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200 Texas Outlaws and Lawmen, 1835–1935
by Dan Anderson Laurence YadonA lively reference covering a century’s worth of shooters, sheriffs, and more in the Lone Star State.The Lone Star State is known for producing both vicious outlaws and valorous lawmen. While Machine Gun Kelly terrorized urban civilians, lawmen such as Ranger John Barclay Armstrong tried to keep things under control. This is the story of Texas’s most famous criminals, intrepid lawmen—and in the case of James Edwin Reed, both—as well as such figures as the legendary Judge Roy Bean.This reference brings to life a time before the West was tamed, and also includes a chronology of well-known crimes and a locale list of notorious events.
Cozy Modern Quilts: 23 Easy Pieced Projects to Bust Your Stash
by Kim SchaeferFrom the bestselling author of Flower Festival, a collection of 23 quilting projects for all skill levels that can complement any décor.In this book, you will find a collection of scrappy, pieced projects to decorate your home. There are lap quilts, wall quilts, table runners, and placemats. All of the projects are made from just two simple shapes—the square and the rectangle—with no tricky measurements or stretchy bias edges. Whether you are a beginning or a seasoned quilter who wants something quick and easy, there are projects suitable for your skill level. Although I am known best for my appliqué designs, I started out doing pieced quilts, which I still love. Piecing is really the foundation of all quilt making, an integral building block to more advanced skills. The designs are basic and very versatile. The patterns adapt easily to your style preference, whether it be classic and traditional or more contemporary. Your color and fabric choices will determine your particular style. Most of my quilts are very scrappy; in general, the more fabrics I use, the more I like the quilt. Although the quilts are scrappy, they are not completely unplanned. Many of the quilts offer a great opportunity to utilize your stash. However, I must confess—I do buy “scraps.” If I don't have enough of what I want for a particular project, I buy it.
Ricky Tims' Kool Kaleidoscope Quilts: Simple Strip-Piecing Technique for Stunning Results
by Ricky TimsLearn Tims’ innovative techniques step-by-step to create a stunning kaleidoscope quilt of your own.• An inspirational gallery of 26 student quilts• Like snowflakes, each quilt you make with this technique will be unique• Includes easy steps to enlarge or reduce the size of your quiltCreate a spectacular kaleidoscope quilt with Ricky's unique strip-piecing method for making a multi-faceted pattern. You'll see impressive and intricate results from simple sets of strips; it’s foolproof with little need for pre-planning. The beauty lies in the unpredictability of how the fabric unfolds—just like a real kaleidoscope!
By Their Side: A Resource for Caretakers and Loved Ones Facing an Eating Disorder
by Lara Lyn BellThis practical resource guide shares essential information and personal stories from eating disorder survivors, family members, caretakers, and others.When someone you love is in the throes of an eating disorder, it can be difficult to believe recovery is possible. By Their Side offers help and hope to those fighting alongside a loved one in the struggle against this heartbreaking illness. Providing first-hand testimony, scientific expertise, resources, and actionable guidance, the book serves as a lifeline for both the individual coping with the disease and those struggling to give them the right support.Written collectively under the name Lara Lyn Bell, By Their Side draws together the diverse stories of families, friends, doctors, therapists, caregivers, and recovered eating disorder advocates. The Lara Lyn Bell collective speaks together to emphasize the insidious, cross-cultural impact of this life-or-death issue. As a result of their united anonymity, By Their Side mirrors the reader’s story as they connect with the shared challenges, successes, and perspectives on their journey to healing.
Quilts from Textured Solids: 20 Rich Projects to Piece & Appliqué
by Kim SchaeferCreate modern lap quilts, wall quilts, and table runners with these 20 new projects by the bestselling author of Kim Schaefer’s Calendar Quilts.Go bold with modern tones!• Simple shapes and easy construction yield sophisticated quilts for every room in the house• Textured solid fabrics add depth and interest to every fresh design• Quilt designs are perfect for embellishing with buttons• Hone your color-matching skills by working with tone-on-tone and solid fabricsGive your quilts a more tactile touch with 20 new projects that feature rich, textured solids to create timeless designs. Use machine appliqué and traditional piecing techniques to stitch up lap quilts, wall quilts, and table runners in Kim’s popular style and color palette.
