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With the arrival of her eighteenth birthday, Ecko does not receive typical material gifts, all wrapped up in boxes and gift bags and tied with pretty ribbons and bows. Instead, she receives the gift of knowledge. But along with that knowledge comes the inevitable questions, self-doubt, and fear. She learns that she's not human and that she comes from a world called Irredarr. Presumably, she is the Wandelaar heiress, the only Mirror Walker in e...

Ecko's not normal. Everyone says so, and usually not in such a nice, polite manner. Being different often begets ridicule and cruelty, which means 'Freak' is the most common term used to describe her. She, herself, knows that she's different, a bit odd perhaps. Even the manner in which she became a member of the Roberts family had been strangely unorthodox. Over the years, she's learned to keep her head down and do her best to get through the ...

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At 101 years of age, Louise Tobin is one of the last surviving musicians of the Swing Era in American music. She performed with such notables as Benny Goodman, Harry James (who was her first husband), Louis Armstrong, Johnny Mercer, Lionel Hampton, the Glenn Miller Orchestra, and Fletcher Henderson. In this absorbing biography, historian Kevin Mooney offers readers a view of a remarkable life in music, told from the vantage point of the woman ...

Deep breaths, count to ten, and don't punch people. These are supposed to be simple to follow steps but they have never been simple for Tyson. She continues to struggle to act right but between her mother getting out of jail and her powerful new boyfriend encouraging the bad behavior she isn't exactly trying very hard. She has been told violence isn't the answer but she has always been reckless and somehow she ended up with a gun. If the cops ...

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Excerpt from Columbus the Christ-BearerWhen, in 1484, hungry, poorly clothed, sad at heart, he knocked at the Convent of La Rabida, outside of Palos town, he.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 digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the ...

Excerpt from Joan of ArcIt is a story that has appealed to many pens, that has occasioned mockery and irreverence, and that many writing in all reverence have sought to explain on natural grounds. But if we are to accept any explanation at all, it must be that of Joan herself, namely, that she was the child of God, His prophet, His Maid, His avenger, raised up at His good pleasure to do a given task in a given way. Without the Catholic Faith, ...

Excerpt from Proceedings of the Symposium on the Environmental Consequences of Fire and Fuel Management in Mediterranean Ecosystems: August 1-5, 1977, Palo Alto, CaliforniaKey words: Mediterranean climate, Chaparral moisture content, Santa Ana winds, heat wave, forest fire.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 ...

Excerpt from Proceedings of the Symposium on the Environmental Consequences of Fire and Fuel Management in Mediterranean Ecosystems: August 1-5, 1977, Palo Alto, CaliforniaKey words: Mediterranean climate, Chaparral moisture content, Santa Ana winds, heat wave, forest fire.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 ...

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Pull up a seat, couch, heck lay on the floor for all I care. Thing is I have a story to tell and I'd prefer if you'd pay attention. My three best friends and I were viciously ripped from our childhood homes and thrown violently into a snob infested boarding school... okay so I was bribed with a large inheritance and talked my friends into coming with. Point is, once we get there we create mass chaos for the school and all those in attendance. ...

Newsmakers -- published quarterly in paperback -- provides timely and informative profiles of the worlds most interesting people. A hardbound annual cumulation makes Newsmakers a permanent reference source on 200 newsmakers of the year. Four indexes help readers locate entries by name, nationality, occupation and subject. Separate obituaries provide concise profiles of recently deceased newsmakers.Some of the newsmakers featured in the 1994 ed...

The Rhetoric of Religious Cults takes as its departure point the notion that 'cults' have a distinctive language and way of recruiting members. First outlining a rhetorical framework, which encompasses contemporary discourse analysis, the persuasive texts of three movements - Scientology, Jehovah's Witnesses and Children of God - are analysed in detail and their discourse compared with other kinds of recruitment literature. Cults' distinctive ...

Newsmakers -- published quarterly in paperback -- provides timely and informative profiles of the worlds most interesting people. A hardbound annual cumulation makes Newsmakers a permanent reference source on 200 newsmakers of the year. Four indexes help readers locate entries by name, nationality, occupation and subject. Separate obituaries provide concise profiles of recently deceased newsmakers.Some of the newsmakers featured in the 1993 ed...

Newsmakers -- published quarterly in paperback -- provides timely and informative profiles of the worlds most interesting people. A hardbound annual cumulation makes Newsmakers a permanent reference source on 200 newsmakers of the year. Four indexes help readers locate entries by name, nationality, occupation and subject. Separate obituaries provide concise profiles of recently deceased newsmakers.Some of the newsmakers featured in the 1992 ed...