Best Selling Books by Elizabeth Yates

The boy isn''t much to look at: thin, pale, and undersized for his age. Neighbors shake their heads over Jared Austin''s odd ways. His father doesn''t think he''s good for anything much. Even his friend Jennet wonders what will become of him. But Jared isn''t concerned; he has his own ideas about what is really important. One day a journeyman painter visits their quiet New Hampshire farm, and his unexpected offer sets Jared aglow with excitement. He starts off on an adventure that takes him miles from home and into experiences that bring him to manhood and deepen his faith. But before he leaves, Jared promises Jennet that someday, someday, he will come back for her. - Back cover.

The life of the eighteenth-century African prince who, after being captured by slave traders, was brought to Massachusetts where he was a slave until he was able to buy his freedom at the age of sixty.

Beyond the Tulips is a popular history, a journalistic tale of an extraordinary nation of people drawn from a personal perspective, following the four themes of water, land, industry, and people. The reader is guided beyond the tulips, bikes and dikes on a memorable, meandering journey into the multi-layered fabric of Dutch society, via innumerable historical panoramas. The Blue Thread follows the industry and culture of the global gateway of Rotterdam, the Dutch pioneers and profiteers who plied the seven seas, the innovative engineers who tame the waters of seas, rivers and canals at home and around the world. The Dutch population benefit from the extensive canal and river networks for trade and leisure. The Green Thread explores the land resources of the Netherlands, by visiting the city and the province of Groningen, and the Dutch farmers and millers, bakers and brewers, market gardeners, horti- and flori-culturalists who shape the land and feed the nation. The nation''s energy resources and ecology are examined. The Gold Thread introduces us to the serendipitous city of Amsterdam, the birthplace of twins: capitalism and liberalism. We see the Dutch as a trading nation, specialised in the services of buying and selling, production and transportation of goods around Europe and across the world. Small and large enterprises ride the ebb and flow of prosperity. Family manufacturing businesses morph into multinationals with Dutchmen at the helm. The bicycle is underwriting the health and hence the wealth of the nation. The Orange Thread visits the courtly capital of The Hague and reviews the Dutch political structure, and the scientific, technical and cultural achievements. Ministers of state and ministers of religion, painters and poets, republicans and royalists, scientists and engineers, entrepreneurs & athletes all colour this ever-evolving nation of the Netherlands. Elizabeth Yates-Koning is an Anglo-Dutch author living and working in London and Amsterdam, a graduate in Economics, Sociology and Dutch.

The story of the young Prudence Crandall''s stout-hearted resistance to danger and violence inspirits us in the same way. There really was a patriotic Prudence Crandall who fought bravely against heavy odds for what we now love as one of the bases of our American heritage. She is no imaginary heroine. She was a slender young woman, with bright blue eyes, soft blond hair, and a special way of speaking, quiet, controlled -, "lady-like," as people said in the early part of the 1800''s, - but firm as granite. The author of this book has searched letters, memoirs, documents of all kinds, and has found out so much about her, that we can actually see her as she stood, brave as a lion, in her decorous, long, spreading skirts, her well-brushed golden hair gleaming, her bonnet-strings tied neatly under her firm chin.

"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted." Martin Luther King An Artist and the Light is a heartwarming and profoundly lyrical memoir-a golden travelogue-that paints a colorful picture of a traveling muralist who dares to create a life not dictated by societal standards. Through bright optimism, Eleanor Yates cherishes the compassion and protection people show her in every country and village she visits. She delights in magical blessings and finds greater meaning as she learns to consider each challenge as a rich possibility, ultimately harvesting a bright wisdom from characters and circumstances met far and wide. In her own words, "This book has been painted with magic. My greatest intention is to embolden joy and love. I want you to feel transported, to float free as a bird, to feel your own creative imagination dance with new ideas, and shine with bright, vivid euphoria wherever you go."

A collection of diary entries from 1917 to 1950 portray the life of an aspiring writer.

Based on the author''s diaries for the years 1931 through 1951, traces the development of her career as an author of children''s books while her husband, after losing his sight, becomes a leader in organizations for the blind.

The mother of a young family in Temple, New Hampshire, manages the homestead while her husband fights at Bunker Hill and at Ticonderoga during the American Revolution.

Little Sarah wanders away from her family''s cabin into the New Hampshire forest, and settler come from all across the countryside to help find her. As the long days pass, the searchers grow desperate, but Sarah''s father''s trust in God holds him.

A collection of familiar stories about children from both the Old and New Testament.

The journal of a young writer beginning her career in New York City in the 1920''s, climaxed by her marriage to a young engineer and the beginning of a new life in England in 1929.

A man passes through life possessing in turn seven dogs, each of whom offers him love in a different way.

Leven en werk van de broers Edzard (1869-1954) en Arnold Koning (1860-1945).

This study assessed the safety impact and performance of three different bicycle-specific intersection treatments (bike boxes, mixing zones, and bicycle signals) using surrogate safety measures (i.e., bicycle-vehicle conflicts and other non-crash measures). To date, limited research had been conducted to analyze how these treatments along with traffic characteristics (e.g., bicycle, pedestrian, and vehicle volumes) impact the frequency and severity bicycle-vehicle conflicts, and research was needed to provide practitioners guidance on when and where to install these treatments. To develop this guidance, this project analyzed data collected from three sources: data reduced from videos at 12 field study sites, microsimulation modeling, and a bicycling simulator experiment. Through estimation of Poisson regression models and other statistical analyses of these data, guidance was developed which provides practitioners information on when and where to consider installation of these treatments based on bicycle, vehicle, and pedestrian volumes, road user speeds, and other bicyclist behavioral characteristics.

Several people attending a simple Christmas Eve service and curiously touched by a legend about that special evening.