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For the first time, supporting character Mary Ware steps out of Annie Fellows Johnston’s hugely popular The Little Colonel Series and into her very own collection of adventures. With Mary Ware’s acceptance into Warwick Hall, a prestigious boarding school that had previously educated Lloyd Sherman, the Little Colonel, she quickly becomes a favored student with the headmistress, Madame Chartley. Paperback.
Master of the Mississippi is the story of Henry Miller Shreve, who taught the Mississippi River to fetch and carry for the nation.
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) is considered the most important French painter of the 20th century. A master of the use of color, Matisse founded the Fauvist school of painting, whose members were known for using bold and iconoclastic hues. During his long and productive career, Matisse experimented in several other media, most notably collage and stained glass. Hardcover.
The Indonesian islands of Bali and Java offer the traveler a scenic panorama of plantation-covered plains, lush forests, rugged mountains, sandy beaches, bountiful coral reefs, and even live volcanoes. This exquisite and appealing landscape, mixed with the colorful presence of the Balinese and Javanese people themselves, creates an island paradise that is sure to draw visitors back time and time again. Paperback.
This biography for young readers follows the life of popular American artist Maxfield Parrish, who helped develop the future of visual arts in the United States. A model for future generations, Parrish brought his daydreams to life and shared them with everyone through posters, calendars, murals, advertisements, and illustrated children’s books. Replicas of the artist’s work, including his famous landscapes, accompany his story.
In this motivational manual, the author, convinced that everyone has the potential to achieve success, addresses readers directly. Each letter, like advice from a wise old uncle, covers a different tool for self-improvement: positive thinking, goal setting, time management, and many more. Drawing on lessons he learned during his highly lucrative real-estate career, Seymour teaches readers how to “switch on” and motivate themselves to pursue, and achieve, their dreams.
One of the most feared and controversial players in the United States Army during the Second World War, George S. Patton was unstoppable. He was both revered by the enemy as well as dreaded; Adolf Hitler found him to be one of the most impressive and callous men to be faced on the battlefront. General Patton was not known for his compassion. He led the Western Task Force during the invasion of North Africa and across Europe with relentless speed and persistence and never took no or laziness for an answer. However, there was much more to the general than he let on.
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A crossover teacher is a white educator who, to meet a court-ordered integration ratio, is arbitrarily transferred to a school where the majority of the student body is of a different race. Manie Culbertson was such a teacher. In this emotional diary, she records her thoughts and feelings throughout her semester at Glenview School, to which she was assigned. The results of her experience were completely unexpected.
At McGuire’s Irish Pub the mood is nothing if not fun. McGuire’s boasts its own award-winning wine cellar and microbrewery in addition to its many specialty drinks. The real draw is the food. As anyone lucky enough to have dined at McGuire’s will tell you, the food deserves to be served on a silver platter—or at least eaten with a golden spoon. For five consecutive years, the Pensacola pub has earned the coveted Golden Spoon Award, which denotes it as one of Florida’s top restaurants.
Based on presentations of Meanwhile, Back at Café Du Monde . . ., these foodie monologues invoke your own special comfort foods, recalling tasty memories of life, love, family, and friends to warm your heart, feed your soul, and make you pause to savor the sweetness of life! Accompanied by candid photographs of the many people involved, from speakers to audience members, this book will be a treasure trove of delightful and delicious memories for all. Karen Benrud, a member of the Café Du Monde family of New Orleans, provides the foreword that celebrates the 150th anniversary of the landmark café and its history.
Murphy the Mutt was nobody’s dog. Until the day he stole a sip of root beer. Then everybody wanted him. In this humorous tale of rumors and misunderstandings, the small-town stray becomes both a villain and a hero in the course of one unusually eventful afternoon. Paperback.
Perfect for tourists visiting Louisiana for Francofête (the state’s 300th anniversary celebration), Congres Mondial, or any other reason, Memoires de Lafayette presents fifteen historic attractions of the Capital of Acadiana.
Also available in English.
Perfect for tourists visiting Louisiana for Francofête (the state’s 300th anniversary celebration), Congrès Mondial, or any other reason, Memoires of St. Martinville presents fifteen historic attractions of Evangeline’s Louisiana hometown, perhaps the most French of Cajun cities.
In the farm home of America’s past, the hearth of the home—the kitchen—represented the warmth and well-being of the family that met daily to enjoy hearty, homemade food and converse with pleasure. Award-winning artist Bob Artley evokes this ideal in this beautiful homage to the traditional Midwestern farm kitchen. Filled with heirloom family recipes and cozy memories and accompanied by Artley’s signature pen-and-ink drawings and full-color illustrations, this memoir provides a nostalgic and affectionate look at rural life, family, and food from a simpler time.
In this enchanting memoir of life in New Orleans from the Civil War to the Great Depression, Grace King records the crises and changes in Crescent City society, as well as her own development as a writer. Here is a portrait of a woman who went through war and its aftermath and later assumed the role of independent woman and breadwinner. As a female pursuing an intellectual career, she broke with the Old South tradition, but as is well chronicled, her major projects, literary and personal, had to do with defending the South. Paperback.
Perfect for tourists visiting Louisiana for Francofête (the state’s 300th anniversary celebration), Congres Mondial, or any other reason, Memories of Lafayette presents fifteen historic attractions of the Capital of Acadiana.
Also available in French.
Perfect for tourists visiting Louisiana for Francofête (the state’s 300th anniversary celebration), Congrès Mondial, or any other reason, Memories of St. Martinville presents fifteen historic attractions of Evangeline’s Louisiana hometown, perhaps the most French of Cajun cities.