Have you ever left a conversation feeling like shredded wheat? Stuck your foot in your mouth? Been at a loss for words? Had difficulty getting your point across? Or been talked into doing something you didn’t want to do? Do you find it difficult to connect with others? Do you suspect that your speech patterns are hindering your relationships? Maybe you need some Conversation Peace!Let Mary Kassian teach you the seven powerful speech-transforming elements to master the skill of effective communications. You will also strengthen your vocabulary with Words from the Word. Conversation Peace will help you revolutionize your speech habits and improve your relationships.
Dr. Parker Hamilton, a forensic specialist, finds that surgically remaking faces of criminals who need new identities helps pay for his lavish lifestyle. When one of these faces lands on the cover of the local paper, Parker wonders if he’ll be connected to the alleged crime. What follows forces Parker to deal with childhood memories that left scars. His controlling father and aloof mother left him with only his Gram Sloan to nurture his sensitive personality. Striving to succeed, he turns to drugs. Through a most unexpected gift, Parker hopes for a new start. How he redeems Gram’s faith in him is a story of the power of God’s grace. First he’ll have to win against his father in court. Will his move back to Nashville give him access to his brother Gavin, who seems to have followed in his footsteps? How Parker winds up with a trophy dedicated to him in Layton Brooks trophy case can only be described as a miracle of God. Readers of Book 1 in the Trophies of Grace series will be delighted to find the Brooks family woven into Book 2.
College freshman Holly Hamilton is home for Christmas vacation. She’s determined to break through her brother Tyler’s moodiness. After she follows him to a mysterious late-night meeting and watches an unusual exchange, Holly’s suspicions are confirmed. Ty is caught in a drug raid. Since she and her parents work for Uncle Parker’s Sloan Foundation to combat drug abuse, Holly sets out to discover Ty’s motives. Uncle Parker is the first to understand and help him work through his issues. When her mother Brianne and grandmother Olivia Hamilton, are diagnosed with serious medical conditions, Holly is drawn into new family dramas. Apparently, her grandmother has been keeping a secret from them that has been hurtful to the family. When the secret is revealed, will it fill in missing pieces that may just heal painful pasts? Will the family learn to forgive and extend mercy to each other? As Meme Dyer always says, “God’s up to something in this family. You just wait and see.”
Holly Hamilton faces her last semester of college with no firm plans for the future. She’s just broken up with her boyfriend, Blake Chandler, who seems to know for certain he’s her forever partner. Not one to give up easily, he plans to take a job in a law firm near her in Washington, D.C. As Holly struggles to disentangle herself from the relationship, a young Marine thinks he can help her with her Blake problem. A tragic accident threatens to draw Holly back into Blake’s arms. Will Holly trust God to achieve His purposes without her takeover tendencies? How God works to fulfill her deepest desires demonstrates His faithfulness when she surrenders her plans for His. If you’ve followed the Brooks-Hamilton families through the previous three books in the Trophies of Grace series, you’ll enjoy this stand-alone tale of grown-up Holly, along with her best friend, Hannah Harper, as they both find new career paths and love interests. Set in Nashville, Tennessee, the books feature intergenerational families whose lives intertwine over more than forty years. Through hardships and blessings, the families build faith muscles as they collect trophies of grace—character qualities that remind us that God’s always up to something in our lives.
In this inspirational family tale, three generations face grief, loss, redemption, and reconciliation—all while collecting trophies of grace in the process. The trauma of their sick daughter leads Layton and Amy Brooks to unravel the misleading assumptions that drove them to divorce. They discover that getting to know and love someone intimately takes a lot of reframing, including their concept of God. Then cancer strikes again. — A Beam of Hope, Book 1 Dr. Parker Hamilton struggles to find faith as he faces prison and the realization that he’s broken his grandmother’s heart. When an unexpected gift presents the chance to begin anew in his hometown, he must first win against his lawyer father in court. But will the move reunite him with the brother he suspects has followed in his footsteps? — A Stash of Faith, Book 2 College freshman Holly Hamilton is determined to break through her brother Tyler’s moodiness. After she follows him to a mysterious late night meeting and watches an unusual exchange, Holly’s suspicions are confirmed when he’s caught in a drug raid. Soon family secrets provide the missing pieces that may just heal painful pasts.—A Glimpse of Mercy, Book 3
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick The beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the twentieth century. From the moment she entered the world, Francie Nolan needed to be made of stern stuff, for the often harsh life of Williamsburg demanded fortitude, precocity, and strength of spirit. Often scorned by neighbors for her family’s erratic and eccentric behavior—such as her father Johnny’s taste for alcohol and Aunt Sissy’s habit of marrying serially without the formality of divorce—no one, least of all Francie, could say that the Nolans’ life lacked drama. By turns overwhelming, sublime, heartbreaking, and uplifting, the Nolans’ daily experiences are tenderly threaded with family connectedness and raw with honesty. Betty Smith has, in the pages of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, captured the joys of humble Williamsburg life-from “junk day” on Saturdays, when the children of Francie’s neighborhood traded their weekly take for pennies, to the special excitement of holidays, bringing cause for celebration and revelry. Betty Smith has artfully caught this sense of exciting life in a novel of childhood, replete with incredibly rich moments of universal experiences—a truly remarkable achievement for any writer.
