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Excerpt from Bernardine: A Comedy in Two Acts The orchestra rises in the pit and goes away. The buzzing in the audience subsides. The house lights dim. A pin spotlight moves across the thick red velvet curtain and picks out a young man stepping from behind the curtain to face the audience. He is in the uniform of the United States Air Force. He smiles. He says. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and ...

Excerpt from Mrs. McThing: A Play Copyright (under the title M Thing) 1949 by Mary Coyle Chase. Revised version copyright 1952 by Mary Coyle Chase. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the orig...

Health, Healing, and Wholeness is a unique resource that helps to engage congregations in health care ministries. It emphasizes the importance of understanding congregational culture when developing faith and health partnerships as well as recognizing the potential of health ministries to promote community health and integration of community development concepts. Additionally, the book demonstrates how to enhance congregational participation t...

This feminist analysis of mothers, mothering and motherhood combines an evaluation of empirical and theoretical work with firsthand personal accounts by mothers or caregivers.

Imagine how shocked you would be if, like ten-year-old Colin Mason, you were the oldest (smartest, best) kid in a family of four, and then you found out that all these years, without knowing it, you've had an older sister, an "awful, awful, bad, bad, girl-Loretta Mason Potts." Who? What? Wait! ... But this is only the first of many surprises that lie in store for Colin, as things get curiouser and curiouser very fast. Loretta (a glum gangly gi...

Offers a romantic and tumultuous saga of a Maine family who makes its home Down East. Spanning six decades, starting in the late nineteenth century, this novel depicts their lives as they meet head on the joys and challenges of the changing and encroaching world and eventually, World War II.

A novel that is filled with details of the natural world, both at sea and on land of Maine. It captures the pervasive changes wrought by the Industrial Revolution as coastal people stood on the brink of a new world, slowly turning from the glorious era of sail to serving the incoming tide of wealthy summer vacationers.

Traces life on the Maine coast through four generations of a seafaring family. This title includes descriptions of the sweeping cultural, economic, and philosophical changes that washed over Maine. It is suitable for those who wish to understand the maritime history of Maine.

A new way of thinking about landscaping home grounds and public spaces, Revised and Expanded

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THE STORY: When Elwood P. Dowd starts to introduce his imaginary friend, Harvey, a six-and-a-half-foot rabbit, to guests at a society party, his sister, Veta, has seen as much of his eccentric behavior as she can tolerate. She decides to have him committed to a sanitarium to spare her daughter, Myrtle Mae, and their family from future embarrassment. Problems arise, however, when Veta herself is mistakenly assumed to be on the verge of lunacy w...

Volete la ricetta per avere una perfetta storia di fantasmi? Niente di più semplice: prendete una vecchia, grande casa abbandonata, aggiungete una bambina molto ribelle e un po' bugiarda, mescolate con un po' di strane creature magiche e tremendi malefici e oplà! Ecco a voi una misteriosa storia di ritratti che si muovono, di sette sorelle viziate e capricciose, e di un terribile incantesimo che dura da tanti, tanti anni... Età di lettura: da ...

Models have classified dropout attributes in traditional environments, but minimal research has focused on the relationship between persistence and attributes present in the undergraduate online adult learner population. Previous researchers who studied the relationship between satisfaction and persistence have neglected to address the importance or priority of the experiences a student encountered. This study focused specifically on the corre...

Excerpt from Virginia of Elk Creek Valley Elk Creek Valley was a blue and golden place that mid-summer morning in the Big Horn Country. It seemed like a joyous secret tucked away among the mountains, whose hazy, far-away summits were as blue as the sky above them. The lower ranges, too, were blue from purple haze and gray-green sagebrush, while the bare, brown foothills tumbling about their feet were golden in the sunlight. About the Publish...

Harvey, il grande e magico coniglio bianco che solo l'affabile Elwood riesce a vedere, ma che tutti vorrebbero per amico. Una favola moderna resa famosa dal film con James Stewart e divenuta uno dei piu grandi e duraturi successi di Broadway.

Excerpt from Mary M. Chase and Her Writings Esteemed Friend, - Two years ago, word came to me, like the startling toll of the village church bell, that the life of your daughter Mary was ebbing fast. I broke from business, and sought out the yet unknown way among the silent hills to your retired home. You met me at the door, took my hand, - for you knew me, though you had never seen me, - and led me with quiet step to her bedside. The flush ...

Excerpt from Benjamin Lee, 2d: A Record Gathered From Letters, Note-Books, and Narratives of Friends Always he had seemed, with a rare instinct, to hold the balance true between the gifts that life so bounti fully bestowed upon him and those gifts that she demanded of him - even to the complete giving of himself. He was not of those who always seem to be waiting to live, he lived with a zest as he went along, quite conscious of the happiness ...

Excerpt from Natural Laws in Piano Teaching If there seems to be much repetition of principles, it is because many students find it difficult to keep the whole subject previously studied clearly in mind while adding a new principle, and they are consequently liable to Obtain a distorted conception of the vital' principles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgott...

Excerpt from The Girl From the Big Horn Country A September afternoon in the Big Horn mountains! The air crystal clear, the sky cloudless, the outlines of the hills distinct! Elk Creek Valley lay golden in the sunshine, silent save for the incessant hum of locust and cricket, the hurrying of the creek waters, and the occasional bellowing of steers on the range beyond the foot-hills, deserted except for the distant cattle, a coyote stealing ac...

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