family's struggle to forge a new life in Colonial America. The sweeping narrative begins in 1707 in the village of Hopewell, Massachusetts. Beautiful and sensitive Tabitha Traynor suffers from the scorn of the villagers, for she is a daughter of a wealthy merchant and married to the lowly yet sincere parson, Jeremy Traynor. Together, they struggle to raise a family of five in a small parish of close-knit villagers. The gossip turns ugly when Tabitha is accused of witchery and is linked to the mysterious death of the local blacksmith. The lives of the Traynor family are about to be altered forever...especially that of the Traynor daughter, Eve. About the Author: Marva Dale resides in El Paso, Texas, with her husband, Marvin. She is working on the next book in the Far From Eden series, Promise Land. Publisher's website: http: //www.sbpra.com/MarvaDale
Spend a day with a very busy boy as he bounces his ball through a small town in Kansas. Jon, born with Down syndrome enjoys the same imaginations as other five year old boys.
Looking for curricula to help children understand Down syndrome? Jon's Bouncing Ball: Yellowstone National Park, a book written by Marva Dale Bicknell, takes readers on a journey through the majestic park in an all-inclusive adventure to learn environmental lessons from an ancient Arapaho elder. This literature-based thematic unit features an introduction for teachers; vocabulary practice; before, during and after reading activities to engage students, and much more!
family's struggle to forge a new life in Colonial America. The sweeping narrative begins in 1707 in the village of Hopewell, Massachusetts. Beautiful and sensitive Tabitha Traynor suffers from the scorn of the villagers, for she is a daughter of a wealthy merchant and married to the lowly yet sincere parson, Jeremy Traynor. Together, they struggle to raise a family of five in a small parish of close-knit villagers. The gossip turns ugly when Tabitha is accused of witchery and is linked to the mysterious death of the local blacksmith. The lives of the Traynor family are about to be altered forever...especially that of the Traynor daughter, Eve. About the Author: Marva Dale resides in El Paso, Texas, with her husband, Marvin. She is working on the next book in the Far From Eden series, Promise Land. Publisher's website: http: //www.sbpra.com/MarvaDale
Contemporary Readings in Literacy Education is designed to provide students with high-quality journal and research articles in literacy education. The readings are contextualized with introductions and discussion questions by the editors of the text. The text will help instructors to easily integrate the latest research into their course in a meaningful way. This reader, with edited content and contextualizing material, makes the latest research more interesting and accessible to the students of literacy education.
Author-educator-theologian Marva Dawn looks to the twelfth chapter of the book of Romans for a blueprint for establishing the contours of community in the Christian church, a biblical ideal rarely achieved in our individualistic society.
This is the biography of three of the most fascinating personalities of Civil War America. They were Salmon P. Chase, Lincoln’s Secretary of the Treasury and later Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, a man obsessed with the ambition to become President; Chase’s daughter Kate, who was Washington’s reigning beauty and America’s most influential political hostess; and Kate’s husband William Sprague, the young millionaire Senator from Rhode Island. Chase was a man of talent, even of potential greatness. This classic figure of a statesman had fought his way up through the jungle of mid-nineteenth-century American politics to a place of leadership. He was among the most powerful spokesmen of the uncompromising Radical wing of the Republican Party. Chase was bitterly disappointed when the Republican convention of 1860 passed him by, deciding in favor of a compromise candidate, Abraham Lincoln. He was determined that 1864 would not see him unsuccessful again. With his portrait engraved on the nation’s greenbacks, his name and face were continuously before the country.
Renowned today as a prominent African-American in Music Theater and the Arts community, composer, conductor, and violinist Will Marion Cook was a key figure in the development of American music from the 1890s to the 1920s. In this insightful biography, Marva Griffin Carter offers the first definitive look at this pivotal life's story, drawing on both Cook's unfinished autobiography and his wife Abbie's memoir. A violin virtuoso, Cook studied at Oberlin College (his parents' alma mater), Berlin's Hochschule für Musik with Joseph Joachim, and New York's national Conservatory of Music with Antonin Dvorak. Cook wrote music for a now-lost production of Uncle Tom's Cabin for the Chicago World's Fair of 1893, and then devoted the majority of his career to black musical comedies due to limited opportunities available to him as a black composer. He was instrumental in showcasing his Southern Syncopated Orchestra in the prominent concert halls of the Unites States and Europe, even featuring New Orleans clarinetist Sidney Bechet, who later introduced European audiences to authentic blues. Once mentored by Frederick Douglas, Will Marion Cook went on to mentor Duke Ellington, paving the path for orchestral concert jazz. Through interpretive and musical analyses, Carter traces Cook's successful evolution from minstrelsy to musical theater. Written with his collaborator, the distinguished poet Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Cook's musicals infused American Musical Theater with African-American music, consequently altering the direction of American popular music. Cook's In Dahomey, hailed by Gerald Bordman as "one of the most important events in American Musical Theater history," was the first full-length Broadway musical to be written and performed by blacks. Alongside his accomplishments, Carter reveals Cook's contentious side- a man known for his aggressiveness, pride, and constant quarrels, who became his own worst enemy in regards to his career. Carter further sets Cook's life against the backdrop of the changing cultural and social milieu: the black theatrical tradition, white audiences' reaction to black performers, and the growing consciousness and sophistication of blacks in the arts, especially music.
This book speaks to the changing family dynamic, the staggering divorce rate in our nation, the number of children born into single parent households or because of a divorce end up in a single parent home. Further this book will discuss God’s divine order for the family and the power of the Heavenly Father and the earthly father. It will highlight some of the challenges faced by children that don’t have both parents actively participating in their lives.
In this insightful book, Marva Dawn examines some of the forces in our culture that harm our children's spiritual development and suggests biblically centered parenting habits that can produce godly and faith-full children today.
Alexis woke up frightened and looked around for Paul. He wasn't there. Her hand reached out and caressed the empty, cold mat. 'Paul? Paul?' she called out. 'Where are you?' There was no answer. She sat up. Her vision scanned the area around her. Her pumped-up heart skipped a beat. It was still dark outside the makeshift tent that had been home to Paul and her for almost three years, too dark to be blundering around, looking for someone. Tears formed in her eyes. She
In "Keeping the Sabbath Wholly," Dawn introduced the vital Sabbath aspects of resting, ceasing, feasting, and embracing. Now, she expands these into a way of life for serving God and the Kingdom every single day of the week. (Practical Life)
Through an intensive study of Romans 12, Dawn offers specific guidance for building vital Christian community life. To describe the joyful spirit of Christian community, Dawn uses the word Hilarity, which usually translates as cheerfulness. Similar in style to her popular Keeping the Sabbath Wholly, this book combines the depth of Bible study with the warmth of personal experience.
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