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Make your own nature embroidery patterns and thread portraits! Featuring complete overviews on tools, embroidery stitches, and various skills to know, Learn to Needle Paint not only includes 18 realistic embroidery projects of natural objects, but it also walks you through how to capture and create your own original embroidery patterns. From finding your subject and taking a photo to making it into a line art template, thread painting, and so much...
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'Beautifully told, this book brings a fascinating and compelling story to a wider public. A "must read" for those interested in women's lives in the past.' June Purvis, Professor (Emerita) of Women's and Gender History, University of Portsmouth, UK
'This important and absorbing book presents a unique history of Kitty Marshall. This is first-class history and a first-rate thriller.' Professor Clive Bloom, author of A History of Britain's Fight for...
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This powerful book is written for managers, young and old, who want to review their skills on managing people and getting results through other people. The book is written in the style of The One Minute Manager. It takes very little time to find the areas of your personal interest quickly. Some readers have become so engrossed with the content that they have completed this book non-stop on one round-trip airplane ride. This publication is not meant...
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The idea that the nation's conservative, God-fearing, America-loving, military and police-loving men and women were disappearing at an alarming rate was just too much for Tom Dooley, the most formidable Great Pyrenees in all of the state of Mississippi, and a notable author on his own, to handle. When, therefore, such an idea was proposed, he was all too happy to pursue a quest, in search of such a missing people. Accompanied by his owner and friend,...
45) Enduring Times
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Raised by a dominating mother who kept Jennifer and her sister on a short leash. They were strict Catholics, dating was out of the question. Jennifer's first show of courage came when she went against her mother's wishes, enrolling in the Carnegie Nursing Academy. The second was when she fell in love with Bill, who worked at her father's bank. When her mother found out about Bill she tried to break them up. They ran away and eloped. When they returned...
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The book of Exodus is often seen only as ancient history, largely irrelevant to most of the modern Western world. This new commentary by Godfrey Ashby attempts specifically to show how this Old Testament book is of continuing significance to readers today. Ashby discusses the crucial importance of the events described in Exodus and their meaning for the Old Testament gospel, and explains why the Exodus event is central to the gospel of Jesus Christ...
47) The Soul Keepers
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A romantic adventure taking the reader from the historic city of Charleston to the azure beauty of the Exumas in the Caribbean. An adventure that brings together a man and a woman in a mystery of time, exploration, and science with unexpected implications for the resurrection of an historic theater. Daniel Caxton, a well-known TV wild life authority and explorer, returns, weary from an assignment in the jungles of Brazil, to his home outside Charleston....
48) If I Were You
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Introducing the cheater and the cheated:
Celine is heartbroken, her perfect too-good-to-be-true boyfriend has actually turned out...well...literally too good to be true. So she swears off men for life.
Jake can't see what the problem is; she KNEW it was only ever a one night stand so why has his latest conquest turned into such a freak? He's had enough and needs a new challenge.
When this unlikely pair meet entirely by chance, a spark develops...
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Have you ever wished that you could go outside and look at birds and know exactly what kind of birds they are and where they came from? Most people enjoy birds, and bird watching is a science and art that many people would like to pursue, but only a few are knowledgeable about the subject.
Bird watching is an enthralling pastime in which the viewer can see hundreds, if not thousands, of different species of birds in a single sitting. Having an official...
50) The Press Gang
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Comprising of the kind of long-form criticism that is all too rare these days, the weekly film columns in the NYPress included polemics, reviews, interviews, festival reports and features. A far cry from what is often derisively termed the "consumer report" mode of criticism, Cheshire, Seitz and White were passionately engaged with the film culture of both their own time, and what had come before. They constituted three distinctly different voices:...
51) Vintage Fashion
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This stylish introduction to vintage fashion showcases the key designs and styles of the main vintage eras of the 20th century. It will be an inspiration to vintage enthusiasts and general readers alike, including iconic designs, trends and styles from each decade. It also includes commentary on the social changes that influenced fashion throughout the 20th century, plus photographs of film stars (such as Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly) modeling classic...
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Originally published in 1967, Dave Godfrey's debut collection features stories about hunting in Florida, in Africa, and in northern Ontario. They are about the interplay of gun and subway, decoy and stock market, guide and draft dodger. But they are more than just stories about hunting. Death Goes Better with Coca-Cola is a powerful example of the idiosyncratic imagination of a writer who broke new ground in fiction. It is a seminal collection by...
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The Prince of Parthia is a Neo-Classical tragedy by Thomas Godfrey and was the first stage play written by an American to be presented in the United States by a professional cast of actors, on April 24, 1767. It was first published in 1765. It is set in the Parthian Empire in the 1st century A.D. during the Arsacid dynasty.
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Widowed and alone, the young Lord Patrick Graveny is at a loss as to what to do with his life. However, he doesn't have much time to brood when his sister-in-law is determined to investigate the circumstances of his wife and her sister's death.
Suddenly their lives get more complicated and secrets look set to be exposed, deep dark secrets that Lord Graveny has fought to keep buried - but exactly who is he protecting?
55) Guinea a Minute
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Supposedly controversial politician Godfrey Bloom has created an autobiography in a whimsical style with some homespun and sometimes trenchant views. It will come as no surprise that it is not politically correct. What might be a surprise is it is full of common sense, a commodity so sadly lacking in most modern day politicians. Born in 1949 it covers a fascinating post war period from rationing to obesity. Like most Brits of a certain age he does...
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95% of all digital projects fail to deliver value.
Why? Because digital is everyone's job. If you think, digital is something that you can leave to your IT department to manage then you will never harness its true power. The best companies today bring digital into everything they do. They use it to innovate, to increase profits, to create both a better culture and happier workforce. But, they are in the minority.
If you want to grow and evolve on...
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This adventure continues...Nineteenth Century Van Demonian sleuth, Caspian Hunter, is a colonial lawman, deeply immersed in the life and crimes of Hobart Town, where convicts transported from Mother England form a majority of the population. Caspian and his decidedly unconventional associates are, sworn to uphold the law where lawlessness is almost a way of life. The fledgling colony includes newly pardoned convicts, 'ticket of leave men', on a sort...
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Mid-pandemic, 2021 began darkly, full of worry. Light began to enter with the first vaccines in February. This effort is a poet's diary of 2021 in the form of haiku. It is my contribution to an effort organized among poets all over the country to meet a simple challenge to create one haiku each week of the year:
"Haiku-one per week-nothing is expected"
I enjoyed finding the images, feelings, words to express the moments that shaped each week, sometimes...
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Personal in My Memory"The South in Popular Filmby some of our favorite writers and filmmakers with an introduction by Godfrey CheshireAlice Walker, Allan Gurganus, Randall Kenan, Joe Flora, Kenneth Turan, Elizabeth Spencer, and Andrew Garrison tell how their favorite Southern films marked them indelibly."We have two imaginary kingdoms. One, 'the South,' exists primarily in song, oral traditions and folkways, native art and literature. The other, 'Hollywood,'...
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A thought-provoking insight into the stories of hope, determination, courage and sacrifice of those involved in the women's suffrage movement in Kent.
Discover an untold story of a young working-class Kent maid involved in the suffrage movement. See photographs of Ethel and learn of her arrest and imprisonment in March 1912 for participating in the window-smashing militant action.
The 1908 Women's Freedom League and the 1913 Women's Social and Political...