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Meet Skidboot, the Amazing Dog. His owner swears he never trained the blue heeler to do tricks. Skidboot just does what he's told to do. And what he does has amazed not only thousands at rodeos and fairs, but millions as well, through television appearances on Oprah, Animal Planet, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Late Show with David Letterman, and many others. This is the story of a dog who almost got kicked off the ranch, but ended up a star.
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A Standard Reference.......2001-06-01
Since the collecting of antique knives (defined as those no longer in production and made before 1970) has developed in the last thirty some years, there have been many reference items published from the pioneer work of Robert L. Mays and others who reprinted original manufacturer's sales catalogs to those who have made detailed check lists of one or more long defunct products. One of the major criteria for collecting is that there must be enough surviving specimens to make a market. Thus, exceeding rare in numerical terms private brand and hardware wholesaler brands are not as highly desirable as the products of quality makers such as Remington, Winchester, and Case, who have made millions. Since knives were mostly bought to be used, not collected, the survival rate of these is high enough but not too high, especially in desirable condition. This book covers the field for the beginner but is still useful for those who collect other than the big three mentioned and want to know how to get started. It covers the history of manufacturers and the various brands they made. There are useful chapters on grading, on how to behave at knife shows, and how to spot fakes. The several editions of the work have stood the test of time. Specialists will need others. The listings herein are enough to get one started on a fascination hobby.
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The International Blade Collectors Association Price Guide to Commemorative Knives 1960-1990
J. Bruce Voyles , and
International Blade Collectors Association
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Subtitled a "Story of Encouragement for All Ages," the Trellis and the Seed tells the story of how "God has planned something beautiful" for even the tiniest, most unassuming little seed.
The tiny seed begins its mysterious journey in the hands of the seemingly omnipotent "Nice Lady," who predicts--much to the seed's disbelief--that it will make a "beautiful vine with sweet-smelling blossoms." Even as the Nice Lady plants the seed, erects an ambitious trellis, waits for rain, adds fertilizer, and performs all her other nurserial oblations, the seed continues to be baffled by its caretaker's faith. ("It was only a seed, and very, very small. How could it ever be a beautiful vine with blossoms?") How indeed? Suffice it to say, God doesn't send a crafty bird to eat the seed in a harrowing third-act changeup.
Jan Karon's story of patience and faith shows the same folksy charm that infuses her Mitford Years series, and her gentle words find a soothing complement in the skilled, muted watercolors of Robert Gantt Steele (of the Her Story series). (Ages 4 to 8) --Paul Hughes
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In this gently told parable, Jan Karon tells a story of patience, of the special rewards that come from being a little bit different from everyone else, and of the courage to believe in oneself.
In a picturesque and secluded garden, a tiny seed sits in thrilled anticipation of its destiny as a powerful vine, twisting and flowering through the white latticework trellis. But how could such a small seed ever thrive and grow into a strong, healthy, grown-up plant? "Don't worry," Mother Earth says. "God has planned something beautiful for you." But time passes, and the little seed doesn't believe it.
Beautifully illustrated and filled with faith and love, The Trellis and the Seed is Jan Karon at her very best-an inspiration for all ages and an important lesson on God's love for all creatures great and small.
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The Trellis and the Seed.......2007-01-09
Many times it takes an adult to get the meaning of a child's story. Patience is the thing that is stressed and there are so many who need to learn that when you are patient, good things can happen. I am a Master Gardener and Moonflowers are a favotie plant of many of us. I give this book as a reward to other Master Gardeners who have served our association in some way. I also include a jelly jar and a pack of Moonflower seeds. Jan Karon is also a favorite author and I read everything she writes.
Sybil N. Phillips, Alabama
Great book for encouragement!.......2006-08-11
I purchased this book for a toddler and he just loves it! It talks about how a tiny seed who really doesn't think he's going to amount to much, grows into this beautiful plant. He's been told that he will flower but doesn't for awhile - he's just green. Then, when the moon comes out, he blooms with such a magnificent scent that it wakes the lady that planted him. Such a wonderful book to read to anyone, not just little folks. Highly recommend!
