Spring Forward
Spring Forward

Author: Michael Downing

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2009-02-17

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 1582434956

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Michael Downing is obsessed with Daylight Saving, the loopy idea that became the most persistent political controversy in American history. Almost one hundred years after Congressmen and lawmakers in every state first debated, ridiculed, and then passionately embraced the possibility of saving an hour of daylight, no one can say for sure why we are required by law to change our clocks twice a year. Who first proposed the scheme? The most authoritative sources agree it was a Pittsburgh industrialist, Woodrow Wilson, a man on a horse in London, a Manhattan socialite, Benjamin Franklin, one of the Caesars, or the anonymous makers of ancient Chinese and Japanese water clocks. Spring Forward is a portrait of public policy in the 20th century, a perennially boiling cauldron of unsubstantiated science, profiteering masked as piety, and mysteriously shifting time–zone boundaries. It is a true–to–life social comedy with Congress in the leading role, surrounded by a supporting cast of opportunistic ministers, movie moguls, stockbrokers, labor leaders, sports fanatics, and railroad execs.

Spring Forward
Spring Forward

Author: Catherine Anderson

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2018-01-02

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 0399586350

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The New York Times bestselling author returns to Mystic Creek, Oregon, with a story about finding an unforgettable love just around the corner. . . . When a favorite customer on his delivery route needs a favor, Tanner Richards agrees to help without a second thought. The last thing he expects is to face off against the man’s spitfire granddaughter. Crystal Malloy is near her breaking point. Her beloved grandfather constantly skirts the rules at the retirement center where he’s recovering from surgery. She’s caring for his escape artist dog, even if it means abandoning her salon customers, and she has no time for a romantic attraction to the handsome new stranger. After Tanner’s reassigned to Mystic Creek, Crystal can no longer ignore how much she misjudged the man’s good intentions. She has known too much sorrow to easily open her heart, but she can’t deny that Tanner and his children could gift her with a happiness beyond compare—if only she can forgive herself for the past and accept that she’s deserving of such a love.

Spring Forward
Spring Forward

Author: Erick Elliott

Publisher:

Published: 2015-12-01

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9780692649848

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Spring Forward
Spring Forward

Author: Holiday Mathis

Publisher: Creators Publishing

Published: 2019-03-18

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 1949673138

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Discover your complete horoscope for March 2019! Life can be chaotic and random. We are notoriously uncomfortable with the unknown. Our brains have evolved to filter out most of it, so what gets through are the threats, the changes, and the small things from which we are compelled to try to make order, to look for a pattern, to construct a narrative -- to make sense of the senseless. Holiday Mathis is trying, like we all are, to find the pattern. With her 15 years of experience in astrology and antiquity, Holiday peers through life’s lens, connecting the dots and extracting meaning that will help readers know that they are seen and understood, and that we all belong together in this cluster of humanity, multitudes beneath one sky. With short and sweet insights, “Spring Forward” serves to enlighten readers as to what to expect in their love lives, careers, health, relationships, financial futures and more this month.

Seize the Daylight
Seize the Daylight

Author: David Prerau

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2009-04-28

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 078673695X

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Benjamin Franklin conceived of it. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle endorsed it. Winston Churchill campaigned for it. Kaiser Wilhelm first employed it. Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt went to war with it, and more recently the United States fought an energy crisis with it. For several months every year, for better or worse, daylight savings time affects vast numbers of people throughout the world. And from Ben Franklin's era to today, its story has been an intriguing and sometimes-bizarre amalgam of colorful personalities and serious technical issues, purported costs and perceived benefits, conflicts between interest groups and government policymakers. It impacts diverse and unexpected areas, including agricultural practices, street crime, the reporting of sports scores, traffic accidents, the inheritance rights of twins, and voter turnout. Illustrated with a popular look at science and history, Seize the Daylight presents an intriguing and surprisingly entertaining story of our attempt to regulate the sunlight hours.

