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Life Beyond Measure: Letters to My Great-Granddaughter
Sidney Poitier
HarperOne, 2008
Sidney Poitier is one of the most revered actors in the history of Hollywood. He has overcome enormous obstacles in extraordinary times and is a role model for many Americans because of his convictions, bravery, and grace. Poitier reflects on his amazing life in Life Beyond Measure , offering inspirational advice and personal stories in the form ...
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Dear First Lady: Letters to the White House
National Geographic, 2008
The wives of American presidents have been impressively diverse in personality
The wives of American presidents have been impressively diverse in personality and their interpretations of the role of 'First Lady' of the nation. Now for the first time in our political history we have a former First Lady actively seeking to become president in her ...
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The Letters of Noel Coward
Noel Coward
Knopf, 2007
Destined to amuse, Coward conquers all
I was surprised to receive this book as a gift -- why would I want to read the fatuities of a bygone wit? -- and began it with a sigh. But after the first chapter I was hooked, then entertained, then admiring and enthralled at the resilient, insightful, delightful and ...
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Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke
Dover Publications, 2002
This book is fantastic!
This little book though short in lenght packs a condensed form of life wisdom. Some of the insight Rilke writes to his friend are priceless. Rilke penetrates to the essence of a wide range issues from religious to material never preaching but more like asking his ...
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Letters to Sam: A Grandfather's Lessons on Love, Loss, and the Gifts of Life
Daniel Gottlieb
Sterling, 2008
Irreducibly simple yet profound
"When it gets dark enough, men see stars," according to Emerson. In irreducibly simple yet profound words, Dan Gottlieb shares the wisdom he has derived from living in a wheelchair, battling his own inner demons, and practicing psychology for the past 25 years. His ...
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Pure Goldwater
John W. Dean, Barry M. Goldwater
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
Essential Pure Goldwater!
Mr. Dean and Barry Jr. have culled from the late Senator Goldwater's personal archive the most telling letters and journal entries imaginable. Barry Goldwater not only comes to life, he literally leaps off the pages, and his words are as relevant today as they were ...
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My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams
Abigail Adams, John Adams
Belknap Press, 2007
Outstanding
This book is a wonderful adjunct to the HBO series and David Mc Cullough's brilliant book.."John Adams". I have never been devoted to our American history, preferring instead Ancient cultures. I see what I have missed and vow to read more about the brave and devoted ...
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The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams
John Adams
The University of North Carolina Press, 1988
Throw Away the Text Books
Throw Away the texbooks. As others have said this is our Real History and Heritage. There is more to be found here on Ethics and Intergrity than in any of the pogressively vaporous decriptions of these men and their times. Imagine the chief architects of the Great ...
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The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams
Penguin Classics, 2003
The loving letters of our second president and his wife abigail: brilliance in Braintree!
John Adams was the first Vice-President and second chief
executive of the United States of America. He was also a brilliant lawyer, legislator, writer and diplomat for the fledging American nation in France and the Netherlands during
the Revolutionary War.
In this ...
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Letters From a Skeptic: A Son Wrestles with His Father's Questions about Christianity
Gregory A. Boyd
Cook Communications, 1994
Letters From a Skeptic: A Son Wrestles with His Father's Questions about Christianity
I have a large collection of books in the Christian Apologetics genre. Most of the books that I own are quite a bit more detailed and in depth than "Letters From a Skeptic" regarding their exegesis of scripture, or in regards to the amount of archeological, ...
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Severe Mercy, A
Sheldon Vanauken
HarperOne, 1987
Must Read for People Who Want Love to Endure for an Eternity
It offers a rare and by far in my experience, the best insight into what love between a man and a woman could be in its most glorious state. Be prepared to be moved to the very depths of your being.
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Jane Austen's Letters
Jane Austen
Oxford University Press, USA, 1997
Great insight into an author who didn't write enough!
I think all Austen fans lament her early death - only six completed novels just isn't enough!
These letters do help fill that gap. Austen was smart, honest, funny; you can hear her voice so clearly in these letters. It is a shame that her sister destroyed most of ...
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The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters
Charlotte Mosley
Harper, 2007
A truly wonderful read - I'd like to give it 6 stars!
"Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters," is a truly wonderful read. I finished the 800-plus pages and wished very much that there were 800 more. I'd like to give it 6 stars, but dear old Amazon only permits one to praise to a point. I willingly go beyond that point and ...
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I Walked the Line: My Life with Johnny
Vivian Cash
Scribner, 2007
I Walked The Line
I Walked the Line: My Life with Johnny
Been a Johnny Cash fan forever, yet never realized he was married to another woman prior to June. This book gave me a whole new insight into a major country music icon, and a whole new opinion of June.
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1,000 Greetings: Creative Correspondence Designed for All Occasions
Peter King & Company
Rockport Publishers, 2004
One of the BEST design books EVER
I first saw this book at a local bookstore. Being a Graphic Design Student I've been struggling to find a decent collection of well designed promotions, to give me some inspiration. It figures that I finally discovered it the last semester of my senior year... but you ...
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