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The Woman at the Well
by Melinda BuschIn Jesus' day, it was not proper for a Jew to eat with a Samaritan. But Jesus asked her for a drink anyway. Then, He told her about God's living water.
Mama Nlundi: Our Adopted Mother
by Anna Rose GoertzenMama Nlundi: Our Adopted Mother is the exciting and inspiring autobiography of Anna Rose Goertzen, a Christian missionary from Nebraska who labored in the mission fields in Africa. In the Belgian Congo, which is now the independent country called Zaire, Anna Rose spread the joyful message of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Fighting against the forces of poverty, ignorance, and the very real power of the black magic practiced by the village witch doctors, she worked incessantly to heal the physical and spiritual illnesses that enslaved the African people, whom she came to love dearly. In response to her loving care for them, they called her "Mama Nlundi," which means "our adopted mother."
Baden-Powell: Chief Scout of the World
by Wyatt BlassingameBADEN-POWELL: CHIEF SCOUT OF THE WORLD is the inspiring story of a man who loved life and the out-of-doors. A hero of the Boer War and one of Britain's best army officers, B-P had learned early the importance of physical fitness, self-reliance, and being alert. Realizing the importance of instilling these qualities in young people, B-P founded the Boy Scouts. He gave up a career in the army to devote his life to teaching Scouts. Today, brother Scouts around the world try to live up to the ideals of their founder and to their motto, "Be Prepared." Other books by this author are available in this library.!
Either is Love
by Elisabeth CraiginFirst published 1937. After the death of her husband, the narrator re-reads the letters she had written him about her earlier intense love affair with another woman. This beautifully written "memoir" is an almost unequaled treatment of a lesbian romance.
The Book of Sunnybank
by Albert Payson TerhuneThe author of Lad a Dog and other books and newspaper articles, introduces the reader to Sunnybank his home in New Jersey. Chapters cover how the home was created, who lives at Sunnybank from the dogs, cats, horses, and more unusual animals, to the people that have lived there from time to time. He also talks about the local village, and of the countryside outside of Sunnybank. The stories and memories are interspursed with humor and insight into man and dog.
But With the Dawn, Rejoicing
by Mary Ellen KellyIn the 1930's, little could be done for people who had rheumatoid arthritis, and many of them became completely bedridden! Mary Ellen is one of those people. With humor and compassion, yet without hiding her frustrations and disappointments, Mary Ellen Kelly writes of her adjustment to disability, her faith journey, and her ability to serve God and enjoy life. This is an eloquent, delightful and inspiring book.
Kale Pani: काळे पाणी
by Swatantryaveer Vinayak Damodar Savarkarसावरकरांची हि तिसरी कादंबरी. त्यांच्या 'माझी जन्मठेप' या कादंबरीवर इंग्रजांनी १७ एप्रिल १९३४ साली बंदी घाली. ती बंदी उठवावी म्हणून प्रयत्न करत असतानाच सावरकरांनी 'काळे पाणी' हि कादंबरी लिहीण्याचा घाट घातला. यामागचा उद्देश एवढाच होता कि अंदमानातील कष्टकारक, दुःखदायक, क्लेशदायक आणि एकूणच अन्यायकारक जीवन कसे जगावं लागते हे दर्शवण्यासाठी त्यांनी हि कादंबरी लिहिली. प्रेम हि अगदीच कोवळी आणि हळुवार भावना आहे, त्यामुळे सुरुवातीला सावरकरांसारख्या देशासाठी लढताना प्रसंगी कठोर होणाऱ्या आणि इंग्रजांशी कणखरपणे तोंड देणाऱ्या योद्ध्याकडून प्रेमावर कादंबरी म्हटली कि भुवया उंचावतातच. पण सावरकरांनी मात्र या कादंबरीला पुरेपूर न्याय दिला आहे. सावरकरांनी स्वतः अंदमानातील कष्टप्रद जीवन भोगलेले असल्याने त्यांनी त्यांच्या उच्च दर्जाच्या लेखणीतून ते अगदीच अप्रतिम मांडले आहे. ज्यांच्या गाठी असे कटू अनुभव असतात आणि त्यावर अनुसरूनच जर कादंबरी असेल तर शक्यतो कादंबरी रुक्ष होण्याची शक्यता असते. पण सावरकर मात्र आपल्या लिखाणात हा समतोल राखण्यात अगदीच यशस्वी झाले आहेत. त्यांनी कैद्यांना भोगाव्या लागणाऱ्या यातनांचा आरसा मांडला असला तरी काही कैद्यांना हीच शिक्षा कशी बरोबर आहे हेदेखील सांगितले आहे.
