A reporter for the New York Post's "Page Six" column and regular correspondent on The Insider, Paula Froehlich has a true insider's knowledge of what it takes to be a major (or even minor) celebrity. Now she uses her experience as an arbiter of the club of bold-faced names to advise the rest of us on what it takes to attain stardom in any field. With her trademark brash honesty and sharp reporting skills, Froelich cracks the secrets of top publicists, fashion designers, moguls, entertainers, and other gurus to show us the way to get noticed. Whether you want to be the next J-Lo or your town's most in-demand caterer, a movie star or a star florist, this is the book with the advice to get you there.
Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold, and the LORD blessed him there. - Genesis 26:12 This is a daily devotional guide for anyone who hungers and thirsts for a rich and exciting walk with Christ. What an incredible verse! Isaac was already wealthy beyond description. His father, Abraham, had given gifts to Issac's various half-brothers, and had made Isaac, "the Seed of Promise", his sole heir. Then as Isaac obeyed and served God, God increased him a hundred-times over in one year! Then, since money isn't really everything, God blessed him in all other dimensions of life, as well. Wow! Was this a one-time deal? Or is God really not a "respecter of persons"? Can anyone dwell in this dazzling Presence who seeks to do so? This devotional book is prayerfully intended to excite us about, and guide us into the unfathomable riches in Christ Jesus! For more information, please visit http://www.templebc.org/pwallace "You may contact Paula by email at paularae2@verizon.net
The Kingdom Life provides an integrated approach to spiritual formation. This rich compilation from an extraordinary team of thinkers offers sound theology and key practices to strengthen you and those you disciple in light of Christ's lordship and life in the kingdom. -- back.
Teenager Mallory O'Shaughnessy mourns the recent death of her father and is still reeling from her narrow escape from being killed. While keeping up her high school studies, Mallory must deal with her lavish lifestyle and the challenges that wealth brings. But she trusts in God to help her make the right choices. TREASURES, this sequel to Dazzling: The Mallory O'Shaughnessy Saga, takes Mallory to new destinations and new dangers as she pursues God's exciting plan for her life. She steps eagerly into the future and begins to understand that Romans 8:28 is true, and that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. From small-town girl to world traveler, God enriches Mallory's life with treasured friends and eye-popping experiences. From Istanbul to Mt. Ararat in Turkey, with harrowing escapes from danger, her life is far from boring. Never in the furthest reaches of her imagination could she have planned the rich abundance of sights and wonders. Then, check out WEALTH: Volume 3 of the Mallory O'Shaughnessy series! "You may contact Paula by email at paularae2@verizon.net
Home schooling has long been regarded as a last resort, particularly by African-American families. But in this inspirational and practical memoir, Paula Penn-Nabrit shares her intimate experiences of home-schooling her three sons, Charles, Damon, and Evan. Paula and her husband, C. Madison, decided to home-school their children after racial incidents at public and private schools led them to the conclusion that the traditional educational system would be damaging to their sons’ self-esteem. This decision was especially poignant for the Nabrit family because C. Madison’s uncle was the famed civil rights attorney James Nabrit, who, with Thurgood Marshall, had argued Brown v. Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court; to other members of their family, it seemed as if Paula and C. Madison were turning their backs on a rich educational legacy. But ultimately, Paula and C. Madison felt that they knew what was best for their sons. So in 1991—when Evan was nine and twins Charles and Damon were eleven—the children were withdrawn from the exclusive country day school they’d been attending. In Morning by Morning, Paula Penn-Nabrit discusses her family’s emotional transition to home schooling and shares the nuts and bolts of the boys’ educational experience. She explains how she and her husband developed a curriculum, provided adequate exposure to the arts as well as quiet time for reflection and meditation, initiated quality opportunities for volunteerism, and sought out athletic activities for their sons. At the end of each chapter, she offers advice on how readers can incorporate some of the steps her family took—even if they aren’t able to home-school; plus, there’s a website resource guide at the end of the book. Charles and Damon were eventually admitted to Princeton, and Evan attended Amherst College. But Morning by Morning is frank about the challenges the boys faced in their transition from home schooling to the college experience, and Penn-Nabrit reflects on some things she might have done differently. With great warmth and perception, Paula Penn-Nabrit discusses her personal experience and the amazing outcome of her home-schooling experience: three spiritually and intellectually well balanced sons who attended some of the top educational institutions in this country. What we learned from home schooling: -Use your time wisely. -Education is more than academics. -The idea of parent as teacher doesn’t have to end at kindergarten. -The family is our introduction to community. -Extended family is a safety net. -Yes, kids really do better in environments designed for them. -Travel is an education. -Athletics is more than competitive sports. -Get used to diversity. -It’s okay if your kids get angry at you—they’ll get over it! -from Morning by Morning From the Hardcover edition.
