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...Her published novels include, The Blue Flame, The Emerald Dagger, and The Silver Angel, the first three fantasy novels in her Daradawn series. She has also co-authored, Shadow Worlds, a science fiction suspense work with Darrell Bain, and Stargazer's Children, a speculative fiction novel....

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...s, to overcome Dirkk, the exiled ex-Baron of Cornith, and his evil. Regan at first thinks he’s insane and asks him to leave. He tells her he is Peter ... ...ves in Daradawn, a land where magic, both good and evil, surrounds them. The first night in Daradawn, Regan tests her own latent power, only to have i... ...ya, a city asleep beneath a black spell. A great battle rages but, with the aid of Peter and Regan’s magic, Raya is saved. But the cost is high, for ... ...id. “It depends on what will be asked of it. For what I desire, yes, it must first drink of a mortal’s blood.” He pointed with the dagger’s tip toward... ...“What is happening?” Talix cried. “Watch,” Dirkk ordered. The fairie’s torso first lengthened and broadened, followed by the arms and the legs. The n... ...e proposal. Duncan was a journalist, perfect for her in every way. From the first time they’d worked together, there were sparks between them. Her ph... ...kered, but still remained a blue ember. He needed Regan, but feared even her aid would not be enough this time. “Why are you not with Regan?” “She had... ... farmer begrudged the livestock hunted from their fields, for without Zara’s aid there would have been no farms or livestock to be taken. Too bad the ... ...,” Angus said. “She and Ben travel Daradawn and heal the ailing. Without her aid, Regan would not have survived the birthing of her son.” Chill bumps ...

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...r. He should have listened and gotten out of the life sooner, when Nev had first started warning him about the dangers. But now it was too late, Kelly... ...aying bullets from the back and front seats. Kelly had gone down under the first deluge. Ben had barreled down the stairs to drag Amire out of harm's ... ...—" Tyler stopped his tirade too late, sorry he'd gotten on the roll in the first place, but he'd been powerless to check himself before the wrong word... ...nything and everything to pay off a debt he had not wanted to incur in the first place. Kelly stood in the middle of the living room where Tyler had l... ...as he had put it. Kelly gaped, feeling like a newly released ex-con on his first day on the outside. He felt displaced and disoriented by the expansiv... ... her husband, for help to get out of a jam. This Dagny would only seek out aid under duress and if there was no other way. Tyler didn't know what all ... ...repared meal of tuna and crackers and gulping down extra sweet cherry Kool-Aid before diving back into bed and each other for a second round. After th...

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...ost nose-to-nose with the youth. Jackson’s face dropped. This was not the first time Chris had warned the boy for teasing her son, but he knew it wa... ...er to school the next day for show and tell. It was the third week of the first term and she wanted the 6 entire class to know of her mother’s hero... ...y. “I’m sick of this!” Kelly brushed back her brown fringe, revealing the first signs of every teenager’s worst fears, pimples. “I’m going to eat in ... ...er the next hour, they would eat their meals or wear them, whichever came first. Pounding on the bathroom door, Kelly yelled. She could give as good... ...nown enemy she would have to work on. “I just wish you had of talked to me first.” Chris kept a low tone, in hope of gaining information. “We have di... ...or, let alone social security forms. You didn’t even tell her about legal aid or any of her rights!” “Listen here Rick…” Paul slurred. “No you listen... ...the same manner that she once had. Fearing for his safety, she ran to his aid. Recalling the incident and Rick’s handling of the situation prompted ...

