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86Princessa through the looking glass
“Mamma can you take me to England to see the Queen? I want to be a Princess” “One day you’ll go to England darling and you will see the queens and castles and you will be a Princess. Dreams come...
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83Rev. Jim Jones and the People's Temple: A Memoir
The day I met the infamous Rev. Jim Jones, he was wearing semi-opaque sunglasses and a black shirt, and he was being trailed by a half dozen or so teen-aged young men. They piled out of a wine-colored van...
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77Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt's Courageous Tale of His Miserable Childhood in Limerick, Ireland.
Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt's autobiography, demonstrate how a determined spirit can rise above even the worse childhood. Frank McCourt, the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning autobiography, Angela’s...
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77Unique Moments While Teaching Edward Abbey
I remember well during the first week of classes a bad blizzard it Laramie in mid-January. I had just started to teach an undergraduate class in Edward Abbey and had given background information on Abbey who...
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78A Simple Man for A Great Misson
Have you ever read a book that changed your life or your perspective dramatically? A few years ago my husband and I read a book that changed our perspective on Christianity so drastically and at so many...
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79My grandmother
Her name is Esther, but I call her Mama. She is my grandmother and I want to wish her a happy 80th birthday. For several reasons, I cannot be with her on her special day but I want to let her know that I...
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83Book Review - Sarah Payne A Mother's Story
First published in 2004 Sarah Payne was the 8 year old child who tugged at Britain’s heartstrings when she went missing on July 1, in 2000. Her naked and decomposing body was discovered 17 days later...
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75Dorsi: A Story of Redemption - Chapter 1
DORSI: A STORY OF REDEMPTION PREFACE: Who would have thought that when I started to write this book that I would be sitting on the couch with a laptop in my lap, my husbands oversized slippers on, and no...
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77Lockout Stories - Seventeen Years as a Locksmith
Locksmiths get people in when they are locked out. Hopefully the person hiring the locksmith belongs in the place they hired the locksmith to break into, but it is not always the case. My first choice was to...
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76Temple Grandin - Educator, Scientist and Inventor with Autism
Temple Grandin is Educator, Scientist and Inventor with Autism Spectrum Disorder. She is an active and vocal advocate for people with Autism and Asperger's Syndrome, as well as for the humane treatment of lifestock. The HBO film "Temple Grandin: Thinking in Pictures" is based on her life-story and stars Claire Danes.
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