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Who was Susan B.Anthony?How did women work to get the same rights as men?When did women get the right to vote?This book will help you discover what life was like during the women's movement.

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A compelling handbook for cancer patients, their families, and friends. Four long-term survivors, with more than 70 years of collective experience dealing with cancer, have put together a guidebook to help others who face this illness. The authors combine personal stories and experiences with practical tips for coping with side effects, information on tests and procedures, emotional and spiritual encouragement, and advice on how to let others help during this difficult time. "This book is many things: a pragmatic and practical handbook on dealing with the details of cancer treatment; a book with helpful and inspirational vignettes; and most of all, a story of friends...each exemplifies a depth of resourcefulness and optimism that has sustained them through the roughest of times." P. Kelly Marcom, MD Director, Breast Medical Oncology and Hereditary Cancer Clinic Duke University Comprehensive Cancer Center ... Read more

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Great book
The book arrived quickly and has been a great asset while learning about cancer.My friend has it and this is helping with the support.

Encouragement for Cancer patients
I really enjoy the upbeat nature of this book. It's not just another book about cancer, it's a triumph of surviving cancer. It's easy to read and very encouraging.

You CAN find time to read this book!
You've recently been diagnosed with Cancer, read this book.Someone close to your heart has just been diagnosed with Cancer, read this book.You're a caregiver, read this book.I actually recommended this book to someone I met at a Cancer support group.Her response, which sums it up perfectly, is "It's straightforward, very readable and packed with information without being overwhelming. I really recommend it for anyone who is at the start of a diagnosis. It would be such a comfort to start with it from the get go."
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From Australia s outback to the neighborhood lawn, animals great and small fill the pages of the 13 Sylvan Dell books in this Wildlife Set. These books support fun fictional stories with natural science themes and vivid illustrations. The set includes award-winning Sylvan Dell classics as well as newer titles. It consists of Tudley Didn t Know, In My Backyard, Little Skink s Tail, Kersplatypus, Animals are Sleeping, Blackberry Banquet, One Wolf Howls, Moose and Magpie, Felina s New Home, Baby Owl s Rescue, Fur and Feathers, River Beds: Sleeping in the World s Rivers, and Little Red Bat. All books feature a 3-5 page For Creative Minds educational section and additional Free Online Educator Resources: 30-80 pages of cross-curricular Teaching Activities, Interactive Reading Comprehension & Math Quizzes, Audio Books, and Related Websites.4-6 pg For Creative Minds educational section in the back40-60 pg cross-curricular Teaching Activities and 3 Interactive Quizzes available free on the book s homepageeBooks with Auto-Flip, Auto-Read and selectable English and Spanish text and audio ... Read more

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Make the same homemade butter, round rye bread, and other foods that Kirsten made in 1854. This cookbook is filled with simple to follow recipes, beautiful photographs, and pioneer party tips. ... Read more

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childhood memories
i had this book as a child and it got lost years ago. i remember that the first thing that i ever cooked was the potato soup recipe in this book. when it came in the mail, the first thing i did was turn to that recipe. i went to the store, bought the ingredients, and made it for supper that night for my parents. it was just as good as we remembered! all the recipes are great and kid friendly. it also has interesting facts and stories.

The best kind of historical fiction
The American Girl series of historical novels, written for girls (and boys) ages 9-12, contain six novels about each of the seven girls. EAch of the novels represents one aspect of each girl's life. Separate from the stories are the related books, including cookbooks and craft books. The specific period of American history is both educational and entertaining.

"Kirsten's Cookbook: A Peek at Dining in the Past with Meals You Can Cook Today" is one of these books. Kirsten and her family are immigrants from Sweden, who relocated in Minnesota in 1854. The terribly hard life of these people made me thoroughly happy I live here and now.

One reason life on this farm was difficult concerned food and its growth and preparation for eating. With no supermarkets or local convenience stores, families grew or gathered, hunted and killed everything they ate. As you read through this "cookbook," you will learn about the pioneer kitchen, the tableware, and tips for cooking these items today.

