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...Laura Kate O'Connell left her life of excitement as an overseas news correspondent to return to her Georgia hometown to raise her two young cousins. When Royce Lee, Laura Kate's attorney, supposedly commits suicide, too many pieces of evidence tell a different...

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... Gerrie Ferris 2 THE LAURA KATE PLANTATION SERIES Book One When Serpents Die... ...by Gerrie Ferris ISBN 10: 1-936000-13-X ISBN 13: 978-1-936000-13-5 Published in the United States of America Publish Date: March 29, 2009 Edi... ...ISBN 10: 1-936000-13-X ISBN 13: 978-1-936000-13-5 Published in the United States of America Publish Date: March 29, 2009 Editor-In-Chief: Gai... ...opyright by Desert Breeze Publishing, Inc © 2009 All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by a... ... with soap and water,” Royce said, rubbing the tic in his left eye. “Ol’ Hiram’s a good man, or was. Vietnam vet. Shot up. We see to him.” “Poor... ...s mouth eased open into a smile of sorts. “Well, I don’t keep up with the news too good, but I’ll check in with a cousin who lives here in Roston. ... ...ite stick. “Mind if I…?” “It’s your house.” Hannah’s laughed sounded like a witch’s. “It was supposed to be, but it isn’t.” “Supposed to b... ...e his agitation. Who wouldn’t be agitated, he thought, as the black Lincoln headed north past peanut farms and pecan groves. He laid the folded new... ... By invitation only. People there you’d be surprised at. Not like those fights up north where a bunch of people crowd around and bet a few dollars...

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...Excerpt: Towards three o?clock in the afternoon of one October day in the year 1844, a man of sixty or thereabouts, whom anybody might have credited with more than his actual age, was walking along the Boulevard des Italians with his head bent down, as if he ...

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...n Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...expression about the mouth—he looked like a mer- chant who has just done a good stroke of business, or a bach- elor emerging from a boudoir in the bes... ...ibed as a “charming man” (after he had done some fair lady a service), his good fortune went no further than words. It was between the years 1810 and ... ...t a hundred and fifty thousand francs, the savings of a lifetime. With its north aspect, the house looks gloomy enough seen from the street, but the b... ...s the profession or calling of the man in the street. The mysteries of the witches’ Sabbath, so wonderfully painted in the sixteenth century, are no m... ...self. Adrien Brauwer might have painted just such a hag for his picture of Witches starting for the Sabbath; a stout, unwholesome slattern, five feet ...

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...Excerpt: I had taken Mrs. Prest into my confidence; in truth without her I should have made but little advance, for the fruitful idea in the whole business dropped from her friendly lips. It was she who invented the short cut, who severed the Gordian knot. It is not supposed to be the nature of women to rise as a general thing to the large...

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...Papers by Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Aspern Papers by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...SICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Aspern Papers by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... been established in Venice for fifteen years and had done a great deal of good there; but the circle of her benevolence did not include the two shy, ... ... are afraid of the Misses Bordereau. I daresay they have the reputation of witches.” I forget what answer I made to this—I was given up to two other r... ...—I had never heard of such a waste of material. I saw in a moment that the good lady had never before been spoken to in that way, with a kind of humor... ...stake), from the last violence of self-exposure. She was such a subtle old witch that one could never tell where one stood with her. You may imag- ine... ...y to the cemetery, the little red-walled island of tombs which lies to the north of the town, on the way to Murano. It appeared from these circumstanc...

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...Excerpt: Certain persons have interrogated the author as to why there was such a demand for these tales that no year passes without his giving an installment of them, and why he has lately taken to writing commas mixed up with bad syllables, at which the ladies public...

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.............................................................. 9 CONCERNING A PROVOST WHO DID NOT RECOGNISE THINGS............................. 25 ABOUT THE MONK AMADOR, WHO WAS A GLORIOUS ABBOT OF TURPENAY... 34 BERTHA THE PENITENT .......................................................................................................... 51 I HOW BERTHA REMAINED A MAIDEN IN T...

