Located in the fictional town of Highgate, Mississippi at the turn of the previous century, Hummingbird Inn embodies the southern charm found in the whisper of pearls against silk and the scent of hyacinth mingling with the aroma of freshly baked bread on a cool spring day. Maggie Lace Summerhill, general manager of the family owned Hummingbird Inn, is desperately smitten with Kendrick Charles, a local attorney so incredibly handsome that young girls almost swoon in his presence. He is unfortunately just on the verge of falling under the emerald-eyed spell of Priscilla Hood's exotic beauty. What's a girl to do? Cute but not beautiful, Maggie Lace somehow finds a way to snatch Kendrick right out from under Prissy's nose. But the discovery of a murder victim near Hummingbird Inn soon changes everything. When a kiss is stolen at a local dance by police detective Gray Stone, Maggie finds herself questioning everything she thought she wanted. Equally smitten with the Inn's general manager, Detective Stone finds himself in an uncomfortable position. Rumor has it that Maggie once dated the murdered man, and that she made extensive renovations to Hummingbird Inn shortly after the victim, and fifty thousand dollars, went missing. And her explanation for the source of her recent windfall turns out to be a lie. What secrets is Maggie keeping? And will the detective be able to determine the truth in time to protect her from the shadow that is prowling the halls of Hummingbird Inn?
Written shortly afterm my husband's death, this is a simple book of prayers designed to help me make it through the long, lonely days and nights after becoming a widow. this is a week's worth of prayers, morning, noon and night, twenty-one in all. These prayeres helped to strengthen my faith, reminding me of God's constant presence in my life. I hope that God will allow them to bless your life as well"--Back cover
What happens if the love of your life runs off to Heaven one morning without you? After 35 years of marriage? With only a squeeze of the hand to say goodbye? You spend the weeks and months that follow simply trying to comprehend the magnitude of your loss. Your life is completely changed and you have to find your direction again. If you're as blessed as I am, you have a wonderful support structure in family and friends to help you get through. Within the first few weeks, I knew that it was imperative for me to find out where my husband was and what it was like there. I had been raised in the church and had known about Heaven all of my life, but it had been a vague "floating on a cloud way off somewhere" type of idea. Now I had to know. My husband's death sent me on a quest for enlightenment. Although a few of the sections of this book were actually written in the months just before his death, this book actually starts two days after my husband's funeral. I had hoped that it would be a help to others. A friend who recently lost her son remarked to me, "there aren't that many books out there on grieving." She's right, there really aren't. Here's mine. It begins on a sad note, but it gets lighter and brighter as it goes along. I hope that reading it helps others in the same way that writing it helped me. This is a book about life, death, grief, joy, Heaven, angels and love. It's a book about my husband. But ultimately, it's a book about God.
In the sixteenth century, a Frenchman named Michel Nostradamus wrote a collection of 1000 rhymed verses predicting future events. After writing these verses, Nostradamus scrambled them out of their correct order, afraid of the repercussions his predictions might create during that time period, while the Inquisition was at its height. Since that time, his verses have been translated into different languages, many books have been written, many attempts have been made to understand and interpret the meaning of the verses, to correlate the verses with historical events, and to determine if there is a key to unlocking the order in which the verses should be placed. I can answer yes to the last, there definitely is a key, and this book explains it! I have also attempted to explain the meaning of many of the verses, although not by using to key, as it turned out to be simpler to explain the verses without it. In order for the key to work, there needed to be 1000 verses, but there are so many that it can become a bit of an information overload. I have used only those verses that were best able to explain the overall story without overloading the amount of information available. There have been a lot of books written about Nostradamus and his verses. This is not just one more book along the same lines. You won't find most of these interpretations in any other book. And you won't find the key anywhere else. This book has been 25 years in the writing.
The centuries of Nostradamus, placed in order according to the key, revealed in The Key of Nostradamus. This book contains the verses only, without commentary, as I have made comments in the first book. These have been placed, as in Nostradamus' original writing, in centuries, as it is simply easiest that way. My starting point for each of the centuries is purely arbitrary, based on absolutely nothing at all. These centuries still contain 100 verses each, despite the missing verses from Century VII of the original verses of Nostradamus. I have simply indicated where these verses would go in the reorganization of the centuries. Will these verses make any more sense like this? I don't know. I don't maintain that they will, only that I do believe this to be the key, and the correct order in which the verses were originally written. Maybe there's a second part of the key that's missing, possibly one of the missing verses in Century VII. Maybe there's something else that I should have seen, and simply didn't, in the quarter of a century that I have studied them. Or maybe this is simply as good as it gets.
