Rosebush


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Instead of celebrating Memorial Day weekend on the Jersey Shore, Jane is in the hospital surrounded by teddy bears, trying to piece together what happened last night. One minute she was at a party, wearing fairy wings and cuddling with her boyfriend. The next, she was lying near-dead in a rosebush after a hit-and-run. Everyone believes it was an accident, despite the phone threats Jane swears were real. But the truth is a thorny thing. As Jane's boyfriend, friends, and admirers come to visit, more memories surface-not just from the party, but from deeper in her past . . . including the night her best friend Bonnie died. With nearly everyone in her life a suspect now, Jane must unravel the mystery before her killer attacks again. Along the way, she's forced to examine the consequences of her life choices in this compulsively readable thriller.




The Human Rosebush


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A tale about a young girl and her rosebush. Brought up in an natural alphabetical paradise, Julia is shrouded from the outside world. One day, out buying a rosebush with her mother Jeanne, Julia espies a withered stick on the ground. She's convinced the stick is calling out to her. Calling it her little rosebush, she brings it home to coax it back to life. One gloomy day, the family move to Paris. On the way, Julia falls asleep, her rosebush pressed against her. When she wakes up, the rosebush has vanished. It must have grown inside her.




The Lottery Rose


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A young victim of child abuse gradually overcomes his fears and suspicions when placed in a home with other boys.




Winning Your Audience


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President Ronald Reagan taught James Rosebush to be an impactful speaker. Now he's going to teach you. Public speaking isn't easy. Just ask anyone who's ever blown a sales pitch, failed a class, or fumbled their way through a presentation because they froze up or couldn't find the right words. No wonder more than 75 percent of people in the United States suffer from Glossophobia, the fear of speaking in front of crowds. Luckily, public speaking isn't some innate ability. It's a skill. And given the right amount of time, energy, and perseverance, anyone can learn how it's done. In Winning Your Audience, James Rosebush draws on several decades of experience working with presidents, politicians, and business leaders to write his own manual for delivering a message with confidence. He looks back on the lessons he learned travelling the world with President Ronald Reagan, whom he served under for five years in the White House, and lays out the keys to "the Reagan speech template": Question, Inform, Inspire, Ask. Rosebush also studies some of the great political orators of our time. Vital lessons from the likes of Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and President Donald Trump are distilled down to a few simple rules. Among them are:· Be authentic· Know yourself· Practice and rehearse...and then do it again · Don't care what your mother thinks of you No matter what kind of speeches, toasts, or presentations you have to give, this book can help. Use it like a textbook. Write in the margins. Tear out pages. Winning Your Audience can make even the most timid speakers among us into a genuine leaders. Read it now and learn how to win your audience.




Introduction to Developmental Playtherapy


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In Introduction to Developmental Playtherapy, Jennings argues that creative play is essential for children's health. Drawing on examples from her own professional experience, she discusses how play can help resolve issues by allowing possible solutions to be explored safely, thus encouraging flexibility of response. She explores the cultural background and theory of using play as a therapeutic tool with children and how play can communicate to the therapist what the child needs to tell.







Wanda's Roses


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This book about a child's simple faith is one that children will long remember--and adults will love to share. When Wanda discovers a thornbush growing in the empty lot at the corner of Fillmore and Hudson, she's quite sure it's a rosebush all ready to bloom. So she clears away the trash, checks on it every day, and brings water from the butcher shop across the street. But no roses appear. Wanda's neighbors and friends are all doubtful, but when she invites them to a tea party in her "rose garden" one day in June, they're in for a big surprise.




The Teenie Weenies Under the Rosebush


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More short stories about the small people who lived in a shoe beneath the rose bush. Dunce and Zip are sick, and it looks like they may have scarlet fever, so they are quarrantined in the hospital, but the Lady of Fashion quickly finds out what is really wrong with them. A child's lost skate provides an afternoon of fun for the Teenie Weenies. They celebrate Halloween and Christmas in their own teeny way. The Teenie Weenies try to help their neighbors, the Rhyming Rabbit, and the old hen.




COMMON PLEAS (Trial and Errors!)


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Common Pleas (Trial and Errors!) is author and attorney J. Randolph CresenzoÕs sequel after readersÕ requests for ÒMore!Ó following publication his first well-received humorous legal thriller, Common Pleas (A Tale of Whoa!). Set in the contrasting backdrops of rural North Carolina and Havana, Cuba in the late 1980s, the wife of a local crime bossÑindicted but disappearedÑgoes to court to seek her marital half of the millions accumulated by her husbandÕs operation of an organized Southern crime ring. Veteran small-town attorney Bob Lee Pender, along with his savvy and beautiful big-city co-counsel, find themselves entangled with the inconsistencies of fact and fiction backed by a sordid and colorful cast only a . Witness the inner workings of courtroom drama resulting in an astounding verdict of ultimate justiceÑor so it seems. But most of all, escape to a different time and place and laugh at the humor, ironies, and contradictions that make the pages of this engrossing tale seemingly turn themselves.