A sunny summer's day. . . An art show in the park. . . How could something so delightful turn so deadly? When she hears a bone-chilling scream, artist Amanda Trent leaves her booth and rushes through the park to find a horrifying scene. Her friend Pamela is kneeling beside her husband's body, her hands covered in blood. Amanda's fear that the police will immediately peg Pamela as their chief suspect comes true when Pamela is arrested for murdering her own husband. But Amanda knows that Pamela is no killer, and she's determined to prove it. Encouraged by the support of her friends and bolstered by the companionship of her adorable golden retriever Laddie and her moody calico cat Mona Lisa, Amanda pursues clue after clue, to no avail. She's running out of leads, and Pamela's running out of time. Can Amanda discover who the real killer is before Pamela has to call a prison cell her new home?
Award-winning writer Paula Huston offers a rich spiritual reflection on the origin and meaning of the Catholic Mass. For Catholics, the Mass is the "source and summit of the Christian life," as the documents of the Church put it. Yet many Catholics might confess to not understand in any depth what goes on in a typical celebration of the Eucharist. In One Ordinary Sunday Paula Huston guides us through a Mass at her home parish in a rural California town. Huston's personal and spiritual reflections offer fresh and often unexpected insights into the profound mystery at the heart of the Catholic faith. A natural storyteller, Huston deftly illuminates what might seem either mysterious to those unfamiliar with the Mass or overly familiar to those who have lost an appreciation of its mystery. In the Mass "we are healed and restored and spiritually fed," she writes. "We are unified and made whole as a people and as a Church. We get a little taste of heaven.
Life is hard. We often find ourselves walking through stories that don’t feel like they should be ours. And yet here we are. We wonder where our good God is in the midst of it. But we are not left without hope. In fact—we have the greatest hope of all. Through vulnerable stories and rich insight, Paula Rinehart and Connally Gilliam point to the Larger Story that carries all the anxiety, longing, and beauty of your life. The backdrop of the big gospel story—creation (how life ought to be), the fall (how life is), redemption (how life can be), and restoration (how life will be one day)—gives context to our lives and hope for walking forward. The grand story of the gospel of Jesus Christ frames our every step. Discover renewed strength and joy in the middle of your ache . . . and the goodness of God that will give you the courage to remain yet undaunted.
Beautifully written with striking imagery, broken water, revolves around a mother (Elizabeth) and her 28-year-old daughter (Ellie). Through the interweaving of their stories, we see that Elizabeth sadly and tragically denies truth, while Ellie is unable and sometimes unwilling to see all the things that would connect her to others and herself. As the cycle progresses, Ellie is slowly opening up to the possibility of these connections as she approaches her own truth, her own rebirth. The effects of these characters and their lives ripple throughout the stories, affecting all of the family members on different levels. Six of the ten stories have been published independently in literary journals and magazines. Now the stories are brought together in the cycle, the way that they were conceived and created. While the stories resonate on their own, in the cycle they now reverberate as they illuminate the characters, themes, and imagery on a whole new level.
Teenager Mallory OShaughnessy mourns the recent death of her father and is still reeling from her narrow escape from being killed. While keeping up her high school studies, Mallory must deal with her lavish lifestyle and the challenges that wealth brings. But she trusts in God to help her make the right choices. TREASURES, this sequel to Dazzling: The Mallory O'Shaughnessy Saga, takes Mallory to new destinations and new dangers as she pursues Gods exciting plan for her life. She steps eagerly into the future and begins to understand that Romans 8:28 is true, and that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. From small-town girl to world traveler, God enriches Mallorys life with treasured friends and eye-popping experiences. From Istanbul to Mt. Ararat in Turkey, with harrowing escapes from danger, her life is far from boring. Never in the furthest reaches of her imagination could she have planned the rich abundance of sights and wonders. Then, check out WEALTH: Volume 3 of the Mallory O'Shaughnessy series! "You may contact Paula by email at paularae2@verizon.net
Course 8: Church & Kingdom: What does it mean to live as a child of the kingdom of God and follow in the way of Christ each day as a member of his church? How does it affect our life at work as well as at home? How does it affect what we do with the gifts we have been given, especially those gifts of time and talents, passions, resources, and money? How is the Christian faith changing us and shaping us so that we become more like Jesus? The importance of prayer, living out our faith, celebrating Sabbath, and reflecting generosity is explored. We look at how faith in the God who is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit shapes and changes all our relationships
In Learning from Experience, Paula Moya offers an alternative to some influential philosophical assumptions about identity and experience in contemporary literary theory. Arguing that the texts and lived experiences of subordinated people are rich sources of insight about our society, Moya presents a nuanced universalist justification for identity-based work in ethnic studies. This strikingly original book provides eloquent analyses of such postmodernist feminists as Judith Butler, Donna Haraway, Norma Alarcón, and Chela Sandoval, and counters the assimilationist proposals of minority neoconservatives such as Shelby Steele and Richard Rodriguez. It advances realist proposals for multicultural education and offers an understanding of the interpretive power of Chicana feminists including Cherríe Moraga, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Helena María Viramontes. Learning from Experience enlarges our concept of identity and offers new ways to situate aspects of race, gender, class, and sexual orientation in discursive and sociopolitical contexts.
