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Reader's Digest Great Biographies: Mark Twain and Christopher Columbus
by Charles NeiderBiographies of Mark Twain and Christopher Columbus.
Harriet Tubman: Flame of Freedom
by Frances T. HumphrevilleThis book is a biography of the Negro woman who escaped from slavery and became a well known figure in the underground railroad as she personally conducted scores of slaves north to freedom.
House Calls and Hitching Posts: Stories from Dr. Elton Lehman's Career Among the Amish
by Dorcas Sharp HooverStories from the life of a doctor to the Amish.
A Woman's Journey Round the World: From Vienna to Brazil, Chili, Tahiti, China, Hindostan, Persia, and Asia Minor
by Ida PfeifferThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin FranklinOriginally intended as a guide for his son, Benjamin Franklin details his unique and eventful life as an inventor, writer, athlete, scientist, writer and diplomat.
Thendral: Vol 12, Issue 09, August 2012
by MadhurabharathiThis issue features interviews of Prof. George Heart and‘Bharathi’ Mani; Two Recipes; Biography of Carnatic Musician Madurai Mani Iyer; a religious article on “Annai Abirami”; Three Short Stories; Kavithai Pandal (Poem); Biography of writer Hephzibah Jesudasan with an abstract of her novel plus usual features of Thendral Pesukirathu, Anbulla Snehitiye, Ilanthendral, Nalam Vaazha, Surya Thupparikiraar, Saadhanaiaalar, etc.
Saint Catherine Laboure of the Miraculous Medal
by Joseph I. DirvinCatherine was a village girl, who as a Sister of Charity, received visions of the Blessed Virgin. What made Catherine so remarkable, was her ordinariness. During her long life as a religious sister, almost no one knew of her visions.
Great Lives: Women of Substance
by Rajee RamanStories of the lives of great women, their backgrounds and events from childhood. Their inspirational achievements are illustrated in a simple language.
Land or Death: The Peasant Struggle in Peru
by Hugo Blanco"LAND OR DEATH," says Peter Camejo in his introduction, "constitutes one of the most significant contributions to the theory and practice of Latin American revolution since the Cuban Revolution." It not only describes the conditions of peasant life, but tells the fascinating story of thousands of Quechua Indians who began to take back the lands stolen from them. Drawing on his experience as a leading figure in this mass peasant movement, Blanco takes issue with those who believe the revolution in Latin America can come through either elections or small groups of dedicated, but isolated, guerrillas. Hugo Blanco, a principal organizer of the peasant movement in Peru, was sentenced to a twenty-five year prison term for his activities. Written from inside the famous El Fronton Island prison, Land or Death illustrates Blanco's refusal to be silenced by the government. Blanco was freed in 1970 under the pressure of an international campaign.
The Heart's Progress: A Memoir
by Claudia BepkoLike many lesbians, Claudia Bepko was a young woman when she first admitted to having homosexual feelings--but it took a lifeless heterosexual marriage and a fierce attraction to a female colleague before she was able to live openly in a relationship with another woman. In this moving memoir she relives the painful and poignant awakenings she experienced in her early life: from her blue-collar Catholic upbringing to her confusing college days, during the height of the sexual revolution, when she encountered her first male and female lovers. Having built a career in the early years of the women's movement, she found the courage to question her heterosexuality. Approaching middle age in the midst of "lesbian chic," she finds herself finally able to move from an identity shrouded in otherness to a life that celebrates the freedom and normalcy of loving whomever one is destined to love.
She Talks to Everyone: Tales of an International Life
by Debra EfroymsonThis memoir of an American woman's experience meeting a wide diversity of people through her travels in Asia and elsewhere includes amusing anecdotes, language mix-ups, and encouragement to readers to be more open to new experiences and adventures.
