While spending the summer at Grandmary's home on Goose Lake, Samantha and the twins Agnes and Agatha decide to visit the island where Samantha's parents were drowned during a storm.

A Summer Story is a tender and, at times, funny picture of the lives of a family with a special-needs child, the enduring care that requires patience and a consistent schedule, and the aid of friends and family who come alongside to assist. All of these factors make for a book that will bring tears and applause to the Propes family for their tenacity and constant faith in a loving Father God who cares for them. Encouraging and inspiring, this is one book that will remind you that we serve a faithful God who remains constant even in the face of difficult circumstances of life. —Joni Lamb, Cofounder Daystar Television Network

This is a book that every ambitious young man and woman would do well to read; seasoned businessmen and women will recognize something of their own successes and failures in a life that has had as many ups and downs as a turbulent stock market; and wives will see their own husbands in these pages as well as their own frustrations with the men they love. We can only hope they possess the character of Bew's wife, Wendy, whose own story leavens this loaf. Astute readers will deduce that she is the quiet, unassuming anchor that gives this narrative its heartbeat.This is classic Bew White. Funny. Unpredictable. Jarringly honest. He's also abrupt, politically incorrect, amusing, forgiving, occasionally (and unintentionally) offensive, unexpectedly gracious, and a fundamentally decent human being.This is not the story of a man's straight-line success of going from rags to riches. As one of Bew's friends observed, "Bew started life on third base." Indeed, he did. Knowing more than most about his own ancestors, Bew White is descended from an aristocracy of sorts. Even so, his story is a zigzag. If he started on third, mistakes and misfortunes would send him back to second and first bases. Undaunted, he kept swinging and pursuing his own version of the American Dream.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

The classic love poems of William Shakespeare are accompanied by critical commentary.