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Joe L. Wheeler

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Joe Wheeler has been labeled many things: as Father Christmas because of his editing/compiling America’s longest-running Christmas of story series — Christmas in My Heart (now in its 18th season); as one of America’s leading story anthologists (56 story collections by twelve publishing houses); as the world’s foremost authority on life and times of the frontier writer Zane Grey (he is co-founder and executive director of the international Zane Grey’s West Society); as a biographer, having written full-length biographies of Abraham Lincoln and St. Nicholas and shorter biographies of Louisa May Alcott, Abbie Farwell Brown, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Gene Stratton Porter, Grace Richmond, Henryk Sienkiewicz, and Lew Wa...more

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THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL

BLOG #22, SERIES #3

WEDNESDAYS WITH DR. JOE

THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL

May 30, 2012

Roger Ebert’s review of this new British film doesn’t begin to do it justice:

Travel Comedy. 4 ½ stars. PG-13.

The hotel of the title is a retirement

destination in India for “the elderly

and beautiful.” It has seen better days,

and if you want to see what the better

days looked like, just examine...

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Books by Joe L. Wheeler

Average rating: 3.95 · 398 ratings · 61 reviews · 81 distinct works

	Abraham Lincoln, a Man of Faith and Courage: Stories of Our Most Admired President 4.32 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Christmas in My Heart 3.79 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1996 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Christmas in My Heart, Vol. 11 4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Christmas in My Heart A Second Treasury: More Heartwarming Tales of Holiday Joy 3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1997	My rating:
	Great Stories Remembered 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Christmas in My Heart: A Treasury of Timeless Christmas Stories 4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1997 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Christmas in My Heart: A Treasury of Timeless Christmas Stories 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2001	My rating:
	The Best of Christmas in My Heart 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Christmas in My Heart, A Third Treasury: Further Tales of Holiday Joy 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1998	My rating:
	Freckles 4.10 avg rating — 2,236 ratings — published 1904 — 84 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Joe L. Wheeler

“There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.”
― Joe L. Wheeler

tags: autumn , changing-seasons , life , nostalgia , seasons

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“Love may precede respect but it cannot survive the loss of it.”
― Joe L. Wheeler

tags: disillusionment , grief , loss , love

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“Time remorselessly rambles down the corridors and streets of our lives. but it is not until autumn that most of us become aware that our tickets are stamped with a terminal destination.”
― Joe L. Wheeler

tags: autumn , learning , life , life-lessons , time

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The History Book ...: * #16 (US) ABRAHAM LINCOLN (PRESIDENT) 1861 – 1865	120	193	Jan 08, 2012 12:03pm

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