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As many people today look around at their lives and feel that something is missing, that there must be more to life, a need for guidance arises. Portraits of Extraordinary Women offers twenty-four voices of inspiration. Although it was long ago, the women of the Bible lived real lives with real struggles and real triumphs. Their stories can teach us valuable lessons about our humanity.
Dr. Staples gives guidance on how to succeed in every aspect of life through ten progressive steps starting with a “positive self-image” and culminating in an “intense, sincere desire to succeed in cooperation with others.” He demonstrates how these steps will help the reader to have more fulfilling personal relationships, to achieve the most distant career goal, and to be a better parent.
Though everybody else has settled down for a long winter’s nap, poor Principal Swell has his hands full. With state-mandated paperwork, computers to fix, bus routes to unknot, not to mention discipline and field trips and all the concerned parents, it seems he’ll never get back home to his own family! Hardcover.
Rednecks everywhere, unite! As redneck-mania is sweeping across the country, it is becoming more and more acceptable and respectable to admit that one is a redneck. Paperback.
As Christmas Eve settles on the quiet trailer park, everything is as still as a rabbit caught in headlights. That is, until the Christmas Redneck appears on the scene.
A comprehensive description of the events that led to the climax and eventual demise of the British campaigns in the Southern theater during the Revolutionary War. This almost forgotten campaign and its trilogy of intense clashes at Guilford Court House, Cowpens, and Kings Mountain proved pivotal to American independence.
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Founded to serve as the capital of France’s vast overseas empire, New Orleans has gone on to survive wars, invasions, floods, hurricanes, plagues, fires, and financial panics. Today it is a romantic city of secret gardens, handsomely restored mansions, murmuring fountains, legendary ghosts, Creole cuisine, and hot jazz. Both sin and saintliness, high-life and low, flourish under tropical skies; and its centuries-long flirtations with disaster have given its people a reckless, pleasure-loving philosophy that is acted out in its streets and squares, courtyards and terraces.
Designed by planning pioneers Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk—the same husband-and-wife team who rose to prominence for their design of Seaside—Rosemary Beach is a decidedly different community. Whereas Seaside evokes small-town America, Rosemary Beach evokes the ambiance of a preindustrial city, featuring a more urban landscape than previous New Urbanism developments.
In this extraordinary picture book, author Joan Schoettler imparts the life of a remarkable woman, teacher, and artist. Ruth Asawa’s life journey is one filled with injustice, learning, and expression.
When ol’ Cap’n Claus suddenly appears in his tugboat pulled by a team of eight seahorses, he surprises a weary first mate who has just begun his night watch on Christmas Eve. Hardcover.
Andrew’s great-grandfather fought in World War II, something Andrew finds especially extraordinary. When he learns about a special program called the Honor Flight that allows World War II veterans to take a trip to Washington, D.C. to visit the memorials dedicated to them, Andrew wants nothing more than for his great-grandfather to participate.
Filled with a mélange of flavors, the latest homage to Texas cuisine from authors Helen Thompson and Janice Shay focuses on the amazing variety of sweet treats to be found in San Antonio. Page after page of simple yet delectable desserts, accompanied by color photographs, whet the reader’s appetite. The authors deliver the best treats San Antonio has to offer influenced by central Texas’ immigrants from Germany, Ireland, France, Spain, and Latin America.
Santa’s Christmas Surprise is a new Christmas story for children which emphasizes that there are even cultural variations within our own country in the way we celebrate this special time of year. Through a delightful cast of elves representing the different subcultures of our country, children’s author Robert Bernardini shows not only the special gifts and people of each area, but also their appreciation for Santa and his good work.
Santa is fed up. Tired of playing nice with author and illustrator James Rice, he decides to give him a piece of his mind. What was wrong, he wonders, with the classic “The Night Before Christmas” tale? Why must he play sailor, firefighter, teacher, and doctor? Where will it end?
Lauren Stratford’s story is one that everyone needs to read, though it deals with a subject most of us would rather not discuss—a subject that for many is too horrendous even to believe. Lauren Stratford lived a life of unending nightmare. As a small child she was offered sexually to strange men. Soon after, she was forced into a torturous routine of pornography, was controlled by mind and body-altering drugs, and constantly received threats to her life. Paperback.
Lauren Stratford’s story is one that everyone needs to read, though it deals with a subject most of us would rather not discuss—a subject that for many is too horrendous even to believe. Lauren Stratford lived a life of unending nightmare. As a small child she was offered sexually to strange men. Soon after, she was forced into a torturous routine of pornography, was controlled by mind and body-altering drugs, and constantly received threats to her life.
This collection of recipes is coupled with a history lesson on the most popular restaurants and cafés in the city. B. Matthews was the first tavern in Georgia in 1792 and is constructed from old ship parts. Their B 52 Cheesecake is more up-to-date than their building, using Irish Cream liqueur and Heath bar crunch cookies. Vic’s on the River likes to share its traditional Southern food with customers, such as its Sweet Potato Crème Brûlée. The former cotton warehouse also shares a piece of history from the Civil War. Union soldiers mapped out Sherman’s march from Tennessee through Georgia on one of the walls. Part of the original map is still on display.