REMEMBRANCE MYRA PEPPERS WELLER


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Myra Peppers Weller (1856 -1943) was first born of 9 children to Mary Ellen Prettyman Peppers and her husband John, Peppers in Pekin, Illinois, Sept. 7, 1856. At the age of three she traveled with her parents in a covered wagon to a homestead in Iowa, where eight more children were born to these hardy pioneers.This is a book of Myra's life and times, and a book of Myra's essays on her travels and experiences. Relevant photos and notes have been added to the text where appropriate.




REMEMBRANCE - MARION DWIGHT HARBAUGH


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Rememberances of Marion Dwight Harbaugh, by his family, associates and friends. Includes education, professional history, professional writings, personal writings, poetry, relevant miscellaneous, and illustrations.




PRAIRIE SONGS


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Poetry of an Iowa farm lady in an era of real people untainted by modern media exposure.




HARBAUGH WRITINGS


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This is a compilation of the writings by or about the Harbaugh Family. The goal is to give the reader a glimpse of the real people these ancestors and relatives were; including Grandfather Malendez Harbaugh, Grandmother Alice Harbaugh, Aunt Harriet Harbaugh, Aunt Lucile Noland, Aunt Effie Warvelle, Father Marion Dwight Harbaugh and Mother Marjorie Warvelle Harbaugh. Relevant writings from other relations are also included.




Don't Try This at Home


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Step into the booth. Check your judgments at the curtain. Close your eyes. Listen: you can hear the voices of the visitors who sat here before you: some of the most twisted, drug-addled, deviant, lonely, lost, brilliant characters ever to be caught on film. What do you have to offer the booth?







Crossing the Quality Chasm


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Second in a series of publications from the Institute of Medicine's Quality of Health Care in America project Today's health care providers have more research findings and more technology available to them than ever before. Yet recent reports have raised serious doubts about the quality of health care in America. Crossing the Quality Chasm makes an urgent call for fundamental change to close the quality gap. This book recommends a sweeping redesign of the American health care system and provides overarching principles for specific direction for policymakers, health care leaders, clinicians, regulators, purchasers, and others. In this comprehensive volume the committee offers: A set of performance expectations for the 21st century health care system. A set of 10 new rules to guide patient-clinician relationships. A suggested organizing framework to better align the incentives inherent in payment and accountability with improvements in quality. Key steps to promote evidence-based practice and strengthen clinical information systems. Analyzing health care organizations as complex systems, Crossing the Quality Chasm also documents the causes of the quality gap, identifies current practices that impede quality care, and explores how systems approaches can be used to implement change.







Wingfeather Tales


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Return to the world of the Wingfeather Saga with Andrew Peterson and his all-star author friends—now featuring new illustrations and the first-ever Wingfeather comic! Immerse yourself in a land of bomnubbles and quarreling cousins, sea dragons and book publishers, thieves and Fangs and secret maps. Here within these pages lie seven stories of the distant past, lost adventures, forgotten songs, and heartbreaking histories. The Shining Isle is restored, but Aerwiar is vast—and these authors have tales yet to tell: • Explore the inner walls of Yorsha Doon, just West of the Woes of Shreve, on the edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness, from the eyes of young Safiki in “The Prince of Yorsha Doon” from the creator of Aewiar, Andrew Peterson. • Jennifer Trafton's warm and whimsical writing brings to life a publishing nightmare populated by the many beasts of Skree in “The Wooing of Sophelia Stupe.” • Learn the origins of Ollister Pebmrick's mysterious entry in the Creaturepedia about his encounter with a raggant in “Willow Worlds” by N. D. Wilson. • Travel with young Podo Helmer on an epic hunt for sea dragons in “From the Deeps of the Dragon King” from A. S. Peterson. • Jonathan Rogers presents “The Ballard of Lanric and Rube,” sung by Armulyn the Bard, tale-spinner of the imaginary Shining Isle of Anniera, in On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness. • Discover what life was like for Maraly and Gammon in post-war Skree in “Shadowblade and the Florid Sword"—the first-ever Wingfeather comic—by Andrew Peterson. • Douglas McKelvey's epic, heartbreakingly hopeful novella "The Places Beyond the Maps” recounts a father's journey to redemption. You'll also find delightful illustrations by Justin Gerard, Hein Zaayman, Cory Godbey, John Hendrix, Nicholas Kole, Aedan Peterson, Joe Sutphin, Jay Myers, and Doug TenNapel. Enter a rich, imaginative world that becomes more real, more mysterious, more dangerous, and more beautiful with each story's telling.