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......Can this thoroughly mismatched couple find comfort and vindication in each other's arms? More importantly, can Kane and Therese's love survive the ancient vendetta of one unforgiving and powerful demon djinni? Find out that anything is possible when a devout mystical being from the old world joins forces with an urban-reared spitfire from the new? (http://www.graciecmck...

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...rnal pleasures—deliver such a lethal sentence? His death sentence, or very near, unless she decided to change her mind and spare him. Sahir shook her ... ...t time was it! She glanced at the bedside clock/radio, the LED reading not nearly enough to alarm her. Why is he up so early? The aroma of Sunday morn... ...pped and quartered by the likes of Lundquist—when she wanted to run to the nearest shower and scrub her entire body raw while ranting at the powers th... ...and took particular offense at the coverage of the situation in the Middle East. Especially when the Western TV and radio newspeople referred to jihad... ...nnocence she'd known before this genie-man had come into her life with his ancient wisdom and power and usurped everything that had been her reality. ...

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...ow the Great Sphinx of Giza. In present day Egypt, a frightening, yet awe-inspiring story unravels as archaeologists race against time to decipher an ancient truth? A deep probing mystery riddled with prophecy and danger, Secret of the Sands uses Egypt and her mythology as a backdrop to delve into the meanings of life and religion. -McNally Robinson Rai Aren and Tavius E. ...

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...d, “There is no way out from here, we must do some- thing!” The language they spoke was an ancient one. “We have no chance to escape,” another said, ... ...blinding blue light shone through into the temple from somewhere out- side, disintegrating nearly everything in its path. A low rumble followed then g... ... serious work to do and if we don’t speed things up, we’re toast. Dustimaine wants those ancient tools that were found yesterday to be cleaned and c... ...rized by the end of the week.” Mitch and Alex were members of an excavation team working near the Great Sphinx at Giza. They reported to Professor ... ... leading down into it. It was not far from a much larger site where he had found numerous ancient tombs, and where he was now focusing his own effor... ...She was disoriented, confused. “Where were you?” “What do you mean where was I? I’ve been near you the whole time, working while you catnapped.” He ... ...e gasped when they saw the magnificent countenance of Amsara, re- gally sitting facing due east, so that each day it would welcome the dawn. The face ... ... of sailing with her daughter. She was planning on exploring and strolling along the area east of the river for herbs and plants. Axiana had an argu... ... would have to turn her boat around, and sail towards them. It started to rain hard. The easterly wind, which she had used to sail up and down the r...

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... journeys to the interior, however, the British started to investigate and the activities of this ancient secret society came to light. Lord Bentinc... ...tually wiped out. This was one of the most difficult, but necessary operations undertaken by the EAST INDIA COMPANY and is considered, along with th... ...important humanitarian reforms of British rule. v Historical Note to Reader The Honourable East India Company ‘It is the strangest of all g... ...rish of her famous signature and the stamp of the Royal Seal, granted a Charter to the Honourable East India Company. Did that intrepid monarch fore... ...in Europe (except, perhaps, the French) and a revenue greater than that of Great Britain, govern nearly one fifth of the world’s population? Could t... ...see or, she hoped, be seen. ‘Well what have we here?’ the devil asked, for his horse had stopped near her tree and he was untying her bonds. Helen o... ...ce more, when she was fifteen years old. Gavin had completed his final year at Addiscombe College near Croydon, the prestigious military academy of ... ...houting, ‘Breathe in Helen, here she comes!’ Helen was enveloped by the green wet leaves of that ancient English forest of her childhood and Gavin ... ...id Lady Cameron, tossing her head in her own inimitable ‘horsy’ manner, ‘this great highway is as ancient as India, itself, and has for centuries be...

