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A Formula for Life is the first volume in a five-part series of inspirational stories and poetry called "The Hughes Letter." Children, teens, adults, and seniors will love it. It is a book to read- for life.
A Wife and Mother Suddenly Vanishes. Frank Hoiberg is a retired NYPD detective who has helped put away countless drug dealers, murderers, and other dangerous criminals during his career as a cop. But now he is faced with the most heart-stopping case of his life. As he and his wife, Katherine, go out on Halloween night in Manhattan, Katherine mysteriously disappears after volunteering to go up on stage at a show at Rockefeller Center. The case has the New York Police Department puzzled as they race to find a suspect and a motive. Then a judge is brutally murdered, and a prosecutor is shot to death in Chicago, setting off a dramatic chain of events, putting an entire city in lethal danger. Now...
You are an artist, living the artist's life. But you also want to make a difference in the world as a teaching artist. You know how to pursue excellence in your art form; how can you pursue excellence in teaching artistry? A Teaching Artist's Companion: How to Define and Develop Your Practice is a how-to reference for veteran and beginning teaching artists alike. Artist-educator Daniel Levy has been working in classrooms, homeless shelters and correctional facilities for over thirty years. With humor and hard-won insight, Levy and a variety of contributing teaching artists narrate their successes and failures while focusing on the practical mechanics of working within conditions of limited t...
20UNDER40: Re-Inventing the Arts and Arts Education for the 21st Century is an anthology of critical discourse that addresses the impending generational shift in arts leadership by publishing twenty essays about the future of the arts and arts education each written by young and emerging arts professionals under the age of forty. In the process of doing so, 20UNDER40 brings the voices of young arts leaders out of the margins and into the forefront of our cultural dialogue.
When the artist moves into the classroom or community to educate and inspire students and audience members, this is Teaching Artistry. It is a proven means for practicing professional musicians to create a successful career in music, providing not only necessary income but deep and lasting satisfaction through engaging people in learning experiences about the arts. Filled with practical advice on the most critical issues facing the music teaching artist today--from economic and time-management issues of being a musician and teacher to communicating effectively with students--The Music Teaching Artist's Bible uncovers the essentials that every musician needs in order to thrive in this role. A...
Abner Jefferson Ponder (ca. 1755-1813), a Revolutionary War soldier, was born in America or Germany, possibly the son and Daniel and Jemima Bennett Ponder. After the war, he went to Virginia, where his oldest son was born in 1785. Soon after that time, the family was living in Abbeyville County, South Carolina. They were in Elbert County, Georgia, from 1787 to 1806; then migrated to Hickman County, Tennessee. Abner Ponder probably married three times and was probably the father of eleven children, born 1785-1813. Abner J. Hickman died at Bon Aqua, Hikman County, Tennessee. Descendants listed lived in Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Texas and elsewhere.
Once again Carol finds herself running away from confrontation. When she realized her best friend had kept the identity of her daughter a secret for the past twenty years, she left a goodbye note and caught a plane back home. Back home to what? The man waiting for her at the airport loves her dearly, but will she be able to respond and return that love? The flight home gave her time to think about the next phase of her life. Her coping method for the past twenty years was to keep her head in the sand to avoid the tragedies of her personal life. The decision she makes when her plane lands will change her life forever. Will she open her heart to Ed and find love? Will her daughter ever want to develop a relationship with her? Life was so less complicated when she isolated herself from the outside world. Her time spent with Ed, and her discovery of her daughter she abandoned at birth, have given her a new lease on life. Will she find the self confidence to hold her head high and adventure into the world of change?
Apparently, slumber parties in the mid-South 1970s were plied with a strange ritual. At midnight attendees would gather before a mirror and chant “I don’t believe in the Bell Witch” three times to see if the legendary spook would appear alongside their own reflections—a practice that echoes the “Bloody Mary” pattern following the execution of Mary Queen of Scots centuries ago. But that small circuit of preteen gatherings was neither the beginning nor the end of the Bell Witch’s travels. Indeed, the legend of the haint who terrorized the Bell family of Adams, Tennessee, is one of the best-known pieces of folklore in American storytelling—featured around the globe in popular-cu...
Family history and genealogical information about the descendants of Stefan Johannes Stapel who was born 20 June 1796 in Germany. He was the son of Johann Bernard Aussel Stapel and Anna Maria Willemann. Stefan adopted the Wibbenmeyer surname when he married Anna Maria Elizabeth Wibbenmeyer 20 February 1827 in Germany. Anna died 15 April 1837 and Stefan married Elisabeth Anna Maria Heimann. They immigrated to America and landed in New Orleans 14 January 1850. Stefan and Elizabeth lived in Apple Creek Township, Cape Girardeau Co., Missouri and were the parents of three sons and four daughters. Descendants lived in Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin, Texas, California and elsewhere.
THERE'S A PERFECT GIRL at every school, yours included. You know her. Beautiful. Talented. Smart. Great parents. Cool boyfriend. You can’t even hate her, because, of course, she’s so nice. At Forest Hills High, Lara Ardeche is that girl. But things can change. “Skillfully drawn, resulting in a compelling story. . . . An enjoyable and thought-provoking read.”—School Library Journal “Readers will be totally caught up in Lara’s struggle to find her true self under all that weight.”—Booklist An ALA Best Books for Young Adults