As you age, stumbling blocks are everywhere: the bottom step, the roadside curb, and even the living room carpet. But you don’t have to live in fear of falling. With Better Balance for Life, you will learn all-new, simple activities to help you build strength and increase flexibility to improve your balance! In this ten-week program, personal trainer Carol Clements shows you effortless moves to slide into your everyday routine. Already brushing your teeth? Try standing on one foot while touching the counter to build stability.Watching TV? Learn how to extend your toes and flex your ankle to develop more nimble feet—and greater mobility. With four new activities each week, building better balance is fun and easy. By the end, you, too, will be marching with your eyes closed!
In this first comprehensive biography of Dr. Arthur Edward Spohn, authors Jane Clements Monday, Frances Brannen Vick, and Charles W. Monday Jr., MD, illuminate the remarkable nineteenth-century story of a trailblazing physician who helped to modernize the practice of medicine in Texas.Arthur Spohn was unusually innovative for the time and exceptionally dedicated to improving medical care. Among his many surgical innovations was the development of a specialized tourniquet for “bloodless operations” that was later adopted as a field instrument by militaries throughout the world. To this day, he holds the world record for the removal of the largest tumor—328 pounds—from a patient who fully recovered.Recognizing the need for modern medical care in South Texas, Spohn, with the help of Alice King, raised funds to open the first hospital in Corpus Christi. Today, his name and institutional legacy live on in the region through the Christus Spohn Health System, the largest hospital system in South Texas. This biography of a medical pioneer recreates for readers the medical, regional, and family worlds in which Spohn moved, making it an important contribution not only to the history of South Texas but also to the history of modern medicine.
If she didn’t confront her problem with consumption, she would surely be consumed by it.Overwhelmed with anxiety, depression and hopelessness, Elizabeth was at a breaking point. She had a decision to make. Continue down the road of addiction to alcohol and cigarettes, eating disorders, shopping, and men, or figure out why she ached inside and kept running to toxic fetishes to satisfy her unquenchable appetite? Elizabeth chose healing. She sought out multiple forms of therapy and tried out various religions. But it wasn’t until she rekindled her faith in Jesus, instilled in her as a child, that she began to discover the genuine transformation she longed to experience. Who Told You You Were Naked? is Elizabeth’s uncensored story of who she was before her radical encounter with the Lord and who she is becoming as a follower of Him. Leaning into the unconditional love of Jesus changed the trajectory of her life and she longs to share this life-giving message so others may experience the power of a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, the Anointed One.This raw and honest account of one woman’s transformational journey serves as a reminder to anyone caught in the tangles of mental illness, stubborn addiction, or with a downcast and dissatisfied outlook on life, that the light of hope shines even in the darkest circumstances.
One thing is for sure, we all die one day.The question you have to ask yourself; is there a heaven and a hell, and if there is, where will I go?In the pages of this book, Larry Clements reveals how you can know the answer to that question. He tells of some riveting stories of how he lived for the Devil for most of his life and was heading for eternity in hell. Until one day while in prison serving thirteen years for drug and gun charges found Jesus.He found in the pages of the Bible that Heaven is a free gift. No one is Good enough to get in on their own, and there is no one so Bad that it will keep them out. We are Saved by God's grace. Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one can come to the Father except through Him (John 14:6). Do you want the Truth? Do you want the Life? And do you want to know the Way?The author only testifies to what he knows; being a heroin and cocaine addict for over thirty years and living a life of crime, can now say, he no longer lives that life. He has found the Truth, lives the Life and knows the Way. That Way is Jesus
A Cambridge spy must unravel a dangerous mystery that goes all the way to the heart of the Third Reich--and the British Monarchy--in this vivid new spy thriller from a London Times bestselling author. Two old friends meeting in a remote castle in Sweden. They are cousins. One is Prince George, brother of the king of England, and the other Prince Philipp von Hesse, a close friend of Adolf Hitler and a committed Nazi. Days later Prince George is killed in a plane crash and the country weeps, but not everyone believes that it was an accident. When FDR, who happens to be a good friend of the prince, hears the tragic news, he wants to find out exactly what happened. The American OSS doesn't believe the story that MI5 are pedalling. The situation is delicate. Professor Tom Wilde, Cambridge don, is called in to uncover the truth--but what he discovers is far more than he bargained for.
The matriarch of one of the most important families in Texas history, Petra Vela Kenedy has remained a shadowy presence in the annals of South Texas. In this biography of Petra Vela Kenedy, the authors not only tell her story but also relate the history of South Texas through a woman’s perspective. Utilizing previously unpublished letters, journals, photographs, and other primary materials, the authors reveal the intimate stories of the families who for years dominated governments, land acquisition, commerce, and border politics along the Rio Grande and across the Wild Horse Desert. From Petra’s early life in the landed ranchero society of northern Mexico, through her alliance with Luis Vidal—an officer in the Mexican army to whom she bore eight children—until her move to Brownsville after Vidal’s death, Petra lived in Mexico. When she moved to Texas, having taken Vidal’s name, she represented a link to the landed families of the region. Mifflin Kenedy, a steamboat captain who had first come to Texas during the Mexican War, married into her world, acquiring local respectability and stature when he took Petra as his wife.The story of their life together encompasses war, the taming of a frontier, the blending of cultures, the origin of a ranching empire, and the establishment of a foundation and trust that still endure today, giving millions to Texas through charitable gifts. An attractive woman of business acumen, strong religious convictions, and intense family loyalty, Petra Vela Kenedy’s influence through her husband and her children left a legacy whose exploration is long overdue.
