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Author: Ridley Pearson
Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s
Sons
ISBN: 13: 978-0399155727
Be careful, it is easily to
become an addict of New York Timers best-selling author Ridley
Pearson, although I have to admit that it took me a few chapters to
get into his latest novel, Killer Summer
Authors: Joseph H. Trimbach
and John M. Trimbach
Publishers: Outskirts Press
ISBN: 978-0-9795855-0-0
John and Joseph Trimbach may have positioned themselves with contributing one of the most important texts pertaining to the controversies surrounding the topic
Author: Ruth Tuttle Conrad
Publisher: Authentic Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-934068-75-5
Be inspired and uplifted, share with your sisters and pledge to live the life God wants of you.
Author: Larry Solomon
Publisher: Outskirts
Press, Denver, Colorado
ISBN: 978-1-4327-2347-7
In
today’s global market, people are losing their jobs at the rate of
hundreds a day as the recession grinds along. Each
time, families are left scrambling to try to pay the
bills. That is not a very funny issue, but Larry Solomon has
taken the depressing and lightened it up a bit. He himself
spent some time unemployed and this work is based a little on his
experiences, but mostly on fiction.
Author: Hank Phillippi Ryan
ISBN: 9780778327172
Publisher: Mira Books (Harlequin)
Author: Carol Cumes
Publisher: Mitra Publishing Group
ISBN: 978 0 9654003 9 8
One of the best kept secrets of gardening is the spiritual transformation that one experiences each time one enters a garden to tend, to admire or to escape. For that reason, a chakra garden is not an altogether new concept to the passionate gardener. It may also help others understand the spirituality that some gardeners have reported experiencing.
Author: Lucy Nolan
Illustrator: Connie McLennan
Publisher: Sylvan Dell Publishing
Age Level: 3-7
ISBN: 978-1-934359-96-9 (hardcover): ISBN: 978-1-607180-41-8 (pbk.)
As the title of this book implies, with ingenuity and an obvious love of the sea, Ms. Nolan took some wonderful old standard nursery rhymes and wove them into sea and coastline themed poems. Within these rhymes, Ms. Nolan introduces bits of nautical history and information. Instead of Jack and Jill, it’s Jack and June who go up a dune. Sing a Song of Sixpense includes a trawler crew, first mate, captain, and deckhand.
Author: Suzanne Slade
Illustrator; Joan Waites
Publisher: Sylvan Dell
Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-934359-93-8
(hardcover): ISBN: 978-1-607180-38-8
(pbk.)
Highly recommended!
Author: Ann von Lossberg
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 978-1-440-10520-3
Ann von Lossberg'snarration of the Odyssey is self-directed, but definitely not self-absorbed.
Since the awards were created in 1995, 83 artists have received awards totaling over $500,000.
The Ontario Arts Council Awards Office administers the nomination process for the K.M. Hunter Artist Awards. OAC juries nominate candidates from a selection of English language OAC project-based granting programs. The K.M. Hunter Charitable Foundation convenes six juries to select the winners of the awards. The awards are financed by a gift from the K.M. Hunter Charitable Foundation to the Ontario Arts Foundation.
