Frank Carlson Library

Bestselling Author Reveals How God Empowers Women for Leadership and Purpose. Christian women are often led to believe they are God's afterthoughts--as if they were created inferior to men or destined by God to play a secondary role in life. Not so, says bestselling author J. Lee Grady, father of four daughters and a leading international voice confronting the abuse of women. He counters that the Bible's message is neither sexist nor patronizing....

Bored with traditional palace life, Princess Cimorene travels to the Mountains of Morning where she is befriended by a group of powerful dragons and joins in their struggle to protect their kingdom from being taken over by disreputable wizards.

A marriage of convenience blossoms into heartfelt love in a pioneer setting in the Old West. Fiction in the Little-House-on-the-Prairie tradition.

"A practical guide to planning your funeral, including worksheets and guided journal prompts" --publisher. This workbook, intended for you to record in great detail how you want your funeral to proceed, is a practical guide with worksheets and guided journal prompts. Benjamin offers a plethora of facts, stories, and inspiration to help you think outside the coffin to ensure that your wishes are recorded for posterity. Planning for death should be...

Describes Christmas traditions in Mexico, Iran, China, Sweden, Iraq, Spain, and Norway.

An illustrated collection of fifty-five traditional tales collected by the Grimm brothers.

Rebekkah Barrow returns to her childhood hometown of Claysville for her grandmother's funeral and discovers that the worlds of the living and the dead are dangerously connected and that it was her grandmother's responsibility to make sure the dead were properly cared for in order to prevent them from coming back to satiate themselves with food, drink, and stories from the land of the living, and now that her grandmother is gone, it is Rebekkah's responsibility...

Fifteen traditional nursery rhymes, each containing a riddle, the answer to which may be found in an accompanying illustration.

When real estate developer Jack Ford--who was trying to drive her and her grandmother, Rose, out of business--is found dead on Rose's property, Lily, the owner of a traditional English tearoom, discovers that Ford was brewing trouble all over town as she tries to clear Rose's name. Tea by the Sea is a traditional English tearoom on the picturesque bluffs of Cape Cod. Lily Roberts is the proud proprietor and head pastry chef. Her grandmother, Rose,...

"Tall tales, and true, of frontier characters and sea captains, recurring American jokes and expressions, ballads of railroad men and miners, negro songs and stories, and a wealth of other material are assembled in this ... volume." Literary Guild.