Three sisters with magic learn that danger is coming, can they stop it can they learn what they need to learn before their aunt takes over? Can a loving boyfriend and family be enough to save their aunt or will they have to make a ultimate choice to stop her before all hell breaks loose. Read to find out.
From bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Clements, a quirky, imaginative tale about creative thought and the power of language that will have readers inventing their own words—now available in a deluxe paperback edition!Is Nick Allen a troublemaker? He really just likes to liven things up at school--and he's always had plenty of great ideas. When Nick learns some interesting information about how words are created, suddenly he’s got the inspiration for his best plan ever...the frindle. Who says a pen has to be called a pen? Why not call it a frindle? Things begin innocently enough as Nick gets his friends to use the new word. Then other people in town start saying frindle. Soon the school is in an uproar, and Nick has become a local hero. His teacher wants Nick to put an end to all this nonsense, but the funny thing is frindle doesn’t belong to Nick anymore. The new word is spreading across the country, and there’s nothing Nick can do to stop it.
Queen Elizabeth I’s advisor John Dee is in a race to save the Empire with the help of a mysterious manuscript offering global power in this continuation of the “lively” (The New York Times) Agents of the Crown series.With rumors of the end times swirling, philosopher and astronomer John Dee travels to Prague in an effort to prevent one of Catherine de Medici’s seductive ladies-in-waiting from luring the Holy Roman Emperor into a crusade against England. To convince the famously occult-loving Emperor to join his side, Dee entices him with the esoteric Book of Secrets, a volume that, if decoded, could provide the chance to control the levers of heaven and earth. But Dee faces enemies at every turn, including a female codebreaker who could be the undoing of Dee and England itself.
The latest in the thrilling and “lively” (The New York Times) Agents of the Crown series follows John Dee and his wife working together in an act of espionage that may turn out to be treason.While working on a powerful new weapon for England, the country’s first secret agent John Dee finds himself threatened from all sides. First, his secret plans are stolen, then his son is kidnapped by a vengeful enemy from his past. At the same time, Dee’s wife, Jane, is sent by Queen Elizabeth I to console her cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots, as court advisors attempt to try her for treason. But Jane suspects her assignment is much more than a visit from a sympathetic cousin. Is it possible that Elizabeth sent her to speed Mary to her death without the public trial that she knows will forever define the limits of royal power? Together, John and Jane begin to feel genuine sympathy for the Scottish queen and work to finish his invention, protect their son, and save Mary from the scaffold. But can they do that while remaining loyal to the English crown?
This is the fourth volume of Coffee and Conversation, which was created to provide you with expressions and inspiration for self-care. All of the wonderful authors in this book have chosen to share their experiences and wisdom with you in hopes that you will discover what is most important to you and begin to make choices that support those priorities. Enjoy
Frederick Fly loves his family - his wonderful wife Fiona and children: 8-year-old twins Fonzy and Fillmore and 10-year-old Franny, a rock and roll loving princess Travel with the Fly family as they head out on their annual Fourth of July trip to Lake Fishimento, complete with flyboarding, flystyle swimming, and Uncle Fender's famous, barbecue feast
In 1952, John Taverner, recently discharged from the British army, meets Felix Mole by chance on platform three of the Swindon railway station.Mole is the owner of Sam's, a saloon and gaming establishment in Tangier. Over a British railways breakfast, Felix offers John a job looking after the accounts at Sam's, should he ever be in Tangier. Disillusioned with life in postwar England, young Taverner throws caution to the wind and takes off for Morocco for a new life in the International Zone that is Tangier. He finds on his arrival that in spite of his lack of experience, Felix wants him to not only manage the accounts, but take over the running of Sam's. The people he works with in Tangier are a far cry from those in his native Dorset, and the adventures he experiences are far beyond anything he would ever have imagined, including smuggling, the Cold War, and relationships of a romantic nature.Author Bio: Peter Clements has written five novels. He holds an honour's degree in political science from the University of Canterbury. The grandfather of seven, he is a retired airline pilot and has also worked in film, television, radio, and ran his own video company. Born in the UK, the author has lived in Canada, West Germany at the time of the Berlin Blockade, the Middle East with the Royal Air Force, and now resides in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Florida's Citrus Belt, finest place in the world to grow citrus, Tropical Zone summers, hot, humid, rain. Temperate Zone winters, mild, possible touch of frost, minor chance of freeze. Perfect. Except, the place is directly in the flyway of airborne illegally imported illicit opioids from our neighbors to the south. They fly unseen into the U. S., bound for Midwest and East Coast distribution, invade under cover of night, land in the rural unpopulated groves, commandeer homes and barns, threaten murder, bankruptcy, economic havoc. Some brave young citizens face the traffickers, fight back, bring high seas chase all the way to Bahamas hideouts, battle vicious gunfire and a deadly hurricane, and even find young love. Who wins? This time, you do.
