Sara’s parents have just passed away. Now, saddled with a large amount of debt, she must sell everything she owns in order to pay it off. With no place left to go, Sara and her sickly brother, Tom, turn to their grandmother, Alice, for help. Alice welcomes them warmly, but Luke, who was once married to Alice’s other granddaughter, distrusts Sara. He believes that she is after Alice’s fortune, so he decides to marry Sara as punishment. Sara, who is drawn to Luke, reluctantly accepts the marriage, hoping that one day Luke will feel the same way she does.
Sara’s parents have just passed away. Now, saddled with a large amount of debt, she must sell everything she owns in order to pay it off. With no place left to go, Sara and her sickly brother, Tom, turn to their grandmother, Alice, for help. Alice welcomes them warmly, but Luke, who was once married to Alice’s other granddaughter, distrusts Sara. He believes that she is after Alice’s fortune, so he decides to marry Sara as punishment. Sara, who is drawn to Luke, reluctantly accepts the marriage, hoping that one day Luke will feel the same way she does. ※This work is originally colored.
At the heart of Cast The First Stone is the autobiographical account of transformation and redemption as the author unexpectedly was converted to Christianity. Preconceptions and social restrictions are challenged and willingly altered as she recognises their futilities in the light of understanding and grace. Through the struggles in a loveless marriage there are highlights and holidays, laughter and learning, amazing breakthroughs and tragedies. The reader will learn that God does permit divorce under certain circumstances but that far from ending in failure, this story will bring hope to those facing similar circumstances.
This comprehensive cookbook tastefully combines ease of preparation and cost-efficiency while offering not just single dish recipes but full meal menus-one for every day of the year! With homespun charm, warm wit and playful trivia, home-cooks are provided with a ready-made plan for entire meals that are fun, economical and easy. 365 Quick, Easy and Inexpensive Dinner Menus is a cookbook for the entire family, and its innovative menus have been approved by kids nationwide.
Sara’s parents have just passed away. Now, saddled with a large amount of debt, she must sell everything she owns in order to pay it off. With no place left to go, Sara and her sickly brother, Tom, turn to their grandmother, Alice, for help. Alice welcomes them warmly, but Luke, who was once married to Alice’s other granddaughter, distrusts Sara. He believes that she is after Alice’s fortune, so he decides to marry Sara as punishment. Sara, who is drawn to Luke, reluctantly accepts the marriage, hoping that one day Luke will feel the same way she does.
When we have lost people we love close together, we may not complete our grieving for one person before we are forced to grieve another. These losses, combined with other losses like moving, loss of a pet, loss of a job can compound our grief and create special challenges when healing. In this guide, readers can explore complicated mourning and how to successfully grieve each loss.
In this Grief Guide, readers complete journaling exercises, memory portraits, and additional projects to create a memory book to honor their loved one. Readers will see how others have used creative methods to create lasting memories.
One of the greatest challenges we face is watching our loved ones hurting and being unable to help ease the pain. This guide explores how caregivers, friends and support people can help those who are grieving. The guide includes advice from professionals. Grievers also share their stories and insight into the support they wish for most.
This book moves with compelling energy from the forests of north-western Ontario to the capitals of Europe to the tribal villages of Africa...and from there to South America, China, and into the mysterious world that existed behind the Iron Curtain when few Westerners dared, or got the chance, to visit there. It is an absorbingly personal document, with the power not only of insight and innocence but of deeply conveyed sensuality -- toward sun and seawater and mountain air; the music and hustle of cafes and cantinas; the tastes and smells of exotic kitchens and markets. There is an urgency here, bred of complex desires and a craving for experience and knowledge. Through her search, Petrone reveals not just the graces but the hard edges and uncertainties of a woman's ventures into foreign landscapes and into the foreboding terrain of the self.
When unhappy young Willerby dreams of a new name, experiences real magic and receives a strangely marked pulsating stone, he hopes his life is about to change. But it is only when he receives a similar stone with instructions to earn five more that his mystical Quest for Hidden Wisdom begins, giving him the opportunity to discover who he really is…Each stone leads him further along a magical pathway of self-discovery through the land of his birth, the creative depths of his psyche and his relationship with his inner child. It also threatens his life and his relationship with his oldest friend, and leads to a future he never imagined in his wildest dreams. As you read this gripping adventure, with its magical, monstrous and surreal events, you are encouraged to undertake your own personal and spiritual Quest into self-awareness, inner wisdom and the concept of Oneness. The Wigapom Quest is a unique, exciting, multi-layered story, delivering its message of hope to the Child in every Adult and the Adult in every Child. Penny Gillman is a Counsellor, Hypnotherapist, Inner Childtherapist, teacher and spiritual healer. She is also a tutor for the NFSH, The Healing Trust.
