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...Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a sequence of stories by Stephen Leacock, first published in 1912. It is generally considered to be one of the most enduring classics of Canadian humorous literature. The fictional setting for these stories is Mariposa, a small town on the shore of Lake Wissanotti. Although drawn from his experiences in Orillia, Ontar...

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...1: Somewhere in Far North Queensland Towards the End of the Twenty-first Century. ‘Make sure there’s nothing left to salvage, or tomorrow there’ll be nothing left of you.’ The priest’s twisted smile, more venomous than his customary frown, underlined the threat. Igno...

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...Table of Contents 1: Somewhere in Far North Queensland Towards the End of the Twenty-First Century 2: About a Thousand Years Later 3: A Demonstration 4: Peteru & Uretep Show How It’s Done 5: The Mages Do It 6: Breakfast with the Mages 7: Peteru and Uretep Learn About Oasis ...

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...The story is a waking dream, in which the main protagonist, Thomas (Tom) Herman will be carried away in a whirlpool of events that will reveal his true identity...

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...The arrival Then the heat hit him like an inescapable steamy landslide. Thick, heavy and sweltering. He had to gasp. 'Oh my! Oh my!' he exclaimed, choking, as it dawned on him that this would be his world from then on. The s...

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...Contents 1. The arrival 2. The old fort, Tom meets Ishmael 3. At the harbor 4. At the pawnshop 5. Upstream in the mangal 6. Mangal 7. Tom meets his father 8. They sail out to Palawasi. 9. The attack 10. The blast 11. The storm ...

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...De Spectaculis:1 The New Colosseum De Spectaculis:2 Rome restored De Spectaculis:6 On display BookI:1 He’s here Book I:32 I don’t love you… Book I:34 Lesbia Book I:77 Charinus, exhausted Book I:91 The critic Book I:94 Changed Book I...

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...ots) by KAREL CAPEK Translated by Paul Selver and Nigel Playfair Robots of the world! The power of man has fallen! A new world has arisen: the Rule of... ...he world! The power of man has fallen! A new world has arisen: the Rule of the Robots! March! CHARACTERS HARRY DOMIN SULLA MARIUS HELENA GLORY DR. GA... ...FIRST ROBOT SECOND ROBOT THIRD ROBOT FOURTH ROBOT ACT I Central office of the factory of Rossum's Universal Robots. Entrance on the right. The windo... ...e fastened printed placards. ("Robot's Cheapest Labor," etc.) In contrast to these wall fittings, the floor is covered with a splendid Turkish carp... ...indows SULLA is typing letters. DOMIN (dictating) Ready? SULLA Yes. DOMIN To E. M. McVicker and Co., Southampton, England. "We undertake no guarante... ...n as the consignment was taken on board we drew your captain's attention to the fact that the vessel was unsuitable for the transport of Robots, an... ...t damage. HELENA Will they be happier when they feel pain? DR. GALL On the contrary; but they will be more perfect from a technical point of view. HE... ...I say, try these pearls. HELENA Harry, have you had bad news? DOMIN On the contrary, no letters have arrived for a whole week. HELENA Nor telegrams? D... ..., have you had bad news? DOMIN makes a sign to FABRY. FABRY No, no, on the contrary. I only think that we had better go into the office. HELENA Stay ...

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...The Wise Heart introduces a lovingly crafted anthology of tales and allegories by Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman, his mentor, Rav Baruch Ashlag (Rabash), and Rabash’s father and mentor, Rav Yehuda Ashlag, author of the Sulam (...

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...ages Through words and letters We touch upon that hidden realm called “The Spiritual World” Laitman Kabbalah Publishers The Wise hear T: TaLes a... ...ook may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical ... ...ews. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Laitman, michael. The wise heart : tales and allegories of three contemporary sages / michael... ...bash - 37 The gift of grace - Baal HaSulam - 38 all is measured according to the Vessel - Rabash - 40 f ather creates Vessels - Baal HaSulam - 41 an ... ...ure by Michael Laitman (July 24, 2007) The wisdom of Kabbalah shows us how to turn ourselves around from within To discover the creator. When zoomin... ...n zooming in on an object through a camera lens, We turn the ring a little to the right, then a little to the left, and sharpen our focus Until sudden... ...d for the gift you gave me,” his friend will surely not be pleased. on the contrary, The more the recipient feels a need for the gift, The more the gi...

