Fallen Leaves

Author : Will Durant
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476771561
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fallen Leaves written by Will Durant and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praised as a “revelatory” book by The Wall Street Journal, this is the last and most personal work of Pulitzer Prize–winning author and historian Will Durant, discovered thirty-two years after his death. The culmination of Will Durant’s sixty-plus years spent researching the philosophies, religions, arts, sciences, and civilizations from across the world, Fallen Leaves is the distilled wisdom of one of the world’s greatest minds, a man with a renowned talent for rendering the insights of the past accessible. Over the course of Durant’s career he received numerous letters from “curious readers who have challenged me to speak my mind on the timeless questions of human life and fate.” With Fallen Leaves, his final book, he at last accepted their challenge. In twenty-two short chapters, Durant addresses everything from youth and old age to religion, morals, sex, war, politics, and art. Fallen Leaves is “a thought-provoking array of opinions” (Publishers Weekly), offering elegant prose, deep insights, and Durant’s revealing conclusions about the perennial problems and greatest joys we face as a species. In Durant’s singular voice, here is a message of insight for everyone who has ever sought meaning in life or the counsel of a learned friend while navigating life’s journey.

Author : Julia Rawlinson
Publisher : eBook Partnership
ISBN 13 : 1913634310
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fletcher and the Falling Leaves written by Julia Rawlinson and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the autumn season sets in, Fletcher is very worried his beautiful tree has begun to loose all of its leaves. Whatever Fletcher attempts to do to save them, it's simply no use. When the final leaf falls, Fletcher feels hopeless... until he returns the next day to a glorious sight. A tender, uplifting tale about acceptance and hope for the future.'Captivating' Publishers Weekly'Preschoolers will love being in on the joke, even as they marvel at the bright petals that herald the astonishing beauty of spring' ALA Booklist

Author : Charles Waugh
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820337494
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Family of Fallen Leaves written by Charles Waugh and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of twelve short stories and one essay by Vietnamese writers reveals the tragic legacy of Agent Orange and raises troubling moral questions about the physical, spiritual, and environmental consequences of war. Between 1962 and 1971, the U.S. military sprayed approximately twenty million gallons of Agent Orange and other chemical defoliants on Vietnam and Laos, exposing combatants and civilians from both sides to the deadly contaminant dioxin. Many of the exposed, and later their children, suffered from ailments including diabetes, cancer, and birth defects. This remarkably diverse collection represents a body of work published after the early 1980s that stirred sympathy and indignation in Vietnam, pressuring the Vietnamese government for support. "Thirteen Harbors" intertwines a woman's love for a dioxin victim with ancient Cham legend and Vietnamese folk wisdom. "A Child, a Man" explores how our fates are bound with those of our neighbors. In "The Goat Horn Bell" and "Grace," families are devastated to find the damage from Agent Orange passed to their newborn children. Eleven of the pieces appear in English for the first time, including an essay by Minh Chuyen, whose journalism helped publicize the Agent Orange victims' plight. The stories in Family of Fallen Leaves are harrowing yet transformative in their ability to make us identify with the other.

Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1427063516
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The fallen leaves written by Wilkie Collins and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 1899 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Loretta Holland
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544106644
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fall Leaves written by Loretta Holland and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wordplay with homonyms puts autumn on display and captures the art and science of season change"--

Author : Adeline Yen Mah
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0767903579
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Falling Leaves written by Adeline Yen Mah and published by Crown. This book was released on 1999-04-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emotionally wrenching yet ultimately uplifting memoir of a Chinese woman struggling to win the love and acceptance of her family. Born in 1937 in a port city a thousand miles north of Shanghai, Adeline Yen Mah was the youngest child of an affluent Chinese family who enjoyed rare privileges during a time of political and cultural upheaval. But wealth and position could not shield Adeline from a childhood of appalling emotional abuse at the hands of a cruel and manipulative stepmother. Determined to survive through her enduring faith in family unity, Adeline struggled for independence as she moved from Hong Kong to England and eventually to the United States to become a physician and writer. A compelling, painful, and ultimately triumphant story of a girl's journey into adulthood, Adeline's story is a testament to the most basic of human needs: acceptance, love, and understanding. With a powerful voice that speaks of the harsh realities of growing up female in a family and society that kept girls in emotional chains, Falling Leaves is a work of heartfelt intimacy and a rare authentic portrait of twentieth-century China. "Riveting. A marvel of memory. Poignant proof of the human will to endure." —Amy Tan

Author : Betsy Franco
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780590273633
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fresh Fall Leaves written by Betsy Franco and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the many things one can do with fallen leaves.

Author : Zoe Hall
Publisher : Scholastic
ISBN 13 : 9780590100793
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fall Leaves Fall! written by Zoe Hall and published by Scholastic. This book was released on 2000 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's the best part of fall? Fall leaves! Red leaves, yellow leaves, leaves for crunching, leaves for jumping.

Author : Melba Williams Fisher
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480918245
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fallen Leaves written by Melba Williams Fisher and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fallen Leaves by Melba Williams Fisher Fallen Leaves was written to inform the reader about Lewy Body Disease. It will take you through the land of no return. Lewy Bodies are small crystals in the brain. You must have a magnifying lens to find them. They can live about seven years from the time it starts until death. Melba Williams Fisher wrote Fallen Leaves from the notes she took while her husband was tragically experiencing these diseases. She wants to inform readers about Lewy Body Disease since there isn’t much known about it. Melba’s husband’s leaf weathered many strong storms. It amazed the doctors. Then one big storm came, and his leaf fell. The wind blew it toward heaven. We are all leaves from God’s Tree of Life. Some leaves hang on longer while others curl up and fall off.

Author : Melissa O. Macadat
Publisher : Ukiyoto Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9355978383
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fallen Leaves written by Melissa O. Macadat and published by Ukiyoto Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-23 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry transcends various emotions overflowing from a poet’s heart. It is a reflection of the spontaneous bleeding of words recollecting bliss and melancholia hidden in each manifold of experiences. These emotions unfold as the poet advance to the different phases, cycles and circumstances that life throws upon. From waking up in the morning and basking in the sun to staying up all night fighting the monsters inside the mind, listening endlessly to the rain; from believing in the magic of love to neglecting its romance; from dreaming and believing to failing and dying and back again. These leaves of poetry are examples of how the poet grow, shed and let go from the tree of life and love that holds and shelters her all these years. As time fleets by and the wind of fate reels into the night, the leaves start to drift and wander into the unknown until they slowly but painfully fall into the empty ground, dead.