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...her even a single word, though she continued to send me signals for initiating a dialogue with her. I had to go to fetch my daily quota of water from the water-tap, provided at the back of her tenement, for all the four segments, in the vicinity. Almost every time, we had to place our buckets or utensils, in a queue, while waiting for our turn. Being shy of passing through...

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...The Chancery Court had jurisdiction over all matters of equity, including administration of estates, the guardianship of orphans, and disputed property disbursement. In Dickens’ time, some cases could take years to be settled...

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... --Steven Sills "So he spoke, and the bright-eyed goddess, Athene, was pleased that she was the god he prayed... ... goddess, Athene, was pleased that she was the god he prayed to before all the others. She put strength in his shoulders and knees, and set in his he... ...others. She put strength in his shoulders and knees, and set in his heart the daring of a mosquito, which, though constantly brushed away from a man'... ...constantly brushed away from a man's skin, still insists on biting him for the pleasure of human blood." --The Iliad Homer ... ... They, with their driver, went down Ramkhamhaeng Road singularly in the scope of their thoughts but conditioned into repudiating their alonenes... ...many things. I want to know about you boys." "You are a bit like our guardian, aren't you.." "Yes, if that is what you need-- a surrogate u... ...d lit incense that would carry to the gods their wishes. She had been his guardian spirit in a sanphraphun of those glasses and yet she had abandoned... ...nd recuperation in his cell, it had been the irony of the fetid one as his guardian angel. If the fetid one had not stepped in nothing would have int...

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...In The Love Divine, Wright's unparalleled poetic power will provide the reader with new love stories that delve into the heart of his immortal beloved, revealing the mysteries behind this spiritual journey to the ultimate destin...

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...d in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publishers, except by a reviewer who ma... ...LISHED BY PUBLISHAMERICA, LLLP www.publishamerica.com Baltimore Printed in the United States of America Table of Contents The 10 Journeys 5 Love Let... ...ed States of America Table of Contents The 10 Journeys 5 Love Letters 38 The 13 Paths 47 My Dearly Beloved 53 5 Journey I Upon this journey of lo... ...y, I stand defenseless against his immortal bow string once again. And all the golden arrows that have pierced me through, so swiftly to complete thei... ...en arrows that have pierced me through, so swiftly to complete their path. The eternal portal of heaven has opened and let me in, where I saw her nobl... ...s one by one from heaven with their beautiful bright eyes, they act as our guardians of love, angels in disguise, spirits within our hearts. So lovely...

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...reft...Can this thoroughly mismatched couple find comfort and vindication in each other's arms? More importantly, can Kane and Therese's love survive the ancient vendetta of one unforgiving and powerful demon djinni? Find out that anything is possible when a devout mystical being from the old world joins forces with an urban-reared spitfire from the new? (http://www.gracie...

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...om Copyright ©2001 by Gracie C. McKeever NOTICE: This eBook is licensed to the original purchaser only. Duplication or distribution to any person via ... ...any other means is a violation of International copyright law and subjects the violator to severe fines and/or imprisonment. This notice overrides the... ...insula, Rub al-Khali—18th Century "Allah has forsaken you, Kane." He heard the husky declaration as if from a great distance, glared at the sensual or... ...istake too late, Kane." Desert Dreams by Gracie C. McKeever 4 She uttered the words with such smooth elegance, his name rolling from her lips with tr... ...rous familiarity, that it was easy for him to believe he had been moved by the sound so many times in the past, warmed to distraction by its promise. ... ...ned her elbows on it as she glared at Kane. "The literal meaning is 'legal guardian'. It is also a title of respect for someone who looks out for your...

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...In a world torn apart by a ruthless dictator, humanity is enslaved and on the verge of extinction. The governments have fallen. The cities lie in ruin. The only hope is a man who has been in exile for over a year....

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...ecording, taping, or by any information storage retrieval system, without the permission, in writing, from the publisher. Eloquent Books An imprint o... ...ham CT 06422 www.StrategicBookGroup.com ISBN: 978-1-60911-286-8 Printed in the United States of America Book Design: Rolando F. Santos This book is d... ... Without all of you, this wouldn’t have been possible. Thank you all from the botom of my heart. v Prologue F or years, people talked about variou... ... my heart. v Prologue F or years, people talked about various ways that the world would end - plague, foods, sunbursts, nuclear war, the Wrath of... ... plague, foods, sunbursts, nuclear war, the Wrath of God, amongst others. The truth is, the world didn’t end; it changed. Like the many signifcant c... ...nd took out Seekers who were close to him. He knew Lexi was acting as his guardian angel. The anti-tank and anti-aircraf rockets in the arsenals on ...

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...For 12,000 years a dark and deadly secret has been hidden deep below the Great Sphinx of Giza. In present day Egypt, a frightening, yet awe-inspiring story unravels as archaeologists race against time to decipher an ancient truth? A deep probing mystery riddled with prophecy and danger, Secret...

