Author: Thomas S Smith Sr
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781987764468
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
In antebellum Natchez, Mississippi, cousins Sawyer Dundee and Solomon Witcher come into manhood. Both cousins, back from college in the North, attend a party at Clifton, a grand mansion owned by an older couple, the Surgets, and befriend many of the elite Natchez social circle. Sawyer remains in Natchez to run the family sawmill and homestead. Solomon, admonished when he was young by Grandma Dundee that he was special and now realizing his personal luck, charm, and persuasiveness, strikes out on his own to seek legendary buried treasure of Natchez Trace outlaw preachers and Natchez Indians. He journeys to Louisiana to the Troyville Indian Mounds at Jonesville and the French settlements south of the Red River in Avoyelles Parish. He finds success near Marksville, where he hears of a redheaded female healer who had visited the area. Traveling to New Orleans to invest in the slave trade and pursue his luck at playing poker, Solomon encounters the redheaded Egypt and two of her followers--Ann, a Cajun woman who met her at a cemetery, and Zethro, a slave Egypt freed at the Theophilus Freeman Slave Market from a cruel master. Solomon, after learning of the red string legend, gris-gris bags, and a street preacher named Xenophanes, joins in a plot of vengeance stemming from the 1853 Yellow Fever epidemic in New Orleans with Egypt and her devotees that ends with voodoo and Celtic justice imposed upon a New Orleans businessman in the Girod Street Cemetery.
Find Your Red Thread
Author: Tamsen Webster
Publisher: Page Two Books
ISBN: 9781774580523
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
You have a terrific idea. You know it is so powerful that it could change a life, a market, or even the world. There's just one problem: others can't, or don't, see it... yet.
Publisher: Page Two Books
ISBN: 9781774580523
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
You have a terrific idea. You know it is so powerful that it could change a life, a market, or even the world. There's just one problem: others can't, or don't, see it... yet.
The Red String Book
Author: Yehuda Berg
Publisher: Running Press
ISBN: 9780762430970
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
So what exactly fuels the popularity of the Red String, seen on the left wrists of so many celebrities? With the official Red String provided in the back of The Red String Book we offer everyone the opportunity to discover it for themselves. Rooted in the ancient, timeless wisdom of Kabbalah, this simple tool holds the power of protection. No matter what race, religion, faith, or gender, anyone can experience transformation and ignite self-fulfillment as a result of reading The Red String Book.
Publisher: Running Press
ISBN: 9780762430970
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
So what exactly fuels the popularity of the Red String, seen on the left wrists of so many celebrities? With the official Red String provided in the back of The Red String Book we offer everyone the opportunity to discover it for themselves. Rooted in the ancient, timeless wisdom of Kabbalah, this simple tool holds the power of protection. No matter what race, religion, faith, or gender, anyone can experience transformation and ignite self-fulfillment as a result of reading The Red String Book.
String Frenzy
Author: Bonnie Hunter
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1617457337
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Are you buried in scraps—big pieces, small pieces, hunks, chunks, strips, and parts? Bonnie K. Hunter fans will love her newest book of playful string-quilt projects! Sew a dozen vibrant quilt patterns using the small leftovers from other projects that seem too tiny to save, yet too big to toss. Learn Bonnie’s basics for foundation piecing narrow fabric pieces 3/4” to 2” wide, turning them into dazzling scrappy blocks and one-of-a-kind quilts. Have a string piecing party with a best-selling author, the great Bonnie K. Hunter Love your leftovers! Become a scrap quilt addict, sewing fabric strings and crumbs into brand new blocks Hunter fans will love this offering of twelve “use it all” patterns in her signature style
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1617457337
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Are you buried in scraps—big pieces, small pieces, hunks, chunks, strips, and parts? Bonnie K. Hunter fans will love her newest book of playful string-quilt projects! Sew a dozen vibrant quilt patterns using the small leftovers from other projects that seem too tiny to save, yet too big to toss. Learn Bonnie’s basics for foundation piecing narrow fabric pieces 3/4” to 2” wide, turning them into dazzling scrappy blocks and one-of-a-kind quilts. Have a string piecing party with a best-selling author, the great Bonnie K. Hunter Love your leftovers! Become a scrap quilt addict, sewing fabric strings and crumbs into brand new blocks Hunter fans will love this offering of twelve “use it all” patterns in her signature style
One Piece of String
Author: Marthe Jocelyn
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1459813197
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Can you follow one strand of string through this knotty book?
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1459813197
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Can you follow one strand of string through this knotty book?
