The New York Times Bestseller That Reads Like a Back-PorchConversation with Reba! In a dazzling career, Reba McEntire has become a true countrysuperstar--and a trailblazing businesswoman with her own multimediaentertainment corporation. Yet she is a rare celebrity who is alsobeloved by her millions of fans for the way she lives her life. ForReba has balanced the demands of career and family, succeeded inshow business without sacrificing her values, and kept up with thetimes without abandoning her country roots. Here Reba writes about the roles a modern woman tries to fill,roles as many and varied as the fabric pieces of an heirloom quilt.Facing the challenges of being a wife, mother, stepmother,daughter, sister, performer, executive, community member, andChristian, Reba has found inspiration and comfort in the values ofher past as an Oklahoma ranch girl. In this generous and wise book,she shows how you can keep traditional values fresh and vital inyour own search for a fulfilling life. Whether you read it
Award-winning author Jeanne Marie Laskas has charmed anddelighted readers with her heartwarming and hilarious tales of lifeon Sweetwater Farm. Now she offers her most personal and mostdeeply felt memoir yet as she embarks on her greatest, mostterrifying, most rewarding endeavor of all…. A good mother, writes Jeanne Marie Laskas in her latest reportfrom Sweetwater Farm, would have bought a house in the suburbs witha cul-de-sac for her kids to ride bikes around instead of aramshackle house in the middle of nowhere with a rooster. With thewryly observed self-doubt all mothers and mothers-to-be willinstantly recognize, Laskas offers a poignant andlaugh-out-loud-funny meditation on that greatest–and mostimpossible–of all life’s journeys: motherhood. What is it, she muses, that’s so exhausting about being a mom?You’d think raising two little girls would be a breeze compared todealing with the barely controlled anarchy of “attack” roosters,feuding neighbors, and a scheme to turn
Country music superstar Reba McEntire describes her Oklahomachildhood as a member of a cattle ranching family, her early daysas a performer, her award-winning musical achievements, the tragicloss of her eight band members, and her marriages. Reprint.
In Fifty Acres and a Poodle, Jeanne Marie Laskas described howshe survived her first hilariously tumultuous year at SweetwaterFarm. Now she returns with a funny, touching, and personal newmemoir of what happens after your dream comes true... With a picture-postcard farm, a wonderfulmarriage, two mules, and a new refrigerator that spits crushed ice,what more can a girl ask for? That’s precisely the question JeanneMarie asks herself as she and Alex settle into their new life atSweetwater Farm. Two years ago they left the city behind for a lifefilled with the practical, often comical, lessons of living closeto the land—and they never looked back. Yet when her strong-willedmom is hospitalized with a sudden and mysterious paralysis, JeanneMarie rushes home to Philadelphia and her extended, sometimeschaotic, but always loving family. It’s there that she realizeswhat is still missing from her life: a family of her own. Now it’sa matter of bringing up the subject to her husband, Alex, fifteenyears older
In 1955, Garcia Marquez was working for El Espectador, a newspaper in Bogota, when in February of that year eight crew members of the Caldas, a Colombian destroyer, were washed overboard and disappeared. Ten days later one of them turned up, barely alive, on a deserted beach in northern Colombia. This book, which originally appeared as a series of newspaper articles, is Garcia Marquez's account of that sailor's ordeal. Translated by Randolf Hogan.
Sir Alex announced his retirement as manager of Manchester United after 27 years in the role. He has gone out in a blaze of glory, with United winning the Premier League for the 13th time, and he is widely considered to be the greatest manager in the history of British football. Over the last quarter of a century there have been seismic changes at Manchester United. The only constant element has been the quality of the manager's league-winning squad and United's run of success, which included winning the Champions League for a second time in 2008. Sir Alex created a purposeful, but welcoming, and much envied culture at the club which has lasted the test of time. Sir Alex saw Manchester United change from a conventional football club to what is now a major business enterprise, and he never failed to move with the times. It was directly due to his vision, energy and ability that he was able to build teams both on and off the pitch. He was a man-manager of phenomenal skill, and increasingly he had to deal wit
Descended from West African kings and healers, raised in theturbulence of Guinea in the 1960s, Kadiatou Diallo was married offat the age of thirteen and bore her first child when she wassixteen. Twenty-three years later, that child–a gentle, innocentyoung man named Amadou Diallo–was gunned down without cause on thestreets of New York City. Now Kadi Diallo tells the astonishing,inspiring story of her life, her loss, and the defiant strength shehas always found within.
