Leaf Bird Days & Firefly Nights: Personal Renewal Through Nature Journaling

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Nature journaling--peace amid chaos

Evokes a gentle warmth and faith in the natural world

Leaf Bird Days & Firefly Nights

Leaf Bird Days & Firefly Nights: Personal Renewal Through Nature Journaling
Beverly J. Letchworth
Manufacturer: Pen Central Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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With warmth and insight, this book takes you on a one-year journey through Nature’s cycles highlighting the strengths, flexibility, resilience, and the playful antics of her feathered and furry friends, and shows you how to find healing and personal renewal through your own closer observations.

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Nature journaling--peace amid chaos.......2006-05-17

This is a delightful book! I live in the city, where it's easy to overlook the abundance of nature all around. The book helped me to appreciate what was there. Especially when I'm stressed out, this approach to nature journaling helps me unwind and relax in my own backyard absolutely free of charge!

Evokes a gentle warmth and faith in the natural world.......2002-01-13

Leaf Bird Days & Firefly Nights: Personal Renewal Through Nature Journaling by veteran nature writer Beverly Letchworth is an elegant, eloquent example of the spiritual tranquility and uplifting beauty that can be experienced through keeping a nature journal. The author's own words describing birds and animals evoke a gentle warmth and faith in the natural world. Appendixes offer ways to entice birds and creatures to visit one's backyard. Leaf Bird Days & Firefly Nights is a welcome, rewarding, and inspiring addition to any environmental activist, nature lover, or bird fancier's personal reading list.

Leaf Bird Days & Firefly Nights.......2001-04-04

In this book, author Beverly J. Letchworth takes you on a journaling trip through nature. Sharing with you helpful tips and things to observe, she keeps each page brimming with pelasure.

As in the March 8th entry, Leaf Bird. She brings to life the excitement of seeing a bird she thinks is a hawk. She spots the bird in a tree while doing other chores, and quickly reaches for her binoculars to verify the identification. She scrutinizes the tree limbs, then spots the object of her excitement. There it is. Quiet, still. A big clump of leaves!

And so it goes. The seasons change and grow. Winter tiptoes to spring, and summer twirls into a new winter. You journey with nature's surprises, joys and misfortunes. You learn ways to make your own nature journal, or add to the one you all ready keep.

Creating a haven for creatures, in you own backyard, is described with simple easy ideas and valuable information. Finding comfort and a way to relax after a hectic day is easier when you embrace nature. Leaf Bird Days & Firefly Nights will show you how.

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Wow.......1998-12-18

This is one of the best mountain biking books that I have ever read. I tested a few of the rides and found the descriptions to be accurate. I also enjoyed the sense of humor exhibited by the authors. Is that one of the Ryters on the cover? What a dashing figure!

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When a stranger knocks on his door and promises to lead him to hidden treasure, twelve-year-old Rudi is skeptical. And he's even more suspicious when the stranger proclaims that the jewels belonged to the legendary Hansel. Sure, Rudi's heard stories: the witch, the oven, the sister named Gretel. But he never fully believed they were real. Until now...

Life has been unkind to Rudi -- and to Lucie and Elsebeth, the two little girls he looks after. So when this stranger announces he needs Rudi's help to uncover Hansel's treasure, Rudi sees a way out.

And so an incredible journey -- one filled with mist-covered castles, a treehouse-dwelling outsider, and creatures called murglins -- begins. But as Rudi, the girls, and the stranger weave their way through the rambling woods, Rudi notices the clouds blackening and a thick fog descending. He wonders, Has the forest always been this...creepy? And those shadows between the trees -- is their tiny group being followed?

Then the unthinkable happens: Lucie and Elsebeth are stolen! Who would take them? Rudi gets his answer in the shape of a warlock. And his ransom price is steep: Bring me Hansel and the children will be returned. Is a simple woodcutter like Rudi any match for a thousand-year-old villain?

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Fun bedtime reading with our first grade son.......2007-07-18

Our first grade son really enjoyed this story. We both looked forward to reading it together. It is too advanced for a first grader on his own. We plan to read more by this author.

