In this charming memoir, one woman proves how the devastating diagnosis of cancer turned out to be her new leash on life. Teresa Rhyne was excited to begin her new life with her new man...and a new dog? As luck would have it, the unruly beagle Seamus found his way into her home just when they needed each other most.
"When You Can Walk on Water, Take the Boat" is a triumphant journey of self-discovery that will change the very way you look at the world. Like most of us, John was an ordinary man who calmly accepted the problems of his life and career without any real hope or insight. Then a miracle happened. He met a strange, wise businessman named Gideon.
H. L. Mencken published his fourth (and final) edition of his landmark work in April 1936. While it is a treatise on the development of American-English, it is also fascinating and exhibits Mencken's well-known wit and humor.
George Mikes has written many successful books on a variety of interesting subjects, but one so successful as those on the subject most central to his own experience: his adopted country. The first of these came out in 1946: the ever famous "How to be an Alien". Later he enlarges the picture with "How to be Inimitable" and "How to be Decadent". All three books were illustrated by the master of the cartoonists' art, the late Nicolas Bentley. Here they are, all in one volume, which will make life much easier for today's would-be Brits than it was for those who pervaded them.
