Best Of Reader S Digest Vol 2

Author : Reader's Digest
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781621455639

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Best of Reader's Digest Vol 2 by Reader's Digest Pdf

This collection showcases over 40 timeless stories that make you feel deeply and stick with you, along with cartoons, jokes, and readers' warm and funny true anecdotes. From everyday heroes to larger-than-life characters, small moments to historic events, the unforgettable stories in Reader's Digest come alive as never before in this keepsake book. Our editors have combed the archives for the narratives that thrill your senses, warm your heart, lift your spirits and leave you amazed or simply grateful for your connection with fellow humans, including: *Pilot Down: The Rescue of Scott O'Grandy--An Air Force captain policing a NATO "No Fly Zone" is struck by a missile and must use his ejection seat and parachute down into enemy territory. *The Pig That Changed My Life--The author agrees to take in what he's told is a mini pig. At first he hides the pig in his office, but his partner finds out and is upset. Nevertheless, they keep the pig and call it Esther. Esther grows up to be 650 pounds, sleeps with them along with 2 cats and 2 dogs, and wins the whole family over with her antics. The humans become vegan. *To My Daughter on Acquiring Her First Car--This is a lovely letter written by a father to his daughter as he gets her a car. It is a fond but serious plea that she not take lightly the responsibility of working this machine, that her and many others’ lives depend on her good judgement and care.

Author : Editors of Reader's Digest
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781621454731

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The Best of Reader's Digest by Editors of Reader's Digest Pdf

More than two dozen timeless favorites from the Reader's Digest archives. From everyday heroes to larger-than-life characters, small moments to historic events, the unforgettable stories in Reader's Digest come alive as never before in this keepsake book. Our editors have combed the archives for the narratives—sometimes funny, often poignant, always inspirational—that still strike deep chords today, such as: The gripping tale of a North Carolina woman and her Shepherd, Gandalf, who found a lost Boy Scout in the woods during their first search-and-rescue job The tragic account of the crash of the Columbia Space Shuttle The miracle of the old letter that led to a couple being reunited after nearly 60 years apart The heroic actions of an eighteen-year-old girl who carried a young boy to safety after being pulled out to sea in a riptide The hilarious anecdote about the one exception to humorist Calvin Trillin’s happy childhood, a sickly collie named Chubby Featuring the best of the best fron the present and past, this collection of timeless favorites will thrill your senses, warm your heart, and brighten your day.

Author : Reader's Digest
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781621458418

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Best of Reader's Digest Vol 3 -Celebrating 100 Years by Reader's Digest Pdf

From heartwarming and humorous stories about community, pets, and family to insightful essays from influential writers and stirring accounts of everyday heroes, The Best of Reader’s Digest will inspire you, amuse you, and always remind you of the good in humanity. This impressive collection contains the very best of 100 years of Reader’s Digest stories. The book is brimming with inspiring tales about family and society, funny takes on human nature, and poignant personal accounts of important cultural events and historical eras. With essays from influential writers and entertainers nestled alongside remarkable tales about everyday heroes, this volume is sure to have something for everyone. You’ll laugh, learn, reflect, and be inspired by the diverse stories, including: *Queens of the Road: An adult daughter reflects upon the humorous, occasionally exasperating exchanges she has with her mother while they “enjoy” long road trips together; she offers tongue-in-cheek and witty advice to those looking to do the same. *I Get a Lot More Than I Give: Entertainer and USO legend Bob Hope gives a touching firsthand account of performing for GIs at Christmastime in Vietnam, describes the valuable life lessons he’s learned in the process, and shares emotional memories of encounters with wounded soldiers. *Fire Lover: Writer Joseph Wambaugh delivers a page-turning account of the investigation into a series of California arsons that occurred in the 1980s. Now-infamous arson investigator John Orr intimately participates in the case, but he’s ultimately revealed to be the arsonist in question. *Why We Forgive: In an intimate essay, revered activist and theologian Desmond Tutu meditates on the value of forgiveness. Recalling the physical and verbal abuse his father inflicted upon his family, Tutu acknowledges that forgiveness can be difficult but reminds readers that “the only way to experience healing and peace is to forgive.” *A Fight for Life at 35,000 Feet: When 35-year-old Theresa de Bara goes into premature labor in the middle of a flight, the crew and passengers have no choice but to jump to action. This dramatic and suspenseful account describes the efforts of two paramedics and a doctor on board to ensure the safety and health of Theresa and her baby. In addition, the book features hilarious jokes and cartoons, classic illustrations and photographs, and true stories from readers like you.

