Mary Jane's Food, Fun & Laughter


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A delightful treasury composed of recipes, comical quips and inspirational passages. Easty-to-prepare recieps and light-hearted fun will fee your physical, emotional and Spiritual appetite. Be sure to check out the Low Fat, Kid Stuff, and Young at Heart sections, as well as the Helpful Hints.




Wild Bread


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Until now, sourdough was perceived as too much work. In Wild Bread, the author (owner of the 1890 historic Barron Flour Mill in Oakesdale, Washington) presents a quick and easy 1 minute 2x/day technique, and demonstrates the use of eight different types of flours for each bread featured--everything from gluten-free brown-rice flour to quinoa to common white to heirloom whole wheat--for a whopping 295 recipes and 475 photographs.




Mary Jane's Memoirs


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Goodbye, Mary Janes


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"Enjoy your childhood. Have fun while you can." That's what parents tell their children. Jane Adleyn Geiger did enjoy her childhood immensely. Her blessings in life include a Christian upbringing, two wonderful (most of the time) sisters, loving parents, and a middle-class economic privilege. Her story begins with a recreation of her grandparents' and parents' courtship and marriage. Her parents were married just a few days before the Stock Market crashed in 1929, and they suffered many hardships of life over the next few years. Adleyn grew up during the 1950's, and has written this stimulating account of her childhood, her school years, and her musical journey. A teen pregnancy and her subsequent marriage changed the focus of her life from high school, friends, And The possibility of a music conservatory experience to that of family survival. She has included stories of her family, friends, and teachers who helped her succeed along the way. Often hilarious, this nostalgic retelling of her childhood is a universal project of many adults, though many do not have the nerve to put it in writing. Included in the book is a personal letter to each of her children, telling about the special memories that make each one so unique. Adleyn's fascination with shoes - the way they look, The way they feel, And The way the smell (when they're new) has given her a theme For The entire story. During many of the pivotal junctions in her life, her shoes of the times were an integral part of the major events. New shoes became a Rite of Passage to new places in life's journey. Imagine wearing a comfortable pair of Mary Janes while you read this story of courage, perseverance, and determination.




Why I Shout


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Here's a story of a child who lived in the bar scene from a very young age and grew up attending church regularly. I then adventured into the street life of Omaha, having to learn that life isn't a game as I thought. While facing several challenges, I soon found out that the choices I make can make the difference between life and death. So thank you for choosing to follow me through my journey. Open your hearts and minds as you'll begin to realize that there is a better life than what we tend to think. We can live life to the fullest, but we can't make it on our own. I've written this book in hopes that through my life experiences, it may be able to encourage others that if you don't like the way your life is going, it can be changed by the renewing of your mind. We can make lemonade out of lemons. And I understand that by writing this book, people may see me in a different light that could be challenging for them to recognize me as the person I have become. If that is you, well, you have picked the right book. I have always been the type of person who speaks his mind and now that mind is the mind of transformation. So come and follow me, as I show you how my life has changed-from a thug life to moving toward an abundant life full of love, joy, peace, purpose, power, and destiny in order to find out why I shout!




Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes


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Women explode out of chimneys and melt when sprayed with soda water. Feminist activists play practical jokes to lobby for voting rights, while overworked kitchen maids dismember their limbs to finish their chores on time. In early slapstick films with titles such as Saucy Sue, Mary Jane’s Mishap, Jane on Strike, and The Consequences of Feminism, comediennes exhibit the tensions between joyful laughter and gendered violence. Slapstick comedy often celebrates the exaggeration of make-believe injury. Unlike male clowns, however, these comic actresses use slapstick antics as forms of feminist protest. They spontaneously combust while doing housework, disappear and reappear when sexually assaulted, or transform into men by eating magic seeds—and their absurd metamorphoses evoke the real-life predicaments of female identity in a changing modern world. Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes reveals the gender politics of comedy and the comedic potentials of feminism through close consideration of hundreds of silent films. As Maggie Hennefeld argues, comedienne catastrophes provide disturbing but suggestive images for comprehending gendered social upheavals in the early twentieth century. At the same time, slapstick comediennes were crucial to the emergence of film language. Women’s flexible physicality offered filmmakers blank slates for experimenting with the visual and social potentials of cinema. Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes poses major challenges to the foundations of our ideas about slapstick comedy and film history, showing how this combustible genre blows open age-old debates about laughter, society, and gender politics.




Rhubarb Rhubarb


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‘Giggles, gardens and good grub – I love these girls and I love this book’ Davina McCall Rhubarb Rhubarb collects the witty, wide-ranging correspondence between Leiths-trained cook Mary Jane Paterson and award-winning gardener Jo Thompson. Two good friends who found themselves in a perfect world of cupcakes and centrepieces, they decided to demystify their own skills for one another: the results are sometimes self-deprecating, often funny, and always enlightening. Jo would find herself one day panicking about what to cook for Easter lunch: a couple of emails with Mary Jane and the fear subsided, and sure enough, a delicious meal appeared on the table. Meanwhile, Jo helped Mary Jane combat her irrational fear of planting bulbs by showing how straightforward the process can be. The book is full of sane, practical advice for the general reader: it provides uncomplicated, seasonal recipes that people can make in the midst of their busy lives, just as the gardening tips are interesting, quick and helpful for beginners. Mary Jane shares secrets and knowledge gathered over a lifetime of providing fabulous food for friends and family, while Jo’s expertise in beautiful planting enables the reader to have a go at simple schemes with delightful results.




What's the Matter with Mary Jane?


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A smart, witty and subversive mystery about a dangerous stalker, featuring the wise-cracking, pansexual amateur sleuth from The Adventures of Isabel 'Think Patricia Highsmith on helium' Sunday Times Crime Club on The Adventures of Isabel When childhood friend Pris breezes back into her life begging for help with a dangerous stalker, our heroine is thrust suddenly into the world of the Canadian uber-rich. And when Pris's stalker is then murdered outside her book launch, the case is seemingly closed. But something still doesn't feel right, so our nameless heroine delves into her old friend's past, seeking the mastermind behind Pris's troubles before it's too late. Bunnywit does his level best to warn them, but no one else speaks Cat, so background peril soon becomes foreground betrayal and murder. Our detective walks a dangerous path in a world where money is no object and the stakes are higher, and more personal, than ever.




No Tattletales


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Nine-year-old Mary Jane is thrust into a grownup role when she finds herself in charge of her two younger sisters after her mama’s death. Her papa’s marriage to a neighbor widow bent on securing her own children’s future, threatens to tear apart Mary Jane’s once happy home. Under strict orders from Papa not to tattle, Mary Jane and her sisters are forced to quietly endure the mistreatment of their stepmother as they struggle to adhere to their papa’s rule. No Tattletales is a heartwarming story of triumph through adversity, as Mary Jane receives encouragement by remembering her mother’s lessons. She learns to believe that she can do all things through Christ who strengthens her—a big concept for a little girl. No Tattletales shows challenges faced by a young girl growing up on an isolated Arkansas farm in 1888.