The further adventures of a drifter-turned-pastor and a trio of loveable orphans in this second installment of her series.

In everyones life there comes a loss of someone you love. Be it a spouse, parent, good friend or even a pet. Travel along with Bill, Bob, Gracie and B.J. as they walk through the trials and tribulations of this life. Share in their joy as they pass from the darkness into the light. In most books you see yourself as the character, in Gracies Pond you may see yourself. You may be going through the situation one of the characters are and follow them to your solution. To write a story well, it should be experienced. Gracies Pond is based on the authors life. The trip B.J. takes at the age of fourteen searching for love, for family, follows the exact route taken by the author many times. Gracies Pond is a book for all ages, both adults and children alike. One that parents will pass to their teenage children or visa versa. I wish you joy and hope.

In the distant land of Platonia, ancient protectors of the Gracies are dying; only the Gemwings can restore the magic within the Well of Life. After four Gracies volunteer to search for the Gemwings, Platonia comes under attack. Prince Daerahil lives in exile. Something dangerous is drawing ever closer to him; a shape hunting his soldiers in the shadows of Plaga Erebus, the land of wounded darkness. Soon, Daerahil will have to decide whether to join forces with this creature, and receive his help in taking back his kingship in return. But will this decision seal the fate of every living soul in Nostraterra?

Little by little, good things grow! Come play in the garden with Gracie! Join the garden tea party with her sister Sarah, taste tomatoes right off the vine with her crunchy munchy brother Joshua, and plant seeds! Some seeds, though, don't grow fast enough for Joshua. He wants to munch on tomatoes NOW. What will he do while he waits on those tiny tomato seeds to grow? Step into the garden to find out! Author and business owner Lara Casey has learned many rich lessons from the garden, including how to celebrate that God grows good things little by little. In her first children's book, she heads back to the tomato vines to share her joy and wisdom with little gardeners. Includes a free Garden Giggles poster!

"The Invention of Martial Arts examines the media history of what we now call 'martial arts' and argues that martial arts is a cultural construction that was born in film, TV and other media. It argues that 'martial arts' exploded into popular consciousness entirely thanks to the work of media. Of course, the book does not deny the existence of real, material histories and non-media dimensions in martial arts practices. But it thoroughly recasts the status of such histories, combining recent myth-busting findings in historical martial arts research with important insights into the discontinuous character of history, the widespread 'invention of tradition', the orientalism and imagined geographies that animate many ideas about history, and the frequent manipulation of history for reasons of status, cultural capital, private or public power, politics, and/or financial gain. In doing so, The Invention of Martial Arts argues for the primacy of media representation as key player in the emergence and spread of martial arts. This argument overturns the dominant belief that 'real practices' are primary, while representations are secondary. The book makes its case via historical analysis of the British media history of such Eastern and Western martial arts as Bartitsu, jujutsu, judo, karate, tai chi and MMA across a range of media, from newspapers, comics and books to cartoon, film and TV series, as well as television adverts and music videos, focusing on key but often overlooked texts such as adverts for 'Hai Karate', the 1970s disco hit 'Kung Fu Fighting', and many other mainstream and marginal media texts"--

In this tongue twister of a book, Gracie's grandma is grumpy. The grass is not green. The white goat is gray, and Gracie knows why. Read along with this tongue twister as Gracie solves the problem and Grandma grins again. Additional pages give a lesson on writing tongue twisters.

A stunning celebration of every month of the year.

The aim of this book is to provide a complete handbook of information and opinion about the history of the music of the 1950s. There are over 1000 entries on the bands, musicians, songwriters, producers and record labels of this decade, everyone who had any significant impact on the postwar music culture which gave birth to rock and roll. From Doris Day, Nat King Cole, Chuck Berry and Frank Sinatra to the Everley Brothers, Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran and Elvis Presley, this encyclopaedia aims to answer any query about any aspect of 50s music. As well as the giants of the decade, the book also includes those artists who flourished briefly such as Frankie Ford and Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers.

Leaving home is hard when to you have to say goodbye to everyone you know. A boy and his sister experience moving day: saying goodbye to shopkeepers, friends, cousins; watching men in blue load the truck; giving a last glance around their rooms; and driving off to their new home.