Thendral: Vol 12, Issue 08, July 2012
by MadhurabharathiThis issue features interviews of Prof. Sreenivasa Varadhan and gavanakar Kalai.Chezhian; Recipes of Jackfruit items in Maya Bazaar, a biography of Thirumanam Selvakesavaraya Mudaliar; an article on Azhagarkoil; a Health article on Migraine in “Nalam Vaazha”; a biography of Tamil novelist and writer Ra.Su.Nallaperumal and one of his short stories, “Kadal Thaandiya Uravugal”; four short stories and a short novel Sila Maatrangal- Part 13 plus usual features of Anbulla Snehitiye, Jokes, Thendral Pesukirathu, Surya Thupparikiraar, etc
Thendral: Vol 12, Issue 07, June 2012
by MadhurabharathiThis issue features interviews of Asha Natarajan, Founder of Ragamalika Music School at San Francisco and Nanjil Nadan, a novelist and Tamil scholar who won Sahitya Academy Award in 2010; Recipes of Potato Rice (Aloo Bath) and Ponni Rice in the serial “Maya Bazaar”; a Biography of “Avvai”T.K. Shanmugam, a popular Dramatist of yesteryears; an article on Tirupparankundram Murugan Temple; Surgical treatment for Obesity in Health column “Nalam Vaazha”; Four Short Stories “Kurai Onrumillai”, Oru Kadithathin Vilai, Kalyana Album and Iru Kodugal, an Introduction to Book “Thamizhagaththukku Perumai Thantha Vignana Medhai Padma Bhushan Sir K. S. Krishnan; a biography of Tamil Writer Kaa. Si. Venkatramani and one of his short stories, “Pattuvin Kalyanam” plus usual features of Anbulla Snehitiye, Poetry, Thendral Pesukirathu, Surya Thupparikiraar, Ilanthendral, etc.
De Profundis and Other Writings
by Oscar Wilde'I have nothing to declare,' Wilde once told an American customs official, 'except my genius.' A good part of that genius is evident in the essays and poems included in this volume. There is the intellectual genius of "The Soul of Man under Socialism", in which he clearly foresaw the dangers of economic bureaucracy and state-worship: for Wilde, socialism meant liberation and individuality, not enslavement. Then there is the emotional genius of "De Profundis", the long, introspective and often hostile letter he addressed to Lord Alfred Douglas from prison. And there is the poetical genius of "The Ballad of Reading Gaol", in which Wilde's generous nature could movingly express for another's misery the sorrow he found it hard to express for his own. This collection contains, too, many examples of that humorous and epigrammic genius which captured the London theatre and which, by suddenly casting light from an unexpected angle, widened the bounds of truth. Show More Show Less
A Glimpse of Eden
by Evelyn AmesA safari in East Africa brings a couple to see Africa with new eyes and gives them a greater appreciation of its wildlife and man's natural heritage.
Angel at Her Shoulder: Lillian Dickson and Her Taiwan Mission
by Kenneth L. WilsonAngel at Her Shoulder is more than the title of an amazing story and the biography of a most remarkable, physically undersized but spiritually large woman. Lillian Dickson, the irresistible "Lil" of this book, who has been accurately named: "Typhoon Lil," has practiced and demonstrated the faith "once delivered" as no other mortal I have ever known. In these chapters we find her building hospitals, orphanages, schools, a leprosarium, churches, and mountain clinics with a courage that at times plunged ahead against what seemed to be, even to her most devoted associates, insuperable odds. This accurate and eloquently-written story tells the amazing record of this small woman, who was pyramid-high in love with the helpless and hapless. The author has been captured by his subject and Mrs. Dickson by Taiwan, South America, Mainland China, and the world could not have been more fortunate in her biographer.
Warrior Girl
by Pauline ChandlerAlthough surrounded by treachery, Mariane, a young mute, battles alongside her cousin, Joan of Arc, for the liberation of France from the English.
Ernest Thompson Seton: Scout and Naturalist
by Wyatt BlassingameThis naturalist and artist learned much from the Indians, and he wanted to share his knowledge with boys, so that they would love and protect wildlife. Other books by this author are available in this library.
Daniel and the Roaring Lions
by Louise UlmerWhen King Darius threw Daniel into a den of hungry lions, he expected the lions to eat Daniel. But God had other plans for his servant's life!
Richer By India
by Myra ScovelRicher By India brings missionary work to life with direct personal impact. Here are the faces and places, the daily frustrations and rewards, the down-to-earth human realities of an American family's experiences in a far-off land, told with beautiful simplicity and with a rare poetic awareness. Some of the situations Myra Scovel describes are frightening, some are hilarious, all are of absorbing interest, because, right from the start, the author establishes contact with the reader.
The Woman at the Well
by Melinda BuschIn Jesus' day, it was not proper for a Jew to eat with a Samaritan. But Jesus asked her for a drink anyway. Then, He told her about God's living water.
Mama Nlundi: Our Adopted Mother
by Anna Rose GoertzenMama Nlundi: Our Adopted Mother is the exciting and inspiring autobiography of Anna Rose Goertzen, a Christian missionary from Nebraska who labored in the mission fields in Africa. In the Belgian Congo, which is now the independent country called Zaire, Anna Rose spread the joyful message of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Fighting against the forces of poverty, ignorance, and the very real power of the black magic practiced by the village witch doctors, she worked incessantly to heal the physical and spiritual illnesses that enslaved the African people, whom she came to love dearly. In response to her loving care for them, they called her "Mama Nlundi," which means "our adopted mother."