The Little Seed That Couldn't.......2006-04-12
Jan Karon has written an inspirational tale "of Encouragement for all Ages". Unlike the little engine that could, the reader is introduced to a seed that was given to a "Nice Lady" who intends to plant it next Spring and watch it grow into a tall blossoming vine. The seed finds all of this preposterous.
The little seed cannot believe the Nice Lady when she says the seed will grow into a beautiful blossoming vine. While sitting in a jar during winter, the seed ponders the Nice Lady's faith in the seed to become something great and beautiful. Spring arrives, and the seed is soaked overnight in water before encountering the cold earth. When it eventually sprouts, the seed spies the giant trellis that the Nice Lady expects it to climb. Is she bonkers?!! How can a tiny sprouted seed climb an Empire State Building of a trellis? The reader follows the growing plant through summer while learning that God has a plan whether we see it or not. The little seed that couldn't finally does become a beautiful blossoming vine. The Nice Lady never doubted that.
This 30-page tale is wonderfully told; not too wordy and filled with encouragement that would touch young and old alike. The beautiful watercolors reinforce the story's message of encouragement. My ten year old daughter gave it a thumbs up! And her 50 year old dad agrees.
An Inspiration of Hope.......2006-03-25
What a well written book by Jan Karon, not just for children,but for all ages. The seed had no hope for itself, but the nice woman knew it would grow to be something beautiful. I plan to give this book as Christmas presents this year.
"Don't worry, God has planned something beautiful for you.".......2005-12-27
This wonderful little book, by Jan Karon, the author of the Mitford books, is a Christian parable. Coupling simple text with touching watercolors, it tells the story of a seed that sits small and un-lovely in a jelly glass on the top shelf of a china cupboard. But, as the Earth tells the seed, "Don't worry, God has planned something beautiful for you." This is a story of becoming, and waiting on God.
Overall, I found this to be a wonderful little story. Though it is primarily intended for readers aged 4-8, it is in fact a wonderful story for all believers. It is simple, as simple as many Biblical parables, but it packs quite a wallop. I think that this book should be given to every Christian child.
Yep, this is a great book, one that I highly recommend to all Christians, especially those with children. Get this book!
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- Sweet truth
- Family, faith, rebellion; secrets, love, independence; and time
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The Moonflower Vine
Jetta Carleton
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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Binding: Hardcover
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From the dust jacket: [the book] is about a family whose members love and respect one another,who have loyalty in their bones and a gift from the gods--a peaceful time and place to live in (the novel is set in Missouri over the past fifty years) and the ability to love life with passion and delight. There are the parents, Matthew and Callie Soames, who come newly married to a Missouri farm, who leave it for a town nearby (Matthew is a schoolteacher), return to it, raise their children, live a marriage, deceive each other, comfort each other, and even, in the end, understand each other. There are the daughters--Jessica, Leonie, Mary Jo--who grow up loving their parents and wanting to escape fromthem,and who find escape, each in her own way. and there is the fourth daughter, Mathy, whose fate is the central family tragedy and whole life is the secret center of the novel.
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Sweet truth.......2007-03-28
I read this book soon after it was published. I have never forgotten it in the 40+ years since. It spoke directly to my heart as I am the 4th daughter never finding a place or relevence in my family
Family, faith, rebellion; secrets, love, independence; and time.......2006-07-05
I have re-read this book probably more often than any other book in my adult life. The story unfolds in rural Missouri over the first two-thirds of the 20th century, but its themes and its allure are timeless: family, faith, rebellion, secrets, love, independence, and time. Matthew and Callie Soames raise four daughters: Jessica, Leonie, Mary Jo, and Mathy. The book tells their stories one lifetime at a time, starting with the oldest daughter, Jessica, who introduces us to her parents and siblings and their life growing up in the Ozarks. Then we meet Matthew, the father, whose inner life and story -- and whose foolish heart -- are a far cry from the stern schoolmaster who rules his home and his daughters' lives with an austere and lonely love. ("To his daughters as they grew up, Matthew Soames was God and the weather." His character has often reminded me of the father in Robert Hayden's poem "Those Winter Sundays.") Mathy, the youngest daughter, is the family's most vivid and most tragic character, a free spirit who flies a little too close to the sun. Leonie is her father's daughter, but also a child of her era, and through her Matthew is ultimately reconciled to Mathy.
