I started my life as anyone else. I had just graduated nursing school, but when I turned twenty-eight, my life quickly changed in many ways. As the years kept going, I was presented with many challenges that made a once-on-track life anything but, I had sixteen eye surgeries, not counting injections and other treatments to try to keep me seeing, as well as the things I wanted to still be possible. As time progressed, I soon realized that this may no longer be possible. I tried to summarize my book and all these years into a short poem. The life I lived once dark and gray, through sheets of gray rain, not a color to play. But through the clarity of the love I felt, it became clear and bright, for that life can be without a doubt, the greatest joy of all throughout. To love and hurt from dark to sight, the love I had kept things in sight. My favorite things I now can see, the Lord has always kept close to me!
The hand of fate delivers a magical gift: a needle made of gold, designed to last through the ages. From woman to woman, it passes through generations, mending hearts as well as cloth. Watch as a fair lady imprisoned on Avalon heals one of Arthur's knights-and in doing so frees them both to find the happiness they crave. Travel the early American plains beside a frightened young bride as she mends her new husband's shirts-and searches for the pioneering spirit she needs to be his helpmate. Flit through a virtual reality of fairy tales with a bewildered young executive who's looking for a sedative-but who finds her Prince Charming, instead. Through centuries and against the odds, the golden needle weaves a tapestry rich in laughter and tears as it restores hope, inspires faith, and sews the seeds of love in every woman whose life it touches. Meet the women and their heroes . . . and smile as fate takes a hand in making their dreams come true.
Candid portraits by acclaimed photographer Lee Friedlander showcase the many hands at work behind New York Fashion Week Lee Friedlander (b. 1934) is one of the most renowned photographers of his generation. Through Friedlander's lens, people in their everyday environments are transformed into arresting portraits, and the banal features of roadsides, storefronts, and city streets become vivid scenery. In Dressing Up, Friedlander ventures into new territory, turning his eye to the rarefied world of fashion and revealing precisely what is commonplace about it: behind the glamorous spectacle of the runway are many people hard at work. The photographs, commissioned by the New York Times Magazine, were taken in 2006 during New York Fashion Week, when the artist spent time backstage at the Marc Jacobs, Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, Zac Posen, Oscar de la Renta, and Proenza Schouler shows. The resulting images, many of which are published here for the first time, depict a flurry of toiling stylists, dressers, makeup artists, photographers, and models--all of them preparing, but not quite prepared, for an image to be taken. Lovers of photography and high-end fashion will be surprised and intrigued by this inside glimpse into the world of runway design.
Meriall Sentlow, a beautiful young widow, accepted Sir Grey Neville’s offer of a mock betrothal because it offered her freedom. Sir Grey made the offer to avoid a blackmailer. But they found themselves caught up in both affection and intrigue—awaiting the fate of the trading vessel, The Green Rose. Historical Romance by Kathy Lynn Emerson; originally published by Harper Monogram
An inspiring, surprising, sometimes shocking, and ultimately deeply informative memoir of the high-stakes, high-pressured life of a female heart surgeon. Dr. Kathy Magliato is one of the few female heart surgeons practicing in the world today. She is also a member of an even more exclusive group—those surgeons specially trained to perform heart transplants. Heart Matters is the story of the making of a surgeon who is also a wife and mother. In this powerful and moving memoir, Dr. Magliato takes us into her highly demanding, physically intense, male-dominated world and shows us how she masterfully works to save patients' lives every day, while also maintaining balance at home. Heart Matters is also a wake-up call to all women about their number one killer - heart disease - and explains how to avoid becoming a victim. Magliato offers a vivid behind-the-scenes view of what really goes on in an operating room and the real-life drama that occurs there. She shows the passion and commitment between patient and doctor, revealing that, at the end of a long day, it's our hearts that matter most.
When her husband becomes one of the suspects in the murder of several Southwark prostitutes (known as Winchester Geese), Lady Appleton vows to uncover the identity of the real killer in order to prove her husband’s innocence. The year is 1563. Historical mystery by Kathy Lynn Emerson; originally published by St. Martin’s Press and Kensington Books
Every day I am amazed at the creations of God. When you look all around, you see the massive lakes and oceans, how the trees shed their leaves in the fall and come back green as ever in the spring, and how the sky changes from a vibrant blue filled with white clouds to a dark grey torn by thunder and lightning.I'm just amazed at how we as human beings change over time and how at any moment we can be here and then gone, just like that. We take life for granted. We don't think of each second as a precious moment to treasure and to use for God's glory, so that we become pleasing in His sight.We all need encouraging words, while some of us need a little push; we all definitely need to learn how to press through the obstacles that are set before us. This Christian walk is not all bad times, and it is not all good. In this circle of life, you will come to know that we all have up days and down days, and God is trying to teach us valuable lessons through them all. We have faults inside that God is trying to purge. But we must remember that this walk is not in vain, and we must learn how to focus on Jesus."To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up" (Ecclesiastes 3:1-3).Kathy resides in Northern Virginia with her husband Albert, and children. She is anointed with the gift of intercessory prayer and creativity. As a military wife, God has allowed her to travel various regions throughout the United States and Abroad. She now settles in the fact that God has chosen her for a time such as this to advance the Kingdom of God through prayer. www.mrskatlc@hotmail.com
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