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...DROLL STORIES COLLECTED FROM THE ABBEYS OF TOURAINE VOLUME III: THE THIRD TEN TALES by HONORE DE BALZAC ... ...DROLL STORIES COLLECTED FROM THE ABBEYS OF TOURAINE VOLUME III: THE THIRD TEN TALES by HONORE DE BALZAC THIRD TEN T... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine: Volume Three: The Third Ten Tales by Honore de Balz... ...ronic Classics Series Publication Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine: Volume Three: The Third Ten Tales by Honore de Balzac is a pub... ...y an evil spirit, and thus keep themselves virtuous. Do you understand, my good reapers of horns? It is better to be deceived by the tale of a book th... ...h signifies, “Joy it is not of the earth, it is there; seize it, otherwise good-bye.” The author has this interpretation 6 Balzac from Rabelais, who ... ... of riding to nocturnal orgies on a broomstick, according to the custom of witches. Certain per- sons had seen her putting the harness on her broom in... ...en, and that if he wished a wife for show only, he should get her from the north of Germany, where the women are as cold as ice. The good knight came ...

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...‘Jarek’ takes a tongue in cheek swipe at the extreme elements of 'women’s liberation', while offering a serious alternative to the way we currently teach our children. ...

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...Chapter 1. Zeno Skinny-dipping with Raylene’s friends was not Zeno’s idea of a fun night out. He’d only agreed because he wanted to seem tough, and hoped if he felt her up in the water and fucked her afterwards her mates would stop spreading rumours he was queer. The cars screeched to a halt at th...

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Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Four.

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...Contents THE DEVIL IN THE BELFRY ................................................................................................................................... 4 LIONIZING ............................................................

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...z by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...y Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ys earlier. The wind of a riot is always enough to veer the Parisians from north to south under any regime. It is necessary to remember these sudden f... ... year 900 the family of the Laginski was among the most illustrious of the North. By an act of prudence which was very unPolish, the mother of the you... ...selling the sus- pected secret. It is always wise with a woman to get some good out of a mystery; she will like you the better for it, as a swindler r... ...he count, the little Pole with his pinched face and the stalwart soldier. “Good morning, Adam,” he said familiarly. Then he bowed courteously as he as... ... noisy as the disorderly audience, and to set the time for the galop, that witches’ dance, which was one of Auber’s triumphs, for it did not really ta...

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...n by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...y Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... TION T o a Polish Lady. Daughter of an enslaved land, angel through love, witch through fancy, child by faith, aged by experience, man in brain, woma... ...tal designs glowed and shimmered. The dining-room was entirely sheathed in Northern woods carved and cut in open-work like the beautiful Russian chale... ...n refused. Havre itself began to grow uneasy at the man’s obstinacy, and a good many persons explained it by the phrase, “Dumay is a Breton.” As for t... ...les loved Bettina Wallenrod as much as she loved him, and that is saying a good deal; but when a Provencal is moved to en- thusiasm all his feelings a... ...art, Your handmaiden, O. d’Este M. To Mademoiselle O. d’Este M.,—You are a witch, a spirit, and I love you! Is that what you desire of me, most origi-...

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Excerpt: The Volsunga Saga translated by William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson (1888).

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.........................................................5 TRANSLATORS? PREFACE.......................................................................23 THE STORY OF THE VOLSUNGS AND NIBLUNGS.............................26 APPENDIX:.................................................................................................132 EXCERPTS FROM THE POETIC EDDA...................

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...Introduction: The enterprise of messrs. T. Nelson & Sons and the friendly accommodation of Messrs. Macmillan render possible this collection in one cover of all the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again. Except for the ...

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...Contents INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................. 5 THE JILTING OF JANE ................................................................................10 THE CONE.....................................................................................................16 THE STOLEN...

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...A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR being observations or memorials of the most remarkable o... ...A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR being observations or memorials of the most remarkable occu... ...le occurrences, as well public as private, which happened in London during the last great visitation in 1665. Written by a Citizen who continued all t... ...lic before. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ..., it was brought, some said from Italy, others from the Levant, among some goods which were brought home by their T urkey fleet; others said it was br... ...and the city grew healthy , and everybody began to look upon the danger as good as over; only that still the burials in St Giles’s continued high. Fro... ...t midway between Aldgate Church and Whitechappel Bars, on the left hand or north side of the street; and as the distemper had not reached to that side... ... strait as to a place where to go, having several friends and relations in Northamptonshire, whence our family first came from; and particularly , I h... ...remes of folly; and, as I have said before, that they ran to conjurers and witches, and all sorts of deceivers, to know what should be- come of them (...

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................ 5 BUTTON?S IN PALL MALL.............................................................................................................. 9 THE CONDEMNED CELL. ..............................................................................................................12 CODLINGSBY ....................................................................................

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