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Excerpt: "American tourists, sure appreciators of all that is ancient and picturesque in England, invariably come to a halt, holding their breath in a sudden catch of wonder, as they pass through the half-ruinous gateway which admits to the Close of Wrychester. Nowhere else in England is there a fairer prospect of old-world peace. There before their eyes, set in the center of a great green sward, fringed by tall elms and giant beeches, rises the vast...
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Cassandra Haslam loves plans. Lunch plans, wedding plans, and floor plans-they all bring her joy. In fact, she's had her entire life planned out-career, marriage, and family-since age ten. She's smart, hard-working, and a real go-getter, and everything has fallen into place so far.Until her husband dies suddenly, right when she's about to enjoy the fruits of all of her hard work and planning, leaving Cass reeling and...well, without a plan.When her...
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Song of Albion volume 1
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"When I opened my eyes, I was no longer in the world I knew." Lewis Gillies is an American graduate student in Oxford who should be getting on with his life. Yet for some reason, he finds himself speeding north with his roommate Simon on a lark--half-heartedly searching for a long-extinct creature allegedly spotted in a misty glen in Scotland. Expecting little more than a weekend diversion, Lewis accidently crosses through a mystical gateway where...
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In a galactic culture that extends from quasi-utopian worlds like New Alexandria to the vermin-infested slums of Old Earth, the Star-Pilots are the great heroes of the day, and Grainger has become a legend in his own time. Pharos is paradise-or so it appears. But the champions of commerce want to package and sell the planet, and the conservationists want to stop them. Grainger's employer, Titus Charlot, is enlisted to negotiate a settlement, but the...
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While working to restore an historic theatre in a seedy part of the city, a graduate student named Anthea searches to find her best friend, lost to the rhetoric of an itinerant street mystic. Almost a century earlier, Liam, a tenth-rate tenor, visits the same theatre while eking out a career on the dying Vaudeville circuits of the day. In both eras, an apocalyptic strain of mysticism threatens their existence: Anthea contends with a nascent New Age...
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This short story was written before the virus that changed the world forever, I'm sure there will be, many books written on the subject, being confined by the virus reminded me of my story. We never know what lies around the corner in life but we all must try to survive, and we will God willing
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Steve Elliott and Danny Ortega, two unlucky men incarcerated in a South Texas prison, plan to escape and start life anew. Getting out was the easy part; after that, the hapless pair face obstacles they didn't envision while sitting in their cells. After enlisting the help of Danny's younger brother Ray, they head for Mexico, where they hope to make their way to California undetected by U. S. authorities. The moment they cross the border, their real...
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About the book:How Calcu becomes Calcu Z with a new power in game world with the light magic of fairy? And helps the fairy to win the fight with witches and thieves of the city of the planet earth. the story as:- If you love paradise then you must exist your heart. For every paradise was locked with the name of many fairies. They live and celebrate in paradise. For fairy paradise was a good place to live. There were many creatures live in paradise...
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What if we reincarnate over and over, until we learn the lessons that allow us to evolve spiritually? What if, instead of reincarnating individually, we reincarnate with the same group of souls again and again? What if the greatest hero of all time, Gilgamesh, king of Uruk in ancient Sumer, reincarnated into our current age of drug cartels and corrupt governments? Gilgamesh was both loved and hated by his subjects-loved for his good works, and hated...
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The charismatic Barry Kant hosts a TV reality show in which contestants who have suffered horrific events in their lives share their stories. A ravenous and voyeuristic audience votes for the one who's suffered the worst life experience, the winner receiving the grand prize of $100,000. Increasingly jaded and still grieving the loss of his beloved wife, Kant meets a new woman whom he believes he can allow himself to love. But after only a few days...
12) The Paradise Key
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Amusement parks are supposed to be about fun and entertainment . . .
. . . not death.
A marine biology and science-themed park is scheduled to open later this year. But there seems to be something sinister going on beneath the surface.
OceanTech's Paradisum is a cutting-edge operation, and they are hoping to capitalize on the growing trend of education-based vacation destinations. The park's CEO, Adrian Crawford, has spent his entire professional...
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All sirens must earn their place on Paradise. Even those born there....
In 2132 AD, 15-year-old Kassiana's life was royalty. Born on Nemal, the richest of the Paradise Planets, she had no idea how the people of Earth–the Gaians–suffered. But her idyllic and harmonious life was shattered when she was forcefully kidnapped and taken to live among them on a flooded Earth.
After a near-fatal assault leaves Kassi without a voice–a siren's source...
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Learning of a horrifying family crime from his grandfather, journalist Ezra Stevenson tries to verify the story by tracking down four brothers and sisters, alleged victims of abuse. "Full of death and suffering, the novel exhilarates rather than depresses, its stark dourness vivifying rather than dulling the reading appetite," concluded PW. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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A powerful story of hope, love, and imagination, set against the horrific backdrop of the Holocaust. Two Jewish girls, Julia and Suzanne, are captured in Nazi-occupied Netherlands and transported to a ghetto. Although their world views are wildly different-Julia is jaded and bitter, Suzanne naive and optimistic-they become each other's closest confidants as they experience the horrors of the journey to 'The Paradise Ghetto'. The young women use a...
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A fun trip to the so-called "Hell". This is a short "heretic" text - but with infinite lines - to make the mind of those who read it think, see the contradictions, the mental emptiness, the philosophical stagnation before our presence in the Universe, the irrational consumption of prefabricated ideas, the imposition of ridiculous dogmas and the misrepresentation of the Churches. Atheist and acidic humor... Illustrated with scenes from God's Hell on...
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