Landon insists Alex see a doctor, who confirms Landon’s fears that Alex has a brain tumor. One day, when picking him up for a Cincinnati Reds game, Landon learns Alex has had a seizure and suffers painful headaches. In 1975, Landon’s first wife, Marilyn, divorces him after he prioritizes his career as a pediatric oncologist, and he’s only able to see his 16-year-old son, baseball fiend Alex, on weekends. She shows it to Landon, who decides Lucy is old enough to learn where it came from. While Lucy Myers, 13, sweeps her grandfather Landon’s Cincinnati basement, she discovers a baseball.

'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.Flerlage ( Before Bethlehem) turns a retired doctor’s secret into a tender tale in this sentimental novel. Before Bethlehem is an eye-opening account of the Nativity story told in a suspenseful, historical context that dares to ask the question: If Joseph should have turned Mary over to be stoned, why didn’t he? His profound answer is one that forever changes the life of his son, James. As his family’s faith and hopes are threatened by scandal and scorn, James struggles between the boy he is and the man he must become. He and James witness abhorring violence at the hands of the Romans, and outlandish abuses of power by their own religious leaders.

Joseph fights to maintain his spiritual integrity while trying desperately to keep his family together and his farm alive.

By accepting the Rabbi’s request, Joseph unknowingly thrusts himself and his family into a bitter and emotionally draining life-or-death conflict. With crisp prose, tangible description and thought-provoking insights, Before Bethlehem takes readers on a vivid journey to the dusty Galilean village of Nazareth, where Joseph is summoned by Rabbi Boethus, a Sadducean high priest, to marry an orphaned virgin in Jerusalem. The Pinnacle of History through the Eyes of a Boy This spellbinding work of historical fiction offers the eyewitness account of 15-year-old James, son of Joseph bar Jacob, and the dangerous and heartrending choices his family must make in the days leading up to Joseph’s relationship with Mary, and the birth of Jesus of Nazareth.

Before Bethlehem by James Flerlage