Guide to Small Employer Retirement Plans

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Encapsulating the important political and military issues on the eve of the Civil War! Lincoln had hoped to realize his firm determination to preserve the Union through peaceful and nonprovocative measures. However, he was willing to accept war if he could avoid the blame for having started it. As events turned out, he was no more the aggressor than was Jefferson Davis. In these pages, Current retraces step by step the influences and events that shaped Lincoln's controversial April policy, beginning with the new president's rather furtive arrival in Washington and concluding with the mobilization for war. The Sumter question, as the author points out, "reflects and in turn casts light upon the national tradition of avoiding the 'first shot.' It concerns the events that led directly to the Civil War, the greatest of wars from the American point of view. And it involves problems of historical evidence and interpretation that have more fascination than even the best of ordinary puzzles."

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Excellent!.......1999-11-22

A great breakdown of events leading up to Ft. Sumter, and a great analysis of the early relationship between Lincoln and his cabinet, esp. Secretary of state Seward (who at this early date mistakenly thought Lincoln was a puppet he could manipulate). All in all a fascinating read and a must for good civil war libraries.

The Day Lincoln Was Shot: For the First Time, the Dramatic Hour-by-Hour Story of a Tragic Day in History

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The Day Lincoln Was Shot: For the First Time, the Dramatic Hour-by-Hour Story of a Tragic Day in History
Jim Bishop
Manufacturer: Harper & Bros
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OYFIX6

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Lincoln and the First Shot
Richard N. Current
Manufacturer: J.B. Lippincott Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000JVDY80

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Lincoln and the First Shot -
Richard Current-
Manufacturer: J.B. Lippincott Publishers-
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OMR0N4

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Lincoln and the First Shot
Richard N Current
Manufacturer: J.B. Lippincott Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000ONF4QI

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Lincoln and the First Shot
Richard N. Current
Manufacturer: J.B. Lippincott Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000NWT5G0

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This captivating and illuminating book is a memoir of a young black man moving from rural Georgia to life as a student and teacher in the Ivy League as well as a history of the changes in American education that developed in response to the civil rights movement, the war in Vietnam, and affirmative action. Born in 1950, Horace Porter starts out in rural Georgia in a house that has neither electricity nor running water. In 1968, he leaves his home in Columbus, Georgia—thanks to an academic scholarship to Amherst College—and lands in an upper-class, mainly white world. Focusing on such experiences in his American education, Porter's story is both unique and representative of his time.

The Making of a Black Scholar is structured around schools. Porter attends Georgia's segregated black schools until he enters the privileged world of Amherst College. He graduates (spending one semester at Morehouse College) and moves on to graduate study at Yale. He starts his teaching career at Detroit's Wayne State University and spends the 1980s at Dartmouth College and the 1990s at Stanford University.

Porter writes about working to establish the Þrst black studies program at Amherst, the challenges of graduate study at Yale, the infamous Dartmouth Review, and his meetings with such writers and scholars as Ralph Ellison, Tillie Olsen, James Baldwin, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. He ends by reflecting on an unforeseen move to the University of Iowa, which he ties into a return to the values of his childhood on a Georgia farm. In his success and the fulfillment of his academic aspirations, Porter represents an era, a generation, of possibility and achievement.

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Delightful Coming of Age Saga

When we were human

Pieces from Life's Crazy Quilt

Pieces from Life's Crazy Quilt (American Lives)
Marvin V. Arnett
Manufacturer: University of Nebraska Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0803210647

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Part memoir and part urban social history, Pieces from Life’s Crazy Quilt is an African American woman’s personal account of her life during a racially turbulent period in a northern American city. Raised in a black neighborhood in urban Detroit, Marvin V. Arnett begins her book with her birth during the Great Depression, and ends with the infamous Detroit race riot of 1943. Arnett’s close observations and attention to the details of her neighborhood and the complex adult relationships around her make this an understated yet powerful story of witness.

Like the idiosyncratic pieces of a crazy quilt, each chapter functions alone but takes on particular resonance when considered with the whole. Choreographed as one-act plays, each chapter invites the reader into the life of the Sprague family and their neighbors during the years after the Ford Motor Company closed their Detroit plants. Arnett tells the story of her childhood with subversive allusions to the Victorian-era coming-of-age stories she consumed while growing up and the moral lessons she absorbed in such readings but could not reconcile with her own experience.

