Nancy Robinson was 49 years old, married, and the mother of eight- and 10-year-old sons when she found a lump in her breast. There was no history of breast cancer in her predominantly female family and despite annual mammograms that proclaimed everything 'normal,' she knew something was not quite right. After insisting on additional testing, Nancy received the call every woman dreads, the one that begins with, 'I'm sorry,' and ends with, 'You have breast cancer.' This is the story of her family's personal journey through a disease they knew nothing about, and their effort to transition back to normal, knowing nothing in their lives would ever be the same" --p. [4] of cover.
Nancy is a keen observer who writes not only with highly-polished story-telling skills, but also an understanding heart." - Elmer Kelton All of the pleasure and some of the pain. That's what award-winning journalist Nancy Robinson Masters shares with you in this collection of her favorite stories of the people, places and planes she has come to know through her adventures as a pilot and freelance writer. Nancy has enthralled millions of readers around the world with her warm, witty, West Texas writing style. However, this isn't just a book about West Texas and flying: it is about the ups and downs of life each of us experiences. You will laugh with Nancy as she struggles with tailwheels and tailwinds. You will cry with her as she shares the stories behind the stories that she could not reveal until now. Most of all, you will understand what Nancy means when she says, "Writing is spreading yourself on a piece of paper for readers to see you exactly as you are. "It's like flying-each time you do it only makes you want to do it more." "When we flew the replica Spirit of St. Louis Verne Jobst, senior pilot for United Airlines, told me the secret to being a good tail wheel pilot was to always keep my feet and my fanny moving the same direction. "I've found that philosophy works for just about everything that happens in life." Meet Uncle Wyatt, Bradley T., Leonard Crow Dog and The Instructor... Take off to Antarctica, Belle Plaine, Brackettville, and Guthrie... Fly DC-3s, Cherokees, Interstates, and Starlifters... Buckle in for trips as near as the family farm. Or as far as the South Pole. Discover a fortune in Australian diamonds... Smell the smoke of a range fire from a thousand feet up... Feel the Excitement of oil on the windshield... You'll do it all with Nancy Robinson Masters! "Goosebump reading... again and again and again." - Virginia Boyd Connally "Pilotage and poetry woven into stories that will keep you climbing long after the last landing. You'll think she wrote it just for you." - Robert Flynn
Readers will find out more about the history of Jeans worldwide, and how Jeans are made, from the cotton picked from the fields to the processing plant and onto jean and clothing stores worldwide, making Jeans truly a Global Product.
The new Boeing Superliner looks much different than the plane the Wright Brothers flew at Kitty Hawk. Have you ever wondered how new planes are developed? This "Innovation in Transportation" book, Planes, takes a look at the people and creative ideas that have changed the way we think about flying.
Read Along or Enhanced eBook: Young children are naturally curious about the world around them. Flowers Bloom offers answers to their most compelling questions about flowers. Age-appropriate explanations and appealing photos encourage readers to continue their quest for knowledge. Additional text features and search tools, including a glossary and an index, help students locate information and learn new words.
Every town or city is filled with houses of all shapes and sizes, but we don't often stop to think about how they are built. Readers will learn all about the construction process, from foundations to roofs.
Read Along or Enhanced eBook: Young children are naturally curious about the world around them. It Gets Foggy offers answers to their most compelling questions about fog. Age-appropriate explanations and appealing photos encourage readers to continue their quest for knowledge. Additional text features and search tools, including a glossary and an index, help students locate information and learn new words.
Nancy Robinson Flannery has done a fine job of editing these unabridged letters. They make poignant reading and are a reminder that even heroes suffer the same doubts and frailties as the rest of us.’ (Elizabeth Dean, Australian Book Review, June 2000) Dark-eyed beauty Paquita Delprat, 17, first noticed the dashing Douglas Mawson, 27, at a function in Adelaide in 1909. By the end of 1910 they were engaged to be married. The only cloud on the horizon was Douglas’s impending expedition to Antarctica. He expected to be away for fifteen months, but they did not count on the disastrous trek from which he staggered back, alone and close to death, to find that the waiting Aurora had given up and steamed away only hours earlier. Douglas was stranded for another full year, and the lovers’ endurance was stretched to the limit. Long months intervened between ships to and from Antarctica. Letters from Douglas arrived in two batches, delivered twenty-two months apart. In one letter Paquita wailed, ‘This everlasting silence is almost unbearable . . . ’ The longer the lovers were apart, the more doubt, anxiety and despair crept into their correspondence, and the reader senses the growing strain on both sides. Touchingly, Douglas kept Paquita’s letters all his life. Nancy Flannery first saw them in 1991 among the papers his Estate had entrusted to the University of Adelaide, and was intrigued to glimpse the emotional life of the austere explorer-scientist. Six years later, she found Douglas’s letters to Paquita among private family papers, thus completing both sides of this romantic story.
No longer a show-off, Veronica decides the best way to make friends is to take an interest in people and determines to practice this theory on Kimberly Watson. Sequel to Veronica the Show-Off.
