*Avalon spoke a few words of French. They were well-pronounced meows that coincidentally resembled the French vocabulary, but it had people fooled every time.

Trained as a physician, he opened a practice but closed it because he never received any patients.

A few days ago I published my thoughts on Reagan: The Life by H.W. Brands, a biog­ra­phy of the 40th pres­i­dent of the United States. I thought this was an excel­lent, inter­est­ing biog­ra­phy which is bal­anced and a joy to read. The book is engag­ing and I will cer­tainly ref­er­ence it in the future. The pub­lisher is giv­ing away one copy of this book to two (2) winners –to enter fill out the Raf­fle­copt­ter form at the end of the post. Give­away Give­away ends: May 27, 2015 US / Canada Ship­ping Addresses Only No PO Boxes Win­ners will have 24 hours to write back with their address, oth­er­wise an alter­nate win­ner will be picked Congratulations: Names as email

I really liked the characters of the book, the three Kenyan orphans are engaging and likeable. I also liked how the author took the Wizard of Oz and weaved that narrative into his storyline throughout the book.

Mr. Baum was an adamant supporter of women’s rights. His mother in law, Matilda Joslyn Gage, even wrote a book, History of Woman Suffrage (availble for free) with Susan B. Anthony, however it is said she did not like her son-in-law very much.

The book follows Reagan from his youth, his Hollywood career, his presidency (which gets the lion share of the book of course) and to his death.

About: Never Pay Full Price Again: 5 Simple Lessons on How to Save Money on Anything & Everything by Mr. Cheapskate is an eBook containing a few short lessons on saving money. 15 pages Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc. Language: English My rat­ing for Never Pay Full Price Again — 3 Buy this book from Amazon.com Thoughts: I am a self-proclaimed frugal man and proud of it, so when I saw that Never Pay Full Price Again: 5 Simple Lessons on How to Save Money on Anything & Everything by Mr. Cheapskate was free (on the Facebook Books Giveaways) I downloaded it. This is a short book I downloaded and read it in less than an hour. There is nothing new in this book and it is extremely short. The author tries to teach the reader how to save money, but the lessons are common sense and anyone who had to pay their own bills a year or so knows them. Basically find discounts using several means, be nice to the hard working folks at customer service and use rebates and sites that give you money. Frankly, I think there are other lessons out there that people should know about…

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Robert Browning (8 May, 1812 – 12 December, 1889) was an English poet with a flair for the dramatic. Works by Robert Browning Browning was educated at home and lived many years under his parents’ roof while fostering a literary career. English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and playwright William Shakespeare were a major influence on Mr. Browning. When a collection of letters by Shelley was discovered, Browning wrote the preface. Later, it was discovered that the letters were fake and the collection never published; however, Browning’s preface remains an important piece due to its famous distinction between “objective” and “subjective” writers. Browning wrote poetry as dramatic monologues because his plays were poorly received and the drama was not suited for the theatre. Famous poetess Elizabeth Barrett Browning (“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways”) was his wife. During her life, she was the more famous of the two. Even though Mr. Browning was a citizen of the British Empire, he spent almost a quarter of his life in Italy, which was a large influence of his work. Browning ’s poem The Ring and the Book is made out of 20,000 lines. Robert Browning died on the day…