Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica are a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BCE. The Fables of Aesop have been mostly considered, down the...
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- Author:Bruck, JulieSummary:
Winner of the 1994 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry (QSPELL, now the Quebec Writers' Federation)
In The Woman Downstairs, eloquence joins intimately with an attentive and hungry eye. Julie Bruck explores the accidents and...
- Author:Steinbeck, JohnSummary:
Steinbeck's novel features Ethan Allen Hawley, formerly of the New England aristocracy but now a humble grocery clerk. Inspiring little but resentment in his wife and daughters, Ethan nevertheless does his utmost to live an honest...
- Author:Croza, Laurel, Garrity-Riley, KelseySummary:
Charity takes small steps to escape her controlling father. Jasmine endures the rumors about her at school, even though no one really knows what happened last summer. The Oh! So Perfect Hair Dolly wishes for just the right child to take...
- Author:HyeminSummary:
Haemin Sunim, a renowned Buddhist meditation teacher born in Korea and educated in the United States, illuminates a path to inner peace and balance amid the overwhelming demands of everyday life.
- Author:Barker, Teresa, Twist, LynneSummary:
This unique and fundamentally liberating book shows us that examining our attitudes toward money - earning it, spending it, and giving it away - can offer surprising insight into our lives, our values, and the essence of prosperity....
- Author:Waitley, DenisSummary:
Usually one needs a lifetime to learn what you can discover here. Gain enlightenment and pleasure, wisdom and joy--while you're young enough to enjoy them!
- Author:BOSTON, Lucy M.Summary:
Three children spend a summer at Green Knowe and somehow magic seems to turn everyday activities into strange adventures.
- Author:Garland, JimSummary:
THE PRACTICAL GUIDE TO EXCEPTIONAL LIVING IS A MUST READ FOR ANYONE LOOKING FOR EASY TO USE IDEAS TO IMPROVE THEIR LIFE ON ANY LEVEL. Forget the old work ethic of putting in 60-80 hour weeks and not having a life outside of your work...
- Author:Wilde, OscarSummary:
An exquisitely beautiful young man in Victorian England retains his youthful and innocent appearance over the years while his portrait reflects both his age and evil soul as he pursues a life of decadence and corruption.
- Author:Wilde, OscarSummary:
Young and beautiful Dorian Gray wishes that a newly commissioned portrait would age in place of his splendid body. His wish is granted, and the newfound lack of consequence attracts him to dark deeds and decadence. A classic fable about...
- Author:Vargas, Louis F., Jones, LarrySummary:
The Secrets of Going to the Next Level in Love, Life & Business! The Passion-Driven Life depicts amazing stories, including that of the author's Horatio Alger-like story, which will uplift and "wow" your soul. It reveals lessons,...
- Author:Moore, WesSummary:
In this memoir, Moore tells the story of his life as a child of Baltimore and the Bronx, an army officer in Afghanistan, a Rhodes Scholar, and a former White House Fellow. In detailing his journey from troubled adolescence to successful...
- Author:Davies, KellySummary:
We don’t want to hurt people’s feelings. We don’t want to deal with other people’s reactions to truth-so we lie. Sounds sort of harsh, but its true. We compromise ourselves in small ways every day by not acknowledging and speaking the...
- Author:Gallaher, BillSummary:
A follow-up to The Frog Lake Massacre, The Luck of the Horseman is a cleverly written ride from the days of the Wild West. The story begins ten years after the Frog Lake massacre. Jack Strong is doing a poor job of dealing with a...
- Author:Bax, DanielSummary:
This is the story of a man who miraculously woke up after a catastrophic accident left him unable to talk or eat, with his left side completely paralyzed, and with no memories of his past or even who he was. He spent the next five years...
- Author:Crocker, CarterSummary:
After orphaned twelve-year-old Michael Pine, who seems headed for trouble, meets old Lem Gulliver, he finds new purpose as protector of the Lilliputians who live in Lem's back garden, even if that means saving them from one another...
- Author:Vitale, JoeSummary:
Joe Vitale reveals the secret techniques for attracting wealth, health, success, happiness or anything else. The premise of "The Key" is unless a person "gets clear" of the limiting beliefs inside themselves, they...
- Author:Wiesel, ElieSummary:
A plane headed from New York to Tel Aviv is forced to crash land at a small airport, and five survivors are given shelter in a nearby home. Once they are locked in, their enigmatic host tells them he is their judge, and they must reveal...
- Author:Harper, KarenSummary:
New York Times best-selling author Karen Harper offers this blistering tale of romantic suspense. After nearly a year in a coma, Tara Kinsale wakes to learn her husband divorced her and her best friend was murdered, leaving behind a...