Lucy and the String
Author: Vanessa Roeder
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0735230498
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A sweet and silly tale of unexpected friendship between a girl and the bear she finds at the end of a string. When Lucy spots a string, she can't help but give it a yank, and before she knows it, she meets Hank! But this bear isn't quite sure what to make of Lucy, especially because the string is attached to his pants, and they're unraveling fast! Now Lucy must dream up the perfect solution to Hank's missing pants, and hopefully win this dubious bear's heart along the way. Vanessa Roeder's picture book debut is a heart-filled tale of curiosity, innovation, and finding friendship in unexpected places.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0735230498
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A sweet and silly tale of unexpected friendship between a girl and the bear she finds at the end of a string. When Lucy spots a string, she can't help but give it a yank, and before she knows it, she meets Hank! But this bear isn't quite sure what to make of Lucy, especially because the string is attached to his pants, and they're unraveling fast! Now Lucy must dream up the perfect solution to Hank's missing pants, and hopefully win this dubious bear's heart along the way. Vanessa Roeder's picture book debut is a heart-filled tale of curiosity, innovation, and finding friendship in unexpected places.
This Messy Magnificent Life
Author: Geneen Roth
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 150118248X
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Geneen Roth, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Women Food and God, explains how to take the journey to find one’s own best self in this “beautiful, funny, deeply relevant” (Glennon Doyle) collection of personal reflections. With an introduction by Anne Lamott, This Messy Magnificent Life is a personal and exhilarating read on freeing ourselves from daily anxiety, lack, and discontent. It’s a deep dive into what lies behind our self-criticism, whether it is about the size of our thighs, the expression of our thoughts, or the shape of our ambitions. And it’s about stopping the search to fix ourselves by realizing that on the other side of the “Me Project” is spaciousness, peace, and the capacity to reclaim one’s power and joy. This Messy Magnificent Life explores the personal beliefs, hidden traumas, and social pressures that shape not just women’s feelings about their bodies but also their confidence, choices, and relationships. After years of teaching retreats and workshops on weight, money, and other obsessions, Roth realized that there was a connection that held her students captive in their unhappiness. With laugh-out-loud humor, compassion, and dead-on insight she reveals the paradoxes in our beliefs and shows how to move beyond our past to build lives that reflect our singularity and inherent power. This Messy Magnificent Life is a brilliant, bravura meditation on who we take ourselves to be, what enough means in our gotta-get-more culture, and being at home in our minds and bodies.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 150118248X
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Geneen Roth, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Women Food and God, explains how to take the journey to find one’s own best self in this “beautiful, funny, deeply relevant” (Glennon Doyle) collection of personal reflections. With an introduction by Anne Lamott, This Messy Magnificent Life is a personal and exhilarating read on freeing ourselves from daily anxiety, lack, and discontent. It’s a deep dive into what lies behind our self-criticism, whether it is about the size of our thighs, the expression of our thoughts, or the shape of our ambitions. And it’s about stopping the search to fix ourselves by realizing that on the other side of the “Me Project” is spaciousness, peace, and the capacity to reclaim one’s power and joy. This Messy Magnificent Life explores the personal beliefs, hidden traumas, and social pressures that shape not just women’s feelings about their bodies but also their confidence, choices, and relationships. After years of teaching retreats and workshops on weight, money, and other obsessions, Roth realized that there was a connection that held her students captive in their unhappiness. With laugh-out-loud humor, compassion, and dead-on insight she reveals the paradoxes in our beliefs and shows how to move beyond our past to build lives that reflect our singularity and inherent power. This Messy Magnificent Life is a brilliant, bravura meditation on who we take ourselves to be, what enough means in our gotta-get-more culture, and being at home in our minds and bodies.
Man Who Collected Himself
Author: Gordon Torr
Publisher: New Generation Publishing
ISBN: 1785075950
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
For ghost-writer Colin Wison it's the commission of a lifetime - to invent a biography for the reclusive Swedish pharmaceutical billionaire Finn Fellin, now on his death bed. The brief: to make Fellin's life sound like the most extraordinary life ever lived. Money will be no object; and no subject - no matter how bizarre, salacious or fanciful - is off limits. There's just one catch: Colin is recovering - at a luxurious London psychiatric clinic known only as The Institute - from a mysterious incident that has robbed him of all his memories. With no recollections of his own past to draw from, he begins to plagiarize the stories he hears from fellow patients to populate the Fellin biography.
Publisher: New Generation Publishing
ISBN: 1785075950
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
For ghost-writer Colin Wison it's the commission of a lifetime - to invent a biography for the reclusive Swedish pharmaceutical billionaire Finn Fellin, now on his death bed. The brief: to make Fellin's life sound like the most extraordinary life ever lived. Money will be no object; and no subject - no matter how bizarre, salacious or fanciful - is off limits. There's just one catch: Colin is recovering - at a luxurious London psychiatric clinic known only as The Institute - from a mysterious incident that has robbed him of all his memories. With no recollections of his own past to draw from, he begins to plagiarize the stories he hears from fellow patients to populate the Fellin biography.