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...full of partridge, strap, T om pipes, and Sancho Panza; but I know that my first impressions of them were picked up at that time, and that they were s... ...t that useful article of plate in his mouth, Mr Godfrey Nickleby could, at first, scarcely believe the tidings thus conveyed to him. On examination, h... ...ion is a round game; the players see little or noth- ing of their cards at first starting; gains may be great—and so may losses. The run of luck went ... ...t has gone down in the world, and taken to let- ting lodgings. Many of its first and second floors are let, fur- nished, to single gentlemen; and it t... ...roken bottles, and such-like rubbish, may be thrown there, when the tenant first moves in, but nothing more; and there they remain until he goes away ... ... replied Nicholas, with the same humane in- tention, ‘and I would help and aid you, and not bring fresh sorrow on you as I have done here.’ The boy ca... ...n the rear—moved not, hand or foot; but Mrs Squeers, with many shrieks for aid, hung on to the tail of her partner’s coat, and endeavoured to drag him... ...being compelled, for one night, to cast myself upon your slender means for aid and shelter.’ Newman did not look the less distressed to hear Nicholas ... ...t have hoped to receive from one so much her senior something like womanly aid and sympathy? I do not—I cannot believe it!’ If poor Kate had possessed...

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... fellowship with them who would not be guilty of it; and therefore, by the aid of his reflections and a remainder of the impetus, Mr. Patrick O’Donnel... ...o, ‘So, sir! I am glad to see you,’ said swimmingly that Earlsfont was the first house he had visited in this country: and the scenery reminded him of... ...hat as well; so, as is the way with the livelier races, whether they seize first or second the matter or the spirit of what they hear, the vivid indul... ... He remonstrated with them, assuring them, as one who knew, that a woman’s first duty is her duty to her lover; her parents are her second thought. He... ...ned, ‘If you’d have the goodness to kindle his enthusiasm, he’d be for the first person plural, with his cap in the air,’ said Patrick. ‘I detest enth... ...time passed before she perceived that though he responded naturally to her first sly attacks, his gross exaggerations upon them had not been the trium... ...cold in her bed. The thing called circulation’s unknown to her save by the aid of outward application, and I ‘m the warming pan, as legiti- mately I s... ...ure. The cares of nursing were Jane’s almost undividedly, ex- cept for the aid she had from her friend Grace Barrow and from Miss Colesworth. Mrs. Adi...

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...Snakelex is a first class demon on assignment to a small country town in Australia. Spiritual warfar.. Snakelex is a first class demon on assignment to a small country town in Australia. Spiritual warfare will be battled out between good a...

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...favour, as he did the entire Earth. He sent demons to lie in wait for the first settlers to arrive in the district. Their mission was to be mischiev... ...es enabled him to perfect an admirable sucking technique, earning him his first master’s degree. Familiar was Snakelex’s expression of pleasure when... ...comprehend why a demon in Shutenhog’s position had been sent there in the first place. The town was considered nothing more than a sleepy hollow for... ... unison they laughed. “The ark assignment!” The ark assignment was not the first for these mature angels. They were two amongst many angelic beings s... ...e tree and making a rude finger gesture at his enemies. 10 CHAPTER 2 The first human dwelling Snakelex came across was a large, Victorian, two- stor... ...to remain in the main hall. On that particular morning, Stella listed the aid of teenagers. Sibling rivalry broke out; Stella had to do the miraculo... ... the light; unfortunately, it was in the shape of a dollar sign. With the aid of a Bible, a five-finger discount from a drawer in a pub room, church ... ...eacons were congratulated. A third member was nominated. With his hearing aid turned down, the elderly Jim Spikes accepted the position, assuming he... ... from? Edward thought disgruntled and watched Norma race up the stairs to aid Anne, who was coming around. “How did it feel?” Norma helped Anne sit u...

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...Morgan Gable first falls for Daniel Connolly, a popular Irish tenor, when she hears him sing. Starstruck, she is consumed by thoughts of love with the handsome troubadour. Real life intrudes and Morgan must put aside her own dreams for aw...

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...s trousers would be nothing compared to failing to present the long-awaited, first midwest appearance of the world-renowned tenor. “Get up, get up... ...ame country with a mere handful o’ men. And you’ll remember, Carew was the first to bolt with Flynn tailin’ close behind.” Barbara Scott 10 On... ..., searching. Actress Helene Bennett Among Victims. She’d found the first tiny article on a back page corner of the Times. The only mention ... ...last Christmas. She had hidden them away when Rupert opened Camilla’s gift first, also gloves. Soft and fine, these gloves were feather light, a pe... .... What if Daniel were sleeping and she woke him? What if he had found the first moment of peace since the fire and she disrupted it? Before the ec... ...e. Vife dead.” Too proud to breach Lydia’s closed door to enlist her aid with introductions and the procurement of a meal, Morgan gave up. D...

