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Sooty The Green Eyed Kitten
$23.79Add to cartIn the faraway days when the land was young, and still very sparsely settled, domestic cats were very rare in America. They were quite unknown in the backwoods settlement where the Alden family lived in their snug log cabin. So when Mr. Alden returned home from a trip to the distant trading post with a tiny, fat kitten in his saddlebag, the twins, Makepeace and Prudence, were astonished as well as delighted at the sight of the lively little creature. One morning, as the kitten leaped for a mouse, he missed and landed in a large crock of jam instead-and that started the wild events that followed….This is the tenth book in The Good Lord Made Them All series by Joe L. Wheeler. Owney, Smoky, Wildfire, Dick, Spot, Amelia, Togo, Tawny, Stinky, and Sooty make up the set and feature fascinating stories of many different animals, including dogs, cats, horses, jaguars, skunks, and squirrels.
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Stinky The Skunk That Wouldnt Leave
$19.59Add to cartThis ninth book in The Good Lord Made Them All series is filled with stories both strange and wonderful. These stories will stay with the reader long after they have finished the book. Author Joe Wheeler says “putting this collection together was exciting because it was such a new and unorthodox theme for a story anthology.”Clear here to view all the books in The Good Lord Made Them All series.
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Tawny The Magnificent Jaguar
$20.29Add to cart“Tawny showed no alarm. Why should he? He was not afraid. The great three-hundred-pound cat had never in his life met anything that he could not conquer…. “Just as the painted pair caught a welcome whiff of the pungent eucalyptus tree that marked the hidden jungle entrance they were planning to enter, Tawny’s quivering nostrils caught a faint trace of something else – the dreaded man scent! He did not need to see the group of native hunters half hidden in the underbrush to know that all was lost!” The eighth book in Joe L. Wheeler’s The Good Lord Made Them All series is filled with stories of jungle animals. From Mexico to Myanmar, and many places in between, you’ll learn about lions and leopards, elephants and buffaloes, camels and cobras. A truly global compilation of stories, this collection is sure to become a family favorite. “There is something about stories featuring animals with larger-than-life reputations, such as rhinos, elephants, lions, tigers, leopards, jaguars, and serpents, that fascinate not only children but all age groups. What could be more terrifying than a man-eating tiger on the prowl or a rampaging rogue elephant?” Joe L. Wheeler invites us to experience more fascinating adventures in God’s great “Web of Life.”Clear here to view all the books in The Good Lord Made Them All series.
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Togo The Sled Dog
$23.79Add to cartIn this, the seventh book of The Good Lord made Them All series, Joe L. Wheeler has collected stories from the Far North: Norway, Alaska, British Columbia, and the Arctic Circle to name a few places. The animals featured include sled dogs, wolves, weasels, and eagles in a veritable Who’s Who of the North. “The story of the Iditarod Sled Dog Race is as improbable as the story of the Great Serum Run to Nome that inspired it. For the incredible yearly thousand-mile Iditarod is neither more nor less than the lengthened shadow of one man and one dog: Leonhard Seppala and Togo, quite possible the greatest dog who ever lived.” – Joe L. Wheeler “We are prisoners in a jail of ice and snow. The last boat … is gone and this little community is left to its own resources… alone with the darkness and the chill of the North.” – Nome Chronicle, 1925. This is unquestionably the greatest sled dog story ever told – and it has been told many times with one constant: the wrong dog gets the credit. But time has a way of sorting things out. Though Balto continues to be immortalized, where it matters most – in the great state of Alaska – Seppala and Togo gain in stature with every year that passes.
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Christmas In My Heart Book 22
$20.29Add to cart“Christmasaholics” will be pleased with the arrival of a new collection of stories. This new volume extends for another year the longest-running Christmas story series in America. As always, great for reading by the fire on a winter night, giving for a gift or sharing with friends during the Christmas season.
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Christmas In My Heart Book 21
$20.29Add to cartIt’s truly a miracle in today’s publishing world for any book series to last five – much less twenty years! Yet this is what Christmas in My Heart has done. No one is more surprised at this than Joe Wheeler; he attributes the series’ stubborn refusal to die to be a God-thing. That somehow there is something about each year’s collection of stories that so speaks to hearts everywhere that “completists” (those who have all the books in the series) cannot even imagine facing a new Christmas season without a new collection to feed their souls. This stellar collection features luminaries such as Elizabeth Goudge, Margaret E. Sangster, Temple Bailey, Margaret Weymouth Jackson, Mike Huckabee, David Doig, Christine Whiting Parmenter, Grace Noll Crowell, and Isobel Stewart. In a world where society appears intent on stripping the Christmas season of the divine reason for its very existence, spiritually based Christmas stories such as these may provide a refuge from electronic strangulation, and an opportunity to read aloud heart-tugging stories incorporating values worth living by to children, teens and adults of all ages. Since we become our favorite stories, the right or wrong story-choices will inevitably determine our eternal destinies. – Joseph Leininger Wheeler.
