A World of Ways to Say “I Do” : Unique Vows, Readings, and Poems to Make Your Wedding Day Your Own

From the Back Cover

Your wedding vows are likely to be the most transformative words that will ever cross your lips. These brief utterances not only provide the cornerstone of your ceremony but mark the beginning of your lifelong journey together. You want them to be profound yet personal, unique but universal. When the moment comes to profess eternal love, commitment, and friendship to your beloved, how will you choose to express it?

To help you personalize vows that you will proudly share on your special day and remember fondly for years to come, A World of Ways to Say “I Do” offers a wide assortment of conventional and unconventional cultural and religious traditions, customs, poems, readings, and vows to inspire you. Discover how others from around the globe and across time have chosen to pledge their lifelong love and celebrate their marital unions, as well as tips on how to:

• Draft your own “I dos”–Craft original vows that express all your feelings, dreams, and love for one another succinctly and eloquently
• Adapt traditional religious vows–Rework faith-based pledges of commitment–from Catholic to Celtic to Quaker and beyond–so that they reflect your own perspective on love and marriage
• Find unique readings–Get away from traditional excerpts and instead use more memorable texts, such as an inspirational Apache wedding blessing or a 3,000-year-old Egyptian love poem.
• Spice up the ceremony with wise and witty proverbs–Add a bit of wisdom from Europe, Africa, Asia, or the Americas.
• Cement your commitment symbolically–Include an unexpected tradition, such as the tasting of sweetened milk (Morocco) or presenting the bride with thirteen coins (Mexico).

Whether you’re planning an interfaith, second, secular, or May-December wedding, or you just want to tweak tradition to suit your style, this lovely volume will help you create a ceremony that is timeless, tender, and true to the two of you.

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Quotations for All Occasions

Review

“A source of bon mots for every eventuality, a catalogue of smart things to come out with at anything from a bar mitzvah to a burial.” — Peter Reading, Times Literary Supplement

“Do librarians and readers need another quotation dictionary when a large number of excellent titles are already available? In this case, the answer is a resounding ‘yes.’ This lively compilation organizes quotations under three major headings: ‘Every Year’ (Passover, Labor Day, spring), ‘Occasionally’ (falling in love, taking exams, becoming a parent), and ‘Once in a Lifetime’ (turning 16, first home, first baby)….Entries supply not only the name of the writer/speaker, but the full title of the source and often a reference to the specific chapter from which the quote is taken. In many cases the compiler has attached a helpful note to explain context (e.g., when F. Scott Fitzgerald says ‘I like large parties. They’re so intimate,’ we learn that the words were spoken by Jordan Baker, ‘a bored socialite,’ in chapter 3 of The Great Gatsby). A source index adds to the book’s utility.” — Choice

” Quotations for All Occasions is organized for ease of use….The collection of quotations can be recommended for a broad audience. It is also an excellent gift for someone that likes to compose a moving statement or to spice up a speech.” — Svetlana Korolev, American Reference Books Annual

“A unique title….All public and academic libraries will want to purchase Frank’s work because of the niche it fills in the vast array of available quotation dictionaries.” — Library Journal

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The Amazing Book of Useless Information

From the creators of the #1 New York Times,/I> bestseller The Book of Useless Information comes another fun, foolhardy and completely frivolous, fact-filled book.

The Useless Information Society’s latest collection, The Amazing Book of Useless Information, will answer questions readers never even knew they had. From space travel to the history of jelly beans, this wideranging, brain-teasing, and altogether useless book will give readers information to out-trivialize even their cleverest of companions. Features such fascinating facts as:

• There is a town in West Virginia called Looneyville

• Women can talk with less effort than men

• Lemons have more sugar than oranges And answers to these life-changing questions:

• What was the Ancient Roman cure for a stomachache?

• What is a “buckle bunny”?

• Where is the coldest place in the universe?

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“They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions”

Abraham Lincoln never said, “You cannot fool all the people all the time.” Thomas Jefferson never said, “That government is best which governs least.” And Horace Greeley never said, “Go west, young man.” In They Never Said It, Paul F. Boller, Jr. and John George examine hundreds of misquotations, incorrect attributions, and blatant fabrications, outlining the origins of the quotes and revealing why we should consign them to the historical trashcan.
Many of the misquotes are quite harmless. Some are inadvertent misquotes that have become popular (Shakespeare actually said, “The best part of valor is discretion”), others, the inventions of reporters embellishing a story (Franklin Roosevelt never opened a speech to a DAR group with thesalutation, “My fellow immigrants”). But some of the quotes, such as Charles Darwin’s supposed deathbed recantation of evolution, falsify the historical record with their blatant dishonesty. And other chillingly vicious ones, filled with virulent racial and religious prejudices, completely distortthe views of the person supposedly quoted and spread distrust and hatred among the gullible. These include the forged remarks attributed to Benjamin Franklin that Jews should be excluded from America and the fabricated condemnation of Catholics attributed to Lincoln.

An entertaining and thought-provoking book, They Never Said It covers a great deal of history and sets it right. Going beyond a mere catalog of popular misconceptions, Boller and George reveal how rightists and leftists, and atheists and evangelists all have at times twisted and even inventedthe words of eminent figures to promote their own ends. The ultimate debunking reference, it perfectly complements handbooks of quotations.

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