I have loved God all of my life, but I fell in love with God after my husband died in 2011. And the closer I came to God, the closer I wanted to come, until I found myself researching enlightenment, methods for becoming one with God. In Christianity I could not find a step by step process, so I began coming up with my own.My purpose in writing this book is not to tell other people what they should or should not be doing. This book is about my own journey. But I have tried to provide an explanation of the steps I am currently following, should anyone else be interested in following along the same path, or in simply knowing what my path is.My purpose in writing this book is simply to write the book that God has given me to write. I am very much of the opinion that He could have found someone much more skilled than me to have written this. I don't know why He gave it to me, but I choose not to argue with Him.
A lonely little skunk is searching for a friend. Will Hoppy rabbit be the friend Ono is searching for? When danger approaches, will the little skunk be able to save his friend? Read and find out!
A glorious photographic tour of the public and private gardens of New Jersey—from historic formal gardens of former estates, to suburb gardens, horticulturists’ havens, and fresh takes on front yards. The most densely populated state in the nation and one of the original thirteen, home to the largest public iris garden in the country, and the glacier-swept endpoint of the last Ice Age—for Nancy Berner and Susan Lowry, who look to gardens as an entry to the history and culture of a region, New Jersey presents an array of surprising diversity. Its temperate climate makes it possible to grow a wide range of plants, while its complex topography—ranging from mountains to rolling hills and flat basins, the scrubby Pine Barrens and the rich Coastal Plain—demands innovative approaches to design. The twenty-eight selected gardens—from Skylands, with its specimen trees, woodland and rock gardens, and lilac collection close to the New York border, to the elegant formal gardens of Short Hills, Bernardsville, and Oldwick, to a wildlife garden filled with frogs and butterflies and a lighthouse garden near Cape May—illustrate the ways in which New Jersey’s long garden traditions are upheld to this day. Gemma and Andrew Ingalls’ stunning photographs bring out the manifold ways in which a garden might speak to us in its owner’s or designer’s voice, expressing a particular point of view.
The sleuthing Texas grandmother, Biggie Weatherford, investigates a murder on the opening night of an all-chicken restaurant. The owner's body is found covered in gravy and garnished with parsley.
When Dad makes a plan to fix the walkway in front of their house with new cement, Nancy knows just how to make the walkway parfait—which is French for perfect! Disney Junior’s Fancy Nancy: Nancy Makes Her Mark is a Level One I Can Read, perfect for children learning to sound out words and sentences. Disney Junior’s Fancy Nancy is an animated family comedy starring six-year-old Nancy, a girl who is fancy in everything from her advanced vocabulary to her creative, elaborate attire. The show is based on the New York Times bestselling book series Fancy Nancy by Jane O’Connor and Robin Preiss Glasser.
Nancy discovers a new talent for repairing broken toys in the neighborhood. But can she keep her cool when her prized doll, Marabelle, needs help? Disney Junior Fancy Nancy: Operation Fix Marabelle is a Level One I Can Read, perfect for children learning to sound out words and sentences. Disney Junior’s Fancy Nancy is an animated preschool series starring six-year-old Nancy, a girl who is fancy in everything from her advanced vocabulary to her creative, elaborate attire. The show is based on the New York Times bestselling book series Fancy Nancy by Jane O’Connor and illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser.
When Mom gets sniffles that are worse than awful, Nancy decides she can help Mom by tidying up and watching JoJo. After all, Nancy is practically an expert at being a big sister, so how hard could it be? Disney Junior’s Fancy Nancy: Mademoiselle Mom is a Level One I Can Read, perfect for children learning to sound out words and sentences. Disney Junior’s Fancy Nancy is an animated family comedy starring six-year-old Nancy, a girl who is fancy in everything from her advanced vocabulary to her creative, elaborate attire. The show is based on the New York Times bestselling book series Fancy Nancy by Jane O’Connor and Robin Preiss Glasser.
