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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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...idues of that great conflagration, the Holocaust. After the War, they met as two near-skeletons in a DP camp - that’s a Displaced Persons facilit... ...t it or was the data merely corrupt? Maybe the file could be opened by one of those ancient word-processing applications still in use only by my mot... ... Jews betrayed their own! This is what forced us to adopt desperate measures in the East! The Jews themselves would not accept their own race and bl... ...ficers. They operated after the war mainly In Europe, South America, and the Middle East. They are supposed to have been concerned with the smugglin... ...er. His boss instructed him to construct a string of extermination camps across the eastern territories. He told his subordinate: ‘The Fuehrer has o... ...hugs broke his neck, shot three bullets into his heart, and dumped him in a forest near Munich. He may have known the truth about the kinky relation... ... to do your duty as a Jew and hand over the third disk to us. April 2007 is drawing near. We need time to foil their plans, whatever they are.” I...

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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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...ey were all real. He then looked around the room; his eyes focused on what appeared to be ancient maps and artifacts from distant places and times. ... ...it means?” “It means he met a lot with this Zlatamir.” Brand looked at his watch, it was nearly midnight. “I think we could use some sleep. We’ll ta... ... - J.Cross/Stone 80 CHAPTER 10 The morning was crisp and clear; an easterly wind had swept away the clouds leaving the Capita... ... the library -- tall, strong and handsome. She removed her shoes, and curled up on a sofa near the fire, placing her legs under her and leaned agains... ... strength.” After three hours, they had drug the four bodies, and the six dogs out to a nearby pasture, and buried them. Susan wept as they buried... ...” The night was crisp as Brand exited the embassy, and dark clouds were gathering just east of the city. He hailed a taxi, and had it stop two blo... ... drove to Director Thames’ residence, a street with a row brownstone houses standing like ancient edifices. He parked his car in the shadows of over... ...e compromise?” “The planet would be divided equally into three parts. All of Western and Eastern Europe to the Russians, the Chinese would take all... ...ice,” she said. “The room feels cold.” “That’s quite a wind,” Brand said as he heard the ancient windows rattle. “The fire will take the chill out....

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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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...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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... back to life in a finely crafted novel that reveals her sense of beauty, her loves, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a careful study of ancient Greece and Sappho’s surviving fragments of poetry, Bartlett recreates Sappho in a lyrical account of the life, passion, fears, and faith of this remarkable woman whose intimate journal takes us back to 642 B.C. T...

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... her loves, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a careful study of ancient Greece and Sappho’s surviving fragments of poetry, Bartlett recre... ...ght, and times of the Greek poet Sappho of Lesbos, based on a study of ancient Greece and Sappho's surviving fragments of poetry"--Provided by... ...le task of reconstructing the personality of Sappho and her background in ancient Lesbos. To my happy surprise he did so, in a work which is at once... ...hard, and I must go to bed. P Yesterday, the wine workers gathered at a nearby vineyard, old men and girls, in tattered clothes, some lazy, some h... ... said I would repay you.” T VOICES FROM THE PAST 24 “But that was nearly two years ago. And you go right on selling wine and buying equipmen... ... indoors. SAPPHO’S JOURNAL 41 Only in the garden is there shelter, near the fountain. An angle of the house shuts off the strongest blasts. ... ...cumstances of their tell- ing. How he loved travelers, especially from the East. I see Aesop on his balcony, the wind making him blink his eyes; he h...

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... dragons' terraforming the Gobi from sea to land (historically accurate) in a desire for power and amid excessive pride. In doing so, they release an ancient enemy and their bane, the Azghun Demons, that had driven them into the sea in the first place. The problem is that the dragons have grown lazy and dumb, and while they once had a cadre of sorcerers to call upon, they ...

