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Surrender (But Don't Give Yourself Away)

Old Cars, Found Hope, and Other Cheap Tricks

By: Spike Gillespie

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Surrender (But Don't Give Yourself Away)

Old Cars, Found Hope, and Other Cheap Tricks

By: Spike Gillespie

Spike Gillespie tells it like it is. Whether she's writing about men, mothering or money, she cuts to the chase, unabashedly recounting the exhilaration and uncertainty she is forever encountering along the odd path that is her life. Gillespie approaches her subjects with a keen eye for curious details and a readiness to ask hard questions and give honest, even brutal, answers. Her willingness to "put it all down—the painful, the funny, the mundane, the embarrassing" has won legions of readers for her print and online columns. Surrender (But Don't Give Yourself Away) collects forty-six essays, which initially appeared in such publications as the Washington Post, Austin Chronicle, Dallas Morning News, Bust, Gargoyle, and thecommonspace.org. As Gillespie describes them, "There are odes to my good days and bad, to trips I've taken—both real and metaphorical, to holiness found in unexpected places, to men I have not slept with, to learning to live sober. Too, there are miscellaneous ruminations on my alter-ego, my inner-teen, the floor mat in my car, a dead squirrel in the road." Binding these pieces is the thread of hope: there are moments the thread slips out of view only to resurface in some unexpected location. Sometimes it takes awhile, but Gillespie always relocates hope, discovering even in her darkest times that life is full of an embarrassment of riches.

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University of Texas Press

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0292778937

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9780292778931

Quilts Around the World

The Story of Quilting from Alabama to Zimbabwe

By: Spike Gillespie

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Quilts Around the World

The Story of Quilting from Alabama to Zimbabwe

By: Spike Gillespie

This essential book for all quilters and quilt collectors tells the fascinating story of quilting around the world, illuminated by the international quilt community’s top experts and more than 300 glorious color photographs. Covering Japan, China, Korea, and India; England, Ireland, France, and The Netherlands; Australia, Africa, Central America, North America, and beyond, Quilts Around the World explores both the diversity and common threads of quilting. Discover Aboriginal patchwork from Australia, intricate Rallis from the Middle East, Amish and Hawaiian quilts from the United States, Sashiko quilts from Japan, vivid Molas from Central America, and art quilts from every corner of the globe. Also included are twenty patchwork and applique patterns to use in your own quilt projects, inspired by designs from the world’s most striking quilts.

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352

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Voyageur Press

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1610600916

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9781610600910

Quilting Art

Inspiration, Ideas & Innovative Works from 20 Contemporary Quilters

By: Spike Gillespie

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Quilting Art

Inspiration, Ideas & Innovative Works from 20 Contemporary Quilters

By: Spike Gillespie

Quilting is a craft, rich with tradition and homespun, practical applications. But it’s also an art--which, with needle, thread, fabric, and an idea, can give us a new way of looking at, and wrapping ourselves in, the world. This book profiles twenty American practitioners of that art, quilters whose fascinating, innovative work takes the craft one step further and makes it into something new. These remarkable quilters describe their inspiration and methods and show us several examples of their best work. Among them are Jeanne Williamson, a celebrated mixed-media journal quilter; Pam Rubert, whose large-scale quilts showcase her humor; Loretta Bennett, the youngest of the beloved Gee's Bend quilters; Boo Davis, a hip crafter who pieces together quilts with heavy-metal themes; Susan Else, who constructs whimsical quilted sculptures; Ai Kijima, a Brooklyn-based artist influenced by Japanese anime; and Jane Burch Cochran, whose folk-art quilts feature thousands of beads and buttons. Through personal conversations with the quilters, author Spike Gillespie gives us an inside, in-depth look at what inspires each, what methods they use, and how their art has evolved. Along with these close-up views of the quilter’s studio and process, each profile features firsthand tips and inspirational advice. Quilting Art serves as an idea book for quilters, as well as a gorgeous representation of the quilter’s art.

