Volume One contains 80 paintings, descriptions, and the stories and methods behind the paintings.

From soups, sandwiches, salads, and of course the main course, to cakes, made famous by Mamma and her friends. Here you’ll find recipes for welcoming family and friends into your home whether they cornered you by just dropping by or they were invited. Make all their visits more pleasurable with recipes from the heart. Here you’ll find not just recipes for lunch, brunch, and Feasts from Thanksgiving to New Year’s, but quick easy make-ahead sides and appetizers. It’s that time of the season ...

In the glittering world of Silicon Valley wealth, forbidden attraction and generations of buried family secrets collide when Kadira La Cour-Egan falls for the mysterious Mateo Deville-and discovers the truth about her bloodline could destroy everything she thought she knew.***********Some secrets are buried so deep... even love might not survive their discovery.Kadira La Cour-Egan is about to start the most exciting chapter of her life-college, freedom, and a chance...

Return to California's glamorous Bay Area for a seductive second-chance romance where irresistible chemistry, supernatural mystery, buried family secrets, and a touch of magic collide with a love neither Lavender Lundy nor Flint Ambrose DeVille ever expected.Flint Ambrose Deville and Lavender Ann Lundy discover a love that's as electrifying as it is unexpected, yet danger brews in the shadows of their Silicon Valley Lives.Nicholas La Cour, haunted by his fa...

Racism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. At several historic moments, the trajectory of racial inequality could have been altered dramatically. Perhaps no moment was more opportune than the early days of Reconstruction, when the US government temporarily implemented a major redistribution of land from former slaveholders to the newly emancipated enslaved. But neither Reconstruction nor the New Deal nor the civil rights struggle ...

The events of 1968 are often seen purely as a student revolution, but impacted on every aspect of French society – theatre, film, sexuality, race, the countryside, the factories. This volume explores the full diversity of this extraordinary upheaval, and shows how 1968 continues to reverberate in France today.

From bestselling authors William W. and J. A. Johnstone comes a special action-packed holiday western tale of peace on earth and bad will toward men.Ever since he left Scotland to start a new life in America, Duff MacCallister has stayed true to the values and traditions of his clan in the Highlands. But as Christmas approaches, he yearns to reconnect with his family-even the ones he hasn't met yet. This year, two of his American cousins-twins Andrew and Rosanna-will be joining Duf...

Films as Rhetorical Texts: Cultivating Discussion about Race, Racism, and Race Relations presents critical essays focusing on select commercial films and what they can teach us about race, racism, and race relations in America. The films in this volume are critically assessed as rhetorical texts using various aspects and components of critical race theory, recognizing that race and racism are intricately ingrained in American society. Contributors argue that by viewing and evaluating cultu...

In the bustling streets of St. Louis, two cousins have a dream: to travel west with a wagon train of supplies and make a fortune in trade. Preacher needs a job and is heading west anyway. But he doesn´t bargain on the beautiful woman who sneaks her way into the wagon train and the trouble she brings on board. Then, before he can wash his hands of the whole bunch, he´s suddenly in a fight for his life. Sensing easy prey, outlaws in a lawless land have swooped down on the band of pilgrims al...

In Age of Myth, fantasy master Michael J. Sullivan launched listeners on an epic journey of magic and adventure, heroism and betrayal, love and loss. Now the thrilling saga continues as the human uprising is threatened by powerful enemies from without—and bitter rivalries from within.Raithe, the God Killer, may have started the rebellion by killing a Fhrey, but long-standing enmities dividing the Rhunes make it all but impossible to unite against the common foe. And even if the cla...

Higbee, Colorado, population 147, is about to become a boomtown. The visionary General Wade Garrison is building a railroad to connect Higbee to the renowned Santa Fe Rail. But a rancher named Ike Clinton has his own selfish reasons for making sure these bands of steel go nowhere--and he'll go to any lengths to derail Garrison's plans.Falcon MacCallister owes a war-time debt to the General and answers the call to aid the man in his fight with the Clinton brood.The proud lit...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the way wind energy systems are analyzed and monitored, creating a smarter, more efficient renewable energy sector. By integrating machine learning algorithms and predictive analytics, AI enables operators to forecast wind patterns with greater accuracy and proactively detect faults before they impact productivity. These intelligent systems not only enhance energy output and operational reliability but also reduce maintenance costs and enviro...