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The ADVERTISEMENT on a local real estate marquee caught my eye: "Lake-front home, gentle to the water. " I wasn't in the market for a new home, but that sweet phrase, "gentle to the water," which referred to a gentle slope from house to lake, rather than a sudden drop-off, spoke to me.

My SON WAS a happy ten-year-old boy. But at one point I began to notice that his mood was changing.

I found out about Christian Science when I was in university. I earned an undergraduate degree in music and education, and then studied French language and culture in Quebec City.

I DON'T KNOW that anything can prepare anybody for the shock that comes with the sudden passing of a loved one. When we were notified that our youngest son had been killed in a hit-and-run accident, the shock was stunning.

After graduate school I hit a wall. It was like I was trapped in a dense fog.

Reading Rooms play a central role in meeting the demand for Science and Health. "People who come to the Reading Room are on a search," says Christina Welton, a Reading Room librarian in Los Angeles, California.

October 24, 1880, to Ellen L. Clark: "I am delighted to hear you say the book feeds you.

Looking back Concord, New Hampshire, Summer 1890. She had come a long way from those hungry years in Lynn, Massachusetts, in the 1860s and 1870s.

"If you need a title to have people follow, you're not really a leader," my boss said. I was a young businesswoman struggling to carve a place in an all-male environment.

Rudolph Giuliani, mayor of New York City from 1994-2001, was thrust onto the world stage on September 11, 2001, in the wake of the attaccks on the World Trade Center. In Leadership, he describes how the lessons of his premayoral career and the everyday trials of running New York prepared him to confront this crisis.