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Cynthia Reyes has done it again. Picking up from the early days of her recovery from a car accident, as told in her first book, A Good Home , she shares in this new book intensely lyrical stories of life in her historic farmhouse north of Toronto. You will hear the birds sing, smell the flowers in their lavish gardens, and taste the red currant jelly and other dishes from plants grown on her property. You will be challenged as the author immerses you in the reality of post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and the courage it takes to live with chronic pain. And you will say a wrenching farewell to the farmhouse as she opens a new chapter in a life still devoted to creating beauty out of the materials that life serves up to her, be they dark and haunting or light and joyful. Praise for the author’s previous book, A Good Home : “…full of warmth, deep emotions, and a vibrant understanding of just what a home can mean.” —YVONNE BLACKWOOD, author of Into Africa: The Return “Reyes’ glass is almost always half full, but ours, as we read her uplifting story, always brims over.” —COLIN McALLISTER and JUSTIN RYAN, www.colinandjustin.tv“…There is magic in these words.” —DEBRA USHER, President and Editor-in-Chief, Arabella Magazine “…proves – word by word, line by line, and page by page – you can go home again.” —LEE GOWAN, author of Confession “… contains some of the most moving and recognizable accounts of happiness and grief that I have ever come across.” —HILARY CUSTANCE GREEN, author of Surviving the Death Railway: A POW’s Memoir and Letters from Home

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A memoir of the vibrant mid-Sixties that illuminates both the real life and powerful imagination of an articulate Beatlemaniac spending a lonely year in Paris. <br><br>She didn’t want to go overseas with her family when her dad takes a sabbatical from his university to study in France. That would mean leaving leaving her school friends in her hometown of Halifax, Nova Scotia. But when her friends reminded her that she’d be closer to the Beatles, she decides to keep an open mind. <br><br>In a series of poignant and humorous diary fantasies about a romance with Paul McCartney, a young Beth Kaplan writes her way into adolescence, the dawning of sexual awareness, and the world of real boys.

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A Good Home is an addictive read, a profoundly emotional book about the author's early life in rural Jamaica, her move to urban North America, and her trips back home, all told through vivid descriptions of the unique homes she has lived in – from a tiny pink house in Jamaica and a mountainside cabin near Vancouver to the historic Victorian farmhouse she lives in today, surrounded by neighbors who share spicy Malaysian noodles and seafood, Greek pastries and roast lamb, and Italian tomato sauce and wine (really strong wine).Full of lovingly drawn characters and vividly described places, A Good Home takes the reader through deeply moving stories of marriage, children, the death of parents, and an accident that takes its high-flying author down a humbling notch. Its pages sparkle with stories and reflections on home as:A foundation on which to build connections with children, relatives, and friendsA place to celebrate the joys of elegant design, overflowing gardens (except for the wisteria vine, which cannot be coaxed into blooming), and the sharing of good foodA wise teacher, showing us who we really were – and who we really areWhen this brave, clear-eyed, and honest book returns, full circle, to the way it began, readers will want to read it all over again.

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The story of Mal Coven the family man, the businessman, and the entrepreneur for whom retirement from the Biway has meant pursuing original entrepreneurial ideas – as well as brushing up against and corresponding with celebrities Barbara Walters, Larry King, Nancy Sinatra, Jackie Mason, Bud Selig, Mort Zuckerman, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., and others.<br><br>Coven reveals the secrets behind his and Abe Fish's founding and development of the Biway, a hugely successful discount chain that predated the coming of Wal-Mart to Canada. During their twenty-eight-year tenure, the Biway grew to 249 stores across eight provinces, delivering quality merchandise at low markups and low prices never before seen in a chain store in the country. <br><br>Interwoven throughout are stories of the author's many passions, including breakfasts with «The Knights of the Round Bagel,» following the Toronto Blue Jays, and cultivating his taste for smoked meat, hot dogs, and other fun foods.

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FRANK REICK WAS BORN to invent. He’s been inventing since he was five and has forty patents and inventions to show for it. His inventions range from diagnostic medical instruments, toys, and ski wax to sealants and lubricants. Reick graduated with an engineering degree from Syracuse University in 1952. His first career was working with General Electric on cathode ray tube technology for color televisions. Later he worked with ITT Corporation on the 465L Strategic Command and Control System . Disillusioned with the rampant bureaucracy, he left the corporate world to become an entrepreneur and focus on his true passion—inventing. His first successful product, Formula-8, was a thread sealant that could be used in gaseous and liquid oxygen applications, and led to the formation of his company, Fluoramics. Fluoramics’ flagship product, Tufoil, the result of eight years of research, was recognized in 1996 as the world’s “most efficient lubricant” by the Guinness Book of World Records—a title it still holds today. In 1998 he was a finalist for Inc Magazine’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award; he is also a member of the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame.

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IN EARLY 2007, Edish.com was a thriving discontinued china business with two stores, a huge internet presence, and well over two hundred thousand loyal customers. By January 2009, the company was on the brink of failure. Discontinued: What I Lost and Found During the Recession is the timely and dramatic story of the last six months in the life of Edish.com. The story chronicles the ups and downs of attempting to save the business and of the author’s relationship with her two partners— one a prominent appraiser on Antiques Roadshow, the other a renowned eye surgeon, both her close friends for almost two decades. The book reveals shocking betrayal and profound loyalty, exposing human nature at its best and worst—and answers pressing questions you surely have like Does bone china really have bones in it? and What did Martha Stewart do when the author suggested on national TV that an antique chamber pot could be used for a popcorn bowl?

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Ее величают «премудрой матерью отечества» и Екатериной Великой. Ее царствование прославляют как «золотой век» Российской империи. Еще со школьной скамьи нам внушают, что в годы ее правления произошел невиданный взлет русской государственности, настала эпоха высшего политического и экономического расцвета России. Но что скрывается за блестящим фасадом екатерининских реформ и государственных преобразований? Стоит лишь присмотреться повнимательней – и в глаза бросается вопиющее беззаконие и предательство, низость и разврат, убийства и подлог важнейших государственных документов. На самом деле «золотой век» Екатерины – эпоха невероятной лжи и лицемерия, время крайнего бесправия большинства подданных «великой императрицы» – десятков миллионов крепостных крестьян. Именно при Екатерине нация оказалась расколота на привилегированных «русских европейцев» и находившихся у них в фактическом рабстве «русских туземцев». «Золотой век» Екатерины изувечил судьбы и души, окончательно развратил «элиту» империи, сломал историю страны…

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От пустыни Атакама до ледников Огненной Земли, по просторам аргентинской пампы и отрогам величественных Анд, сквозь веселье уругвайского карнавала и традиционных фиест северной Аргентины, через острова пингвинов и тайны истуканов Острова Пасхи. В поисках себя и устойчивого развития автор в одиночку отправилась в Южную Америку, где провела тринадцать месяцев, работая волонтером, путешествуя автостопом, останавливаясь у местных, она выучила чилийский и аргентинский вариант испанского языка и открыла, что мир гораздо дружелюбнее и безопаснее, чем кажется со стороны.

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Мальчишка небольшого провинциального городка. Внук, которого любят все. Большая семья, которая дала ему очень много как в воспитании, так и в образовании. Маленький человечек, живущий в ожидании новых свершений. Детские мечты, надежды, любимая литература и тайное желание стать писателем. И все это в одно мгновение разрушила война. Мальчишка, которому так и не удалось попасть на фронт, о чем он сожалел всю оставшуюся жизнь. Долгий путь к работе по призванию. К работе, которая захватила все его существо и стала смыслом жизни…

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