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...lves and this time it was Barbara’s turn to groan. Marcia bent and sucked tentatively at Robert’s still flaccid penis. He had the feeling it was her first time. He wanted to smash his fist into her head and run away as fast as he could. He hated the feel of her hot wetness, the smell, her slimy tongue pushing into his mouth, the soggy sucking on his cock. Her demands for ...

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...ng in an a cappella octet, under the direction of composer Ruth. It is my first public performance in 14 years. Three people away from me on the stag... ...n that needs to be considered, though. What does it mean to "be a writer"? First of all, I'm figuring out that it had best be a very spiritual thing, ... ...I was a little girl, I attended Trinity Lutheran Church in Gresham, OR. I first met the senior pastor, Pastor Rudy, when I was hospitalized after a ... ... so I wouldn't have to run around looking for Aunt Jan. I was so proud the first time I realized that I knew the service by heart and didn't have to ... ... the Jesus I heard "real Christians" talk about. It was November 2008 the first time I heard Rev. Mike speak. By that time, I had been working on m...

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... Lack of capacity of local/regional logistics sub-providers”. Results were first presented at the “Seminar on Enhancing the Capacity of APEC Local/Re... ...Results Measuring Government Support in APEC Economies In our survey, we first asked government respondents how well they believed their respective ... ...were being utilized by each economy to support the logistics industry. We first identified the relative usage of each policy type in the APEC region... ...etween modern and traditional logistics lies in the use of IT processes to aid the business of moving goods. We began our inquiry into the level of m... ...he region. In understanding the degree of modernization in the region, we first investigated the prevalence of web based IT systems to facilitate lo... ...ipants as well. There were several suggestions made during the seminar as first steps to resolving the issue: 100% 54% 46% 40% 46% 42% 54% 50% 0% ... ...y on, there have been numerous policies implemented in the APEC region to aid the SME logistics service provider. However we continue to see respond... ...ommonplace 5.4 Is there a website or electronic platform(s) available to aid/manage SME logistics provider operations? Yes / No 5.4.1 If Yes, Ple...

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... cakes! Knowledge is a right of the people. United States Constitution - The First Amendment "...no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the ... ...glish: Johnson! We don't want just do your best. We want you be best. You “ first in family to go college. You need make us proud. Asians here in Ame... ... been forced to — suffer countless hours of after-school SAT classes is the first of what I call my Asian Pride — Theorems, starting with money, the... ..., Thai, etc. and all the reasons — — why Asians do the things that they do. First, Asians are obsessed with money and will do anything to get it. Se... ...minorities, not Caucasian. And as everyone knows, Native Americans were here first when they massively outnumbered early European settlers, so techni... ... the name, Sugar Lee, so it sounds like sugary, then she can be put in Kool-Aid or chocolate cake. And with a name like Honey, she may as well be a ... ...respect to younger people, dead or alive. The white armbands act as a visual aid, a reminder to put the young ones in their place. Moreover, Asian fu...

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...s Second Edition Published by the Author York, Western Australia 2006 The first edition of this book was published under the title The Mystical Choru... ...t mute in my chair, for I had had no encounter. I nursed a small hope that first communion would bring about the longed for experience, but it passed ... ... for the full hour of the meeting. It was in the Riverside Meeting that my first experiences took place which I would now call “religious.” What I exp... ...d the Quaker meetings, I think it might be wrong to say that these were my first religious experiences. As a child, as I lay beside a river looking up... ... paragraph 99 4. In Civilisation and Its Discontents, (original 1930), the first two pages, in reference to a suggestion by Remain Rolland. In vol. 21... ...ho has postponed the final step of entering into nirvana in order to first aid the rest of humanity. Although technically only a person who has entere... ...igions is regarded with suspicion, and serves primar- ily as an analogy to aid in understanding the doctrine of karma. The belief in personal reincarn... ...more emphasis on the concept of multiple Buddhas or near-Buddhas in giving aid to the individual human person. THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION 46 there is ty... ...e could perform ceremonies and rituals to bring the Power or Powers to the aid of human need and purpose (i.e., to help channel the orenda energy or e...

