Travel related books
It's not easy to raise a child. Before my children were born, I genuinely thought I would be the ideal caregiver. I had spent a great deal of time with children, as I was a teacher before I had two of my own, and I felt that I had an excellent handle on what would be involved when raising children
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The great thing about audio books is they are constantly changing but one cannot discount the fact that their origins all came from cassette books. Sadly, since the production of cassette tapes are limited, one day soon even the cassette books will no longer be used. It would become more of a memo
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Swedish author Pär Lagerkvist won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1951, partly on the strength of this funny, wicked, and remarkable masterpiece, originally published in 1944. The Dwarf catapulted Lagerkvist to international fame, but the book is now largely dwarfed (ahem) by his more famous
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The main action of the plot of Wuthering Heights centers around two separate relationship stories, with each consuming approximately half of the volume of the novel. Although the female components of both stories share the same name of Catherine, each have have striking differences that aim to dem
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When I first published my first novel, The Ebony Tree, I'll never forget how I found out later that my then, 23 year-old niece ran through the house and screamed with laughter, after she read the book. Now mind you, my niece had always been an avid reader of white romance novels since her early te
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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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The thing that can shatter the life of a teenager is moving abroad. Teenagers are in a stage of life in which they start getting settled in their life. It is the time when bonds are formed in their life and also last a lifetime. They start taking their first few steps into the real life outside th
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In a recent series of focus groups conducted for the The Designer Jean Company, women were asked one very specific question, How important are your designer jeans to you? Answers were a rating on a scale of 1 to 10. 1 being the least important, I could care less. A 10 rating meant that is was of t
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This is a wonderful book by Thich Nhat Hanh. His perception of Buddhism and Christianity is right on point. I really like his philosophy regarding, religion, recognition of faiths, and integration of faiths. Living Buddha, Living Christ, comes alive while reading these excellent words on its page
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