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Delightful Coming of Age Saga.......2003-05-27

Marvin V. Arnett has spun a delightful coming of age saga that starts in 1928 when there wasn't much to be delighted about in the United States. The Great Depression was about to strike, World War II was on its way, there were family tragedies and riots would hit the nation's large cities. In addition, the church sanctioned certain segments of the population making them pariahs. Marvin Sprague's family, although poor with her father working as a cook at a downtown Detroit hotel, managed to share what they did have with neighbors who were less fortunate in spite of the church's disapproval. Her father gave leftover food and her mother, with her magic sewing machine, turned out clothes for children who had only rags.

In what was, indeed, a time of segregation, poverty and grimness, throughout the story Arnett's wonderful sense of humor lightens the heavy burden. She tells of the time when she was ten and had read all the children's books in the library. The librarian took pity on her and gave her a restricted adult card. Marvin promptly checked out a steamy adult book causing her father to roar and her to blame the librarian. He chastised the librarian and from that point on Marvin's visits to the library were not as pleasant as they had been; she stopped her regular visits until she was old enough to visit the main branch by herself.

The book gives a social history of a time period that many Americans know little about. It has the personal touch that brings the Depression and the Detroit Riot of 1943 alive with characters the reader can readily relate to and empathize with. While each chapter could certainly stand alone, Arnett ties the whole together in a wonderful story that can be enjoyed by everyone.

Reviewed by Alice Holman
of The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers

When we were human.......2003-05-16

There once was a time when the elemental Afro American family consisted not only of father/mother/offspring, but also included grandparents, the church and the neighborhood. This was a time when it was common place for three or sometimes four generations to live together in one home. The love, care and warmth of the family did not end when one walked out of one's house to go to work, school or play. Back then,"the hood", was in fact a true "neighborhood". "Pieces From Life's Crazy Quilt" recalls the golden days of Afro American social existence and life in Detroit during the 1930s - 1940s. What the author, Marvin Arnett has done is create a literal time machine that transports us back to those times in a very descriptive and emotional manner. This work is a intimate and insighful look into the life and influences of a child growing up admist colorful, warm and sometimes ominus character arrays. That Arnett includes stories and lessons from the bright and the dark side of her experiences speaks volumes for her knack at providing and maintaining balance in her descriptions of characters and environments. This is a work that will remind Arnett's peers that there once was a time where the neighbor hood was a nuturing and loving place. The younger reader who is looking for a better way of life and a better way of living it will be transfixed to discover what used to be and what may be possible to recreate. They need to know that there really USED to be a time when the black community in Detroit had empathy and mutual respect as foundations for behavior instead of the current impersonal co-existence. I look for this work to one day be transformed into a movie or musical play. The imagery is powerful. Kudows to the author for inventing a work that is entertaining, educational and most of all, practical. "Pieces from Life's Crazy Quilt" is a detailed and imagery loaded work that is also a warm, honest and some times dark snap shot of yesterday. ...and if we relly take to heart the lessons that Arnett teaches us, it can also serve as a potential road map for finding our way back home.

Pieces from Life's Crazy Quilt.......2003-05-10

This journey to the Detroit of the 1930s and 40s also takes the reader on a ride through the first years of a young African American girl's life--her relationships with family, church, and community, her growth toward an understanding of her own potential. Marvin Arnett's story is bright with both humor and poignancy as she clearly draws her characters and their struggles in a pre-Civil Rights American city. Her voice is clear and plain-spoken, and she creates an intimacy for the reader with person and place that will stay in the mind indefinitely.

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A very highly recommended primer for employees

The ABCs of Building Better Boards
Jean Block
Manufacturer: Jean Block Consulting Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Spiral-bound

Nonprofit Organizations & Charities | Industries & Professions | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0971452709

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How to build, strengthen and maintain an effective Board of Directors of a nonprofit organization. Geared to start-ups and existing nonprofits, volunteers and staff. Contains sample forms and guides. Written by author with more than 40 years experience in nonprofits. Easy to read and apply principles that work in the real world, not just theories. Examines and clarifies the roles of volunteers and staff. Discusses recruitment, retention and recognition of volunteer Board members. Clarifies fiduciary responsibilities of volunteers. The book was written at the request of workshop participants who have urged the author to "write it down!"

