The Complete Book of Grant Writing is the ultimate grant book that shows you how to write a grant proposal if you're seeking funding through government grants, foundation grants, and specialty grants. Grant proposal writing is an intricate process where any bits of misinformation or formatting errors can mean the difference between securing funding or not. Professional grant writer Nancy Burke Smith and philanthropy consultant and grant maker E. Gabriel Works unveil the secrets behind how ...

Celebrate the Possibilities of friendship• Create four projects in Possibilities' signature style with this new Pattern Pack• A quilt, two wall hangings, and a tote combine piecing with easy fusible appliqué• Mix & match these versatile appliqué elements and full-size templates to design your own cheerful pattern, tooShow off your love for handmade with these new, colorful quilt projects from Possibilities. Stitch up rays of sunshine, l...

Teach children to sew on a machine with kid-friendly, boredom-busting projects!Start off your kids on a lifelong sewing adventure with simple projects they'll love to make. Starting with basic handmade cards and accessories to learn their machine, they'll work their way up to challenging projects like a notebook cover and drawstring backpack. With safety tips, skill-building games to play, and puzzles to practice and remember all they've learned, this updated secon...

A University of Texas at Austin art student comes home to find police on her doorstep. They tell her that her microbiologist mother and engineer father as well as all of her parents' coworkers are dead. Isa wants to understand what happened. She enlists the assistance of an investigative journalist to find out. The pair have no idea where this search will take them.This book is first in a trilogy called After Normal. It takes place in a period from the year 2003 to 2045. W...

My book shares places I went for Tupperware--people I worked for, worked with, met, and partied with.

“A memoir with the fierce narrative force of an eastern Montana blizzard, rich in story and character, filled with the bone-chilling details of Blunt’s childhood. She writes without bitterness, with an abiding love of the land and the work and her family and friends that she finally left behind, at great sacrifice, to begin to write. This is a magnificent achievement, a book for the ages. I’ve never read anything that compares with it.”—James Crumley, author of The Last Good Kis...

Churchill on the Riviera by Nancy Smith tells the story of how a villa on the Riviera tied a world leader, a fashion icon, and a world renowned model together with many of the most famous people and events of the twentieth century.The French couturier Coco Chanel and Texas-born model Wendy Reves had much in common: they were born in poverty and rose to own villa La Pausa and its six acres overlooking the French Riviera.And both had roses and thorns relationships with Winston...

Callie Waterstone sprints through the sharp-edged maze of her world, breezing past an overbearing gran, an agoraphobic ma, and sidestepping her nemesis, Samantha Bell, all the while wondering if she'll ever have a friend, or if the daddy who left years ago will find his way back to her.

Today’s highly industrialized and technologically controlled global food systems dominate our lives, shaping our access and attitudes towards food and deeply influencing and defining our identities. At the same time, these food systems are profoundly and destructively impacting the health of the environment and threatening all of us, human and nonhuman, who must subsist in ecological conditions of increasing fragility and scarcity. This collection examines and exposes the myriad ways that ...

This lively survey of the peoples, cultures, and societies of Southeast Asia introduces a region of tremendous geographic, linguistic, historical, and religious diversity. Encompassing both mainland and island countries, these engaging essays describe personhood and identity, family and household organization, nation-states, religion, popular culture and the arts, the legacies of war and recovery, globalization, and the environment. Throughout, the focus is on the daily lives and experienc...

Friends at a volleyball party by the Firebrand River, discover strange, green pollution and a human finger bone. Mira Cash, the owner of the land, works with police and an EPA investigator to help solve both this new mystery and a twenty-year-old cold case.The Firebrand River is Book Two of the trilogy: After Normal. This trilogy describes current times crumbling into ruin through the year 2045. It's about people living with love and hope after the world's devastation. The books ar...

Discover the transformative power of Divine Love Affair: An Akashic Journey, the award-winning and bestselling audiobook by Nancy Smith, expertly narrated by Lisa Daley and Published by Audiobook Publishing Services. This spiritual guide is your key to unlocking your soul’s purpose and living a life filled with divine love, fulfillment, and self-discovery.Are you feeling lost, overwhelmed, or disconnected ...