Channel Islands National Park includes the five northern islands off the coast of southern California and the surrounding waters out one nautical mile. The diversity and undisturbed nature of the tidepools of this rocky coastline was recognized as a special feature of the islands in the enabling legislation. In order to gain information to conserve these communities unimpaired for future generations, the NPS has been monitoring the rocky intertidal at the islands since 1982. This report summarizes the 2002 sampling year efforts (from February 2002 to February 2003) and findings of the Channel Islands National Park (CINP) Rocky Intertidal Monitoring Program.
“Revelatory…As intimate and immediate as a whispered secret. Vogel’s play thrums with music, desire, and fear, and it’s shrewd about the ways in which America isn’t free, and about how art does and doesn’t transcend the perilous winds of history.” —New Yorker “Superbly realized…Indecent, the powerful play by Paula Vogel, sheds an eye-opening light on a little-known time when theatrical history, Jewish culture, and the frank depiction of homosexuality intersected, with explosive results.” —New York Times “Gorgeous. Illuminating and heartbreaking. Rich in sympathy and humor, Indecent has the scope of an epic but the intimacy of a chamber piece…It celebrates and illustrates the power of theater.” —Time Out New York “A moving and fascinating play…A singular achievement… The historical perspective is vast and knowing…Has there ever been anything quite like Indecent, a play that touches—I mean deeply touches—so much rich emotion about history and the theater, anti-Semitism, homophobia, censorship, world wars, red-baiting, and oh, yes, joyful human passion?...An extraordinary play.” —Newsday “Indecent is more than a play about forbidden love: It’s about theater as a life force.” —New York Post When Sholem Asch wrote God of Vengeance in 1907, he didn’t imagine the height of controversy the play would eventually reach. Performing at first in Yiddish and German, the play’s subject matter wasn’t deemed contentious until it was produced in English, when the American audiences were scandalized by the onstage depiction of an amorous affair between two women. Paula Vogel’s newest work traces the trajectory of the show’s success through its tour in Europe to its abrupt and explosive demise on Broadway in 1923—including the arrest of the entire production’s cast and crew. Paula Vogel is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of How I Learned to Drive. Her other plays include Don Juan Comes Home from Iraq, A Civil War Christmas, The Long Christmas Ride Home, and The Baltimore Waltz, among others. She has also had a distinguished career as a teacher and mentor to younger playwrights, first at Brown University and then at the Yale School of Drama.
Many of us have moments when we feel truly bleak. We are living in the winter of our souls. Spring seems like it will never come. But spring does come, and it will give way to summer, which will be followed by a rich, delicious harvest. Life is about overcoming adversities and creating opportunities. God graces us with comfort to overcome and courage to create. Devotions from Hope is a collection of devotions, prayers, thoughts, and insights that will help you find peace, healing, and hope in this world through the rediscovery of a true and lasting connection to God. No storm can overcome me when my soul resides in Christ. The winds cannot push me. The rains cannot dampen me. I live in his sweet calm. Starting today, let us make ourselves stronger, brighter, wiser, healthier. Let us do the work to reach the goal. Starting today.
From shy girl to assured beauty Gauche, unloved Lady Dinah Freville finds a champion in Cobie Grant. They share the taint of illegitimacy, which the rich and handsome Cobie has overcome. And he is equally determined to see Dinah blossom. Tricking Dinah’s feckless half-brother into allowing them to marry, Cobie then sends his wife to Paris to be groomed. The lady who returns is a beautiful, assured woman. But he’s already made it clear to her that he’ll never fall in love….
