If even a small part of a child still lives within your heart, you can't help but be captivated by this deeply moving novella based on bestselling author Jerry Bledsoe's childhood memories.
Set in a North Carolina manufacturing town during the 1950s, it is the poignant story of two ten-year-old boys and their search for an angel doll, a search that turned into a lesson of love.
Every day Whitey Black reads The Littlest Angel to his sister Sandy, a four-year-old stricken with polio. Now she wants just one thing for Christmas: an angel doll. Unfortunately, in this small North Carolina town, no one has ever heard of such a thing. Nevertheless, Whitey Black and his best friend set out to find her one, at great cost and for even greater reward. 
Along the way they learn much about sadness and heartbreak, but most important, they learn about the transformative power of love.
The Angel Doll is about childhood reaching out in later life and grabbing hold-never to be forgotten or remembered exactly as it was. Timeless and touching, The Angel Doll is sure to become a family favorite and a tradition for years to come.

The Angel Doll: A Christmas Story

Literature & Fiction

Bledsoe, Jerry

Contemporary

St.Martin's Press

If even a small part of a child still lives within your heart, you can't help but be captivated by this deeply moving novella based on bestselling author Jerry Bledsoe's childhood memories.Set in a North Carolina manufacturing town during the 1950s, it is the poignant story of two ten-year-old boys and their search for an angel doll, a search that turned into a lesson of love.Every day Whitey Black reads The Littlest Angel to his sister Sandy, a four-year-old stricken with polio. Now she wants just one thing for Christmas: an angel doll. Unfortunately, in this small North Carolina town, no one has ever heard of such a thing. Nevertheless, Whitey Black and his best friend set out to find her one, at great cost and for even greater reward. Along the way they learn much about sadness and heartbreak, but most important, they learn about the transformative power of love.The Angel Doll is about childhood reaching out in later life and grabbing hold-never to be forgotten or remembered exactly as it was. Timeless and touching, The Angel Doll is sure to become a family favorite and a tradition for years to come.

Teen & Young Adult

St. Martin's Paperbacks

The world's number one, flat-out, all-time great, stock car racing book [hardcover] Bledsoe, Jerry [Jan 01, 1975]

The world's number one, flat-out, all-time great, stock car racing book

Sports & Outdoors

Miscellaneous

DOUBLEDAY

In this unrelenting real-life drama of three wealthy families connected by marriage and murder, Bledsoe recounts the shocking events, obsessive love, and bitter custody battles that led toward the bloody climax that took nine lives. Reissued to coincide with Bledsoe's new hardcover Blood Games (11/91).

Bitter Blood: A True Story of Southern Family Pride, Madness, and Multiple Murder

Biographies & Memoirs

True Crime

Onyx

In this powerful and riveting tale of three families connected by marriage and murder, of obsessive love and bitter custody battles, Jerry Bledsoe recounts the shocking events that ultimately took nine lives... The first bodies found were those of a feisty millionaire widow and her beautiful daughter in their posh Louisville, Kentucky, home. Months later, another wealthy widow and her prominent son and daughter-in-law were found savagely slain in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Mystified police first suspected a professional in the bizarre gangland-style killings that shattered the quiet tranquility of two well-to-do southern communities. But soon a suspicion grew that turned their focus to family. The Sharps. The Newsoms. The Lynches. The only link between the three families was a beautiful and aristocratic young mother named Susie Sharp Newsom Lynch. Could this former child "princess" and fraternity sweetheart have committed such barbarous crimes? And what about her gun-loving first cousin and lover, Fritz Klenner, son of a nationally renowned doctor?

Regional U.S.

BERKLEY

An account of the murder of wealthy North Carolinian Lieth von Stein describes how von Stein's stepson, a young man obsessed with Dungeons &amp; Dragons, attacked his mother and stepfather in their beds while they slept. Reprint.

Blood Games

Recounts the case of Barbara Stager, a seemingly devoted wife and community member whose murder of her husband was nearly ruled an accident until chilling evidence, including the death of her first husband, revealed Stager's secret double life. Reprint.

Before He Wakes: A True Story of Money, Marriage, Sex and Murder

Describes how Velma Barfield poisoned a string of victims with arsenic, was convicted, and in 1984 became the first woman in the U.S. to be executed by lethal injection

Death Sentence: The True Story of Velma Barfield's Life, Crimes, and Punishment

Country Cured: Reflections from the Heart

United States

Plume

Shelf wear and some foxing to DJ and page edges. Text is clean. Binding is tight.

Bitter Blood: 2A True Story of Southern Family Pride, Madness, and Multiple Murder

Dutton Adult

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The Angel Doll: A Christmas Story

The Angel Doll: A Christmas Story

The world's number one, flat-out, all-time great, stock car racing book

Bitter Blood: A True Story of Southern Family Pride, Madness, and Multiple Murder

Bitter Blood: A True Story of Southern Family Pride, Madness, and Multiple Murder

Blood Games

Before He Wakes: A True Story of Money, Marriage, Sex and Murder

Death Sentence: The True Story of Velma Barfield's Life, Crimes, and Punishment

Country Cured: Reflections from the Heart

Bitter Blood: 2A True Story of Southern Family Pride, Madness, and Multiple Murder