A National Book Award Finalist for Fiction Set in the Texas/Mexico border country in the years from 1944 to the present, The River Beyond the World is the story of two women on the edge of sexual, moral, political, and spiritual divides. Luisa Cantú is a girl from a Sierra Madre mountain village. After being impregnated in a fertility ritual of ancient origin, she leaves Mexico to work in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas as a housemaid for Mrs. Eddie Hatch, a woman with a strong will and a narrow worldview. Their complex relationship—by turns mystical and pragmatic, serious and comic—reveals the many ways human beings can wound one another, the nature of love and sacrifice, and the possibility of forgiveness.
An introduction to the physical characteristics, behavior, and natural environment of the cougar or puma, a wild cat of the Americas that continues to decline in number.
Police Chief Raiford Reynolds learns that true evil never dies until the end of time as he encounters a brutal, maniacal killer bent on revenge. A number of police officers and FBI agents are assassinated by a skilled sniper who leaves no evidence. The first dead law enforcement officer is Ray's own sister-in-law, and all the others were somehow instrumental in the capture and death of Latrice Descartes twenty years before any one of them was killed. Once again, Ray finds his personal life and his professional life cannot be separated as his family become targets of a mad man.
An introduction to the physical characteristics, behavior, natural environment, and threats to the survival of the cheetah, considered to be the fastest land animal on Earth.
Twelve women are dead and a thirteenth is missing, and nothing ties the victims together except the way in which they died. Police detective Ray Reynolds discovers a supernatural element and that the evidence points to himself as the murderer. Larkin Sloan is a young Mississippi teacher working in the small town of Eau Bouease, Louisiana. Abducted, she foregoes common sense and rational behavior in order to stay alive and not become the thirteenth victim of a serial killer.--From page 4 of cover.
Shading can give your needlepoint dimension and depth, without being as difficult as you thought it might be. Part of the Predictable Results series of book from Art Needlepoint and needlepoint expert Janet M. Perry, you'll get the beautiful results from your stitching you've always wanted. Learn two forms of shading that let you use any thread plus advanced shading techniques to use specialized threads such as overdyes and metallics. You'll love how it enriches your needlework. The ground-breaking books in this series give you the knowledge you need to get the results you want in your needlepoint.
Learn the secrets of the fastest, easiest, and most creative form of needlepoint inside these covers.Here you'll find: How to stitch BargelloHow to solve those nagging problems you may have had in the past . . . and how to prevent them from the start.How to use any kind of thread for Bargello and how to recognize the ones which work in hard wearing places.How to create your own unique color schemes based on clothing, home decor, or threads.How to make over 30 different projects ranging from a cell phone or iPod case to stitcher s accessories.How to find your own patterns and templates to create unique projects.Janet has been stitching Bargello for almost 40 years, and she brings a lifetime of knowledge and ideas to this book. It s by far the most comprehensive Bargello book in print today.More than just a book of projects, Bargello Revisited will give you the tools you need to create some of the most exciting needlepoint around. Not only is every piece unique, Bargello is relaxing, inexpensive, and portable. You can stitch Bargello anywhere with nothing more than a blank piece of canvas, a needle, and the thread of your choice.Every project is pictured in color, along with charts for every pattern and templates to create even more projects. Reference information includes contact information for all the threads used, finishing products manufacturers, a bibliography of great books about Bargello, and a listing of projects available from many companies and teachers for those who become Bargello enthusiasts.Inspiring, complete, and fun, Bargello Revisited will introduce you to a whole new world of needlepoint.Soon you'll be saying: I Bargello, do you
Immediately after the Civil War, Bess Hauser, a herbalist-midwife, and David Adams, a former Army surgeon, struggle to find a new balance for their lives. David learns to survive in a rural, Pennsylvania Dutch world, and Bess learns to love again.
Who could know counting heads would be so dangerous? Laura Beth Copeland, the stay-home mother of two and half, decides to become a census-taker just for the experience. When she discovers a decapitated head at one of her canvassing addresses, she is catapulted into a fight for her life.Upon finding only the head of a witness against a drug lord, Laura Beth becomes the hitman's next target. Laura Beth first receives warnings to remain quiet. When she cooperates with police, the assassin targets her. Investigation shows the killer has ties far up the political ladder, and the head count mounts as every witness in a federal case has already been eliminated. FBI moves in to try and catch the killer and protect Laura Beth. Their attempts prove to be in vain, and Laura Beth's husband is killed, prompting her being taken into protective custody, which goes terribly awry. She goes on the lam with the local police detective, Tanner McGill. Weeks spent together create a spark that will smolder for a while.By the time a possible killer is identified, it becomes apparent that the man is only a pawn and the real criminal links all the way the State Department of the United States. Multiple branches of law enforcement join to find the real culprit and save an innocent woman.
Police chief Ray Reynolds did not think there could be a more brutal, heartless killer than Latrice Descartes, whom he had encountered fourteen years earlier. Then his wedding anniversary dinner is interrupted by one of his detectives, who tells him an old acquaintance, a United States senator, has been found murdered in the presence of a much younger woman and that both are missing their hearts. Ray becomes embroiled in another murder mystery that touches even closer to him than the one involving Latrice Descartes.--From page 4 of cover.
Perplexed by color when it comes to needlepoint? This book gives you the information you need to conquer color question in your needlepoint.You'll learn the basic vocabulary of color, how color behaves in threads, six main color schemes and how to create them in your stitching, an easy way to create a color scheme and more.With examples from art and needlepoint you'll learn about the different types of color contrast and why they are important. Plus you'll see examples of canvases analyzed for contrast and color.Written by needlepoint expert Janet M. Perry, this book takes decades of color study and distills it down to the practical, thread-specific information you need to create beautiful pieces of stitchery every time.Part of the Predictable Results series, these ground-breaking books give you the knowledge you need to get the results you want in your needlepoint.
Examines reasons behind why people are shark chasers. Discusses some of the questions raised from pursuing this sport, such as: is it O.K. to kill sharks for sport and throw them out, and is it O.K. to kill sharks and use them as a source of food, medicine, and clothing?
Reinforce what you ve learned in Canadian Fundamentals of Nursing, 4th Edition with this detailed, chapter-by-chapter review guide. Each chapter provides exercises that challenge your understanding of key concepts and performance checklists to help you assess your skill technique.
Physician, heal thyself," are words Doctor MacKenzie "Mac" Reardon never thought he would hear, although he has seen far too much sickness and death in his thirty years. Possum Holler, West Virginia, has suffered numerous tragedies without a doctor and with a hospital nearly one hundred miles away. The people are poor and backward. At last, one of their own has become a doctor. Doctor Reardon returns to his hometown to find his own heartache might be something no medicine can heal as he struggles with a narrow-minded community, ignorance, a rocky marriage to a city girl, Felicia Chambry Reardon, and an overwhelming attraction to the new school teacher/principal, Sunny Bankston, at the newly established school. Having met Sunny while in his ER rotation at Cook Memorial Hospital when he was an intern and she had been shot in a school violence incident, Mac knows the spirit of the woman, a spirit that is more akin to his than the spirit of the woman he married. Mac struggles against overwhelming odds to bring his community into the twenty-first century even as Sunny Bankston battles her own demons, including an attraction to MacKenzie Reardon.The first installment in the Hillbilly Hijinks series, Homegrown Healer follows MacKenzie Reardon, but his three friends Tipper Campbell, Gator Jones, and Alain Richter stay in stride with him as these four young men determine the future of Possum Holler.
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