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... "Yeah, I know." Roxanne rubbed tired eyes. "You know me, just hate those first few days." She sneaked a sideward glance, not anticipating that Alex ... ...aching back after dropping the unconscious weight on the gravel beside the first set of tracks. Panting, he flicked his fiery red fringe away from gr... ...o a false sense of security. Evidently, this woman was not as fragile as first thought. If blood had to be spilt to take control of the situation t... ...wrong. It dawned on him that he may have dealt Shaun a worse injury than first thought, in which case, the man was vulnerable to another attack. Ki... ...derstanding of Clan teachings, the Nomad could well believe he wasn’t the first outsider to enter their realm. However, suspected he might just be t... ...een on the surface. A man struggled with loaded arms, another came to his aid; kinship instead of skirmish. Overwhelmed by it all, the man sank to h... ... have had to find out like that." She stepped back as he used the wall to aid himself to his feet. The sight depicted a woman he loved, but the thoug...

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...n.com Dedication To my Mom and Dad who scrimped and saved to buy my first horse. Chapter One The track looked safe—no holes, n... ...ht launch her career. “Not bad.” Harrison’s slow nod was almost grudging. “At first the old guy seemed to be asleep, but he found another gear when ... ... want a maiden race for him?” Kurt nodded. “Yeah, that’s Ace. Hope to get his first start in the next couple of weeks once he’s gate approved.” But... ... the locals, yet somehow he’d managed to rile both Otto and Julie on the very first meet. Smiling, he stepped over the gob of tobacco and headed tow... ...istracted. It would be safer if he escorted her with Cisco, at least for her first attempt. Sandra considered Julie a competent rider. So did Adam.... ..., her thoughts as scrambled as her body. He must have had comprehensive first-aid training. His hands were knowing and unexpectedly gentle for such ...

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...m on the back and said, `you’re going places son’. Steven hasn’t left the first floor yet, but thinks he has. Alison, Ali for short, is the baby of t... ...mpting to extract one’s life history before he can escape my clutches. My first question is to determine his marital status and whether or not he ha... ...an’t help but wonder what happened to my enthusiasm, the one I had when I first came here. Be self-sufficient; grow my own meat and veggies. All tha... ... can I do you for?” “You want the good news or the bad?” “Tell me the good first, I can hang up if I don’t like the bad.” “I’m coming over to visit. T... ...to visit. The bad, Ali’s coming too.” “I told you to give me the good news first.” I laugh. “That’s great news, you’re going to love it here. So, whe... ...r. Bowen would have come running, fat chance! I zoomed in on him with the aid of my binoculars. It soon became painfully clear to me why he couldn’t...

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...Excerpt: BOOK I; Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of EDEN, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing Heav?nly Muse, ...

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... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 BOOK X. - i - BOOK I. Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal ... ...on the secret top Of OREB, or of SINAI, didst inspire That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed, In the Beginning how the Heav’ns and Eart... ...SILOA’S Brook that flow’d Fast by the Oracle of God; I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventrous Song, That with no middle flight intends to soar ... ...s th’ upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know’st; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread 20 Dove-like satst... ...rt th’ Eternal Providence, 25 And justifie the wayes of God to men. Say first, for Heav’n hides nothing from thy view Nor the deep Tract of Hel... ...st, for Heav’n hides nothing from thy view Nor the deep Tract of Hell, say first what cause Mov’d our Grand Parents in that happy State, Favour’... ... Had cast him out from Heav’n, with all his Host Of Rebel Angels, by whose aid aspiring To set himself in Glory above his Peers, He trusted to h... ... And fewel’d entrals thence conceiving Fire, Sublim’d with Mineral fury, aid the Winds, 235 And leave a singed bottom all involv’d With stench ... ...to reign: mean while thy utmost force, And join him nam’d ALMIGHTIE to thy aid, I flie not, but have sought thee farr and nigh. 295 They ended ...

