Maggie receives a pair of dress shoes for her birthday. Grandmother presents her with a pair of beautiful beaded moccasins, and tells her how and when she should wear each pair.
The journey of Pauline, as she ends a marriage and travels to live in Southern California, her ultimate dream at the time. She goes through personal growth, empowerment, and life changes on her own for the first time at the age of thirty-eight. She is enjoying the lifestyle of living in Southern California, starting her career over after twenty years, dating again after twelve years, and finding answers to her most sought-out questions.
Forty remarkable women share the stories and memories behind their favorite shoes—accompanied by gorgeous photography. Cinderella wasn’t the only one whose life was changed by a pair of shoes. Ask any woman about her favorite pair and you’re sure to get an answer that goes beyond their material design. In Our Shoes, Our Selves: 40 Women, 40 Stories, 40 Pairs of Shoes, actress Bridget Moynahan and journalist Amanda Benchley ask forty accomplished women to recount the memories behind their most meaningful footwear. This collection features stories from icons like Bobbi Brown, Danica Patrick, and Misty Copeland; intrepid reporters like Christiane Amanpour and Katie Couric; and creative forces like Rupi Kaur, Maya Lin, and Gretchen Rubin. Beautifully illustrated with a portrait of each woman and her chosen shoes, the stories explore what most women already know: that what we wear can have power and significance beyond merely clothing our bodies. Our Shoes, Our Selves reveals these remarkable journeys, and the steps these inspiring women have taken to get there.
Shoes, shoes and more shoes ... this book is bursting with them. From party shoes and flip-flops to cowboy boots and clogs, there's a pair here to suit everyone. There's even a shoe house for a little mouse! Jolly, rhythmic text carries you playfully along in this delightfully stylish book that introduces colours and numbers in a gentle and fun way. Will appeal to adults and children alike.
"You never get a second chance to make a first impression." Have you ever heard this saying? Before we get a chance to say a word, our gestures and manners have already spoken for us. Though some of the rules of good manners change, others remain constant. This book is about the constants: the least you need to know to make a good first impression. As Clarence Thomas once said, "Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot." Use this book as a master key to open those doors.
After a childhood of farm life and work, three sisters break away to create and live the lives they’ve dreamed about. They are independent working women who quietly and purposely strive to control their own destinies. Marriage, childbirth, death and all the smaller pieces of life’s colorful puzzle come together and culminate in a shared lifetime of memories and dreams realized or left behind. Two of the sisters share a love of colorful high heel shoes and one prefers a more comfortable shoe. Each sister walks in her own shoes as their lives intertwine moving from home to independence and back home again sharing their own brand of love, passion, pain, and a propensity for donuts and coffee.