Alex Tresniowski
Author
Language
English
Description
On December 10, 2009, Crystal McVea stopped breathing. Her mother screamed for help and a nurse tried to revive her. Today, Crystal does not remember what happened during the nine minutes she was unconscious; she simply remembers waking up in heaven. For most of Crystal's broken life, she felt utterly beyond the reach of God. Then came December 10, and the nine minutes that changed everything.
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the #1 New York Times and international bestselling authors of An Invisible Thread comes a heartwarming and inspiring book about the incredible impact that acts of kindness from strangers can have on the world around us. One day in 1986, Laura Schroff, a busy ad sales executive, passed an eleven-year-old boy panhandling on the street. She stopped and offered to take him to McDonald's for lunch. Twenty years later, at Laura's fiftieth birthday...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xii, 322 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author Alex Tresniowski comes a page-turning, remarkable true-crime thriller recounting the 1910 murder of ten-year-old Marie Smith, the dawn of modern criminal detection and the launch of the NAACP. In the tranquil seaside town of Asbury Park, New Jersey, ten-year-old schoolgirl Marie Smith is brutally murdered. Small town officials, unable to find the culprit, call upon the young manager of a New York detective agency...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
321 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Shares the story of Ari Hallmark, who is now a high school senior, and what happened to her during the tornado that claimed the lives of her parents, delivering a powerful message to the world: you will see your loved ones again"--
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
347 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1964, a woman pretending to be a nurse kidnapped an infant boy named Paul Fronczak from a Chicago hospital. Two years later, police found a boy abandoned outside a variety store in New Jersey. The FBI tracked down Dora Fronczak, the kidnapped infant's mother, and she identified the abandoned boy as her son. The family spent the next fifty years believing they were whole again -- but Paul was always unsure about his true identity. Then, four years...
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"This heartfelt story tells the true but unlikely tale of a young woman working in the city and a young boy in desperate need of friendship and guidance. In the short time after they meet, Laura realizes Maurice has never celebrated Christmas, so she opens her heart and her home and sets out to show him how wondrous the holiday is. What she finds through his glowing eyes is that the meaning of the holiday is truly about giving, not getting, as they...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xvi, 317 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
Español
Description
"El 10 de diciembre de 2009 me ingresaron en el hospital por un dolor abdominal ... un dolor terrible se apoderó de mí de tal modo que perdí la conciencia. Una de las enfermeras intentó reanimarme sin éxito ... De los frenéticos minutos que transcurrieron entre mi muerte y el momento en que los médicos lograron devolverme a la vida, sólo recuerdo que me fui quedanado dormida, que luego desperté en el cielo y que estuve con Dios"--Page 4 of...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
198 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"On one rainy afternoon, on a crowded New York City street corner, eleven-year-old Maurice met Laura. Maurice asked Laura for spare change because he was hungry, and something made Laura stop and ask Maurice if she could take him to lunch."--Amazon.com.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
270 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Hi, I'm Joy, and I've had the amazing fortune of living a life full of daring, creativity, and heart. My story, my life, with all its twists and unexpected turns, can at times seem like a work of fiction--even to me, the person who actually lived it! I'm so excited to share it with you--it's better than a romance novel because it's real! And the best part is, through it all, I've learned so much about ideas, dreams, and family. These are hard-won...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the #1 New York Times and international bestselling authors of An Invisible Thread comes a heartwarming and inspiring book about the incredible impact that acts of kindness from strangers can have on the world around us.
One day in 1986, Laura Schroff, a busy ad sales executive, passed an eleven-year-old boy panhandling on the street. She stopped and offered to take him to McDonald's. Twenty years later, at Laura's fiftieth...
One day in 1986, Laura Schroff, a busy ad sales executive, passed an eleven-year-old boy panhandling on the street. She stopped and offered to take him to McDonald's. Twenty years later, at Laura's fiftieth...
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
A man desperate to know his true identity struggles to solve the infamous kidnapping that nearly destroyed his family—and find his twin sister, who has been missing for more than fifty years.
When he was ten years old, Paul Fronczak was snooping around for Christmas presents in a crawl space in his family's Chicago home. There, he found hundreds of old newspaper clippings about the kidnapping of a one-day-old infant in a hospital in
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