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I'd Rather Be Rich is an interactive road map designed to help you get from where you are to where you would rather be. Even if you have worked with goals in the past, this program will accelerate your progress by helping to uncover your hidden desires and the roadblocks that have stopped your happiness and peace of mind. Don't let a past failure become permanent: use your experiences as a stepping-stone to all that life has to offer. You truly can have all that you are focused on achieving. Aren't you worth it?
This book is about what I remember about many members of my family and about the knowledge I obtained about them through various interviews and written sources, e.g., obituaries, newspapers, and articles I found on the Internet. The book follows a certain order. I describe what I remember about my immediate family members. I start off with my father then my mother and then my brotherthe only sibling I ever had. I then discuss my life with my ex-wife and her family and then the only child we ever had. I go on to another chapter, or maybe the third chapter, and talk about my paternal grandfathers family and as much of what I could remember about my maternal grandmothers family. I know and disc...
"METCO, America's longest-running voluntary school desegregation program, has for 34 years bused black children from Boston's city neighborhoods to predominantly white suburban schools. Sixty-five METCO graduates vividly recall their own stories in this revealing book. Susan E. Eaton interviewed program participants who are now adults, asking them to assess the benefits and hardships of crossing racial and class lines on their way to school. Their answers poignantly show that this type of racial integration is not easy-they struggled to negotiate both black and white worlds, often feeling fully accepted in neither. Even so, nearly all the participants believe the long-term gains outweighed the costs and would choose a similar program for their own children-though not without conditions and apprehensions"--
Friends Shalidan Leonard and Shayanna Michaels were each happy living in the relatively New Municipality of New Las Vegas. The city was created to replace its Government evacuated twin years earlier. The two young people, African American called blacacan now are attending college both young and hopeful for the future. Yet State Senator Uresa Raychel≤ mentor and associate did send them into Old Las Vegas. The Senator believes that as she serves with two Presidents and colleagues whose real agendas are unsure; that the New Symbiotic Government must ask these young people to sacrifice. Shalidan must fulfill what he was born to do for the greater good of the Nation perhaps the world. As for Sh...
Elephant Crossing. Houdini Needles. Miniskirt, Tickletoeteaser Tower, and Why Not Mountain. These are just some of the many names of places, rivers, mountains, and lakes that you will come across in the newest edition of British Columbia Place Names. This classic which, in its various editions, has sold over 29,000 copies, covers about 2,500 geographical features, cities, towns, and smaller communities in the province. The book abounds with fascinating historical facts, stories, and remarkable characters involved with the names of towns, cities, rivers, lakes, mountains, and islands. The selection was determined by the geographical importance of the feature as well as story of the naming. In...
A STORY OF ENDURING LOVE, SIBLING LOYALTY AND A SECRET PACT THAT LASTS A LIFETIME Kilbride House is set on the mystical Dingle Peninsula. Victoria Goulding, a Protestant, falls in love with Canice Meagher, born on the Blasket Islands and a Roman Catholic. To be together they must elope. Before their escape, the hand of fate plays its cards and changes their lives irrevocably. Sixty-three years later, in the leafy suburbs of New York, Edith Goulding, Victoria's sister, has died. Edith left Ireland in the winter of 1955 all those years ago, never to return. In her will she has insisted that her daughter Catherine and granddaughter Lainey visit Kilbride. Kilbride House, despite all its grandeur, holds shocking memories within its walls - memories that have slipped through the cracks of time. As the ghosts awaken the lies begin to unravel, and everything is altered. The past cannot remain untold. PRAISE FOR KILBRIDE HOUSE "Sheila Forsey's stunning debut novel Kilbride House vividly evokes 1950's Ireland. Comparisons to Colm Tóibín's masterpiece Brooklyn are inevitable and justified. I urge you to pick up a copy." Chris Sherry, editor, Ulster Tatler
LEDNORF'S DILEMMA is a science fiction novel provocatively based on actual events. Daniel Cruz is contacted by an extraterrestrial who gives him scientific data and theological information unknown to scientists and ill-considered by world theologians. Behind it all is the alien's purpose, a daunting one that must be accepted by Daniel's new friends in and about our nation's capital and its academic world. The reader will be stunned to find that our mathematicians and scientists are unaware of the math and science data, and that they now must give high priority to the alien's wise counsel. Daniel and his friends soon accept the alien and his motivation. But the question remains: How best to announce the critical warnings?