But each lifetime is only a piece in the puzzle of the Soames family until Callie, the strong, understated matriarch, who keeps the hardest secret of all; not until her story is told do all the others finally come together into a whole portrait, even though each story before hers seemed whole enough on its own. The book's title comes from the flowers that bloom for one night a year in the Ozarks, when the family reunites to watch them bloom for such a short season. The last chapter of Callie's story, when she suddenly finds herself an old woman and the reader suddenly discovers that half a century has passed with the Soameses, is one of the most penetrating insights into aging that I have ever read.
"The Moonflower Vine" contains as many tragedies as a family could normally expect in half a century, but not too many, and overall it is an affirming and empowering novel. But its saddest fact doesn't appear in the novel at all -- that Jetta Carleton, whose literary debut is a masterpiece, never wrote another book. "The Moonflower Vine" was an overnight sensation when it was published in 1962 -- a Literary Guild selection, and a Reader's Digest Condensed Book in 1963. But four decades later, Jetta Carleton and her book are nearly forgotten. Jetta Carleton Lyon lived a full and happy life, moving in 1970 to New Mexico, where she ran a small publishing company until her death in 1999. "The Moonflower Vine" was reprinted by Bantam in 1984, and by Buccaneer in 1995.
My grandmother collected Reader's Digest Condensed Books, and I discovered "The Moonflower Vine" as a child at her home years later (in the same volume with "The Shoes of the Fisherman" by Morris West). Soon afterward, I had to read the whole novel. A quarter century has passed, and I still can't pick it up without reading it again. And I never put it down without a catch in my throat.
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This is a good book because it is fiction with facts........1999-05-14
Phyllis Whitney is a very good writer and she intwines information about Japan's history which you don't mind because it's not boring. I started it not thinking that it would be good because of the things you needed to know about the war. I wasn't that sure of the purpose of having an evil father trying to convince his daughter everyone is evil but in the end it proves there is good in the world. She is a very good writer and I think that to write a good book you must believe in your story and have the desire to write it.
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WHEN THE SUN sets and the moon shimmers down, the night comes alive. Bats swoop, hawkmoths flit, owls hunt, and the moonflower unfurls for its one night in the moonlight. In this lyrical yet accurate account of nature at night, you'll learn how moths drink, how bats "see," how bumblebees sleep, how vines climb, and even how to plant your own moonflower.
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not just beautiful illustrations.......2001-04-08
I had the privilage of meeting the author and illustrator at a state science conference. They are a lovely down to earth couple. The author writes gradening books, but has crafted a truely child-friendly text with the moonflower. The illustrations are full color and with great detail. There is also a wealth of science information in the sidebars on each page. I use the book with my fifth grade students, but it would be appropriate in lower grade levels as well.
A wonderful read for the entire family!.......1999-06-28
This wonderfully illustrated children's book is a shining example of multi-level education. The main story will charm younger children, while the field notes in the margins will enlighten older children and family members with a keen interest in the natural world just outside their door. The Moonflower provides, in exquisite detail, the unfolding of nighttime activities in your garden and the interaction of species, from the namesake flower itself to owls, hawkmoths, fireflies, bats and other nocturnal creatures. With growing instructions in the back of the book, readers will be eager to call Burpee, order seeds and get growing to experience the wonder of the Moonflower themselves.
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- Small photos and lots of errors.
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Morning Glories and Moonflowers: A Guide to Climbing, Trailing, and Cascading Plants
Anne Halpin
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Small photos and lots of errors........1998-11-04
This book is 10% morning glories and moonflowers, and 90% other flowering vines. There are numerous errors in the names and species identification of morning glories. Many books have confused the Ipomoea species for years, and this book continues that misinformation while adding more. I even found one called two different species in the same name! The photographs, while full color, are unfortunately very small - mostly 2 by 3 inches. But there is good information on growing them, as well as a lot of data on other flowering vines. Knowing first that the morning glories and the moonflowers are often misnamed and sometimes totally impossible, the book may have some value. As a consolation, aside from the reference "Hortus Third," practically every book with a section on morning glories will misidentify at least one.
