13 Ergebnisse.

The stories in this collection are dedicated to my grandchildren, the eager listeners who encouraged me, again and again, to "tell me a story." I hope that hidden in the stories are numerous family values: kindness, appreciation and care for one another, enjoyment of life, curiosity, education, adventure, humor... These stories are part of my memoirs - preserving family events and giving something of myself, and my love, to my children and g...

Bear Me Away to a Better World tells the story of two intensely creative people who meet in the 1950s, bond, and form a partnership that touches many lives. Fifty years later, at their beloved Villa Zanetta, a performing arts center in California's Sonoma Valley, someone is (presumably) murdered, but someone else is secretly loved, while another is disgraced, and yet another finds solutions. We find Hector sowing seeds in the Villa Garden, a...

Grandma, tell me a story, " was the request that came at bedtime or sitting together on the porch swing or, most often, from the back seat on long car trips."O.K. What kind of story would you like to hear?" I asked."Any story... maybe about when you were young, or when my Dad was little...How about the times when you got lost?" Or, "Tell me about your pets when you lived on the chicken farm...like when your dog got hit by a car or about Tough-...

Based on the fictional journals of Stefani Michel, Humming in Spanish is the third volume in Ginna's Lavandula Series. This multi-generational saga begins in the 1960s and is set in the fictional Sweet Farm, a Carmel Valley, California lavender farm of some local renown.The farm is the home of an intertwining cast of characters all somehow related to the Wyman clan: farmers, artists, writers, musicians. Over six decades, they bond and clash in...

Carmel-by-the-Sea on the California Coast was becoming an artistic hot spot of the West in the 1920s, when two extraordinary women paid a visit and never left.During the 1920s, 30s, and 40s Dene Denny and Hazel Watrous worked together to bring art, music and beauty to the world. Against all odds, and even through the Great Depression, they founded the Carmel Music Society and the Carmel Bach Festival, ran a repertory theater in Monterey and a ...

This book will teach you the art of snapshot archeology.Photographs are extraordinary, energetic phenomena. They're as common, and almost as numerous, as leaves on a tree. We give them only a casual glance without ever considering the powerful forces that came together at the exact moment in time in which they were created. "Snapshots" - those images grabbed as you hurriedly say hello or goodbye to friends and relatives or quickly click the sh...

Twenty-one year old Sandy Connors is a very curious green-eyed blonde, whose fascination for mysteries takes her on some wild journeys. In true Nancy Drew fashion, our girl detective, brave and intrepid, follows every clue to solve a puzzle, leaving no stone unturned as she moves ever forward, her mind always on the solutions.In this second book of the Sandy Connors Mystery Series, Sandy is challenged to discover the reason a station wagon was...

by Ginna Gordon Based on the fictional journals of Stefani MichelAs the Wheel of Life turns at Sweet Farm, the homestead of the Wymans, a Carmel Valley, Calfornia family, we focus on three sisters: Rita, Nana and Fox, and their three daughters: Tate, Stevie and Jolene, cousins and friends. Life rumbles the earth at the farm, like any compound full of women, their men, children, elders and friends.They breathe the air of the Valley, filled with...

Soup is universally loved: on a cold day, it feels good to wrap your fingers around a warm cup of Tomato Bisque, in the sickbed, just the aroma of Chicken Noodle Soup makes you feel better, nurtured and well fed. At the bottom of a ski run, a fall picnic, in a lunchbox thermos or on the table, a bowl of soup brings a warm glow to the body, gives strength and brings a smile and a sigh as the spoon is dipped in the broth.Ginna BB Gordon has spen...

Honey Baby Darlin' is a multi-volume series memoir about cooking, love and the love of cooking, in which many beloved characters help to develop a young girl's consciousness about food, the art of nurturing, and the kitchen. It tracks the journey of a girl cook on her quest to create beauty, to nurture, to comfort and to please palates: to hear the sighs of the well-fed.

Thank you my readers for your willingness to be inspired. We never know where our answers might lie. Our most important insights may come from a sentence in a book. I hope this is true for you. Creating this book is the answer to a dream for me. I have wanted to be a writer since I was thirteen, but in those early days I had nothing to say. After I wrote THE COURAGE TO GRIEVE and then YOU DON'T HAVE TO SUFFER, I thought I was done writing book...

After decades of singing Bach's music and lecturing about Bach and the world of the early 18th century, renowned Bach tenor David Gordon has compiled his favorite material into one volume. The Little Bach Book is a light-hearted scholarly look at Bach and the world around him, with a special focus on Leipzig, the city where he lived for 27 years and wrote most of his great masterworks.Assembled and written by a master lecturer and story teller...