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  Stories of Great Composers for...

  Thomas Tapper

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  This is a collection of ten short, entertaining, informative picture-book biographies of famous composers. Each book tells about the childhood and great achievements of a composer, and includes a short musical example. Here are links to the online texts so you can read along and look at the pictures:Bach: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34568Mozart: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34582Beethoven: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34737Haydn: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34550Schubert: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35070Handel: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35157Chopin: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35013Verdi: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35158Wagner: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35128Grieg: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35097(Summary by Kara)

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  Domestic Affairs - Enduring the...

  Joyce Maynard

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  An unforgettable collection of essays on the everyday thrills and challenges of marriage and motherhood, from one of America’s best-loved memoiristsWitty and insightful, Domestic Affairs is an extension of Joyce Maynard’s celebrated, widely syndicated newspaper column of the same name that ran from 1984 to 1990. Each essay gives an unfiltered look at the ups and downs of family life and a remarkable window into the challenges of modern motherhood. Topics range from babysitter woes to family visits to coping with a child’s burgeoning independence. These collected writings represent nine years’ worth of stories about the greatest adventure of Maynard’s life, or, as she writes, “the difficult, exhausting, humbling, and endlessly gratifying business of raising children, of ensuring the health of both body and soul.” This ebook features an illustrated biography of Joyce Maynard including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.

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  Shooting Out the Lights - A Memoir

  Kim Fairley

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  Shooting Out the Lights unravels like a mystery novel, but Kim Fairley's memoir wrestles with the very real secrets we keep from each other and the roles we play to protect ourselves. Centered around her marriage to a man thirty-two years older, who had lost his son from his first marriage in a gun accident, the story explores the taboo of wide age gap love.Twenty-four-year-old Kim and fifty-six-year-old Vern become close friends, marry, and soon learn Kim is pregnant. But Kim's life is turned upside down when the widow of Vern's dear friend calls Vern in need of a favor. She convinces Vern to take her eleven-year-old son whose behaviour challenges Kim's devotion, trust, and the underpinnings of her marriage and serves as a reminder of the power of talking in coming to terms with massive grief.Cover design by Elke Barter Design

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  Bleak House

  Charles Dickens

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  Bleak House is a novel by Charles Dickens, published in 20 monthly installments between March 1852 and September 1853. It is held to be one of Dickens's finest novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entire canon.
   
  At the novel's core is long-running litigation in England's Court of Chancery, Jarndyce v Jarndyce, which has far-reaching consequences for all involved. The litigation, which already has taken many years and consumed between £60,000 and £70,000 in court costs, is emblematic of the failure of Chancery.
   
  Though Chancery lawyers and judges criticised Dickens's portrait of Chancery as exaggerated and unmerited, his novel helped to spur an ongoing movement that culminated in the enactment of legal reform in the 1870s

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  Apologia Pro Vita Sua

  John Henry Newman

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  A religious autobiography of unsurpassed interest, the simple confidential tone of which "revolutionized the popular estimate of its author," establishing the strength and sincerity of the convictions which had led him into the Roman Catholic Church(Wikipedia)."No autobiography in the English language has been more read; to the nineteenth century it bears a relation not less characteristic than Boswell's 'Johnson' to the eighteenth." Rev. Wm. Barry, D.D.

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  Overcoming Dyslexia - The...

  Terry M. Robertson

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  Have you asked yourself what is dyslexia? Learn about the signs of dyslexia in children as well as dyslexia treatment options.
   
  Dyslexia affects 10 to 15 percent of the population, and it is the most common learning disability. Individuals with this medical condition have difficulty in the areas of language processing. This condition makes it hard to learn to read and learn. It happens when there is a problem with the way the brain processes graphic symbols.
   
  Here is a preview of what you'll learn:
   
  What is adult dyslexia?
   
  What strengths do dyslexic people have?
   
  How do I know that I'm dyslexic?
   
  Stories from others with dyslexia
   
  Tips to help with adult dyslexia
   
  Tips and help in remembering numbers
   
  Confusing "B" and "D"
   
  Spelling and grammar tips
   
  Using color while dyslexic
   
  Tips at work or school
   
  And basically everything you need to know to start understanding this condition

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