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Author: Unknown
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Keywords: friendship, joys
Number of Pages: 220
Published:
ISBN-10: 145100057X
ISBN-13: 9781451000573
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Author: Piya TanRatna Ei Geik Lim
Publisher: Minding Centre
Keywords: words, healing, joys, simple
Number of Pages: 181
Published: 2011-01-01
ISBN-10: 981089287X
ISBN-13: 9789810892876
FOREWORD This is a book of readings for thinking people, for those who value self-understanding. We might see this as self-help servings of healing words from early Buddhist recipes for emotional health, a full life and spiritual liberation. This anthology records my weekly reflections written from September 2009 to May 2011, in response to some current affairs or while reflecting on uplifting moments of being joyfully touched by the Buddha’s teachings, that is, by life’s simple and true realities. If you read between the lines, you would see that this is a record of your ow
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Author: Jane Austen
Publisher: Arc Manor LLC
Keywords: abbey, northanger, austen, jane
Number of Pages: 181
Published: 2007-12
ISBN-10: 1604500433
ISBN-13: 9781604500431
During an eventful season at Bath, young, naive Catherine Morland experiences fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted with her new acquaintances; flirtatious Isabella, who introduces Catherine to the joys of Gothic romances, and sophisticated Henry and Eleanor Tilney, who invite her to their father's house, Northanger Abbey. There, influenced by novels of horror and intrigue, Catherine comes to imagine terrible crimes committed by General Tilney, risking the loss of Henry's affection, and must learn the difference between fiction and reality, false friends and true.
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Author: Thomas Pendel
Publisher: Applewood Books
Keywords: house, lincoln, roosevelt, doorkeeper, memoir, years, thirty, six
Number of Pages: 190
Published: 2008-07
ISBN-10: 1557099235
ISBN-13: 9781557099235
In his 1902 memoir, Thomas Pendel documents his experiences as White House doorkeeper from the Lincoln presidency to the adminstration of Theodore Roosevelt. First assigned to duty at the White House on November 3, 1864, Pendel had only been at the White House a short time when he was chosen to be Lincoln's guard. In his post, he observed not only the tragedy of two assassinations, those of Lincoln and Garfield, but also the joys of the personal lives of the Presidents and those who worked for him. As he notes, "there have been many happy days at the White House; many dark and dreary ones as w
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Author: Dennis O. Cleasby
Publisher: Cathedral Art Gallery Recor
Keywords: wife, love, internet
Number of Pages: 218
Published: 2008-05
ISBN-10: 0981701507
ISBN-13: 9780981701509
A true love story and travel documentary. Original artworks and photography by the author are woven into the book reinforcing the story line. The author describes in a personal dialogue his meeting, internet dating, and marriage to his wife, and their travels in the United States, Costa Rica, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, and Ireland. The book offers an intimate, honest examination of the joys and challenges that create a cross-cultural marriage. An international cast of family and friends are included in stories within stories that depict a realistic view of travel, as well as the brief and long
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Author: Logan Marshall
Publisher: Arc Manor LLC
Keywords: account, survivors, initial, investigations, hand, first, titanic, sea, disasters, sinking
Number of Pages: 157
Published: 2008-08
ISBN-10: 1604502819
ISBN-13: 9781604502817
An authentic account of the Titanic's disaster with mesmerizing first-hand account of survivors.***** "He led Mrs. Astor to the side of the ship and helped her to the life-boat to which she had been assigned. I saw that she was prostrated and said she would remain and take her chances with him, but Colonel Astor quietly insisted and tried to reassure her in a few words. As she took her place in the boat her eyes were fixed upon him. Colonel Astor smiled, touched his cap, and when the boat moved safely away from the ship's side he turned back to his place among the men." ***** "I will not leave
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