Hundred Gifts
Hundred Gifts

Author: Jennifer Scott

Publisher: NAL

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 0451473248

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"With the holidays around the corner, empty nester Bren Epperson realizes that for the first time in decades, she has no large family to cook for and no celebration to create. Her daughter has moved to Thailand, her son has ditched college to backpack around the world, and her husband has disappeared into the basement to indulge his midlife crisis. So Bren starts teaching a holiday cooking class, and it's a hit--until Virginia Mash, the old lady living upstairs, bursts in, complaining of the noise, the smells, and the mess. Rather than retaliate, Bren suggests that the class shower Virginia with kindness--that they give her one hundred gifts. So they embark on a plan to lift a heart. Along the way, amid knitting and making and baking, they'll discover that family celebrations can be reborn and that the very best gifts can't be bought--they're from the heart"--

The Sister Season
The Sister Season

Author: Jennifer Scott

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 0451418816

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Sometimes coming home for the holidays isn't as easy as it seems.... It's December 21, and the Yancey sisters have been called home. When the girls were young, holidays at their family farm meant a tinsel-garnished tree, the scent of simmering food, and laughter ringing through the house. But as the years unfolded, family bonds fractured, and the three sisters scattered and settled into separate lives. Until now. The Yancey sisters are coming to spend the holidays with their mother. They're also coming to bury their father. Claire, the youngest, a free spirit who journeyed to California, returns first. Then comes Julia, the eldest, a college professor with a teenage son of her own. And finally there's Maya, the middle child, who works so hard to be the perfect mother and wife. During the sisters' week together, old conflicts surface, new secrets emerge, and the limits and definitions of family are tested. And as the longest night of the year slips by and brightening days beckon, the sisters will have to answer one question: When you're a sister, aren't you a sister forever? CONVERSATION GUIDE INCLUDED

One Thousand Gifts
One Thousand Gifts

Author: Ann Voskamp

Publisher:

Published: 2015-08-25

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9780310343639

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In this beautiful edition of Ann Voskamp's New York Times bestseller, One Thousand Gifts, Voskamp invites you into her grace-bathed life of farming, parenting, and writing. Here you will discover a way of seeing ordinary amazing grace, a way of living that is fully alive, and a way of becoming present to God that brings deep, lasting joy.

Tribe of Mentors
Tribe of Mentors

Author: Timothy Ferriss

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 627

ISBN-13: 1328994961

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Life-changing wisdom from 130 of the world's highest achievers in short, action-packed pieces, featuring inspiring quotes, life lessons, career guidance, personal anecdotes, and other advice

The Gift of the Magi
The Gift of the Magi

Author: O. Henry

Publisher: Amila Jay

Published: 2021-12-22

Total Pages: 11

ISBN-13: 3986779213

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"The Gift of the Magi" is a short story by O. Henry first published in 1905. The story tells of a young husband and wife and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money. As a sentimental story with a moral lesson about gift-giving, it has been popular for adaptation, especially for presentation at Christmas time.

Gifts in the Age of Empire
Gifts in the Age of Empire

Author: Sinem Arcak Casale

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2023-08-21

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0226820424

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Explores the Safavid and Ottoman empires through the lens of gifts. When the Safavid dynasty, founded in 1501, built a state that championed Iranian identity and Twelver Shi'ism, it prompted the more established Ottoman Empire to align itself definitively with Sunni legalism. The political, religious, and military conflicts that arose have since been widely studied, but little attention has been paid to their diplomatic relationship. Sinem Arcak Casale here sets out to explore these two major Muslim empires through a surprising lens: gifts. Countless treasures—such as intricate carpets, gilded silver cups, and ivory-tusk knives—flowed from the Safavid to the Ottoman Empire throughout the sixteenth century. While only a handful now survive, records of these gifts exist in court chronicles, treasury records, poems, epistolary documents, ambassadorial reports, and travel narratives. Tracing this elaborate archive, Casale treats gifts as representative of the complicated Ottoman-Safavid coexistence, demonstrating how their rivalry was shaped as much by culture and aesthetics as it was by religious or military conflict. Gifts in the Age of Empire explores how gifts were no mere accessories to diplomacy but functioned as a mechanism of competitive interaction between these early modern Muslim courts.