Thendral: Vol 12, Issue 06, May 2012
by MadhurabharathiThis issue features interview with Vetriselvi Rajamanikkam, Maravanpulavu Ka. Sachithananthan, Recipes of Plantain Bonda and Plantain Pakoda, Biography of great Tamil Scholar Devaneya Pavanar, an article on Sri Kachareeswarar Tample, Chennai, an article on writer R. Ponnammal with one of her best short stories, "Ponni", Two short stories Thengai and Ethu Nyayam, Part 12 of short novel "Sila Matrangal" plus usual features of Thendral Pesukirathu, Anbulla Snehitiye, Ilanthendral, Surya Thupparikirar, Nalam Vazha, etc.
TEST! Testing How a File Becomes a Book: a Bookshare Love Story
by None Of Us All Of UsThis is a test book. Please disregard.
Audubon
by Constance RourkeA Newbery Honor award winner book for the year 1937, Audubon is a biography of ornithologist and painter John James Audubon.
To Remember Forever: The Journal of a College Girl, 1922-1923
by Gladys Hasty CarrollThis is a Journal kept by Gladys Hasty Carroll during her freshman and sophomore years at Bates College, 1921 - 1923. It also includes a lot about her home in South Berwick, Maine and all of the characters who populated her childhood. Not only is Carroll a great writer, but she is flooded with emotion even more than most young people and is able to articulate it beautifully. So much of her experience at Bates is familiar to anyone who has attended college at Bates, in that era.
The Middle Place
by Kelly CorriganThe Middle Place is memoir at its highest form. For Kelly Corrigan, family is everything. At thirty-six, she had a marriage that worked, two funny, active kids, and a weekly newspaper column. Then she went to the doctor...
Bloodletting: A Memoir of Secrets, Self-harm, and Survival
by Victoria LeathamOn the Outside, Victoria Leatham appears to have it all. She's creative, beautiful, confident. But inside she struggles with silent, secret, and unbearable pain. In her late teens, Leatham is struck with an undeniable urge to cut herself. Oddly, the wounds she inflicts on herself mute the pain she feels inside. This memoir, a darkly humorous and often chilling account, vividly details Leatham's ordeal and reveals her most intimate thoughts as she struggles with cutting and a range of other psychological problems including eating disorders, sexual promiscuity, substance abuse, and bipolar disorder. And finally, it describes her discovery of the psychological secret that helps her escape from this spiral of self-destruction.
Abbaji Gokhale Ek Anandyatri: आबाजी गोखले एक आनंदयात्री
by Sau. Swamini Vikram Savarkarश्री. पांडुरंग बळवंत उपाख्य आबाजी गोखले हे नागपूरच्या सार्वजनिक जीवनातील, एक विख्यात व्यक्तिमत्व होते. नाग-विदर्भात ते नर्मदा परिक्रमावासी पदयात्री म्हणून ओळखले जात. कारण त्यांनी श्री नर्मदा नदीची अत्यंत अवघड अशी परिक्रमा, अल्पकाळात पूर्ण केली. केवळ नर्मदा परिक्रमाच नव्हे, तर सर्व भारतभर त्यांनी पद भ्रमण केले. एका व्यक्तिने वर्षानुवर्षे कोणताही राजकीय हेतु किंवा आर्थिक अभिलाषा न बाळगता हजारो मैलांचा प्रवास, लोकनिरीक्षण, निसर्गाशी नाते जोडणे आणि या देशातील दुर्गम आदिवासी जनतेची ओळख करुन घेण्यासाठी करणे, हे क्वचित आढळणारे उदाहरण आहे. पर्यटनातील त्यांच्या विविध अनुभवांचा लाभ मराठी वाचकांना व्हावा यासाठी केलेला हा प्रयत्न आहे. आबाजींचे व्यक्तिमत्व व त्यांचे अनुभव हे पुस्तकरूपाने आले तर ते वाचकांना उपयुक्त होईलच पण मराठी साहित्यालाही एक वेगळा आयाम मिळेल. आबाजींच्या व्यक्तिमत्वाचे लेखन आणि त्यांनी केलेल्या शब्दांकनांचे आवश्यक ते संपादन करुन हे पुस्तक तयार केलेले आहे.