Maverick Quilts: Using Large-Scale Prints, Novelty Fabrics & Panels with Panache
by Alethea BallardTurn bold and unusual fabrics into stunningly beautiful quilts with this guide to creative yet surprisingly simple patterns.Fabrics that feature unique, colorful, or graphic designs can be as irresistible as they are challenging. How do you cut and arrange such beautiful fabric to use in a quilt? Art quilter Aletha Ballard provides the answer in Maverick Quilts. Alethea combines straightforward instruction on the basics of quilting with ten versatile and creative projects that are perfect for showing off bold designs and large-scale prints. Easy to follow and beautifully illustrated, Maverick Quilts show you just how easy it is to sew wild, joyful, colorful quilts with the fabrics you love.
Backyard Birds: 12 Quilt Blocks to Appliqué from Piece O'Cake Designs
by Becky Goldsmith Linda JenkinsThe bestselling design team guides you in stitching up a flock of cheery appliqué birds.Appliqué lovers, you’ll want to make all 12 of these endearing blocks featuring robins, cardinals, orioles, and other feathered friends from the back yard. Designed in the lively Piece O’ Cake style by Linda Jenkins and Becky Goldsmith, these blocks are bursting with fresh colors and are easy enough to be fun for stitchers of all levels. Pattern pack includes a 16-page instruction booklet and full-size patterns for 12 blocks, plus appliqué borders, that make a 52” x 65” quilt and instructions for a 4 block 39'' x 39'' quilt. Or mix and match your favorite blocks to perk up quilts, pillows, tote bags, or apparel.
My Cozy Village: 9 Quilt Blocks to Appliqué & Embroider
by Felicia T. BrenoeCreate an inviting little world bustling with life on a quilt or wallhanging!From a charming church to a country cabin, and the town hall to the fire station, nine full-size appliqué patterns and borders come together to make a full-size quilt as warm as a welcome or a four-block wallhanging that conveys a rich sense of community. Personalize your village with embroidery and choose from two colorways to make it your own. Learn appliqué techniques and pick your favorite method?hand or machine appliqué?to get sewing right away!
Mastering Quilt Marking: Marking Tools & Techniques, Choosing Stencils, Matching Borders & Corners
by Pepper CoryEverything you need to know about quilt marking all in one handy reference book, by the author of 65 Drunkard’s Path Quilt Designs.Quilting stitches do more than hold the layers of quilt together—they add light, shadow, and dimension to create a two-sided work of art. This comprehensive reference on quilt marking is the result of Pepper Cory’s years of teaching quilt marking. Inside, you’ll learn:• How to choose designs that complement and contrast with the quilt top• All about marking tools• How to make the quilt design match in the borders and corners, plus 10 ways to mark a border that do not involve matching• How to make your own quilting stencils• How to preserve a quilt design found on an old quilt• Quilting from the judge’s point of viewFeatures photos of inspiring antique and newly-made quilts.Praise for Mastering Quilt Marking“Finally, a book that addresses the importance of quilting design in relation to the pieced surface. A must-read for quilters devoted to the art of quilting!” —Alex Anderson, quiltmaker, author, and television host of Simply Quilts“Pepper is an expert on working with stencils and creating quilting designs that make quilt tops the best they can be. Reading this book is like being in her class.” —Harriet Hargrave, teacher, author, lecturer, and master machine quilter
ROE Powers ROI: The Ultimate Way to Think and Communicate for Ridiculous Results (Roe Powers Roi Ser.)
