Author: Beth Pattillo
Publisher: GuidepostsBooks
Keywords: life, ruined, austen, jane
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-02-03
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0824947711
ISBN-13: 9780824947712

English professor Emma Grant has always done everything just the way her minister father told her she should -- a respectable marriage, a teaching job at a good college, and plans for the requisite two children. Life was prodigiously good, as her favorite author Jane Austen might say, until the day Emma finds her husband in bed with another woman. Suddenly, all her romantic notions a la Austen are exposed for the foolish dreams they are. Denied tenure in the wake of the scandal and left penniless by the ensuing divorce, Emma packs up what few worldly possessions she has left and heads to Engla

Author: Beth Pattillo
Publisher: GuidepostsBooks
Keywords: novel, heart, broke, darcy
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2010-02-01
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0824947932
ISBN-13: 9780824947934

Claire Prescott is a sensible woman who believes in facts and figures, not fairy tales. But when she agrees to present a paper to a summer symposium at Oxford on her ailing sister’s behalf, Claire finds herself thrown into an adventure with a gaggle of Jane Austen-loving women all on the lookout for their Mr. Darcy. Claire isn’t looking for Mr. Anyone. She’s been dating Neil -- a nice if a bit negligent -- sports fanatic. But when a tall, dark and dashing stranger crosses her path, will the staid Claire suddenly discover her inner romantic heroine? Her chance meeting with a m

Author: Beth Pattillo
Publisher: WaterBrook Press
Keywords: novel, society, lit, knit, sweetgum
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2008-05-20
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 1400073944
ISBN-13: 9781400073948

Sometimes life has to unravel before you can knit it together…On the third Friday of each month, Eugenie, Ruth, Esther, Merry, and Camille meet at the Sweetgum Christian Church to enjoy the two things that connect them: a love of knitting and a passion for books. Their camaraderie remains unthreatened until Eugenie, the town librarian, introduces an angry teenager into their midst. Eugenie also gives them a new reading list: the classic novels of girlhood that young Hannah has never read. Little Women. Pollyanna. Heidi. Books that remind the women of the hopes and dreams they have lost along

Author: Beth Pattillo
Publisher: WaterBrook Press
Keywords: betsy, earth
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2006-06-20
List price: $9.99
ISBN-10: 1400071798
ISBN-13: 9781400071791

Can you have your (wedding) cake and eat it, too?Betsy Blessing is about to have it all–the chance to be senior minister of Church of the Shepherd and a long-awaited first date with her best-friend-turned-love-interest, David Swenson. But David’s unexpected marriage proposal and a developer’s surprise offer to buy the dying downtown church building thrust Betsy into a whirlwind of decisions. Betsy’s future mother-in-law, editor of Budget Bride magazine, plans to feature the nuptials in an upcoming issue, but is Betsy ready to buy her wedding gown at Goodwill and register for china at C

Author: Beth Pattillo
Publisher: WaterBrook Press
Keywords: betsy, heavens
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-06-07
List price: $12.99
ISBN-10: 1400070449
ISBN-13: 9781400070442

Blessed Are the Fabulous.Life would be perfect for Reverend Betsy Blessing if it weren’t for parishioners who keel over during her sermons, steal money from the collection box, and set her up with ex-cons. Not to mention the very inconvenient feelings she is suddenly having for her long-time friend, fellow seminarian, and verbal sparring partner, David Swenson. It isn’t until Betsy is thrust into the position of senior minister for her church, however, that she discovers the real cause of her discontent: her fear of failing has become stronger than her faith in herself.Is it really pos

Author: Donald M. Pattillo
Publisher: University of Michigan Pre
Keywords: industry, aircraft, american, envelope, pushing
Number of Pages: 484
Published: 2001-02-09
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0472086715
ISBN-13: 9780472086719

Pushing the Envelope, a survey history of the American aircraft (now aerospace) manufacturing industry, is the most comprehensive history on the subject ever completed. Though it covers the development of the industry from the beginnings of flight to the present, it provides far more than a simple chronology by analyzing key economic, military, technical, and international influences on the industry and showing how the industry has been instrumental in American military and technological leadership from its modest beginnings.Using original sources whenever available, Pushing the Envelope focus

Author: Melba Pattillo Beals
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Keywords: don, warriors
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2007-07-24
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 1416948821
ISBN-13: 9781416948827

An innocent teenager.An unexpected hero.In 1957, Melba Pattillo turned sixteen. That was also the year she became a warrior on the front lines of a civil rights firestorm. Following the landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education, Melba was one of nine teenagers chosen to integrate Little Rock’s Central High School.Throughout her harrowing ordeal, Melba was taunted by her schoolmates and their parents, threatened by a lynch mob’s rope, attacked with lighted sticks of dynamite, and injured by acid sprayed in her eyes. But through it all, she acted with dignity an