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...terpiece I couldn’t help but be amazed at how deep Wright connects with such ancient concepts and deities in his works. I admittedly am no scholar of ... ...nd the oceans live their blue black depths. Far enough to call her name, but near enough to see a star. O’ how I love her that I would wind away each ... ... another rose with the strength of a thousand Gods I thread the century like ancient pearls without the height of wings. I explain the air stirring in... ...ings for love, where earth had seemed too far to seek but heaven had come so near, Where falling stars had closed their eyes and made a wish on you. ... ...ouch of her breath, begins at sun, a simple kiss. Leads her so soft, love is East. Where heavens follow, her waking flower, found so near, the golden ... ...her so soft, love is East. Where heavens follow, her waking flower, found so near, the golden walk of eternity. Nights done, as morning some, where me...

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...net, mass hysteria gripped the survivors. Conficts broke out. The Middle East was annihilated with the very nuclear arsenals that were meant as a d... ...is inquiry but was cut of by Vincent holding up his hand. “Do me a favor. Near your feet is a grenade launcher. Hand it to me,” Vincent calmly reque... ...s extremely important. The man that I am thinking of has his roots on the East Coast of the former United States. He spent time away, and I am curio... ...iac boasted. “Very well Lord Zodiac. If I have to I will faten the entire East Coast to fnd Vincent Black,” Callous promised. “General, you may faten... ... inside were being killed. A third bladeless helicopter arrived and landed near her. The contraption barely made any noise and she wondered how it m... ...u’re just a traitor then, slaughtering innocent people,” she growled. “So near-sighted. I am a traitor to nothing. Lord Zodiac has a vision of a wor... ...hing big. Lord Zodiac is modeling himself afer the Pharaohs and rulers of ancient times. He wants to show that he commands the resources to surpass ... ...side hallways that reminded them of old documentaries on the discovery of Ancient Egyptian tombs. They didn’t leave the entry area. A man in army fa...

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...erials. They painted it green and mounted it on large, thin-tyred, wheels borrowed from an ancient pram. They attached to it a partitioned table-top... ...d squeal with every spin. I place some of my meager funds on red. Despite the tiny sum and nearly equal chances – I waver nauseous and scared. Until... ...s accumulate. The hours pass, the tables empty, it's only I and the croupier. My capital is nearly doubled. Eli, his countenance spent, keeps gambli... ... the mucky soil around our barracks. But there is still way to go. I mount the bus and sit near a dishevelled, unshaven man. His abraded pair of ho... ... am serious, I am told, I am like a battered and deserted child and this provokes in you an ancient cuddling instinct. When I am proximate, your bod... ...a Makedonija", "Dnevnik", "Makedonija Denes", "Izvestia", "Argumenti i Fakti", "The Middle East Times", "The New Presence", "Central Europe Review",... ...ist, and the Link and Factoid Study List. Editor of mental health disorders and Central and Eastern Europe categories in various Web directories (Op... ...ships with abusive narcissists), Skopje, 1999-2006 "After the Rain – How the West Lost the East", Narcissus Publications in association with Centra...

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...arted exploring. For some years I studied psychology and also philosophy, Eastern and Western, mysticism, all the modern sciences, everything. The wh... ...gs—but never did I say to myself, "Well, [Laughs] I am getting there, I am nearer to that." There is no nearness to that, there is no farawayness fro... ...ere is no farawayness from that, there is no closeness to that. Nobody is nearer to that because he is different, he is prepared. There's no readines... ...ou make a great big thing out of suffering. And yet, you are not anywhere near the goal, whatever is the nature of your goal, whereas in the material... ...oking feeling of what this horrible culture has done to you. It's neither East nor West. It's all the same. Human nature is exactly the same. There'... ...olitical systems have come out of that religious thinking, whether of the East or of the West. In light of these facts, how can you have any faith i... ...he gullible and credulous people everywhere, not only by the purveyors of ancient wisdom, the holy men, but also by the modern scientists. The psych...

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...onferred by anonymity, Rigby becomes an actor, stripper, rent boy, lover, teacher and dedicated traveller through Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, where travellers were uncommon and countries still retained many of the differences that made travel so interesting. Rigby meets with a wide variety of people, life styles and customs, eventually settling in Paris w...

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...cking and screaming, into too many female beds before I learned to read the warning signs and retreat on time. A dirty yellow sun shed pale light on ancient monuments as I strode forth; secure in the knowledge that Fortune favours the fearless. I was heading for Shaftsbury Avenue and a theatre – any theatre. The main doors to the Lyric were locked, so I searched around an...

