Traded for One Hundred Acres is a real love story based on events that happened in the early 1800s. Savannah Bowen, a beautiful sixteen-year-old, learns that her father has traded her hand in marriage to thirty-year-old Jonah Bell, for one hundred acres of land. She is to travel with Jonah from Georgia to Arkansas by covered wagon, tending his three-week-old infant daughter, whose mother Clara, has just passed away in childbirth. What Jonah doesn’t know is that Savannah has always watched him from afar and dreamed of what it would be like to be in Clara’s place. From the very beginning, Jonah makes it clear to Savannah that she could never own his heart, because it would always belong to Clara. Savannah’s faith in God is strong, but Jonah has lost all faith with the death of his beloved wife. In this life-affirming story, Savannah’s loving heart and faith will be tested sorely. But sometimes God works in mysterious ways to bring people back to Him.
“Imperfect World … Perfect Me! is a step-by-step handbook to living the full life that is found only in Jesus Christ. In her transparency, Karen shares her testimony regarding some of her own personal struggles. She explains how she overcame the obstacles each situation presented by trusting God, applying His Word, and knowing her identity in Christ. “Karen covers everything from having a personal relationship with Jesus to marriage to self-esteem and gives encouraging truths from God’s Word that will move you from a mindset of defeat to a mindset of faith, all rooted in the promise of God.
Connie Garrett is the baby of the Garrett family. Staying busy working on the ranch and going to school to be a Christian counselor has left her no time for love. In fact, she believes she'll never find the kind of love her three brothers were blessed with. One rainy night, Connie's entire world changes when she has an accident. Until that moment, she thought she knew the road God had her on, but now she's not so sure. Life as she knew it becomes a standstill for weeks, as she awaits the fate of young Ian Richardson. In this last book of The Seasons of Change Series, readers learn that our plans are not always God's plans. Sometimes, He takes the worst circumstance and shapes it to make something beautiful. The Fragrance of Spring ... Connie's Story will take you through many emotions as this last book wraps up the other three, and you again meet the characters you have fallen in love with. Life is about ups and downs, and The Seasons of Change Series will lead you through many of them, some you may have already experienced yourself.
Hannah Wilkerson, a sixteen-year-old who has been raised by a Baptist minister, is a beautiful only child and is gifted with the voice of an angel. But Hannah has another gift; she can speak with God and has visions. Her father believes that she is even closer to God than he is. Eighteen-year-old Nate Webber has led an entirely different life. Hidden away and abused by his parents, he finally snaps and loses control, leaving behind a path of destruction that harms anyone in his way. It's easy to talk of faith when life is good, but what happens when everything you know and love is suddenly turned upside down? For Hannah's parents, their faith has always been something they treasured. Then their daughter Hannah fails to come home. When life as they know it spirals out of control, will they be able to stand firm in their beliefs? Amazing Grace ... The Ultimate Forgiveness will take you on a journey from beginning to end that will make you stop and think what you would do if faced with the same horror.
Long-haired Bradley Garrett is a rodeo champion. Known as a sexy cowboy, he has never had a problem getting women. In fact he has known many, but not usually for more than one night. Growing up with two older brothers and one younger sister, Brad always knew he was the black sheep of the family. Working the ranch, breaking and boarding horses has left him tired and lonely. His older brothers have already found love, but Brad knows love is not in the cards for him. If he can't have Sarah, he doesn't want anyone, and he knows in his heart that he's not good enough for her. Brad has a secret. He is an alcoholic that drinks to forget his loneliness, and until the night he accidently overdoses with pain pills and alcohol, his family has no idea just how bad his problem is. Brad was raised a Christian, but has long since tucked his faith away. Will the faith and love in God he once had be enough to bring him back before it's too late? No sin is too great for God, for He is always waiting for you to call on Him.
It has been ten years since Savannah Bowen’s father offered her hand in marriage to Jonah Bell for one hundred acres of land. Times are hard in 1842 in the Arkansas valley where Savannah and Jonah live, but they are now deeply in love after a decade of marriage, and find life a blessing. With new neighbors moving into the valley and raising their three children, Savannah has never been happier. The only thing that would make her life complete is to be once again reunited with her mother and two siblings, whom she has not seen since she wed Jonah and traveled west. Readers will fall in love with the Bells, as they live their life on a farm ten miles from the nearest town. And even though life can be hard when blizzards hit and death occurs, the love they share and the faith they have in God above help them get through the toughest storms.
