Calligraphy with Thread: Using a Zagzag Stitch and a Regular Sewing Machine

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Nancy Kazlauckas

Crafts & Hobbies

MK Publishing

Men Before Their Time, an historic novel, chronicles the Los Angeles American Legion's 4-year quest to bring an N.F.L. franchise to its city. This story of professional football is set against the great depression and the racism, gambling, sex and violence that characterized the years leading up to World War II. 
The year is 1934. Amid the ravages of the great depression, the N.F.L. Cincinnati Reds toil in futility. Before the end of the season the Reds owners will move the club to St. Louis, with plans to enter the lesser American Professional Football League the following season. 
Cincinnati players, Carl Meternich and Jed Webster both leave the team. Carl returns to his home in Los Angles and Jed must help his suddenly homeless family migrate to the West Coast with its promise of a new start. 
Carl starts a career as a teacher and coach in Los Angeles and gets involved in a new professional football league. Out of the ashes of this league is created the highly successful Los Angeles Bulldogs. Jed, on the other hand, meets the hostile attitudes of San Joaquin Valley ranchers and becomes embroiled in the struggle of migrant workers against the starvation wages and violence that abounded during that time. 
The Zamboanga Club in Los Angeles is a watering hole for professional and college athletes alike and is also the hangout for a pack of gamblers. The Club is the spawning ground for the sex and violence that engulfs Carl and his old college pal, Pete Mercer. 
Men Before Their Time is the first book in a trilogy that tells the story of the Pacific Coast Football League, the forerunner to the 1946 N.F.L. Los Angeles Rams and All America Football Conference San Francisco Forty Niners and Los Angeles Dons.

Men Before Their Time

Jerold M. Strong

Express yourself... Functional Writing Activities That Strengthen Key Writing Traits and Develop Great Writers. 
Teachers striving to meet state mandated curriclum standards in composition, spelling, grammar, usage, types of writing and handwriting will find Writing Organizers a must. 
Writing Organizers are geared to meet the varying levels of all learners in your classroom.

Writing Organizers

Headley, Shannon

A hard life of prostitution and drug abuse had taken its toll on Katrina and when her motherly instinct kicked in to protect her children from a sexual predator, she found herself at the mercy of the court pleading guilty to a murder. Katrina was destitute, on drugs and out on her luck when she decided to take her life and leave her two young adolescent children to fend for themselves.While many people in the ghetto see no way out of it, young Nina and her younger brother Jimmy fought together to maintain their family and keep alive their hope to become productive adults. Nina and Jimmy overcame sexual abuse and neglect in a drug and prostitution infested neighborhood to become a successful police officer, loving wife and professional basketball player respectively. Nina and Jimmy never lost sight of their dream even though they had no idea what life had in store for them.

Neglected Souls

Literature & Fiction

Richard Jeanty

Contemporary

In this debut collection of stirring poems, Anthony Taylor Dunn adeptly blends dark humor with sober realism. Dunn is an emerging American poet with an idiosyncratic voice; indeed, a former Boston banker who can write a poem concerning "that war between the Numbers and the Words." These poignant meditations skillfully interweave the universal bookends of human life from the coming of age through death. Every poem is emotionally charged and ends in surprise that propels us into thought; at the same time, Dunn's nostalgic references remind us of the impermanence of all things, and his theological allusion awakens our humanity. Written in lucid verse dedicated to the reader who is "working out which foot should succeed the other," Dunn's imaginative intelligence effortlessly transcends the banality of daily existence and extends into the greater mystery.

Sunbathing on the Bottom of the Atlantic

Dunn, Anthony Taylor

Life is a journey we/ve all been given the opportunity to travel. It is filled with adventure, problems, and questions. As we travel this road called life, the biggest question we will need to answer for ourselves us, "Who is Jesus Christ?" Is he truly the Messiah ( savior of all mankind) as the Bible claims He is? In, A Camel's Story, King Balthasar follows a star for thousands of miles using his most prizes racing camel, "Xavier", as a pack animal. He's searching for the promised Messiah and is determined to find him. Xavier certainly did not share his master's passion. He was very disturbed and angry about being used as "a common mule". Full of self pity he grumbles, whines, and complains during to entire journey. Camels, by nature, are much like us. They tend to be rather prideful, stubborn creatures and do not like to follow commands. They want to do what they want to do -- when they want to do it! As you read this story, see if you can relate to Xavier's doubts and frustrations during the search as well as the dilemma he faces at the journey's end.

A CAMEL'S STORY: A Search for the Messiah

Sandy Hanson

The Longing Pier is not an angry story, and Irene is not an angry character. She is resolved and leads us through a spritually redemptive story. Irene spends all her life longing, never understanding why she suffers from it. Then comes also a spiritual longing, as though Irene is working hard to salvage what she can out of a religion that has ultimately left her confused. And finally she dose salvage a few good things: forgiveness, the consciousness of grace, and the possibility of healing. Throughout the story, Irene is moving toward understanding her longing...and the consequences of the absence of God in her life.Irene grew up believing that God might abandon her, and fear of being without him controls most of her young life. As an adult she begins to have doubts about her faith in him. The story comes around to a kind of spirtual and sexual awakening: a kind of journey that we find personally interesting because it happens to many of us. We have to move from one understanding of God to another and from one understanding of sexuality to another.

The Longing Pier

Adkins, Rose A.

Religion & Spirituality

Addicted To The Addict

Addicted to the Addict is a story of hope and a promise that through God's help a person can experience freedom from those things which bind us-and find a new way of life free from addiction.

Addicted to the Addict

Jan Yonak

Feathers From Heaven-And Contemplating THE ANIMAL HEREAFTER

Walter Robert Bell

Tales from the Sandhouse

Warren C., Sr. Vincent

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