This collection was created to bring the feeling of being in a peaceful garden into your home. It includes twelve stencils: a stone wall, a stone path, bleeding heart, butterfly, bee, fountain, foxglove, hummingbird, iris, grasshopper, trumpet flower, & morning glory. You can use all or only a few to create your private Secret Garden. Use these stencils and your own imagination to create a Secret Garden hideaway just for your escape!
At the heart of Cast The First Stone is the autobiographical account of transformation and redemption as the author unexpectedly was converted to Christianity. Preconceptions and social restrictions are challenged and willingly altered as she recognises their futilities in the light of understanding and grace. Through the struggles in a loveless marriage there are highlights and holidays, laughter and learning, amazing breakthroughs and tragedies. The reader will learn that God does permit divorce under certain circumstances but that far from ending in failure, this story will bring hope to those facing similar circumstances.
When five children - three brothers and two sisters - huddle together at home to wait out a thunderstorm, they have no idea that they are about to experience a magical, sometimes frightening, but always spiritual journey into the distant past. The world they find themselves is full of fantastical creatures such as evil locusts, stubborn mules, giant caterpillars, and cherubs. As they go on a journey, they witness the miraculous influence of ‘Jaycee’ and realise the importance of following his actions and how to apply them to their own lives.
Stella sprout her wings to protect the family she loves all while she is pregnant. She learns how to forgive as well as how to fly; and how to mend broken hearts.
This volume traces the 300-year history of bird art in Australia, from the crudely illustrated records of the earliest European voyages of discovery to the diversity of artwork available at the start of the 21st century. It is a history inseparable from the development of Australian ornithology. Against a background of establishment of the country itself, naval draftsmen, convicts, officers, settlers, naturalists, artists and scientists alike contributed both to the art and to science.
A comprehensive analysis of the astonishing changes that elevated the Chicago public school system from one of the worst in the nation to one of the most improved. How a City Learned to Improve Its Schools tells the story of the extraordinary thirty-year school reform effort that changed the landscape of public education in Chicago. Acclaimed educational researcher Anthony S. Bryk joins five coauthors directly involved in Chicago’s education reform efforts, Sharon Greenberg, Albert Bertani, Penny Sebring, Steven E. Tozer, and Timothy Knowles, to illuminate the many factors that led to this transformation of the Chicago Public Schools. Beginning in 1987, Bryk and colleagues lay out the civic context for reform, outlining the systemic challenges such as segregation, institutional racism, and income and resource disparities that reformers grappled with as well as the social conflicts they faced. Next, they describe how fundamental changes occurred at every level of schooling: enhancing classroom instruction; organizing more engaged and effective local school communities; strengthening the preparation, recruitment, and support of teachers and school leaders; and sustaining an ambitious evidence-based campaign to keep the public informed on the progress of key reform initiatives and the challenges still ahead. The power of this capacity building is validated by unprecedented increases in benchmarks such as graduation rates and college matriculation. This riveting account introduces key actors within the schools, city government, and business community, and the partnerships they forged. It also reveals the surprising yet essential role of Chicago's innovative information infrastructure in aligning disparate initiatives. In making clear how elements such as advocacy, civic capacity, improvement research, and strong democracy contributed to large-scale progress in the system's 600-plus schools, the book highlights the greater lessons that the Chicago story offers for system improvement overall.
The Stone Family Angels go from baptisms and birthdays to burials in this new novel about Stella Jackson and her band of angels. Reese has been taken and the angels must fight for him to be returned. Stella will lead her flock to Mexico for a battle royale. In doing so, she has been tasked with reviving Reese by entering his dreams and recovering his soul. Through all this turmoil, Stella must find a way to keep her marriage and family stable; especially her marriage.
Bethlem Hospital, popularly known as "Bedlam", is a unique institution. Now seven hundred and fifty years old, it has been continuously involved in the care of the mentally ill in London since at least the 1400s. As such it has a strong claim to be the oldest foundation in Europe with an unbroken history of sheltering and treating the mentally disturbed. During this time, Bethlem has transcended locality to become not only a national and international institution, but in many ways, a cultural and literary myth. The History of Bethlem is a scholarly history of this key establishment by distinguished authors, including Asa Briggs and Roy Porter. Based upon extensive research of the hospital's archives, the book looks at Bethlem's role within the caring institutions of London and Britain, and provides a long overdue re-evaluation of its place in the history of psychiatry.