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A very highly recommended primer for employees.......2003-01-05

In The ABCs Of Building Better Boards, non-profit organizations consultant Jean Block draws upon her more than 30 years of experience to present a handy, effective, spiral-bound, and "user friendly" primer on the art of recruiting for, planning, organizing, and running more effective corporate boards. From making the most of an annual planning retreat, to structuring committees for maximum efficiency, to the importance of recognizing jobs well done, The ABCs of Building Better Boards is a very highly recommended primer for employees at an level of middle management and above, whether the corporation is a for-profit or a non-profit organization.

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A year before his death, the great Italian film director Federico Fellini sat down with documentary-maker Damian Pettigrew for a series of intimate, in-depth interviews. I'm a Born Liar contains the highlights of these conversations. With great candidness, Fellini discusses every aspect of his work, from his early life to his relationship with Italian culture to the inspiration behind his films.

Pettigrew's immensely readable interviews illuminate the life of the director of La Strada, La Dolce Vita, 8(tm), and other classic films, and demonstrate his wild imagination, his energy, and his passion. Fellini reveals much, on subjects ranging from women ("the unknown planet") to his neuroses ("fabulous treasure buried at the bottom of the city") to his actors ("puppets"). In between, the director muses on marriage, memory, cinema, and Marcello Mastroianni.

Accompanying the interviews are 125 film stills and never-before-published photographs from the Fellini Foundation and the Cineteca di Bologna. Published on the 10th anniversary of Fellini's death and in conjunction with the release of Pettigrew's film of the same name, I'm a Born Liar provides rare insight into one of the world's most innovative and influential directors.

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Spiritual Testament.......2004-01-23

This deluxe edition of what renowned Fellini specialist Tullio Kezich describes as the Maestro's "spiritual testament" (in his superb foreword to the book) is bona fide Fellini-esque. Hilarious anecdotes are squeezed in beside a number of very moving meditations on old age, sex, LSD, unemployment, Trivial Pursuit, God, Dante, death and the Hereafter. The newly restored black-and-white photos capturing the Italian director's surreal world are well-served by an excellent English translation. The final entry in the lexicon is a fairy tale titled "Zio Lupo" or "Uncle Wolf" and it pretty much defines Fellini's insatiability. Highly recommended.

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I'm sure there's better...
A remarkable insight to the #1 genius of film in the century

I, Fellini
Federico Fellini
Manufacturer: Cooper Square Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 081541143X

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This lusty, high spirited book came out of conversations, conducted over the course of fourteen years, between Frederico Fellini, the reknowned director of of such landmark films as 8 1/2, and La Dolce Vita, and author Charlotte Chandler. The result is a work of astonishing candor, subtle wit, and brilliant insight into the mystery of motion pictures.

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This lusty, high-spirited book was forged from conversations, conducted over the course of fourteen years, between Federico Fellini--the great master director-- and author Charolette Chandler.

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I'm sure there's better..........2005-04-01

There's a big difference between writing a biography and transcribing conversation by the subject into book form. This book is the latter. While it is certainly entertaining from an anecdotal standpoint, there simply isn't enough meat here to grab one who is wishing to dive into the creative process that made Fellini's films what they are. This book is by no means scholarly or academic. If you seek deep insight into his films, look elsewhere. If you're entertained by casual chat, this is your book.

A remarkable insight to the #1 genius of film in the century.......1997-08-14

This book was written with love over 14 years of friendship. Fellini speaks all, and I mean everything about his life in the movies. Charlotte Chandler records and organizes interviews with the director so that the entire piece (except one little chapter at the end) is Fellini talking to a friend, and the reader becoming that friend. I believe this to be the most beautiful biography ever written about Fellini. A touching and profound book that any film lover, and for that matter, any artist wouldn't want to miss

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Meet the man known as Fellini.
A simple introduction to a complex man.

