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In the book “Mirror for Humanity”, American anthropologist Conrad Kottak defines family as a group of people who are by blood in some way. This group includes parents, children, siblings, grandparents, etc. Or does it?
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A Look At Conrad Kottak’s Book "Mirror for Humanity"
I have never read a book by Mrs. Didion but her writing is obviously very good and extremely easy to read. In the space of a year her adult daughter is hospitalized several times with a series of infections and neurological issues and she loses her husband. I picked this book up as it was on the reading list at my daughter’s high school, and I like to be aware of what is on the reading lists.
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The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Gail Caldwell does an exquisite job of inviting you to share her inner-most thoughts and feelings about friendship, addiction and love. This book is a love story about best friends sharing a bond with one another that even husbands and lovers can’t share. If you’ve ever had a best friend with whom you could share everything and anything, you know what I mean.
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Let’s Take the Long Way Home – A Review
Don Smarto takes the reader behind the scenes of juvenile correctional facilities and into the minds and hearts of incarcerated gang members and troubled youth in “Heart of the Young Gladiator.” The book is the result of Don’s four-hour Writing Seminar, taught over a period of six years, in thirty juvenile facilities throughout the United States. The book includes 55 poems written by youth participating in the seminars as well as 40 photos of prisoners Don photographed in facilities throughout America and Russia.
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A Look at the "Heart of the Young Gladiator" by Don Smarto
There are many books and documentaries on the Apollo lunar missions. They mainly revolve around the astronauts. This book is about the other 400,000 people who made it possible.
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"Something Funny Happened on the Way to the Moon" by Sara Howard
In your frenzy to become a winning poker player, you will often sit your self at a table and lose most of, if not all of your deposit within ten minutes. With the advent of online poker rooms, it is easy for the novice player to be taken for a harsh reality check by the sharks at the table. You will leave the table disheartened and wonder why you have lost all of your money so easily.
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Poker Strategy Books
The novel starts off with Perry taking a look at their father, Henry VII. He brought stability to the throne, but despite his attempts to secure his male progeny, only three of his seven children lived to adulthood – Henry VIII, Margaret, Queen of Scots, and Mary, Queen of France. Knowing this, Henry VII muses to his councilors, “Supposing, which God forbid, that all my male progeny should become extinct and the kingdom devolve by law to Margaret’s heirs, will England be damaged or benefited?”
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Book Review For "The Sisters of Henry VIII"
A strange phenomenon occurs in most scrapbooking households. Step inside and look around and you will find tons of family storybooks, with beautiful pictures and artistic layouts documenting every precious moment from birth through infancy to preschool and kindergarten, elementary and middle and high school and beyond. If the family homeschools, there may be even more scrapbook documentation of what each child did each year in school. Often in these scrapbooking families, children leave home for college with boxes of their childhood memories preserved lovingly in each family scrapbook album. But there’s a missing element in those books.
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The Book of Me – Don’t Leave Yourself Out of Your Family Storybooks
