Stephanie Life of Determination

Barbie® recognizes all female role models. The Inspiring Women™ Series pays tribute to incredible heroines of their time – courageous women who took risks changed rules, and paved the way for generations of girls to dream bigger than ever before.  Barbie® Inspiritn Women Helen Keller Doll After becoming the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree, Helen Keller attained countless lifetime achievements as a renowned author, speaker, educator, and advocate for the blind, deaf, and deafblind. Barbie® celebrates Helen’s courageous determination with a collectible Barbie® doll created in her likeness. This fully poseable Helen Keller Barbie® doll comes dressed in a style inspired by Helen’s time as a student in the early 1900s and carries a book with molded braille on its cover. Designed in partnership with the National Federation of the Blind, displayable packaging includes braille to create easy readability for sighted and non-sighted fans alike. Designer:   Carlyle Nuera

  ABOUT THE BOOK Classically trained pianist and singer Natalie Curtis isolated herself for five years after a breakdown just before she was to debut with the New York Philharmonic. Guilt-ridden and songless, Natalie can't seem to recapture the joy music once brought her. In 1902, her brother invites her to join him in the West to search for healing. What she finds are songs she'd never before encountered--the haunting melodies, rhythms, and stories of Native Americans. But their music is under attack. The US government's Code of Offenses prohibits American's indigenous people from singing, dancing, or speaking their own languages as the powers that be insist on assimilation. Natalie makes it her mission not only to document these songs before they disappear but to appeal to President Teddy Roosevelt himself, who is the only man with the power to repeal the unjust law. Will she succeed and step into a new song . . . and a new future? Award-winning author Jane Kirkpatric

ABOUT THE BOOK Present Day. After tragedy plunges her into grief and unresolved anger, Sarah Ashby returns to her childhood home determined to finally follow her long-denied dream of running Old Depot Grocery alongside her mother and grandmother. But when she arrives, her mother, Rosemary, announces to her that the store is closing. Sarah and her grandmother, Glory Ann, make a pact to save the store, but Rosemary has worked her entire life to make sure her daughter never follows in her footsteps. She has her reasons--but she'll certainly never reveal the real one. 1965. Glory Ann confesses to her family that she's pregnant with her deceased fiancé's baby. Pressured into a marriage of convenience with a shopkeeper to preserve the family reputation, Glory Ann vows never to love again. But some promises are not as easily kept as she imagined. This dual-timeline story from Amanda Cox deftly explores the complexity of a mother-daughter dynamic, the way the secrets we keep shape

I wasn't sure if I wanted to post this or not but I decided to share my experience.   pictures are by Robert Clark  I was 15 years old when 9/11 happened. My mom and I just got back from Disney World. We were even thinking about staying another night. Thank God we didn't because we would have been stuck down there. Even though we would have been stuck in the magical place everything was closed down so we would have been stuck in Disney's Pop Resort with no fun and full of worries.  Friday, Sept 11, I was watching Good Morning America while eating my breakfast. I was getting ready to start working on my schoolwork. (I was homeschooled at this point in my life). Diana Sawyer and Charlie Gibson. They thought it was just an accident. At 8:46 am an airplane hit the North Trade Center building.  At 9:00 am Regis and Kelly started their show when all of a sudden their cameras shook. You could see the fear in both Regis and Kelly's eyes. They didn't know what happened. The

ABOUT THE BOOK In 1975, three thousand children were airlifted out of Saigon to be adopted into Western homes. When Mindy, one of those children, announces her plans to return to Vietnam to find her birth mother, her loving adopted family is suddenly thrown back to the events surrounding her unconventional arrival in their lives. Though her father supports Mindy’s desire to meet her family of origin, he struggles privately with an unsettling fear that he’ll lose the daughter he’s poured his heart into. Mindy’s mother undergoes the emotional rollercoaster inherent in the adoption of a child from a war-torn country, discovering the joy hidden amid the difficulties. And Mindy’s sister helps her sort through relics that whisper of the effect the trauma of war has had on their family–but also speak of the beauty of overcoming. Told through three strong voices in three compelling timelines,  The Nature of Small Birds  is a hopeful story that explores the meaning of family far beyond genetic

  These athletes worked so hard at winning the games.  I thought I would share the "Secret Olympic Games".  I will continue to post these games on my blog. Who do you think will win? lol.  Please like, share, and subscribe to Entertainment For All Network on YouTube. It would mean a lot to me and my creative team. 

Everyone was rooting for Simone. It wasn't really fair but the team put all the pressure on Simone. The team knew they could screw up and it would not matter because Simone's scores will be so high.  Jordyn Wieber  This reminds me of what happened to Jordyn Wieber in the 2012 London Olympics. The weight was all on her shoulder because she was so amazing and always nailing her routines. Everyone loved Jordan and so did I. She had so many perfect scores throughout 2011 and 2012. But when she got to the Olympics her nerves got to her. Not only did she have so many people, companies, USA gymnastics, coaches and so on putting pressure on her ; she also put pressure on herself too. This caused her to choke. Wieber, sadly didn't qualify for any of the individual all-around events. She did help the team win the gold medal. This is sort of what is happening to Simone right now.  However, Simone Biles did not do well at the Olympic trials both on day one and day two. She seamed off.