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...r know Short-shorts and short stories M’tisunge Michael Phoya M.M. Phoya asserts the moral right to b... ...elen Mpulula (my late grand mother) ‘Your deep affection Made my infant years priceless. In your beautiful eyes I first saw the big yellow sun ... ... mightily over the scattered cotton fields. My birth.’ 4 Contents 1. Life! 2. The lesson 3. Bur... ...ges 4. One more flute song 5. Bared souls 6. Swimming upstream 7. Lawyers in heaven? 8. One sad sordid tale 9. The good Samaritan ... .... A tale from Sasani 15. Dying in time 16. Evanescent ones 17. Like coming home 18. Words etc 19. Words etc (The return to innoce... ...t like that, he vanishes. It occurs to me right there that not only is he the voice that snapped inside me, but he is also my guardian angel. This...

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...When French equestrian Claire Delacroix loses her fiance in a tragic accident, she comes to live at the Paris Opera during its 1890s heyday. Whilst working at the opera, she meets a mysterious, masked stranger: Erik. Is it possible that the two of them will heal the pain of each other's past? Buy the the paper back at Turne...

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...s Note This is a work of fiction. While historical persons do appear within the text, all events are of my own imagination. During the 19th century,... ...l events are of my own imagination. During the 19th century, and for nearly the first half of the 20th century, French women were not allowed to vot... ...roper society.” Everyone I have spoken to has his or her own vision of Erik, the Phantom of the Opera. My vision is an amalgam of persons known to a... ... Chapter 1 Paris, France March, 1889 “Who did this to her?” My eyes scanned the silent faces of the stable hands as I laid my hand on Josephine’s st... ...e stable hands as I laid my hand on Josephine’s steaming neck, listening to the black mare suck hard to get a breath of air. Her knees were bloody. ... ...e with him and his riding troupe, because my father had appointed him as my guardian unless and until I married. He still controls the income from ... ...rateful for the black weeds that held off potential suitors. I had no male guardian, and so was considered ripe spoils for the taking. It seemed ...

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...What was in Hitler's personal file kept by the Nazi Party's own intelligence agency, the SD? Israel Sarid Roth, only son of two survivors of the Holocaust is about to find out, as a routine assignment in Jerusalem plunges him into the center of a deadly nightmare....

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...7 All Rights Reserved Based on hundreds of newly-discovered documents in archives the world over – now … THE HITLER FILE Israel Sarid Roth is... ... – now … THE HITLER FILE Israel Sarid Roth is the only son of two survivors of the Holocaust. When his boss at the Genocide Monitoring Group se... ...e Monitoring Group sends him to Israel on a routine assignment, he finds himself at the deadly center of a nightmare. • What is on the floppy disk... ... • What is on the floppy disk he picked up in Jerusalem? • Who is Frankenberg, the investigative journalist and how did he track down the fears... ...the investigative journalist and how did he track down the fearsome former Chief of the Nazi Gestapo, Heinrich Mueller, long thought dead? • Why ... ...s threats. Chapter the Ninth Himmler Learns the Truth Himmler motions to the guardian shadow behind my seat: “I want to be left alone with He...

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A second volume of short stories and poetry translated from the Hebrew.

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...adic fits of sleep and wakeful spans of dull, hypnagogic thoughts matching the inertia of his confinement he would finally become ensconced there, in ... ...in jostling him around, and at last fall asleep. This was his hope; but in the meantime there was a languid battle with insomnia and inordinate time t... ...me that he, from his "exalted tomb," disdainfully sullied. A god watching the cookie wrappers that he was emptying into his mouth from the upper coff... ... he was emptying into his mouth from the upper coffin glided downward like the leaves of a deciduous tree; he was remembering happier times and in thi... ... remembering happier times and in this confined space it was taking him to the edge of madness. It seemed to him that society lied about it all: mothe... ...mself into the Buddhist myths of his culture. Ubiquitous superstition, the guardian against creepy crawling memories, came upon him. He said a bit of ... ...st not in Buddha's Buddhism), no netherworld of heavenly creatures, and no guardian Seraphs and cherubs--only the deadening of desire, in the soft str...

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Excerpt: The Red Inn by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...Excerpt: I lay ill through several weeks, and the usual tenor of my life became like an old remembrance. But this was not the effect of time so much as of the change in all my habits made by the helplessness and inaction of a sick-room. Before I had been confined to it m...

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...s Thirty five through Sixty seven by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ..., for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...te University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Ble... ... Containing Chapters Thirty five through Sixty seven by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series , Jim Manis,... ... room too, but what I had to bear was none the harder to bear for that. My guardian had throughout been earnest to visit me, and there was now no good... ...n. Such an inflexible little woman, too, through all!” “Only for the best, guardian,” said I. “For the best?” he repeated tenderly. “Of course, for th... ...!” Bleak House – Volume Two 7 “He thinks he could, my love,” returned my guardian, “and to many a better. The truth is, he wrote to me under a sort ... ...in it, I believe it would change their nature.” “It has not changed yours, guardian.” “Oh, yes, it has, my dear,” he said laughingly. “It has made the...