When Maria Taylor purchases Westingdale, a huge mansion overlooking the sea, she hopes to turn the beautiful old house into an historic bed and breakfast.She also hopes that it will bring her closer to her sixteen-year-old daughter, Janie, as the two have drifted apart following the death of Maria’s husband and Janie’s father the year before. But the long-vacant home has problems of its own. Little do they know that Westingdale is haunted.Many unanswered questions are waiting to be discovered in their new home. With the help of a very unusual guest, the mysteries become clearer. Join along with a mother and daughter seeking a new life. You will laugh and cry as their story unfolds, and also be left with the knowledge that it is okay to find love again. What are The Secrets of Westingdale? For some, it can be as simple as finding forgiveness.
Noah Garrett is a doctor who puts God above everything. Raised by Christian parents and taught the ways pleasing to God, he has prayed for years to meet that special woman he can grow old with.Brendy Blake has lived an abusive life. She never knew her father and was raised by an alcoholic mother who used her as a punching bag. All her life, she felt God was never there for her, so she stopped believing in Him altogether.In the touching novel Sweet Summer Rain ... Noah’s Story, see what happens when God puts these two people together. Do opposites really attract, and will Brendy be able to find the peace she has always hungered for?Hiding dark secrets and being blackmailed by one of Noah’s friends, Brendy believes the love she feels for Noah can never be acknowledged. In her heart, she knows she is not the woman he makes her out to be.The first in a four-part series, Sweet Summer Rain is a story of love and hope, but above all, forgiveness. Brendy finds the hardest part of forgiveness is learning to forgive yourself.Each book in the series covers the life of a different Garrett family member in the town of Summersville, West Virginia. After Sweet Summer Rain, watch what happens in the other seasons of the year!
When going through challenges and struggles in life one has the tendency to allow fear and self-doubt to suffocate the promises of God. The Power in My Pen is a book dedicated to reminding individuals that no matter what life throws at them, they were equipped from the beginning with a divine purpose that can not be erased by society, fear or self-imposed limitations.
When Greg and Rene Garrett get the news that every couple dreads to hear, life as they know it is suddenly ripped apart. Will their strong faith in God be enough to carry them through the rough road that lies ahead? When death comes knocking, it leaves you terrified and everything you knew to be good and true becomes cloudy. Faced with decisions they never thought they would have to make, Greg and Rene realize time is of the essence. The touching novel Fall's Undying Promise ... Greg's Story is the second book of the four-part The Seasons of Change Series. You will understand what real true love is all about and how sometimes we are faced with things beyond our control. Greg Garrett loves his wife more than life itself. How will his faith help him deal with the unknown and keep his love as strong as ever, even though his wife has shut him out dealing with things she doesn't understand? This touching story deals with faith and love, but above all, it's about never giving up. Karen Ayers is the mother of six and a true Southerner who smiles and says hello to everyone she meets. She attended Bible college at Free Chapel in Gainesville, Georgia, and allows God to work through her and her writing to fulfill His purpose. Publisher's website: http: //sbpra.com/KarenAyers
The chef charged with feeding some of the best brains in the world at Google Headquarters, shows you how to cook and eat to power your mind If you�re living in the fast lane and want to eat well, Charlie Ayers, the man who fed Google, has the answers. Google founders, Larry and Sergei took on Charlie in the early years. His brief: to cook food that would fire the Googlers with energy and not leave them slumped over their keyboards after lunch. "Charlie's Cafe" became legendary, and those who ate there were the envy of Silicon Valley. Here, Charlie reveals how he fed Google, and how you too can eat like them. Learn how to go organic, go raw and go fermented, pick up time-saving tips on what to keep in your store cupboard, fridge and freezer and cook up over 90 fantastic recipes from around the world and "food-on-run" ideas for the working day. Eat to succeed with ideas and recipes from the chef who fed Google.
Karen F. Stein University of Rhode Island, Kingston, USA Rachel Carson is the twentieth century’s most significant environmentalist. Her books about the sea blend science and poetry as they invite readers to share her celebration of the ocean’s wonders. Silent Spring, her graphic and compelling exposé of the damage caused by the widespread aerial spraying of persistent organic pesticides such as DDT, opened our eyes to the interconnectedness of all living beings and the ecological systems we inhabit. Carson’s work challenges our belief that science and technology can control the natural world, asks us to recognize our place in the world around us, and inspires us to treat the earth respectfully. She calls us to rekindle our sense of wonder at nature’s power and beauty, and to tread lightly on the earth so that it will continue to sustain us and our descendants. This book guides readers on a journey through Carson’s life and work, considers Carson’s legacies, and points to some of the continuing challenges to sustainability. It provides a listing of resources for reading, learning, or teaching about the environment, about nature writing, and about Carson and the crucial issues she addressed.
