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Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin's Book of Virtues
9781429093552
Regular price $12.95 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Discover Benjamin Franklin's Blueprint for Living a Moral Life
This pocket-sized hardcover edition contains all thirteen moral virtues as Benjamin Franklin wrote them in his memoirs, first posthumously published in 1791. In the heart of this larger work, today known as The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, he writes of the bold and arduous project of arriving at perfection that he set for himself as a young man. In this task of perfection, young Franklin prepared a catalog of thirteen necessary or desirable virtues that he might strive to acquire by means of habit and daily practice. This edition also includes a chart that Franklin used to track his personal progress.
George E. Pessotti
Reason for Living
9781557090522
Regular price $21.95 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%A life can change in an instant. That's the lesson George Pessotti brings home to readers in this inspiring, gripping true-life story of the fire that nearly killed him. The fire altered nearly every aspect of his life, including his already shaky marriage. George's odds of survival were tiny, but he fought back with the same determination that had made him a superstar salesman. With courage and candor laced with unflagging good humor, George Pessotti takes readers deep inside life in a hospital burn unit. There, people struggle not just to cheat death but also to come to grips with new realities. Ultimately, this is much more than a story of courage and survival. It is a love story, told in an unusually frank and heart-warming manner. Nearly robbed of his life, George found his reason for living when found the love of his life.
