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Recalling the rich experiences from her marriage to Dr. Landrum P. Leavell II, past president emeritus of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, Jo Ann Paris Leavell provides a guide for Christian women, particularly ministers’ wives. She discusses such topics as family and finances, while emphasizing the importance of communication and daily worship. With optimism apparent on each page, Leavell encourages women to use their God-given gifts to shape a positive self-image and achieve their goals of spiritual growth.
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Stuck inside their small stable one very rainy afternoon, two little donkeys listen to a story their grandfather tells them, a story that they will always carry in their hearts. Years ago, when the grandfather was still a young donkey, he was called to serve a man named Jesus.
On the night of the Holy Nativity, Mary gave birth to Jesus in a manger, surrounded by lowly animals and humble shepherds. One such animal, the donkey, was present at the birth and had the honor and blessing to witness the beginning of what she called the Great Miracle—the life of Jesus Christ.
As the owner and chef extraordinaire of the popular Dooky Chase’s Restaurant in New Orleans, Leah Chase has distinguished herself as a community and civic leader through her dedicated involvement with numerous charities and organizations. The preeminent chef in the Dooky Chase kitchen, Mrs. Chase has established a reputation as one of the best purveyors of Creole cuisine in the nation. Hardcover.
Douglas Southall Freeman (1886-1953) remains one of the greatest historians of the Civil War. His monumental biographies, including Lee’s Lieutenants and the Pulitzer Prize-winning R. E. Lee, combined intellectual fervor with meticulous research and a graceful prose style. He received a second, posthumous Pulitzer Prize for his six-volume study of George Washington, still the definitive work on the first president. Freeman’s literary accomplishments are all the more remarkable considering that he was also editor of the Richmond News Leader from 1915 to 1949 and made twice-daily radio news broadcasts. Hardcover.
This rhyming picture book offers children a tour of the Louisiana bayous, marshes, and wetlands and the creatures that inhabit them. Based on a traditional song adapted by the award-winning Louisiana singer/songwriter Johnette Downing, the book invites children to count the families of pelicans, armadillos, black bears, alligators, Catahoulas, nutria, possums, crawfish, and mosquitoes.
Join Maurice as he travels through an enchanted bayou land! While fishing with his brother one morning, Maurice sees a little blue crawfish examining his watch, yelling, “I’m late! I’m late!” The crawfish then jumps into a large hole, and Maurice, seeing that the watch was left behind, decides to follow him down the crawfish hole. Little does he know of the fantastic adventure he is about to have or the unusual characters he will encounter. Hardcover.
The artistic history of Louisiana, from the French and Spanish Baroque painters of colonial Louisiana to the abstraction of the New Orleans modern-ists, can be studied through the diverse styles that are seen in the works of artists who painted in Louisiana in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Hardcover.
Meticulously grounded in original scholarship, this ambitious project is the definitive biography of Dr. Joseph Warren. Making sense of the subject’s opaque eighteenth-century physician’s account books was a feat of both forensic analysis and medical historical scholarship. It was also the elusive key to understanding Joseph Warren’s life experiences. Scholar-physician Samuel A. Forman has used his capabilities in history, medicine, and business accounting combined with his enthusiasm for the topic to produce a volume worthy of its subject.
Presenting the lives of more than twenty aviation luminaries from throughout history, this middle reader is a captivating celebration of man’s aspirations for the skies. From the story of the Wright brothers to that of Alan Shepard, Jr., the author, himself an experienced pilot, introduces young readers to the history of modern flight and the inspiring figures who followed their dreams to navigate over vast oceans, set altitude and speed records, pioneer stunt techniques, and eventually rocket into the great abyss of space.
One day, a clever marketer seizes upon a brilliant solution to get consumers to buy his product, even though it is lethal. Through his research, he has learned that many people in his target market are fascinated by the American cowboy. He proceeds to put the cowboy front and center and make the product an essential but secondary part of that cowboy’s appearance. It works, but what is it? Why did it work? How can it work for you? Hardcover.
This vibrantly illustrated story by first-time children’s-book author Margaret E. Hyde explores the ultrasticky nature of banana-slug slime and the incredible strength of the ant in a whimsical re-creation of the classic children’s story Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Hardcover.
Howdy! For years, city dudes have been trying to move and fit in to the West, more often than not making fools of themselves in the process. Now there is hope for the unenlightened . . . hope that can be found in the pages of A Dude’s Guide to the West. It includes everything that you might ever need to know about how to be a true Westerner.
In 1937, Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, vanished as the world watched. Speculation ran rampant, and most assumed that they had crash-landed in the ocean and perished. But did they? With more than thirteen years of painstaking international research, Dave Horner brings into focus Earhart’s final days. He minutely dissects prevailing theories, comparing them to evidence only recently uncovered. He presents an astonishing and well-documented conclusion that explains, once and for all, what happened to this beloved aviatrix.