Linda's Bestseller Reviews

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Product DescriptionPaine was the impassioned democratic voice of the Age of Revolution, and this volume collects his most famous works – “Common Sense”, “The American Crisis,” “human rights”, “The Age of Reason”, together with a selection of letters, articles and pamphlets highlighting the U.S. Paine years. . . . Read more>>

Thomas Paine : Collected Writings : Common Sense / The Crisis / Rights of Man / The Age of Reason / Pamphlets, Articles, and Letters

Product DescriptionIn June, 1979, William H. Jenks delivered the keynote address for the Class of 1954 to 1200 students and spouses of different classes of unification of the College of the Holy Cross. What was traditional was the twenty-fifth year class selected the speaker, what was unique was that Jenks had only one year in college before becoming a polio quadriplegic in 1951, never to resume the required curriculum for the baccalaureate degree. His message was to become a legendary lecture at Holy Cross, wheelchair bound and the pages of his speech that transformed the Rev. John E. Brooks, SJ, President of the College, “said Jenks,” I think it’s likely I’m not the most seriously wounded among us, only the most eye-catching … More>>

Let Yourself Be Loved: The Life and Letters of Will Jenks

Product DescriptionLive Jo tells the story of a Norwegian immigrant and her family in the homestead in North Dakota prairie. Spans the years 1892 to 1923, gives this series of letters to her parents, a colorful, firsthand view of pioneer life. . . . More>>

Live Well: The Letters of Sigrid Gjeldaker Lillehaugen

Product DescriptionProfound loneliness and confusion often follow the death of a loved one. Author Andris A. Baltins Nancy unexpectedly lost his best friend, childhood sweetheart, wife and mother of his children in ovarian cancer. These letters to Nancy after her death to share an intimate story of recovery from loss and the continuing presence of love. Baltins felt called to write the book as a necessary process to work through her death, and what he would do by herself after she had gone. Many of the author’s experience, including some of the rituals can be helpful to others and his desire is to share them with a wider audience who are in the unimaginable situation of having lost a life partner or so. . . More>>

Love Letters; Reflections on Living With Loss

Product DescriptionThis memoirs Norman Olle city collected from letters to the step-grandson, tells of his life from birth to Norwegian immigrants in 1911 in San Diego, his early years in San Diego and its possible relocation to Mexico and Puerto Vallarta. Here is a story about how life in the southwestern United States and Mexico in the 20th early and middle Century. . . . More>>

Ollie’s Odyssey: Letters and Recollections From a Life’s Journey