The story of the landmark St. Louis skyscraper, the Continental-Life, built in classic art-deco style in the 1920s. The story of the building's birth, by an Arkansas business tycoon, the million-dollar bank robbery within its walls and the building's deterioration and eventual rebirth.

In causal and sincere words of faith, Mary Jane Hartman demonstrates in Queen Anne's Lace and Other Weeds heavenly existence on earth through attention to small details. In the rush of worldly business, finer items in life are often forgotten -- gentle winds, baked bread, and wildflower gardens. Life's subtle gifts are creatively carried to the foreground as the author relates their splendor to the presence and graciousness of God.

Poems deal with parenthood, nature, poets, anger, children, moving, the past, grief, guilt, marriage, patience, travel, reunions, and the wonder of life

This vivid portrait of France on the eve of the Revolution is also a touching tale of two friends torn apart by class and the powerful political force of democratic freedom.