Fellini on Fellini
Federico Fellini
Manufacturer: Methuen
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0413336409

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Like a colossus, Federico Fellini bestrides the history of Italian cinema. Four times winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Film, over the course of his career Fellini created a body of work - La Strada, La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, Roma, to name a few - that was distinctly his own.

He called the cinema a circus, and stated that if he hadn't become a film-maker he would have been a circus director. Together with actors like Marcello Mastroianni and Giulietta Masina he created films that were visually and emotionally rich, comic and profoundly moving.

This book is a free-ranging series of discussions that reach deep into the heart of Fellini's creative process, illustrated by the drawings and sketches that were an indispensable part of his artistic process.

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Meet the man known as Fellini........2006-08-07

At first I didn't understand as to why I couldn't put this novel down. I won't lie there is a 40 page slightly confusing introduction by Fellini that jumps back and forth from different periods down memory lane. However it's exactly that which makes you realize these words are Fellini's and only his. We get his insight into basically every film he ever made just with the introduction; and then he gives us the dish on how they all came to be. I have read a few of these "on" books and this is the first that truly interested me. Fellini was a genius and saw the world in a way we could only try to understand through his films. Thankfully to those resposible for trascribing all of his writings and materials this book will also help.

A simple introduction to a complex man........1999-11-10

There is no better way to get into the mindset of Fellini than through his own words. This unassuming book is full of the director's thoughts and motivations. From behind the scene anectdotes to descriptions of scenes never filmed this is an excellent place to start learning about the movie world's best director ever!

FELLINI: THREE SCREENPLAYS: I VITELLONI; IL BIDONE; and THE TEMPTATIONS OF DR. ANTONIO.

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FELLINI: THREE SCREENPLAYS: I VITELLONI; IL BIDONE; and THE TEMPTATIONS OF DR. ANTONIO.
Federico: Fellini
Manufacturer: Orion Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000LY1KYA

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Fellini: I costumi e le mode

Manufacturer: Charta
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: 8886158637

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I Film Di Federo Fellini
Claudio G. & Vigano, Aldo Fava
Manufacturer: Gremese Editore
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 8876059318

I Vitelloni: (Die Mussigganger) (Diogenes Taschenbuch ; 55/10)

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I Vitelloni: (Die Mussigganger) (Diogenes Taschenbuch ; 55/10)
Federico Fellini
Manufacturer: Diogenes
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Perfect Paperback

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ASIN: 3257203187

I'm a Born Liar: A Fellini Lexicon (ISBN: 0810946173)

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I'm a Born Liar: A Fellini Lexicon (ISBN: 0810946173)
Damian Pettigrew
Manufacturer: Abrams
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000LCBUQK

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I, Fellini
Charlotte Chandler
Manufacturer: Bloomsbury
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000K1LDC8

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I, Fellini
Charlotte Chancler
Manufacturer: Random House Value Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0517171422
Release Date: 1996-10-02

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Hans Christian Andersen, the Danish storyteller whose fairy tales are known all over the world, was also a gifted artist. He made hundreds, perhaps thousands, of paper cuttings of swans, clowns, toy theaters, windmills, angels, and other whimsical images. Often he made the paper cuttings while telling a story, then gave them to the children listening to him. In this inspired biography, Beth Wagner Brust tells the story of Andersen as an artist who used his many talents to escape the poverty into which he was born and who entertained others with not only his famous stories but also his innovative and original art.

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Fascinating Story.......2007-02-06

As a storyteller I love to tell stories by Hans Christian Anderson and was thrilled to find out he was an accomplished cutter of paper. While his paper cuttings are much more intricate than the ones I do when I tell stories, the author helped me to understand that his ability to tell stories while cutting paper is a good way to keep the attention of small children. I found that "Grandma's Magic Scissors" by Linda S. Day was a good book to learn basic paper cutting skills and hope that someday I can learn to cut the intricate designs that this master storyteller cut, although I think I will carry my scissors in a bag and not my boot.

A Delight for All Ages.......2005-11-21

I'm a paper artist who also happens to be a Hans Christian Andersen fan. I bought the book for myself, although it would be a terrific selection for a child who likes to use scissors and glue or who might be interested in the person behind some of their favorite fairy tales. It's hard to find many printed examples outside of Denmark of Hans Christian Andersen's cut paper work. Beth Wagner Brust is a paper cutter herself and brings this enthusiasm to her book. She has performed a great service for Andersen fans and paper cutters of all ages.