The standard breakfast for Swedes was substantial because of the hard work required to establish and keep a home. It included Pork Sausage Patties, hard-boiled eggs, Swedish Rice Porridge (oatmeal), rye bread, home-made butter, and ginger cookies. The pork came from the pig raised and killed on the farm, eggs from their own chickens, and butter from their own cow.

Here's the dinner menu: ham, Swedish potatoes (fried with onions), cabbage and apple salad, fruit soup, and almond rusks (a kind of coffee cake). Little side notes are interspersed throughout the "cookbook." Examples include Mortar and Pestle, Lard, Baking Soda, Churning Butter, Bread Ovens, and so on--the practical aspects of immigrant pioneer life.

The last section of each girl's cookbook is Favorite Foods. The Swedish experience includes Potato Soup, Swedish Meatballs, Fresh Applesauce, Swedish Pancakes, St. Lucia Buns, and Pepparkakor Cookies with such flavorful ingredients as cinnamon, ginger, cloves, and maple syrup.

Finally, are you ready for a party after all the work? American Girl editors have a Swedish pioneer party planned for you.

Excellent recipe book, and an excellent Kirsten book
This delightful cookbook is part of the American Girls Pastimes series, and focuses on the sort of recipes that would have been used during the time of Kirsten Larson, 1854. The book begins with some historical notes on pioneer kitchens and eating, and includes a short prayer in Swedish (which my eleven-year-old daughter is trying to memorize). Then the book launches into the recipes. First comes breakfast with homemade sausage patties, hard-boiled eggs (and how to serve), Swedish rice porridge, round rye bread (all hand made), homemade butter, and ginger cookies. Next comes dinner with baked ham slice, Swedish potatoes (better than scalloped potatoes!), cabbage and apple salad, fruit soup, and Swedish almond rusks. Then comes favorite foods, which includes potato soup, Swedish meatballs, fresh applesause, Swedish pancakes, St. Lucia buns, and Pepparkakor cookies (ginger cookies, a traditional Christmas treat, but good anytime). The final chapter is on planning a pioneer party.

This is a very good recipe book. The recipes in here are all easily within the ability of a youngster who is guided by an adult with even moderate experience in the kitchen; no special tools are need. My daughter already made the Swedish pancakes (yum!), and is planning a Swedish meal (at which she'll recite the prayer). I can't wait.

This is a very nice book, an excellent recipe book, and an excellent addition to your Kirsten library.

tasty and informative
The recipes are wonderful, and the history is easy to take in. I learned quite a bit from this book without any suffering.There are lots ofpictures, including photos. This is my kind of cookbook! I intend to buythe other cookbooks in this series. ... Read more

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In this stirring collection, the women who settled what would become Oklahoma tell their own stories in their own words. From thousands of interviews conducted by the Works Progress Administration in 1936-37 and preserved in the Indian Pioneer Papers of Oklahoma, editors Terri M. Baker and Connie Oliver Henshaw have selected the words of women from a wide range of socioeconomic groups, ethnic backgrounds, and geographical locations to relate the pioneer experience as it was really lived. ... Read more

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Women's Studies
This is an excellent text for anyone who is interested in women's studies, the Depression Era, Native American Studies, and primary historical research.This book is also for anyone who desires a feeling of connection to the past.The voices captured by the interviews in this book show the reality of life in the early years of Indian Territory and Oklahoma.This book has the unique quality of exposing interviews of pioneering women and the issues they encountered. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Terri Nunn (born 26 June 1961 in Los Angeles, California) is an American singer and actress. Nunn joined the New Wave, techno-pop band Berlin in 1979, but temporarily left the band the following year to pursue an acting career. In 1981, Nunn rejoined the group as the lead vocalist and would soon forge her recording career with the band. Nunn's greatest success with Berlin was the top-selling single "Take My Breath Away", the love theme from the film Top Gun, which reached the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100. Other popular songs voiced by Nunn include "Sex (I'm A ...)", "The Metro", "You Don't Know", "No More Words", and "Masquerade". She appeared in numerous television shows of the 1970s and 1980s, including T.J. Hooker and Lou Grant. She auditioned for the role of Princess Leia in Star Wars and appeared in the 1978 film Thank God It's Friday. ... Read more