Ever since she was a teen, Robin Fox has been tormented by painful flashes of the future, too little and too late to prevent disaster. Back then, her gift painted a target on her back, and she was forced to flee a devious enemy and trust her family with her one secret. When a child disappears from a remote mountain resort sixteen years later, Robin's visions may finally prove helpful. But the situation is not what it seems. She may have fallen into a trap--with her own secret as bait. Robin holds the key to find the missing child, but her desperation to make up for past mistakes forces an impossible choice...
In the most revolutionary archaeological find of the new century, an international team of archaeologists led by Mike Morwood discovered a new, diminutive species of human on the remote Indonesian island of Flores. Nicknamed the “Hobbit,” this was no creation of Tolkien's fantasy. The three foot tall skeleton with a brain the size of a chimpanzee’s was a tool-using, fire-making, cooperatively hunting person who inhabited Flores alongside modern humans as recently as 13,000 years ago. This book is Morwood’s description of this monumental discovery and the intense study that has been undertaken to validate his view of its relationship to our species. He chronicles the bitter debates over Homo Floresiensis, the objections (some spiteful) of colleagues, the theft and damage of some of the specimens, and the endless battle against government and academic bureaucracies that hindered his research. This updated paperback edition contains an epilogue that reports on the most recent debates, findings, and analyses of this amazing discovery.
Nathaniel Woodard founded an educational system ‘firmly grounded in the Christian faith,’ and the establishment in 1874 of the first Woodard girls’ school lies at the heart of his legacy. However, the role of one remarkable woman in securing this legacy has until now been obscured. Eliza Lowe and the Founding of Woodard Girls’ Schools is her untold story. Drawing on scholarly articles, newspaper reports, letters from pupils, census records, and local and family archival material, Thompson describes life in Eliza Lowe’s school, from swimming in the sea to politics at breakfast and competitions for an ‘amiability’ prize. While discussions of Nathaniel Woodard and 19th-century girls’ education provide context, Eliza’s own letters reveal a woman of wit, curiosity and humanitarian feeling. Her achievements will inspire students of women’s history and girls’ education, and encourage those who believe that religion enhances education, while her lasting legacy will interest both former pupils and those who continue in the Woodard tradition today.
The past, present, and future of art and art culture collide in this interdisciplinary study that strives to find new, universal meaning in a diverse art world. Using examples from contemporary painting, sculpture, film, and the digital arts, Penny Florence examines the link between the “grand narratives” of modernism and today’s culture of difference. Laced throughout with humorous and brilliant insights, Sexed Universals in Contemporary Art clears new philosophical and aesthetic ground by embracing the new without discarding the old.
Usually, when a young man prepares himself to ask his girlfriend to marry him, he offers her a diamond engagement ring. Not often does the lucky lady ask what mine this diamond came from. Our earth houses a lot of stones that are embedded in rock several miles below the earth's surface. Millions of years in the making and waiting for the exact time and pressure to build up to present themselves to the world. In the book of Revelation chapter 22, mentions 12 stones that are carefully crafted as a foundation of the wall of the New Jerusalem. Of all the stones God has created, why did he choose these 12 stones? Why are they the chosen few?
#1 New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling author Louse Penny's beloved Chief Inspector Armand Gamache mystery novels have received critical acclaim, won numerous awards, and have enthralled millions of readers. Featuring Chief Inspector of Homicide Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec, these extraordinary novels are here together for the first time in a fabulous ebook bundle. Still Life Chief Inspector Gamache and his team of investigators are called to the scene of a suspicious death in Three Pines, a rural village south of Montreal. The locals are certain it's a tragic hunting accident and nothing more, but Gamache smells something foul this Thanksgiving season. A Fatal Grace When CC de Poitiers is found dead the day after Christmas, electrocuted in the middle of curling match with no witnesses, Chief Inspector Gamache digs beneath the surface to find where the real secrets are buried. But it seems that Gamache has some enemies of his own, and with the coming of the bitter winter winds, something far more chilling is in store. The Cruelest Month A group of Three Pines villagers decide to celebrate Easter with a séance at the Old Hadley House, hoping to rid the town of its evil-until one of their party dies of fright. But was it a natural death, or murder? As Chief Inspector Gamache investigates, he will be forced to face his very own ghosts as well as those residing in this seemingly idyllic town.
Loss shakes the once solid foundation beneath us. Grief takes the orderly and makes it disorderly, leaving bereaved persons with a sense of disarray and helplessness. This guide gently walks readers through rebuilding their lives during the first stages of grief. Thoughtful writing guides the bereaved through the initial hurdles, helping foster understanding and a mindset for healing.
Extensively illustrated with new color photographs, this pioneering study of a masterpiece of colonial Latin American art reveals how a cathedral dean and native American painters drew on their respective visual traditions to promote Christian faith in the New World"--
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