Brown-skinned momma, the color of chocolate milk and coffee pumpkin pie, whose face gets ginger red when she puffs and yells the children into bed. White-skinned daddy, not white like milk or snow, lighter than brown, With pinks and tiny tans, whose face gets tomato red when he puffs and yells their children into bed. Children who are all the colors of the race, growing up happy in a house full of love. This is the way it is for them; this is the way they are, but the joy they feel extends to every reader of this book. Black is brown is tan is a story poem about being, a beautiful true song about a family delighting in each other and in the good things of the earth.
Discover the history of Englewood, "the Queen City of the Palisades," and Englewood Cliffs in this enlightening tribute to these communities. With images from pre-Revolutionary days to the opening of the George Washington Bridge, the Friends of the Englewood Library trace all aspects of life, including the expansion of political and social institutions. Drawing from public as well as private collections, the story of Englewood and Englewood Cliffs unfolds in this volume--from scenes of fishing villages to farms to grand mansions--tracing the progress of a once rural area that developed into residential communities with tree-lined streets, many parks, hiking trails, and nature preserves within a few miles of New York City. In this visual compilation of Englewood history, meet the founding families of the area as well as some of its notable residents. View the work of prominent architects and tour a variety of landmarks and eclectic buildings, from Dutch Colonial homes to a 600-foot-long wooden hotel.
To few men is given the opportunity not only of seeing the gaping sores of humanity but also of spending a lifetime in applying to them the antiseptic of love and the emollient of compassion. General Arnold Brown, eleventh international leader of the world movement founded in 1865 by the Rev. William Booth and known as the Salvation Army, is such a man. Into these pages is compressed the essence of what he felt, and saw, and heard, and acomplished in almost fifty years of Salvation Army officership."--Publisher's description
An important and scholarly work; bringing together much information available heretofore only in scattered sources. Easily readable." — Gerald I. Alexander, F.R.G.S. Cartographer, Map Division, New York Public Library. The first authoritative history of maps and the men who made them. The historical coverage of this volume is immense: from the first two centuries A.D. — Strabo and Ptolemy — through the end of the 19th century, with some discussion of 20th-century developments. 86 illustrations. Extensive notes and bibliography. "Mr. Brown felicitously marries scholarship to narrative and dramatic skill." — Henry Steele Commager.
A group of people are struck by shards from a meteorite. Instead of dying, they are imbued with extraordinary powers of magic and become irresistibly drawn to The Glen, a place in the Colorado Rockies transformed into a near-sentient forest with trees that move and speak, all controlled by their future leader's subconscious. They don't know why, they just know they have to be there. In their struggle to accept their new powers and learn how to use them they find love, trust and companionship. They slowly become more than just friends, more than just a group of reluctant heroes gathered together to protect the Earth. They become a Family. They will need this unity in order to prevent the Earth's destruction from two forces... The first is The Rogue, a dwarf planet on a collision course with Earth; The second is a being of immense power, as old as The Universe itself, determined to dominate not only the Earth but also our Universe and perhaps even all of Creation.
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