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  The Golden Treasury of the Best...

  Francis T. Palgrave

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  Palgrave's principal contribution to the development of literary taste was contained in his Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics (1861), an anthology of the best poetry in the language constructed upon a plan sound and spacious, and followed out with a delicacy of feeling which could scarcely be surpassed.  This book is a delightful one to listen to with family or friends.  You're sure to find something to relate to in these wonderful poems.  Summary by WoollyBee / Wikipedia.

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  The Road to Unafraid

  Dean Merrill, Jeff Struecker

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  Jeff Struecker, a "Black Hawk Down" hero, the Army's Top Ranger, now an Army Chaplain, relates his own tales from the frontlines of every U.S. initiative since Panama, and tells how God taught him faith from the front in fear-soaked times. As readers go on-mission with Struecker through his harrowing tales, they will learn how to face their own fears with faith in a mighty God. Just as he told one of his charges in Mogadishu: "The difference between being a coward and a hero is not whether you're scared, it's what you do while you're scared."

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  To Have and to Hold - An...

  Philipp Blom

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  “This curiously moving history . . . traces the development of collections since the Renaissance through lively portraits of famous collectors.” —The New Yorker   From amassing sacred relics to collecting celebrity memorabilia, the impulse to hoard has gripped humankind throughout the centuries. But what is it that drives people to possess objects that have no conceivable use? To Have and To Hold is a captivating tour of collectors and their treasures from medieval times to the present, from a cabinet containing unicorn horns and a Tsar's collection of teeth to the macabre art of embalmer Dr. Frederick Ruysch, the fabled castle of William Randolph Hearst, and the truly preoccupied men who stockpile food wrappers and plastic cups. An engrossing story of the collector as bridegroom, deliriously, obsessively happy, wed to his possessions, till death do us part.   “Wry history . . . Blom’s formidable research is an example of the collector’s art in itself.” —The New York Times Book Review   “An admirable attempt to chart the history of an obsession.” —Publishers Weekly   “An impressive, wide-ranging book.” —Christopher Tayler, Sunday Telegraph   “Blom's literary cabinet is full of pungent biographies.” —Times Literary Supplement   “Provocative, stimulating and entertaining . . . Huge questions are thrown up . . . on every page of the book, but it is also full of jokes, unusual and very welcome in a work of such impressive scholarship and elegance of style . . . a sparkling, discursive, and eclectic book.” —Independent on Sunday   “Throughout these well-documented stories, Blom probes the heart and soul of collecting's appeal . . . .An intellectual journey worth taking.” —Booklist

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  The Women

  Alice Taylor

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  'We walk in the footprints of great women, women who lived through hard times on farms, in villages, towns and cities. The lives of these women are an untold story. This book is a celebration of the often forgotten "ordinary" women who gave so much to our society.'
  
  Alice Taylor
  Alice salutes the women whose energy and generosity made such a valuable contribution to all our lives.
  '[It] warmed my heart and reminded me of the value of family, friendship and community... I was enthralled... wonderful.' Irish Independent on And Time Stood Still

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  Nathaniel Hawthorne - Six of the...

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number. 
   
  Such is its popularity that we thought it is also a very good way of challenging and investigating an author’s work to give width, brevity, humour and depth across six of their very best. 
   
  In this series we gather together authors whose short stories both rivet the attention and inspire the imagination to visit their gems in a series of six, to roam across an author’s legacy in a few short hours and gain a greater understanding of their writing and, of course, to be lavishly entertained by their ideas, their narrative and their way with words. 
   
  These stories can be surprising and sometimes at a tangent to what we expected, but each is fully formed and a marvellous adventure into the world and words of a literary master. 
   
  1 - Six of the Best - Nathaniel Hawthorne -  An Introduction 
  2 - Nathaniel Hawthorne - An Introduction 
  3 - Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne 
  4 - The Devil In Manuscript By Nathaniel Hawthorne 
  5 - The Artist of the Beautiful by Nathaniel Hawthorne 
  6 - The Wedding Knell By Nathaniel Hawthorne 
  7 - Rappaccini's Daughter - Part 1 by Nathaniel Hawthorne 
  8 - Rappaccini's Daughter - Part 2 by Nathaniel Hawthorne 
  9 - Roger Malvin's Burial by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  The Beatles 100 - 100 Pivotal...

  John Borack

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  Was John Lennon meeting Paul McCartney more significant than John Lennon meeting Yoko Ono? Rubber Soul or Revolver? Which Wings album was Paul McCartney's solo pinnacle?In 100 brief chapters, John M. Borack discusses and ranks the greatest moments in Beatles history. An avid Fab Four fan since childhood and a music journalist for more than thirty-five years, Borack has created a book to agree with and disagree with, and one that is sure to spark conversations. A love letter to the greatest rock band of all time, The Beatles 100 is a book for Beatles buffs and casual fans alike.

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