Toms grandma has passed away. Feeling sad and unsure what this means, Tom speaks with his father, to discover that whilst he can no longer visit his grandma, passing is not always the end.
Bellingham's Pots is the children's picture book story about the creation of pottery, from digging the clay to throwing pots, firing, and selling. The story is told through the voice of a curious and mischievous apprentice, Bellingham the Cat.
In her memoir, Black Clouds, author Linda "Leigh" Haynes Pritchard Leonard tells the story of the life challenges she has faced. More than anything, it is a journey into God's care, revealing how He works in the lives of innocent children and people who put their trust in Him. During the early years of Leigh's abuse and abandonment, God sheltered her from the fiery darts of those who would harm her. He prevented her from realizing that her life was any different from those of her schoolmates. From being abandoned as a child to dealing with her adult life as she faced life-or-death situations, God has always been with her. She has dealt with alcohol abuse, the destruction of her home through fire, and a tortuous relationship with her biological mother. Through all of her personal challenges, God has surrounded her with His love and with angels to carry her through it all. In the end, Leigh and her husband sought God's grace and the love He holds for all of His children. They overcame many trials, much tribulation, abuse, rejection, and abandonment and have survived through God's unconditional love. Leigh's resilience and the ever-present hand of God is evident as she bravely recounts in vivid, inspiring language the traumas and tragedies she experienced throughout her life. Ultimately, Black Clouds is the story of one woman's survival through her strong faith in God and supportive family and friends.
The new edition of this popular cookbook contains over 200 great recipes for breads, spreads, soups, sandwiches, condiments, main dishes, and desserts that are lowfat, tasty, and vegetarian. Linda Haynes, an experienced cook and mother of three vegetarian kids, writes with warmth and humor. Her low-fat vegetarian recipes are easy to follow, fun to make, and beautiful to behold. Whether you are a vegetarian or not, these recipes can add zest and sparkle to your everyday fare, and are all written for their "packability" factor — you can take these recipes on-the-go, in a thermos, brown bag, or Tupperware container to home, school, work, or the park. Readers can try new ways of packing lunches, using leftovers, and combining foods, and learn to use alternatives to meat, eggs, mayonnaise, margarine, and oils — lowering fats and cholesterol while maintaining taste and variety.
Have you ever lost a loved one? A child? Your parents? Or maybe you have known someone to lose someone in a tragic way and watched their suffering and wondered where God is in this or why would God allow this to happen? Have you ever thought you knew what love was, only to realize you can neither give it or receive it unconditionally because you don't know how to love yourself? Have you turned to other things in search of fulfilling that void we all have--sex, money, drugs, self-harm?I invite you to read my memoir. I was only a newborn when I was hit the first time, and from that time till I was six, I was given away twenty-three times to twenty-three different families. I was alone and hated myself for causing it all. I grew up into a young battered woman, who was still allowing the abuse and medicating with drugs. No matter what I achieved, I was never good enough for myself.This is my story of finding hope and keeping it no matter what came my way. This is a story of how I developed an intimate relationship with the one I call God and how He led me to redemption, a life free of drugs and a life filled with joy and peace and promise. It's a life I never have to be alone in again and a journey I want to share with the world.
When Lidia, a blocked Latinx artist in her sixties, goes on a group tour of Namyan, a fictional Southeast Asian country reopened to the world after a long dictatorship, she gets much more than the vacation she thinks she’s signed on for. Against a backdrop of pagodas and enigmatic customs, she and the disparate crew of eighteen Americans on the tour encounter one adventure after another—experiences that challenge their assumptions about their host country’s placid surface of beautiful pagodas and wandering Buddhist monks. Along the way, Lidia finds companionship and sexual pleasure with Haynes, a Black man seeking adventure—even danger—in Namyan. On a nighttime excursion among mysterious ancient buildings, they watch the nighttime sky. Lidia remarks that the stars look upside down – a metaphor for Namyan as a foreign place and for her. She enjoys being with Haynes but is conflicted. The final chapter reveals a secret, the source of her conflict, and her steps towards a new freedom. An Upside-Down Sky’s cast of characters, including their Namyanese guide, mirrors America: straight, gay, gender-fluid, black, brown, white, progressive, conservative, artistic, repressed, old, young. Some of them accept Nanyam’s charming façade at face value, while others seek to understand the country’s brutal repression by the military and ongoing ethnic conflicts. And most, resistant as they might be to change, are transformed by their time there.
For those ready to participate in making transformative changes, Transforming Undergraduate Education provides evidence and case studies that suggest how steps can be taken and progress made. For those who are currently leading their campuses through a change in culture, this book offers support and encouragement. And for those who are pausing—looking positively but cautiously at what needs to change—at the prospects and challenges that may be encountered, Harward and the collection of authors offer an invaluable and innovative resource. Given the intensity of interest regarding the “problems in higher education,” Harward notes how the systemic sources of those problems are infrequently addressed and even rarer is the offering of solutions or suggestions for positive actions. Harward and his colleagues see the achievement of this book as doing both—understanding the problems and offering solutions. The book assembles the voices of leaders, scholars, practitioners, critics and others committed to higher education; collectively they combine theoretical considerations with analyses of fundamental issues related to learning and liberal education. The resulting arguments, theories, and evidence are sufficient to encourage significant—transformative—changes in higher education. Contributors offer examples of campus initiatives that document such changes, from directional nudges to major shifts of emphases and resources—from theoretical arguments to case studies and practices that suggest and guide constructive steps in efforts at change.
Rue Claridge's cousin Elisabeth had disappeared, and Rue was determined to find her. But she never dreamed that when she followed Elisabeth's footsteps, she would find herself more than one hundred years in the past…and in jail, courtesy of Marshal Farley Haynes. She knew Farley was baffled but intrigued by her modern ways—and Rue was just as fascinated by the rugged marshal. Enough to dream that maybe he could live in her modern world and find a place with her on her Montana ranch. But could she ask him to choose between everything he had ever known…and a future with her?
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