A Manual of Mending and Repairing With Diagrams is a comprehensive and practical guide designed to empower readers with the essential skills needed to restore and prolong the life of everyday household items. Authored by Charles Godfrey Leland, this manual delves into the art and science of mending, offering clear, step-by-step instructions accompanied by helpful diagrams to illustrate key techniques. The book covers a wide range of materials and objects, including clothing, furniture, chi...

The Mystic Will: A Method of Developing and Strengthening the Faculties of the Mind, through the Awakened Will, by a Simple, Scientific Process Possible to Any Person of Ordinary Intelligence is a groundbreaking self-help classic by Charles Godfrey Leland. First published in the early 20th century, this book offers a practical and accessible approach to harnessing the latent powers of the human will. Leland, a renowned writer and folklorist, presents a unique blend of scientific reasoning ...

Combining thousands of insightful notes with the complete ESV Bible text, the Literary Study Bible helps readers understand God's Word more fully, in all its richness and beauty. It highlights the Bible's story lines, complex characters, historical settings, literary genres, motifs, theological themes, imagery, and important terms, making the Bible come alive with greater clarity and impact. This one-of-a-kind study Bible is an indispensable tool for devotional reading and in-dept...

**FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZENamed one of the best books of the year by: THE NEW YORKER • THE WASHINGTON POST • THE ATLANTIC • NPR • PUBLISHERS WEEKLY • LITHUB"Fascinating...The great strength of this memoir is its voracious, humble curiosity." - The Atlantic, The 10 Best Books of the YearA witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author’s transition from sightedness to blindness and his quest to learn...

When a team of brilliant kids-turned-astronauts find themselves in serious trouble in outer space, they must work together to get back home. Find out what they learn and if they get back safely in this STEAM-driven series created by real life astronaut, Leland Melvin!"[A] series that will show kids that if they can dream it, they can do it." —People Magazine"...encourages more kids to explore space if they want to or never thought they could." —...

Best-selling author, Toni Leland, crafts a plot that will bring chills to any reader.To life-long friends, Jessica Rayder and Faith Angelo, Easton Ridge Equestrian Center is more than a successful riding lesson business--it's a dream-come-true, one that the two young horse trainers have planned since childhood. Set in beautiful Connecticut, the training center seems the perfect set-up, but Fate has other plans.When a series of tough breaks threaten disaster, Faith's tragic ...

Why the Good Book Is a Great Read If you want to rightly understand the Bible, you must begin by recognizing what it is: a composite of literary styles. It is meant to be read, not just interpreted. The Bible’s truths are embedded like jewels in the rich strata of story and poetry, metaphor and proverb, parable and letter, satire and symbolism. Paying attention to the literary form of a passage will help you understand the meaning and truth of that passage. How to Read the Bible as Literat...

In this panoramic novel set in historic Guthrie, Oklahoma, someone is stalking Quarter Horse breeder Kellie Sutton, and the one person who can protect her is the man whose heart she broke 15 years ago. Horses and land hunger brew into a rip-roaring tale of depravity, deceit, and family tragedy in this suspenseful equestrian novel.A prize stallion savaged. A beautiful daughter snatched. An ex-husband with a dark side.Will Sheriff Ed Campbell be able to put his broken heart as...

Young equine veterinarian, Liz Barnett, has moved her practice from Kentucky to rural California, excited by the chance to partner with an established equine clinic, as well as show her beautiful Arabian horses. She soon finds that she's living in an area by-passed by time and progress, as she butts heads with stubborn old ranchers who want nothing to do with a young female vet.Hunky Arabian horse trainer, Kurt DeVallio, has spent the past ten years struggling with a tragic past an...

Treacherous women, beautiful horses, and dangerous criminals confront Kovak & Quaid at every turn in Toni Leland's third book in the Kovak & Quaid mystery series.Foals are dying of unknown causes at a large Arabian horse farm, sending ex-cop Kim Kovak and fraud investigator Garrett Quaid on a relentless search for answers, leading them to some dark corners of human nature, a brush with international crime, and a shocking discovery.Kim’s penchant for knowing all the details,...

Melody Adams, four-time National Barrel Racing Champion, has retired to a tiny Oklahoma town to see where the rest of her life would go. Her husband’s death two years ago knocked the pins out from under her, a situation that seemed as though it might be remedied by retirement. But now she’s not so sure.Melody is determined to do some good works with her newly-found freedom from the rigors of the show circuit and, possibly, help her deal with the memories. She learns of a Indian orp...

Nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes." --Tom DeLay, America's Community Bankers meeting, March 12, 2003* After revealing absurd 911 phone calls and America's dumbest criminal antics, former Saturday Night Live writer Leland Gregory skewers political pandering and pen-pushing philosophizing.Leland Gregory generates the best laughs by exposing the worst of human nature. Inside Idiots in Charge: Lies, Trick, Misdeeds, and Other Politic...