The Wonderful Weekend Book


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For too many of us the weekend has become just another overcrowded couple of days dominated by duties, traffic jams, hassle and expense as we dash from supermarket to superstore catching up with the week's chores. But it doesn't have to be this way. Elspeth Thompson's original and inspiring book shows us how we can reclaim the weekend by re-charging our batteries and relationships through enjoying the simple pleasures in life. From watching the sunset and the stars, making marmalade and writing proper letters to borrowing a dog, going to dance classes and using the internet creatively, she reminds us of the fun and satisfaction to be had from creative, social and relaxing pursuits. The Wonderful Weekend Book is packed with ideas that will help restore the balance in our lives, reconnect us to the seasons, and - quite literally - not cost the earth.







Martha Stewart's Vegetables


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An essential resource for every cook In this beautiful book, Martha Stewart—one of America’s best-known cooks, gardeners, and all-around vegetable lovers—provides home cooks with an indispensable resource for selecting, storing, preparing, and cooking from the garden and the market. The 150 recipes, many of which are vegetarian, highlight the flavors and textures of everyday favorites and uncommon varieties alike. The recipes include: • Roasted Carrots and Red Quinoa with Miso Dressing • Swiss Chard Lasagna • Endive and Fennel Salad with Pomegranate Seeds • Asparagus and Watercress Pizza • Smoky Brussels Sprouts Gratin • Spiced Parsnip Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting Martha Stewart’s Vegetables makes eating your greens (and reds and yellows and oranges) more delicious than ever. — Los Angeles Times: Best Cookbooks of Fall 2016 — Newsday: Top 10 Cookbooks for 2016




Drumore Echoes, Stories from Upstream


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If Abner Musser hadn’t run out of sons, his neighbors say, The Buck would have been as big as Pittsburgh in another 10 years. This area in Southern Lancaster County reminds me more and more of the region just east of Lancaster. I suppose the words that condense this thought could be: Bird-In-Hand gained, Paradise lost. Quote from Robert Risk: “Death does not end all-it begins everything.” If Ma Garner heard a ruckus outside her house at night she raised her bedroom window, shot once, then opened fire with an arsenal of words that may have stung worse than the shotgun pellets. The resourceful human mind has developed to strive for the betterment of mankind, yet the human spirit has evidently never abandoned the cave. At Woodstock there were numerous drug busts, at our gathering all drugs were handed out before the meal.




The Wonderful Weekend Book


Book Description

For too many of us the weekend has become just another overcrowded couple of days dominated by duties, traffic jams, hassle and expense as we dash from supermarket to superstore catching up with the week's chores. But it doesn't have to be this way. Elspeth Thompson's original and inspiring book shows us how we can reclaim the weekend by re-charging our batteries and relationships through enjoying the simple pleasures in life. From watching the sunset and the stars, making marmalade and writing proper letters to borrowing a dog, going to dance classes and using the internet creatively, she reminds us of the fun and satisfaction to be had from creative, social and relaxing pursuits. The Wonderful Weekend Book is packed with ideas that will help restore the balance in our lives, reconnect us to the seasons, and - quite literally - not cost the earth.




Looking for a Sign


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“A sweet and spicy story about found family, taking chances on love, and getting through your Saturn return.”—Elissa Sussman, bestselling author of Funny You Should Ask A newly single queer woman moves to New Orleans and sets off on a mission to find her most compatible match by going on a date with someone of each astrological sign in this rom-com from the Lambda Literary Award–nominated author of Queerly Beloved. Reeling from a breakup with her long-term partner, Gray—an optimistic lesbian Aries—relocates to New Orleans for a new job. Gray wants to meet someone, settle down, and build the loving, accepting family she’s always wanted, but having been out of the dating scene for a decade, she has no idea where to start. After visiting an iconic astrologer, Gray and her best friend, Cherry, draw up a dramatic scheme: Gray will go on a date with someone of each zodiac sign to test their compatibility and get a jump start on creating the queer family of her dreams—all before her twenty-ninth birthday, when Saturn will usher in a major turning point in her life. Gray’s got her hands full getting to know her new city, proving herself at her new job, wooing twelve new paramours—cue bathroom hookups, ghosts, getting ghosted, incredible macchiatos, and celesbians—and making some surprising discoveries about her needs and desires. Even when the dating challenge throws a few curveballs that make Gray question what she believes that she’s destined for, she’s determined to finish what she’s started while the planets are still on her side.




The Cottage


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From Judy Prescott Marshall multi-award-winning writer of STILL CRAZY and THE INN IN RHODE ISLAND comes the final book THE COTTAGE. A series that digs where others fear to tread. Do you believe in second chances? This small cottage once served as a safe harbor for Julie. It allowed her to find herself, restore her faith, believe in her dream and it is where Dan found her. Soon the cottage will serve as the inn’s bridal suite, a warm place for new beginnings and everlasting love. Dan and Julie Holliday are looking forward to enjoying their retirement running The Inn in Rhode Island, a twenty-five room inn surrounded by tranquil gardens, a pond boasting serenity, peaceful hiking trails, and a brand new swimming pool. At the inn, weddings are special, author events are exciting and afternoon tea is a must. The staff at the inn are gearing up for their most profitable year to date. Best of all, Dan and Julie are building their dream home – a farmhouse in Julie’s favorite harborside – Point Judith. First, the Hollidays are going on a long awaited vacation to Italy. Just when life seems to be perfect, one of them is diagnosed with a life-threatening illness and everyone at the inn must come together to do whatever they can.




