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In an ancient time of the War of the Races pitted Man, Elf and Dwarf against the hordes of darkness, the last of the sorcerers of the Black Circle rises again. With his foul sorcery, Malkaar creates Brack, the Child of Darkness to assist him in his plans to conquer Erathym. Determined to fight to the end, Goldwen, the eleven wizard of the Council of Light, creates Malin, the Child of Light, to be champion of the forces of good. As Goldwen steps down as Eldest to teach his pupil, another is waiting to take his place. But it is not long before Goldwen learns the Council leader, Amberon, is secretly associating with Malkaar. As Brack becomes involved in a power struggle with Amberon, the Eleven-King Anarys and his daughter, Princess Willowen arrive. Soon, Malin falls desperately in love with her, but Malkaar orders Brack to bring Willowen to him. As a meeting ensues between all races to decide how to deal with Malkaar, Brack abducts the princess and Malin pursues him. But it is not until the two eleven brothers finally face each other that the fate of the world is decided.Brothers of Darkness and Light is an epic fantasy tale set in a world long past in which forces of good battle the darkness that threatens to engulf them all.

This is a mother writing about the people and major events in her life.The book began as a legacy for my children with prayer-poems which I have been writing for twenty years for my family's prayer-before-dinner each Thanksgiving. Each family member has a verse written about their year. On 9/11, I was working at New York-Presbyterian Hospital when the Towers were hit and my staff hurriedly prepared our Intensive Care Unit to receive victims. The horrible event resulted in the writing of a passionate poem which also is included. The deaths of three family members resulted in the writing of three elegies and a troubled period of life resulted in a lengthy passionate work. Spirituality and famiy history are the primary themes of the book. The bookfollows an enlarging family as it has grown and developed over twenty years.A number of works are devoted to solemn subjects, reflecting spirituality. There are a total of 22 poems. The poems are diverse, many are solemn, some aresacred, two are passionate and the Thanksgiving verses are true-to-life.

5 short stories written to enthrall readers. Each story is an adaptation of the author's life. Strange and twisted stories was written from true life events. It is a series of short stories that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Go along on the journey of Shiela. Enjoy the stories of the Storyteller. Be taken in by the Boy in the cupboard and Travel through the Land of chocolate and candy. Now make yourself a hot beverage, kick your feet up and settle in for Strange and Twisted Stories.

"UK author Helen Bevan's five decades of wide experience of the paranormal is shared clearly and honestly in her book Hauntings & Healings. Enjoy her stories and insights about:- •Residual energies - of locations and articles•Helping departed souls cross over into the light•Clairvoyance - successes and restraints•Animals and other creatures - and energy netting•Spirit guidance - and synchronicities•Healing - successes and restraints•Past lives - and their relevance to this life... and much more.Comments on the 2011 printed version of Hauntings & Healings:-"This book is totally un-putdownable - a wonderful read." J.L. Somerset, UK"I love your book, very informative and friendly, which is probably why I felt drawn to it. I am very interested in this subject but have avoided buying direct literature on it up to now. Just wanted to read the right thing first, it's a minefield out there." E.C. Bristol, UK"I loved the book and its kind of come at the right time as Ive been really getting into meditation and healing with a little group of friends over the last 6 months. Its answered a lot of the questions I had recently.I did spend ages online trying to find ways to close down meditation sessions and didn't really find anything but the info in the book is really good.I like the book as it was so honest. Lots of books like that are almost bragging about the experiences or gifts people have but yours is very refreshing." M.M. Newcastle-on-Tyne, UK"Helen Bevan's book draws on her interpretation of experiences over many decades. As a retired librarian of many years standing she writes well and it is easy to read. She benefits from a working partnership with her husband Keith who is also a healer and medium and I recommend it to anyone who finds the subject of interest." This 5 star review is from Amazon.co.uk by Snowflake 12 Feb 2012 "I wanted to write and let you know Helen how much I enjoyed your writings. Well written and very interesting to read. I especially related to the happenings from Central Library to around Beric's birth time because I remembered you telling me about it as it happened… What an interesting life you have had." H.C. Bristol, UKHelen Bevan has aimed her book at those who are interested in learning more of this through her wisdom and experience - not trying to convince hard-line sceptics but seeking to open minds, plant seeds and nurture them as they grow, helping people along their various spiritual paths."

Fictional fun that will instantly connect the reader with the main character. You will laugh, cry and cheer for him. There is drama, suspense, sex and will challenge your imagination into believing that this could really happen. A soon to be best-selling book in the making next to EL James Fifty Shades of Grey with a completely original hook. You will be entertained, there are some pages you will read, some you will ponder and some you will shed your tears in both joy and sadness. Enjoy your reading!

