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This Is Not the Life I Ordered: 50 Ways to Keep Your Head Above Water When Life Keeps Dragging You Down
This Is Not the Life I Ordered is for anyone who has ever felt overworked, overwhelmed, or just plain unlucky (and, who hasn't?!). Through this collection of stories, wisdom, and practical advice, readers will meet four ordinary women who have faced extraordinary life challenges. Together, they have a history of six marriages, ten children, four stepchildren, six dogs, two miscarriages, two cats, a failed adoption, and foster parenthood. Two have lived through the death of their spouses and one was shot and left for dead on a tarmac in Guyana -- which is documented in "Jonestown" airing on PBS' American Experience This book started simply with four friends getting together for "kitchen-table coaching sessions" to talk about their lives. Week by week and story by story, they realized their great advice to each other could help other women struggling with life's myriad issues of work, family, and love, as well as the big questions of life and death. For over a decade, the power and strength of their collective friendship enabled these women not only to survive but to thrive. They invite readers to join them to learn how they, too, can turn "misfortunate" events into joy-filled opportunities. Readers will want to share this book with every woman in their lives! * Authors are best-selling business-book author, Deborah Collins Stephens; Emmy winner Jan Yanehiro; State Senator Jackie Speier; and entrepreneur Michealene Cristini Risley whose Flashcards was screened at last year's Cannes Film Festival. * Authors' support circle includes Debbi Fields, Kristi Yamaguchi, Danielle Steele, Gerry Laybourne, and other power women. * Features practical "Wit (Women in Transition) Kit" tips at the end of each chapter to help readers to be their own life coaches..
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Ready for the Day!: A Tale of Teamwork and Toast, and Hardly Any Foot-dragging (Parentsmart/Kidhappy Series) (Parentsmart Kidhappy Series)
Getting a preschooler out the door in the morning can be a frustrating battle of wills complete with crying and complaining - by parents and kids alike. Ready for the Day! offers healthy, lasting solutions. With honesty and gentle humor, each book in the ParentSmart/KidHappy series shows parents how to handle daily transitions by giving encouragement, offering choices, and validating feelings. The result: you get through everyday challenges with less stress while building your child's emotional intelligence..
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Hate Crime: The Story of a Dragging in Jasper, Texas
On June 7, 1998, James Byrd Jr., a forty-nine-year-old black man, was walking home from a party when three white men in a pickup truck offered him a ride. They drove Byrd out to a lonely country road, tied him to a logging chain, and dragged him three miles to his death. Joyce King, an award-winning journalist and native Texan, was assigned to cover the story, which drew international media headlines. In Hate Crime, she provides a chilling re-creation of the slaying and the subsequent trials. But she also moves beyond the details of the case to provide insight into the minds of the murderers, and to investigate the Texas prison system in which they developed their virulent racism. King also explores how the town of Jasper, Texas, endured a tragedy that threatened to divide its residents. A first-rate work of reportage, Hate Crime is also a searing look at how race continues to shape life in America..
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Nancy Ward / Dragging Canoe: Cherokee Chieftainess / Cherokee-Chickamauga War Chief
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The Cherokee Dragon: A Novel of the Real People
Acclaimed novelist Robert J. Conley once again mines the history of his people, the Cherokee In a fascinating and compelling novel, he explores the life of Dragging Canoe, the last great war chief of the united Cherokee tribe. In the late eighteenth century, as the English settlers begin steadily encroaching upon the Cherokee lands, the Nation-split up amongst several towns and many chiefs-unties in a series of battles under the war chief Dragging Canoe. But the united front is not one that lasts: Dragging Canoe's belief that they must fight the settlers to preserve their lands and their culture is far from universal. As strife wracks the Cherokee nation and the settlers begin to rebel against the English government, Dragging Canoe's fight-and the fight of his followers-becomes the last armed struggle of the Real People against the government of the (then new) United States, a final, united struggle against the tide of history. .
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Dragging the Lake
"Photographers once risked their hands and eyes, igniting vials of magnesium powder, so powerful is the love of the image," says the title poem of this collection, whose images range from the northern lights to St. Bridget turning bathwater into beer. "Did you know some people claim to have *heard* the aurora?" one poem asks. The muses of music and image wrestle in these poems, but from the songs of Elvis Costello to the operas of Leos Janacek, music seems to prevail, even against "the glorious, trillion-spined black lava slicing through your flip-flops" and "night jasmine kicking the door ajar.".
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