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Happiness in Hard Times

by Andrew Matthews · 2009

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Filled with inspiring stories of people who have lost everything they had or almost been beaten by alcohol, illness, abuse or outrageous misfortune, this book shows how we too can find our way through the pain to the contentment that seems out of reach.

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adult
Length
short · 160 pages

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