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WITCHES AND WARLOCKS: Fat Chance; Between the Minute and the Hour; Wizard Crystal; Perfidious Amber; Magic Egg; The Sorcerers; Curse of the Wandering Gypsy; Sanguinarius; The Mirror; Tiger's Eye; Lorelei; Seeing Them; Doll Baby; Unholy Compact Abjured
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MDWUM6

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In a gloomy, neglected house Miss Havisham sits, as she has sat year after year, in a wedding dress and veil that were once white, and are now faded and yellow with age. Her face is like a death's head; her dark eyes burn with bitterness and hate. By her side sits a proud and beautiful girl, and in front of her, trembling with fear in his thick country boots, stands young Pip. Miss Havisham stares at Pip coldly, and murmurs to the girl at her side: 'Break his heart, Estella. Break his heart!'

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A Wonderful Tale For Anytime Like Any Of Dicken's Stories.......2000-12-18

In this tale we follow a young child named Pip who starts of as an orphaned child living with his big sister(like 10+ years or older big) and her blacksmith husband (Uncle Joe) who has no future other than staying in her working class. That all changes with new found riches thanks to an unknown source. Along with those riches Pip is to be trained into a Gentleman and from that we follow Pip's successes and failures in life dealing with those riches and how he got them. And finally we see him ending with the only thing he could not capture, that has lost its beauty when Pip first saw him/her/it (keeping it a secret, you gotta read to find out) during his childhood. Telling anymore would ruin the purpouse and joy of reading this book. Simply put, Dickens adds the sense of adventure and humor to his book and twist and turns that keep it always suspensful and parts in every stage of Pip's life we could all relate to. And with those characteristics marvelously arranged this a very enjoyable tale to read from beginning to end. The only problem I have with it is that the literature here is sometiems a bit hard to understand since after all this was written over 100 years ago.

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In her exuberant new work, Marion Meade presents a portrait of four extraordinary writers-Dorothy Parker, Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna St.Vincent Millay, and Edna Ferber- whose loves, lives, and literary endeavors embodied the spirit of the 1920s.

These literary heroines did what they wanted and said what they thought, living wholly in the moment. They kicked open the door for twentieth-century women writers and set a new model for every woman trying to juggle the serious issues of economic independence, political power, and sexual freedom. Here are the social and literary triumphs and inevitably the penances paid: crumbled love affairs, abortions, depression, lost beauty, nervous breakdowns, and finally, overdoses and even madness.

A vibrant mixture of literary scholarship, social history, and scandal, Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin is a rich evocation of a period that will forever intrigue and captivate us.

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Slightly Superficial But Extremely Engaging.......2007-03-15

With BOBBED HAIR AND BATHTUB GIN writer Marion Meade takes the reader on a decade-long tour of the lives of four women who helped make the 1920s roar: Edna Ferber (1895-1968); Zelda Sayer Fitzgerald (1900-1948); Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950); and Dorothy Parker (1893-1967.) Although all four were distinctly different, all four shared certain traits. They were of a generation of women who considered themselves "emancipated." Generally based in New York City, all four proved globetrotters to at least some extent. And all four were writers, and their work was shaped by the decade just as it shaped the decade in turn.

The 1920s saw Edna Ferber rise from the status of a commercial hack to the critically lauded author of such novels as SO BIG and SHOW BOAT and co-author of such plays as THE ROYAL FAMILY. Determinedly independent, Ferber's character would cast an even longer shadow than her works, setting a pattern for single, hard-working, career women that would last decades. Zelda Sayer Fitzgerald, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald, was Ferber's polar opposite: a woman whose career was marriage but who didn't feel it should crimp her style. Along with husband Scott, she would party her way into self-destruction--and provide significant inspiration to Fitzgerald's novels as well. As the 1920s passed, Zelda would discover a gift for prose and publish several short works, but mental illness began to claim her as the decade came to a close.

Edna St. Vincent Millay was a critic's darling who--when she wasn't writing poetry--spent much of the decade sleeping with any one, male or female, who appealed to her. As well known for her personal charm and eccentricity as for her work, Millay endured numerous difficulties in the decade before emerging as America's most highly regarded poet and then, rather perversely, find critical reaction began to turn against her in the face of works by the likes of T.S. Eliot. And then, of course, there is the truly legendary Dorothy Parker, who began the decade as a drama critic and slowly rose to fame through her remarkably funny and acid poetry. A truly dark figure, like Zelda Fitzgerald and Millay she too would struggle with a host of inner demons ranging from alcohol to drugs to bad relationships.

These four women, their lovers, husbands, publishers, and associates crisscross throughout the book in an interesting counterpoint. The result is always readable, always entertaining, but it does contain certain flaws. Although Meade does provide background and does give notes as to what became of them in later years, her story begins with 1920 and stops with 1930; there is little context. That said, the portraits involved are somewhat superficial; all four of these women are worthy of stand-alone biographies, and indeed all but Ferber have received major, widely available, and well-received biographies.