Seaman
Seaman

Author: Naval Education and Training Program Development Center

Publisher:

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13:

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New Leaf
New Leaf

Author: Catherine Anderson

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2016-01-05

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 1101611235

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The New York Times bestselling author of Silver Thaw returns to Mystic Creek in a novel about a love that inspires the courage to start over…and the strength to reclaim a dream. When Taffeta Brown was viciously betrayed by her wealthy husband, she lost everything—including custody of their daughter, Sarah. Now that Taffy has moved to Mystic Creek, Oregon, to start over, she unexpectedly meets the one man who might help her get Sarah back. Barney Sterling, a local lawman, finds himself drawn to the lovely, guarded Taffy, but he’s stunned by her proposition—that they marry immediately to improve her chances of regaining custody of her daughter. Barney takes marriage too seriously to commit himself to a woman he hardly knows. Yet soon his sympathies fall with the desperate Taffy, and pretending to be in love becomes the easiest part of the plan. But they have no idea what they’re up against, or what they’re willing to risk to make a miracle come true in Mystic Creek.

Botticelli’s Muse
Botticelli’s Muse

Author: Dorah Blume

Publisher: Juiceboxartists Press

Published: 2017-07-21

Total Pages: 615

ISBN-13: 099813161X

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Botticelli’s Muse peels back layers of history to tell a fictionalized version of the life of Sandro Botticelli, his conflicts with the Medici family of Florence, and the woman at the heart of his paintings. In 1477, Botticelli is suddenly fired by his prestigious patron and friend Lorenzo de’ Medici. In the villa of his irritating new patron, the artist’s creative well runs dry—until the day he sees Floriana, a Jewish weaver imprisoned in his sister’s convent. But events threaten to keep his unlikely muse out of reach. So begins a tale of one of the art world’s most beloved paintings, La Primavera, as Sandro, a confirmed bachelor, and Floriana, a headstrong artist in her own right, enter into a turbulent relationship.

Power Prayers
Power Prayers

Author: TEJADO W. HANCHELL Ph.D

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2013-03-11

Total Pages: 117

ISBN-13: 1483605515

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"POWER PRAYERS" IS DESIGNED TO ASSIST PEOPLE FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE AND VARYING LEVELS OF SPIRITUAL MATURITY TO PLUG IN TO THE POWER SOURCE AND DEVELOP THE DAILY DISCIPLINE OF PRAYER. THIS DEVOTIONAL INCLUDES 30 PRAYERS DESIGNED TO LEAD THE READER ON a 30-DAY JOURNEY OF DISCOVERING THE POWER AVAILABLE THROUGH PRAYER. HOWEVER, AS JESUS TEACHES US IN "THE LORD'S PRAYER", THE KEY TO PRAYER IS NOT HOW OFTEN WE PRAY – IT'S WHAT WE PRAY. FAR TOO OFTEN WE STRUGGLE WITH TRYING TO FIND JUST THE RIGHT WORDS TO CAREFULLY CRAFT OUR PETITIONS TO GOD NOT REALIZING THAT THE GOAL IS NOT TO FIND OUR OWN WORDS...IT'S TO PRAY GOD'S WORD.Prayer is the "oil that keeps our engines running". Over my twenty nine years as Pastor, and in my travels, I have seen a frightening lack of emphasis, and interest in prayer. I am refreshed by Dr. Tejado Hancell's "Power Prayers" Devotional, and I am encouraged by such "old truths" penned by such a young man!BISHOP DONALD HILLIARD, JR., D.MIN., SENIOR PASTOR, CATHEDRAL INTERNATIONAL PERTH AMBOY, NEW JERSEYPrayer is one of the greatest assets that a blood-washed believer can possess. However, we don't often take full advantage of our endless access to our King. I am so thankful that this new book by Dr. Tejado W. Hanchell provides us with a practical road map towards walking in powerful prayer so that we can see the hand of God move on our behalf.DR. CHRIS HILL, SENIOR PASTOR, THE POTTER'S HOUSE OF DENVEROne of the Best Prayer Journals of this Decade...A very satisfying work of art – a book by a writer who personally knows the "Power of Prayer"! This book shows an intimacy in prayer that is so rare in any kind of publishing nowadays. Every once in a while a book comes along that takes your breath away, and "Power Prayers" has done just that! a Must Read!REV. P. MICHAEL MCNAIR, SENIOR PASTOR, EMMANUEL BAPTIST CHURCH THOMASVILLE, NC