Elements of Style

Elements of Style
Author: Erin Gates
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2014-10-07
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 1476744882

From the rising-star designer and author of the hit blog, Elements of Style, a full-color, fully illustrated book packed with honest advice, inspiration, ideas, and lessons learned about designing a home that reflects your personality and style. Elements of Style is a uniquely personal and practical decorating guide that shows how designing a home can be an outlet of personal expression and an exercise in self-discovery. Drawing on her ten years of experience in the interior design industry, Erin combines honest design advice and gorgeous professional photographs and illustrations with personal essays about the lessons she has learned while designing her own home and her own life—the first being: none of our homes or lives is perfect. Like a funny best friend, she reveals the disasters she confronted in her own kitchen renovation, her struggles with anorexia, her epic fight with her husband over a Lucite table, and her secrets for starting a successful blog. Organized by rooms in the house, Elements of Style invites readers into Erin’s own home as well as homes she has designed for clients. Fresh, modern, and colorful, it is brimming glamour and style as well as advice on practical matters from choosing kitchen counter materials to dressing a bed with pillows, picking a sofa, and decorating a nursery without cartoon characters. You’ll also find a charming foreword by Erin’s husband, Andrew, and an extensive Resource and Shopping Guide that provides an indispensable a roadmap for anyone embarking on their first serious home decorating adventure. With Erin’s help, you can finally make your house your home.

Trophemus

Trophemus
Author: Neshamah Clay
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2021-08-04
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1098095715

No one would have ever dreamed how by means of an innocent young man's discovery of his secret place at the tender age of twelve it could have affected Trophemus, his family, and his entire impregnable and sheltered country providentially for the rest of his two lives he would be forced to live. Trophemus was appraised by everyone in the entire nation of Tatonka to be a righteous, good, honest adolescent of the highest moral reputation. He was of unfailing morality but truly as tough as flint, a virtuous young man being of pristine character, well-respected, beyond repute, being required to live in an imperfect world! His father trained him from the beginning as a small boy to always listen to his God-given intuition within his heart for the good of all. Trophemus knew that his intuition would never tell him to do evil, and as long as he was directed to do good, he should listen. And listen he would! Trophemus did have much difficulty making sense of and discerning God's requirement to keep his secret place hidden from all. But time does have a way to envelop all our misunderstanding concerning God's direction in every decision we make. Mystery always surrounds us as we live a righteous, high-integrity human life. He knew well integrity is living the highest moral standard in our daily human life, whether anyone sees us or not, even when we are all alone. This kind of righteous daily living brings peace into one's heart. Peace has a source, and Trophemus was a man on earth full of peace and goodwill to all those in Tatonka who live righteous lives. But not all will live righteous lives as Trophemus gradually learns Schrum is a young man who personifies and emanates evil. Thus his two lives providentially whirl around this antagonistic creature on earth named Schrum. As the race begins in the first chapter by which a fourteen-year-old boy becomes a man, Trophemus has the highest expectations, and all is peaceful in the safe and secure country of Tatonka. Will this man-boy's becoming a man fulfill what destiny has been immaculately arranged upon him? Trophemus!

House of Windows

House of Windows
Author: Adina Hoffman
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2012-08-29
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0385347766

A brilliant and moving evocation of the rhythms of life (and the darker shadows below it) in a working-class quarter of the world’s most fascinating and divided city. In the tradition of the literature of place perfected by such expatriate writers as M. F. K. Fisher and Isak Dinesen, Adina Hoffman’s House of Windows compellingly evokes Jerusalem through the prism of the neighborhood where she has lived for eight years since moving from the United States. In a series of interlocking sketches and intimate portraits of the inhabitants of Musrara, a neighborhood on the border of the western (Jewish) and eastern (Arab) sides of the city–a Sephardic grocer, an aging civil servant, a Palestinian gardener, a nosy mother of ten–Hoffman constructs an intimate view of Jerusalem life that will be a revelation to American readers bombarded with politics and headlines. By focusing on the day-to-day pace of existence in this close-knit community, she provides a rich, precise, and refreshingly honest portrait of a city often reduced to cliche–and takes in the larger question of identity and exile that haunts Jews and Palestinians alike.

Inside the Walls of Troy

Inside the Walls of Troy
Author: Clemence McLaren
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2004-09
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0689873972

The events surrounding the famous battle between the Greeks and the Trojans are told from the points of view of two women, the beautiful Helen and the prophetic Cassandra.

The Gate: The Dark Inside

The Gate: The Dark Inside
Author: Kevin Huckabee
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2017-08-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1387150820

Before recorded history, an alchemist combined with an unknown element from another universe and was transformed into an indestructible monster that could change from a solid, liquid, and gas, and consume all living matter into oblivion. The alchemist's apprentice endeavored across the span of millennia to destroy the Master, until present day, when The Gate attacks Jimmy and Lauren's home. Their lives have been darkened by The Gate, but they must accept the revelation of the past and seek vengeance to save the lives of their friends, their world, and ultimately the universe. To destroy the monster, one will have to become the monster.

The Road Ahead

The Road Ahead
Author: Bill Gates
Publisher: Penguin Group
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1996
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

In this clear-eyed, candid, and ultimately reassuring

In the Land of Blue Burqas

In the Land of Blue Burqas
Author: Kate McCord
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2012-05-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0802482295

“I lived in Afghanistan for five years. I learned the rules – I had to.” Riveting and fast paced, In the Land of Blue Burqas depicts sharing the love and truth of Christ with women living in Afghanistan, which has been called "the world's most dangerous country in which to be born a woman." These stories are honest and true. The harsh reality of their lives is not sugar-coated, and that adds to the impact of this book. Through storytelling, the author shows how people who don't know Christ come to see Him, His truth, and His beauty. The stories provide insight into how a Jesus-follower brought Jesus' teachings of the Kingdom of God to Afghanistan. They reveal the splendor of Christ, the desire of human hearts, and that precious instance where the two meet. All of the names ofthose involved—including Kate's—plus the locations have been changed to protect the participants.

HEY, DUMB POLAK!

HEY, DUMB POLAK!
Author: Edward Jesko
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2024-07-16
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1663264872

My husband Edward passed away at home in Oceanside, California on July 20. 2023 where he has lived since 2015. He was compelled to write his autobiography for various reasons, mainly he loved to read and write. In 2006 he published an autobiography titled “A Journey Into Exile” and “ e Polish - American”. Unfortunately he did not live to see his book titled “ Hey, Dumb Polak” to be published. For most part this book is autobiographical about enlisting with the US Air Force and time spent in France and Germany. is book is also a collection of his life stories in di erent times and places as he travels and seen the world and experienced it. In this book he goes into more details than he brie y wrote about it in “ e Polish - American”. I miss him and want to publish his writings to honor him and ful ll his wishes. —Helena Jesko