That said, however, BOBBED HAIR AND BATHTUB GIN is an enjoyable book that does indeed seem to capture a feel for the 1920s, a decade in which the sky seemed the limit for women, the arts, society, and indeed the entire nation. Although they were hardly the only noted women of the era, Edna Ferber, Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Dorothy Parker were in many ways indicative of the decade--and this is a wild and very entertaining romp through their early successes and failures. Recommended.

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Vivid Portrait.......2007-03-02

A wonderful view into the lives of women writers in the 1920's focusing mainly on Edna Ferber, Zelda Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker and Edna St. Vincent Millay. The writing is wonderful, easy to follow, and it almost reads like a novel itself. A great introduction to the biographies of these ladies, Meade doesn't weight the account down with esoteric references to peripheral literary characters. Her focus is sharp and vivid, and I liked that she organized events chronologically, breaking up the chapters by year. She paints these women so multi-dimensionally that I found myself missing them, like characters in a great novel, once I had finished the book.

Flappers Gone Wild.......2007-01-12

A breezy, fast read which skims the surface of Prohibition Days. If you enjoy learning about that crazy time before Wall Street "laid an egg" you will like this book.

Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin.......2006-11-09

Extremely well written, as is all Meade's stuff, and you'll walk away considerably wider of eye over these lives of recently enfranchised famous flappers learning how to deal with their new status as full members of society. Some of them did not deal well.

Meade also wrote a great bio of Eleanor of Aquitaine.

Utterly fabulous fresco of a fascinating era.......2005-11-16

I loved this book. I don't usually like biographies (they're all the same--someone is born, becomes famous, dies, etc) but this group bio of Edna Ferber, Zelda Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, and Edna St. Vincent Millay totally captured my imagination. It's organized by year, and the storytelling jumps from woman to woman in a way that creates much suspense and anticipation. Meade makes each woman seem so three-dimensional, they don't just leap off the page--I could swear I even smelled Dotty Parker's Chypre perfume and taste Zelda's gin blossoms and highballs. This book would make a great gift for any one who loves biography, the Roaring 20s, or any of the writers in question. The large number of cameo appearances by other writers, bohemians, and Round Tablers give the book a wider appeal. As a recovering English major, I feel strongly that anyone who lists "The Great Gatsby" or "The Sun Also Rises" as his favorite book should get a copy as well, if only for medicinal purposes!

Bobbed Hair And Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild In The Twenties

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Bobbed Hair And Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild In The Twenties
Marion Meade
Manufacturer: Doubleday
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000O2GMCE

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Bobbed Hair And Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties
Marion Meade
Manufacturer: Blackstone Audiobooks
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Binding: Audio CD

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Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties (Unabridged)

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Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties (Unabridged)
Marion Meade
Manufacturer: audible.com
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Binding: Audio Download
ASIN: B000782ETK

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Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties
Marion Meade
Manufacturer: Harvest Books
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OJOP26

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Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties
Marion Meade
Manufacturer: Doubleday
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000SP7XF2

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While slavery is often at the heart of debates over the causes of the Civil War, historians are not agreed on precisely what aspect of slavery-with its various social, economic, political, cultural, and moral ramifications-gave rise to the sectional rift. In Calculating the Value of the Union, James Huston integrates economic, social, and political history to argue that the issue of property rights as they pertained to slavery was at the center of the Civil War.

In the early years of the nineteenth century, southern slaveholders sought a national definition of property rights that would recognize and protect their ownership of slaves. Northern interests, on the other hand, opposed any national interpretation of property rights because of the threat slavery posed to the northern free labor market, particularly if allowed to spread to western territories. This impasse sparked a process of political realignment that culminated in the creation of the Republican Party, ultimately leading to the secession crisis.

Deeply researched and carefully written, this study rebuts recent trends in antebellum historiography and persuasively argues for a fundamentally economic interpretation of the slavery issue and the coming of the Civil War.

