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1) South!
Author
Publisher
Standard Ebooks
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
South! tells one of the most thrilling tales of exploration and survival against the odds which has ever been written. It details the experiences of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition which set off in 1914 to make an attempt to cross the Antarctic continent.
Under the direction of Sir Ernest Shackleton, the expedition comprised two components: one party sailing
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Publisher
Tyndale Momentum
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A powerful true story of what God can do through a willing heart and a wagging tailAfter a devastating series of personal losses, Larry Randolph finally had things under control. Then one morning while praying, he felt God speak two simple words to his heart: "Therapy dogs."There was only one problem. Larry didn't have a dog, and hadn't since the loss of his beloved basset hound, Gus. Why would God say that? Could Larry even open himself up to loving...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In her memoir, Jeannie recalls her childhood years in Hong Kong and how it shaped her view as a mom, wife, and professional in America in her later years. As she grew up and became a professional, she realized that she was often seen as a "minority" because of her ethnicity and gender by Americans. Despite having laws to prohibit prejudice and discrimination, they still exist. Jeannie believes the only way to eradicate them is at the heart level....
Author
Publisher
MITCHELL KENNERLEY
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
From intro: "The names of the seventeen men, here named “Leaders of the People,” are for the most part familiar in our mouths as household words. Those who triumphed, like Anselm and Stephen Langton; or whose cause triumphed, like Simon of Montfort, Eliot, Pym and Hampden, are beyond any loss of fame. Those who in high place quitted themselves like men and died game (if the phrase may be permitted), as did Thomas Becket and Sir Thomas More, have,...
Author
Publisher
Herbert Jenkins Limited
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Excerpt: In my memory there are silhouetted against the horizon of the past a few figures (amongst the many kind friends who have journeyed with me) who stand alone, whose greatness of character singled them from their fellows, others whose splendid works for state or humanity have marked them, but I pause before a figure that would have told us he was nothing in particular, yet few men have been so loved, so universally popular as the late Lord William...
Author
Publisher
Forefront Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Millions of people know the name of the iconic country music artist, George Jones, but few people know that behind the man and his golden voice was a strong, feisty woman who not only saved his life from cocaine addiction, alcoholism, and other abusive and self-destructive behaviors, but also was instrumental in saving his soul. Married for more than thirty years to the greatest country music singer who ever lived, the man Frank Sinatra had whimsically...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Excerpt: "Except for those who, under compulsion of a sick certificate, are flying Bombaywards, it is good for every man to see some little of the great Indian Empire and the strange folk who move about it. It is good to escape for a time from the House of Rimmon-be it office or cutchery-and to go abroad under no more exacting master than personal inclination, and with no more definite plan of travel than has the horse, escaped from pasture, free...
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A riveting, deeply personal memoir of more than twenty years of death-scene investigations by New York City death investigator Barbara Butcher. Barbara Butcher was early in her recovery from alcoholism when she found an unexpected lifeline: a job at the Medical Examiner's Office in New York City. The second woman ever hired for the role of Death Investigator in Manhattan, she was the first to last more than three months. The work was gritty, demanding,...
Author
Publisher
Ballast Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Most c-suite executives do not trade the corner office for a room at the psych ward. This was the path that Michael Stutts chose. A partner at a prestigious management consultancy, senior executive at a multi-billion dollar corporations, and lifelong overachiever, Michael was burned out and broken down when he made a life-changing decision: he checked into a psychiatric hospital and prioritized mental health over personal achievement. In There's...
Author
Publisher
METHUEN & CO. LTD.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The original “Bee-Master of Warrilow”—that queer little honey-coloured book of far-off days—contained but eleven chapters: in its present edition the book has grown to more than three times its former length, and constitutes practically a new volume.
To those who knew and loved the old “Bee-Master of Warrilow,” no apology for the additional chapters will be required, because it is directly to the solicitation of many of them that this...
