Review of Best Loved Folk Tales of the World by Joanna Cole by Avil Beckford

When was the last time you ventured into the land of make believe? Every so often, I love to read fairy tales and folktales because we can learn from them. I read Best-Loved Folk Tales of the World by Joanna Cole and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I wish that life were that simple where the good guy u

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Digging To America By Ann Tyler by Joy Cagil

On Friday, August 15, 1997, in Baltimore airport, two families wait for their adopted baby daughters from Korea. After the babies are legally transferred to their respective families, the two families connect. The arrival of the babies, their upbringing, and happy and sad events tie these two mid

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Sixty Things to Do When You Turn Sixty – Book Review by Joy Cagil

Inside this book, sixty writers who have turned sixty offer sixty recommendations for living an exciting, enthusiastic life after the age of sixty. Plenty of important people from M.D's to writers and money managers offer advice in many areas of life, while the sixty plus folks gear up to rediscov

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Generation Ageless – Are You A Baby Boomer? Then You’ll Want to Read This! by Glenda Bixler

Generation Ageless: How Baby Boomers Are Changing the Way We Live Today...And They're Just Getting Started, by J. Walker Smith and Ann Clurman, is a book you must read. Why? Because people will be talking about it! And those in the know know to read this book! Baby Boomers--you may have heard the

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The Meaning of Flowers – A Secret Language You Should Know by Ramajae Taylor

We don't really think about the meaning of flowers today whenever we give them, we just pick out a pretty flower and we give it to someone but actually the real meaning behind flowers and their secret language has been lost. The Victorians used flowers as a discreet form of communication. During

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A Mystery Book Biography About a Black Woman That is Not Part of African American History by Rick Briamonte

The story of black and white in America runs deep through our conscience. Each of us has both an experience and opinion on the subject. Whether it recalls a black man, a black woman or child it doesn't rise to the level necessary to be considered "text" worthy of African American History. This bo

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