Gleam and Glow

Gleam and Glow

Author: Eve Bunting

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2005-08-01

Total Pages: 37

ISBN-13: 0547539916

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Inspired by real events, master storyteller Eve Bunting recounts the harrowing yet hopeful story of a family, a war--and a dazzling discovery.


Baxter's Explore the Book

Baxter's Explore the Book

Author: J. Sidlow Baxter

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 2010-09-21

Total Pages: 1846

ISBN-13: 0310871395

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Explore the Book is not a commentary with verse-by-verse annotations. Neither is it just a series of analyses and outlines. Rather, it is a complete Bible survey course. No one can finish this series of studies and remain unchanged. The reader will receive lifelong benefit and be enriched by these practical and understandable studies. Exposition, commentary, and practical application of the meaning and message of the Bible will be found throughout this giant volume. Bible students without any background in Bible study will find this book of immense help as will those who have spent much time studying the Scriptures, including pastors and teachers. Explore the Book is the result and culmination of a lifetime of dedicated Bible study and exposition on the part of Dr. Baxter. It shows throughout a deep awareness and appreciation of the grand themes of the gospel, as found from the opening book of the Bible through Revelation.


His Little Women

His Little Women

Author: Judith Rossner

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-07-08

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 1476774765

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Looking for Mr. Goodbar— the epic family saga of four very different sisters and their Hollywood producer father. A spellbinding saga of the four daughters of larger-than-life Hollywood producer, Sam Pearlstein, and the fallout that occurs when one sister writes a bestselling novel and a man she swears she’s never known brings a libel suit against her. Through these four women, Rossner brilliantly explores what it means to be a sister and a daughter.


Trundling Grunts

Trundling Grunts

Author: Glen Baxter

Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA

Published: 2003-05-05

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 1582343462

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Colonel Baxter returns with a rip-roaring new collection of cartoons in which he boldly tackles the great issues of the day. Fans of Glen Baxter and his singular, comical world can breathe easy: he's back. For the uninitiated: get ready. Trundling Grunts is that rare book that provides answers to all of life's unasked questions, providing foolproof ways to: Order a Continental breakfast. Approach an offending bagel. Trouble-shoot an express hair grooming service. Smuggle tofu. Freshen up a salad bowl. Make a career switch to accountancy. Stumble into a work of total abstraction. The modern world can be a tough place. As always, Glen Baxter helps you through it.


Call It Courage

Call It Courage

Author: Armstrong Sperry

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1968-05

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 0027860302

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For use in schools and libraries only. Relates how Mafatu, a young Polynesian boy whose name means Stout Heart, overcomes his terrible fear of the sea and proves his courage to himself and his people.


The Big O

The Big O

Author: Declan Burke

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9780151014088

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Karen's easy life as a receptionist and armed robber is about to take a turn for the worse. Rossi, her ex, is getting out of prison any day now. He'll be looking for his motorcycle, his gun, the sixty grand he says is his, and revenge. But he won't be expecting Ray, the new guy Karen's just met, to be in his way. No stranger to the underworld himself, Ray wants out of the kidnapping game now that some dangerous new bosses are moving in. Meanwhile Frank, a disgraced plastic surgeon, hires Ray to kidnap his ex-wife for the insurance money. But the ex-wife also happens to be Karen's best friend. Can Karen and Ray trust each other enough to work together on one last job? Or will love, as always, ruin everything? From a writer hailed as "Elmore Leonard with a hard Irish edge" ("Irish Mail on Sunday"), Declan Burke's "The Big O "is crime fiction at its darkest and funniest.


Threads of Life

Threads of Life

Author: Clare Hunter

Publisher: Abrams

Published: 2019-10-15

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 168335771X

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This globe-spanning history of sewing and embroidery, culture and protest, is “an astonishing feat . . . richly textured and moving” (The Sunday Times, UK). In 1970s Argentina, mothers marched in headscarves embroidered with the names of their “disappeared” children. In Tudor, England, when Mary, Queen of Scots, was under house arrest, her needlework carried her messages to the outside world. From the political propaganda of the Bayeux Tapestry, World War I soldiers coping with PTSD, and the maps sewn by schoolgirls in the New World, to the AIDS quilt, Hmong story clothes, and pink pussyhats, women and men have used the language of sewing to make their voices heard, even in the most desperate of circumstances. Threads of Life is a chronicle of identity, memory, power, and politics told through the stories of needlework. Clare Hunter, master of the craft, threads her own narrative as she takes us over centuries and across continents—from medieval France to contemporary Mexico and the United States, and from a POW camp in Singapore to a family attic in Scotland—to celebrate the universal beauty and power of sewing.


Salvage the Bones

Salvage the Bones

Author: Jesmyn Ward

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2012-04-12

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 140882700X

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A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch's father is growing concerned. He's a hard drinker, largely absent, and it isn't often he worries about the family. Esch and her three brothers are stocking up on food, but there isn't much to save. Lately, Esch can't keep down what food she gets; at fifteen, she has just realized that she's pregnant. Her brother Skeetah is sneaking scraps for his prized pit bull's new litter, dying one by one. Meanwhile, brothers Randall and Junior try to stake their claim in a family long on child's play and short on parenting. As the twelve days that make up the novel's framework yield to a dramatic conclusion, this unforgettable family - motherless children sacrificing for one another as they can, protecting and nurturing where love is scarce - pulls itself up to face another day.