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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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...r your consideration © 2006-2007 All Rights Reserved Based on hundreds of newly-discovered documents in archives the world over – now … ... ...hives the world over – now … THE HITLER FILE Israel Sarid Roth is the only son of two survivors of the Holocaust. When his boss at the Genocide... ... sends him to Israel on a routine assignment, he finds himself at the deadly center of a nightmare. • What is on the floppy disk he picked up in J... ...e equanimity harrowing. “They are all in German, or Polish, or other godforsaken languages. Hard to believe people actually speak them. I couldn’... ...r fought our brothers, the English and we should have signed a peace agreement with France, not an armistice. We should have been more generous towa... ...: the Soviet Union. They were all over Europe, closing fast on Germany, Italy, even France. Stalin’s methods didn’t seem to differ much from Hitler’... ...enior Nazi Party members set up ratlines: networks that operated in Austria, Italy, France, and Spain. They provided safe houses, transportation, fo...

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...Beside a riverbed, an old man sits lost in his thoughts; he is SEATTLE, Chief of the Suqamish Indians. He remembers his boyhood when his grandfather foretold him of his destiny, when he was told of the Web Of Life and his duties as it's protector. The Web of Life, they believe, is the symbiotic connect...

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...Excerpt: When, in March, 1832, the first volume of the now famous Contes Drolatiques was published by Gosselin of Paris, Balzac, in a short preface, written in the publisher?s name, replied to those attacks which he anticipated certain critics would make upon his hardy exp...

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...OW AND BY WHOM THE SAID CHILD WAS PROCURED. ................................................................... 44 HOW THE SAID LOVE-SIN WAS REPENTED OF AND LED TO GREAT MOURNING. ...................... 49 THE KING?S SWEETHEART ...................................................................................................... 54 THE DEVIL?S HEIR............................

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...st T en T ales by Honore de Balzac Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Droll Stor... ...ries, Volume One: The First Ten Tales by Honore de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...losopher, archaeologist, and anatomist, and each in no ordinary degree. In France, his work has long been regarded as a classic—as a faithful picture ... ...contrary, given as close a translation as the dissimi- larities of the two languages permit. With this idea, no at- tempt had been made to polish or r... ...s than any other, and which has furnished a good share of men of renown in France, as witness the departed Courier of piquant memory; Verville, author... ... day, who wish to take their pleasure gravely—a custom which suits our Gay France as much as a water jug would the head of a queen. Since laughter is ... ...of birds; suddenly she discovered the sweet mystery of love written in all languages, even in that of the Carps’. Is it not silly thus to seal this sc... ...y allows herself to be seen at certain times. Do you understand? So in all languages does she belong to the feminine gender, being a thing essentially...

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...Prologue: Certain persons have reproached the Author for knowing no more about the language of the olden times than hares do of telling stories. Formerly these people would have been vilified, called cannibals, churls, and sycophants, and Gomorrah would have been hinted at as their natal place. But the Author consen...

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...Contents THE THREE CLERKS OF ST. NICHOLAS ................................................................................. 8 THE CONTINENCE OF KING FRANCIS THE FIRST............................................................ 19 THE MERRY TATTLE OF T...

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...e is no telling how much he does weigh when he is out on the war-path and has his batteries belted on. He is over six feet, is young, hasn?t an ounce of waste flesh, is straight, graceful, springy in his motions, quick as a cat, and has a handsome face, and black hair dangling down on his shoulders, and is beautiful to look at; and nobody is braver than he is, and nobody i...

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...Preface: In writing this ponderous tome, the author?s desire has been to describe the eminent characters and remarkable events of our annals in such a form and style that the young may make acquaintance with them of their own accord. For this purpose, while ostensibly relating the adventures of a chair, he has endeavored to keep a distinct and unbrok...

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Excerpt: Unknown To History A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scottland by Charlotte M Yonge.

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...From my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth. It was this: the knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I never could account. The effect was, that it reflected back upon the murder a peculiar awfulness and a depth of solemnity; yet, however obstinately I endeavored with my...

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...Excerpt: ACT I. SCENE I. The king of Navarre?s park. [Enter FERDINAND king of Navarre, BIRON, LONGAVILLE and DUMAIN.] FERDINAND: Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, Live register?d upon our brazen tombs And then grace us in the disgrace of death; Wh...

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