From the Alps to the Cascades:
The Stefani and Tinetti Families
from Italy to America 1540-1953
UPDF – November 1st, 2023
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Gods, Gloves, Popups, & Ponies
Paperback – August 15th, 2012
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One mother with a teenage boy said “Gods, Gloves, Popups, and Ponies” was like a manual for her son! Baseball dazzles us with its complexity and beauty but also for its ability to mirror so much of the human spirit. The ups and downs of the game along with its style and grace have forever been a source of inspiration to baseball fans and especially to the young people of this country. Gods, Gloves, Popups, and Ponies explores the effect baseball can have on the development of a young man’s path to manhood. It is first about how a young man discovers what it means to be awakened from the fog of his adolescent life in his life-changing summer chasing the Pony League title in 1975. It then brings the story to the present moment as we learn how baseball can help shape a young man’s character as the young boy is now a coach and we are taken through a season with the high school-baseball players he helps guide and direct. Through his many years allowing the game of baseball to mold and define his character the author brings to us a rare look at just how powerful the lessons found on the field can be to the creation of outstanding young men.
Heard on the Playground: Funny Things Kids Say LOL Second Edition
UPDF eBook – September 2019
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Heard on the Playground is an illustrated collection of the funniest kids’ sayings from across the nation. Whether it’s Doctors Dumb Question, Superhero Wedgies, Grown-Up Hamburgers, Apology Goes Wrong, or Drawing God; the way kids express themselves is pure, priceless, and powerfully funny. Parents, Teachers, Grandparents, and kids can’t get enough of the humor, and they love the illustrations. Share the laughs and get your copy of Heard on the Playground now, or give it as a gift that is sure to please.
Held Back by Nothing – 2nd Edition
Ebook – May 14th, 2010 – 2nd Edition Jan 2019
This is the new 2nd Edition – with updated images and story.
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“Different” Should Never be Limiting!
A child is a world of potential, and it doesn’t matter if that child has something that limits them physically or mentally. They should be encouraged to succeed in life, just like any other “normal” person.
But how do you do that? John Hendry, in Held Back by Nothing, tells us how through the story of his youngest son, Steven. Born with cerebral palsy, Steven could have been a victim, but with his natural verve for life coupled with parents who never said “never,” Steven beat all the odds. He lives an amazing life by any standards.
If you’re the parent of a child with special needs, Hendry will help you discover his or her uniquely normal potential. While the book relates Steven’s exploits growing up, it is also chock full of helpful hints for parents in need of guidance and inspiration for their own “uniquely normai” child:
- how to negotiate the school system
- what to expect from various organizations
- how to handle the inevitable discrimination.
High Summits
Hardcover – October 4th, 2013
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A Rich and Compelling History of Mountaineering ….At Your Fingertips. High Summits is the result of over 30 years of research into the fascinating world of international mountaineering. An essential guide to mountaineering history, this year-by-year account spans all seven continents and dates from 450 B.C. through 2011. In it you’ll find everything from the monumental to the hard-to-find-trivia including:
- The most significant 370 Peak First Ascents as well as over 600 other types of first ascents on mountain faces and ridges.
- 345 detailed listings of major advancements in mountaineering gear, clothing, and climbing equipment.
- 171 references to the development of various climbing techniques on snow, rock, and ice.
- 58 hand-drawn maps and 57 carefully chosen photographs to accompany over 2,800 climbing events around the world.
- Appendices that include 17 unique mountain summit collections and the author’s ten most significant events in mountaineering history. Taken from expedition accounts, biographies and autobiographies, climbing journals and diaries, mountaineering museums, magazines and newspapers, films, documentaries, newsletters, and interviews,
High Summits is one of the most comprehensive studies of its kind. A must-have reference book for anyone interested in mountaineering, from the aficionado and weekend climber to anyone who just likes to read about the majesty and allure of climbing the most significant peaks in the world.
