Author: St. John G. Ervine
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: lovers, foolish
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2008-08-18
List price: $26.99
ISBN-10: 0554323184
ISBN-13: 9780554323183

It is difficult for anyone who is not a native of the town to understand why the inhabitants of Ballyards should possess so great a pride in their birthplace.

Author: Gideon Wurdz
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Keywords: finance, foolish
Number of Pages: 132
Published: 2005-11-01
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 1596054891
ISBN-13: 9781596054899

Foolish Finance is a Science. It is the Science of parting a Fool and his Finances. It also has a Great Mission. This Mission is the evolution of Plutocrats from Other People’s Money. -from "What Is Foolish Finance?" "Blessed are the Poor, for they shall be robbed." "Thou shalt not kill-except at a profit." This classic of social satire, first published in 1905, is just as damning today, with the gap between the Haves and the Have Nots are large as it was during the Gilded Age, whose excesses inspired this work. In this devil’s dictionary of financial crimes and misdemeano

Author: Margaret Penn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: virgin, foolish
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1981-04-30
List price: $36.99
ISBN-10: 0521282977
ISBN-13: 9780521282970

The Foolish Virgin is a biographical sequel to Manchester Fourteen Miles, in which Margaret Penn describes her childhood in a Lancashire labourer’s family at the turn of the century. The sequel begins where the earlier book leaves off with Hilda Winstanley (alias Margaret Penn) arriving in London to live with her real father’s family. It is a moving and humorous account of a young girl’s reaction to being taken from a highly traditional rural working-class family and plunged into the sophisticated and active life of a middle-class professional family. By the end of the book H

Author: Donn Byrne
Publisher: Chandra Chakravarti Press
Keywords: matrons, foolish
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 2007-10-09
List price: $31.45
ISBN-10: 1406784893
ISBN-13: 9781406784893

CONTENTS Book I THE BOOK OF THE BUILDING HOUSE i Book II THE WANDERING FEET 49 Book III THE HIDING OF THE WIND 199 Book IV THE JEWELED SNOUT 277 Book V APODEIXIS 367 Book I THE BOOK OF THE BUILDING HOUSE THE FOOLISH MATRONS CHAPTER I CROM where she sat on the veranda of the A country club Annis could see the golf links unroll themselves like the fancy of some Italian gardener. First there was the long undulation of the fairway, somehow like a river. Then would come the white and regular splashes of bunkers, very exact, and beside that the sparkling emerald of the putting greens, with their min

Author: Thomas Dixon
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: virgin, foolish
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2008-08-18
List price: $23.99
ISBN-10: 0554308991
ISBN-13: 9780554308999

"More girls are ruined in New York by marriage than by any other process " asserts the modern character of Jane Anderson.

Author: Anne Schuster
Publisher: Jacana Media
Keywords: delusions, foolish
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2006-05-28
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 1770090592
ISBN-13: 9781770090590

In this uniquely structured novel, the interwoven stories of a woman and her great-grandmother living in Cape Town, South Africa are artfully combined with a built-in workbook meant to teach creative autobiographical writing. Though the narrative explores gender, sexuality, morality, and colonialism in historical Cape Town, it also offers gentle, smoothly crafted, and insightful reflections meant to transform the life of the reader as a parallel to the protagonist’s own growing confidence, skill, and courage as she connects with her past.

Author: Brennan Manning
Publisher: HarperOne
Keywords: jesus, think, foolish, importance
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2006-07-01
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 0060834536
ISBN-13: 9780060834531

In the eyes of the world, Jesus was a fool. He did not abide by the rules of his day; the people he associated with were shunned by society; his Sermon on the Mount reads likea primer on being left behind, stepped on, and ignored. In order for us to truly be the people Jesus wants us to be, we too must learn to become "foolish." Becoming a Christian is not a magical enterprise by which we are automatically transformed into better people. We must train to become who God intends us to be. In The Importance of Being Foolish, bestselling Christian author Brennan Manning teaches us how to think lik