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Revised and Updated to Include the Probable Effects of the Great
Recession, the Government Stimulus, and President Obama's Health
Care Overhaul
Federal debt will affect your savings, your retirement, your
mortgage, your health care, and your children. How well do you
understand the government decisions that will end up coming out of
your pocket?
Here is essential information that every American citizen
needs--and has the right--to know. This guide to deciphering the
jargon of the country's budget problem breaks down into plain
English exactly what the fat cats in Washington are arguing about.
Where Does the Money Go? covers everything from the country's
exploding federal debt to the fact that, for thirty-one out of the
last thirty-five years, the country has spent more on government
programs and services than it has collected in taxes. It also
explores why elected leaders on both sides of the fence have so far
failed to address this issue effectively and explains what you can
do to protect your future.
We are on the verge of a crippling energy crisis that could
undermine our economy and change our way of life. In "Who Turned
Out the Lights?", Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson, editors of the
award-winning nonpartisan Web site PublicAgenda.org, offer a
much-needed reality check. Neither 'Drill, Baby, Drill' nor 'Every
Day is Earth Day' is an effective energy policy, and these kinds of
ideological roadblocks have left us spinning our wheels for too
long. If we don't get our act together and do something now, we'll
be scrambling to get the energy we need to make life as we know it
possible. But while the topic is serious, learning what you need to
know about it doesn't have to be. Featuring chapters entitled 'Dam
It: Hydroelectric Power' and 'Time for the Nuclear Option?' and
sidebars like 'This little piggy went to market while this little
piggy passed laws', this book will be anything but dry. By applying
the same winning approach they used to irreverently explain the
federal budget crisis in "Where Does the Money Go?" , Bittle and
Johnson will use pop culture to help define the fundamental
concepts that shape the debate and explain the three risks we face:
that we won't be able to afford the energy we need, that we'll be
dangerously dependent on foreign energy, and that we'll destroy the
planet before we have a chance to solve the problem. They will also
help readers understand the pros and cons of a range of ideas on
the agenda, including alternative fuels, nuclear power, clean coal,
electric cars, fixing up our houses, taxing carbon emissions, and
many more. In the end, the authors take one position: we must
change the way we get and use energy, and there's no more time to
waste. Beyond that, they'll leave how to get from here to there as
an open question - one Americans simply have to understand better
and tackle head on.
During the California Gold Rush, many of the miners and merchants
who hoped to strike it rich in California left behind letters and
journals that provide valuable insights into one of the great
migrations in American history. Of all the journals and diaries
left behind, William B. Lorton's is perhaps the most informative
and complete. Although known to historians for decades, Lorton's
journal has never been published. In this volume, LeRoy and Jean
Johnson bring Lorton's writings to life with meticulous research
and commentary that broadens the context of his narrative. Lorton's
work is revealing and entertaining. It captures glimpses of a
growing Salt Lake City, the hardships of Death Valley, and the
extraordinary and mundane aspects of daily life on the road to
gold. With resilience and a droll sense of humor, Lorton shares
accounts of life-threatening stampedes, dangerous hailstorms,
mysteriously moving rocks, and slithering sidewinders. The
inclusion of images, maps, and the editors' detailed notes make
this a volume that will entertain and inform.
Memoirs of the Good Ole Days provides a look back to the turn of
the twentieth century in southern Indiana, when life was centered
around family, faith, and the farm. Each member of the family had a
part in the daily chores of life. Milking cows, baking bread,
churning butter, and threshing wheat are described in wonderful
detail. Life was good, work was rewarding, and family mattered. You
will enjoy reading this great memoir
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The Wolf (Paperback)
Jean Johnson
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Second in the Sons of Destiny series-now in mass market. Wolfer is
one of eight sexy brothers, exiled to a strange island and
struggling with magic, mysterious women, and deadly enemies-both
human and not.
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The Master (Paperback)
Jean Johnson
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All-new Fairy tales retold with an erotic edge, by the national
bestselling author of the Sons of Destiny series.
Jean Johnson sneaks between the covers of such classic fairy tales
as "Beauty and the Beast, Puss n' Boots," and "Sleeping Beauty,"
and refashions them into bedtime stories for adults only. With
clever gender twists, hot fetishistic turns, other-worldly desires,
and explorations into forbidden territories, "Bedtime Stories"
reveals a veritable garden of sensual delights that gives new
meaning to the term "happy ending."