Author
Publisher
Luton, Bedfordshire : Andrews UK Limited
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In this work, 19th century physician John Ellis attempts to persuade the medical community to give serious consideration to the practice of Homeopathy.
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE OF A PHYSICIAN, WITH AN APPEAL TO THE MEDICAL AND CLERICAL PROFESSIONS; AND AN APPENDIX,
A REVIEW OF 'CHRIST AND THE TEMPERANCE QUESTION' IN THE CHRISTIAN UNION.
BY
JOHN ELLIS, M.D.
CONTENTS:
CHAPTER I. PERSONAL MEDICAL EXPERIENCE OK A PHYSICIAN.
CHAPTER II. WHY EVERY PHYSICIAN...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In this uproarious exploration of the joys of reading, a long-time teacher, lifelong reader and The New Yorker contributor shares surprising stories from her life and the poignant ways in which books have impacted her students and shows us how literature can transform us for the better."--
Author
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
My Withered Legs and Other Essays is a collection of personal essays by Sandra Gail Lambert that reflects upon her experience becoming a writer alongside discussions of disability, queerness, and aging. A seventy-year history of disability is threaded throughout these essays and intertwined with writing that celebrates lesbian love, explores the slapstick moments of life, and shares the obstacles and triumphs of becoming a writer later in
...Author
Publisher
Donohue and Henneberry
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
True Love: A Story of English Domestic Life (1891) is the first and only novel by Sarah E. Farro. Inspired by the works of Dickens and Thackeray, this novel models itself on the stories of romance and everyday life popular in Victorian England. When True Love: A Story of English Domestic Life appeared in print, Farro became the first black woman to publish a novel in the United States. Despite this distinction, her name and reputation would largely...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The letters included in this volume were written by Theodore Roosevelt to his children during a period of more than twenty years. Deep and abiding love of children, of family and home--this was the dominating passion of his life. Whenever he was separated from them--in the Spanish War, or on a hunting trip, or because they were at school--he sent his children these messages of constant thought and love, for they were never for a moment out of his...
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Out of the East came wonderful tales by a Westerner who loved the old Japan-devotion, ancestor worship, courtesy, and kindness-and record his feelings for the rest of the world to read. This collection of "reveries and studies," as author and legendary Japanologist Lafcadio Hearn subtitled Out of the East, contains unforgettable tales like "The Red Bridal," in which the conflict between duty and human feelings leads to tragedy in classically Japanese...
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Series
Publisher
F.S. Howe]
Pub. Date
1906
Language
English
Description
Excerpt: ""We were a jolly pair, we two, and ladies at that; and we had decided to go, amid the protestations of the towns-people and the remarks of Madam Grundy that it was not proper, and that there were so many tramps it was not prudent for two ladies to take a trip with their horse and carriage along the North Shore. Nevertheless, we take our lives in our hands, and 'do the trip' in a large comfortable, roomy buggy," etc. A letter in the Boston...
Author
Publisher
Spiegel and Grau
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In their twenties, Lissa Soep and her boyfriend forged deep friendships with two other couples—Mercy and Christine; and Emily and Jonnie—until, decades later, Jonnie died suddenly, in an accident, and Christine passed away after a mysterious illness. Christine had been a writer, Jonnie a storyteller. Lissa couldn't imagine a world without their letters, postcards, texts—a world without their voices. Then she found comfort in a surprising place....
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Language
English
Description
"The grieving book that New York Times bestselling author Clare Mackintosh needed herself years ago, this is a modern, accessible approach to grief when you don't know how to help or what to do, inspired by a viral social media post that touched millions as it assures the reader that there is a path through their darkness"--
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this poignant and timely memoir—written with the searing power of Beautiful Struggle and Born a Crime—Degrassi Junior High star Anais Granofsky contemplates the lingering impact of a childhood spent in two opposite and warring worlds.
Though recognized around the world for her role as Lucy Hernandez on the hit show Degrassi, Anais Granofsky’s true childhood story is largely unknown.
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