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A pink penguin, a wise old owl, and a whole flock of birds learn about God's love.Percy's Adventures is the delightful story of Percy, a pink penguin with a broken leg, and his escapades at the Mercy Hospital for Injured Birds. You'll also meet Marlene, a hilarious macaw who repeats what everyone says; Jerry, a mean blue jay with anger management issues; Calli, a California quail whose fears render her timid; Roger, a rooster (with a very famous relative) who can't seem to crow at the right time; and a number of other friendly, fascinating birds healing from various maladies. Along with Percy, you will learn about Jesus from Oliver the Owl and Zelda the Quetzal as they gently but wisely explain how to be a Christian. While Percy and his new friends confront many problems-from loneliness to dealing with bullies to stealing-children will subtly see that they, like these comical birds, can make good choices that please the Lord.Sue Blake and Terri Plummer are Christian writers who live in Limington, Maine, with their families. They have written The Pink Penguin Explosion: Drama Games and Christian Skits for All Ages, Volumes I & II; drama for Great Bible Reef VBS; and Drama and Crafts for Akaloo. The characters in Percy's Adventures reflect the many facets of Sue and Terri's personalities, from Calli's insecurities to Flo's haughtiness, with, hopefully, a touch of Oliver's wisdom. ... Read more

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Super Cute Book
This was such a cute inspiring children's book.Percy was an engaging little penquin.I thought it was so cute, I gave it to several of my children's friends for Christmas.They all enjoyed it.I highly recommend this story to any child. ... Read more

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Ten of the best life coaches share their thoughts and inspiration with you on the miracle of life and the joy of living.Terri LevineSusan C. GuiherCynthia PhiferFaith ZimmermanLinda HarkcomStan SmithJo RomanoRonald ShephardSusan RaceTerri Barbato ... Read more

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Conquer your fears, discuss how to deal with bullies, or learn the value of hard work with 10 Sylvan Dell books in the Overcoming Adversity Set. These books support fun fictional stories with vivid illustrations and character development lessons. The set includes award-winning Sylvan Dell classics as well as newer titles. It consists of Carolina s Story: Sea Turtles Get Sick Too!, How the Moon Regained Her Shape, Octavia and Her Purple Ink Cloud, If a Dolphin Were a Fish, The Giraffe Who Was Afraid of Heights, Burro s Tortillas, Little Skink s Tail, Kersplatypus, Where Should Turtle Be? and Champ s Story: Dogs Get Cancer Too! All books feature a 3-5 page For Creative Minds educational section and additional Free Online Educator Resources: 30-80 pages of cross-curricular Teaching Activities, Interactive Reading Comprehension & Math Quizzes, Audio Books, and Related Websites.4-6 pg For Creative Minds educational section in the back of each book40-60 pg cross-curricular Teaching Activities and 3 Interactive Quizzes available free on each book s homepageeBooks with Auto-Flip, Auto-Read and selectable English and Spanish text and audio ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Terri Lynne Boatright Runnels (born October 5, 1966) is a former World Championship Wrestling and World Wrestling Federation professional wrestling manager, televisionhost and occasional wrestler. Runnels began her professional wrestling career in World Championship Wrestling as Miss Alexandra York, manager of the York Foundation. After six years, she joined the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), where she worked for eight years. She was also one of the first WWE Divas. In the early years of her career with the WWF, she managed her real-life husband Dustin Runnels (known on-screen as Goldust) and was a member of the Pretty Mean Sisters alliance. She also managed both The Hardy Boyz and Edge and Christian following the Terri Invitational Tournament in 1999. Subsequently, she had an on-screen rivalry with The Kat, managed The Radicalz stable, and worked as a host and interviewer. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Terri Brosius (maiden name Barous) is an American musician and voice actor, most well known in computer gaming circles as the voice of SHODAN in the System Shock series. Terri was a member of the Boston band Tribe as a keyboardist and occasional vocalist. On Tribe's albums Here at the Home and Abort, Terri sang the song "Rescue Me". On Tribe's album Sleeper, Terri sang the song "Mr. Lieber". Following the band's closure, she and Tribe guitarist Eric Brosius married. Terri is currently a keyboardist and backup vocalist for the Boston-based band The Vivs, which is essentially the same role she had while in Tribe. Brosius and her husband, along with Tribe bass player Greg LoPiccolo joined Looking Glass Studios, a video game developer, where they worked on various game projects, until the closure of Looking Glass Studios in 2000. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Terri Lynn Sauson (born August 5, 1968 in Montreal, Quebec), known professionally as Terri Clark, is a Canadian country music artist who has had success in both Canada and the United States. Signed to Mercury Records in 1995, she released her self-titled debut that year. Both it and its two follow-ups, 1996's Just the Same and 1998's How I Feel, were certified platinum in both countries, and produced several Top Ten country hits.Her fourth album, 2000's Fearless, though certified gold in Canada, was not as successful in the U.S., producing no Top 10 hits. Pain to Kill from 2003 restored her chart momentum in the U.S. with "I Just Wanna Be Mad" and "I Wanna Do It All", while a 2004 greatest hits album produced the Number One "Girls Lie Too". A non-album single, "The World Needs a Drink", and the 2005 album Life Goes On were her last releases for Mercury before she signed to BNA Records in 2007. There, she released the singles "Dirty Girl" and "In My Next Life". Although the latter went to Number One in Canada, she has not released an album for BNA. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pacem in Terris (Peace on Earth) was a papal encyclical issued by Pope John XXIII on 11 April 1963. It remains one of the most famous of 20th century encyclicals and established principles that featured in some of the documents of the Second Vatican Council and of later popes. It was the last encyclical drafted by John XXIII, who died from cancer two months after its completion . Pacem in terris was the first encyclical that the Pope did not address to the Catholic faithful only, but also to "all men of good will". ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Terri Walker (born Chanelle Gstettenbauer) is an English R&B and soul singer-songwriter. Walker has released three albums in the United Kingdom, Untitled, L.O.V.E, and I Am; while the first two releases charted outside the top one hundred of the UK Albums Chart, the third one failed to chart at all. She also provided the majority of the vocals for Shanks & Bigfoot's debut album Swings & Roundabouts. Her third album, entitled I Am, was released on 15 May 2006, following the release of her fourth single, "Alright with Me". ... Read more

