Grandma's Bones - Resilience - The Sequel

Grandma's Bones - Resilience - The Sequel

Author: Sylvia R. Moore

Publisher: Dorrance Publishing

Published: 2023-01-20

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1639379606

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About the Book Failure to remember our past mistakes may lead us to repeat them as history repeats itself over time. Resilience attempts to capture today’s most striking events and contrast them with historical events that may not have been recorded in our history books. By recounting challenges of history and of her own past, author Sylvia R. Moore hopes to inspire her immediate circle of loved ones in years to come. Resilience is the second in a series of planned novels to be created around personal testimonies, reflections, and the author’s life experiences as well as the lives characterized in the original Grandma's Bones novel. A firm believer in God, the author also includes faith-based and inspirational insights for encouragement throughout the novel. About the Author Sylvia R. Moore is a certified artist and enjoys writing as a professional hobby. She earned a diploma of completion in the Fundamentals of Art curriculum from the Art Instruction School of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Sylvia is also a graduate with honors and a Degree in Business Administration from Strayer University. Within her immediate family of siblings, Sylvia is the first-ever published author. She is also a small business owner and president of her own company, The Carmen N. White Self-Help and Empowerment Organization LLC. After thirty-two years with USAID, Sylvia retired from Federal service in 2013 and began work on the Grandma’s Bones series. In retirement, her primary focus has been her family. Losing so many of her close relationships in recent years has given Sylvia an inward posture as Sylvia celebrates life with her beloved, immediate circle of family including her daughter, granddaughters and grandsons, her great granddaughter, siblings, sisters-daughters-and sons-in-law, as well as a host of stepsons, stepdaughters, and other extended family members and friends who are described in the book.


The Other End of the Leash

The Other End of the Leash

Author: Patricia McConnell, Ph.D.

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Published: 2009-02-19

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0307489183

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Learn to communicate with your dog—using their language “Good reading for dog lovers and an immensely useful manual for dog owners.”—The Washington Post An Applied Animal Behaviorist and dog trainer with more than twenty years’ experience, Dr. Patricia McConnell reveals a revolutionary new perspective on our relationship with dogs—sharing insights on how “man’s best friend” might interpret our behavior, as well as essential advice on how to interact with our four-legged friends in ways that bring out the best in them. After all, humans and dogs are two entirely different species, each shaped by its individual evolutionary heritage. Quite simply, humans are primates and dogs are canids (as are wolves, coyotes, and foxes). Since we each speak a different native tongue, a lot gets lost in the translation. This marvelous guide demonstrates how even the slightest changes in our voices and in the ways we stand can help dogs understand what we want. Inside you will discover: • How you can get your dog to come when called by acting less like a primate and more like a dog • Why the advice to “get dominance” over your dog can cause problems • Why “rough and tumble primate play” can lead to trouble—and how to play with your dog in ways that are fun and keep him out of mischief • How dogs and humans share personality types—and why most dogs want to live with benevolent leaders rather than “alpha wanna-bes!” Fascinating, insightful, and compelling, The Other End of the Leash is a book that strives to help you connect with your dog in a completely new way—so as to enrich that most rewarding of relationships.


Purring Angels

Purring Angels

Author: Marguerite Vlielander

Publisher: Trafford Publishing

Published: 2008-02-19

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 1466908378

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Sheep

Sheep

Author: Valerie Hobbs

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2009-04-27

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780312561161

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Every dog needs a boy.


Annie Glover is NOT a Tree Lover

Annie Glover is NOT a Tree Lover

Author: Darleen Bailey Beard

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Published: 2009-09-15

Total Pages: 103

ISBN-13: 1466806389

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Annie Glover's grandma is always protesting something, but she goes too far when she chains herself to a century-old tree and names it Elmer. Elmer is scheduled to be cut down to make way for a new swimming-pool complex and Grandma is trying to save him, but Annie wants that swimming pool—and so do all her classmates. Now she must endure all the other fourth graders asking her embarrassing questions and that pesky Leroy Kirk calling her a "tree lover." However, as Annie considers what Elmer means to her town and to herself, she begins to think that maybe Grandma's not so crazy after all. Adorable illustrations perfectly capture Annie's scheme to save Elmer—with the help of her teacher, her best friend, a zany trio of parachuting Elvis impersonators, and, yes, even Grandma.


Who the Hell Says I Can’T!!

Who the Hell Says I Can’T!!