“Wolfe’s meticulous compilation of this much mountaineering history and lore into one volume is simply a stunning achievement that makes for an invaluable reference as well as an entertaining read.” Walter R. Borneman Historian and co-author of 100 Years Up High: Colorado Mountains and Mountaineers “Fred Wolfe’s exhaustive research teases out the details of mountaineering’s entire, worldwide history. High Summits is a reference I will always keep handy.” Phil Powers Executive Director American Alpine Club
Hill Country Ecology
Paperback – July 14th, 2017
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“There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. These essays are the delights and dilemmas of one who cannot.”
-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
The Texas Hill Country is a special place. It is its ecology-the combination of the climate, the topography, the creeks and rivers, the plants and animals-that make it so.
This book describes the Hill Country ecology for current, as well as for new and prospective, residents. It seeks to teach readers about the Hill Country, including the native habitat, the land, the water, the plants, the animals, the people, and the myriad interactions among them. It is a series of brief, easy-to-read essays that have originally appeared in the Kerrville Daily Times under his weekly column, “Hill Country Naturalist;’ for the past seven years.
From discovering the lyricism in the grasslands and picturesque creeks to discussions of the issues and concerns of managing rural lands so as to preserve and improve the native habitat, Hill Country Ecology: Essays on Plants, Animals, Water, and Land Management instills a greater love and respect for nature for anyone who cares to read even one essay.
Readers will experience the joy only one can find in observing and interacting with nature-and they’ll find they’re delightfully entertained along the way.
Hitting Our Stride
Paperback – August 24th, 2009
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Are you ready to have it all? The truth is women can do it and have it all – it’s not a myth. Women have more opportunities than ever before in the workplace, at home and beyond. By learning to harness your innate strengths, as well as learn from other women’s experiences, you can find the success and life balance that you’re striving for. And you can help other women along the way! Karel Murray’s new book, Hitting Our Stride: Women, Work and What Matters, uses humorous stories, surprising insights and thought-provoking topics to help you uncover the life lessons that lead to success.
Hitting Our Stride is based on the survey results of 168 successful women, and covers more than just the typical women’s issues of parenting and life balance. Combined with Karel’s humorous outlook and “nothing but the truth” approach to life, you’ll laugh, cry and nod in agreement over topics like:
- How to tackle fear and the unknown
- What to learn from the reflections of our past without living in it
- Re-discovering the importance of family connections
- How to make life-altering decisions and learn from others
- Overcome career challenges to find success
- How to deal with the next generation and help them along the way
Hunger Speaks
Paperback – December 11th, 2009
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An eating disorder can be a dead end or a door opening to a life better than can imagine. Hunger Speaks is a memoir told in poetry.
- Breaks the silence of food addiction
- Reveals the turbulence of early recovery
- Unveils the spiral process of healing
- Sings the self-renewal and celebration of recovery
Carolyn Jennings’ clear, strong poems offer possibility, understanding, and companionship, “a kind of promise,” as one reader wrote, to “…those of us who choose to follow where she leads.”
I Have Been to Minneota
Ebook – November 5th, 2014
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“I suppose I will eventually heal
Of writing
In this life or the next.
I hope to get the blessing
Of Writers’ Block
Instead of mismatched text.”
I Have Been to Minneota is Rudyard Thurber’s third book of musings, odds and ends, and witty (and sometimes very dry), observations about our current world.
In A Heart’s Breath
EBook – June 2023
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More Love, Death and Other Stuff!
“A wonderful work of poetry, full of poems that bring excitement, nostalgia, recollections, and fond memories. When these poems span the gamut of emotions, from hope and love, to despair and anger, charm and annoyance, bounty, life, death, yearning and remorse, and so many more sensations in between the emotional cracks.”
— Daniel Quillen, author of Quillen’s Essentials of Genealogy vol 1 – 6
“it is a beautiful book of poems! Absolutely beautiful! I am now a fan of Wendy’s poems.”
— Peggy R., Educator
