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ABOVE AND BELOW is a celebration of how much modern physics can tell us about the remarkable universe in which we live. Jack Challoner explains weighty concepts with clarity and depth, introducing readers to everything from cosmology to quantum chromodynamics. Authoritative yet accessible in style, ABOVE AND BELOW will inspire and engage curious readers with or without a science background from teen age upwards.

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A comely wife...A promising homestead...The esteem of his neighbors...An unshakeable faith in God. What else could a man want? He didn't know, but he believed he was called for more. If it meant giving up his homestead, he had to find out how God wanted him to serve. Patrick MacLayne (Mac to his friends) is a blessed man, but a frustrated man. In the eighteen months since March 17, 1857, he married a good woman, established a large homestead on Crowley's Ridge, satisfied his father's wish that he start a family, and earned the respect of his community. This being true, why was Mac so restless and frustrated? Didn't he have everything an Arkansas homesteader could want? The answer was simple. He never wanted to be a homesteader. Mac felt called to something more. Something beyond Shiloh... Before Laurel, he wasn't tied to a place.... He loved Arkansas, but the large state offered many opportunities. Yet, for his wife, their homestead was home, a place of security. She wanted to remain at Shiloh for the rest of her days. Mac built a fine homestead, one he held a great deal of pride in, but the building was the challenge. Now that he has met that goal, he knows his call lies beyond Crowley's Ridge. During their journey across Arkansas, an elderly immigrant told Laurel she would never be truly wed until she and her husband "walked the same path." Mac fears their hopes for the future are so divergent now, they will never find a common path to share. In Beyond Shiloh: A Story of an Arkansas Family, Mac and Laurel struggle to build a life together. Their lives are even more complicated as Mac becomes involved in the politics of their state, and Arkansas is divided by the growing talk of Civil War. Their hope of establishing a family depends on their faith--the foundation they used to begin their life journey together. The one thing they both agree on, regardless of many other areas of dispute, they love each other, and they want a family. With God's help, they intend to build a home. Perhaps, it will even be at Shiloh!

A practical guide for a successful relationship that includes a set of tools to create a dynamic and compatible partnership. The 101 Compatibility Test and the Answers delve into specific situations and discusses changes and compromises that can build a vibrant and ever evolving union.

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This is the third in what will become a series of cookbooks. I originally expected to produce one cookbook aimed at single and handicapped. people. Then, as I started compiling recipes, I realized that I had too many for just one, so there will be a series. Welcome to Number Three. You may wonder, what my qualifications are to write a series of cookbooks like this? First, I've been cooking since I was old enough to see into a pan, on the stove. In fact, I've been cooking more years than the number of recipes in this first book. Second, in the last thirty eight years, I've had Four serious knee injuries, four knee surgeries, and a serious back injury. As a result of an accident in Dec. 2000, and the damage it did to my back, I'm now about 80% paraplegic. I can walk a few steps, but have very little function below the waist. In short, I have first hand experience of what being handicapped means in terms of trying to cook. Cooking while single, prepared me for being handicapped. In both cases I learned to deal with making meals ahead of time. Many cookbooks have recipes that make four to ten servings, and don't discuss how to save leftovers. Don't turn your nose up at leftovers. They can be 90% as good, if stored and reheated properly. There are three forms of food storage easily usable: canning, freezing and vacuum sealing Canning requires heating/cooking foods in jars/cans, and sealing them for later use. This method doesn't usually, require refrigeration, for storage. Freezing, and refrigerated vacuum sealing are good for making multiple serving recipes, and saving smaller portions. The choice of method is up to you. In the 1980's, I used to spend one Saturday a month, making quantities of meals that I sealed into Daisy SealAMeal bags, and froze. I could open the freezer, and have an easy choice of several meals, with minimal effort. I would drop the bag into boiling water, and a few minutes later, have a hot meal. With similar systems, you can do the same today. The Tilia Food saver, and similar systems, allow you to vacuum pack bags, and jars of food: for storage, or ready-made meals. In some cases, I have modified a recipe for one or two servings. In other cases, recipes are intended to generate multiple servings, for eating later. Whether single, handicapped, or able bodied, everyone has days, when they think. "I don't feel like spending a lot of time and effort on making a meal. "If you make and store servings for such days, you're covered. It saves you time, effort, and money." All it takes is a little effort, and time to make ready-made servings for storage. Final notes: This is not a typical cookbook. Many older cookbooks were informal in format. Newer ones, to me, are like sitting in a lecture hall, watching a teacher describe what to do. I am not, and never was comfortable with that way of doing things. I want you to picture this, as me sitting in my wheelchair, next to you while you work. My comments are usually in parentheses and italicized, with my initials. I have also, unlike many cookbooks, tried to not assume that you already know how to cook. All of us have to learn at some point, and I still do from many sources. Shows like Diners, Drive-ins and Dives, Chopped, (both on Food Network), and cooking shows on PBS, are good way to pick up new techniques and recipes. I also learn from friends, who suggested new recipes, or ways to do things better. I hope that you enjoy making the recipes in the cookbooks, and the food that results. If you do, I've achieved My goal in writing them.

Reunited with Dante and her Kairos family, Grace faces the greatest challenge yet. Can she protect her mom and brother from the ruthless Xavier? Armed with the Ambitus she'll need the Kairos beside her to win this war and secure the future for all humanity.

The Tidwells are supposed to be on spring break on the Florida Gulf Coast, not up to their eyeballs in paranormal hijinks... again.

Bertram wants a baby, but Cleo isn't real keen on the idea. After all, her sister, Molly, has four of 'em-who needs more? Hoping to throw Bertram off the baby trail, they adopt Luna, a white pit bull terrier, and take her to Florida with them, along with Bertram's mother and Cleo's nieces. Everybody loves Luna, especially the goofy little dog at a tacky tourist trap touting something called a "weredog whisperer," so much so that he puts the moves on Luna and gives her a love bite during the throes of puppy love.

But when Luna shape shifts into a teenage girl on the first night of the full moon, the Tidwells wind up with an instant were-daughter. Poof! Just add moonbeams. A video of Luna's transformation goes viral and the Tidwells are hounded by an array of reporters, sight seers, animal rights kooks, Hot Diggity Dog Pet Foods, a couple of hungry weresharks, a motley crew of weredogs, and AASS-a secret society of shape shifters that considers Luna an abomination and orders her immediate extermination.

The Tidwells' vacation has gone to the dogs-literally-as they jump through hoops in this hilarious cozy mystery to protect their unexpected new were-daughter from a dog-eat-dog world.

(This book may be enjoyed without having read the prior novel in the Cleo Tidwell Paranormal Mysteries: The Haunted Housewives of Allister, Alabama.)

Sometimes a chance meeting can change everything. At fifteen, Jamie Maxwell's main goals in life are to make the United States youth national soccer pool, move past the Incident-That-Shall-Not-Be- Named, and maybe-someday-kiss a girl. When she meets Emma Blakeley at a tournament in Southern California, something about the older girl draws her in. And it isn't that she expects to ever get the chance to kiss Emma. Really. When Jamie invites her to sneak out on the last night of Surf Cup, Emma doesn't go because she likes Jamie's smile. She goes because, as the daughter of a surgeon and a nurse, she has a genetic predisposition to try to heal people. And Jamie, she can tell, is wounded. Neither girl suspects that this first last night together will form the basis of a bond that will last across years and miles, from SoCal soccer fields and New York hotels to Portuguese beaches and the streets of Vancouver. But that's how most friendships begin, isn't it? With a smile and a nod and the courage to ask, "Do you maybe, possibly, want to come with me?"