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The host of the popular YouTube channel "Dad, How Do I?" shares his story of overcoming a difficult childhood with the strength of faith and family, and offers inspiration and hope as well as providing fifty practical DYI instructions that are illustrated with helpful line drawings.
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"With exclusive interviews and extensive research, King Charles delivers definitive insight into the extraordinary life of His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, as he nears the throne at a watershed moment in modern history and in the British monarchy. New York Times bestselling author Robert Jobson debunks the myths about the man who will be king, going beyond banal, bogus media caricatures of Charles to tell his true story. Jobson--who has spent...
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Martin Luther entered a monastery as a youth and as a man shattered the structure of the medieval church. Luther spoke out against the corrupt religious practices that then existed. His demand that the authority for doctrine and practice be Scriptures, rather than Popes or Councils, echoed around the world and ignited the Great Reformation. Accused of heresy and threatened with excommunication and death, Luther maintained his bold stand and refused...
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Excerpt: "The first question, which the unprejudiced inquirer will seek to answer is: How far were the Churches able to prevent, yet remiss in using their influence to prevent, the present war? There is, unhappily, in these matters no such thing as an entirely unprejudiced inquirer. Our preconceived ideas act like magnets on the material of evidence which is submitted to us, instinctively selecting what bears in their favour and declining to receive...
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Reflections Reading Peter Tschetter's book Hutterite Life is a personal reminiscent collection of stories of a generation living during transition times to a more convenient way of living on the prairie of South Dakota. One can get a gimpse of the living conditions of that generation whether one was in communal living or in community living. Peter has expressed believing that a Christ-centered life is lived by allowing the Holy Spirit of God to move...
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In 1977, Terri Jentz and her Yale roommate, Shayna Weiss, make a cross-country bike trip. They pitched a tent in the desert of central Oregon. As they are sleeping, a man in a pickup truck deliberately runs over the tent, then attacks them with an ax. The crime is reported in newspapers across the country. No one is ever arrested. Both women survive, but Shayna has amnesia, while Terri is left alone with memories of the attack--their friendship is...
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Maisie Ward's biography of Gilbert Keith Chesterton has long been a cornerstone in Chesterton studies, as well as in the publishing house she and her husband, Frank Sheed, founded in 1926. Originally published in 1943, this book combines Ward's unique perspective as the author's friend and publisher with an examination of his personal correspondence and interviews with his closest friends and family. Here are Chesterton's childhood and school days,...
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Extrait : "Ce n'est rien que le jeu d'aujourd'hui auprès du jeu d'autrefois : la révolution a fait passer dans la politique et dans le commerce cette activité ambitieuse qui n'avait naguère que des chances de cartes pour s'occuper, et la Bourse est un tripot honnête sur une grande échelle o l'on perd des millions problématiques, puisqu'on ne joue pas argent sur table."
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My story started in 2006 after I lost my husband and one month later lost my baby daughter from an overdose of pills. My world was turned upside down, God was the one I leaned on, and I was so glad to be part of my late husband's life to lead him to Jesus he got saved on his deathbed. I will tell you I was sad, but I did not let it get me down, I went to church and keep my mind on the one who loves me & the one who died for me. I did not lose hope...
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This significant biography of the poet John Keats (1795–1821), is part of the highly respected English Men of Letters series. Keats is best known for his six great odes, and although his poems were not well received during his lifetime, they are now considered among the finest in the English language.
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Scott Lee Chua channels Spiderman when Net surfing, Lethal Weapon while reading, Hunger Games while competing in math. He handles bullies, survives school overnights, travels smart. Ultimately, Scott reflects on how to give and not to count the cost, and how teens can make a difference in this world.
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Sue spent a lifetime being invisible. Metamorphosis is a deeply vulnerable account of Sues journey as she attempts to find love and success. She shares how she became accustomed to paying a high price for acceptance. Sue intertwines her pursuit of professional success and her quest for love from a Native American man who could not openly acknowledge his love for her to his closest friends and family. When she and Michael were alone their relationship...
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Occasionally, the world produces one of those rare thinkers that alter the course of history. Disney reinvented entertainment, Einstein revolutionized science, Edison lit up our lives with the light bulb, Bell got the world talking with the telephone … and Fender revolutionized music. If you think about it, Leo Fender has influenced every person on earth today – at least everyone who has ever heard a song. Guitar Player Magazine declared that...
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This is a story about one man's struggle to overcome class discrimination, poverty, and abandonment in order to achieve success, wholeness, and recognition. It does not always make light reading, but as with anything in life, there are humorous elements. A mixture of narrative storytelling and academic investigation provides the necessary balance for discussing a difficult subject. From earliest childhood memories, the reader is taken through the...
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This Edition has much more content and lots of it is way more interesting. It has others' testimonies as well.
I have had a great many severe, schizophrenic experiences over 20 years. It's interesting because I'm very smart which goes along well with it, I remember them well when you are supposed to remember them, and it's like having more than two brains because you've got your consciousness, your made up one, and the union of the two.
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This is the only comprehensive, annotated bibliography of writing about biography. Rollyson, a biographer and scholar of biography, includes chapters on the history of biography (beginning in the Greco-Roman period and concluding with biographers such as Leon Edel and Richard Ellmann). Ample sections on psychobiography, the new feminist biography, and on biographers who appear in works of fiction, are also included. Cited in many recent books on the...
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Color-illustrated, Self-Reliant Pilot focuses on flying small taildragger aircraft and landing them in remote and challenging terrain in wild Alaska. It displays the inspiration of flying in Alaska, defining who are the incredible pilots that fly Alaska's backcountry and showing the training necessary to become the best pilot you can be. It discusses the weather related problems of flying in Alaska and shows ways to minimize the difficulties. It also...
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