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru: पंडित जवाहरलाल नेहरू: व्यक्ती आणि कार्य
by Prof. B.H. Kalyankar“पंडित जवाहरलाल नेहरू: व्यक्ती आणि कार्य” या ग्रंथाचे प्रकाशन पंडित जवाहरलालजी नेहरू यांच्या स्मृतिदिनी दिनांक २७ मे २००२ रोजी महाराष्ट्र राज्य साहित्य आणि संस्कृती मंडळाने केले आहे. या ग्रंथात एकूण २५ लेख व एक कविता समाविष्ट करण्यात आली आहे. हे लेख विविध क्षेत्रांतल्या अभ्यासू व मान्यवर व्यक्तींनी लिहिले आहेत. हे अभ्यासक राजकारण, समाजकारण, पत्रकारिता, साहित्य आदि क्षेत्रांतील जाणकार आहेत. त्यामुळे पंडित जवाहरलालजी नेहरू यांच्या व्यक्तिमत्त्वाचे विविध पैलू या ग्रंथातून साकार झालेले आहेत. या मान्यवर अभ्यासकांनी जवाहरलालजींच्या व्यक्तिमत्त्वाचा व कार्याचा मोकळेपणाने घेतलेला वेध हा या ग्रंथाचा विशेष आहे. पंडित जवाहरलालजींच्या जीवनाचा व कार्याचा अभ्यास करू इच्छिणाऱ्या अभ्यासकांना हा ग्रंथ मार्गदर्शक ठरेल.
Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Gauravgranth: डॉ. बाबासाहेब आंबेडकर गौरवग्रंथ
by Daya Pawarक्रियाशील नेता थोर विचारवंत, भारतीय घटनेचे शिल्पकार आणि दलित साहित्याचा प्रेरणास्त्रोत असे ज्यांचे वर्णन केले ते भारतरत्न डॉ. बाबासाहेब आंबेडकर हे भारत मातेचे थोर सुपुत्र होते. त्यांच्या जन्मशताब्दीच्या निमित्ताने त्यांना कृतिशील अभिवादन करावे म्हणून महाराष्ट्र राज्य साहित्य संस्कृती मंडळाने एक गौरवग्रंथ प्रसिद्ध करण्याचे ठरविले आणि त्यानुसार हा ग्रंथ प्रसिद्ध झाला. ह्या गौरवग्रंथात डॉ. बाबासाहेब आंबेडकर यांच्या उत्तुंग व्यक्तिमत्त्वाचा सर्वांगीण परिचय घडावा म्हणून, महाराष्ट्रातील आणि बाहेरीलसुद्धा अनेक अभ्यासकांनी विनंतीला प्रतिसाद दिला. डॉ. बाबासाहेब आंबेडकरांचा सामाजिक विचार, आर्थिक विचार, धार्मिक चिंतन आणि वाङ्मयीन विचार ह्यावरील वैशिष्ट्यपूर्ण लेख तर येथे आहेतच; पण त्याखेरीज बाबासाहेबांची लेखनशैली, विनोद, पत्रकारिता, दलित साहित्याचे प्रेरणास्त्रोत ह्यासुध्दा विषयांवर लेखन समाविष्ट केले आहे. राखीव जागेचा प्रश्न, स्वातंत्र्यपूर्वकाळातील दलित चळवळ, कामगार विषयक धोरण, स्वतंत्र मजूर पक्ष, शे. का. फेडरेशन, बाबासाहेबांचे समकालीन, बाबासाहेबांचे शेतीविषयक विचार, इत्यादी विविध विषयांवरील लेखनाने, डॉ. बाबासाहेब आंबेडकरांचे जीवन, कार्य आणि तत्त्वज्ञानावर, नव्याने शोध घेण्याचे प्रयत्न येथे शब्दबद्ध केले आहेत.
On Stieg Larsson
by Laurie ThompsonPart of a Millennium trilogy boxed set. Previously unpublished essays about and correspondence with Stieg Larsson.
