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Windy McPherson’s Son by Sherwood Anderson
Windy McPherson’s Son is a 1916 novel by American author Sherwood Anderson. It was published by John Lane as part of a three book contract. Windy McPherson’s Son is Sherwood Anderson’s first novel.
Wings and Stings: A Tale for the Young by A. L. O. E.
The many bees include Sipsyrup who is vain, and Honeyball who is lazy. They argue and complain, and their behavior yielded unfortunate results. There is another story happening outside the beehive: the young girl Polly whose vanity about her clothes leads to the mysterious disappearance of Johnny, her brother.
Winners’ Podium
“The book offers elaborate guidelines for a balanced, successful and happy living. It tells how one can find his talent, attract ideas and be successful, both personally and professionally. It also talks of happiness and the steps to it. In fewer words, it’s a wholesome book dealing with all the aspects of success. Just as a winning podium can accommodate anyone on it, each one of us is capable to be a winner, irrespective of our shortcomings and differences. Winners’ Podium – Everyone Fits on it, attempts to do just that: make out a winner amongst each one of us.
This book offers elaborate guidelines for a balanced, successful and happy living. It tells how one can find his talent, attract ideas and be successful, both personally and professionally. It also talks of happiness and the steps to it. In fewer words, it’s a wholesome book dealing with all the aspects of success.
Through stories, anecdotes, quotations, examples and day to day observations, this book can inspire you to not only attain that most desirable success, but also to hold on and grow both internally and externally with it. In total, it assures you a more balanced, fulfilled and an enriching life.
Winning Despite All Odds by Gaurv Krishna Bansal
In this book the author has addressed those issues, which are common to almost all youth who are trying to achieve success in their lives.
The book is divided into three parts. The first part discusses issues like getting a basic understanding of the phenomenon of ‘success’and dealing with challenges like lack of money, lack of coaching, lack of a ‘family background’, inability to concentrate, getting jilted in love etc. The second part, from which the title of this book originates, illustrates through very concise and pointed parts of the histories of three nations, the USA, Germany and Japan; all three in the backdrop of World War II; and through brief biographies of some famous personalities like Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Hawking, Lai Bahadur Shastri, Thomas Alva Edison etc; how determined and untiring effort with a ‘never say die’ attitude can lead a person to greatness despite all odds.
The third part of the book, with the sub-title The Ugly Duckling’, is author’s own story. All in all a very useful self help book for those in search of success and motivation.
Winning his Wings by Percy F. Westerman
The cry, taken up by a score of youthful voices, echoed and re-echoed along the concrete-paved corridors of the Averleigh T.D.S.—such being the official designation of the Training and Disciplinary School—one of those mushroom-growth establishments that bid fair to blossom into permanent instruction schools under the aegis of the juvenile but virile Royal Air Force.
Winter India by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore
Winter India is a very good travel-book of the lighter kind. It is the work of an experienced traveler and writer of travels, a book of the pleasant, fluent, chattering variety, written frankly from the tourist’s point of view. The author cares little for foreigners, and less for foreign problems; she simply likes to see things, and is clever in describing them. A good illustration of her style, which is always animated and often amusing, is afforded by the account of her first impression of Nautch dancing….