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160

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Voyageur Press

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1616731508

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9781616731502

Surrender (but Don't Give Yourself Away)

Old Cars, Found Hope, and Other Cheap Tricks

By: Spike Gillespie

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Surrender (but Don't Give Yourself Away)

Old Cars, Found Hope, and Other Cheap Tricks

By: Spike Gillespie

Spike Gillespie is beautiful, charming, and funny. She told me to write that. It's also true, especially the funny part. Some of us are just a lot more alive than others, and Spike is one of those people who lives at 90 m.p.h. while experiencing everything that happens to her with an intensity that is either painful or hilarious, but usually both. If you can imagine Anne Lamott as a working-class kid from Jersey with a penchant for losers, you have an idea of Spike. She's a woman grown now and signs of wisdom are setting in, not that many years but a lot of mileage on the woman. As a writer, what she brings to the mountains of baggage in her life is not only humor but incurable honesty. I think of her as a voice of the younger generation, even though she's approaching forty, because she has no protective layer on her nerve endings, no cynicism, no been there/done that, no ability to dismiss anything as too freaking strange to bother with. She experiences it all wide open and then reports back. —Molly Ivins, nationally syndicated political columnist and author of Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She? "Spike Gillespie's voice is highly idiosyncratic, extremely charming, and deeply personal. . . . She is such a winning heroine that you root for her, for her son. You want to smooth the way for them a bit through the hardships they endure with such great good humor." —Sarah Bird, author of The Yokota Officers Club, Virgin of the Rodeo, and The Mommy Club Spike Gillespie tells it like it is. Whether she's writing about men, mothering or money, she cuts to the chase, unabashedly recounting the exhilaration and uncertainty she is forever encountering along the odd path that is her life. Gillespie approaches her subjects with a keen eye for curious details and a readiness to ask hard questions and give honest, even brutal, answers. Her willingness to "put it all down—the painful, the funny, the mundane, the embarrassing" has won legions of readers for her print and online columns. Surrender (But Don't Give Yourself Away) collects forty-six essays, which initially appeared in such publications as the Washington Post, Austin Chronicle, Dallas Morning News, Bust, Gargoyle, and thecommonspace.org. As Gillespie describes them, "There are odes to my good days and bad, to trips I've taken—both real and metaphorical, to holiness found in unexpected places, to men I have not slept with, to learning to live sober. Too, there are miscellaneous ruminations on my alter-ego, my inner-teen, the floor mat in my car, a dead squirrel in the road." Binding these pieces is the thread of hope: there are moments the thread slips out of view only to resurface in some unexpected location. Sometimes it takes awhile, but Gillespie always relocates hope, discovering even in her darkest times that life is full of an embarrassment of riches.

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216

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University of Texas Press

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0292728506

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9780292728509

All the Wrong Men and One Perfect Boy

A Memoir

By: Spike Gillespie

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All the Wrong Men and One Perfect Boy

A Memoir

By: Spike Gillespie

Some women have trouble with men. For Spike Gillespie, a widely followed online journalist, those problems started early with her father -- the first and most important man in any child's life. Spike's relationship with her emotionally distant parent was so flawed that she has had an unending series of disasters with men...from the day she first noticed them to the day she made one of her own -- her perfect little boy, Henry. In a memoir of sometimes lacerating honesty, Spike Gillespie tells us the story of her life with men -- a blunt, moving, and profoundly revealing account that asks all the hardest questions about love between the sexes. All the Wrong Men and One Perfect Boy isn't a memoir of abuse or tragedy. But it is about the lack of connection -- to family, to lovers, to the world -- that defines much of modern life. Most importantly, however (and here Henry comes in), Gillespie also tells us a story of hope and resolution, of reaching out to touch the world with the newest tools, the computer and the Internet -- and in the oldest way -- through one's children. And it's about the deepest mysteries -- how we love the ones we love, and how we stop loving them when they're destroying us. Spike Gillespie first began chronicling her thirty-year adventure of love and heartbreak in a weekly online column, and within a few months she was being described by USA Today as the queen of the online confessional. Gillespie has continued to feed her stream-of-consciousness biography to thousands of readers via her website. After years of publishing to the online community, now she is ready to tell the whole tale. Gillespie is a natural storyteller, a writer with a marvelous ability to immerse her readers in a flesh-and-blood world of her lovers, her family, her friends...and above all, her son. This is a writer unafraid to tell the truth -- about human nature, men, family, and motherhood. The result is a memoir of unadorned and refreshing power from a woman on the most intimate terms with passion, anger, love -- and herself.