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Leaving behind her fashionable West Coast life, Maggie Black comes to the Southwestern desert to pursue her passion and he dreams. Her mentor, the acclaimed poet Davis Cooper, has mysteriously died in the canyons east of Tucson, bequeathing her his estate and the mystery of his life--and death.

Maggie is astonished by the power of this harsh but beautiful land and captivated by the uncommon people who call it home--especially Fox, a man unlike any she has ever known, who understands the desert's special power.

As she reads cooper's letters and learns the secrets of his life, Maggie comes face-to-face with the wild, ancient spirits of the desert--and discovers the hidden power at its heart, a power that will take her on a journey like no other.
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Journalist and ex-poet Maggie Black has inherited the estate of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Davis Cooper, with whom she corresponded for years, but never met. Maggie is a cosmopolitan woman of the West Coast and Europe, and a child of the Appalachian mountains; she has no interest in the desert. She has an ex-husband she still loves in L.A. And Davis Cooper drowned in the Arizona desert, the victim of a mysterious murder. Maggie has many reasons to stay away. Yet she moves to Cooper's desert home, seeking to unravel the secrets of Cooper and his late lover, the mad painter Anna Naverra. But these, Maggie will discover, are not the desert's only mysteries. Ancient powers are stirring--enigmatic and dangerous spirits that would use humans for their own purposes.

Terri Windling is the most important and influential fantasy editor of the 1980s and 1990s: Her many accomplishments include editing (and often discovering) a pantheon of fantasy gods--Steven Brust, Emma Bull, Charles de Lint, Jane Yolen, and many more. She edits, with Ellen Datlow, the indispensible annual Year's Best Fantasy and Horror and the acclaimed revisionist fairy-tale anthology series that began with Snow White, Blood Red. She has won the World Fantasy Award five times. So it's not too surprising that her first novel, The Wood Wife, is well written, fascinating, insightful, and the winner of the 1997 Mythopoeic Award for Best Novel. --Cynthia Ward ... Read more

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Technically accomplished, but the magic falls flat and this books is ultimately a disappointment. Not recommended
Poet Davis Cooper dies, leaving his home in the Tuscon mountains to Maggie Black, his friend and protégé. As she explores his home and the mysteries of his life and death, she begins to suspect that the magic that fills Cooper's poems is not allegory but rather reflects the reality of the desert mountains. Although well written and technically accomplished, exaggerated characters and a predictable plot render the book's magic flat. The Wood Wife may satisfy some readers, but I found it disappointing and don't recommend it.

