From the category archives:

Biographies and Memoirs

The works of the yogi has helped the world understand that distinctions by race or nations are meaningless in the realm of truth, where the only qualification is the fitness to receive. Every saint who has penetrated to the core of Reality has testified that a divine universal plan exists and that it is beautiful and full of joy.

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Summary – Autobiography of a Yogi

The novel Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons is a brilliant coming of age novel where after the death of her father, a young girl finds her home too dangerous of a place and seeks to find a new life and a new home. The novel is filled with imagery that should be explored by any true fan of the author and the novel.

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Exploring Themes in the Kaye Gobbons Novel

One good idea is to watch at least one biography about someone you consider to be admirable, and think about what you would have done if you were in the same kinds of situations as them. Seeing the results of what their actions have been may significantly have a positive effect on certain decision-making in your life, such as learning from their mistakes as well as evaluating possible results they could have had.

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Expanding Your Horizons With Biographies

Sojourner Truth’s America has to be one of the most phenomenal books ever written about this amazing woman. The author, Margaret Washington, has not only opened up the world of Sojourner, but also that of a culture within a culture.

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Sojourner Truth’s America – A Review

There’s Something About Daniel is a read that anyone can thoroughly enjoy and find inspiration, motivation and knowledge about living life with a child who has special needs and challenges. The book is filled with the essays of life experiences that she and Daniel shared and truly captures the spirit of who this remarkable woman is.

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Embracing the Unexpected – Parenting a Child With Special Needs

For thirteen years, in the late nineteenth century, Clarence King lived a paradoxical double life, one as a bachelor white man and one as a married black man. The first question that comes to one’s mind is, “How is that possible?” During the late nineteenth century, after the abolition of slavery, a number of laws were passed clearly defining which persons were black.

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A Paradoxical Double Life

Frank Zaccari talks first hand in his narrative story about his life, wife, and children in his candidly revealing tell-all book entitled “When The Wife Cheats.” It takes two to Tango. Googling the “Infidelity Statistics” shows that 22 percent of married men have strayed at least once during their married lives, however an astonishing 14 percent of married women have done the same.

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When the Wife Cheats – Author – Frank Zaccari – Book Review

A review of Robert Sellers book “Hollywood Hellraisers: The Wild Lives and Fast Times of Marlon Brando, Dennis Hopper, Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson”. A fascinating look at 4 of Hollywood’s most notorious actors who between them appeared in some of the greatest movies ever made whilst also leading lives of sex, drugs and copious drinking.

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Hollywood Hellraisers – Marlon Brando, Dennis Hopper, Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson

All those civilizations which have renounced faith as a unifying force have yet to discover new principles to construe the disintegrated vision of modern man. Ironically the Muslim world where Din-e-Islam is still believed, at least, in theory, to be a wellspring of all moral and legal codes, finds itself in the grips of an even more intensive schizophrenia. Ours is a confused situation: a cauldron wherein radically different chefs are simultaneously jockeying to get their favorite dishes cooked, unmindful of the fact how heterogeneous the broth will ultimately turn out.

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Shaikh-ul-Islam Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri – A Beaming Soul!

Legendary entertainer, Carol Burnett, chronicles her illustrious career and life in her new book entitled, “This Time Together: Laughter and Reflection.” Enjoy a nostalgic journey to simpler times through Burnett’s tales.

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Memoir Book Review – This Time Together – Laughter And Reflection by Carol Burnett