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In twelve chapters, Nelson delves into lessons geared toward helping those who are adrift and searching for something more. It's not a "Christian" book so much as a life journey book, guiding readers to new paths of self enlightenment. If you want more than mere existence, The Door of Everything offers a chance to peek behind the curtains of your own mind. It opens doors to new understandings of life and spirituality. For only through personal...

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Hercule Poirot retires to a village near the home of a friend, Roger Ackroyd, to pursue a project to perfect vegetable marrows. Soon after, Ackroyd is murdered and Poirot must come out of retirement to solve the case. Includes a new introduction by Karl Wurf and an Agatha Christie bibliography.

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The fugitive was Cape Sloan (or so he called himself), late of Yuma Penitentiary. He was young, but tough as rawhide, reckless as a plains-bred mustang. And he'd sworn a bloody revenge on the ruthless killers who shot down his father, robbed his mother, and sent him to jail on a framed-up murder charge. The law was after him, and a pair of gun-toting rattlesnakes tried to get him by every means from lynching to ambush. But Sloan hung on like g...

Guy Boothby -- creator of the arch-villain Dr. Nikola -- returns with a collection of 11 rare short stories. Included are: A Crime of the Under-Seas The Phantom Stockman The Treasure of Sacramento Nick Into the Outer Darkness The Story of Tommy Dodd and "The Rooster" Quod Erat Demonstrandum Cupid and Psyche Misplaced Affections In Great Waters Mr. Aristocrat This Man and This Woman

The narrator -- led by a mysterious dwarf -- takes a journey into the Alps to a secret Rosicrucian enclave, where he witnesses first-hand Alchemy, Past Lives, Psychic Travel, Water Spirits, and other miraculous events. Franz Hartmann was a 19th century Bavarian physician, theosophist and writer. He emigrated to the United States, and became an American citizen, practicing medicine in the then-frontier areas of the Midwest, including Missouri a...

The Old New Land (or "Altneuland" in the original German) is a utopian novel published by Theodor Herzl, the founder of political Zionism, in 1902. Outlining Herzl's vision for a Jewish state in the Land of Israel, Altneuland became one of Zionism's establishing texts.

For this first time, this volume assembles three of Frank Herbert's classic short stories: "Old Rambling House" (originally published in 'Galaxy Science Fiction' magazine, April 1958), "Missing Link" (originally published in 'Astounding Science Fiction' magazine, February 1959), and "Operation Haystack" (originally published in 'Astounding Science Fiction, ' magazine, May 1959).

Her publishers have felt the pressure of this growing interest and it was at their request that she furnished the data for a biographical sketch that was to be written of her. But when this actually came to hand, the present compiler found that the author had told a story so much more interesting than anything he could write of her, that it became merely a question of how little need be added. The following pages are therefore adapted from wha...

Sabine Baring-Gould (28 January 1834 - 2 January 1924) was an English hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist, and eclectic scholar. He is remembered particularly as a writer of hymns, the best-known being "Onward, Christian Soldiers" and "Now the Day Is Over". He had a special interest in history, particularly Devon and Cornwall. His novel "In the Roar of the Sea" is a tale of the Cornish coast.

Of Mr. Machen's horror-tales the most famous is perhaps 'The Great God Pan' (1894) which tells of a singular and terrible experiment and its consequences."-H. P. Lovecraft

Charles Pierre Baudelaire (April 9, 1821 - August 31, 1867) was a French poet who produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe. His most famous work, Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil), expresses the changing nature of beauty in modern, industrializing Paris during the 19th century. Baudelaire's highly original style of prose-poetry influenced a whole generation of poets including Paul Ver...

Charles Pierre Baudelaire (April 9, 1821 - August 31, 1867) was a French poet who produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe. His most famous work, Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil), expresses the changing nature of beauty in modern, industrializing Paris during the 19th century. Baudelaire's highly original style of prose-poetry influenced a whole generation of poets including Paul Ver...

THE curious case of Lady Purbeck is here presented without embellishment, much as it has been found in old books and old manuscripts, chiefly at the Record Office and at the British Museum. Readers must not expect to find any "well-drawn characters, " "fine descriptions, " "local colour, " or "dramatic talent, " in these pages, on each of which Mr. Dry-as-dust will be encountered. Possibly some writer of fiction, endowed with able hands direct...

Henry A. Shute's diary, an American classic, which he wrote as a young boy and published as an adult. Its simple day-by-day tales of a boy's life and adventures still resonate with contemporary readers. Includes an introduction by the author.

Leónidas Andreiev, uno de los más grandes maestros de la literatura rusa moderna, acaba de morir a la edad de cuarenta y siete años. Nacido en el centro de Rusia, en Orel, de una familia pobre, estaba predestinado a una vida llena de miserias y de privaciones. Pero su energía y su voluntad de hierro le han permitido subir a las más altas cimas de la vida intelectual rusa. Después de hacer sus estudios en el colegio, sin un céntimo en el bolsil...

Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life" is a novel by George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Anne Evans, later Marian Evans. It is her seventh novel, begun in 1869 and then put aside during the final illness of Thornton Lewes, the son of her companion George Henry Lewes. During the following year Eliot resumed work, fusing together several stories into a coherent whole, and during 1871-72 the novel appeared in serial form. The first one-volume ed...

The testimony of one active business man exhibited triumphantly the use of continuous prayer and may serve as a comprehensive illustration. He wrote: "I fought it out with myself, knowing the Lord Christ would work with me. When I awoke in the morning I thanked God for shelter and sleep. Then I began to pray for the least things of my morning preparations -- my clothes, my bath, my comb and brush, my articles used in any way. I thanked God for...

The aims of this study of Nature Mysticism, and the methods adopted for attaining them, are described in the introductory chapter. It may be said, by way of special preface, that the nature mystic here portrayed is essentially a "modern." Accordingly, his sympathy with the past is profound: so also is his sense of the reality and continuity of human development, physical, psychic, and mystical. Moreover, he tries to be abreast of the latest cr...