Windling clearly knows her way around a piece of literature: her characters are well defined (almost to excess), every scene serves a purpose, the plot has a strong conclusion--all in all, she knows what she wants to say, says it well, and The WoodWife is technically accomplished. But technical skill is only one part of a good book, and this novel lacks the other rather more elusive factors which would make it a success. It has no subtlety or passion. The characters are excessively defined, and they too easily accept the magic of their mountain. That magic is a thoughtful spin on some Native American and mythic fantasy tropes, but the plot and writing style that explore it are too straight-forward. Rather than hovering over the land like a mirage, the magic is as flat as the paper it's printed on.

I suspect that some of my apathy of the book is a result of personal preference. The Wood Wife is very similar to Charles de Lint's work and other mythic fantasy novels, which likewise fail to impress me. Readers who are more interested in artistic characters encountering native-styled magical beings on the edges of urban (American) environments, likewise readers which prefer straight-forward storytelling, will have better luck with this book. Regardless, I believe that Windling's technical skill is wasted on this lackluster novel. There is no passion, mystery, or magic here--just attempts at each. As such, I don't recommend The Wood Wife.

The Wood Wife
I loved this book. The story, the way it was written and the fabulous characters! I wish Terri windling would write many more like this and not so any collections! I didn't want this one to end.

Longing
I must admit, I was drawn to this book by the cover art. I buy a calendar of Susan Seddon Boulet's paintings every year. When I read what the book was about, I bought it. I lived in the Sonoran desert for awhile and long for it still, and this book took me right back there. This is a unique story with poets, artists and madmen; shapeshifters abound and magic is afoot. I was pleasantly surprised, as my forays into the fantasy fiction genre have mostly disappointed. Terri Windling has crafted a believable tale of magic in the desert. The creatures she gives us are utterly original and the human characters actually have personalities and histories that are interesting AND fit in well with the context of the story. You care about them. This is an adult story: beautifully told without gratuitous sex and/or violence that pepper so many novels these days. Read this book and you will long for the desert as I do, whether or not you have ever lived or visited there. Please, Ms. Windling, write another book! Write several!

The Spirit will take you.
Terri Windling has written a very entertating book. This has things of interest for those, who like Native American background. It's a love story, but I like it for the southwestern background and native american flavor. I really recommend this it's a good read

One of those stories that stay with you...
I've read this book 4 or 5 times and still enjoy it immensely. I first read it shortly after it first came out, and loved it then. I bought it completely by accident, finding it in an airport bookstore and not even realizing it was fantasy until I started reading it. (I originally thought it was a mystery, and since I prefer Sci Fi/Fantasy, I'm not even sure why I picked it up.)

The characters are well-formed and interesting, as is the plot. The descriptions of the southwest made me want to go there. Years later, spending time in Santa Fe, Canyon de Chelly, Sedona and elsewhere, I felt the images from the book floating back to me and had to re-read the book as soon as I got home from that trip.

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For anyone who has cancer, or their family or friend, this is a planner and organizer. Keep track of all Dr. information including treatment, presciptions, medical history and insurance. You can calendar your appointments and procedures.There is a lot of room for notes and questions and reminders. You can also keep track of friends who offer to help and what and when they can do it. There is also a place to journal and a pocket to store loose information. ... Read more

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This a planner and organizer for people diagnosed with cancer, and going through treatment. It has tips, and positive inspiration, There is a place for all Dr. information, prescriptions, medical history and insurance. There is an undated calendar to fill dates in for appointments. There is a place to list the caregivers names and availability. There is lots of space for questions and answers and notes. There is a journal with a pocket in the back to keep information in. The book folds over or lays flat to make it easy to write in. It can fit in a purse and is easy to keep with you. ... Read more