A Resolution Of Dreams


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Abusir, Egypt 1800s, 'Band of Peace' Pyramids: Karl Richard Lepsius listed more than sixty pyramids. We are now aware of more than one hundred such structures still hidden beneath the sand. "The late Egyptologist and indigenous wisdom keeper Ab'del Hakim Awyan, who was born in the village of Abusir near the Giza Plateau, stated Egyptians include twenty-two of these pyramids in what they call the 'Band of Peace' which includes Giza and other sites both north and south of that along the Nile." The Great Pyramid of Giza is located directly at the center of the earth’s landmass. During 2170-2144 BCE, the Descending Passage of the pyramid pointed to Alpha Draconis [the North/Pole star]. No other star has aligned with the passage since that time. They were not only constructed and aligned to mirror the positions of the stars, but designed to replicate the harmonic cavities within the human body. The Pyramids are sophisticated oscillation systems. Each chamber, tuned to a specific biologic frequency. The priests used the sound waves to restore the body of those suffering to a correct resonant balance. What they discovered about the power of resonance was only the beginning. The North Pole Admiral Byrd flew into the inner Earth while over Antarctica on February 19th, 1947, he was under the impression he had discovered the mythical city of Shambala. Mythical, being the keyword here. The Resolutionist’s Agenda: Three Hours Ago… There is a balance to everything, the duality of Yin & Yang. But magic comes in threes. The transition; usually signaled by the arrival of a comet, begins. The trials commence, the mythology finds its footing and builds, tempered in fire by the evil that wants them to fail. Wholesomeness and decency have fallen out of favor. They rankle the nightmares who prefer the world dark. Snow White's lookalike has been poisoned. Prince Charming was bankrupted and sold into bondage. It has all been building to here. The cast of Gathering & Persistence failed to comprehend the rules of the game. Every two thousand years, a transformation takes place, and the world changes. But for a smooth transition, the pieces had to be gathered. Temperaments grew and matured. A cast of wanderers, warriors, and wisdom seekers discovered. A new group, forged in fire, came together. But God has a sense of humor. It is not until you free yourself of all you thought you knew that you see it. Christmas is indeed a feeling, a gift that needs earning. Christmas is not a given, but there are protectors, and always, there are two. Santa Claus is not a person. It is a couple. A thousand individual pieces. A million clues. If we find our hearts, we get paradise again. You see, God works in mysterious ways. But it has given us free will and placed the clues in plain sight; our story, written and preserved in the library of forever. With any jigsaw puzzle, you start with the edges and follow the colors. The patterns begin to build with every piece laid until the bigger picture emerges. But God has a sense of humor, and it's not until you set yourself free that you see the depth of it. We find hope in our adolescent fables. We all have a destiny, however minor that may be. Something summoned, significant, consequential even, to some effect, that resides somewhere within our hearts. By completing my childhood promise, my life took a turn. What started as a debt paid grew into something beyond my wildest imagination. I hope I can do it justice. Christmas is coming. "When did you two grumpmuffins know?" "Leo told us after we initiated him." "He had been visiting her in dreams, so he knew your other half." "We set out to find the rest of the puzzle when M'olga tore us apart. You're not going to believe what we found." “Just so you know, Rudolph isn't red; he's an orange."




Old Books, Rare Friends


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Louisa May Alcott once wrote that she had taken her pen for a bridegroom. Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine Stern, friends and business partners for fifty years, have in many ways taken up their pens and passion for literature much in the same way. The "Holmes & Watson" of the rare book business, Rostenberg and Stern are renowned for unlocking the hidden secret of Louisa May Alcott's life when they discovered her pseudonym, A.M. Barnard, along with her anonymously published "blood and thunder" stories on subjects like transvestitism, hashish smoking, and feminism. Old Books, Rare Friends describes their mutual passion for books and literary sleuthing as they take us on their earliest European book buying jaunts. Using what they call Finger-spitzengefühl, the art of evaluating antiquarian books by handling, experience, and instinct, we are treated to some of their greatest discoveries amid the mildewed basements of London's booksellers after the Blitz. We experience the thrill of finding one of the earliest known books printed in America between 1617-1619 by the Pilgrim Press and learn about the influential role of publisher-printers from the fifteenth century. Like a precious gem, Old Books, Rare Friends is a book to treasure about the companionship of two rare friends and their shared passion for old books.




Sun Sign Book


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Gain amazing insights through upbeat and perceptive horoscopes by astrologer Kris Brandt Riske. Additional information in this text includes articles from experts on a variety of topics, including home remodeling, Saturn sun shades, sun sign financials, 21st century careers, world predictions, and holidays from hell.