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The story of the lighthouses and lightships of Texas, illustrated with watercolours by Harold Phenix. After introducing readers to lighthouses and their keepers, there are chapters detailing the surviving Texas lighthouses and their keepers, engineers and inspectors.

The First Folio of 1623 was prepared for print by two members of Shakespeare's acting troupe -- John Hemings and Henry Condell -- which included comic actor Will Kemp and the great tragedian Richard Burbage. In a fascinating and detailed introduction, Freeman points out that because Shakespeare and his colleagues wrote from a rhetorical tradition -- a society where the emphasis was on the spoken word -- he wrote with an eye to how he wanted hi...

Linda Cracknell's emergence as one of Scotland's finest short story writers is confirmed with the publication of her first collection, Life Drawing. The 19 stories in this collection begin with the experience of childhood and take the reader on a journey through themes of abandonment, isolation, grief, awakenings, disillusionment and reconciliation to arrive, inevitably, at old age. She is a precise observer of incidents, which, often perverse...

Perfect for stimulating open discussion between parent and child, this warm and insightful guide uses movies as a vehicle for discussing sensitive issues with children aged 5 through 15. Combining the

Mercer Mayer's Little Critter is going on a camping trip with his dad in this classic, funny, and heartwarming book. Whether he and his dad are canoeing, fishing, or building a campfire, parents and children alike will relate to this beloved story. A perfect gift for Father's Day . . . or any day!

A fascinating look at the natural and human-caused influences that have shaped and continue to shape Oregon's forests, using the Lewis and Clark Expedition of two hundred years ago as a backdrop.

The central premise of this pastoral guide is that preaching should be grounded and centered in the truths and lessons of the Bible. McMickle's eight-step approach covers limits, literature, language, location, links, leads, lessons, and life applications, and clearly reflects the traditional methodology for doing biblical exegesis.

..".Written in a style somewhere between A. A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh and Dav Pilkey's The Adventures of Captain Underpants (Scholastic, 1997)... Successful as comedy, fractured fairy tale, and coming-of-age story all in one, Little Wolf's Book of Badness is terrific.

Luck touches us all. "Why me?" we complain when things go wrong--though seldom when things go right. But although luck has a firm hold on all our lives, we seldom reflect on it in a cogent, concerted way. In "Luck, " one of our most eminent philosophers offers a realistic view of the nature and operation of luck to help us come to sensible terms with life in a chaotic world. Differentiating luck from fate (inexorable destiny) and fortune (mere...

Help! My Kitten is into EVERYTHING! Whether you share your home with a feline friend or a feline felon depends on your kitten's experiences during its crucial first year your sanity by using these tried-and-true, commonsense techniques. And you'll get a kick out of the Kitty Capers - real-life adventures of kittens and their owners. "In a puff-fect world, all cats would have the kind of relationship that Arden Moore shares with her three lucky...

loverboy"Winner of the S. Mariella Gable Prize "Loverboy" is a fierce and harrowing book, a novel that precisely charts the course of a mother's love so steel-willed and relentless that we have no choice but come to understand the purely rational insanity Victoria Redel examines here. Ms. Redel is a writer whose stories and poems I have long admired, but "Loverboy "shows us all just how dynamic and beautiful and frightening her storytelling ar...

Alison Stine's best poems here are confessional and meditative sequences, but are shadowed by the tradition of dramatic narrative, they propose types of redemptive performance....Their white spaces are crucial to this ironic self appraisal, in which a lost, outcast belated family is assembled by invocation."--Robert Hill Long

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In this best-selling novel, Patrick Smith tells the story of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family who battle the hardships of the frontier to rise from a dirt-poor Cracker life to the wealth and standing of real estate tycoons. The story opens in 1858, when Tobias MacIvey arrives in the Florida wilderness to start a new life with his wife and infant son, and ends two generations later in 1968 with Solomon MacIvey, who realizes t...

Thirteen-year-old Anne Frank went into hiding from the Nazis with her family in 1942. Read the remarkable story of her life, death, and legacy. The 48-page Level 3 books, designed for children who can read on their own, contain more complex sentence structure and more detail. Young readers will devour these kid-friendly titles, which cover high-interest topics such as sharks, and the Bermuda Triangle, as well as classics like Aladdin. Informat...

Weaving stories from Scripture with tales of everyday family life, Plass sorts through the "messiness" of life, finding strength, comfort and meaning in her relationship with God. She shows how raising children, restoring relationships, and building a Christian home all can become exercises that teach readers the true nature of God, who Jesus called "Father".

History comes alive as Arthur begins with the tragic mistakes that led to Israel's captivity by Babylon, and then takes readers all the way to the modern-day miracles of triumph against all odds. Heartwarming and filled with adventure and suspense, this novel is an incredible testimony of God's great love and faithfulness, even during Israel's darkest hour.

The first picaresque novel, and one of the gems of Spanish literature. A brief, simply told tale of a rogue's adventures and misadventures -- full of laconic cynicism and spiced with puns and wordplay. Introduction, Notes, and new English translation by Stanley Appelbaum.

This unique, richly illustrated, full-color book uses the concepts of the traditional Stations of the Cross to express the joy of the resurrection using Scripture, reflection, poetry and prayer. The meditations help to redress the balance between Lent and Easter, and to recapture for the Church something of the energy and grace experienced by the apostles.

Distractions, fatigue, boredom at Sunday worship -- maybe we experience these because we don't fully appreciate what's going on at Mass. Howard's profound and practical look at the liturgy focuses our wandering minds. It reminds us that at Mass the veil separating earth and heaven lifts, so that we stand with angels and saints in the presence of God Most High.