This Book Is A Real Treasure.......2005-04-09

Like so many Americans, I had no idea HC Andersen was a paper-cutting genius, until reading the series of articles by Ms. Brust in the LA Times. Not to mention that he cut these "amazing" intricate pieces while telling one of his stories to a roomful of listeners at the same time.

The book's a treasure in that I feel like I've discovered gold within. Not simply a children's book, it's so well written and full of surprises, I think it will appeal to readers of all ages, from the casually curious child or adult to the Andersen enthusiast like me.

Great.......2000-05-24

Not only is the author great (I know her!) but this book explores an interesting topic. Those paper cuttings are unreal! I mean they are real, but they are so amazing!

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Mostly what I expected

Anderson's Fairy Tales
Hans Christian Anderson
Manufacturer: Grosset & Dunlap
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NWDKO8

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Mostly what I expected.......2007-08-24

Fairy tales told in the style of an earlier era. I will be reading this to my daughters until they can read them on their own. It contains a bit more overt moralizing than I might like, but they need to learn to sift through that as well.

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Thumbelina (A Peepshow Book)
Hans Christian Anderson , and Linda Griffith
Manufacturer: Random House Children's Books (A Division of Random House Group)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0701150807

Thumbelina Mini Classics (Mini Classics)

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Thumbelina Mini Classics (Mini Classics)

Manufacturer: Parragon Book Service Ltd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 1569242364

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The new Mini Classics series brings the works of our greatest authors to a whole new generation of children. ewritten especially for a young audience and lavishly illustrated throughout, they form a perfect miniature library to collect and treasure. From Shooting Star Press.

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Thumbelina

Manufacturer: Troll
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0843109033

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Boards, 1979, TROLL, G++, ADORABLE ILLUST. BY CHRISTINE WILLIS NIGIGHOSSIAN. Pop up books. Very elaborate pop-ups three dimentional with 3 or more layers per pop up page.

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The Little Match Girl
Hans Christian Anderson
Manufacturer: G. P. Putnam's Sons
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000ND430W

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Great book for family reading at Christmas

Christmas by the Hearth
Calvin Miller , Bodie Thoene , Francine Rivers , Angela Elwell Hunt , Walt Wangerin , Michael Card , Gilbert Morris , Danae Dobson , Angela Elwell Hunt , and Hans Christian Anderson
Manufacturer: Tyndale House Publishers
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Binding: Hardcover

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The Shoe Box

ASIN: 0842302395

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Christmas by the Hearth will warm the hearts of all ages as leading Christian authors share a collection of Christmas short stories. Such popular authors as Angela Elwell Hunt, Francine Rivers, Bodie Thoene, Calvin Miller, and many more contribute stories ranging from historical to contemporary.

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Great book for family reading at Christmas.......1999-12-23

I have used this book for two years during Advent to read aloud to my family as we finish dinner. My 12 year-old at first thought it was silly, but she is always captivated by the stories. I like the blend of fiction, nonfiction, sentimental, and compelling selections. We have learned about Christmas for some Civil War soldiers, read some old classics such as The Gift of the Magi, and discovered some new authors we like. I highly recommend the book as a way to combat the secular focus of Christmas, without being preachy.

A Treasury of Hans Christian Anderson ( International Collectors Library Edition )

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A Treasury of Hans Christian Anderson ( International Collectors Library Edition )
Erik Christian (Translator) Haugaard
Manufacturer: International Collectors Library Edition
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000F8ETFE

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Elf Hill
Naomi Lewis , Hans Christian Anderson , and Emma Chichester Clark
Manufacturer: Frances Lincoln
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1845071883

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Elf Hill is a collection of new versions of Hans Christian Andersen stories, written for children with all the warmth, wit and character of the 19th-century originals. This anthology presents rewritten versions of Hans Christian Anderson stories for very young children.

The princess & the pea: A Hans Christian Anderson story

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The princess & the pea: A Hans Christian Anderson story
Amy Houts
Manufacturer: Dalmatian Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1577592751

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