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Stepping Over Seasons artfully depicts the finer details of life, encapsulating change within people and places as the seasons unfurl. Ashley Capes explores subtle links between human nature and the natural world. Using spare and evocative language, these graceful poems display a curiosity and empathy which make for accessible and rewarding reading - Jane Williams. (Expanded reissue of the 2009 collection.)

Leap into worlds like and unlike our own: a creepy restaurant stalks its customers, steampunk slaves find a new home in the Australian desert, storybook characters come alive to make deals with the Roman God of Sleep and in the future, a synthetic society suffers dark consequences of endless augmentation... all these stories and more lurk within.A collection of short fiction featuring steampunk, cyberpunk, fantasy and even a little horror!

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It so fell that one dark evening in the month of June I was belated in the Bernese Oberland. Dusk overtook me toiling along the great Chamounix Road, and in the heart of a most desolate gorge, whose towering snow-flung walls seemed -- as the day sucked inwards to a point secret as a leech's mouth -- to close about me like a monstrous amphitheater of ghosts. . . .Bernard Edward J. Capes is generally remembered as a writer of eerie fiction, and,...

Excerpt from A Castle in Spain: Being Certain Memoirs, Thus Entitled, of Robin Lois, Ex-Major of His Majesty's 109th Regiment of FootI wanna being taken, when a little boy, into Barker's Panorama Rooms in Leicester Square, and there, mounting to a platform from thrilling glooms, seeing, suddenly stretched before my amazed vision, waves and rocks and.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. F...

Excerpt from A Castle in Spain: Being Certain Memoirs, Thus Entitled, of Robin Lois, Ex-Major of His Majesty's 109th Regiment of FootI wanna being taken, when a little boy, into Barker's Panorama Rooms in Leicester Square, and there, mounting to a platform from thrilling glooms, seeing, suddenly stretched before my amazed vision, waves and rocks and.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. F...

Excerpt from Roman History: The Early Empire, From the Assassination of Julius Cæsar to That of DomitianToo harsh an opinion of his motives in some cases. And reported scandalous gossip too lightly page 42.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to...

Excerpt from The Modern City and Its GovernmentThe Canadian Municipal Journal Company Limited for permission to quote from The Canadian Municipal Journal.The National Municipal League for permission to quote from The National Municipal Review.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Book...

Excerpt from The Modern City and Its GovernmentThe Canadian Municipal Journal Company Limited for permission to quote from The Canadian Municipal Journal.The National Municipal League for permission to quote from The National Municipal Review.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Book...

Excerpt from Adventures of the Comte De La Muette During the Reign of TerrorHis dry lips vibrated, he danced up and down like a gnat on a window-pane. All the time the women were volubly chattering and the men curs ing and pulling. They desired, it seemed, a prologue to the second act of the tragedy, and that was bad art. But then they were as drunk as one could wish.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare an...

Excerpt from Municipal Housecleaning: The Methods and Experiences of American Cities in Collecting and Disposing of Their Municipal Wastes, Ashes, Rubbish, Garbage, Manure, Sewage, and Street RefuseIN a home free from nuisances Which offend the esthetic tastes, and either directly or indirectly cause disease, more contentment and thrift Will be found than in the one per meated With odors and befouled With dirt and domestic wastes.About the Pub...

Excerpt from Our Lady of DarknessAnd that you have come to, I presume. Go to the Low Countries, i' Gad's name, and find your level there! I'll give you fifty recommendations, and trust to procure you a year's hospitality from each. Only, one word in your ear, Ned: if you bring back a prig to wife, I'll hev the two of ye poisoned, if I hang for it.The nephew condescended to a smile of some amused toleration.About the PublisherForgotten Books pu...

For some of us, the apostle Paul is intimidating, prickly, and unpredictable. But maybe it's time to get to know Paul on his own terms. Drawing on the best of contemporary scholarship, and with language shaped by conversations with today's students, this second edition of Rediscovering Paul gives fresh consideration to Paul's conversion, call, and his ongoing impact on church and culture.

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Excerpt from St. Catherine De' Ricci: Her Life, Her Letters, Her Community Considerable additions have also been made to the older work, consisting in several original letters of the saint which either do not appear at all in the French life, or are merely quoted there. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an importa...

Excerpt from St. Rose of Lima: The Flower of the New World HE pages which these words introduce to the reader are a graceful tribute from 3 Dominican Tertiary in the Old World to. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstru...

Excerpt from The Extraordinary Confessions of Diana PleaseF the public seeks any apology for this introduction to it, at a late date, of the extraordinary woman whose self dictated Memoirs form the staple of the following pages, it must look for it in the references of her contemporaries, it will be far from gathering it from her own autobiography.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Fin...

Excerpt from The Extraordinary Confessions of Diana PleaseF the public seeks any apology for this introduction to it, at a late date, of the extraordinary woman whose self dictated Memoirs form the staple of the following pages, it must look for it in the references of her contemporaries, it will be far from gathering it from her own autobiography.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Fin...

About the Book Books on Ancient History cover a period from 3, 000 BC (ancient Sumeria) up to the fall of the Roman Empire around 500 AD. The large selection of titles in this category includes: Altaic Hieroglyphs and Hittite Inscriptions, The History of Babylonia, Assyrian Primer: An Inductive Method of Learning the Cuneiform Characters, Carthage of the Phoenicians in the light of modern excavation, The Roman Empire of the Second Century, The...