Who would have thought a chair could be so wise? The Old Green Chair tells in story form how solutions to seemingly impossible problems are there for the finding. The second in THE HOUSE SERIES OF PICTURE BOOKS FOR CHILDREN, this charming story shows that when it seems things couldn’t get any worse, life can take a turn that could hardly be better.
Green Chair is a South Korean film directed by Park Chul-soo, that was released in 2005. It is about an affair between an attractive thirty-two-year-old woman and a youth just short of legal majority. Interlaced with explicit scenes of love making, the movie watches the two lovers trying to come to grips with their mutual attraction, sexuality and societal disapproval.
Lime Green Chair by Chris Andrews was chosen by Waywiser Press and their guest judge, Mark Strand as the 2011 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize winner. It is a collection of poems prompted by episodes from life in urban Australia, or dreamt, or constructed from curious fragments of language, or, most often, produced in all three ways. They range in tone f
The red-headed woodpecker flew away, up, up, high in the tree. That is just when Jo bumped into the bee! Join Jo as she thinks about what she can do with her bright-green chair in Jo and Her Bright-Green Chair.
Believe Beyond Seeing represents Debra Martins first-hand encounters with the afterlife as a medium. This book not only relays the story of how she developed her abilities as a medium, but also details various accounts with loved ones and spirits and their re-connection. If you have ever lost loved ones and wondered about their well-being, then this book is a must-read. It provides a glimpse into higher spiritual realms via a medium who can see, hear, and feel things most of us do not. Quite simply, you may not view life, or death, the same after reading this book.
Discriminating decorators and collectors, no less than dealers and researchers in antiques, have long felt the need of a comprehensive study of the ornamented chair and its development in America. This book is the product of an effort to satisfy that need and at the same time to bring new pleasures to lovers of beautiful furniture. The book is based on photographic and research material collected by the late Esther Stevens Brazer, who spent a lifetime in the study and revival of early American decoration. The authors are all qualified researchers, teachers, and decorators. In their text they present a general history of chair types, facts regarding ornamentation, and informative accounts of some of the leading craftsmen and decorators of the various periods. The final chapter of the book briefly relates the history of the Society and describes how its members carry forward the efforts of Esther Stevens Brazer, maintaining in their research, their teaching, and their restorations the standards of an old craft and the traditions of its finest workmen.
Adirondack Green tells the story of a small American town that decides, after much debate, to put a wind turbine on top of the local ski mountain. This one Danish wind turbine is able to power the entire town. The Class of 2004, consisting of 32 high school seniors, learns on the first day of school in September that they must contribute 100 hours of community service in order to graduate in June. The story follows five of these seniors, who are assigned to help five older members of their community. Together, they build five extraordinary friendships and move their little town toward a global renaissance.