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

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...Thrilling narratives of voyages, discoveries, adventures, battles, darings and sufferings of the heroic characters, bold explorers and dauntless spirits who have made ocean history and established christian supremacy over the most savage lands of...

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...“The Odyssey is not an adventure story. It is, rather, a book of wisdom that explains the art of humanity’s journey toward becoming artists of life and of the life of the universe. It tells the tale of a love story that is bas...

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Hawaii Business Magazine in tribute to the APEC meeting of 2011.

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...s in our lives? How do they influence us? Whom do we call an enemy? Whom do we call a friend? And why? Why do we have relationships at all? These are the questions Helena Harper eloquently asks in her collection of poems that examines the relationships in her own life. She has had to rethink her definition of 'enemy', not least because her father was English and her mother...

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... fame and riches as a popular author, and finds true love and happiness with wealthy entrepreneur, Jake Edmonds. Then cancer strikes. Lacey is afraid of the pain and indignity she thinks is coming and wants to die. Her beloved daughter, Jana, will help her. But her doctor does not approve. To complicate matters, Jana and the doctor are in love. Will Lacey get her wish?...

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...SUSAN BRACKEN Copyright © 2010 Susan Bracken. All rights reserved. No part of this print publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, ... ...m or by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the author. ISBN: 978-0-9864879-1-0 The fir... ..., mechanical, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the author. ISBN: 978-0-9864879-1-0 The first part of this book (excludi... ...the author. ISBN: 978-0-9864879-1-0 The first part of this book (excluding the Appendix) is a work of fiction. Names, characters and events are a prod... ...at’s happening with you.” “Well, I was so happy before … you know. I got a great summer job at The Toronto Star. It is amazing there – I get to see fa... ...” she said. When she gave it to him, he pecked her on the cheek and said, “Great. See ya later,” and went back to his house. Lacey got ready for bed. ... ... non-descript. But when they rounded the corner onto 58 SUSAN BRACKEN the lakeshore area Lacey was awed by the beauty of Kempenfelt Bay, stretching a... ..., they were awed by the oceanic size of the water, and by the thousands of islands dotting the horizon. “Well, they don’t call it the thirty thousand ... ... canals, and gazed in fascination at the smooth rock forma- tions and tiny islands they passed. All his life he had lived in the city and had immersed...

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...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of...

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...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent n... ...COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett acco... ...s, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time int... ...der Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five re... ... experienced fact.” JAMES PURDY, novelist: “An important writer... I find great pleasure in his work. Really beautiful and distinguished.” ALICE S.... ...erception and sensitivity.” FRANK TANNENBAUM, historian: “...written with great sensibility” Worchester Telegram: “Between realism and poetry...bri... ... wished to go to sleep. These were wandering musi- cians, from neighboring islands, and their songs were mostly new to us. They repeated the ones we ... ...ld, before us, deceptive, feminine, wrap- ping us in fog, cities, deserts, islands, birds, starry decks and windless watches. We never remember the s... ...r the Alpine heights and passes to heavenly promises; I prefer rivers and lakes to the Dantesque. Savonarola’s ashes were thrown into the Arno... I ...

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...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic ...

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... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ht January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and ... ...e various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is used to describe two complimentar... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ...g as a mass that is individually sanctified by the urge to gather together in great numbers and focus inwards. This graveness of spirit which becam... ...wly; focusing and obsessing on one thing at a time without being aware of any greater context, without any interest in gaining any broader perspecti... ...-boats; explain how the first modern humans managed to migrate to the Pacific islands and Australia 75,000 years ago. Using the bones and skins of t... ...u cannot own the oceans of the world. Life energy flows. Damming rivers and lakes: stopping the flow of Life of an entire huge eco-system is the d... ...ession. All of the first attempts of colonization were situated on the outer islands of North America, not on the continent itself and all the first...

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...ter and imitate any object, and should propose to make a public display of his talents and his productions, we shall pay him reverence as a ... ...owning him with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating ... ... with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating poet and le... ...re and less fascinating poet and legend-writer, who will imitate for us the style of the virtuous man." Plato (Republic) Chapter One At Tok... ... might, for what he knew, have been nothing but a mendacity. Sang Huin had a great empathy; but now another friendship had just bit the dust. Had it b... ... he was usually "honja," and had to declare it. When he studied Korean, read great literature, went to a museum, saw a video at the video pang, or wen... ... to 70 million years ago. The Mesozoic era was characterized by large seas, lakes, deltas with deserts, and occasional glaciers. If the owls came ou... ...st of living in Honshu is notorious but it is worse on the northern Japanese islands like Hokkaido." "Well, I'll give it some thought. I'll decide whe... ...o see a newness within his ancient and isolated people on this one of myriad islands. He said that he studied the English language and had kept it wit...

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...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and...

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...fe on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ..., for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...his basin contains about 1,250,000 square miles. In extent it is the second great valley of the world, being exceeded only by that of the Amazon. The... ...lley of the Mississippi; nor are those formed from the sterile basins of the great rivers of Siberia, the lofty plateaus of Central Asia, or the might... ...ntry and reached the banks of the Mississippi. They went by way of the Great Lakes; and from Green Bay, in canoes, by way of Fox River and the Wiscons... ... I felt honored by his notice. He told me the names of dim capes and shadowy islands as we glided by them in the solemnity of the night, under the win... ...ad a note book that fairly bristled with the names of towns, “points,” bars, islands, bends, reaches, etc.; but the informa tion was to be found only...