Though you are trying to win enough battles over your evil tendencies to win God's favor, according to the scriptures, you were born with a deceptive nature that has disqualified you from entering into heaven and which presently is blocking you from knowing this truth. This lack of integrity cannot be healed through improvements in environment, education, treatment, or even exorcism. To escape your entangled life and to re-ignite your hope of finding the right way, your fallen nature, that has been compelling you to do what you don't want to do, must be eradicated. But the only way in escaping your fallen nature is when it has been replaced with a new nature.Escaping Your Fallen Nature will challenge you to examine your heart to see if you have this new nature. If you already have it, you will discover through your examination which one of these two natures is in control of your life. Understanding the scripturally based explanations in this book will disentangle you from the many untruths that have hindered you from getting free from your fallen nature and, if already free, incite the flow of your new nature's "living water." You will appreciate your new heart when you learn of its ability to generate a power that outlasts your troubles, defeats your temptations, erupts your joy, and grows your assurance of eternal life.

Since birth, author Emrayel A'a Ra iry a'a has been blessed with psychic ability, and she was encouraged by her family to pursue that calling. Her skills came to a head when the angels took over and trained her to new levels. She began not only to hear the angels but to also see them. Those angels have become her friends. In The Angelus Transcripts, she shares a journal of the messages delivered by the angels for two years beginning in 2013. Enlightening and inspiring, the messages and visions encourage people to grow in mind and soul. The visions show how much more there is to the universe, and the messages help you grow outside the box of normal life. A mixture of humor, wisdom, lessons, and growth, the messages communicate love and inspiration from the angels and beyond. The Angelus Transcripts guides you on your journey to your destiny, ensuring you take the correct steps in life.

It's OK to Cry is a sentimental story of how one young boy who idolized his grandfather was faced with the untimely passing of Grampa Ben. Thanks to the quality time spent with Grampa Ben, Timmy already knew about heaven. It's a great book that helps our kids deal with losing someone dear to us! You will value your family more and the people who once take care of you! Read this book that your kids will enjoy!

Children An educational tool for parents at young children, preschool through 3rd grade to teach them what bullying is, how to identify it and the right way to put an end to it.¿¿ I am a poet, children's author and fictional novelist that knows emotions are best laid out on paper! I enjoy going to schools with my book and educating children on the dangers of bullying. I've shared it with kids K - through 6th grade, reading the book and answering questions about the book and about bullying. I also have a list of questions that I ask them about the book. It's inspirational how well they pay attention and enjoy the book.

Marilyn Benjamin Wassmann was born in a leap year and earned four degrees-two in art history, one in library science, and one in studio art. Before retiring in 2011, Marilyn worked as an art cataloger at the Library of Congress. She has illustrated and contributed to anthologies for the Greenbelt Writers Group. In 2016, she published Pen Scratching Poets: A Collection of One Family's Creative Pursuits with her husband Paul. Besides drawing and painting, Marilyn writes poetry in her spare time. She lives in Hyattsville, Maryland with her husband Paul, and some fish, one rabbit, one dog, and several cats.

This book gives an elaborate itinerary of the snake all over the planet. As far as the snake can remember, it all started in Athens,429BC: The snake convinced Pericles to prepare for a war against Sparta, in return for a fake attack on Athens. This resulted in an irrational and irreparable enmity between ancient Athens andSparta. The wars later became known as the Peloponnesian wars. In the year 69BC the snake arrived in Rome. It helped a conspiracy against the Republic and in favor of anEmpire. The first God-like Emperor was crowned. The snake reappeared 15 centuries later, in Madrid: there it assisted in the preparations ofthe Peace Treaty of Augsburg, which would tear up Europe in heavily frustrated Christiandenominations. Forth went the snake to Paris. In 1789 it convinced Robespierre to start a Revolution that would put him in power, at the cost of creating an irrational hatred between Catholics andLutherans. From Paris it moved to London, where in1814 it wrote the guidelines for the Congress of Vienna.The Habsburg Empire was torn into multiple pieces, each waging war one on another. Not yet satisfied, the snake showed up in Berlin, in1871: it provoked the Franco-Prussian war, whose unacceptable peace terms would eventually lead to WorldWar I. Its last moveoccurred in St.Petersburg,in 1881:the snake's assassination of Alexander II would prepare the ground for a Bolshevikuprising.More recently, the snake has intensified its rythm...

Rather than a book, this is pamphlet, meant to improve the social status of women. Amy woman right in her right mind obviously thinks "yea, written by a man, see you later!" However, recent brain research confirms what is known since the very birth of mankind, to wit, that female brains are on average more "empathizing" (E-wired) than male brians, which are are "systemizing" (S-wired). And believe it or not, in order to crank up the female social status, (i) a political war must be fought; and (ii) S-wired brains have an advantage over E-wired brains when it comes to fighting. Hence, women might give this book a try. If you do so, you will certainly not accept my solution. As a first reaction. Later on, while quietly thinking my arguments over, you might change your mind.

