Claire Walker
Claire Walker

Author: Marlene Baird

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2006-08-01

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1467810495

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from Claire Walker: “I’ve heard it said that a particular scent can take you back in time quicker than anything else. I don’t know if it was the smell of that wine, or the quick taste, but I didn’t just go back in time-I reverted to the person I’d been months before. In an instant I came alive and crazily eager. I grabbed the car keys and my wallet. Just a few blocks down the street was a twenty-four-hour liquor store.” Desperate moments such as this punctuate Claire Walker’s days. Alcoholism has tainted her adult years and destroyed her marriage. At thirty-seven she fights back, determined to become the mother her children deserved but never had. As she struggles for sobriety, a good friend, Ziggy Estes, becomes her crutch, and the love of a younger man soothes her battered ego. But Claire realizes that if she is to own the victory, the battle must be hers alone.

Keeping a Nature Journal
Keeping a Nature Journal

Author: Charles Edmund Roth

Publisher: Storey Publishing

Published: 2003-07

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 9781580174930

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From the day it was released in 2000, Keeping a Nature Journal has struck a profound chord among professional, casual, and occasional naturalists of all ages. In response to this groundswell of enthusiasm, we have revised KEEPING A NATURE JOURNAL, updated the interior design, and created a new cover. Undoubtedly the most exciting new element in this second edition is a portfolio of 32 illustrated pages from Clare Walker Leslie's most recent journals, reproduced in full color. What makes KEEPING A NATURE JOURNAL so popular? It is inspiring and easy to use. Clare and co-author Charles Chuck E. Roth offer simple techniques to give first-time journal-keepers the confidence to go outside, observe the natural world, and sketch and write about what they see. At the same time, they motivate long-time journal-keepers to hone their powers of observation as they immerse themselves in the mysteries of the natural world. Clare and Chuck stress that the journal is a personal record of daily experience and the world around us. Nature's beauty can be observed everywhere, whether in the city, suburbs, or country.

Nature Drawing
Nature Drawing

Author: Clare Walker Leslie

Publisher: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780787205805

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Nature Journal
Nature Journal

Author: Clare Walker Leslie

Publisher: Storey Publishing

Published: 2003-07

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9781580172967

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Walker Leslie has transformed what could have been an ordinary diary into something truly unique. The text and illustrations offer just the right amount of inspiration and guidance to help the journal-keeper begin and succeed at making this book his or her own. Illustrations.

Domino
Domino

Author: Claire Masurel

Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 9780763628628

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As the smallest of five puppies, Domino cannot do many things as well as the others do, but he proves that sometimes being smallest is best.

A Year in Nature
A Year in Nature

Author: Clare Walker Leslie

Publisher:

Published: 2020-05-07

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781733653435

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Beginning with the Winter Solstice and going through the twelve months of the year, the author has chosen pages from her own illustrated, hand-written journals of the last three years revealing her reflections, doubts, joys, responses to both family, political, environmental worries and the deep solace she continually finds going out into her local nature-- adapted from Amazon.

While We Were Watching Downton Abbey
While We Were Watching Downton Abbey

Author: Wendy Wax

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2013-04-02

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 1101599391

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From the bestselling author of My Ex-Best Friend's Wedding comes a novel about four friends who share a passion for a beloved British television show that will change all of their lives. When the concierge of The Alexander, a historic Atlanta apartment building, invites his fellow residents to join him for weekly screenings of Downton Abbey, four very different people find themselves connecting with the addictive drama, and—even more unexpectedly—with each other... Samantha Davis married young and for the wrong reason: the security of old Atlanta money—for herself and for her orphaned brother and sister. She never expected her marriage to be complicated by love and compromised by a shattering family betrayal. Claire Walker is now an empty nester and struggling author who left her home in the suburbs for the old world charm of The Alexander, and for a new and productive life. But she soon wonders if clinging to old dreams can be more destructive than having no dreams at all. And then there’s Brooke MacKenzie, a woman in constant battle with her faithless ex-husband. She’s just starting to realize that it’s time to take a deep breath and come to terms with the fact that her life is not the fairy tale she thought it would be. For Samantha, Claire, Brooke—and Edward, who arranges the weekly gatherings—it will be a season of surprises as they forge a bond that will sustain them through some of life’s hardest moments—all of it reflected in the unfolding drama, comedy, and convergent lives of Downton Abbey.

