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Doodletoot is a story about a little dog that runs into misfortune as he travels from his home into a neighboring community, and learns a valuable lesson on being a good neighbor. Rebecca Darrington was born and raised in Southwest Iowa in a rural community. This is where she learned hard work, love of family and friends and love of God. Rebecca spends her time gardening, watching her grandchildren, and helping her husband with the family farming operation. Rebecca has four children, and was a preschool teacher for 15 years before staying at home with her family.

Touching the Halo is a guide to the spiritual and emotional journey of parenting a child with a disability. Kathleen Lindsey-Moulds has used the metaphor of living with an angel to explain the journey and her struggle toward acceptance. The story follows personal upheaval and the steps involved in creating a meaningful lifestyle. Anyone who has experienced a catastrophic event knows that life is permanently altered. Although there have been many self-help books written on the cycles of acceptance (denial, bargaining, grief, anger, acceptance) texts on parenting a child with disabilities usually provide practical tips for managing a disability lifestyle. Ms. Lindsey-Moulds has taken the steps of acceptance deeper. Her search for the answer to the big question, "why", takes her to the heart of every parent's frustration. Ultimately she achieves acceptance, not only of her son's disability but of herself. Her admissions of less than perfect personal qualities are written with soul searing honesty. Without sugar coating reality this book leaves the reader with a sweet appreciation of life.

This collection of poetry is based on the book of Psalms, and readers can find answers to many of life's questions here.

“[An] anecdote-filled memoir . . . Rebecca Eaton looks back on 25 fascinating years at Masterpiece Theatre and Mystery!” —USA Today When Rebecca Eaton became the producer of Masterpiece Theatre in 1985, she hadn’t actually seen many of the episodes. Nor did she even like mystery novels, though she would be required to choose stories for Mystery! But the lifelong Anglophile seized her chance to make a mark in the budding public television system. Twenty-eight years later, Masterpiece is one of television’s hottest shows, and Eaton is responsible for its triumphant transition from the “quill-pen” era into the digital age. Filled with anecdotes about (and the occasional interview with) the unforgettable hosts, the inspired creators, and the many talented actors she’s worked with over the years, Making Masterpiece is a compulsively readable treat for any fan of these beloved and iconic programs.

Description: Diaries kept by Rebecca Russell Lowell Gardner of Salem, Massachusetts, 26 March-22 May 1832, during a tour of Richmond, Norfolk, and Charlottesville, Virginia; Baltimore, Maryland; Washington, D.C.; Pittsburgh and Erie, Pennsylvania; Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Dayton, Ohio; and Buffalo and Rochester, New York, among other cities with her son John Lowell Gardner and daughter-in-law Catherine Endicott Peabody Gardner. Diaries contain descriptions of their travels by train, steamboat, and coach; visits to Mount Vernon, Monticello, Old Point Comfort, Lake Erie, and Niagara Falls; steamboat travel on the Potomac, Dismal Swamp Canal, Ohio River, and Miami Canal; time spent with fellow travellers; social events; and the weather.

From the fluttering fabric of a tent, to the blurred motion of the potter’s wheel, to the rhythm of a horse puppet’s wooden hooves—these scenes make up a set of mid-1980s art exhibitions as part of the U.S. Festival of India. The festival was conceived at a meeting between Indira Gandhi and Ronald Reagan to strengthen relations between the two countries at a time of late Cold War tensions and global economic change, when America’s image of India was as a place of desperate poverty and spectacular fantasy. Displaying Time unpacks the intimate, small-scale durations of time at work in the gallery from the transformation of clay into ceramic to the one-on-one, personal encounters between museum visitors and artists. Using extensive archival research and interviews with artists, curators, diplomats, and visitors, Rebecca Brown analyzes a selection of museum shows that were part of the Festival of India to unfurl new exhibitionary modes: the time of transformation, of interruption, of potential and the future, as well as the contemporary and the now.

Fourteen-year-old Manny Weaver, a Mennonite boy living near Harrisonburg, Virginia, in 1861, has a habit of biting off more than he can chew. The Weavers are Unionists and pacifists and do not wish to secede from the Union or to participate in the fighting. In the past, Manny's father and uncle have avoided militia service by paying a small fine, but when Virginia secedes from the Union, the fine is no longer accepted. Manny loves his family and would do anything to protect Father and Uncle Davy from being forced to join the Confederate Army. That's when his trouble begins!With his world crumbling into chaos, Manny is forced to deal with issues of honesty, justice, loyalty, and good judgment. He must find answers to serious questions. Is it really better to "turn the other cheek," as his Mennonite faith tells him? What actions lead to peace? How does a boy grow into a man?