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Memories (Hardcover)
Willa Jean Johnson Cagle, Mary Lucille Johnson Wilson
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Throughout the pages of Memories, you will find adversities and
courage, and see how decisions shaped the lives of the individuals
who lived these memories. This book will make you laugh and cry,
but in the end it will bring you encouragement.
Seventh in the hot series from the national bestselling author that
Jayne Anne Krentz hails as ?fabulously fresh.?
Eight brothers, born in four sets of twins, two years apart to the
day?they fulfill the Curse of Eight Prophecy. Though no longer
trapped in exile, their growing family faces new problems. Now that
it's his turn to look for a bride, Koranen, the seventh-born
brother, cursed with a flame that courses beneath his flesh, must
find a woman able to endure the literal heat of his passion. Then
Danau the Aquamancer arrives, and as everyone knows, fire and water
create steam.
Amara has been wary of mages since they chased her out of her
homeland, yet there is something about Trevan of Nightfall, known
as the Cat, that Amara can't resist. Courting such a pretty yet
prickly outlander is no easy task, but Trevan is determined to try.
Eight brothers--born in four sets of twins, each set two years
apart--fulfill the Curse of Eight Prophecy and are thus exiled to
Nightfall Isle, in this fourth installment in the national
bestselling Sons of Destiny series.
During the California Gold Rush, many of the miners and merchants
who hoped to strike it rich in California left behind letters and
journals that provide valuable insights into one of the great
migrations in American history. Of all the journals and diaries
left behind, William B. Lorton's is perhaps the most informative
and complete. Although known to historians for decades, Lorton's
journal has never been published. In this volume, LeRoy and Jean
Johnson bring Lorton's writings to life with meticulous research
and commentary that broadens the context of his narrative. Lorton's
work is revealing and entertaining. It captures glimpses of a
growing Salt Lake City, the hardships of Death Valley, and the
extraordinary and mundane aspects of daily life on the road to
gold. With resilience and a droll sense of humor, Lorton shares
accounts of life-threatening stampedes, dangerous hailstorms,
mysteriously moving rocks, and slithering sidewinders. The
inclusion of images, maps, and the editors' detailed notes make
this a volume that will entertain and inform.
Years have passed since there was any sighting of the so called
Family Mongrel. Yet traces remain in the Correda Mountains. Kenyen
Sin Siin tracks down these hints from the past to make sure this
vicious family has not survived. As the trail becomes more tangled
he is trapped in a valley where not everything is as it seems.
"New York Times"-bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz hails
Johnson's writing as fabulously fresh, thoroughly romantic, and
wildly entertaining. Now, Johnson returns for the final book in the
Sons of Destiny series.
No other western story is more famous than the Donner Party's
ill-fated journey through the Sierra Nevada. But three years later
and several hundred miles south, another group faced a similar
situation just as perilous. Scrupulously researched and documented,
Grit and Gold tells the story of the Death Valley Jayhawkers of
1849 and the young men who traveled by wagon and foot from Illinois
to the California gold rush. The Jayhawkers' journey took them
through the then uncharted and unnamed hottest, driest, lowest spot
in the continent-now aptly known as Death Valley. After leaving
Salt Lake City to break a road south to the Pacific coast that
would eliminate crossing the snowy Sierra Nevada, the party veered
off the Old Spanish Trail in southern Utah to follow a
mountaineer's map portraying a bogus trail that claimed to cut
months and hundreds of miles off their route to the gold country.
With winter coming, however, they found themselves hopelessly lost
in the mountains and dry valleys of southern Nevada and California.
Abandoning everything but the shirts on their backs and the few
oxen that became their pitiful meals, they turned their dreams of
gold into hopes of survival. Utilizing William Lorton's 1849 diary
of the trek from Illinois to southern Utah, the reminiscences of
the Jayhawkers themselves, the keen memory of famed pioneer William
Lewis Manly, and the almost daily diary of Sheldon Young, Johnson
paints a lively but accurate portrait of guts, grit, and
determination.
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