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...my readers who feel no particular interest in me to pardon me if I undertake to answer some of these questions in this book. In most books, the I, or first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference. We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking. I should not talk so muc...

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... Granted that some public works would not have been constructed without this aid, and let man share the glory of such with the ox and horse; does it f... ...aking them away. Furniture! Thank God, I can sit and I can stand without the aid of a furniture warehouse. What man but a philosopher would not be ash... ... near freely forgiving them all they did. Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need, though it be your exam ple which leaves them far beh... ... earth say beans instead of grass, — this was my daily work. As I had little aid from horses or cattle, or hired men or boys, or improved implements o... ...eighteen inches apart, being careful to select fresh round and unmixed seed. First look out for worms, and supply vacancies by planting anew. Then loo... ...ng out ice in the forenoon, and had resolved that in the afternoon, with the aid of his neighbors, he would take out the old yellow pine. He sawed a c... ...ends from earth even into the plains of the ether.” Then to my morning work. First I take an axe and pail and go in search of water, if that be not a ...

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...perty, could be but small. Their mother had nothing, and their father only seven thousand pounds in his own disposal; for the remaining moiety of his first wife?s fortune was also secured to her child, and he had only a life interest in it....

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... an hour Elinor frequently found her agreeable; but her powers had received no aid from education, she was ignorant and illiterate, and her defi cienc... ...m. With strong concern, and with many reproaches for not being called to their aid, did Mrs. Jennings hear in the morning of what had passed. Her form... ... recovery slow; and with youth, natural strength, and her mother’s presence in aid, it proceeded so smoothly as to enable her to remove, within four d...

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...ther of them (for their days were long before the days of photographs), my first fancies regarding what they were like, were unreasonably derived from... ...down by the river, within, as the river wound, twenty miles of the sea. My first most vivid and broad impression of the identity of things, seems to m... ... trenchant way of cutting our bread-and- butter for us, that never varied. First, with her left hand she jammed the loaf hard and fast against her bib... ...I was afraid to sleep, even if I had been inclined, for I knew that at the first faint dawn of morning I must rob the pantry. There was no doing it in... ....” He held me by the collar and stared at me so, that I began to think his first idea about cutting my throat had revived. “Dressed like you, you know... ...in the heat and lights and noise of tongues. As I came to myself (with the aid of a heavy thump between the shoulders, and the restorative exclamation... ...hree Os, and three J-O, Joes in it, Pip!” I leaned over Joe, and, with the aid of my forefinger, read him the whole letter. “Astonishing!” said Joe, w... ...with little to discourage me, and should soon be able to dispense with any aid but his. Through his way of saying this, and much more to similar purpo... ...ad got all the leaves up, and was holding a kind of black Bazaar, with the aid of a quantity of black pins. At the moment of my arrival, he had just f...

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...s it might amuse Willie Traquair, who delights in all such dirty jobs. The first day, I forgot to mention, was like mid-winter for cold, and rained in... ...ner ashore. B the salmon house. She was a Norwegian: coming in she saw our first gauge- pole, standing at point E. Norse skipper thought it was a sunk... ...: skipper owner of vessel and cargo bottom out. I was in a great fright at first lest we should be liable; but it seems that’s all right. Some of the ... ... many waters is Or great sea-billows are.’ The thunder at the wall when it first struck – the rush along ever growing higher – the great jet of snow-w... ... whom I take the deepest interest. I cannot tell you his age, but the very first time I saw him (when I was at dinner yesterday) I was very much struc... ...r a place; ‘I to the hills will lift mine eyes, from whence doth come mine aid’: once the place found, the furniture will follow. There, sir, in, I ho... ... have a father, or I should long ago have died; but the opportunity of the aid makes the neces- sity none the more welcome. My father has presented me...