Dirt: a story about gardening, mothering, and other messy business

Dirt: a story about gardening, mothering, and other messy business Review

Emmy is a typical suburban mother--at least on the outside. On the inside she's a mess. She's trying to raise her three sons alone, and that is proving to be a discouraging struggle. Her oldest, Nick, is profoundly autistic and increasingly frustrated with the world around him. Henry, her normally dependable middle child seems to be drifting away from her into morose adolescence. And then there's Dan, her eight-year-old who seems perpetually angry at everyone in the family. Emmy's estranged husband Eric is no help at all, just a weekend dad who pops in when he's not wanted and takes the boys out for fast food or visits to the Science Museum. Emmy's haven from it all is her garden, and her dream is to start a landscape design business. But lack of time and energy keep her stuck selling real estate--it is all Emmy can do just to keep her life under control. When a flirtation, a brush with the law and a near tragedy occur within a few weeks of each other, Emmy is certain that she has failed adulthood completely. Dirt presents a portrait of complicated relationships and the ways that people find refuge--and each other.

Resurrection: The Confirmation of Clarence Thomas

Resurrection: The Confirmation of Clarence Thomas Review

When U.S. Senator and Christian minister John C. Danforth sponsored Clarence Thomas for the Supreme Court nomination, he was not prepared for the explosion caused by Anita Hill's charges of sexual harassment. Here is a deeply moving story of spiritual regeneration and a revealing account of an important moment in American history.

The Senator's Agenda (Dead Air Series, Book 3)

The Senator's Agenda (Dead Air Series, Book 3) Review

Bill Baldwin, an old college friend of Wess, wins the U.S. Senate primary election in Colorado. Moments after the triumph, amid the confetti-strewn bedlam of the victory gala, Baldwin's press secretary shockingly puts a gun to his head and pulls the trigger...but not before issuing an ominous warning.

Senator Joe McCarthy

Senator Joe McCarthy Review

The story of Senator Joseph McCarthy's rise to unprecedented power and the decline of his influence is a dramatic one. Richard Rovere documents the process by which a clever, power hungry individual came to mislead and manipulate members of Congress and the American public and to damage countless lives. A new foreword for this edition by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. places the book in historical context and relates it to current issues in American public life.

Death of the Senator

Death of the Senator Review

The worlds oldest trees are mysteriously bursting into flames. A fictional short story based on the real life demise of one of the worlds oldest living things. Written in memorial to the 3500 year old Senator, Big tree Park, Altamonte Springs, Florida.

You Are the Senator (Great Decisions)

You Are the Senator (Great Decisions) Review

Examines eight historic decisions of the United States Senate: Prohibition, the Social Security Act, the Taft-Hartley Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, direct election of the president, the War Powers Act, the Gramm-Rudman bill, and the Brady bill.

Fifty Years of Public Service: Personal Recollections of Shelby M. Cullom, Senior United States Senator from Illinois (Classic Reprint)

Fifty Years of Public Service: Personal Recollections of Shelby M. Cullom, Senior United States Senator from Illinois (Classic Reprint) Review

FOREWORD
OH, that mine adversary had written a bookl"
Such was the exclamation of one who, through the
centuries, has been held up to the world as the symbol of patience
and long sufi' ering endurance, and who believed that
he thus expressed the surest method of confounding an
enemy.
I have come to that age in life where I feel somewhat indifferent
Soc; to consequences, and, yielding to the suggestions
and insistence of friends, I determined that I would undertake
to write some recollections, as they occurred to me, of
the men and events of my time.
Naturally, to me the history of the period covered by my
life since 1829 is particularly interesting. I do not think
that those who do me the honor of reading this narrative will
say that I am prejudiced when I assert that while this period
has not been great in Art and Letters, from a material,
scientific, and industrial standpoint it has been the most wonderful
epoch in all the world's history.
About the period of my

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; PAGE; BIRTH TO ADMISSION TO THE BAR, 1829 TO 1855 1; SERVICE AS CITY ATTORNEY AT SPRINGFIELD, 1855 AND; 1856 14; ELECTION TO THE ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE: LINCOLNDOUGLAS; DEBATES, 1856 TO 1858 • ££; OTHER DISTINGUISHED CHARACTERS OF THAT DAY, 1858; ANn 1859 33; NOMINATION OF LINCOLN AND DOUGLAS FOR THE PRESIDENCY,; 1859 AND 1860 57; SPEAKER OF THE ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE, AND A MEMBER; OF CONGRESS, 1860 TO 1865 74; LINCOLN, 1860 TO 1864 82; NOTABLES IN THE THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS, 1864 TO; 1870 109; IX THE IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT JOHNSON 143; X SPEAKER OF THE LEGISLATURE, AND GOVERNOR, 1871 TO; 1883 159; XI GRANT 169; XII GENERAL JOHN A LOGAN • 180; XIII