Forget what you think you know about diet and exercise, all the fads, the latest pills and plans designed to help you lose weight and get fit. Thirty years ago at the beginning of the "aerobics revolution" we embarked upon a journey towards better health. Although we were taught that if we followed certain rules, engaged in specific activities, and ate in a particular way we would reach the desired destination of "optimum health and fitness," unfortunately with the research in, we are now learning the truth and are not only failing to reach that destination but much to our dismay are on a straight path in the opposite direction leading instead to the highest numbers of diet and weight related disease this nation has ever seen. With the percentage of obese Americans rising to rates somewhere in the 30's, and two thirds of this nation measuring in as overweight, it's not rocket science to figure out that maybe, just maybe what we've been doing over these last few decades might not be the best advice we could have been given. Of course experts will weigh in with this method and that and there is no shortage of diets, pills, machines, programs and thousands of books with the best way, the only way, the right way, the wrong way.....you get the picture, all designed to get you to spend your hard earned money and buy yet another product to make someone else very rich, because everyone's looking for the secret and is usually willing to pay the price in order to find it. As a professional fitness trainer for almost thirty years now, believe me, I've seen it all. Yes, I was right there at the forefront of this fitness revolution which has set many in motion on the proverbial treadmill, spinning their wheels and going absolutely nowhere, spending way too much time, money and energy in their quest for health and fitness. Not only are many of these ways useless and unsuccessful but the sad part is, they can also be dangerous and harmful, promoting hidden levels of internal inflammation leading to life threatening illness, rapid aging, and structural damage including bone and muscle loss, both of which can severely limit our ability to enjoy an active and exciting life as we age. Getting older does not have to be like this. With some knowledge and insight we can begin to undo some of the damage of the last few decades and start over on a new path of true health and fitness which, by the way, does not include hours of boring exercise or starvation diets. In fact, by following my motto “less is more” when it comes to working out, you can learn how to work out less and increase your strength and stamina, keep off unwanted pounds, and best of all fight illness and disease and as you begin to make better, smarter choices regarding the kind of foods you eat, the positive changes in your physical and mental health will be the natural outcome of a better and smarter way of living.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER FOR MYSTERY/THRILLER An addictive novel of psychological suspense from the author of #1 New York Times bestseller and global phenomenon The Girl on the Train and A Slow Fire Burning. “Hawkins is at the forefront of a group of female authors . . who have reinvigorated the literary suspense novel by tapping a rich vein of psychological menace and social unease… there’s a certain solace to a dark escape, in the promise of submerged truths coming to light.” —Vogue A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long submerged. Left behind is a lonely fifteen-year-old girl. Parentless and friendless, she now finds herself in the care of her mother's sister, a fearful stranger who has been dragged back to the place she deliberately ran from—a place to which she vowed she'd never return. With the same propulsive writing and acute understanding of human instincts that captivated millions of readers around the world in her explosive debut thriller, The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins delivers an urgent, twisting, deeply satisfying read that hinges on the deceptiveness of emotion and memory, as well as the devastating ways that the past can reach a long arm into the present. Beware a calm surface—you never know what lies beneath.
Riffing on truth, lies and secrets, this collection uses fiction to explore fact, and fact to explore fiction. Fictional characters muse upon the truth behind real people, non-fiction pieces contain short interludes of fiction, fiction is written to read like an essay, made-up elements slip into true accounts. These pieces range the world – from America, to Antwerp to Aotearoa – and talk about writers and writing, famous figures, family members, witch-burning in Denmark, cyclones and numerous pertinent and stimulating topics. All brilliantly written, each will leave you thinking and desperate to jump back in for more.
A fifth generation descendant of the late Reverend Hiram Wilson, a late 1800's Texas potter, Paula is very encouraged by her family's heritage as being the first African American businessmen in Texas after Emancipation Proclamation. The rich legacy Rev. Hiram Wilson passed on to his remnants continuously fuel Paula's passion for Capote Church, Cemetery, Wilson Pottery Foundation Museum, the Wilson Reunion and the Seguin community. This same legacy also strengthens Paula's spiritual relationship with God. Paula now holds a Bachelor of Science in Occupational Education in Human Services from Wayland Baptist University and is presently studying for a Master of Arts in Biblical Counseling at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Paula serves as a volunteer Minister at Dodd Field Chapel, Joint Base Fort Sam Houston, Texas with the Collective Protestant Gospel Service. Married to JeRome 'Zoom' Harper, they together minister to the body of Christ in the congregation, nursing homes; the incarcerated; and members of the community through song, music, mentorship, counseling, prayer and most of all, sharing the Word of God.
The third volume in the Biblical Explorations series from bestselling New Testament writer Paula Gooder explores a major exponent of the Gospels: the parables of Jesus. It considers why Jesus spoke in pictures and opens up the world behind the parables to reveal just how striking, memorable and challenging they were for their original hearers.
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