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...desire for power and amid excessive pride. In doing so, they release an ancient enemy and their bane, the Azghun Demons, that had driven them into... ...Y Roger C. Schlobin is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at East Carolina University and Professor Emeritus of Purdue University. He ... ...and Kuan-ti, after a lifetime of study, couldn't decipher all of the most ancient ones. What is clear is that we ran from dread beings that had evo... ..."Stop the doom and gloom. Will you help me out with this?" "Do you know ancient writings tell of telepathic links between lovers." "Right. I've ... ...iasm. Yolbas' majestic voice filled the palace, stilling even Chih-nil's near hysterical complaint. "Fellow dragons! My friends! Are you ready?"... ...d them or in them. No creatures will ever come to drink; none will breed near their shores. As the sun beats on the water, it'll just become more ... ...!" Nü-kua was shocked by Ao Rue's vehemence. "I don't want you anywhere near Lei-kung ever again! That goes for the muscle-bound lout Erh-lang to... ...deep trouble this time! "My Lord Chu, Teacher of the Great, Light of the East, Wisest of the Wise, may I enter." His nod was almost imperceptible....

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...el next to his private quarters. The dark chapel was dimly lit by a row of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows across the ancient altar. The Pope knelt his thin, angular body before it; his white cassock cascaded across the red, soft cushion. He gently entwined the ebony rosary beads between his fingers, crossed himself in the supplicant tradit...

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...of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows across the ancient altar. The Pope knelt his thin, angular body before it; his wh... ...voice rose into a cadence of a Gregorian chant, the beauty of the alliterated ancient Latin echoed through the chapel like a spiritual sonnet. As h... ... Antonio?” he asked. “Of course, Holy Father,” he replied and sat down in an ancient wooden chair. “Antonio,” the Pope began with a smile, “tell m... ...as obvious. Walter fell backwards onto a wooden framed chair, his huge bulk nearly collapsing it. He put his hands on his head, and his head betwe... ..., he could smell the scent of the season’s last budding fruit coming from the nearby orchards. Antonio took his time, savoring everything. His fam... ...om his waist, and then ran down the steps to greet him. His father hugged him nearly lifting him off his feet. The force of the hug caused Antonio's ... ...e facing the Alliance. The real debate would begin later in the year when the Eastern Block Nations would be pushing hard for full membership into t... ... into the states." "With a limited supply of drugs, what will happen on the East coast? The 196 J.Cross/Artemis Russians and the Puerto Rican... ...y'll go after first?" he asked. "My guess would be the Puerto Ricans on the Eastern seaboard -- from New York to Florida. The Russians want contro...

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...l befall them. This is a world-view never proposed before, in either the East or the West. There is no god to offer either rewards or punishment, ... ...old Dolius... ... who immediately will tell Laertes everything and stay near him (Od. IV, 735-738) This to me seems like a scene she makes so a... ...he has found the secret to immortality. 50 There was another king in ancient times that shared this same burning desire and that travelled tir... ...the beach of Ithaca Athena tells Ulysses: whenever you face danger I am near you and I save you, and I made all the Phaeacians love you. Now I... ...lysses’ journey by sea unwinds like a labyrinth that twists and turns from east to west and from north to south. At almost every turn of this labyrin... ...w much can the love we receive help us, if we do not free ourselves of the ancient hatred we carry within ourselves? This story reminds me of the ... ...e to try to understand what the Sirens are singing, as many have done from ancient times until today. Only the laws of biological growth manage to ... ...itten in the West and the teachings of Buddha were put into writing in the East. This means it was written between the sixth and seventh century B.C... ...ere the serpent is curled. 92 The young monk observes all of this and he nears the woman, but he is incapable of saying even one word of comfort o...

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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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...irely fresh ideas." Buzzable and Buzzalicious! ~Buzzy Buzzelle.com "Merging ancient civilization with current technology, Ms. Lindley creates ... ...verjoyed to finally see her out and playing again. He peered up at the window near the top of the rectangular castle-like structure. The fortre... ...ike structure. The fortress, like many of the new structures, harkened back to the ancient days before the war. Its mixture of societies: Ancient Eg... ...e ancient days before the war. Its mixture of societies: Ancient Egyptian, the Far East, Medieval Europe wove into every aspect of the people of Orl... ...e peered over her shoulder to look into his round, warm eyes. “I saw Saria playing nearby.” He craned his neck over the windowsill and she follo... ...rn to defend it?” He moved away from his wife and crossed the room to his desk near the fireplace. Silence filled the air except for the sound o...

