“This Is The Day” by football legend turned baseball player Tim Tebow is a GRAND SLAM! As an already accomplished author, Tebow brings more colloquial eloquence to his readers in his latest offering subtitled “reclaim your dream, ignite your purpose, live your passion.” Those themes run throughout the book and inject you with enough motivation […]
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Make these 10 Airport travel tips a chapter in your travel bible! Read this now and save yourself hours of headache and frustration at airports. I’m sharing some advice I’ve learned through my years of extensive travel. I was raised by parents who were travel agents so I got to see all aspects of travel
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You should stop what you’re doing right now and read “The Last Book Smuggler” by Birutė Putrius! Its pages are a lesson for all humanity about tragedy, hope, and success beautifully woven like a Lithuanian juosta sash as a masterpiece of historical fiction. Although set in Lithuania in 1902, this book is universal in both
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Reading “The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine” by Serhii Plokhy has had a profound impact on me. Never before did I understand the history of this region which is at the same time both volatile and beautiful; situated at the eastern gateway to Europe its ancient past harks back to the very first
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Michael North’s book “The Baltic: A History” is like trying to study a train through the window of another train flying in the opposite direction at 80 miles an hour. You can get the gist of the passing train’s composition, color, shape, and length but you would never recognize it sitting in a train yard
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Over the years the #booknerd in me has scored! I’ve come across a few valuable multi-volume book sets that I bought for dirt cheap at book sales, garage sales, and even libraries. In addition to being an avid reader I also have been collecting books for over 30 years now and have on the order
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It’s high praises from me for Walter Stahr’s book “John Jay: Founding Father!” In this book we get to meet one of the most crucial, yet lesser known figures in early American history; in particular, a statesman, lawyer, Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Governor of New York, and legal mind without whom there would not have
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If you haven’t read Ron Chernow books then you’re just not that into history! Any serious student of American history knows who Ron Chernow is and that ALL of his books are of the “must-read” status – you don’t just read Ron Chernow, you collect his books. Sufficed to say, this book nerd has his
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Every avid reader has a list of their favourite authors and David Hackett Fischer is among my top 20. The importance of this historian comes in the thoroughness of his research and his ability to blissfully marry both data and storytelling into masterful narratives. Fischer stands as an unimpugned example of scholarship bent toward the
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Looking for something genealogy related gift ideas for Mother’s Day? Want to blend family history into this most auspicious of family days? Well look no further, here are 5 genealogy gift ideas for this Mother’s Day. Okay, so let’s start with the most glaringly obvious which I’m not even going to include on the list
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“The Square and the Tower,” the latest offering by Niall Ferguson, hits you with an almost mystical premise: that networks have permeated history’s most decisive moments. The fact that human beings are social animals is not the revelation, but rather how great historical events can be reanalyzed in terms of Ferguson’s new framework. This new
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