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272

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Simon & Schuster

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0743259874

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9780743259873

Brains on Fire

Igniting Powerful, Sustainable, Word of Mouth Movements

By: Robbin Phillips,Greg Cordell,Geno Church,Spike Jones

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Brains on Fire

Igniting Powerful, Sustainable, Word of Mouth Movements

By: Robbin Phillips,Greg Cordell,Geno Church,Spike Jones

Develop and harness a powerful, sustainable word-of-mouth movement How did the 360-year-old scissor company, Fiskars, double its profit in key markets just by realizing its customers had already formed a community of avid scrapbookers? How is Best Buy planning to dominate the musical instruments market? By understanding the Brains on Fire model of tapping movements and stepping away from the old-school marketing "campaign" mentality. Brains on Fire offers original, practical and actionable steps for creating a word-of-mouth movement for corporations, products, services, and organizations. It takes you step-by-step through the necessary actions needed to start your own authentic movement. Develop and harness a powerful, sustainable, word-of-mouth movement Describes 10 lessons to master and create a powerful, sustainable movement The Brains on Fire blog is often ranked in the top 100 of AdAge's Power 150 Marketing Blogs

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226

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470872276

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9780470872277

Glimpses of God’S Grace

The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Guy

By: Lt Col William M. Spike Jones

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Glimpses of God’S Grace

The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Guy

By: Lt Col William M. Spike Jones

Have you ever met or even heard of a Christian fighter pilot? Now you haveIm one. Come read about how an ordinary kid in a Navy family grew up to marry the toddler two doors down. Read about my teen years in Italy and how I, as a 130 lb. band geek, received a congressional appointment to the USAF Academy. Follow me through life as a cadet. Find out how we made our own fun with coke bottles, Frisbees, lighter fluid, super glue, a condom, a pillow case, and a lot of water. See pilot training from the perspective of the student and the instructor. Once Im all trained up in the F-15, Ill strap you in with me. (Itll be a tight fit because theres only one seat and its mine!) Together, well take my mission ready check ride and repeatedly spank Maverick and Goose in their F-14. Then well scramble to fly into the night sky and fly out over the dark Atlantic to intercept Soviet TU-95 Bear bombers patrolling our east coast during the Cold War. Then well join a 4-ship of Eagles to take on an unknown number or type of adversaries. See how our four jets did against six bad guys. During that fight well peel off to go 1 v 2 against F-16s. I push as close as I dare against the barriers that would make this book classified. When you see what God enabled that 130 lb. band geek to achieve; youll get it: With God, nothing is impossible. But more importantly, see Gods fingerprints on my life and let me challenge your thinking about His amazing grace.

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249

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WestBow Press

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149084533X

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9781490845333

Pissed Off

On Women and Anger

By: Spike Gillespie

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Pissed Off

On Women and Anger

By: Spike Gillespie

A personal resource for women who have been accused of undue anger offers counsel on how to both allow oneself to experience a healthy range of strong feelings and forgive, drawing on the stories of everyday women as well as the author's own experiences to explain how to use anger as an appropriate catalyst for change and communication without becoming consumed. Original.

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225

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Seal Press

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1580051626

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9781580051620

Book's by Spike Gillespie

Surrender (But Don't Give Yourself Away)

Surrender (But Don't Give Yourself Away)

Quilts Around the World

Quilts Around the World

Quilting Art

Quilting Art

Surrender (but Don't Give Yourself Away)

Surrender (but Don't Give Yourself Away)

All the Wrong Men and One Perfect Boy

All the Wrong Men and One Perfect Boy

Brains on Fire

Brains on Fire

Glimpses of God’S Grace

Glimpses of God’S Grace

Pissed Off

Pissed Off

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