by R. Michael RoseA common sense guide to thinking and communication styles that will help readers improve business performance.Business is complicated even in the best of times. We are not in the best of times, and it’s more complicated than ever. ROE Powers ROI de-complicates business and provides for clear insight at every level of its organization.As a business owners, consultant, and advisor, Michael has had the advantage of observing both successful and failed businesses and comparing results from the experience. He brings his own empirical, science-based approach to simplify business utilizing the ROE Methodology. ROE, or Return on EnergyTM, was developed to get the right people into the right seats and maximize your organization’s success, or return on investment.Michael’s ability to bring clarity to complex business jargon is so powerful that it serves well as a foundational tool to better understand and process business today.Praise for ROE Powers ROI“Provides the key to ensuring business success in today’s world.” —Vince Poscente, New York Times–bestselling author of The Age of Speed“A new and important contribution to business and management literature. It lays out a compelling vision for how a CEO can get the best and most collaborative outcomes from the management team.” —Charles D. Connor; President and CEO, American Lung Association“Innovative, invigorating, and right-on, Michael Rose’s ROE Powers ROI will enhance the way you think forever. This book should come with a highlighter. Read, reread, and progress.” —Dean Lindsay, author of The Progress Challenge and Creating Progress in a World of Change
Why Texas: How Business Discovered the Lone Star State
by Ed Curtis Jr.The founder of the elite business network YTexas interviews eighteen CEOs and other business leaders on the growth benefits of the Lone Star State.In recent years, hundreds of companies have relocated to the Lone Star State. But they don’t just move—they stay, grow, expand, and tell others to join them. Ed Curtis reveals why in this volume of insightful interviews with Texas-based Fortune 500 CEOs, entrepreneurs, leaders, and business icons.Did you know that San Antonio Texas is a major biotech center? Were you aware that the first 7-11 was founded in Dallas? Or that Kendra Scott’s first venture was to help cancer patients? Or that podcast and publishing icon Tim Ferriss recently relocated to Austin? Filled with Texan pride, economic insight, and helpful tips from Dallas Stars CEO Jim Lites, T. Boone Pickens, and many more, this is a must-read for anyone contemplating a relocation—or even a visit—to Texas.
Black & White, Bright & Bold: 24 Quilt Projects to Piece & Appliqué
by Kim Schaefer24 easy projects to help you craft bold, modern quilted accessories for your home, by the bestselling author of Kim Schaeffer&’s Calendar Runners. Make it dramatic with 24 easy modern quilts from bestselling author Kim Schaefer (over 200,000 books sold.) Bold black-and-white designs with bright accent colors bring a graphic modern style to your table, walls, or sofa. These quilts are easy to customize by using your own favorite colors as accents. The sewing is easy, too, with Kim&’s simple piecing techniques and fusible appliqué. Book includes 24 projects, some featuring appliqué, in a variety of sizes: placemats, table runners, wall hangings, and lap quilts. Black-and-white modern designs will always stay in style.
The New Quick & Easy Block Tool!: 110 Quilt Blocks in 5 Sizes with Project Ideas—Packed with Hints, Tips & Tricks
by C&T PublishingThe expanded edition of the ultimate no-math reference guide for quilters—featuring even more blocks, diagrams, and essential tips! Cutting and planning blocks is easier than ever with this convenient guide featuring 110 traditional quilt blocks in 5 sizes each. This guide also has rotary-cutting charts, reference tables, a block index, and dozens of precut-friendly designs. Block diagrams make construction a breeze, while color-filled blocks and blank line drawings spur your creativity. Create a unique project for each block!
