No Ordinary Experience
Author: Tom Vaughan
Publisher:
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
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No Ordinary Woman
Author: Janice Sanford Beck
Publisher: Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780921102823
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArtist, photographer, writer, world traveler and, above all, explorer, Mary Schaffer Warren overcame the limited expectations of women at the turn of the nineteenth century in order to follow her dreams.Mary, born into a wealthy Quaker family in Pennsylvania, was a precocious child who excelled at school. She was much more interested in the arts and traveling. A trip across Canada in 1889 proved the turning point in Mary's life. Not only did she meet her future husband-doctor and botanist Charles Schaffer-she also fell hopelessly in love with the mountains.After Charles' death, Mary embarked on explorations into the Canadian Rockies at a time when it was not thought proper for a woman to do so. Her most famous trips of 1907 and 1908 resulted in the rediscovery of Maligne Lake and the highly regarded book Old Indian Trails of the Canadian Rockies. Mary eventually settled in Banff and there married her handsome young guide Billy Warren.Since her death in 1937, she continues to inspire young people and women in particular.
No Ordinary Liz: Surviving and Thriving After Foster Care
Author: Elizabeth Sutherland
Publisher: Elizabeth Sutherland
Published: 2021-04-09
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781736990421
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne woman's incredible journey to survive foster care and discover her true identity. This is a complex, intriguing story filled with twists and turns as Liz unravels her complicated past. Part memoir, part guidebook, this book offers support and resources for agencies, foster youth and foster parents.
No Ordinary Boy
Author: Jennifer Johannesen
Publisher: Low to the Ground
Published: 2011-09
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9780987736703
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwelve-year-old Owen Turney died on October 24th, 2010, of unknown causes. No Ordinary Boy is Jennifer Johannesen's extraordinary story of her profoundly disabled son, his family, his caregivers and his doctors. It is a sharply evocative, sometimes humorous, never sentimental chronicle-not only of perpetual crisis management, crushing disappointments and dashed hopes, but also one of love, spiritual growth, self-understanding, acceptance and maturity.
No Ordinary Apple
Author: Sara Marlowe
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2013-05-20
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 1614290954
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn an otherwise ordinary day, Elliot discovers something extraordinary: the power of mindfulness. When he asks his neighbor Carmen for a snack, he's at first disappointed when she hands him an apple - he wanted candy! But when encouraged to carefully and attentively look, feel, smell, taste, and even listen to the apple, Elliot discovers that this apple is not ordinary at all. Lushly and humorously illustrated, No Ordinary Apple makes a traditional technique for training mindfulness a fun and enjoyable way for children to learn to slow down and appreciate even the simplest things.
No Ordinary Home
Author: Carol Jo Brazo
Publisher: Multnomah
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780880707442
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOrganized around the author's experiences, this book sensitively addresses stay-at-home mothers' needs for encouragement, recognition & mentorship, & explores what a Christ-centered home is like.
No Ordinary Thing
Author: G. Z. Schmidt
Publisher: Holiday House
Published: 2020-10-13
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 0823444228
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn imaginative time travel mystery about a boy whose life is upeneded with the arrival of a stranger and a magical promise. Twelve-year-old Adam doesn't mind living at his uncle's bakery, the Biscuit Basket, on the Lower East Side in New York City. The warm, delicious smells of freshly baked breads and chocolate croissants make every day feel cozy, even if Adam doesn't have many friends and he misses his long dead parents very much. When a mysterious but cheerful customer tells Adam that adventures await him, it's too strange to be true. But days later, an unbelievable, incredible thing happens. Adam travels back in time, first to Times Square in 1935, then a candle factory fire in 1967. But how are these moments related? What do they have to do with his parents' death? And why is a tall man with long eyebrows and a thin mustache following Adam's every move? In her debut novel G. Z. Schmidt has crafted a world filled with serendipity, mystery, and adventure for readers of Roald Dahl and Lemony Snicket.
No Ordinary Time
Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2008-06-30
Total Pages: 790
ISBN-13: 1439126194
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDoris Kearns Goodwin’s Pulitzer Prize–winning classic about the relationship between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, and how it shaped the nation while steering it through the Great Depression and the outset of World War II. With an extraordinary collection of details, Goodwin masterfully weaves together a striking number of story lines—Eleanor and Franklin’s marriage and remarkable partnership, Eleanor’s life as First Lady, and FDR’s White House and its impact on America as well as on a world at war. Goodwin effectively melds these details and stories into an unforgettable and intimate portrait of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt and of the time during which a new, modern America was born.
No Ordinary Son
Author: Daniel J. O'Brien
Publisher:
Published: 2014-04-01
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780996056502
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo Ordinary Lives
Author: David Johnson
Publisher: Grand Central Pub
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780446526395
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollects the stories of Americans who were profiled in the author's "Everybody Has a Story" column, tracing his two decades of encounters with more than eight hundred individuals, many of whose perspectives changed his life.
