Gabriel S Story

When Gabriel Lynch moves with his mother and brother from a brownstone in Baltimore to a dirt-floor hovel on a homestead in Kansas, he is not pleased. He does not dislike his new stepfather, a former slave, but he has no desire to submit to a life of drudgery and toil on the untamed prairie. So he joins up with a motley crew headed for Texas only to be sucked into an ever-westward wandering replete with a mindless violence he can neither abet nor avoid–a terrifying trek he penitently fears may never allow for a safe return. David Anthony Durham is a genuine talent bent on devastating originality and Gabriel’s Story is as formidable a debut as we have witnessed.

"Archangel Gabriel is the famous messenger angel from the Christmas story of Luke. In this compelling book, Doreen Virtue offers more information on the history and characteristics of Gabriel, to increase your knowledge of and connection with this remarkable angel. Gabriel is still with us, helping people be messenger angels--including teachers, writers, musicians, and artists--and helping parents conceive, adopt, and raise their children. You'll read true stories of people who were miraculously aided by Gabriel, and learn how you, too, can receive assistance with your messenger work and parenting."--Www.amazon.com.

Presents a collection of letters by the author to her unborn child with an abnormality known as "posterior urethral valve", a defect in which a valve in the urinary system does not open.

Gabriel's Angels: The Story of the Dog Who Inspired a Revolution is the inspirational true story that began with one woman, one dog, and a "Just Call Me Rudolph" t-shirt. Pam Gaber never set out to change the world. She just thought the children at the Phoenix Crisis Nursery where she volunteered would get a kick out of seeing her dog, Gabriel, wearing a pair of fake antlers to a Christmas party. "What happened that day was nothing short of incredible," Pam says. "And I knew it was either nothing, or it was really something." This book tells Pam's story of leaving Corporate America and serendipitously creating a program that works to end the cycle of violence for abused, neglected, and abandoned children through healing pet therapy. Part memoir, part Gabriel's biography, and part how-to, the story is woven together through Pam's funny, charming, self-deprecating style. Readers will be riveted by details of the founding, growth, and results that Gabriel's Angels has achieved in its first 10 years, moved to tears by the heartbreaking story of Gabriel's illness and passing, and inspired by the power and vision of this amazing organization. From Gabriel's untimely meeting with a woman who recognized him at the dogpark to the hilarious depiction of Pam and Gabe riding a rickshaw through downtown Phoenix on a blistering summer day, the book will amuse, enchant, engross, and move its readers to take action, whether that simply be to improve their relationships with their own pets or inquire about forming similar organizations in their communities. This book is a must-read for: -Pet lovers -Child welfare advocates -Those involved in any aspect of pet therapy -Nonprofit CEOs and board members -Volunteers of all stripes -Philanthropists -People leaving Corporate America and wondering "What's next?" Essentially Marley & Me meets Tuesdays with Morrie, this book will engage the reader from page one. Readers who would love to learn the inspirational true story about a dog that personally interacted with 10,000 children and touched countless other lives will be sure to get their copies of Gabriel's Angels: The Story of the Dog Who Inspired a Revolution.

A novel for secondary school English classes with great writing and important themes.

Amy Kuebelbeck shares how she and her husband made the decision to forgo extreme measures to save her son Gabriel after learning at five months pregnant he suffered from hypoplastic left heart syndrome and discusses how they prepared for his inevitable death after being born.

Colonel Gabriel de Laurent departed for the war intending to die. After a decade of bloodstained battlegrounds while fighting in Napoleon's army, Gabriel returns to the streets of Paris a shattered and haunted soul. Plagued by inner demons, he swallows the barrel of his flintlock pistol and pulls the trigger. But fate has a different plan. Ariah Larochelle is a survivor. Orphaned at twelve and victim to a devastating crime, she has learned to keep her back to walls and to trust no one. But when she finds a gravely injured soldier washed up on the River Seine, she's moved by compassion. In spite of her reservations, she rescues him from the icy water and brings him into her home. Now scarred inside and out, Gabriel discovers a kindred spirit in Ariah – and feelings he imagined lost forever reawaken as he observes her strength in the face of adversity. But when Ariah's own lethal secrets unfold, their new love is threatened by ancient ghosts. Can Gabriel and Ariah find hope in the wreckage of their pasts – or will the cycle of history repeat again? Perfect for fans of Gaelen Foley's Lord of Ice and Judith James's Broken Wing, Finding Gabriel features all the dark romance, searing passion, and historical intrigue of The Phantom of the Opera and Les Misérables.

Longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award Never has there been a book of poems quite like Gabriel, in which a short life, a bewildering death, and the unanswerable sorrow of a father come together in such a sustained elegy. This unabashed sequence speaks directly from Hirsch’s heart to our own, without sentimentality. From its opening lines—“The funeral director opened the coffin / And there he was alone / From the waist up”—Hirsch’s account is poignantly direct and open to the strange vicissitudes and tricks of grief. In propulsive three-line stanzas, he tells the story of how a once unstoppable child, who suffered from various developmental disorders, turned into an irreverent young adult, funny, rebellious, impulsive. Hirsch mixes his tale of Gabriel with the stories of other poets through the centuries who have also lost children, and expresses his feelings through theirs. His landmark poem enters the broad stream of human grief and raises in us the strange hope, even consolation, that we find in the writer’s act of witnessing and transformation. It will be read and reread.