Posts Tagged ‘ Book ’

Buy the Happiness Project book and be happy! The Happiness Project Description: Gretchen Rubin had an epiphany one rainy afternoon in the unlikeliest of places: a city bus. “The days are long, but the years are short,” she realized. “Time is passing, and I’m not focusing enough on the things that really matter.” In...
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Buy “First Things First: The Rules of Being a Warner” book written by Brenda Warner and Kurt Warner. Kurt Warner is the two-time NFL MVP–winning quarterback of the Arizona Cardinals. Brenda Warner is an ex-Marine turned stay-at-home mom who collects coats for low-income kids and rocks babies to sleep at a hospital for chronically-ill...
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The Wesson Family Massacre Story is now in a book. The author, Monte Francis is a journalist and writer who has covered several high-profile murder trials. He has received two Emmy Awards for his television news reports and several awards for his news writing from the Associated Press. This is his first book. Buy...
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The Death Star Research Facility is mentioned in Dan Brown’s new book, “The Lost Symbol”? Dan Brown’s “The Lost Symbol” is the follow-up to his famous book “The Da Vinci Code.” Watch The Today show video of Dan Brown’s new book, which will be available September 15. And what is “The Death Star research...
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Atlanta writer E. Lynn Harris is dead. The celebrated author E. Lynn Harris died today at too young an age of 54. The African-American, openly gay author, died while on a West Coast book tour for his newest book Basketball Jones. E. Lynn Harris wrote 11 books, with four million copies of his work...
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Follow the Drinking Gourd is a book and also a folksong. But it is more of the latter. The American folksong was first published in 1928. “Follow the Drinking Gourd” was used by an Underground Railroad operative to encode escape instructions and a map. Here is “Follow the Drinking Gourd” lyrics: When the Sun...
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I have read the book “Angela’s Ashes“, have you? After reading the first few pages of the book, it instantly became one of my favorites. No wonder the book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Today, Frank McCourt, author of “Angela’s Ashes” died at the age of 78. McCourt had been gravely ill with meningitis...
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The oldest known Bible now goes online. Institutions from UK, Germany, Egypt, and Russia collaborated to reunite virtually more than 800 pages and fragments from the world’s oldest surviving Christian bible, Codex Sinaiticus. What is Codex Sinaiticus Codex Sinaiticus is one of the most important books in the world. Handwritten well over 1600 years...
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Popular New York Post “Page Six” gossip columnist Paula Froelich writes a new book “Mercury in Retrograde.” Below are some of the reviews of Froelich’s newest novel, posted at Amazon. “Written with humor, charm, and heart…readers will love the hilarious misadventures of Penelope Mercury.” — Candace Bushnell, author of One Fifth Avenue “A zippy,...
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Food lovers love Bobby Flay. He is one of the best chefs in New York, owning seven restaurants. He is seen on TV all the time, with a number of TV shows on the Food Network channel. I love watching him being challenged on “America’s Iron Chef”. Flay has already authored several cookbooks, but...
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