Climb aboard, read, and sing along with this adorable family of bumbling bears as they row, row, row their boat on a merry adventure in this beloved, reimagined nursery rhyme. Hold on to your hats and get ready to laugh as these irresistible characters rock, bash, and splash their way into your heart. Iza Trapani brings a fresh spin to this classic song with new verses and sweet and vibrant illustrations. Young readers will recognize the song and delight in seeing it come to life as the bears paddle their way through the pages.

"Get down, Jim. He has a gun." Alone and under siege in their quarters, the author could only watch the television screen, which showed her husband being assaulted by a mob of angry Chinese students at the Taipei airport. This is just one of the many gut-wrenching experiences that, along with the ridiculous sight of forty-seven live lobsters crawling around their garage floor, make this book one that will take you from laughter to tears as the life of a Navy wife unfolds. Besides being wife, raiser of children, maintainer of home, cars, lawns and appliances of all sizes, she must be able to move on a days notice. And, as an entertainer, a friend, a communicator and world traveler, she must be able to do it alone. Without a sense of humor, she is, in Navy terms, dead in the water. Covering the Korean and Vietnam wars, the reader is given a birds-eye account of the frustrations and excitement of a Navy pilot, as he catapults off aircraft carrier decks to fly strikes over the heavily defended targets of Korea and Vietnam. This is the story of two careers his and hers.

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Desmond Bragg was born in Port Arthur, Texas, in 1919. An orphan at the age of four, he spent the next ten years of his life in an orphanage in Beaumont, Texas. At the age of fourteen, he was sent to live with a foster family on a dairy farm in Kountze, Texas. Two years later, with the farm going bust and unable to graduate with his class due to his failing grades, Desmond dropped out of high school and left Texas for good. He hopped on a freight train at midnight and headed north to seek his fortune. With fifty cents and a biscuit in his pocket he journeyed by foot and rail through Oklahoma, Kansas, and Colorado. It was in Denver, Colorado, at the age of seventeen, that Desmond joined the army. Sent to Ft. Warren, Wyoming, he was befriended by a kind and loving missionary family, and this encounter proved to be a turning point in his life. Desmond was determined to leave the army to attend North Park College and Seminary in Chicago, Illinois, to become a minister. Eventually, he was sent to a small town in Northern Wisconsin as an intern minister. There, he met the love of his life, but he was plagued by serious doubts and found he no longer believed in the fundamentalist teachings of the church. It was his dark night of the soul, and he left the seminary to join the navy near the end of World War II, feeling profoundly disloyal to his North Park friends and mentors and utterly depressed. It was his marriage to Jean that saved him and turned his life around. With her encouragement and support, Desmond went on to get a bachelor, masters, and doctorate in education from the University of Wisconsin. Eventually, Desmond and Jean and their three children settled in Iowa, where Desmond was a college professor at Drake University for twenty-five years. Also, during this period, Desmond became a marathon runner as well as a noted lecturer and writer on the subject of UFOs, having investigated the subject since his sighting in 1951. In 1987, a tragic accident left him paralyzed and in a wheelchair. He went on to coauthor a comprehensive book on UFOs entitled Science Meets the UFO Enigma. This is the true story of one man's triumph over adversity and a tribute to the steadfast human spirit.

Learn to live and lead with enthusiasm and optimism, impact your team, and transform your culture In Row the Boat, Minnesota Golden Gophers Head Coach P.J. Fleck and bestselling author Jon Gordon deliver an inspiring message about what you can achieve when you approach life with a never-give-up philosophy. The book shows you how to choose enthusiasm and optimism as your guiding lights instead of being defined by circumstances and events outside of your control. Discover how to put the three key components of row the boat into practice in your life: The Oar: The energy. Only you can dictate whether your oar is in the water or whether you take it out and decide not to use it. The Boat: The sacrifice. The more you give, serve, and make your life about helping others, the better and more fulfilled your life will be, and the bigger your boat gets. The Compass: The direction. The vision you have for your life and the people you surround yourself with help create the dream of where you want to go. Perfect for athletes, coaches, business leaders, and anyone else who hopes to squeeze a little more enjoyment and productivity out of life, Row the Boat will propel leaders, teams, and organizations to greater heights than they have ever reached before.

There is sometimes a fine line between history and folklore. This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society features articles that tell stories about real-life characters from the historical past of Texas, as well as offer personal reflections about life from diverse perspectives throughout the last century. These contributors go beyond merely stating facts about dates or locations or names of the events and people that can be found in court documents or genealogical records; several of these authors provide a very intimate connection to the tales they share. These articles are not just about people that we read about as school children, and they do not merely describe how our culture used to be, or how vastly it has changed; rather, they emphasize the ways we keep our culture alive through the retelling of the events and customs and major figures that are important enough to pass on from one generation to the next. The first section covers legendary characters like Davy Crockett, Mody Boatright, Sam Houston, and Cynthia Ann Parker from our state’s past, as well as people who were bigger or bolder than others, yet seem to have been forgotten. Some of those characters came from different countries, while others are connected directly to our Texas Folklore Society family tree. The second section includes works that examine songs of our youth, as well as the customs and social constructs associated with music, whether it’s on a football field or in a prison yard. The works in the final section recall memories of a simpler time, when cars and home appliances lacked modern conveniences we now take for granted, before Facebook and YouTube allowed us to become Internet movie stars, and when it was a treat just to go and “visit” with family and friends.

Exciting never before seen photos, interviews, and memorabilia of Elvis' tours of Texas.

Presented here for the first time is the collected scripts of episodes 1 through 15 of the popular and long running science fiction, fantasy, comedy, adventure radio show called ""Paranoria, TX."" ""Paranoria, TX"" is old school radio theater with a new and outrageous geeky spin! Follow along as six misfits try for world domination...and maybe a nice latte' over a game at the local comic book store.