What do you do when the Mist Spirits reach for you in the forest glades? How do young hunters learn to hunt? How do you stay out of trouble, to live another day? Where did The People come from?Were Neanderthals the knuckled dragging, hirsute, chest beating, embarrassing cousin of Humans or were they intelligent, forbearing survivalists?What does it take to live in a Neanderthal world?Karen and her friends Jimmy, Doug and David were avid ghost hunters in their town. They were always excited to find a new location that no other ghost hunters had explored. As Karen and her friends were driving around after midnight on a windy night bored of not being able to find a new location, they were about to give up and David said, "Stop! Doug replied, "You scared the crap out of me. I almost ran the car off the road.""Sorry, but I just remembered when I was just a little boy, I used to walk down this old dirt road with my best friend Tommy, and we used to read the writings on the tombstones. Tommy told me that a family of Witches were buried in this unmarked cemetery. Of course, I had nightmares quite frequently that the family of Witches would come out of their graves and kill me someday. But when I got a little older, my friend Tommy told me he made the story up just to scare me since I was so much younger than he was. He knew I was a scaredy cat and would probably have nightmares. Boy was he right, I had so many nightmares about that cemetery that I wouldn't step foot on that dirt road if you gave me a million dollars. Now that I'm so much older now and not afraid of any ghosts, I think it would be pretty cool to check out the cemetery I was so afraid of so long ago," explained David. Views: 782
Young, passionate, and courageous boys are taught valuable lessons in a magical season that interjects into their personal lives this wonderful game we call baseball. In the intersection of their lives with the game of Little League baseball will they be able to take home the biggest prize of all?When Little League baseball players take the field nothing else matters. Who you are and where you come from is cast aside when these young 10 - 13 year old ballplayers hear the umpire cry out, "Play Ball." Can a little talent, lots of guts, and a dose of baseball sense allow these young players to become a team and make it a season to remember?In this true to life story, a season of Little League baseball takes center stage in the lives of young 10 - 13 year old ball players. Michael cannot wait for the first game to begin but he recognizes some festering tension. Their ace pitcher has a fastball that sings, yet Carlos the catcher and Jake the right fielder want to clash when they should be clicking. What will it take for these young baseball players to set aside their differences? Can they do it in time with the big game approaching?Young and courageous 10 -13 year old baseball players are taught valuable lessons in a magical summer that interjects into their personal lives the wonderful game called Little League baseball.In the intersection of their lives with the game of Little League baseball will they be able to take home the biggest prize of all? Views: 778
Not an ambush. Not a battle. But the final confrontation: War.
In this last chapter in the great of the Guardians of Ga'Hoole the Striga and Nyra join to conjure a malignant power from hagsmire itself. When news of their alliance reaches the Great Ga'Hoole Tree the Guardians call to good creatures everywhere: gadfeathers, kraals, polar bears, greenowls,puffins, seagulls, and dire wolves. An army of free creatures marches, swims, and flies to the Hot Gates of the Beyond, where the fate of the six owl kingdoms will be decided once and for all. Views: 777
The escape of a desperate career criminal invades Agent Margaret Crawford life in the most damaging way. Once again a serial killer is loosed upon the public with only the skills of F.B.I.’s top profiler to stop the flow of blood that spreads across the country. Straddle your “Hog” and twist the throttle against the stop as your roar once again into the night.Here is the continuation of the saga of Agent Margaret Crawford and her novelist turned amateur snoop boyfriend. The escape of a desperate career criminal invades her life in the most damaging way. Once again a serial killer is loosed upon the public with only the skills of F.B.I.’s top profiler to stop the flow of blood that spreads across the country. Straddle your “Hog” and twist the throttle against the stop as your roar once again into the night. Over 500 downloads of the Agent Crawford stories Views: 777
First published in 1963, James A. Michener’s gripping chronicle of the social and political landscape of Afghanistan is more relevant now than ever. Combining fact with riveting adventure and intrigue, Michener follows a military man tasked, in the years after World War II, with a dangerous assignment: finding and returning a young American woman living in Afghanistan to her distraught family after she suddenly and mysteriously disappears. A timeless tale of love and emotional drama set against the backdrop of one of the most important countries in the world today, Caravans captures the tension of the postwar period, the sweep of Afghanistan’s remarkable history, and the inescapable allure of the past.