Get Ready to Recover All As You Learn How to Exercise Radical Obedience to the Voice of God! Whether we like it or not, we are all engaged in a fierce spiritual war. Our adversary has fought hard and well. True to his purpose as a thief and a destroyer, he has gained possession of a wealth of goods that belong to the people of God. Our faithful God has given us a strategy for regaining possession of all that was lost to the evil one. Our love for the Savior and our obedience are vital weapons of war as we go in pursuit of our goods, and take possession of the Enemy's gates. As you study and apply the principles found in Who's Guarding the Gates? Study Guide, you will find yourself challenged to guard your gates more than ever before. Get ready to experience another level of growth in your personal walk with God and with others. Nancy Robinson serves as an Elder at The Word Church in Cleveland, OH, which is under the leadership of Dr. R.A. Vernon and First Lady Victory Vernon. She conducts training sessions and facilitates classes for altar workers, intercessors, and congregants that focus on spiritual warfare and enriching their personal walk with God. Robinson graduated from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York with a Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design and Illustration. She is certified through the Caribbean Ministerial Academy of Tuscaloosa, Alabama in Studies in the Life of Christ, and by AACC (the American Academy of Christian Counselors) for studies in Christian Counseling. Nancy has also received an Associate's Degree equivalent in Black Biblical Studies from the McCreary Center in Cleveland, Ohio. Who's Guarding the Gates? and its companion Study Guide are her first literary achievements. The author is a devoted mother of two children, Ariel and Akira, and doting grandmother of two beautiful granddaughters, Aiyana and Tiasha. www.whosguardingthegates.com
Veronica's fervent attempts to gain peer acceptance continue as she claims the new girl as her own special friend. Sequel to "Veronica the Show-off" and "Veronica Knows Best.
Did you know... Sybil Ludington's daring midnight ride in 1777 saved the American colonists, though no epic poem was ever written about her? George Washington defied his own mother, who deemed him a traitor? Caesar Rodney determined to cast the deciding vote for independence despite the cancer ravaging his body? Daring! Defiant! Determined! Discover the extraordinary contributions of many well-known, little-known, and unknown American patriots who established a new nation unlike any other! Each of these brief biographies will inspire today's citizens to become the extraordinary patriots of the future.
Six-year-old Angela's faith in order and fairness is frequently shaken as she tries to cope with all the mysteries of life that keep turning up in her busy family.
Nine-year-old Tina's mother is driving her crazy! She sings opera in the street and wears striped shirts with plaid skirts. Why can't Tina's mom be more like Melissa's mom?
Rising from the Ashes" is Luanna's story, the true account of a woman who discovered her 25-year-marriage was riddled with deception and betrayal. Her husband's sexual addiction ultimately led to the destruction of their marriage and his suicide.
From the cradle to the pulpit, precious things have been taken from God's people. Somewhere, someone left a gate open; somewhere, someone failed to guard a gate and the enemy seized the opportunity to break in and run off with the good stuff. There is a growing, holy roar in the kingdom of God and amongst His people. They are awake and want their things back! God has provided a divine strategy to regain possession of the gates. That strategy is found in our radical obedience to Him. The battle begins with the reconstruction of individual gates first. Who's Guarding the Gates? is the engaging question that every person must ask and be prepared to answer.Nancy Robinson serves as an Elder at The Word Church in Cleveland, OH, which is under the leadership of Dr. R.A. Vernon and First Lady Victory Vernon. She conducts training sessions and facilitates classes for altar workers, intercessors, and congregants that focus on spiritual warfare and enriching their personal walk with God. Robinson graduated from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York with a Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design and Illustration. She is certified through the Caribbean Ministerial Academy of Tuscaloosa, Alabama in Studies in the Life of Christ, and by AACC (the American Academy of Christian Counselors) for studies in Christian Counseling. Nancy has also received an Associate's Degree equivalent in Black Biblical Studies from the McCreary Center in Cleveland, Ohio. Who's Guarding the Gates? is her first literary work. The author is a devoted mother of two children, Ariel and Akira, and doting grandmother of two beautiful granddaughters, Aiyana and Tiasha. www.whosguardingthegates.com
It's the summer of 1946 in Montreal, Quebec, and twelve-year-old Matthew Parker would rather be anywhere else in the world. Or at least back in Pembroke, Ontario. That's where Matthew used to live-before his mother remarried and moved him away from his family, his friends and worst of all, his baseball team. Now, everything's a mess. He can't speak the language, he has no friends, and everyone he meets is obsessed with hockey! But just when things look about as bleak as they can look, the crack of a bat changes everything. On average day, during an average walk through his neighbourhood, Matt stumbles across Delorimier Downs. Delorimier is home to baseball's Montreal Royals, and the team's star player is none of other than Jackie Robinson! When Matt lands a job selling concessions in the stands, he finds himself with a front-row seat for all the excitement and controversy that follow Robinson as he strives to become the first African-American player to suit up in the majors. Along with new friends Rene and Guy, Matt meets Tyrone, an old ball player with a mysterious connection to Jackie. And then there's Dewey-a cub reporter who's trying to make a name for himself by telling Robinson's story. Montreal, it turns out, is the perfect place to be in the summer of 1946. But will Matt realize that in time?
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