Life is anything but a bed of roses at thorny end, and Hermux faces his toughest case yet! A missing heir, a homeless teenager, a mad genius, fields of dying roses; and a beauty tycoon with an axe to grind. No one sees the connection until an unidentified body washes up on the shore and Androse DeRosenquill hires Hermux Tantamoq to solve the mystery. In the midst of the mayhem, Hermux has to maintain his normal life and keep organising his perfect wedding to Linka Perflinger, aviatrix extraordinaire. Can Hermux survive his latest confrontation with Tucka Mertslin and her ruthless machinations? Or will he succumb to the giant spider that lurks at Jeckel Island?
A playful board book about the pillars of mindfulness from the bestselling creators of Hello!Lucky! This pun-derful guide to mindfulness offers many fun teaching moments for kids and their caregivers, covering topics from taking deep breaths to acknowledging strong feelings and working to let them go. Filled with bright, adorable illustrations in Hello!Lucky’s inimitable style, this playful, sturdy board book is sure to give the preschool set much to ponder. As a bonus seek-and-find element, readers will find at least one rose on every spread—an additional reminder to stop and smell the roses!
“…I have a dream†~ Martin Luther King Jnr. Everyone has a dream. What happened to your dreams? Many people start out with great ambitions and big dreams but in the midst of it fade out and exit. "For who has despised the day of small things?" Zechariah 4:10There comes a time in our lives when factors like age, responsibility and time crops in and turns to interrupt our dreams, and we feel like giving up our dreams to make way for such things. This book shows how we can marry all these factors and still pursue our dreams. In the end, the feeling of fulfillment of dreams is undoubtedly the most heavenly feeling on earth. You can achieve your God-given dreams; use the setbacks as springboard for advancement. Your dreams will not die!
“I never wanted to be a millionaire—I just wanted to live like one...”—Walter Hagen THIS IS Walter Hagen’s own story of the two decades when he ruled the golfing world as King. Hagen not only won a major tournament every year for twenty years—a record never even approached by any other golfer—but his personality dominated the game over that period. Before he came along, professional golfers had the status of hired hands. The Haig was the man who crashed the front door of the clubhouses, and he brought along with him the entire fraternity of golf professionals. He was a magnificent showman and, in addition to changing the social standing of the golf pro, his competitive skill and flamboyant character built up public in interest in golf throughout the world. The result was perhaps best expressed in Gene Sarazen’s own memoirs when he said, “All the professionals who have a chance to go after the big money today should say silent thanks to Walter Hagen each time they stretch a check between their fingers. It was Walter Hagen who made professional golf what it is.” The picture of sartorial elegance, he became the fashion plate that others copied for years. He was the honoured guest of emperors and the tutor and personal friend of the young Edward, then Prince of Wales. An idol both at home and abroad (he won the U.S. Open twice, made the P.G.A. Championship almost his exclusive personal property through the twenties, and won the British Open four times), he toured the world with Joe Kirkwood as the most outstanding ambassador of good will that golf ever produced. All this and much more is set down in this book in a style which has the same swashbuckling flavour as characterized his long playing career.
Examples from jewelry, millinery, handbags, perfume, couture, and everyday dress show how the rose--both beautiful and symbolic--has inspired fashion over hundreds of years.
A catch phrase is a well-known, frequently-used phrase or saying that has `caught on' or become popular over along period of time. It is often witty or philosophical and this Dictionary gathers together over 7,000 such phrases.
When Gilbert writes two not-so-nice valentines to his classmates, his prank quickly turns into pandemonium. But there's always time for a change of heart on Valentine's Day.
Not all yarns are alike. Some make our hearts and hands sing, some get the job done without much fanfare, and some cause nothing but frustration and disappointment. The gorgeous pair of socks that emerged from their first bath twice as long as when they went in. The delicate baby sweater that started pilling before it even came off the needles. The stunning colorwork scarf that you can’t wear because the yarn feels like sandpaper against your neck. If only there were a way to read a skein and know how it would behave and what it wanted to become before you invested your time, energy, and money in it. Now there is! With The Knitter’s Book of Yarn, you’ll learn how to unleash your inner yarn whisperer. In these pages, Clara Parkes provides in-depth insight into a vast selection of yarns, giving you the inside stories behind the most common fiber types, preparations, spins, and ply combinations used by large-scale manufacturers and importers, medium-sized companies, boutique dye shops, community spinneries, and old-fashioned sheep farms. And, because we learn best by doing, Parkes went to some of the most creative and inquisitive design minds of the knitting world to provide a wide assortment of patterns created to highlight the qualities (and minimize the drawbacks) of specific types of yarns. The Knitter’s Book of Yarn will teach you everything you need to know about yarn: How it’s made, who makes it, how it gets to you, and what it longs to become. The next time you pick up a skein, you won’t have to wonder what to do with it. You’ll just know–the way any yarn whisperer would.
On the threshold of the 20th Century, Melkon Jenanyan sits alone in a room in the heart of Philadelphia. An intense and stubborn Christian Minister, and the one who must secure their family legacy, he has to make a decision. Will he further complicate his strained marriage by returning to the heart of the Ottoman Empire - as a targeted Christian minority in a Muslim land? The crux of his life's meaning hangs in the balance as he struggles to choose between family or his life's work, peace or a potential war zone. Will he find salvation as a martyr to save his people, or will he choose to save himself?
