Rebecca Books

Another "Fotygraft Album" Shown to the New Preacher by Rebecca Sparks Peters, Aged Eleven.

Rebecca is alone when the preacher shows up and to entertain him she gets out the family album and shows him mock pictures of family pictures with text telling who they are. It's hilarious. Pictures are on one page and are similiar to the one on front cover. Left side is text.

Example:

"That's Mary Jane Pemble. She ust t' be Gramma Spark's hired girl. One time she got t' correspondin' weth a man through a matter-mon'al agency and by-m-by she agrees t' marry th' feller wethout never seein' him, th' silly thin! Well, when th' wedding day come Mary was t' th' deepo t' meet him, and jist as he steps off'm th' train he drops dead uh heart disease. Mary, she took one look at him and says, 'Thank God!' she says, and come right back home and burned up her weddin' dress in th' kitchen stove.
"Pa say what ailed th' feller was th' shock when he seen Mary."

I thought Mary (in her picture) looked like a normal miss until I saw the big pout on her mouth. This book is hilarious.

There's a few frames in back to draw in your own family if you like.

Six months pregnant, widow Wendy Sloan informs her son, twelve-year-old Ben, that she plans to sell the family's failing Nevada Moon Lake Resort. The place needs repairs that her beloved spouse used to perform before he died five months ago and there is no income to hire anyone. She also tells Ben that they, along with his younger sister will move to Sacramento to be closer to her family. A desperate Ben, who does not want to move, uses a class project to send an advertisement for a handyman over the Internet. Ben receives an "A" in school, many hits, but no takers.

Special FBI Agent Josh Walker recovers from a gunshot wound to his leg in which his partner died. His boss sends him to the Sloan's Tahoe resort to recuperate as a handyman as advertised over the Net. Josh obtains the job and finds he is falling in love with the 3.67 Sloans. Wendy and her children return Josh's feelings. However, Josh is marked by a drug cartel for death and knows his life with Wendy and her two kids is built on a lie.

Award winning author Rebecca Winters brightens up romance readers with her touching tales. Her latest story, THE FAMILY WAY, will delight fans with its passionate look at four individuals struggling with life after death. The heroic Josh will do anything to make life easier for his beloved. His love for her children including the unborn shows how caring a person he is. Wendy provides poignancy rarely seen in novels as she raises her two precocious children in the aftermath of her husband's death and her pregnancy. Ms. Winters remains an author for all seasons.

Harriet Klausner

Delightful Christian biography of the blind, gospel hymn writer, Fanny Crosby. Well-written, with large print and illustrations make this book very suitable for the younger reader, as well as the older reader who can read it through in one sitting. Good wholesome reading for the entire family with tender, poignant sections that will speak to the heart of both reader and hearer.

With quick-paced, beautiful prose, Arnold distills, illuminates, and reveals the violence and decay which has become the dominant theme of end of the Century high-fashion. Generously illustrated and neatly referenced, she examines how power is wielded through fashion; how fashion blurs and disguises; and, most importantly, how it gives expression to the desires and anxieties of a buying public overwhelmed by a kind of creeping brutality. Never losing sight of historical and cultural contexts, she nevertheless delights in making her point by the exquisite examination of a detail. In a word, remarkable!

I am a big fan of Rebecca Winters romance novels. She is very good at describing her subjects and "takes you away" to places you can enjoy. She describes areas in which she is familiar and makes you want to go and vacation there. There is an element of "cleanliness" in her writing, not tacky or raunchy. I highly recommend readers to buy her books!

I have used this text very successfully with high school students as well as college freshmen. Instead of the usual categories and abstractions, Butler concentrates on the process of getting an effective paper written quickly.

I took, maybe, nine units of accounting in college. It isn't my favorite subject. If my work involved numbers, I'd rather be in finance which is forward-looking (as opposed to accounting which is backward-looking since it reviews historical performance).

To my pleasant surprise, this book made learning (or re-learning) accounting quite enjoyable. The authors are respected instructors and their expertise is evident in the book's instructional design.

Be sure to utilize the online component of the book. It uses Flash animation and features chapter reviews, quizzes, tutorials, flash cards, et al. The online component complements the written text very well.

Collaboratively edited by National Bureau of Economic Research associates David Card (Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley) and Rebecca M. Blank (Dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and Henry Carter Adams Collegiate Professor of Public Policy, University of Michigan), Finding Jobs: Work And Welfare Reform is a hard-hitting and documented examination of the nationally vital issue of how "welfare-to-work" transitional programs have affected both individual families and the nation at large. A carefully descriptive and scholarly assessed inquiry of the low-skill labor market in changing economic climates, including a projected climate of recession, Finding Jobs gives the good, the bad, and the ugly facts about welfare reform. Touting earned income tax credits, scrutinizing the costs of changing the welfare system, and written with the goal of finding ways to lower overall poverty, Finding Jobs is a highly recommended social and economic treatise, and essential reading for policy makers, social issue activists, and academia concerned with the American economy in general, and the impact of contemporary welfare reforms in particular.

This book of archaeology's greatest hits is aimed at young adults, but it would be hard to imagine readers with a general interest in the science not taking to this large-size book with its plentiful illustrations, photographs and maps.

Because while Rebecca Stefoff tells the familiar stories, advances have always been made at these sights, so each of the 13 essays contain a familiar ring of the old shot through with conclusions drawn from the latest research.

And the stories themselves never lose their charge. Heinrich Schliemann's inspired use of Homer's Iliad and the Odyssey to locate Troy still has the power to enthrall, even as we deplore the methods he used along the way -- smuggling the gold treasures out of Turkey -- as well as the damage he did in excavating the site. Convinced that Homer's Troy was found at the bottom of the site, he carted away layer after layer of unsifted rubble to get there. As it turned out, Troy was older than even he suspected, and he ended up destroying that layer.

The history of archaeology is full of stories like these: Arthur Evans rebuilding the Minoan city of Knossos according to his idea of what they should have looked like (critics call his reconstruction "concrete Crete"); Colorado rancher Richard Wetherill exploring the pubelos once occupied by the Anasazis, carting off thousands of relics to sell to museums; archeologists in general denying that Africans were responsible for building Great Zimbabwe in order to fulfill their notions of white supremacy. But "Finding the Lost Cities" points out that time cannot support a story that is false, and that the truth, eventually, is sifted out.

The First Days Of Class: A Practical Guide For The Beginning Teacher by Rebecca Lynn Wilke is a "reader friendly" guide written especially for those new to the chaotic yet rewarding art of educating young people, whether in a public or private school environment. From integrating oneself into the daily life of one's new teaching job; to tips, tricks, and techniques for staying organized; to long-term strategies and career goals, The First Days Of Class is a highly recommended supplementary book which is especially suited for the novice classroom instructor regardless of grade level or subject matter being taught.