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...What was in Hitler's personal file kept by the Nazi Party's own intelligence agency, the SD? Israel Sarid Roth, only son of two survivors of the Holocaust is about to find out, as a routine assignment in Jerusalem plunges him into the center of a deadly nightmare....

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...7 All Rights Reserved Based on hundreds of newly-discovered documents in archives the world over – now … THE HITLER FILE Israel Sarid Roth is... ... – now … THE HITLER FILE Israel Sarid Roth is the only son of two survivors of the Holocaust. When his boss at the Genocide Monitoring Group se... ...urvivors of the Holocaust. When his boss at the Genocide Monitoring Group sends him to Israel on a routine assignment, he finds himself at the deadl... ...e Monitoring Group sends him to Israel on a routine assignment, he finds himself at the deadly center of a nightmare. • What is on the floppy disk... ... prominent Zionist leader Chaim Arlosoroff in 1934 and why? Time is running out. To survive, Roth must find the answers to these questions and re... ...as well as the Israeli Mossad. There is only one rule: TRUST NO ONE. Dedicated to Lidija, my wife and life. Facts and Speculations All the... ...how did you put it? – ‘did his best to shield the Jews’ from anyone’s wrath. On the contrary, I happen to know that he fomented rage and insane anim... ...f, and repeatedly snubbed by everyone else. We empathized with our poor parents. Contrary to clichés, Josh and I never drifted apart. We attended ... ...amning evidence true?” “That’s besides the point.” – spat Grease Ball. “On the contrary,” – I responded bitterly – “it is the precise and only p...

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...This book was developed from a paper I wrote for Russian and Baltic country psychologists. They had come to Italy to the Institute in Ascoli Piceno, which is a member of the Sophia University of Rome, to participate in a seminar on Sophia- Art and Cosmo-Art. The same paper was expanded and presented at the Second Ulyssiads of t...

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... 1 Antonio Mercurio THE MYTH OF ULYSSES AND SECONDARY BEAUTY ... ... 2 Copyrighted material Published by The SOLARIS INSTITUTE of The SOPHIA UNIVERSITY OF ROME. (S.U.R.) ... ... Translated from Italian by Martha S. Bache-Wiig 2009, authorized by the Author. ISBN 9788895806075 3 Note... ... Odyssey that the author used are from the renowned translation from Greek to Italian done by Rosa Calzecchi Onesti, Published by Einaudi. I have tr... ...ted these passages, instead of utilizing a renowned translation from Greek to English, because there seems to be no translation from Greek into Engl... ......6 FURTHER REFLECTIONS: Ulysses in search of lost beauty and of beauty to create................................................................... ... touch. 7 Secondary beauty is not necessarily connected to form. To the contrary, it transcends both form and external sense perception, and it l... ...this idea stuck in his head. He is in no hurry to return to Ithaca. To the contrary, he does not want to return until he has found the secret of imm...

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...This is the short trip of an Artist within his own life-story, looking for his dormant talent and for the strong emotions that change human beings. It contains excerpts of old poems that serve as windows, using which is possible to l...

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... Sometimes you see bridges collapsing behind you, illusions migrating to distant lands, and you think you are falling for centuries and la... ...tober 2006 3 Elisabetta Benedetti Train of Thought 4 5 The story contains excerpts of the author’s early poems ... ...Maybe I’m escaping... I only know there’s a train waiting for me, and I’ll cling to it like a castaway to a rubber dinghy, until the waves carry me ... ...n waiting for me, and I’ll cling to it like a castaway to a rubber dinghy, until the waves carry me far away. Because, at times, human beings do not... ..., until the waves carry me far away. Because, at times, human beings do not want to understand but just to go, to head anywhere there is another han... ...place-name on a map, to reach and make their own. It’s like pointing a finger in the air at random, indicating a nameless star and making it an unex... ...astic era that does not exist. “Do you think so?” he replies. “I believe, on the contrary, that we all need our share of illusions, whatever form th...

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... --Steven Sills "So he spoke, and the bright-eyed goddess, Athene, was pleased that she was the god he prayed... ...he bright-eyed goddess, Athene, was pleased that she was the god he prayed to before all the others. She put strength in his shoulders and knees, and... ... goddess, Athene, was pleased that she was the god he prayed to before all the others. She put strength in his shoulders and knees, and set in his he... ...others. She put strength in his shoulders and knees, and set in his heart the daring of a mosquito, which, though constantly brushed away from a man'... ...away from him for some minutes he would put it back there closer than ever to his thighs. Even he had to admit his actions made no sense given the fac... ...more as a consequence. She also knew that being desired required adhering to the rules of withdrawing from the neediness of wanting to be linked to a... ...scar with the blade coming up to slit others. He knew that he had behaved contrary to social instinct but he hadn't been able to stop himself. "... ... The mosquito, the big "it," guffawed. "You are truly ingenuous. You are contrary to the natural world around you-a true babe focusing your trusting... ...le," and for having the dominant culture of individual freedoms that went contrary to their Islamic tyranny. The couple looked out into nothingness ...