Hugo and the Really, Really, Really Long String
Author: Bob Boyle
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780375834233
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780375834233
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
No Marketing Blurb
A Ballet of Lepers
Author: Leonard Cohen
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 0802160492
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
A never-before-published early novel and stories by the legendary musician, songwriter, and poet Leonard Cohen Before Leonard Cohen’s worldwide fame expanded to fourteen studio albums, Grammy awards, and late-career global tours, he yearned for literary stardom. The Canadian songwriter of iconic hits like “Hallelujah,” “Suzanne,” and “Famous Blue Raincoat” first ventured into writing in his early twenties, and in A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories, readers will discover that the magic that animated Cohen’s unforgettable body of work was present from the very beginning of his career. The pieces in this collection, written between 1956 and 1961 and including short fiction, a radio play, and a stunning early novel, offer startling insights into Cohen’s imagination and creative process. Cohen explores themes that would permeate his later work, from shame and unworthiness to sexual desire in all its sacred and profane dimensions to longing, whether for love, family, freedom, or transcendence. The titular novel, A Ballet of Lepers—one he later remarked was “probably a better novel” than his celebrated book The Favourite Game—is a haunting examination of these elements in tandem, focusing on toxic relationships and the lengths to which one will go to maintain them, while the fifteen stories, as well as the playscript, probe the inner demons of his characters, many of whom could function as stand-ins for the author himself. Cohen's work is meditative and surprising, offering playful, provocative, and penetrating glimpses into the world-weary lives of his characters, and a window into the early art of a storytelling master. A Ballet of Lepers, vivid in its detail, unsparing in its gaze, reveals the great artist and visceral genius as never seen before.
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 0802160492
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
A never-before-published early novel and stories by the legendary musician, songwriter, and poet Leonard Cohen Before Leonard Cohen’s worldwide fame expanded to fourteen studio albums, Grammy awards, and late-career global tours, he yearned for literary stardom. The Canadian songwriter of iconic hits like “Hallelujah,” “Suzanne,” and “Famous Blue Raincoat” first ventured into writing in his early twenties, and in A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories, readers will discover that the magic that animated Cohen’s unforgettable body of work was present from the very beginning of his career. The pieces in this collection, written between 1956 and 1961 and including short fiction, a radio play, and a stunning early novel, offer startling insights into Cohen’s imagination and creative process. Cohen explores themes that would permeate his later work, from shame and unworthiness to sexual desire in all its sacred and profane dimensions to longing, whether for love, family, freedom, or transcendence. The titular novel, A Ballet of Lepers—one he later remarked was “probably a better novel” than his celebrated book The Favourite Game—is a haunting examination of these elements in tandem, focusing on toxic relationships and the lengths to which one will go to maintain them, while the fifteen stories, as well as the playscript, probe the inner demons of his characters, many of whom could function as stand-ins for the author himself. Cohen's work is meditative and surprising, offering playful, provocative, and penetrating glimpses into the world-weary lives of his characters, and a window into the early art of a storytelling master. A Ballet of Lepers, vivid in its detail, unsparing in its gaze, reveals the great artist and visceral genius as never seen before.
Red String
Author: Gina Biggs
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615289847
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
If not for the help of her beloved fiance%u2019s family, Miharu would never have been accepted into the prestegious Harusono High School. Surrounded by children of the elite, Miharu finds herself slowly changing to fit in. She must take extra care not to lose herself as she gets more involved in the pressures of Kazuo's world. The lone wolf, Eiji Hayashihara, has started cleaning up his act and has set his sights on the quiet and sweet Reika. Just as things seem to be heating up between them, Reika's long-time crush Hiroshi finally asks her out on a date. However, there might be more to this proposal than she could have expected. Meanwhile, Fuuko has been having her own adventures in Tokyo as she has been accepted into her new school's Film Club. Just as she feels she's starting to get over her heartbreak she gets an unexpected call from her first love, Maya. This volume collects chapters twenty-two through twenty-six, plus the two side stories. Included in the book are pages of fun games, notes, and more!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615289847
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
If not for the help of her beloved fiance%u2019s family, Miharu would never have been accepted into the prestegious Harusono High School. Surrounded by children of the elite, Miharu finds herself slowly changing to fit in. She must take extra care not to lose herself as she gets more involved in the pressures of Kazuo's world. The lone wolf, Eiji Hayashihara, has started cleaning up his act and has set his sights on the quiet and sweet Reika. Just as things seem to be heating up between them, Reika's long-time crush Hiroshi finally asks her out on a date. However, there might be more to this proposal than she could have expected. Meanwhile, Fuuko has been having her own adventures in Tokyo as she has been accepted into her new school's Film Club. Just as she feels she's starting to get over her heartbreak she gets an unexpected call from her first love, Maya. This volume collects chapters twenty-two through twenty-six, plus the two side stories. Included in the book are pages of fun games, notes, and more!