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- A Lost Treasure of a Book
- Family, faith, rebellion; secrets, love, independence; and time
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The Moonflower Vine
Jetta Carleton
Manufacturer: Crest
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000F4ODLS |
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The Moonflower Vine by Jetta Carleton, 1964 First Crest Printing
Customer Reviews:
A Lost Treasure of a Book.......2007-05-09
I found this book in a good-will store and read it right through. It's a hometown American story that will stay with you as long as To Kill a Mockingbird. Don't miss it.
Family, faith, rebellion; secrets, love, independence; and time.......2006-07-05
I have re-read this book probably more often than any other book in my adult life. The story unfolds in rural Missouri over the first two-thirds of the 20th century, but its themes and its allure are timeless: family, faith, rebellion, secrets, love, independence, and time. Matthew and Callie Soames raise four daughters: Jessica, Leonie, Mary Jo, and Mathy. The book tells their stories one lifetime at a time, starting with the oldest daughter, Jessica, who introduces us to her parents and siblings and their life growing up in the Ozarks. Then we meet Matthew, the father, whose inner life and story -- and whose foolish heart -- are a far cry from the stern schoolmaster who rules his home and his daughters' lives with an austere and lonely love. ("To his daughters as they grew up, Matthew Soames was God and the weather." His character has often reminded me of the father in Robert Hayden's poem "Those Winter Sundays.") Mathy, the youngest daughter, is the family's most vivid and most tragic character, a free spirit who flies a little too close to the sun. Leonie is her father's daughter, but also a child of her era, and through her Matthew is ultimately reconciled to Mathy.
But each lifetime is only a piece in the puzzle of the Soames family until Callie, the strong, understated matriarch, who keeps the hardest secret of all; not until her story is told do all the others finally come together into a whole portrait, even though each story before hers seemed whole enough on its own. The book's title comes from the flowers that bloom for one night a year in the Ozarks, when the family reunites to watch them bloom for such a short season. The last chapter of Callie's story, when she suddenly finds herself an old woman and the reader suddenly discovers that half a century has passed with the Soameses, is one of the most penetrating insights into aging that I have ever read.
"The Moonflower Vine" contains as many tragedies as a family could normally expect in half a century, but not too many, and overall it is an affirming and empowering novel. But its saddest fact doesn't appear in the novel at all -- that Jetta Carleton, whose literary debut is a masterpiece, never wrote another book. "The Moonflower Vine" was an overnight sensation when it was published in 1962 -- a Literary Guild selection, and a Reader's Digest Condensed Book in 1963. But four decades later, Jetta Carleton and her book are nearly forgotten. Jetta Carleton Lyon lived a full and happy life, moving in 1970 to New Mexico, where she ran a small publishing company until her death in 1999. "The Moonflower Vine" was reprinted by Bantam in 1984, and by Buccaneer in 1995.
My grandmother collected Reader's Digest Condensed Books, and I discovered "The Moonflower Vine" as a child at her home years later (in the same volume with "The Shoes of the Fisherman" by Morris West). Soon afterward, I had to read the whole novel. A quarter century has passed, and I still can't pick it up without reading it again. And I never put it down without a catch in my throat.
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In this volume: The Artist by Jan De Hartog; The Shoes of the Fisherman by Morris L. West; The Moonflower Vine by Jetta Carleton; Florence Nightingale by Cecil Woodham-Smith and The Wild Grapes by Barbara Jefferis
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-Demonstrates 80 arrangements using floral materials of all kinds.
Customer Reviews:
a helpful guide to flower arrangeing.......2004-06-23
I found this book very helpful . the projects are simple and easy to make. if you are just staring out then this book is for you.
all wraped up in one book.......1999-02-14
Decorating With Silk & Dried Flowers is a great book. It has all the information you could want to do flower arranging. The pictures and explanations are also wonderful. I recommend this book to anyone interested in floral design. It's well worth buying enjoy!
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