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15-year-old high school student William Miller (Patrick Fugit) has
just won the chance to write a story about Stillwater, an
up-and-coming rock band, for Rolling Stone magazine. So he joins
the band on tour, makes friends with lead guitarist Russell Hammond
(Billy Crudup) and groupie Penny Lane (Kate Hudson), and gets
himself a ringside seat for some classic 1970s rock excesses. But
with Rolling Stone demanding a story that could very well cause him
to betray his newfound friends, his over-protective mother (Frances
McDormand) keeping a regular check on him, and tensions within the
band reaching breaking point, William finds that he must tread very
carefully indeed.
How does a woman build her house? Nancy Wilson begins with the
table, remembering how each scratch and stain in the wood
chronicles a memory - "hours of stories and jokes, questions and
concerns (through courtships and pregnancies), prayers and
discussions..." She continues, each essay full of stories and
encouragement - the beauty of imperfection, the comfort of
Velveeta, the strengths of mothers- and daughters-in-law, the
honesty that is submission, the laughter of reading aloud. As ever,
while Nancy draws out our sins and weaknesses and sore spots, she
comforts us with the favor of God and rouses us to a joyous faith.
A collection of Christian devotionals, this book is designed to
help the bride-to-be keep her perspective and sanity during the
tumultuous weeks of wedding planning. In thirteen chapters filled
with spiritual and practical application, Amy Hayes encourages
brides to be a blessing to those around them and to glorify God
throughout the period of life we call engagement. The Bible-based
devotionals in this book provide a pleasant oasis for the busy
bride, refreshing her in graciousness and godliness as she travels
the exciting journey toward her wedding day.
The foreword and the chapters contained in this volume are
excerpted from the larger work "All Things Are Ready: A Bride's
Complete Christian Wedding Planner" (Doorposts Publishing,
2012).
For a Christian woman, motherhood is the subtle art of building a
house in grace - "The wise woman builds her house, but the foolish
pulls it down with her hands" (Prov. 14: 1). Each day's work is
significant, for it contributes toward the long-term plan. Each
nail helps a house stand in a storm. But motherhood isn't a simple
formula. Building a home - childbirth, education, discipline -
requires holy joy and a love of beauty. The mother who fears God
does not fear the future.
Imagine where the Church would be today if the men in it were
respected as they ought to be by their wives. What power would God
unleash through godly men who were respected in their homes? Wives,
instead of focusing on your husband's problems and shortcomings,
look at what you are supposed to be doing yourself. In the Song of
Solomon we read, "Like an apple tree among the trees of the woods,
so is my beloved among the sons." So what is your perspective when
you look at your husband? Is it biblical or does it stem from all
those modern lies which surround us?
Two sisters. Two voices. One Heart. The mystery of Magic Man. The
wicked riff of Barracuda. The sadness and beauty of Alone. The raw
energy of Crazy On You. These songs, and so many more, are part of
the fabric of American music. Heart, fronted by Ann and Nancy
Wilson, has given fans everywhere classic, raw, and pure badass
rock and roll for more than three decades. As the only sisters in
rock who write their own music and play their own instruments, Ann
and Nancy have always stood apart-certainly from their male
counterparts but also from their female peers. By refusing to let
themselves and their music be defined by their gender, and by never
allowing their sexuality to overshadow their talent, the Wilson
sisters have made their mark, and in the process paved the way for
many of today's female artists. In Kicking and Dreaming, Ann and
Nancy, with the help of critically acclaimed and bestselling music
biographer Charles R. Cross, recount a journey that has taken them
from a gypsy - like life as the children of a globe-trotting Marine
to the frozen back roads of Vancouver, where they got their start
as a band, to the pinnacle of success-and sometimes excess. In
these pages, readers will learn the truth about the relationship
that inspired "Magic Man" and Crazy On You, the turmoil of
interband romances gone awry, the reality of life on the road as
single women and then as mothers of small children, and the thrill
of performing and in some cases partying with the likes of the
Rolling Stones, Stevie Nicks, Van Halen, Def Leppard, and other
rock legends. It has not always been an easy path. Ann struggled
with and triumphed over a childhood stutter, body image, and
alcoholism; Nancy suffered the pain and disappointment of fertility
issues and a failed marriage but ultimately found love again and
happiness as a mom. Through it all, the sisters drew from the
strength of a family bond that trumps everything else, as told in
this intimate, honest, and uniquely female take on the rock and
roll life. Throughout their career, Ann and Nancy have never found
an answer to the question they are most frequently asked: "What is
it like to be a woman in rock and roll?" Kicking and Dreaming puts
that question to bed, once and for all.
WESTWARD THE WOMEN is a book about women of every kind and sort,
from nuns to prostitutes, who participated in the greatest American
adventure—pioneering across the continent. Not only does the
material represent half-forgotten history—which the author
garnered from attics, libraries, state historical museums, and the
reminiscences of Far Western Old-timers—but it is unique in
presenting the woman’s side of the story in this major American
experience. With dramatic clarity the author of FARTHEST REACH has
written the intimate and human stories of certain outstanding
personalities among these pioneer women; the Maine blue-stocking
pursuing her studies of botany and taxidermy in frontier solitude;
the gentle nuns from Belgium teaching needlework and litanies to
“children of the forest”; the little ex-milliner who performed
the first autopsy by a woman; the suffragette who established a
newspaper for Western women and rode plushy river boats and the
dusty roads preaching her gospel of Equal Rights; hurdy-gurdy girls
from Idaho boomtowns; and many another martyr, heroine, diarist,
gun moll, missionary, feminist, and mother in this turbulent era of
pioneering.
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