All Creatures Great and Small & All Things Bright and Beautiful: The Warm And Joyful Memoirs Of The World's Most Beloved Animal Doctor (All Creatures Great and Small #2)
by James HerriotThe first two memoirs in the New York Times–bestselling series from an English veterinarian—and the basis for the Masterpiece series on PBS. All Creatures Great and Small: In the rolling dales of Yorkshire—a simple, rural region of Northern England—a young veterinarian from Sunderland joins a new practice. A stranger in an unfamiliar land, James Herriot must quickly learn the odd dialect and humorous ways of the locals, master outdated equipment, and do his best to mend, treat, and heal pets and livestock alike. All Things Bright and Beautiful: After his first day on the job, Herriot&’s mentor warns him that the life of a country veterinarian is full of small triumphs and big disasters, but that he&’d never be bored. From night visits to drafty barns during freezing Northern England winters to the beautiful vitality of rural life in the summertime to the colorful menagerie of animals—and their owners—that pass through his office, Herriot experiences new challenges and joys every day. In these pages, Herriot trains under his eccentric boss in a rustic English village, courts the woman that becomes his wife, and meets the people he would come to write about for a lifetime. This witty and heartwarming collection, based on the author&’s own experiences, became an international success, winning over animal lovers everywhere. Perhaps better than any other writer, Herriot reveals the ties that bind us to the creatures in our lives. Praise for All Creatures Great and Small: &“One of the funniest and most likeable books around.&” —The Atlantic &“Refreshingly original . . . Hilarious, touching, athletic and warming . . . Dr. Herriot&’s characters . . . rival any from British fiction.&” ―Los Angeles Times
Foolproof Machine Quilting: Learn To Use Your Walking Foot--paper Cut Patterns For No Marking, No Math--simple Stitching For Stunning Results
by Mary MashutaDiscover how to design and stitch beautiful machine quilting with the walking foot on your home sewing machine.Intimidated by free-motion machine quilting? You don’t need it to beautifully machine-quilt your own tops. Well-known teacher Mary Mashuta’s classroom-tested methods guarantee quilting success. Mary teaches you to use heavier-weight threads on the top of your machine, rather than in the bobbin, so that all your stitching is done on the right side of the quilt.• Learn to combine the right needles, threads, and batting to create exactly the look you want• Add style to your machine quilting with heavy-weight threads and your machine’s built-in decorative stitches• Use paper folding and cutting to create your own simple quilting motifs and border designs• Learn to adapt commercial templates and stencils into quilting motifs
You Can Have It All, Just Not All At Once! (You Can Have It All, Just Not All At Once! Ser.)
by Sherri Elliott-Yeary“A book about real women and the inward and outward challenges [they] struggle through each day just living life. Sherri captures the soul of women.” —Jodie Laubenberg, Texas State LegislatorIn You Can Have It All, Just Not All at Once! you will learn how to: live with uncompromising integrity to attract authentic success, use the power of engagement to achieve big things, harness your intuitive vision to attain the life you desire, energize your performance with long-term endurance, intensify your genius for accelerated achievement, change the way you measure success, and be happier with less.“Treat yourself to Sherri Elliott-Yeary’s new book, You Can Have It All, Just Not All at Once!, and you’ll be refreshed, relaxed, and reenergized.” —Ebby Halliday, founder, Ebby Halliday, Realtors“I’m glad Sherri’s book was written, and I hope all women find their balance and joy in life through these pages.” —Clint Haggard, fifth generation, Haggard Family Advisors“A thoroughly inspiring book of real women facing seemingly insurmountable struggles and how they survived and triumphed to achieve victory.” —Valerie Freeman, CEO, Imprimis Group, Inc.“A thought-provoking departure from the typical approach to ‘having it all.’ It takes the reader through real-life challenges that courageous women have met and managed, and through which each has found new strength, renewed hope, greater determination, and the wisdom to know what really matters in life.” —Dr. Sherry Buffington, coauthor of Power Shift“A refreshing balance that blends the struggles with the strengths of living a full and potent life . . . Sherri Elliott-Yeary provides practical information and tools that women can implement immediately.” —Brenda J. Iliff, clinical director, Caron Texas Treatment Centers
Scrappy Bits Appliqué: Fast & Easy Fusible Quilt, 8 Projects, Foolproof Technique
by Shannon BrinkleyGo beyond basic scrap quilts with this guide to turning fabric bits snips into striking modern art quilts—featuring 8 quick and easy projects.In Scrappy Bits Applique, fabric designer and quilt artist Shannon Brinkley shares her secrets to putting sewing room scraps to use. With her easy stitching and collage techniques, she shows how simplicity can produce dramatic results. Shannon’s “scrappy” approach to quilting uses a fast raw-edged technique. With step-by-step instructions, she teaches you how to intuitively choose, cut, and sew bits of fabric to create a collage of unique images and textures. Included are eight engaging quilt projects to try out your new skills.