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...ssistant and Teacher Chapter 31..........Eureka! Chapter 32..........Flawed Companions Chapter 34..........Up the Nile Chapter 35..........Middle-East Chapter 36..........Paris and........... ...

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...ver, his thoughts strayed to a time when he was very young and sat on this same ancient rock with his grandfather. "The warrior is like a hunter who... ...was brother to the great bear, the deer and eagle, even the buffalo that roamed east of the forest on the great plains. One day he would be Chief, a... ...ed "Patience". Seattle wondered if the Great White Chief, who lived far to the east and lived in a great white lodge, ever sat beside a river and f... ...t he had caught only one fish. The Great Chief walked slowly up the path to his nearby vil­ lage with the lone silver fish dangling like a trophy fro... ... a silvery looking triangular object protruding up at a vertical angle from the ancient river bed. Before picking it up, he studied it carefully fro... ...es. He was now convinced that the partial pattern was probably a piece of some ancient shaman's silver breast plate. Richard wrapped it in a soft c... ... were usually enthusiasts ofIndian culture, curious, or just plain lost. It was near closing time when he arrived, just as he had planned. From the ... ...n Cross of his mind. The memories of the nights when they camped in the forest near "Ole Man House" (taken from the Chinook Jar­ gon word "Ole man" ... ...s­ sion whenever he traveled in search of new mining contracts around the North East. The only problem that frustrated Aaron was not having the tec...

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...ie of our Judgement XLVIII. Of Steeds, called in French Destriers XLIX. Of ancient Customes L. Of Democritus and Heraclitus LI. Of the Vanitie of Word... ... than the best, disclaimeth all memorie, authorities, or borrowing of the ancient or moderne; whereas in course of his discourse he seemes acquainte... ...all meanes and compass to bee expressed by teares.' The invention of that ancient Painter might happily fit this purpose, who in the sacrifice of Ip... ... seene by the formes of sommonings and challenges, that the Princes of the East, and their successors yet remaining, have in use, so fierce, so haugh... ...ove, and merry glee; supposing the same, either sickness or end, to be as neare me as him. Iam fuerit nec post, unquam revocare licebit. -- LUCR. 1.... ...nted looke, which makes me hope, that the further I goe from that, and the nearer I approch to this, so much more easily doe I enter in composition f... ...ch the more doth it distrust it selfe. I am of Sillæs opinion: and when I nearest consider the most glorious exploits of warre, me thinkes I see, th... ...that it is not an Iland, but rather firme land, and a continent, with the East Indias on one side, and the countries lying under the two Poles on th... ...They drinke not at meat, as Suidas reporteth, of some other people of the East, which dranke after meales but drinke many times a day, and are much ...

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...s Shawn) felt an empathy as deep as the gods; and the reconstructed walls of ancient buildings that he could see into and imagine long deceased empero... ...a western wedding dress stood at a pond posing for a picture with her groom. Near earlier buildings Sang Huin had noticed him looking at them question... ...th and barren and made him almost yearn for the tortuous roads that appeared near Umsong to be rid of scenery so bland. Although the bus traveled down... ...Sang Huin a big fat kiss. Sang Huin picked up his book bag on the spare seat near the window and sat there. It was complicated, in a sense. If he had ... ...lves on his lap while above the couch was a television showing a drama of an ancient Korean period linked with reverberating melancholic Buddhist melo... ... might have seemed original long after the Great Hymn of Aten was written in Ancient Egypt. In constructing another paragraph she began to ask herself... .... She remembered the few times that her father took her to a beach along the East Coast and the myriad times when he took her to the beaches in Turkey... ...n remained turned on. A newscaster was discussing the economic powers of the East with reference to the new economic experiments in the Soviet Union a... ...en this home for the last time." Chapter Twenty-Three Absent of Christ, this Easter morning began like many of those secular Easters of earlier years:...

