glen to Tarry Town known as Sleepy Hollow.Ichabod Crane—a mindfully superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut—finds himself in service to this tiny Dutch settlement, as well as enticed by the prospect of marrying Katrina Van Tassel, the only daughter of the wealthy landowner, Baltus Van Tassel. But to win her hand, the gangly gent must first outwit and outmaneuver his rival, Abraham “Brom Bones” Van Brunt.Or is there another he must outpace, a cloaked and terrifying rider waiting to bring punishment at the swampy intersection near an ill-fated tulip tree?A gothic horror story first published in 1820, Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow continues to prove a long-lasting eloquence for seducing and frightening generations of readers.

Type 1 Diabetes is a monster. By such monsters, faith is tested. But God is there. He is listening. He is acting.He can be trusted. At its core, Type One Confessional explores in narrative form the struggle to reconcile God's love in times of crisis. In particular, Reverend Thoma speaks directly to the unexpected and life-altering calamity of his seven-year-old daughter’s diagnosis with what is often an overwhelming disease—one that is both difficult to manage, and if left untreated, is more than deadly. Thoma does this in a semi-fictional way—that is, each of the events included in the volume is true, and yet, even though the back-and-forth engagements between the Creator and one of His pastors are fictionalized, the content within arises from the Word of God—the place where God’s voice is heard clearly and where He meets each human being with the promise of His love in the midst of the darkness of uncertainty.