The first organized, sanctioned American stock car race took place in 1908 on a road course around Briarcliff, New York--staged by one of America's early speed mavens, William K. Vanderbilt, Jr. A veteran of the early Ormond-Daytona Beach speed trials, Vanderbilt brought the Grand Prize races to Savannah, Georgia, the same year. What began as a rich man's sport eventually became the working man's sport, finding a home in the South with the infusion of moonshiners and their souped-up cars. Based in large part on statements of drivers, car owners and others garnered from archived newspaper articles, this history details the development of stock car racing into a megasport, chronicling each season through 1974. It examines the National Association for Stock Car Automobile Racing's 1948 incorporation documents and how they differ from the agreements adopted at NASCAR's organization meeting two months earlier. The meeting's participants soon realized that their sport was actually owned by William H.G. "Bill" France, and its consequential growth turned his family into billionaires. The book traces the transition from dirt to asphalt to superspeedways, the painfully slow advance of safety measures and the shadowy economics of the sport.
In the wake of SARS and H1N1, this story of medical health officer Dr. Fred Underhill and his battle against the 1918 Spanish influenza that killed 25 to 50 million people worldwide is particularly relevant. Underhill is symbolic of the senior public health officers in cities across Canada and the U.S. who mounted the best defence they could against the killer flu. His vision, his tireless efforts, and his dialogue with colleagues in Seattle and elsewhere saved many lives. And his patient advice and findings are still relevant today as we await the new viral epidemics that undoubtedly lie ahead. In their enlightening account of the events of that era, authors O'Keefe and Macdonald have crafted a compelling story of people coming together in a time of crisis.
A chance discovery on January 24, 1848, profoundly shaped the destiny of California--and the world. On this day, in a river valley that quickly became the town of Coloma, James W. Marshall found gold in the tailrace of a sawmill he was building for John Sutter. The discovery precipitated the largest gold rush in history, bringing an estimated 300,000 fortune-seekers from all over the world in just a few years. By 1849, Coloma mushroomed into a town of 10,000 people, most of them transient miners. Soon, the town became more permanent, with grand hotels, fine homes, and stout brick buildings. In 1857, with the moving of the county seat to Placerville, Coloma entered a period of relative slumber. By the 1870s, however, Robert Chalmers presided over the largest winery outside of the Napa Valley. Orchards and ranches proliferated. The discovery site later became a state park. By the 1970s, tourism brought in even more wealth with the advent of the white-water rafting and kayaking industry.
The Ohio Literary Trail celebrates the Buckeye State's role in shaping culture and literature worldwide. Along the trail, developed by the Ohioana Library Association, lie historic homes, museums, library collections and historical markers honoring great authors, poets and influencers of the literary landscape. Following the state's five geographic regions for convenient self-guided tours, curious explorers can walk in the footsteps of Harriet Beecher Stowe and poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. They can view renowned collections of comics, picture book art and Nancy Drew-themed artifacts. Or they can tour the home and farm of Pulitzer Prize winner and conservationist Louis Bromfield. Compiled with care by Betty Weibel, one of the trail's creators, this guide offers something unique for the armchair traveler and the road warrior alike.
This new and revised edition is a comprehensive guide to all of California's major wine-producing areas, covering Mendocino and Napa-Sonoma to Monterey and Santa Cruz, to the south central coast and Temecula in southern California. Includes a brief background on each region, plus descriptions of tasting rooms, with their hours, locations, and information on tours, gift shops, and picnic areas.
In this inspirational family tale, three generations face grief, loss, redemption, and reconciliation—all while collecting trophies of grace in the process. The trauma of their sick daughter leads Layton and Amy Brooks to unravel the misleading assumptions that drove them to divorce. They discover that getting to know and love someone intimately takes a lot of reframing, including their concept of God. Then cancer strikes again. — A Beam of Hope, Book 1 Dr. Parker Hamilton struggles to find faith as he faces prison and the realization that he’s broken his grandmother’s heart. When an unexpected gift presents the chance to begin anew in his hometown, he must first win against his lawyer father in court. But will the move reunite him with the brother he suspects has followed in his footsteps? — A Stash of Faith, Book 2 College freshman Holly Hamilton is determined to break through her brother Tyler’s moodiness. After she follows him to a mysterious late night meeting and watches an unusual exchange, Holly’s suspicions are confirmed when he’s caught in a drug raid. Soon family secrets provide the missing pieces that may just heal painful pasts.—A Glimpse of Mercy, Book 3
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