Autumn Inspirations


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Autumn Inspirations is a collection of 10 piano solos that capture special recollections of the fall season, when summer is a fading memory and falling leaves are showing off their colors. From "Harvest Hoedown" to "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," each piece has a distinctive autumn hue.




Creative Haven Autumn Inspirations Color by Number


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Immerse yourself in the heartwarming colors of autumn with 46 rustic vistas bursting with fall foliage as well as pumpkins, gourds, grazing cows, curious cats, and more. Follow the simple color key or follow your own artistic instincts.







Fibre & Fabric


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Drifting among Rivers and Lakes


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What drives literary change? Does literature merely follow shifts in a culture, or does it play a distinctive role in shaping emergent trends? Michael Fuller explores these questions while examining the changes in Chinese shipoetry from the late Northern Song dynasty (960–1127) to the end of the Southern Song (1127–1279), a period of profound social and cultural transformation. Shi poetry written in response to events was the dominant literary genre in Song dynasty China, serving as a central form through which literati explored meaning in their encounters with the world. By the late Northern Song, however, old models for meaning were proving inadequate, and Daoxue (Neo-Confucianism) provided an increasingly attractive new ground for understanding the self and the world. Drifting among Rivers and Lakes traces the intertwining of the practice of poetry, writings on poetics, and the debates about Daoxue that led to the cultural synthesis of the final years of the Southern Song and set the pattern for Chinese society for the next six centuries. Examining the writings of major poets and Confucian thinkers of the period, Fuller discovers the slow evolution of a complementarity between poetry and Daoxue in which neither discourse was self-sufficient.




How to Read Chinese Poetry


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In this "guided" anthology, experts lead students through the major genres and eras of Chinese poetry from antiquity to the modern time. The volume is divided into 6 chronological sections and features more than 140 examples of the best shi, sao, fu, ci, and qu poems. A comprehensive introduction and extensive thematic table of contents highlight the thematic, formal, and prosodic features of Chinese poetry, and each chapter is written by a scholar who specializes in a particular period or genre. Poems are presented in Chinese and English and are accompanied by a tone-marked romanized version, an explanation of Chinese linguistic and poetic conventions, and recommended reading strategies. Sound recordings of the poems are available online free of charge. These unique features facilitate an intense engagement with Chinese poetical texts and help the reader derive aesthetic pleasure and insight from these works as one could from the original. The companion volume How to Read Chinese Poetry Workbook presents 100 famous poems (56 are new selections) in Chinese, English, and romanization, accompanied by prose translation, textual notes, commentaries, and recordings. Contributors: Robert Ashmore (Univ. of California, Berkeley); Zong-qi Cai; Charles Egan (San Francisco State); Ronald Egan (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara); Grace Fong (McGill); David R. Knechtges (Univ. of Washington); Xinda Lian (Denison); Shuen-fu Lin (Univ. of Michigan); William H. Nienhauser Jr. (Univ. of Wisconsin); Maija Bell Samei; Jui-lung Su (National Univ. of Singapore); Wendy Swartz (Columbia); Xiaofei Tian (Harvard); Paula Varsano (Univ. of California, Berkeley); Fusheng Wu (Univ. of Utah)




Glass Bead Inspirations


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"At last! A book for the intermediate to advanced beadmaker . . . . Any beadmaker looking for that kick into a different direction will find this book quite useful." --Debby Weaver, The Glass Bead • Creative ideas for making glass beads • 8 skilled beadmakers are given the challenge to create beads based on an inspiration—a color, a season, a painting, an emotion—to see what they will create • Resulting beads show the variety of creative responses • Includes step-by-step techniques for using other materials with the glass to create unique beads




Delos


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Inspiration and Motivation (I Am)


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Inspiration And Motivation (I AM) is a dream come true! This memorial treasury includes hundreds of original poems and writings organized in a diary of seven sections divided into chronological years. This beautifully crafted work of art is the most complete collection of Dana Sheree Coes inspirational and motivational poetry and writings ever published. This book has something for everyone! Youll find great substance, revelations, meditations, and confessions that will inspire, motivate, encourage, enlighten, and strengthen you through thought-provoking, burning, powerful, rich, and heavy words and expressions of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self control. Every Time Youre There is a poem of faith that you can overcome any situation and you are not alone. Cast All Your Cares is a poem of hope written years ago when pressing through difficult and hopeless-looking circumstances. The Love of God is a poem about our greatest aim and the more excellent way of love. Liberty In the world, but not of the world, Youre just passing through, Sojourning here until you reach the land, That God has prepared for you. Wanting to be free, from all that binds and constricts, seeking liberty, from all of lifes conflicts. I must operate in the midst of order and organization, So Down with chaos and disorder, down with confusion, and down with strife. Up with order, up with clarity, up with victory, and abundant life. For ye have been called unto liberty, the price has been paid for your victory. Stand fast therefore in the liberty, wherewith Christ hath made you free. I will have liberty! I will be free! I will be Free from fear, free from confusion, free from darkness, free from illusion. Free from guilt, free from shame, free from sickness, free from pain. Free from bondage, free from depression, free from burdens, free from oppression. Free from deception, free from lying, free from disease, free from dying. Free from doubt, unbelief, and fear, Free from lack, poverty, and destruction, Liberty and freedom are here! Be not entangled again, with the yoke of bondage or with sin by love serve one another, live in liberty and at peace with each other. For ye have been called unto liberty, the price has been paid for your victory. Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made you free Galatians 5:1 only use not liberty as an occasion to serve the flesh. Liberty! By Dana S. Coe October-November 2000




Love Inspired September 2024 Box Set - 1 of 2


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Love Inspired brings you three new titles! Enjoy these uplifting contemporary romances of faith, forgiveness and hope. This box set includes: AN UNLIKELY AMISH INHERITANCE by Jo Ann Brown When her Amish grandmother passes away, Englisch police officer Jenna Shetler returns to her family’s farm on Maryland’s eastern shore to carry out her grandmother’s unusual last request. A series of letters with specific instructions forces her to seek help from Amish bachelor Abe Bontranger—and confront her teenage heartbreak. Working together brings them closer than they’ve been in years, but with Jenna’s commitment to the police force and Abe’s plans for his Amish life, is a second chance possible for the two of them? HER LOYAL COMPANION (A K-9 Companions novel) by Heidi Main Training service dogs is Autumn McCaw’s passion. She won’t let anything jeopardize her business’s chance of success, including her former love Wyatt Nelson. But with a looming deadline to prove herself capable, she has no choice but to hire the one man who hurt her years ago. Relying on the single dad is tough—especially since he has trust issues of his own. But can Autumn and Wyatt overcome their past to save her business…and open their hearts to love? HIDDEN SECRETS BETWEEN THEM (A Hope Crossing novel) by Mindy Obenhaus In Hope Crossing, Texas, nurse practitioner Kirsten Reynolds has found her dream job. The only problem is that the tiny town also has Deputy Brady James…the father of her four-year-old sons. And he doesn’t know the boys are his. But as he steps into this new role he never planned for, Brady gets a hopeful glimpse into a life with children. Will he let the fear of the unknown keep him from a future he never imagined…or will an adorable pair of twins—and their mother—change his mind? For more stories filled with love and faith, look for Love Inspired September 2024 Box Set – 2 of 2