SHIFT HAPPENS: A MEMOIR IN SHORT STORIES is a compilation of short, to-the-point essays that take a look at a courageous, creative, and irreverent life. From Karen White: "In most of my stories I find myself humbled and perplexed by the world and my experiences. At times those experiences have got the better of me. Sometimes, though, I've found myself encouraged by the surprises that life sent my way.
In As Long as We Both Shall Love, Karen M. Dunak provides a nuanced history of the American wedding and its celebrants. Blending an analysis of film, fiction, advertising, and prescriptive literature with personal views from letters, diaries, essays, and oral histories, Dunak demonstrates the ways in which the modern wedding epitomizes a diverse and consumerist culture and aims to reveal an ongoing debate about the power of peer culture, media, and the marketplace in America.
Using empirical research to explore medieval writers' imaginings of time, this study presents a new morphology by which to study narratives of time in fifteenth-century literary culture, focusing on poems of John Lydgate and Thomas Hoccleve. Karen Smyth begins with an overview of medieval time-keeping devices and considers collective and individual attitudes and perceptions of time. She then examines a range of Middle English authors' appropriations and innovations in relation to such perceptions, identifying competitions of tradition and innovation, allowing for an interrogation of commonly accepted medieval theories of time. An empirically based morphology emerges and is used to examine narratives of time in Lydgate and Hoccleve's work. Through a series of close readings of selected short poems and Lydgate's Troy Book, Fall of Princes, and Siege of Thebes and of Hoccleve's Regiments of Princes and Series, Karen Smyth looks at expressions of time and examples of the authors' negotiation of time consciousness, illustrating how both poets manipulate a range of cultural narratives of time in order to create multiple and sometimes competing temporalities within a single poem. Smyth simultaneously draws attention to Lydgate's and Hoccleve's underestimated artistic skills and lays out a means to re-evaluate medieval cultural attitudes towards time.
On February 23, 1863, Pres. Abraham Lincoln signed the bill creating the Territory of Arizona. The first Arizona Territorial Legislature established the capital at Prescott and met in September 1864. They divided the territory into four counties: Mohave, Pima, Yavapai, and Yuma. Yavapai County, the "mother county," consisted of approximately 65,000 square miles and was believed to be the largest county in the United States. By the time Arizona attained statehood on February 14, 1912, there were 14 counties, and Yavapai County had been reduced in size to 8,125 square miles. Yavapai County has a rich history in mining, ranching, farming, military, and business. Today, Yavapai County is a thriving, growing county with nine incorporated cities and towns and numerous unincorporated communities, such as Ash Fork, Black Canyon City, Cornville, Mayer, and Skull Valley. Historic sites include Sharlot Hall Museum in Prescott, the town of Jerome, Fort Verde, Montezuma's Castle and Well, and Tuzigoot.
This ethnography of a gang war in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Oakwood, just blocks from the famed Venice Beach boardwalk, provides a rare eyewitness account of the urban violence pervasive in the recent history of the United States. With seventeen people killed and more than fifty injured, the hostilities over ten months in 1993 and 1994 marked the peak of gang violence in the history of Los Angeles, a city once labeled the "gang capital of the nation." The conflict began as a quarrel among individuals, some of whom had gang affiliations. Over time, the feud engulfed families and soon grew into a sustained clash between African American and Latino gangs. Eventually, victims fell who were not members of opposing gangs, but who fit certain racial and gender profiles. The conflict began to take on the attributes of what one local newspaper sensationalized as a "race war." Karen Umemoto lived nearby during this conflict and undertook two years of ethnographic research during and immediately following the spate of killings. She now offers a nuanced analysis of the trajectory and eventual end of this acute crisis. Her interviews with gang members, neighborhood residents, business leaders, police officers, and gang-intervention workers reveal the complexity of contemporary American urban conflict. The Truce highlights the differences in interpretations among combatants, witnesses, and law enforcement agents and others whose actions often had unintended consequences. Drawing on her experience living in multicultural Los Angeles and on the latest scholarship in a wide variety of disciplines, Umemoto provides much-needed guidance for policymakers and concerned members of the public faced with violence in an ever-changing urban landscape.
In 1830, many immigrants from the United States called Texas, then a territory of Mexico, home. These immigrants outnumbered Mexican citizens. The U.S. government offered to buy Texas. Instead, Mexico sent troops to keep more U.S. settlers from crossing the border. Tension mounted, as each side prepared to take a stand. Today, people often forget Texas was once part of Mexico, but the cry "Remember the Alamo" has lived on in history. Engaging text, informative sidebars, and fascinating images will help students discover how the battle for the Alamo was the first step toward Texas independence and statehood, and how this event has shaped the political climate since then.
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