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Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War.(Book Review) : An article from: The Historian
Daniel Rosenberg
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000B9DUQG
Release Date: 2005-09-03

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This digital document is an article from The Historian, published by Thomson Gale on June 22, 2005. The length of the article is 559 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War.(Book Review)
Author: Daniel Rosenberg
Publication: The Historian (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 22, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 67 Issue: 2 Page: 323(2)

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Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Southern History

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Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Southern History
John D. Majewski
Manufacturer: Southern Historical Association
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B00096ZDWU
Release Date: 2005-07-13

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Southern History, published by Southern Historical Association on February 1, 2005. The length of the article is 629 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War.(Book Review)
Author: John D. Majewski
Publication: Journal of Southern History (Refereed)
Date: February 1, 2005
Publisher: Southern Historical Association
Volume: 71 Issue: 1 Page: 160(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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Former Texas prison chaplain Rev. Carroll Pickett, working with two time Edgar Award-winner and New York Times best selling author Carlton Stowers, provides this eloquent, unflinching look at capital punishment.Within These Walls is the powerful memoir of Rev. Pickett, who spent fifteen years as the death house chaplain at "The Walls," the Huntsville unit of the Texas prison system.In that capacity Rev. Pickett ministered to 95 men before they were put to death by lethal injection. They came with sinister nicknames like "The Candy Man" and "The Good Samaritan Killer," some contrite, some angry-a few who might even have been innocent.All of them found in Rev. Pickett their last chance for an unbiased confessor who would look at them only as fellow humans, not simply as the convicted criminals the rest of society had already dismissed them as.This first-hand experience gave Rev. Pickett the unique insight needed to write an impassioned statement on the realities of capital punishment in America.The result is a thought-provoking and compelling book that takes the reader inside the criminal mind, inside the execution chamber, and inside the heart of a remarkable man who shares his thoughts and observations not only about capital punishment, but about the dark world of prison society.AUTHORBIO: Rev. Pickett is today an outspoken anti-death penalty activist.He is retired from the Department of Corrections but still preaches near Huntsville, Texas.Carlton Stowers is the author of more than two doze non-fiction books, including the Edgar Award-winging Careless Whispers, the Pulitzer Prize-nominated Innocence Lost, and Open Secrets.He has also written two books for children-A Hero Named George and Hard Lessons-which are being used by elementary schools as part of their drug and gang prevention program.He and his wife live in Cedar Hill, Texas.

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Great Read.......2007-03-15

Whether you agree or disagree with the way the death penalty is played out in TX or the US in general this book is a great read. The author has "lived" all sides of the issue from having friends who where murdered to ministering to those who killed them. It's a very well-written and well-rounded look at the issues.

State Sanctioned Murder.......2007-01-16

Rev. Carroll Pickett speaks with the authority of a man who is tough in every way, tough enough to have the respect of prison authorities and tough enough to have the respect of inmates in the toughest prison system in the country, Huntsville, Texas. This tough man is also one of the kindest persons you will ever meet. His honesty makes this a compelling book. He started out as a prison chaplain in favor of the death penalty but after accompanying a hundred inmates to their deaths, he is now so vehemently opposed to the death penalty he no longer refers to it as execution but murder. He now works full time for its abolition. I don't see how anyone could read this book from the beginning and come out at the other end in favor of this barbarism.

Decent reading material.......2006-12-14

I enjoyed this book and the authors feelings on the death penalty. I felt like something was missing when I was done reading it though.

One of the best I've ever read--.......2006-01-28

I guess it's true you either love it or hate it as I can't imagine being ambivalent about this book. I first read the book only because I had met the author, Rev. Carroll Pickett. I found it to be very interesting & thought provoking. I have recommended it to numerous people. I have since had the great fortune to get to know Carroll & his wife, Jane. He is a truly remarkable man & I feel priviledged to know him & to have read his book. He is definitely a man of intergrity. I'm glad he shared his experiences with all of us!

You'll love it or hate it.......2002-12-03

No one escapes this book without being confronted with the tragic realities of the death penalty. Rev. Pickett does not fluff this story with hype but tells it as he lived it. This is not just a testament about the death penalty but is also about the meaning of life, death, family systems, ministry, and, in the end of the book, loving one's enemies. You can argue that Pickett is wrong about the death penalty perhaps but you cannot argue with the fact that he did his job with integrity and love. You'll love it or hate it but will not escape the power of Carroll Pickett's experience.

Within These Walls: Memoirs of a Death House Chaplain

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Within These Walls: Memoirs of a Death House Chaplain
Carroll Pickett Carlton Stowers
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OTMX5W

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Very informative , good overview of all ecological processes.......1998-05-10

This book is a must for anyone who is considering naural resource management as a career, as I am. It deals with the basic ecological terms and poses some very difficult problems that forest management will occure in the recent future. If you are interested in conservation, and not preservation, this book will be a wise investment.

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