Author : Fritz Kredel
Publisher : Reader's Digest Association (Canada)
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Fairy tales
ISBN : 0895770784

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The World's Best Fairy Tales by Fritz Kredel Pdf

A collection of sixty-nine well-known fairy tales from around the world, translated and gathered by recognized contributors to the field of folklore.

Author : Jack London,Joseph Conrad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1989-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0945260288

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Reader's Digest Best Loved Books for Young Readers by Jack London,Joseph Conrad Pdf

The adventures of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, that is forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack. . -- Calm, stoic captain Mac Whirr has just been given command of a new steamship, the Nan-Shan. He and his crew are transporting Asian workers across the China Sea when a sudden drop in atmospheric pressure alerts Mac Whirr of, "some uncommonly dirty weather knocking about."

Author : Reader's Digest
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 1192 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-02
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781621458029

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Reader's Digest Complete Guide to Sewing by Reader's Digest Pdf

An indispensable volume for beginning and advanced sewers alike that guides readers through necessary equipment, techniques, fabrics and more. First published in 1978, Reader’s Digest’s popular Complete Guide to Sewing has become the standard stich-and-seam reference book for both beginner and seasoned sewers. Now, Reader’s Digest has refreshed this tried-and-true volume for the modern era, adapting it to current trends while preserving the comprehensive, practical and inspiring content within. Reader’s Digest Complete Guide to Sewing gives sewers of every experience and comfort level everything they need to know to create the wardrobe of their dreams and beautify their homes with original decorative accents. Clear, simple instructions written by experts in the field tell you what to do and how to do it. Plus, thousands of illustrations and diagrams throughout the book’s 384 pages illustrate each stage of the process. Key elements of the book include: A detailed list of the basic equipment you’ll need before getting started sewing. Tips for choosing the right fabric for your project. A step-by-step photo guide that shows you how to take measurements. Instructions in a variety of essential hand-stitching techniques. 20 timeless projects— more than half of them new to this edition—to practice your skills including shirts, dresses, bags, and more. Plus, the book has received endorsements from a variety of trusted sources: “…and I always recommend the Reader’s Digest Guide to Sewing. It’s very comprehensive and very user-friendly.” —Tim Gunn “…abundant and precise line art, enticing photographs, simple-to-follow instructions and valuable information on tools, supplies, materials and techniques.” —The New York Times “A woman who takes sewing seriously, or who wants to learn to sew, won’t want to be without this book.” —Portland Oregon Journal “Here is everything you always wanted to know about sewing—a veritable encyclopedia of stitching facts.” —The Austin American Statesman

Author : Torey Hayden
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1995-03-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781439107188

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Tiger's Child by Torey Hayden Pdf

Special-education teacher Torey Hayden's first book, One Child, was an international bestseller, thrilling readers on every continent. Their hearts were captured by Sheila, a silent, troubled girl who had been abandoned on a highway by her mother and abused by her alcoholic father, and who refused to speak. As Hayden writes in the prologue to this book, "This little girl had a profound effect on me. Her courage, her resilience, and her inadvertent ability to express that great, gaping need to be loved that we all feel -- in short, her humanness -- brought me into contact with my own." Since then Hayden has gone on to write books about many of her students, but her fans continue to ask her, "What happened to Sheila?" The Tiger's Child is her response. Here Hayden tells how Sheila, now a young woman, finally came to terms with her nightmare childhood. When Hayden was working on One Child, she showed the manuscript to Sheila, then a teenager, and was astonished to find that Sheila remembered almost nothing of her troubled younger years. She had no recollection of her many clashes with her teacher as Hayden tried to break through her emotional pain. And although Hayden had managed to get Sheila to communicate and become an active and lively child, Sheila's home life was still very troubled. Her father had been sent to prison when she was eight and Sheila had run away from a series of foster homes until finally she was placed in a children's home. But as Hayden continued to renew her relationship with the teenage Sheila, the memories slowly came back, bringing with them feelings of abandonment and hostility. Overwhelmed by the intensity of her awakening emotions, Sheila was driven to suicidal despair. The Tiger's Child is the touching, inspiring story of how a maturing Sheila came to perceive her mother not as a monster who willfully cast off her eldest child, but as a weak, forlorn, ordinary human being. Able to appreciate her own strength and resilience, Sheila at last is free to overcome the haunting legacy of child abuse.

Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780857907080

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Kidnapped & Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson Pdf

In "Kidnapped" (1886) and later fiction such as "The Master of Ballantrae" (1888), Stevenson examined some of the extreme and contrary currents of Scotland's past, often projecting a dualism of both personality and belief. This dualism is most famous in "Kidnapped", whose two central characters are David Balfour, a Lowland Whig, and Alan Breck Stewart, a Highland Jacobite. The novel revolves around their friendship and their differences, suggesting a metaphor for Scotland itself. Stevenson wrote the sequel "Catriona" with the title David Balfour, but during serialisation in England the public became confused, thinking it might be a reprint of "Kidnapped". At publisher Cassell's request, the title was changed to "Catriona", after Balfour's daughter.

Author : Editors of Reader's Digest
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781621451488

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Laughter Still Is the Best Medicine by Editors of Reader's Digest Pdf

This hilarious collection offers up some of the funniest moments that get us through our day, in the form of jokes, gags and cartoons that will have readers laughing out loud. Editors have mined the Reader’s Digest archives to bring readers Laughter the Best Medicine, All-Time Faves, a collection of the most hilarious jokes and anecdotes we’ve come across over the years. As you turn the pages of our newest collection, you’ll realize once again that laughter is always the best medicine. “Did you hear the one about the hitchhiker who never got anywhere? He’d get up early to avoid traffic.” --Chuck Welch, Houston, TX “When my husband was a home builder, his thumb ended up on the business end of a sledgehammer, and our three-year-old daughter, Kiana, was eager to tell the entire world. When her caregiver asked how the accident had happened, Kiana shook her head sadly and said, “You know, sometimes at work, my daddy just gets hammered.” --Stasia Uhlmann, Rocky Mountain House, Canada “After one of my students acted up, I took him to our school psychiatrist, who asked if he had ADHD. “No,” said the boy. “I just have a normal TV.” –Matthew Hughes, Fort Collins, CO “I’ve been told that when you meet the right person, you know immediately. How come when you meet the wrong person, it takes a year and a half?” --Comedian Phil Hanley

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Children's literature
ISBN : LCCN:66012161

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Reader's Digest Best Loved Books for Young Readers by Anonim Pdf

Author : Reader's Digest
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781621455912

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Reader's Digest Timeless Favorites by Reader's Digest Pdf

A collection of heartwarming, thrilling, surprising and hilarious stories selected from nearly a century of Reader’s Digest magazine. Certain tales stick in our memories and remain timeless as the years march on—and they shine like never before in this compilation from Reader’s Digest. Our editors have carefully selected narratives readers have adored throughout the past century; humorous slices of life in decades past, captivating tales of survival against the odds, sweet stories about cherished animal companions and side-splitting commentaries on everyday annoyances. Each remains as resonant and meaningful today as it was when it first appeared in the pages of Reader’s Digest magazine, such as: A man’s chance meeting with Einstein at a chamber music performance, and another’s encounter with Hemingway A harrowing account of a courageous skydiving instructor’s determination to save an unconscious diver A woman’s first-person tale of remaining awake as she received a brain operation In addition, the book features bonus material never before published in the magazine, along with full-color illustrations and inspiring quotes.

Author : Evelyn Anthony
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0896218015

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A Place to Hide by Evelyn Anthony Pdf

Laced with romance and suspense, this is the tragedy-torn world of the Arbuthnot family, two generations of Anglo-Irish bound together only by violence and death--and with the greatest drama yet to come. From the author of Voices on the Wind.

Author : Richard Powell
Publisher : Bantam Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Don Quixote (Fictitious character)
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173025245716

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Don Quixote, U. S. A. by Richard Powell Pdf

Insignificant Peace Corps man, sent to promote banana culture on a Caribbean island, rises to great heights of public favor despite being trapped between two conflicting factions.

Author : Reader's Digest
Publisher : Reader's Digest Association
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0895772965

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Reader's Digest Great Biographies by Reader's Digest Pdf

Plain speaking : an oral biography of Harry S. Truman, by Merle Miller. Catherine, Empress of all the Russias, by Vincent Cronin. Walt Disney:an American original by Bob Thomas. The Woman he loved by Ralph G. Martin.

Author : Reader's Digest Editors,Robert Dolezal,Reader's Digest
Publisher : Berkley Trade
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Accidents
ISBN : 042506817X

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Reader's Digest Family Safety & First Aid by Reader's Digest Editors,Robert Dolezal,Reader's Digest Pdf