Author: Margaret Kershaw

Publisher: Balboa Press

Published: 2022-03-29

Total Pages: 632

ISBN-13: 1982285273

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Imagine the possibilities that can follow from taking your first step into the unknown which could change the life that you have known, forever. A middle-aged, working-class, Lancashire woman's true story of a lifetime, learning to start finally listening to her heart and to trust again. When a life-changing chance of a holiday to visit a friend in Hong Kong brings a distant dream of travelling alive: to backpack around the world and change her life from everything she has ever known. A chance to leave behind the struggles she has faced and take a year away from her family, home and career to travel across the globe, visiting South East Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and beyond. Finally finding the real person she is after a childhood of abuse and poor relationship choices that followed, she forges new friendships and finds a new life among an abundance of fun and laughter along her way- with the occasional small disaster thrown into the mix! Concluding and meeting up with each of her adult children in New Zealand months later, travelling together through the North and South Island, backpacking together in a broken old hippie van. At the years end, an inevitable realisation comes that there is no going back- physically or mentally. Life has to move on, it can never be the same again... and she will never be the same. New experiences are encountered and dreams are realised that go way beyond a year of backpacking abroad. Read her story of learning to trust the instincts inside and to trust others too, finally moving on from the past and making a new future for herself and for her adult children. It's not the journey itself, it's the people we meet on the way that makes our life the wonder that it is. We have one life, we have to live it.


The Dogist

The Dogist

Author: Elias Weiss Friedman

Publisher: Artisan Books

Published: 2015-01-01

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1579656714

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When Friedman moved to New York City, he missed the dogs that had surrounded him growing up. He began photographing dogs on the street, and posting them on his blog, The Dogist. Whether because of the look in a dog's eyes, its innate beauty, or even the clothes its owner has dressed it in, every portrait in this book tells a story and explores the dog's distinct character and spirit.


How Stella Learned to Talk

How Stella Learned to Talk

Author: Christina Hunger

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2021-05-04

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0063046865

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An incredible, revolutionary true story and surprisingly simple guide to teaching your dog to talk from speech-language pathologist Christina Hunger, who has taught her dog, Stella, to communicate using simple paw-sized buttons associated with different words. When speech-language pathologist Christina Hunger first came home with her puppy, Stella, it didn’t take long for her to start drawing connections between her job and her new pet. During the day, she worked with toddlers with significant delays in language development and used Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) devices to help them communicate. At night, she wondered: If dogs can understand words we say to them, shouldn’t they be able to say words to us? Can dogs use AAC to communicate with humans? Christina decided to put her theory to the test with Stella and started using a paw-sized button programmed with her voice to say the word “outside” when clicked, whenever she took Stella out of the house. A few years later, Stella now has a bank of more than thirty word buttons, and uses them daily either individually or together to create near-complete sentences. How Stella Learned to Talk is part memoir and part how-to guide. It chronicles the journey Christina and Stella have taken together, from the day they met, to the day Stella “spoke” her first word, and the other breakthroughs they’ve had since. It also reveals the techniques Christina used to teach Stella, broken down into simple stages and actionable steps any dog owner can use to start communicating with their pets. Filled with conversations that Stella and Christina have had, as well as the attention to developmental detail that only a speech-language pathologist could know, How Stella Learned to Talk will be the indispensable dog book for the new decade.


Beyond Cumberland Gap

Beyond Cumberland Gap

Author: Kent Horner

Publisher: Page Publishing Inc

Published: 2018-08-15

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1640276386

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"Another traumatic blow to your head may cause hallucinations ranging from brilliancy to absurdity," said the brain surgeon at the Landstuhl Medical Center in Germany where Staff Sergeant Travis Morgan first received medical evaluation following a mortar blast in Afghanistan. That explosion wounded Travis and killed Mojo, his German shepherd patrol dog. Three years later, Travis received such a severe whack when Bruno Tron, a strong, young Al Capone imitator, hoped to become rich by shooting the two security officers and robbing their armored truck at a Walmart Super Center near Neosho, Missouri. The robber, a self-proclaimed squatter, intended to use the Morgan family wilderness upon the Ozark Plateau to receive aerial drug drops flown from Mexico. Thus Travis, his father, mother, and Honcho, their family dog must be eliminated. After whacking Travis over his skull with a sack of stolen quarters at Walmart, Bruno tossed him into a sinkhole on the Morgan family wilderness and used the $400,000 for his start into crime. Travis hallucinating back and forth through time and space, helped: the founding fathers within the colonial era, George Washington winning the American Revolutionary War, Daniel Boone cutting through Cumberland Gap into Kentucky, Lewis and Clark finding the Pacific Ocean, and Wells-Fargo starting stagecoach routes to California. His Grandma's skeleton, sitting with her back to wall of the sinkhole, enabled Travis's two-way communications by way of his hallucinations. Ironically, Bruno Tron met an unusual fate. However, after his rescue, Travis realized his dream of lecturing about colonial history at the University of Virginia, his alma mater, buying a house, and marrying the beautiful brunette, Abby Principe, his childhood sweetheart.


Roots 'n Branches

Roots 'n Branches

Author: Mary Ann Huisken

Publisher:

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 950

ISBN-13:

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Louis Alfred Smith (1856-1928), a son of William W. Smith and Dorcas Ann Clift, was born in Indiana. He married Matilda Clinesmith (1862- 1903), a daughter of George Clinesmith, Sr., and Elizabeth Knight, in 1881. They had ten children. Many descendants live in the Great Lakes region.