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FR. VINCENT DE PAUL MEMOIR

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English
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Ages 18 and up
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MEMOIR OF FATHER VINCENT DE PAUL, RELIGIOUS OF LA TRAPPE: TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL FRENCH BY A. M. POPE, WITH A PREFACE BY THE RIGHT REVEREND DR. [more]

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Roxanne Regalado Travel Memoir: Boracay

Travel
English
5065 Words
Ages 6 and up
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This is a memoir about my vacation in Boracay. Me and my family decided to spend Christmas 2018 [more]

Keywords: Boracay, island, vacation, Christmas, Boracay Island, Christmas vacation, christmas, travel, travel memoir, memoir, fun, happy

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JOHN YEARDLEY MEMOIR

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John Yeardley (3 January 1786–11 August 1858) was a Quaker missionary. He was the son of Joel and Frances Yeardley, small dairy farmers at Orgreave, near Rotherham, Yorkshire. John was admitted a member of the Society of Friends in his twentieth year, entered a manufactory in Barnsley, and married, in 1809, Elizabeth Dunn, a convinced Friend much his senior. He commenced preaching in 1815, moving from place to place in the northern counties. In 1821 Yeardley's wife died, and, led by a persistent "call," he decided to settle at Pyrmont in Germany, where a small body of Friends existed. For his subsistence he arranged to represent some merchants who imported linen yarn, and later on he commenced bleaching on his own account. His philanthropic labours included the establishing of schools and meetings for the young, and many notable persons, including the prince and princess of Prussia, came to hear him preach. In 1824 he accompanied Martha Savory, an English Quaker, on a gospel journey up the Rhine from Elberfeld to Würtemberg, Tübingen, and other German towns, through Switzerland to Congénies in Central France, where some Friends were and (as of 1897) still are settled. They visited Theodor Fliedner at Kaiserswerth, and all the principal religious and philanthropic institutions on their route. Upon reaching England they were married at Gracechurch Street meeting on 13 December 1826, resuming soon after their missionary labours in Pyrmont, Friesland, and Switzerland, and visiting asylums, reformatories, and Moravian schools. During a short time spent in England both Yeardley and his wife applied themselves to the study of modern Greek in preparation for a visit to the isles, for which they started on 21 June 1833. They were warmly received by Edmond de Pressensé in Paris, and by Professors Ehrmann and Frédéric Cuvier at Strasbourg. In Corfu they established a girls' school, also a model farm, obtaining from the authorities there a grant of land upon which prisoners were permitted to supply the labour. After eight years at home, spent in studying languages, the Yeardleys in 1842 returned for the fourth time to France and Germany. In 1850, during a stay in Berlin, they became acquainted with August Neander. Mrs. Yeardley died on 8 May 1851, but her husband continued his travels to Norway in 1852, and to South Russia and Constantinople in 1853. In his seventy-second year he commenced to study Turkish, and started for the East on 15 June 1858. After some work in Constantinople, and while waiting for his equipments and tents to proceed to the interior of Asia Minor, Yeardley was smitten with paralysis at Isnik, and was compelled to return to England, where he died on 11 August 1858. He was buried at Stoke Newington on the 18th. As a preacher Yeardley's racy humour, with occasional lapses into his broad native Barnsley dialect, added to his uncompromising directness, did him good service. As a linguist his achievements in preaching without interpre [more]

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. . Memoir

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English
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Ages 18 and up
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The reverend Father Abbot, of La Trappe, Dom Augustin, (De Lestrange) foreseeing that Bonaparte would seek to destroy [more]

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Roxanne Jade Regalado Travel Memoir: Singapore and Malaysia

Travel
English
3690 Words
Ages 6 and up
226
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This is a memoir about me and my family's travel to Singapore and Malaysia. Of course no travel [more]

Keywords: Singapore, Malaysia, travel, Universal Studios, Singapore Zoo, Legoland, Little India, supertrees, Gardens By the Bay, travel memoir, memoir

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Gordon Stables Aileen Aroon, A Memoir

With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites

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English
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Aileen Aroon, A Memoir, by Gordon Stables This eBook is for the use of [more]

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JAMES EDWARD AUSTEN LEIGH MEMOIR OF JANE AUSTEN

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A Memoir of Jane Austen is a biography of the novelist Jane Austen (1775–1817) published in 1869 by her nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh. A second edition was published in 1871 which included previously unpublished Jane Austen writings. A family project, the biography was written by James Edward Austen-Leigh but owed much to the recollections of Jane Austen's many relatives. However, it was the decisions of her close friend and sister, Cassandra Austen, to destroy many of Jane's letters after her death that shaped the material available for the biography. Austen-Leigh described his "dear Aunt Jane" domestically, as someone who was uninterested in fame and who only wrote in her spare time. However, the manuscripts appended to the second edition suggest that Jane Austen was intensely interested in revising her manuscripts and was perhaps less content than Austen-Leigh described her. The Memoir does not attempt to unreservedly tell the story of Jane Austen's life. Following the Victorian conventions of biography, it kept much private information from the public, but family members disagreed over just how much should be revealed, for example, regarding Austen's romantic relationships. The Memoir introduced the public to the works of Jane Austen, generating interest in novels which only the literary elite had read up until that point. It remained the primary biographical work on the author for over half a century. [more]

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Seraph Wedd Endless Memoir

Lost In Another World [Parallel Universe]

Fiction
English
40510 Words
Ages 14 and up
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A mysterious boy that has lost his memories was found unconscious in the middle of the forest. When [more]

Keywords: Action, Adventure, Another World, Battle, Comedy, Romance, Magic, OP Protagonist, Teen, Demon, Japanese LN Inspired, Honorifics

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Alf Wood Life is...a Coming of Age Memoir

Biography & Autobiography
English
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Ages 16 and up
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Life can be wonderful; then again, life can be a total mess especially for a young boy just emerging from childhood into puberty and adulthood. Being a teenager can be a bitch at the best of times but when trying to cope with a family break-up it is even tougher. The following chapters are pieces of my life from ages twelve to eighteen in a South Africa fraught with racism. It is a snapshot of my life through the years written as a series of short anecdotes. Some are sad, some are funny, some are uplifting and some are naughty but hopefully all will entertain. Writing this has been difficult yet fulfilling. Where the memory has faded, I have invoked poetic license and used my imagination. If I have offended anyone in my writings, I apologize emphatically and can assure you it is not deliberate. I hope you will enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. Warning! This book contains coarse language, which may be offensive to some readers. [more]

Keywords: Coming of age memoir, youth, childhood, break up, puberty, adult, naughty, funny, teenager

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Marie Marley Come Back Early Today: A Memoir of Love, Alzheimer's and Joy

Family & Relationships
English
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Ages 18 and up
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This book narrates the powerful 30-year relationship between a young American woman and a delightfully colorful, wickedly eccentric Romanian gentleman and scholar who eventually developed Alzheimer’s disease. In addition to being a compelling love story, this award-winning memoir illustrates solutions to 14 specific problems that typically arise when caring for a person with dementia – everything from denial, diagnosis and difficult behaviors to nursing home and hospice care. [more]

Keywords: love, Alzheimer&#8217, s disease, memoir, health, hospice

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