Self-Made: Generate Your Wealth Like a Millionaire! (Self-made Ser.)
by Brian Koslow Dr. Meryl KoslowThe renowned success coach reveals the three fundamental principles for building wealth in this practical and inspirational guide.Making a lot of money is easy—once you know how. This is the reason the rich tend to get richer. When you have this knowledge and put it into action, your financial destiny isn’t simply left to chance. In Self-Made, renowned success coach Brian Koslow teaches you how to make powerful choices that lead to greater profits. You’ll learn how to maintain a “Wealth Mind-Set,” build “Mutually Advantageous Relationships,” and develop “Millionaire Skills.”Presented in an easy-to-read format with summaries, millionaire tips, and exercises, Self-Made is the ultimate study guide for success. By putting Brian’s advice into action, you will increase your effectiveness at creating wealth and finally control your financial destiny!
Nigel the Spider
by Robert NeyNigel the spider is a colourful character who lives in a shed and loves life to the fullest. One day Nigel suffers a painful incident with a fellow shed inhabitant but seems to survive, albeit battle-scarred. After waiting for sunshine, Nigel ventures into the garden seeking adventure. It soon unfolds as he revels in surrounding beauty and joyous affection from fellow creatures. However, Nigel learns not all are happy and friendly when he meets a nasty garden resident. His adventures prove bittersweet, but will he live to tell the tale? While delighting children, this zany humour also entertains adults.
Jerry
by Emma MitchellDo you believe in spells so tragic? Introducing Jerry, the magic so nifty. With a tummy that sags and a scent quite quirky, An ear that’s been nibbled, and a neck that’s wobbly… He might not seem like a hero at first glance, But with magic abounding, just give him a chance!
Blood in West Virginia: Brumfield v. McCoy
by Brandon Kirk“Kirk’s marvelous tale of one of the bloodiest Appalachian feuds is a rip-roaring page-turner! . . . a good spirited read.” —Homer Hickam, #1 New York Times–bestselling author This riveting account is the first comprehensive examination of the Lincoln County feud, a quarrel so virulent it rivaled that of the infamous Hatfields and McCoys. The conflict began over personal grievances between Paris Brumfield, a local distiller and timber man, and Cain Adkins, a preacher, teacher, doctor, and justice of the peace. The dispute quickly overtook the small Appalachian community of Hart, West Virginia, leaving at least four dead and igniting a decade-long vendetta. Based on local and national newspaper articles and oral histories provided by descendants of the feudists, this powerful narrative features larger-than-life characters locked in deadly conflict.“Not only does Blood in West Virginia present a compelling narrative of a little known feud in southern West Virginia, it provides valuable insights into the local politics, economy, timber industry and family life in Lincoln County during the late 1800s.” —Dr. Robert Maslowski, President of Council for West Virginia Archaeology and graduate instructor at the Marshall University Graduate College“Tells a fascinating story that elevates the Lincoln County feud to its proper place in Appalachian and West Virginia History.” —Dr. Ivan Tribe, author of Mountaineer Jamboree“This book brings a deadly story to life. Author Brandon Kirk has done remarkable work in untangling the complex web of kinship connections linking both friends and foes, while detailing the social and economic strains of changing times in the mountains.” —Ken Sullivan, executive director, West Virginia Humanities Council, and editor of West Virginia Encyclopedia
A Wing and a Prayer: The "Bloody 100th" Bomb Group of the US Eighth Air Force in Action Over Europe in World War II
by Harry H. Crosby&“A compelling account of the air war against Germany&” written by the navigator portrayed by Anthony Boyle in Apple TV&’s Masters of the Air (Publishers Weekly). They began operations out of England in the spring of &’43. They flew their Flying Fortresses almost daily against strategic targets in Europe in the name of freedom. Their astonishing courage and appalling losses earned them the name that resounds in the annals of aerial warfare and made the &“Bloody Hundredth&” a legend. Harry H. Crosby—depicted in the miniseries Masters of the Air developed by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg—arrived with the very first crews, and left with the very last. After dealing with his fear and gaining in skill and confidence, he was promoted to Group Navigator, surviving hairbreadth escapes and eluding death while leading thirty-seven missions, some of them involving two thousand aircraft. Now, in a breathtaking and often humorous account, he takes us into the hearts and minds of these intrepid airmen to experience both the triumph and the white-knuckle terror of the war in the skies. &“Affecting . . . A vivid account . . . Uncommonly thoughtful recollections that address the moral ambiguities of a great cause without in any way denigrating the selfless valor or camaraderie that helped ennoble it.