Why Can't I Be You
Why Can't I Be You

Author: Melissa Walker

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2018-06-19

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 0062567225

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“This book is for anyone who has ever felt ‘less than’ or on the outside. That is to say, this is a book for everyone.” —Elana K. Arnold, author of What Girls Are Made Of "With a clear, compelling voice, Walker creates a believable world where socioeconomic tensions challenge, but never defeat, her well-rounded characters."—Publishers Weekly (starred review) Claire Ladd knows that this summer is going to be special. She and her two best friends, Ronan and Brianna, are turning twelve. She is leaving camp behind and gets to do what she wants all day. She feels everything starting to change. But things don’t always change for the better. With Brianna’s cousin Eden visiting for the summer, Claire feels like a third wheel. Even though she is only a year older, Eden seems so much more sophisticated and glamorous . . . and when she's around, she takes up everyone’s attention, including Brianna’s. But that doesn’t explain why things have felt awkward with Brianna ever since she moved to a fancy new house, or why Ronan, who lives in the trailer next to Claire’s, has started acting moody anytime anyone mentions his dad. Claire has always been happy with her life just as it is, but as the summer wears on and the issues with her friends start to grow, she can’t help but wonder: Would everything be better if she could just be someone else?

Ferryman
Ferryman

Author: Claire McFall

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2021-10-12

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1536218456

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"Dylan has escaped a horrific train crash unscathed. Except she hasn't. The bleak landscape around her isn't Scotland. It's a wasteland haunted by wraiths searching for human souls. And the stranger waiting for her isn't an ordinary boy. Tristan is a Ferryman, tasked with transporting her soul safely to the afterlife, a journey he's made a thousand times before. Except this time, something's different. Torn between love and destiny, Dylan realises she can't let Tristan go, nor can she stay with him. Eventually, inevitably, the wraiths would capture her soul and she would be lost forever. Can true love overcome the boundaries of death? Ferryman is a thought-provoking and truly original story of a love that refuses to be limited by death."--Provided by publisher.

Drawn to Nature
Drawn to Nature

Author: Clare Walker Leslie

Publisher: Storey Publishing

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1580176143

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Reveling in the wonders of nature doesnÕt have to be reserved for vacation. By simply taking a few minutes to look up and observe the hawks hovering over their nest at the top of a city building, or to look down and note the variety of weeds growing in a small patch of earth, or just to glance through the window and appreciate the shapes of the clouds moving by, anyone can connect with natureÑanywhere, anytime. Clare Walker Leslie, author of the bestselling book Keeping a Nature Journal, has spent 25 years teaching and showing people how simple and rewarding it is to notice and record local nature. Nothing is more inspiring than the pages of her nature journals, which feature her daily recordings of small, but amazing natural events sheÕs seen while walking the dog, sitting in a park with her children, or driving around city streets. Drawn to Nature features a selection of LeslieÕs journal pages, arranged to inspire the reader to do as she does: look up, look down, look out and around, bring bits of nature indoors to observe and study, or take your eyes for a walk around the neighborhood. Using a combination of quick, impressionistic watercolors with more detailed pen and pencil drawings, along with the written word, Leslie invites readers to share in the pleasure of her nature watching, and to experience the joy of seeing and connecting with nature wherever they live, amidst the whirl of daily life. For journal keepers, nature lovers, birdwatchers, artists, and anyone interested in using nature as a source for self-reflection or meditation, this book will be a welcome companion and source of inspiration.