Jeremy longs for a pet, but he doesn't know what kind of pet to get. When his parents agree that he can start a pet-sitting business in order to try out a variety of species, Jeremy has no idea what adventures are in store for him. Pet after pet is eliminated from his "To Get" list. In the end, not a single animal seems suited -- until a favorite relative comes up with a surprising solution.
Coming in 2018 to Disney Junior, Fancy Nancy will star in her own fabulous TV show! This tabbed board book, based on the show and inspired by the New York Times bestselling series by Jane O’Connor and Robin Preiss Glasser, introduces Nancy Clancy, her family, and her friends. With 8 colorful tabs and simple text, this sturdy board book is great for even the youngest fans of Fancy Nancy.
Nancy Reagan describes her life from her happy childhood to her exciting stage and film career to her experiences as the wife of a famous actor, governor, and presidential candidate and expresses hopeful views on America's future.
More than 150 articles provide a revealing look at one of the most tempestuous decades in recent American history, describing the everyday activities of Americans as they dealt first with war, and then a difficult transition to peace and prosperity. The two-volume World War II and the Postwar Years in America: A Historical and Cultural Encyclopedia contains over 175 articles describing everyday life on the American home front during World War II and the immediate postwar years. Unlike publications about this period that focus mainly on the big picture of the war and subsequent economic conditions, this encyclopedia drills down to the popular culture of the 1940s, bringing the details of the lives of ordinary men, women, and children alive. The work covers a broad range of everyday activities throughout the 1940s, including movies, radio programming, music, the birth of commercial television, advertising, art, bestsellers, and other equally intriguing topics. The decade was divided almost evenly between war (1940-1945) and peace (1946-1950), and the articles point up the continuities and differences between these two periods. Filled with evocative photographs, this unique encyclopedia will serve as an excellent resource for those seeking an overview of life in the United States during a decade that helped shape the modern world.
The California gold rush of 1849 created fortunes for San Francisco merchants, whose wealth depended on control of the city’s docks. But ownership of waterfront property was hotly contested. In an 1856 dispute over land titles, a county official shot an outspoken newspaperman, prompting a group of merchants to organize the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance. The committee, which met in secret, fed biased stories to the newspapers, depicting itself as a necessary substitute for incompetent law enforcement. But its actual purpose was quite different. In Dirty Deeds, historian Nancy J. Taniguchi draws on the 1856 Committee’s minutes—long lost until she unearthed them—to present the first clear picture of its actions and motivations. San Francisco’s real estate comprised a patchwork of land grants left from the Spanish and Mexican governments—grants that had been appropriated and sold over and over. Even after the establishment of a federal board in 1851 to settle the complicated California claims, land titles remained confused, and most of the land in the city belonged to no one. The acquisition of key waterfront properties in San Francisco by an ambitious politician motivated the thirty-odd merchants who called themselves “the Executives” of the Vigilance Committee to go directly after these parcels. Despite the organization’s assertion of working on behalf of law and order, its tactics—kidnapping, forced deportations, and even murder—went far beyond the bounds of law. For more than a century, scholars have accepted the vigilantes’ self-serving claims to honorable motives. Dirty Deeds tells the real story, in which a band of men took over a city in an attempt to control the most valuable land on the West Coast. Ranging far beyond San Francisco, the 1856 Vigilance Committee’s activities affected events on the East Coast, in Central America, and in courts throughout the United States even after the Civil War.
Organizational Behavior, Theory, and Design, Third Edition was written to provide health services administration students, managers, and other professionals with an in-depth analysis of the theories and concepts of organizational behavior and organization theory while embracing the uniqueness and complexity of the healthcare industry. Using an applied focus, this book provides a clear and concise overview of the essential topics in organizational behavior and organization theory from the healthcare manager’s perspective. The Third Edition offers: - New case studies throughout underscore key theories and concepts and illustrate practical application in the current health delivery environment - In-depth discussion of the industry’s redesign of health services offers a major focus on patient safety and quality, centeredness, and consumerism. - Current examples reflect changes in the environment due to health reform initiatives. - And more.
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