From Gone With the Wind to Steel Magnolias to Designing Women, there is a mystique about southern women that inspires universal curiosity. But southern women are more than just pink teas, beauty pageants, and charm with a drawl. They're real women, with down-to-earth common sense and true grit who will stand by their men, their friends, and their Savior. In short story style, this fascinating collection of anecdotes about and by southern women goes much further than "charm and beauty under a wide-brimmed hat." It tells how women have broken through to becoming more real, more vulnerable, more willing to take risks and make a stand for what they believe in.

You want your relationship with your daughter to be so close that you only grow closer when she hits her teenage years. The time to start is now, in these fun, cuddly, critically important years between ages eight and twelve. Mom s Everything Book for Daughters will help you build a warm, wonderful friendship with your daughter that just deepens as she blossoms into a woman. From the whimsical to the heart-to-heart, here is a potpourri of the best, most usable, fun ways to connect with your daughter as you face the issues that concern her together. From helping her enjoy her appearance, to dealing with physical changes and sex, to becoming a lifelong learner, this book is full of frank advice as well as great ideas for .Chick Chats: Conversations that draw you closer and help her think through an issue .Just for Fun: Whimsical ideas that ll make you the coolest mom in the universe .Rave Reviews: Recommended reading your daughter will love (really ) .God, Mom, and Me: Discussions over Scripture that will help you both keep God in the center of the picture .And a whole lot more "

In December 2012, Australia became the first nation in the world to require all tobacco products to be sold in standard 'plain' packs under the leadership of the then Health Minister Nicola Roxon. Tobacco companies have had global apoplexy about the law. Humiliated in the Australian High Court with a six-one defeat, their hopes now rest with deterring other nations from following suit by pursuing international trade law action. With a combined 50 years of research and advocacy experience in tobacco control, Simon Chapman and Becky Freeman set out the evidence for the importance of plain packaging in striking at the heart of what remains of tobacco advertising. They examine the history of the idea, the tobacco industry's frantic efforts to derail it, and the early evidence for its impact. Most importantly, they give tools to policy makers in other countries wanting to make the best case for plain packaging and to defend it from the inevitable attacks that will follow.

Maria and Marco search Camp Wanna Banana for Joy's missing pet spider monkey Munch-Munch, but when they become lost and injured Maria must face her doubts about whether God cares for her.

First, food starts disappearing from Miss Nellie's cafe. Then lumber walks away from Mr. Henley's hardware store. Always ready to solve a mystery, the Two Amigos Detectives, Marco Garcia and Jake Bigsley, set out to catch the odd thief. It appears to be an open-and-shut case. All the clues point to Mr. Klem, whose large family is poor by most standards. But Marco, friends with one of the Klem girls, can't bring himself to accuse the head of such a happy family. When a surprise comes to Tall Pines, however, the case takes a sudden turn. In the days that follow, a revelation rocks the town and Marco's understanding of what it means to be rich is challenged as he and Jake work to solve the crazy case of the Peanut-Butter Burglar.

When Jake sets out to find who took his twin sister's locket, and also to help solve the financial problems of the camp where his family works, he learns some lessons about controlling his emotions and dealing with difficult people.