Once upon a time, there was a man who had a sweet and beautiful daughter named Diane. Not far from them lived a woman who had a mean and ugly daughter named Agatha. Since they were neighbors, the two girls often visited each other. Soon the parents of the girls married. But shortly after Diane’s father passed away. The stepmother became very cruel against Diane and one day she sent her out in the middle of winter to get a basket of strawberries. Diane came across a cottage in the forest where three enchanted dwarfs lived. Their names were Wimbo, Bimbo and Dimbo. Find out what magical gifts the dwarfs gave both Diane and Agatha.
The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn
If you’re an actress or a coed just trying to do a man-size job, a yes-man who turns a deaf ear to some sob sister, an heiress aboard her yacht, or a bookworm enjoying a boy’s night out, Diane Ravitch’s internationally acclaimed The Language Police has bad news for you: Erase those words from your vocabulary!
Textbook publishers and state education agencies have sought to root out racist, sexist, and elitist language in classroom and library materials. But according to Diane Ravitch, a leading historian of education, what began with the best of intentions has veered toward bizarre extremes.
Beads and Threads: A New Technique for Fiber Jewelry
What beautiful, showpiece necklaces you can make following the instructions in this book - wearable art in the most exciting sense. The materials and tools needed are inexpensive and readily available, the work portable, the results striking. When you wear the necklaces you make, they elicit admiration and praise. The book opens with an exciting gallery of the work done by Helen Banes and many of her students. Once your appetite is whetted by what you have seen, then Diane Fitzgerald explains how the neckpieces are made and presents you with 19 projects for making your own.
Starred Review. Bestseller Davidson is at the top of her form in her 14th culinary suspense novel to feature Colorado crime-solving caterer Goldy Schulz (after 2006's Dark Tort). As the Christmas season approaches, Goldy is thrilled to be catering not only a breakfast for the local library but also an elegant dinner for Hermie and Smithfield MacArthur, rich Southern transplants to Aspen Meadow. But when the body of Drew Wellington, the disgraced former DA, turns up in the library, Goldy is once again forced to put her recipes on the back burner and find the murderer.