Krantisukte Rajarshi Chhatrapati Shahu: क्रांतिसूक्ते: राजर्षी छत्रपती शाहू
by Dr S. S. Bhosleविविध संस्थांच्या वतीने आयोजित करण्यात आलेल्या समा-समारंभात कधी अध्यक्ष म्हणून तर कधी उद्‌घाटक किंवा मुख्य पाहुणे म्हणून शाहू महाराजांनी जी भाषणे केली त्याचे संग्रह अनेक वर्षापूर्वी प्रसिद्ध झाले होते. मात्र जसजसा काळ लोटतो तसतसे या भाषणांचे संदर्भ पुढील पिढ्यांना समजावून घेणे अवघड होत जाते. अशा स्थितीत कोणी ही भाषणे टिपा-टिप्पणीसह चिकित्सक वृत्तीने प्रसिद्ध केली तर नव्या पिढीच्या वाचकांची व अभ्यासकांची सोय होते. महाराष्ट्र राज्य साहित्य आणि संस्कृती मंडळाच्या वतीने महाराष्ट्रातील परिवर्तनवादी चळवळींचे एक साक्षेपी अभ्यासक डॉ. एस्. एस्. भोसले यांनी राजर्षी शाहू छत्रपतींच्या भाषणांचा टिपा-टिप्पणीसह केलेला हा चिकित्सक अभ्यास वाचकांना उपयुक्त वाटेल.
Bihar Me Swatantrata Sangram Ke Prerak Prasang
by Dinesh Kumar NarayanBook on unsung freedom fighter of the state of Bihar, India.
Thendral: Vol 12, Issue 05, April 2012
by MadhurabharathiInterview with Tamil Scholar Dr. Parveen Sultana, Recipes of Babycorn Snacks and Babycorn Bajji, a Biography of doyen of Carnatic Music, Veenai Dhanammal, a special feature on the Houston Conference of Tamilnadu Trust, a religious article on the Akilandeswari-Jambukeswarar tample-a 'Pancha Bhootha Sthalam' at Tiruvanakkaval in Tamilnadu, Part 11 of short novel 'Sila Maatrangal", Two short stories "Prayachitham" & "Penn Kulathin Vetriadi", an article on 'sleep apnea' on Nalam Vaazha, a feature introducing Achiever I-mart Anu, poems, a write up on historical novelist Diwakar with a presentation of some excerpts from his historical novel 'vamsadhara' are some of the contents of this issue. In the Anbullla Snehitiye column, Chitra Vaitheeswaran counsels a thought provoking advice to a critical question of a reader which is a must read for every elder and young generation of today. Surya Thupparikirar, Ilanthendral, jokes, etc. are usual features.
Wheels of Fire: A Story of Courage, Triumph over Adversity and Civil Action
by Ari SeirlisIn the book, Ari describes his happy childhood and his memories of a loving family and home environment. He lived a positive, energetic and interesting life as a teenager and young adult before a fateful diving accident left him paralysed and a wheelchair user. However, he adopted a mindset of viewing his form of disability as the all-ability state-of-mind he has. His faith and persistency enabled him to rise far above his challenges, and his example inspired many others in his sphere of influence. His insightful words and thoughts about the inclusive nature of human existence brought me to a better understanding of the integrated nature of emotional, spiritual, and social intelligence. Ari is a remarkable human being who managed to implement his deep understanding of inclusive respect between human beings in his own life, friendships, and teachings. His example taught me about the value of implementing the ‘I, me, thou’ principle in all walks of life. In his lifetime, Ari met a wide variety of noteworthy and influential public figures from whom he learnt many important life lessons. For example, his meeting with Christopher Reeve inspired him to keep his faith in his cause. Morné du Plessis impressed the importance of civic leadership and courageous service on Ari. Others taught Ari that creative stimulation is often rewarded by friendships that can become mutually beneficial to many stakeholders in such friendships. Ari also learnt that a life filled with integrity and dignity can be rewarding to self and others in your life sphere. In Afrikaans it can be said Ari learnt to appreciate the value of “lewe, belewe, uitlewe” (live, experience, contribute). He also developed a strong belief in the importance of truth, fairness, and goodwill in all friendships that he formed in his lifetime. This book describes a positive approach to living with dis-ease or disability and inspiring others in the process. Ari explains how he succeeded in converting his disability into this-ability that became all-of-his-ability. He also shares some of the valuable insights and lessons he has learnt from his involvement in numerous QuadPara Association of South Africa (QASA)-related initiatives. Leaders and practitioners in the fields of medicine, psychology, sociology, public service, business and non-government organisation (NGOs) among many other fields, can gain many valuable insights and lessons from reading this book. This book is highly recommended for any person interested to learn about positive life-changing experiences.
Dravida Iyakka Varalaru - Part 1: திராவிட இயக்க வரலாறு பாகம் 1
by R. Muthukumarஇந்நூலில் பெரியார், அண்ணா, கலைஞர், எம்.ஜி.ஆர். ஆகியோரின் வாழ்க்கை வரலாறு மற்றும் அவர்களின் திராவிட இயக்கம் பற்றி குறிப்பிடப்பட்டுள்ளது.