"He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much," said Bessie Anderson Stanley. This book is a collection of observations about success that the author first shared with his son in the first two volumes of Life's Little Instruction Book. It also includes thought-provoking and inspiring quotes from other sources.
Nothing is more exciting to find...more devastating to lose...or more difficult to capture in words. We never stop trying to describe love. Yet, we never fully succeed. In the number-one bestseller Life's Little Instruction Book, H. Jackson Brown, Jr. shared some of the things he had learned about life and love. Many of Brown's readers wrote back with their own insights. In this little treasure book, Brown adds some of their discoveries to his own observations about love, plus favorite lines of poetry, prose, and song. This book reminds us that love is not only an exquisite feeling but also a profound responsibility.
Culled from H. Jackson Brown, Jr.'s bestselling Life's Little Instruction Book and Live and Learn and Pass It On series, Life's Little Treasure Book of Christmas Traditions makes the perfect gift or stocking stuffer for a special friend or can be given in place of the traditional greeting card.
Compiled from all three volumes of Life's Little Instruction Book and other books by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book: On Friendship is a perfect gift for a special friend or can be given in the place of a traditional greeting card.
These 14 small hardcover books compiled from the volumes of Life's Little Instruction Book make the perfect gift for a special friend or can be given in place of the traditional greeting card.
A spellbinding new novel of contraband masterpieces, tragic love, and the unexpected legacies of forgotten crimes, Ayelet Waldman’s Love and Treasure weaves a tale around the fascinating, true history of the Hungarian Gold Train in the Second World War. In 1945 on the outskirts of Salzburg, victorious American soldiers capture a train filled with unspeakable riches: piles of fine gold watches; mountains of fur coats; crates filled with wedding rings, silver picture frames, family heirlooms, and Shabbat candlesticks passed down through generations. Jack Wiseman, a tough, smart New York Jew, is the lieutenant charged with guarding this treasure—a responsibility that grows more complicated when he meets Ilona, a fierce, beautiful Hungarian who has lost everything in the ravages of the Holocaust. Seventy years later, amid the shadowy world of art dealers who profit off the sins of previous generations, Jack gives a necklace to his granddaughter, Natalie Stein, and charges her with searching for an unknown woman—a woman whose portrait and fate come to haunt Natalie, a woman whose secret may help Natalie to understand the guilt her grandfather will take to his grave and to find a way out of the mess she has made of her own life. A story of brilliantly drawn characters—a suave and shady art historian, a delusive and infatuated Freudian, a family of singing circus dwarfs fallen into the clutches of Josef Mengele, and desperate lovers facing choices that will tear them apart—Love and Treasure is Ayelet Waldman’s finest novel to date: a sad, funny, richly detailed work that poses hard questions about the value of precious things in a time when life itself has no value, and about the slenderest of chains that can bind us to the griefs and passions of the past. This eBook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.
"A few weeks after Dad passed away," says H. Jackson Brown, Jr., the compiler of A Father's Book of Wisdom, "we found eight shoeboxes in his closet filled with scraps of paper all covered with ideas Dad thought were profound, interesting, or merely amusing." The result is one father's view of life and what he thought about the importance of self-reliance, commitment, love, generosity, and success. It contains 159 quotes from Socrates, Eleanor Roosevelt, Andrew Jackson, Mother Teresa, and many others covering such topics as achievement,courage, happiness, parenting, success, and values. Quotations such as "If you're looking for a big opportunity, seek out a big problem" and "Life doesn't come with an instruction book - that's why we have fathers" communicate an upbeat, positive view of the world that will inspire and charm the reader. It is the perfect gift book for Father's Day, graduation, or any time of the year, and may even inspire you to jot down a few notes of your own.
A mother's love and gentleness are inexpressible, her loyalty unshakable, her influence eternal, and, as one nine-year-old said, "it's her job to nag." A mother has been called "an angel on earth," "the truest friend we have," and "the most precious of all good gifts." In this tribute to mothers, H. Jackson Brown, Jr. author of such bestsellers as Life's Little Instruction Book and Live and Learn and Pass It On, warms your heart with reflections on the tenderness, endurance, and majesty of a mother's love.