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Christmas In My Heart Book 12
$20.29Add to cartTo one of the longest-running Christmas story anthologies in American history we add yet another volume–our twelfth in 12 years. The series is one of the finest libraries of Christmas stories in English. What’s the secret of its appeal? Perhaps it’s the lump-in-the-throat factor, the moving stories that grip the heart and moisten the eyes. Fortunately, all 12 volumes are still available in print at the original price.
In this year’s collection Senator John McCain of Arizona recalls his most special Christmas, celebrated in a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp, where men of faith, joyful and triumphant in the face of torment, exchanged gifts they did not have.
Another selection tells the story of the birth of “Silent Night,” one of the songs the prisoners sang. Other stories tell of Christmas money lost and then better-than-found; of relationships mended; of temptations trumped; of orphans nurtured; of lovers reunited. In these pages the human spirit, with all its passion and pride, faith and foibles, finds hope once again in a manger.
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Christmas In My Heart Book 9
$20.29Add to cartHard to believe, but here it is: Christmas in My Heart, book9. They keep coming because so many readers like you find it inconceivable to enter another Christmas season without a new Christmas in My Heart transfusion.
Oh, ’tis true that the now “old” collections are still treasured, are reread again and again, becoming in a very special way Christmas velveteen rabbits, all the dearer for their dog-eared coves and creased pages. Yet at the same time that the first eight collections are returned to, there is an innate need to expand the core collection, to greet with delight new writers with fresh approaches and, even more significant, to listen once again to writers now believed to us-each additional story by such a writer but deepens the bond, that voice that can never be stilled as long as we refuse to let it die.
That is the magic of Christmas in My Heart!
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Christmas In My Heart Book 7
$20.29Add to cartWhen the first Christmas in My Heart book rolled off the press seven years ago, initial sales were modest. By late November, however, the books really began to move, and by Christmas we were gearing up for a third printing. Because of widespread interest in the stories, Wheeler was asked to compile another collection each year.
Along the way the series was a Gold Medallion finalist at the Christian Booksellers Association; it became a much-loved part of Focus on the Family Christmases; Doubleday began a hardback series; and Tyndale House began distributing the paperback editions to the Christian market.
So it is today, in thousands of homes, the Christmas in My Heart books have become part of the very fabric of Christmas.
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Christmas In My Heart Book 4
$20.29Add to cartOutside it may be cold and snowy, but on these tapes you’ll find stories that will set your heart ablaze with the warmth of Christmas. Stories so powerful, so touching, they’ll leave you with a lump in your throat, tears in your eyes, and in irresistible urge to share them with someone you love.
Many families make Christmas in My Heart part of their Christmas tradition. They decorate the house for Christmas, then sit down by the fire and share stories from the newest book. Some families read one story a day during the Christmas season. You’ll find that these heartwarming stories add a special touch to your holiday season too.
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Christmas In My Heart Book 3
$20.29Add to cartHere are Christmas stories for all generations, and each will tug at your heartstrings in just a little different way. In fact, only a certified Scrooge could possibly read them dry-eyed!
Many families make the Christmas in My Heart collection part of their Christmas tradition. As soon as Thanksgiving dinner is over they decorate the house for Christmas, sit down by the fire, and share stories from the newest book. Some families read at least one story a day during the Christmas season. You’ll find these heartwarming stories add a special touch to your holiday season too.
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Christmas In My Heart Book 1
$22.39Add to cartDr. Wheeler has dedicated a lifetime to tracking down elusive Christmas stories. From several thousand, he has chosen those that, for generation after generation, have continued to be most loved and cherished. Powerful and emotive, they are timeless in their ability to help us experience the joy, wonder, and true meaning of Christmas. Their message of unselfish love and personal involvement turns our thoughts to Christ, and reminds us every time we read them, that this is really what Christmas-and life itself-is all about.
It is Dr. Wheeler’s sincere wish that these stories will become your friends too, to be read and reread as you and your loved ones make them an integral part of your own Christmas traditions and memories.
Some of the fondest memories of my childhood are tied to hearing my mother read Christmas stories to our family. Not one of them was just a Christmas story; each had the ability to make us laugh or cry, to tug at our heartstrings, to remind us that only a Christ-filled Christmas had any meaning at all.-Joe L. Wheeler.