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... They had little consistency apart from the inundations of wanderlust of a nearly middle aged man on his inexplicable, cowardly journey to Laos. Senti... ...nuous foundation inside himself: to plausibly sully his body on the ground near an ancient stupa, prop his head against its stone spiral, and stare ou... ...undation inside himself: to plausibly sully his body on the ground near an ancient stupa, prop his head against its stone spiral, and stare out into c... ...living things and all moved through it. An elderly woman was walking alone near some type of a hybrid of Sukhumvit and Silom roads. Sensing that she w... ...ices went out of him entirely with his liquids. Urinating in this metallic East-Asian urinal embedded within the floor of a toilet sandwiched between ... ... void, subdued eyes neither scintillating of inexperience nor petrified as ancient granite, absent of bra, nipples that pointed and teased their way t... ... be one to espouse etiquette). "But not respectful?" "No, not respectful." East Asian society, in public so deferential of age, in private hearts expr...

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...ir out- rageously long feet, or simply engaged in a staring contest with a nearby star, they instantly forgot what they were doing and hurried over t... ...ad to admit there was some sense to what Bozo said. Still, he wasn’t much nearer to understanding where this was leading. ‘I don’t know about that,’... ... what he saw. The eyes of the Storyteller were like doors unto a soul more ancient than anything Theo could have imagined. Here was a being that had ... ...get to know. He just sits around on his old rock and does calculations on ancient parchments. Sometimes he sings under his breath in strange languag... ...ming his way. 66 Bozo and the Storyteller He squeezed his way through to near the soapbox where he had f rst met Simon, but the speaker was nowhere... ...new exactly where it was taking them and held to a bearing of south- south-east. The sun dried off the moisture from the clouds and the harrow- ing ev... ... the same. The crystal ball lay on the carpet between them. Although the eastern horizon was now daubed with streaks of pink and yellow, the sun ha... ...and. The travellers hoped the carpet knew where it was going. Then to the east they saw a tiny cluster of dots that stood out only because there was... ...what you could possibly do with it – unless you happen to be a scholar in ancient languages?’ Omar handed Theo a large book bound in leather. Its co...

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... her head. Kelly waited. She glanced in his direction as if she sensed him nearby, but only stared through him. "He's not dead, Ben. I know he's not."... ...ve as a shadow. Oh no, oh no. Kelly's legs buckled. He collapsed against a nearby pillar and slid down until he had plopped onto the ground, gasping f... ..., then he didn't want to have anything to do with the new arrival hovering near his bed. He couldn't deal with Three-The-Hard-Way again either. He did... ...nough, Dag." The refrigerator and kitchen cabinets were stocked beyond Nor'easter preparation. The old Dagny had lived on Chinese take-out, had kept t... ...e just gotten married to one of the most beautiful chicks this side of the eastern seaboard. What are you going to do now?" "He's going to Disney Worl... ...since she'd been a kid. She knew they were considered sacred animals since ancient times, and were New Life Incognita by Gracie C. McKeever 289 assoc... ...indrance to her deductive reasoning. Kelly dashed across the big street on Eastern Parkway, missed being struck with a speeding gypsy cab by only the ...

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...open on its hinges. I pushed it in and called his name. Being Sunday evening, and near Christmas, I didn’t expect that any lawyers would be workin... ...he pieces and start something else. You need to understand, Laura Kate, I gave him nearly all my life. I sacrificed my home, my marriage. I’m not ... ...his ‘under suspicion’ shit?” Jack asked, and looked down. His eyes met the horror near his feet – the uncovered body of Royce Lee. He whirled to t... ...h and mighty people in the town and county. Protecting their faded old glories and ancient honors was vital — certainly more important than finding... ...et attendant opened Johnelle’s door, while Clay got himself out to face the blustery east winds blowing off the Atlantic. He followed Johnelle into ... ...trash heap. She much preferred the Clay family plantation house, Nawithla. It was ancient and named for the Indian subtribe that sold the land to ... ... about — you and Laura Kate — on your way back to town?” “Royce getting killed. Ancient history. Laura Kate’s all right. She’s one of us.” “Ye...