This book explains the nine fundamental discoveries of the 20th century, to wit (i) the "Big Bang" (cosmology); (ii) the origin of life (biology); (iii) the origin of human intelligence (genetics); (iv) the universal claim of fundamental rights (human behavior); (v) the origin of a US parasite larger than the US (economy); (vi) the origin of quantum choices (Bell's equations of quantum mechanics); (vii) the solution to Schrödinger Cat measurement problem (quantum hylemorphism); (viii) Gödel's proof of an inherent limitation of all mathematical constructs (number theory); (ix) the cheap museum science of Michael Tite (proof of the supernatural origin of the Holy Shroud). In this booklet the author explains to what extent these basic discoveries are in line with millennia old Catholic dogmas, and to what extent they are in opposition to present day Deism.

This booklet contains four chapters, which treat ingenuousness on an individual, professional, institutional, and collective level. The latter is also known as misguided patriotism. All these levels have in common that the people involved do not at all understand why the outsiders consider their views as ingenuous (naive). The key point I make in this book is that the largest danger for a country's future is an abundance of misguided patriots. In order to make "good patriots", as they obviously think of themselves, reconsider their deeply rooted world view, the booklet starts out at showing the insanity of adoring certain patriotic heroes. To begin with my own country, all Dutch heroes we have are pirates with an all but exemplary lifestyle (this holds for Spain and England, too). France has Napoleon. Spain has Philip II. Germany has Hitler. Please mind, I am writing about misguided patriotism. This is usually an extremely tiny percentage of the whole population. Yet, the message of this book is meant for all good patriots (that is, the large majority), not for the few misguided ones. The only people who can read this book are profoundly humble people, who do not get emotional when reading my many non-coinciding, unconventional, and sometimes hurting opinions.

There are many more similarities between the four Kennedy assassinations (JFK, RFK, EMK, and JFK jr.) then only the surnames. In this booklet the author presents the well-known historical facts surrounding all four assassinations. In the case of EMK a character murder is understood, which is no less a murder in ethical terms. It was not mere casual that EMK repeated the infamous question "are the Kennedys cursed?" Obviously they were not any more cursed than the average US family. EMK only repeated his enemy's words because he was heavily drugged, with a carefully studied substance that made him able to walk around and to perceive, but unable to act freely. A kind of hypnotization, one might say. What man, in full power of his mental abilities, would drive his car into a swamp, look on perplexed while his girlfriend was drowning, and next keep dwelling around the place where it all happened, as if waiting for an arrest?

The year is 1995, a few years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. This has led to a whole new way of life in former Soviet satellite countries like Slovakia. Mike Fox was privileged to accompany a group of students, who went out from the UK into the country, to experience a changing culture, as Slovakia enthusiastically emerged into the ways of the western world. The UK students also enjoyed their new-found social contacts with their Slovak student counterparts, a process that was no doubt aided by liberal access to 'pivo', which is the Slovak word for beer, and which became an appropriate strap line for the tour. It turned out to be a never-to-be forgotten experience.

It was a typical day of the week and two sisters decided to head to the mall. These girls were named Jennifer and Josie. They had not long turned 21. They prepared to head out when the phone rang. "Hi" Josie said. "Hi back" said her caller. Jennifer was getting antsy waiting for her sister to finish on the phone and decided to make a head start. "I'll meet you at the mall" she told Josie, who was giggling like a school girl. Which of course she thought she was. The two sisters were like chalk and cheese. They did however have one thing they liked in common. Shopping! Jennifer and Josie had been arguing earlier about the company Josie was keeping. She didn't seem to care if she was being taken for a ride. "When will she see what it is that he's doing?" Jennifer loved her little sister. She felt, since losing both their parents in a freak accident almost twelve years ago, that she had to be the one to look out for her and to ensure nothing bad happened to her. Jennifer felt that she was the smart one.The one who held it all together and kept them both grounded but, she didn't count on what was in store for her. This is her mystical miraculous story of how she met a total stranger who led her to meet her soulmate. Based on some true life events of the author.

At the outset of the Second World War on September 1, 1939, young Aussie diggers are rushed to assist Britain in its hour of need to the nearest European war zone in the Middle East and North Africa. My Uncle Arthur, young Arty is one of these a sapper with 6 years militia training as an army engineer. The ANZAC forces sweep through Libya, from Egypt to Benghazi, defeating superior numbers of heavily armed Italians the first Allied land victory of the war.Ill-equipped and lacking promised supplies, the ANZACs are then inappropriately redirected from North Africa to Greece to help the Greeks face the overwhelming German advance. Retreating to Crete, Arty is captured in the Battle of Crete and becomes a POW. I am motivated to visit the conflict zones of Gallipoli and to follow my uncles wartime exploits from the time of his capture in June 1941 until his third and final escape from a German work camp in Czechoslovakia in 1945.Modern day travel makes it possible to visit not only the more recent wartime scenes of Central Europe, but also to visit the sites of classical civilizations to discover the history, art and cultures of the Mediterranean. Accompanying me on my journey is Avril who was born in England and has vivid wartime memories of the conflict from her childhood.

