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Author: Thomas Kinkade
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
Published: 1997-03-07
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781565076143
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPamper your visitors with this luminous guest book. Featuring Kinkade's well-known painting "Home is Where the Heart Is," this keepsake registry with lightly ruled pages and favorite quotations from his bestselling book, Simpler Times, will extend a warm welcome to every special guest.
Author: Kathleen McDonald
Publisher: WestBow Press
Published: 2015-03-17
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 1490869166
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCurl up in a cozy chair with a cup of coffee or tea and meet some amazing women who just happened to be in the same little neighborhood at the same time. These friends walked into the author's heart and inspired her to be a better mother, teacher, and friend, and to recognize more fully the varied gifts God's children offer. Each woman represents a unique virtue or talent making her a life giving vessel in the body of Christ. Using names that best fit the gift, the stories are narratives that will delight, touch, and invite deep personal reflection. Poetry and prayer flow from each story as natural as a breath of air. Because their stories give practical applications for daily living in Christ, questions for further contemplation or for sharing follow each section, along with Scriptures to reflect on and suggested activities or related reading. These friends are presented in word pictures that tug at the heart. They bring with them joy and sorrow, wisdom and insight. They will remind the reader of someone they know and lead to a better understanding of that person. The reader may even find a picture of, as well as, a better understanding of herself.
Author: Amy Sedaris
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2014-03-04
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1455584436
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe New York Times bestselling craft guide that inspired the hit new TV show, At Home With Amy Sedaris It's often been said that ugly people craft and attractive people have sex. In Simple Times, Amy Sedaris sets the record straight and delivers a book that will forever change the world of crafting. Demonstrating that crafting is one of life's more pleasurable and constructive leisure activities, Sedaris shows that anyone with a couple of hours to kill and access to pipe cleaners can join the elite society of crafters. You will discover how to make popular crafts such as Pompom Ringworms and Seashell Toilet Seat Covers, all while avoiding the most common crafting accidents (sawdust fires, feather asphyxia, pine cone lodged in throat). You will cook your own edible crafts, from a Crafty Candle Salad to Sugar Skulls, with many more recipes and craft ideas that will inspire you to create your very own hastily constructed obscure d'arts. Praise for Simple Times "Amy Sedaris is a kookier, kitschier version of Martha Stewart...Simple Times is an ideal gift for the crafter who has crafted everything." - Associated Press "A wildly cheeky guide." -- InStyle "For anyone who's ever collected hats crocheted together...or simply for fans of Amy Sedaris and her idiosyncratic sense of humor." -- New York Times Book Review
Author: Cornelia Guest
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2012-06-12
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1602861684
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDaughter of fashion icon C. Z. Guest and Winston Frederick Churchill Guest, polo champion and heir to the Phipps steel fortune, Cornelia Guest resisted eating animal products from childhood because of her passion for “critters.” When her mother became ill, her research compelled her to take the leap to eat cruelty-free. In Cornelia Guest's Simple Pleasures, she reveals the secrets of understated elegance she learned from her parents and the family's extraordinary friends. Her favorite simple recipes are so delicious, even the most fervent carnivores do not miss the meat, and her tips on entertaining take the stress out of any event. Her ulterior motive is to inspire readers to have fun experimenting with healthy alternatives and to change the way they think about food. She shows readers how to incorporate affordable, cruelty-free eating into their daily lives and how to serve that wholesome food to friends. Organized by season, each section begins with a luscious meal—a light spring lunch of chilled asparagus soup and quinoa salad, an alfresco summer dinner of veggie carpaccio and stuffed squash blossoms, a fall breakfast buffet of pecan waffles, faux buttermilk pancakes, and raspberry muffins, and a cozy winter's dinner of shepherd's pie with a chocolate tart for dessert. Each season contains recipes for beverages, soups, salads, pasta, side dishes, main courses, and an abundance of desserts that everyone will love. Special sections feature recipes for grains, greens, and beans. Her favorite chefs, doctors, a veterinarian, and other health experts have contributed sidebars with tips, advice, and eye-opening information. Dismissing fussy food and pretention, she believes the key to entertaining well is simplicity. Cornelia Guest's Simple Pleasures is filled with advice on how to set a lively and original table, how to bring nature inside, even how to stay calm in the face of entertaining disasters. She shows how a little thought and effort makes it a snap to create a relaxed, warm atmosphere and fabulous food free of animal products that will not only please family and friends but will also allow you to enjoy your own party. Richly illustrated with photographs of personal memorabilia and of Templeton, her legendary home, the book captures the feeling of a well-lived life. Cheerful, colorful, and unpretentious, Simple Pleasures will give readers all they need to know to cook in the most nutritious way possible and to serve it up with great style.
