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I've told my kids for years that God doesn't make mistakes," writes Mary Beth Chapman, wife of Grammy award winning recording artist Steven Curtis Chapman. "Would I believe it now, when my whole world as I knew it came to an end?" Covering her courtship and marriage to Steven Curtis Chapman, struggles for emotional balance, and living with grief, Mary Beth's story is our story--wondering where God is when the worst happens. In Choosing to SEE, she shows how she wrestles with God even as she has allowed him to write her story--both during times of happiness and those of tragedy. Readers will hear firsthand about the loss of her daughter, the struggle to heal, and the unexpected path God has placed her on. Even as difficult as life can be, Mary Beth Chapman Chooses to SEE. Includes a 16-page full color photo insert.
After receiving a sampler embroidered by the long-dead girl for whom she was named, Rebecca begins experiencing strange visions of that other girl's life.
"One of the first works of fiction published by a Chinese-American author, this collection of 17 short stories offers a revealing look at life in San Francisco's Chinatown during the early 20th century. Deceptively simple tales of family life offer deeper reflections on the tensions that arise in the course of cultural assimilation"--
This text analyses cultural forms to demonstrate the centrality of masculine sentiment in American literary and cultural history. They analyze sentimentalism not just as a literary game but as a structure of feeling manifested in many areas.
Mary and Joseph travel to Bethlehem where the baby Jesus is born in a stable because there is no room in the inn.
For most people, the U.S. suffrage campaign is encapsulated by images of iconic nineteenth-century orators like the tightly coifed Susan B. Anthony or the wimpled Elizabeth Cady Stanton. However, as Mary Chapman shows, the campaign to secure the vote for U.S. women was also a modern and print-cultural phenomenon, waged with humor, creativity, and style. Making Noise, Making News also understands modern suffragist print culture as a demonstrable link between the Progressive Era's political campaign for a voice in the public sphere and Modernism's aesthetic efforts to re-imagine literary voice. Chapman charts a relationship between modern suffragist print cultural "noise" and what literary mod...
The next stage up from Zig Zags, Spirals is a series of reading books for slightly older children. The stories range from 300 to 500 words and are ideal for more competent readers, involving a more highly developed plot line. They are accompanied by bright, colourful pictures which will reassure the most reluctant of readers and help develop visual literacy skills. Suitable for 6+ year olds. Wait a Minute, Ruby!: Ruby wants to play, but Mum is busy, Dad is cooking and Gran is working on the computer. No one has time for her, so Ruby packs her bag and decides to leave. Suddenly, Mum notices that Ruby is missing and the family begin to panic! Where can she be? Ages 6+.
Treacherous Texts collects more than sixty literary texts written by smart, savvy writers who experimented with genre, aesthetics, humor, and sex appeal in an effort to persuade American readers to support woman suffrage. Although the suffrage campaign is often associated in popular memory with oratory, this anthology affirms that suffragists recognized early on that literature could also exert a power to move readers to imagine new roles for women in the public sphere. Uncovering startling affinities between popular literature and propaganda, Treacherous Texts samples a rich, decades-long tradition of suffrage literature created by writers from diverse racial, class, and regional background...
Amy's mum is fed up with dirty footprints on the carpet, but Amy says that she can't find her slippers. Now, if only she had some magic ones - wouldn't that be great? Guess what is waiting for her when she gets home from school?