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...t, these bronze doors of Kino depicted the age of civilization in both the East and the West. There were the depictions of Lao Tzu and Confucius fro... ... and the West. There were the depictions of Lao Tzu and Confucius from the East. There were the portrayals of the pharaohs' cultures. There was homag... ...chievements of the university at Timbuktu and to the Muslim scholars to its east. There was a history of great philosophers of Greece—Democritus, Ari... ...―World cotton prices have never been lower but American cotton farmers earn nearly twice as much for their crops because of the subsidies. And the su... ...ueen Elizabeth receives well over a million dollars a year, Prince Charles nearly half a million. Other royals receive hefty subsidies for farms that... ...handout. About $200,000,000 a year goes to people who don‘t farm. Some make nearly a half a million dollars a year for owning land that was once far... ...nt in China, has no modern historical equivalent. While the warriors of ancient Sparta may have challenged their newborns to test the elements on... ...ons of an enlightened democracy for all the people. Whether we look at the ancient Athenians‘ democracy only for the male citizens, or the thinkers ... ...God idea brought with it suspicions, wars and enslavements. Even today the ancient Jewish approach of over 3000 years arouses prejudice and even hate...

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...e sky to cool the 110 to 120 degree furnace that roasted and parched this ancient plain. There were no sacred cows blocking our way. This count... ...untry was too poor to support the Brahma bulls that wandered aimlessly in nearby India. So our driver didn’t need to cow- tow to the bulls as Indian ... ..., India, Mexico and parts of South America have the potential problem.(2) Nearly all of these problems have affected us at one time or another. ... ... less when you think of compounded yearly increases. But when you look at East Asia the gross domestic product had an annual growth rate of 6.4% and... ...tion. This means that a recession in the West is a depression here in the East. ―I have heard it said that the poor will always be with us. What... ...ile China was used as a source for cheap labor, India‘s advantages were a nearly universal use of English by the educated classes and its more advan... ...but less aid is being given for food. With 4% of the world‘s population, East Africa gets 20% of the food aid, and Africa as a whole, with 7% of th... ...hey will have to rely on their children for their old age care—just as our ancient traditions required. ―Factories have also been set up for t... ...mocracy. ―You have loud authoritative voices claiming the truth of ancient religious myths of an ancient illiterate people over the findings ...

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...Yes, Con.‖ --―I remember taking a graduate class in economics from Dr. Easterlin at USC. He had been researching happiness related to income. I r... ...y to add a room to their house or to buy a bigger car. In Europe they will nearly always opt for a vacation when they could otherwise work. People in... ... ‗values‘ and broaden the general meaning of ‗morals‘ so that they will be nearly identical. So when I speak of ‗morals‘ or ‗values‘ I may be speakin... ... ―On my voyage I was accompanied by CDs containing the great books of the East and the West. I read the Bible and the Koran several times. I read Ari... ...way to protect their state is to attack their enemies and people who live near those enemies to show that you don‘t mess with Israel—rather than the... ...torical evidence we have to account for the bias of the author. Then with ancient historical documents we have to be concerned with the biases of th... ...cism is also made of the Bible, of the works of Josephus and of all other ancient texts. Sometimes it is a question as to whether the authors to whic... ...he observation of scientists has told us that the sun always rises in the east. BUT, what about tomorrow? Can I be absolutely certain that it will? ... ...on that there is uniformity in nature. Science cannot give certainty. The ancient Greek "scientists" could look at the sky and realize that the sun ...

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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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...three months of salary or $10,000, whichever was greater. Not many people near the 110 level took advantage of this. But by the time you got to the 1... ...s which do exist are amply satisfied. But are they happy? "Yes" is the nearly universal answer. They are the most prosperous people on earth. The... ... was less likely to have the procedure. When there is no cost, there is a nearly universal patient eagerness for treatment. “I‟m sure you know... ...s leaders bring up religion to make their points. But we don‟t accept the ancient values that don‟t make sense today. For example, the words of Menc... ...med Islam.” —“But the more educated men and women in the Middle East are generally pushing for women‟s equality and democracy. Politicians... ... reform and democratization will improve the status of women in the Middle East. Women are driving forward democratic freedoms as they fight for thei... ...n‟t like change.” 40 —“Ya, like He accepted pornography for the ancient Greeks and Romans, but He changed his mind for modern day America.... ... American adults, want to win—often at any cost. The Soviet Union and the East Block countries took it several steps farther in Olympic competition ... ...a partnership or a marriage as indentured servitude, slavery or any other ancient arrangement. So there‟s no reason to pay somebody who voluntarily ...