Author: Colm Toibin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2014-10-07
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 1439149852
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom one of contemporary literature’s bestselling, critically acclaimed, and beloved authors: a “luminous” novel (Jennifer Egan, The New York Times Book Review) about a fiercely compelling young widow navigating grief, fear, and longing, and finding her own voice—“heartrendingly transcendant” (The New York Times, Janet Maslin). Set in Wexford, Ireland, Colm Tóibín’s magnificent seventh novel introduces the formidable, memorable, and deeply moving Nora Webster. Widowed at forty, with four children and not enough money, Nora has lost the love of her life, Maurice, the man who rescued her from the stifling world to which she was born. And now she fears she may be sucked back into it. Wounded, selfish, strong-willed, clinging to secrecy in a tiny community where everyone knows your business, Nora is drowning in her own sorrow and blind to the suffering of her young sons, who have lost their father. Yet she has moments of stunning insight and empathy, and when she begins to sing again, after decades, she finds solace, engagement, a haven—herself. Nora Webster “may actually be a perfect work of fiction” (Los Angeles Times), by a “beautiful and daring” writer (The New York Times Book Review) at the zenith of his career, able to “sneak up on readers and capture their imaginations” (USA TODAY). “Miraculous...Tóibín portrays Nora with tremendous sympathy and understanding” (Ron Charles, The Washington Post).
Author: Simon McCarthy-Jones
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2021-04-13
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 1541646983
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpite angers and enrages us, but it also keeps us honest. In this provocative account, a psychologist examines how petty vengeance explains human thriving. Spite seems utterly useless. You don't gain anything by hurting yourself just so you can hurt someone else. So why hasn't evolution weeded out all the spiteful people? As psychologist Simon McCarthy-Jones argues, spite seems pointless because we're looking at it wrong. Spite isn't just what we feel when a car cuts us off or when a partner cheats. It's what we feel when we want to punish a bad act simply because it was bad. Spite is our fairness instinct, an innate resistance to exploitation, and it is one of the building blocks of human civilization. As McCarthy-Jones explains, some of history's most important developments—the rise of religions, governments, and even moral codes—were actually redirections of spiteful impulses. A provocative, engaging read, Spite shows that if you really want to understand what makes us human, you can't just look at noble ideas like altruism and cooperation. You need to understand our darker impulses as well.
Author: Gabriel Rojo
Publisher: Darwin Evolved Inc
Published:
Total Pages: 115
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Listening Session”: the only sound that a music critic can hear is the thunderous roar of his next door’s neighbor never-ending party. “A Tragedy at University”: a class from the future looks back on 20th century teaching practices. “The Bygone Age”: travel back to the long-lost Golden Age of Argentinian superheroes, and then follow the exciting adventures of its strangest champion in “The Unforeseeable Adventures of Doctor Future.” “The Veredict”: Three individuals of different professions must convince a superior alien race not to exterminate humanity. “The State Machine”: the ultimate triumph of human civilization. These are but some of the stories contained in “Vignettes”: ten tales, four songs, fourteen thought-provoking journeys. REVIEWS: “I really enjoyed this - you have a great command over the language and surely used it to your advantage in establishing the rules of this story.” – Lakshya Datta, founder of Launchora.com, on “Vignette” “What I like about the story is what makes me like the Question in the first place -- every author that's taken him on wants to use the character to do something worth doing. Here, you've written a story about a comic book superhero where nobody throws a punch, but it's all the more effective because of it. Instead, you pack a thoughtful, well-written punch because you use the specifics of this concise story to tackle the big picture in an interesting way.” – Eric Newsom, webmaster of vicsage.com, on “Faces” “It had the perfect blend of atmosphere and personality, and it's easily one of the better examples of fanfiction I'd come across in any fandom.” - Tim Allen, on “Faces”
Author: Stacy Julian
Publisher: Primedia Scrapbooking
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9781929180240
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBoxes of family photographs may invite conflicting feelings of joy and guilt--how to assemble all of those pictures in a meaningful way for the entire family to enjoy? Julian's new book will inspire the scrapbook enthusiast regardless of skill level to try something different: a simple scrapbook.
Author: Garr Reynolds
Publisher: Pearson Education
Published: 2009-04-15
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 0321601890
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFOREWORD BY GUY KAWASAKI Presentation designer and internationally acclaimed communications expert Garr Reynolds, creator of the most popular Web site on presentation design and delivery on the Net — presentationzen.com — shares his experience in a provocative mix of illumination, inspiration, education, and guidance that will change the way you think about making presentations with PowerPoint or Keynote. Presentation Zen challenges the conventional wisdom of making "slide presentations" in today’s world and encourages you to think differently and more creatively about the preparation, design, and delivery of your presentations. Garr shares lessons and perspectives that draw upon practical advice from the fields of communication and business. Combining solid principles of design with the tenets of Zen simplicity, this book will help you along the path to simpler, more effective presentations.
Author: Alex A. Lluch
Publisher: WS Publishing Group
Published: 2010-12-16
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 1936061163
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is filled with valuable worksheets and checklists, vendor comparison charts, and comprehensive information, ideas and trends for every aspect of the wedding planning process.