The book commences with the hero as a young man just qualified as an air force pilot and moves on through his life describing various wars and major occurrences affecting his life. He is drafted to a USA carrier and then Vietnam, where he finishes military life. He studies medicine, assists the Flying Doctor Service, then develops a large market-garden export company with a Japanese partner. Here he finds the computer Orack, and life takes a different tack. The president of the USA discovers their talents and employs both of them in the White House. They become involved in Middle East politics, blackmail, and business corruption. His wife is assassinated, and again, his life changes. He meets his second wife back in Australia, and together, the basis of the other books of the trilogy is formed. Magic, illusion, and witchcraft enter the story where space travel, evil tycoons, and business manipulation become the normal.

Cruising the Latin Tapestry is a travelogue and adventure story of the MV Voyagers circumnavigation of South America in early 2013 as experienced by the author and his partner. It provides an interesting insight into the extraordinary beauty and colourful vigour of Latin America that a traveller can expect by visiting this fascinating continent.

Forestry touches on all aspects of human welfare in one way or another, which is why foresters need to play an active role in determining our collective agenda. Alastair Fraser, a lifelong forester and the co-founder of LTS International, a forestry consulting company, explains how forestry changes with political cycles and how foresters can promote healthy forests at all times. He explores critical issues such as: • forests and their connection to coal; • forest's role in combatting floods and climate change; • illegal logging in Indonesia, Laos, and elsewhere; • tactics to promote sustainable forestry management; • plantations as a solution to tropical deforestation. From pulping in Sweden and Brazil, paper mills in Greece and India, agroforestry in the Philippines, "pink" disease in India and oil bearing trees of Vietnam, no topic is off limits. Based on the author's life as a forester in dozens of countries, this account shows the breadth of forestry and makes a convincing case that forestry management needs to focus on managing change and achieving sustainability. Whether you're preparing to become a forester, already in the field, or involved with conservation, the environment or government, you'll be driven to action with Forestry Flavours of the Month

This is a true story about two Jack Russell's who lived in Berskhire with my me and my children. They truly had a wonderful life and I think you should read about them, what they got up to and they places they visited. When you hear other people saying it's a dogs life, they mean that they think that dogs have an easy life. Well that is not true as they are always guarding their owners as well as trying to enjoy themselves. They also met some interesting animals during their travels so why not read about them.

Sir Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Company, once claimed "I have proved Marx wrong". With that sentence he meant that Marx was a pessimist more than an economist. Indeed, his Motor Company provided a job to several hundreds of thousands of people in 2008. They were not mere industrial slaves, as Marx believed capitalism was compelled to produce, but they liked their jobs, because technological innovation provided enormous job diversity: quite the opposite of Charlie Chaplin's famous ¿yet historically obsolete by at least one century¿"Modern Times" criticizing industrialization. Americans did not suffer such heavy social injustices as their ancestors, the English slaves of industrialization. To the contrary: often they would have loved to have a slave-job, due to the many economic recessions. These recessions are quite unique in the history of industrialization. From their much too frequent occurrence, and their enormous unemployment numbers, these recessions are not normal. They show, by comparison to other countries, that a very influential and tightly organized bank mafia actively induced those recessions. A second point proven in this book, is the fact that the Swedish "Nobel Prizes" for economy, funded by the Swedish Royal Bank, are seriously flawed. These two facts take us directly to the American Federal Reserve System. The author proves an abysmal difference between what the FED claims to be, and what it is in reality. Many authors have done so already, as all proofs presented in this book are taken from them. The only tentative step taken in this book is its core argument: that the American debt to the FED is conspicuously absent in all presidential budgets and yearly reports, since the very foundation of the FED, in 1913.

James has just turned eighteen, and experiencing an insurmountable tragedy leads him to examine the meaning of life. While attempting to take his own, something happens that has never occurred in the history of humankind. A visitor changes the course of James's life and gives him the knowledge to solve the world's problems. While change is in progress, terrorists threaten this miraculous change, giving the world forty-eight hours to agree to their demands. The chase is on, and they are hunted halfway around the globe, but will it be too late to stop them?

Adventures of the Cabin Kids: 88 Mountain View Cir. is a fun book based on true events that took place at a vacation cabin in North Georgia. The author, Zachary Lipscomb (Little Bud), joins the rest of the cabin kids on the journey of conquering the island from their enemies, the field boys.