The Great American Supper Swap


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Berg outlines the steps for forming a supper-swapping group and includes recipes, meal planning, and scheduling ideas that can help make mealtimes more fun and much more meaningful.




Making Work at Home Work


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As of 2004 nearly three million self-employed women worked at home, and women continue to start home-based businesses at twice the rate of men. Many of these women left the workplace by choice in order to stay home and raise their children. And though their numbers increase each day, resources for this growing market of entrepreneurs are scarce. Making Work at Home Work shows moms how to develop an entrepreneurial mind-set without sacrificing their families. It covers important topics such as developing a successful business philosophy, balancing time between work and family, setting realistic goals, and handling the challenges of being both "Mommy" and "CEO" while running a profitable home-based business. In addition to including her own experiences, author Mary Byers profiles real moms with home-based businesses who offer their hard-won advice.




God, Grace, and Girlfriends


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Mary Snyder’s story is not unique. Women everywhere, in all walks of life, are looking for girlfriends they can depend on. Friends who will stand by them, friends they can laugh with, and friends they can have an adventure with. True-blue, dyed-in-the-wool girlfriends. Whether you’re in college or retired, a stay-at-home mom or an empty nester, a single career woman or a working mother, you likely can identify with this heart cry of women everywhere: Lord, send me girlfriends! In God, Grace, and Girlfriends you’ll learn the importance of friendships, discover tips on building friendships, and explore dozens of possible trips, events, and adventures for you and your girlfriends to explore.




Rattled


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Welcome to the Adventure of Motherhood Clutter? Chaos? Exhaustion got you down? You must be a mom. And you’re not alone. Perhaps you thought you had it all together…then your baby was born and your world was turned upside down. If new motherhood has you filled with doubt, guilt, and confusion, Trish Berg wants to offer companionship, hope, and help–plus a lot of humor along the way. With practical advice and scriptural reminders, Berg presents two pillars of motherhood: Keep it simple and keep it biblical. Relax as you learn that every mom shares your stresses, challenges, and “Aagghh!” moments. In the midst of sleep deprivation and Cheerio dust, you’ll learn to savor the simple joy and privilege of mothering.




Soup Swap


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Sixty recipes for soups, stews, and chowders to share and savor, from the James Beard Award winner and NPR chef. There’s no better way to cultivate community, foster friendship, or simply nourish family than over heartwarming bowls of homemade soup. And here, soup lovers will find sixty terrific recipes, featuring such classics as creamy Tomato Soup with Grilled-Cheese Croutons alongside international favorites like Thai Red Curry-Chicken Noodle Soup. Each recipe has suggested sides to make it a meal and tips for easy transporting, which makes them just right to bring to a soup swap where everyone can sample the offerings and then take home a variety of leftovers to enjoy all week. Whether taken to the party or savored at home, this trusted collection of soups, stews, and chowders is sure to satisfy all year long.




Coal Camp Justice


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Garcia's novel focuses on life and death in the coal mines and camps of 1930s northern New Mexico.




All the Feels


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"All the Feels could turn your 2020 around!" --Crosswalk.com Emotions--love them or hate them, we've all got them. And we've all got to figure out what to do with them. But wait--can we do anything about our emotions? Can we learn how to identify, express, experience--and yes, sometimes wrangle--our feelings in order to live a vibrant, healthy, fruitful life for Jesus? In All the Feels, author Elizabeth Laing Thompson uses her experiences as a big feeler to encourage and equip different kinds of feelers with the biblical perspectives, practical tools, and scriptural reservoir they need. As a woman who has lived every day of her life having All The Big Feelings All The Day Long, Elizabeth knows what it's like to live life through our emotions--and how important it is to understand, take control of, and grow from those emotions. Whether you have a sensitive soul with more feelings than you know how to name, a logical personality that doesn't quite know what to do with feelings, or a steady flow of emotions somewhere in the middle, All the Feels will help you discover your own God-designed "feelings style" and how it impacts your life and relationships, distinguish fact from feeling and figure out which feelings you can trust, and understand which emotional gifts God wants you to expand, explore, and enjoy. Get ready to throw open the doors of your heart, bringing God to your emotions and your emotions to God--the One who invented feelings and who always welcomes yours.




Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing


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This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the ICVGIP 2016 Satellite Workshops, WCVA, DAR, and MedImage, held in Guwahati, India, in December 2016. The papers presented are extended versions of the papers of three of the four workshops: Computer Vision Applications, Document Analysis and Recognition and Medical Image Processing. The Computer Vision Application track received 52 submissions and after a rigorous review process, 18 papers were presented. The focus is mainly on industrial applications of computer vision and related technologies. The Document Analysis and Recognition track received 10 submissions from which 7 papers were selected. The MedImage workshops focuses on problems in medical image computing and received 14 papers from which 9 were accepted for presentation in this book.







Weber and Fields


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