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This is a Lori and Tracy adventure story. A very special bug takes the girls on a trip through time to learn about the poinsettia plant. On the way the girls will make friends and get into trouble in an Aztec village in Mexico. They will meet an Angel along with two young Mexican children and see a Christmas miracle. Then during the Mexican revolution they will hide out with Joel Poinsett before escaping from Mexico. Finally they are whisked off to Hollywood California and dance in the Nutcracker Suite with a Russian ballet troupe. This story is loosely based upon how the Poinsettia became...

It Happened in San Antonio gives the reader an insiders view of the Alamo City, bringing to life the characters of today and yesterday, from the early Canary Island residents to the ghosts of the Alamo to Fiesta Royalty. The pages reveal thirty compelling stories of intrigue, perseverance, tradition, and the rich cultures from the city rooted in the wild frontier by the waters of the San Antonio River.

Within the liturgy, congregations pledge to accept, love, forgive, and nurture the newly baptized member. The church, however, often lives out this covenant selectively, forcing its gay and lesbian members into silence, alienation, and doubt. We Were Baptized Too challenges the church to take seriously its understanding of baptism and communion as a means of grace, justice, and liberation.

This 1999 book examines the way in which the Romantic period's culture of posterity inaugurates a tradition of writing which demands that the poet should write for an audience of the future: the true poet, a figure of neglected genius, can be properly appreciated only after death. Andrew Bennett argues that this involves a radical shift in the conceptualization of the poet and poetic reception, with wide-ranging implications for the poetry and poetics of the Romantic period. He surveys the contexts for this transformation of the relationship between poet and audience, engaging with issues...