Goodbye Grandpa

"Thoughtful adults can use this simple book with its heartfelt text and solemn, cartoon animals to explain death to young children." - Kirkus Reviews Bear and Grandpa are going fishing today. But why is Grandpa sleeping in the grass? What is going on? "Grandpa is dead," Elephant says softly to his friend Bear. Bear starts to cry. Will he ever see Grandpa again? Chicken and Elephant comfort their friend and explain to him that Grandpa will be with him forever. They say goodbye to him in a beautiful way. A sensitive and honest story about loss, grief and friendship. For children ages 4 and up.

When Grandpa Elephant tells his grandchildren that he is going to the elephant graveyard to die, the children have many questions for him about death and what comes next.

Say it isn’t so, but it is true. I had mixed emotions about writing this book. It is truthful, heartfelt, tragic, tender, at times humorous, and ultimately a story of happiness, survival, and resilience. After many sleepless nights of struggling with thoughts and recalls, I decided to put my sorrows and emotions on paper, yes on paper to realize that this was so. How strange to see my feelings and emotions in words, it made me want to even remember more. I became a hungry, insatiable person with the appetite of a hungry bear. I’m wiping my eyes and blowing my nose while writing and tears dropping on my chest. I was a mess. I was not a serene writer but like a wild dog chasing after my master. Believe it or not, I felt calmness like after the storm, so relaxed that I finally went to bed content knowing that I exhausted the hidden threads ready to bounce on me again. This is a tribute to my beloved husband Brian Keith and our lovely daughter Daisy Leialoha Keith. My very own Lambchops and Plumpudding. Love, your sweetheart and your mommy, VK.

A young Jewish boy learns to cope with the death of his beloved grandfather.

Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond made its television debut in 1959, nine months before Rod Serling’s classic The Twilight Zone, and paved the way for a generation of television programs devoted to paranormal topics such as the occult, ESP, and ghost stories. One Step Beyond was also where some of Hollywood’s most famous leading men, including Warren Beatty, William Shatner, and Charles Bronson, got their starts in television. This complete reference work to the 96 half-hour episodes that ran for three seasons on ABC also offers a detailed history, extensive commentary and summaries of the critical reception of One Step Beyond as well as coverage of the sequel series produced in 1978 entitled The Next Step Beyond. Complete credits for both series are provided.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY LYNNE TRUSS 'Stella Gibbons is the Jane Austen of the twentieth century' The Times Set in wartime London, Westwood tells the story of Margaret Steggles, a plain bookish girl whose mother has told her that she is not the type that attracts men. Her schoolfriend Hilda has a sunny temperament and keeps her service boys 'ever so cheery'. When Margaret finds a ration book on Hampstead Heath the pompous writer Gerard Challis enters both their lives. Margaret slavishly adores Challis and his artistic circle; Challis idolises Hilda for her hair and her eyes and Hilda finds Gerard's romantic overtures a bit of a bind. This is a delightfully comic and wistful tale of love and longing.

From his short stint as a police officer in Sin City, to his wartime experience in Iraq and subsequent struggles with God and readjustment, Greg pulls no punches as he relates what he and those around him experienced. Accompanied by personal photos from Greg's private journey, he tells a complete story, explaining that God never abandoned him after all.

Nino Lenos family was the first generation that immigrated to America for the American dream. He was a Sicilian fisherman by trade. On December 23, 1965, they went and lived in Red Hook section of Brooklyn, New York, where most of the Sicilian fishermen immigrants came to live and work in the navy yards docks. Nino, a man with principles and honor, and his son, Gino, both stood firm against all challenges in the new land of America. In 1966, Gino, at the age of twelve, entered the junior high school in Brooklyn. He had to deal with a multitude of issues: not knowing how to speak English and being bullied by kids from other ethnicities. He daily got into fights against bullies. Different ethnic street gangs and groups were going to that school. Gino never finished junior high school. Nino moved his family to Glendale, Queens, New York, and opened a pizza store for a better life for his family. There Nino found white Irish, Germans, street gangs, and the American mafia. Gino worked in the familys pizzeria, met Maria, and fell in love. He later got Maria pregnant, and they got married. After that, Gino began to have a conflict with Marias uncle, Fat Joe Massa, an American gangster. Years later, Joe moved up to become the boss of the Bonanno crime family. Gino overcomes treachery and deceit from this so-called American mafia uncle who is only related to him through his marriage with Maria. Gino survived getting two gunshot wounds that nearly stole his life as his wife Maria was due in August to give birth to their first baby! Gino believed in his fathers principles and honor.