&” —Kirkus Reviews &“Re-creates for us the sense of how it was when European skies were filled with noise and danger, when the fate of millions hung in the balance. An evocative and excellent memoir.&” —Library Journal &“The acrid stench of fear and cordite, the coal burning stoves, the heroics, the losses . . . This has to be the best memoir I have read, bar none.&” —George Hicks, director of the Airmen Memorial Museum
Foolproof Crazy Quilting: Visual Guide--25 Stitch Maps * 100+ Embroidery And Embellishment Stitches
by Jennifer Clouston&“[The author] presents her fabulous crazy quilt composed of colorful fabrics cut in hexagons [and] describes how to take each stitch.&” —Publishers Weekly Nothing shows off beautiful stitching and embellishments like the blank canvas of a crazy quilt. Jenny Clouston&’s gorgeously illustrated primer shows you how to make your own heirloom crazy quilts. Learn: which fabrics, threads, and needles to usehow to piece crazy quilt blockshow to embroider with thread, ribbons, beads, and other embellishmentshow to assemble your blocks into a finished quilt, and more Included are complete instructions for over 100 embroidery, beading, and embellishment stitches; links to full-size patterns for nine hexagonal crazy quilt blocks; and 25 stitch keys showing proper stitch placement and thread and needle selection for 25 different blocks.
Fresh Pineapple Possibilities: 11 Quilt Blocks, Exciting Variations—Classic, Flying Geese, Off-Center & More
by Dixie Haywood Jane HallTwo award-winning quilters serve up creative new twists on the classic block! Award-winning quilters Jane Hall and Dixie Haywood have been making quilts with the Pineapple Log Cabin block for decades. Now you can use their secrets to create your own perfect pineapple quilts. Learn to use foundation piecing to sew perfectly accurate blocksPlay with colors and block layouts to design your own vibrant pineapple patternsFeast your eyes on quilts that use the 10 different blocks in exciting new waysLinks to full-size foundation patterns for perfect piecingCutting charts for 10 different pineapple blocks in various sizesComplete instructions for two quilts help you master the basics
Transgender Profiles: Time for a Change
by Linda DeFruscio“A comprehensive and enlightening must-read primer for anyone who is beginning their transition from male to female or female to male.” —Jeanette Renee, TLC’s I Am JazzTransgender Profiles: Time for a Change is an inspirational volume from Linda DeFruscio about the courage it takes to become the person you have always felt you were inside—to shirk off the mask that you have worn for your whole life until this moment. As an electrologist, Linda sees clients every day who are in the process of transitioning to a different gender, and she is there to help them in their journey of self-expression and the claiming of their identity.Filled with twenty unique stories of bravery from all different walks of life, this book is a tribute to all the courageous people who take their identity in their own hands and go forth to find the body that fits the soul and mind within. For those considering transitioning, for those looking for perspective and guidance in supporting loved ones, or for those who are curious and want to understand the struggles and triumphs of transgender individuals, Transgender Profiles is an invaluable resource.“Not only does this work open one’s eyes and mind to the transgender community, it goes beyond that to remind us of the importance of loving and caring for one another. Thanks to people like Linda DeFruscio, our world is becoming a more accepting and safer place.” —Andrew J. Safioleas, PharmD, MBA, PRS, RPh, inpatient pharmacist and music instructor“This clear, helpful collection tells many of our stories in the irreplaceable and accessible form of brief oral histories.” —Stephanie Burt, Professor of English, Harvard University