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... ex-intelligence officer, who handles elite politicians and celebrities cover up their misdeeds and embarrassing situations, now finds himself trying to unravel the mystery that could change the world and the future of the international space station. ...

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... - J.Cross/Stone 2 THE MYSTERY OF JAMIESON STONE A Novel by Jonathan Cross ... ... - J.Cross/Stone 3 CHAPTER 1 WASHINGTON, D.C. The studios of WNN (Worldwide News Network) were as hectic ... ... around pawning off papers and giving and taking orders. Cameras jostled into position as the lights focused on where Jamieson Stone would do his nig... ...one within earshot, commanding the floor like a general. “Let’s go people! Twenty minutes to airtime.” Simmons had been with WNN for almost ten years... ...nd abrupt, not that it was her natural personality, but she felt that it was the only way to get attention and respect. She was slated to become the ... ...ome the show’s head producer within three months. She had waited patiently for Alex Trent to retire. Even though her salary was almost double of any... ...this?” “Twenty-five thousand in cash to convince you.” “That’s a lot of money.” “On the contrary, for a case like this, I would charge a minimum of... ...r back up.” “One of our contacts has expired,” Anna said. “Not good news.” “On the contrary. Before he expired he divulged the time and place ... ...ve accepted, as an agreeable alternative.” “But, you don’t believe any of it?” “On the contrary, I believe all of it. But, there is only one perso...

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...Racehorse trainer, Kurt MacKinnon, resents being yanked into undercover police work. But when his ex-partner is murdered, Kurt is determined to find the killer and moves his third-string Thoroughbreds to the backwater track where his partner was last seen alive. Julie West, a dedicated but struggling jockey, pins her dreams of an elusive win on the new trainer in ...

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... is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or a portion thereof, in any form. Th... ...ed for your personal enjoyment only. All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or a portion thereof, in any form. This book ma... ...hereof, in any form. This book may not be resold or uploaded for distribution to others. This is a work of fiction. Any references to historical e... ...cales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual... ...nd incidents are the product of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events, locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coin... ...and Dad who scrimped and saved to buy my first horse. Chapter One The track looked safe—no holes, no ruts, no reason for a horse to break... ...orses moved closer. Kurt’s optimism plunged when he noticed the antics of his contrary horse. Lazer humped his back and flattened his ears as he trie...

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...‘Time To Think’ is a collection of eight short tales about how to cope with such things as unwelcome evangelists, visitors, praise, sexual attention, living in a nursing home, relations, genetic modification and sexual urges....

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...adic fits of sleep and wakeful spans of dull, hypnagogic thoughts matching the inertia of his confinement he would finally become ensconced there, in ... ...in jostling him around, and at last fall asleep. This was his hope; but in the meantime there was a languid battle with insomnia and inordinate time t... ...me that he, from his "exalted tomb," disdainfully sullied. A god watching the cookie wrappers that he was emptying into his mouth from the upper coff... ...was remembering happier times and in this confined space it was taking him to the edge of madness. It seemed to him that society lied about it all: mo... ...time reliving the incidents of the past. Children were not nice neat dolls to which one claimed ownership, manhood had to be more than having a heart ... ...n having a heart attack from the stress of making a living and leaving all to one's widow, and old age, if it came, had to be besieged with problems o... ...pellbound warlock whose spells, even when having a life of their own, went contrary to the intent. As abashed as he was by his compulsion to stare, th... ... awakened state would seem dreamy if dreams had cognition of such a state. Contrary to the dream, he had never known his mother in adulthood and apart... ... sense of knowing his own dominant yearning and witnessing it unopposed by contrary yearnings he was not ambivalent at all and yet, he asked himself, ...

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...Morgan Gable first falls for Daniel Connolly, a popular Irish tenor, when she hears him sing. Starstruck, she is consumed by thoughts of love with the handsome troubadour. Real life intrudes and Morgan must put aside her own dreams for awhile. Five years later, she and her troubadour meet again, AND fate hands her the chance to make her every wish come true. Daniel enti...

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