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It is the seventy-fifth year of Middlestitch School in London. Celebrations are planned, there is an excitement in the air. However, one pupil, James Figg has a problem he cannot get out of his mind-his holiday in the hills of Wales. It was there he first found a friend called Ash, and it was then things started to go rather odd. Even his form teacher Mr. Phanning became involved, as did Miss Caramila, the music teacher. Do not forget the exci...

The story revolves around the children of the Deep Wood Camp and their efforts to rescue a feral child locked away at the Millbrook Estate. The second half of the story sees them on the run and heading for London with the rescued boy. The story is told by the main character, Danny Willis, and has plenty of twists and turns, from digging up graves to the rescued boy's ability to control animals. Other members of the Deep Wood Camp include Ant, ...

Channeled twenty years ago, over a period of nine months, Aruna is an initiation tale for our times. Mysteriously led by circumstances and people whom he has just met but who all seem to know him, Aruna walks on a path of unknown destination, he has no choice but to follow. Challenged by darkness, it is only his innocence and purity of spirit which protect him from the traps set on his journey, as his glorious destiny slowly unravels. An ordin...

Written first hand by an autistic individual, the book unravels mystique over how the author, Irving Chiang, overcame all odds in conquering the 'death keel" to social acceptance. Realising that he was 'different" from other people when he was seventeen, he quickly slipped into depression. He was later diagnosed as having the Schizoid Personality Disorder. His break came after accepting Christ in his mid-twenties. Five tough years of self-rati...

Ten horrifying tales that will have you sleeping with lights on. The stories are of darkness and evil haunting the realms of the paranormal. Wander through fields of corn, watch an exorcism, experience an author going mad. When you have finished reading the last word, you will be worrying about what lurks in the shadows.

PHILOSOPHIES OF LIFE LAID BARE: THERE IS SOMETHING SPECIAL FOR EVERYBODY IN THIS CLASSICAL BOOK. IN BETWEEN LIFE & DEATH, WAR & PEACE, PAIN & JOY, BELIEF & UNBELIEF, DARKNESS & LIGHT, MAN & ANIMAL, FINALLY GOD AND THE BARRIER. YOU MAY TAKE A CHANCE YOU MAY SAY YES YOU MAY SAY NO YOU MAY BE THE BARRIER IF YOU SAY NOTHING

A lingering love for her dead husband leaves Korey Westerfield unprepared to recognize a mutual attraction when she meets charming Marc Bradberry. Marc is instantly smitten. He nurtures a platonic friendship and hides his deeper feelings the same way he hides a tormenting secret: his loveless marriage to a comatose wife. He tries yet fails to reveal his duplicity and compromises the innocence of friendship in a night of passion. With Marc, Kor...

In 1799, Charles Bruneau decides to adventure with fur trader, Pierre Dubois. Both are shocked when Charle's wife, Jazelle, declares she is going with them. She dresses as a coureur de bois, picks up her paddle, regrets the misery, but never the going. They follow the fur traders through raging rivers, and over treacherous portages. Pierre seeks his Indian wife and son. Jazelle's goal is to be the first white woman to cross America to the Far ...

This new collection of poems is about fights, seductions, fear, street drains, coarse breathing, dancing, whispers, secrecy, love, cellos, and curious maps of vacancy. Each poem is a nutrition for impulse. Each is a succession of timed, cinematic moves in a suppressed uncoiling-there is no prose equivalent-a voltage through prisms of imagery.

Exactly who is this Hanging Man? How did he end up in such a situation? And how is it that he chances to dream under such precarious circumstances? He is, in fact, only partly an invention of the poet's pen, partly a product of legends that echo through the northern hills of Georgia, and partly the stuff of whispered family history. What is known is precisely what is reported in these remarkable pages: that a man making his way home one evenin...

Ryan Broome had never bid at an auction before, so it was a setback when he bought a commode by mistake. Anyway, he did get the black leather reclining chair he was after. But then, he got more than he bargained for: A stranger, Anton Mesigneriar, a man who became a very close friend. A man who had traveled from 1949 via the chair that Ryan had bought. A man who was determined to change history, to not die but to live.

As human beings, we have what is called a "pain threshold." When we pass beyond this threshold, we enter into the realm of helplessness. LaDena Renwick-Tilley's memoir, oman Called Jobws that through suffering, the glorious works of God will be made evident. The Bible tells us that God never leaves us--that He is keeping watch over his own. That no matter what comes, we as Christians can call upon God, knowing he is our refuge and strength. Jo...

Fresh out of high school, Gregory Williamson arrives in Nantucket in the summer of 1946 for a job as a night watchman at a local hotel. He meets Sydney MacKluskie, a beautiful and sophisticated World War II widow, who works as the dining room hostess. The two become close, playing tennis together and talking in the evenings. After Greg saves Sydney from a rapist, the two plunge into an intimate relationship. Because of their age difference, Sy...

I had only been in Key Waste for a little over an hour when I was shanghaied into my first major dope deal. When Al, a recent college graduate attempting to delay his entrance into the 'real world, " sets out to search for a lost uncle and a little adventure in the rum jungle of the Florida Keys, he gets a whole lot more than he bargained for. Al discovers a thriving hidden subculture teeming with outlaw intrigue and populated by crooks and cr...

The Saga of the People of Holy Martyrs Continues in the sequel to... Glory of the Olive "Fr. Riley motioned that it was time to leave, and she stood up reluctantly. They were not allowed to stay for the interment. It was forbidden. There were a great many things they were not allowed to do since the rise of Yeshue ben Dan, the emperor of the world, the man who called himself the King of Kings, the Anointed One... The Catholics knew him as Anti...

Last spring, I wanted to write a book for children, helping them to understand the Old Testament. When I started to write, I realize that many adults did not read the Old Testament, therefore unable to teach their children the Bible. Here are a list of things included in the book: An overview of the Promises of God and the Prophecies of Christ. Inserted the names of the prophets and kings, with comments and notes to help people understand how ...

My book was inspired by God in the form of poems, some nights I would be in bed when a word from God would enter my mind, I than get out of bed and write them down, and the following morning I completed my poem. My poems are an inspiration to all who will read them, there's one in this book for all, both young and old. Just listen to God as you read along and God will lead your heart. My book is dedicated to the Lord thy God for He is my inspi...

ONE LAST TEAR ONE LAST KISS is a story about one man's search for love, and the near fatal, addicting, metaphysical relationship he finds with the one woman. Santana Priest is a complex man with a storied past who wants what most people want, love. Boundless, complete, fulfilling love which harbors no secrets, and no reason to fear betrayal. However it seems fate has decided that this is not to be. Priest fights to overcome the death and scars...

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Polio's Playground is an inspirational story about the inner spirit prevailing over the repeated assaults of poliomyelitis and its destruction of muscle function. It's about a little farm girl, and her two sisters, journey through the disease, carrying paralysis into adulthood. Then she makes a splash in legislation on the federal level. Back home in Medford, Oregon, her fellow authors have this to say about the book. Valerie J. Foster has wri...