Praise for Caravans
“Brilliant . . . an extraordinary novel . . . The old nomadic trails across the mountains spring into existence.”—The New York Times
“Romantic and adventurous . . . [Michener] has a wonderful empathy for the wild and free and an understanding of the reasons behind the kind of cruelty that goes with it.”—Newsday
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“Michener has done for Afghanistan what . . . his first [book] did for the South Pacific.”—*The New York Herald Tribune Views: 773
During the fateful quarter century leading up to World War I, the climax of a century of rapid, unprecedented change, a privileged few enjoyed Olympian luxury as the underclass was “heaving in its pain, its power, and its hate.” In The Proud Tower, Barbara W. Tuchman brings the era to vivid life: the decline of the Edwardian aristocracy; the Anarchists of Europe and America; Germany and its self-depicted hero, Richard Strauss; Diaghilev’s Russian ballet and Stravinsky’s music; the Dreyfus Affair; the Peace Conferences in The Hague; and the enthusiasm and tragedy of Socialism, epitomized by the assassination of Jean Jaurès on the night the Great War began and an epoch came to a close. Views: 773
A pale young man, looking twice his age, manages a vast complex of apartments. The residents despise him for his apparent weakness. What they don't know might lead them to see him differently if it were not for the legacy of his father.Betrayed is not a true story, but it was inspired by one. All the characters are invented, some are composites of real people, and aspects of the story - including the ending - were fictionalized for dramatic effect. Views: 773
Modern India is the world's largest democracy, a sprawling, polyglot nation containing one-sixth of all humankind. The existence of such a complex and distinctive democratic regime qualifies as one of the world's bona fide political miracles. Furthermore, India's leading political thinkers have often served as its most influential political actors--think of Gandhi, whose collected works run to more than ninety volumes, or Ambedkar, or Nehru, who recorded their most eloquent theoretical reflections at the same time as they strove to set the delicate machinery of Indian democracy on a coherent and just path. Out of the speeches and writings of these thinker-activists, Ramachandra Guha has built the first major anthology of Indian social and political thought. Makers of Modern India collects the work of nineteen of India's foremost generators of political sentiment, from those whose names command instant global recognition to pioneering subaltern and feminist thinkers whose works have until now remained obscure and inaccessible. Views: 771
The story of England’s medieval queens is vivid and stirring, packed with tragedy, high drama and even comedy. It is a chronicle of love, murder, war and betrayal, filled with passion, intrigue and sorrow, peopled by a cast of heroines, villains, stateswomen and lovers. In the first volume of this epic new series, Alison Weir strips away centuries of romantic mythology and prejudice to reveal the lives of England’s queens in the century after the Norman Conquest.
Beginning with Matilda of Flanders, who supported William the Conqueror in his invasion of England in 1066, and culminating in the turbulent life of the Empress Maud, who claimed to be queen of England in her own right and fought a bitter war to that end, the five Norman queens emerge as hugely influential figures and fascinating characters.
Much more than a series of individual biographies, Queens of the Conquest is a seamless tale of interconnected lives and a rich portrait of English history in a time of flux. In Alison Weir’s hands these five extraordinary women reclaim their rightful roles at the centre of English history. Views: 770
The human world on the day of World peace receives devastating news. Our once unknown protectors have been attacked and defeated; the world now stands alone against unstoppable world invading aliens. In the city of New York, Mark Young leads an extraordinary effort to save the day, but commander Zolt of the alien forces will not let him have his way.I set myself the goal of writing 1000 poems, about one per day, and this is my fourth volume towards that specific goal. This collection is by no means an autobiographical diary with any quantity of accuracy, but I cannot deny how these poems wouldn’t have a specific reason why it particularly was written on that very day.The topics I handle can be summed up as popular culture, events, politics, memes, and even controversial issues with controversial stance. Hence the poem tittles may seem spot on or even entirely misleading. Anyhow, this volume contains the following poems:'Festival of Dangerous Idea(logue)s'The Shepherd's CrownYi-Fen Chou'Free Speech Fundamentalist'On That Third Party TrollDammit honeyThe obscurity of self publishingThat Skull of MineLiving in denial#PC PrincipalThe Three Stories Before MeBeetroot HamburgerBaby PenguinsJob Interviews: Awkward Flirtations of DenialA book that remains unfinished#ShoutYourAbortion?'S' On My Forehead (For a Superhero Novel?)Nigga Fried Chicken (NFC)“Cyber VAWG?”Kollektivet Music Video: 'Kygo's Confession'Feminists and Sex RobotsAccusation: Rape ApologistFinland's 'Ruined' ReputationTrains and SnowMustardWords Have MeaningAftermath of a ShootingThat No Man's Sky (For science fiction novel)The Amber Rose Slut WalkThe First Day of AutumnThe life as it is#NationalPoetryDayThe perks of being an art teacherThe MartianA Queen's Buttock (For a fantasy novel)Comment SectionsMy role in #GamerGate?Death of a ComputerUN picks fight with gamers?Jar or PicklesThe news of todayA poem a dayBattle of Ideas#CocksNotGlocks?The Canadian Prime Minister'Mean'Kiss of a Rose (For a fantasy novel)Trailer: Star Wars – The Force Awakens#SavePointSchool Attack in TrollhättanNo poem todayPrioritiesOnline Fish BaitAn update on #SavePointLardship TroopersHello (For A Science Fiction Novel)Paedophilia#SavePoint is back, sort of?#OpForgiveWhen the word 'too' is too 'sexist'Jessica Jones – Purple ManSupergirlI do not feel like thinkingAnd something slightly more joyousPeople Online“#GamerGate movie”Super Cheese Bacon HamburgerA poem in ten in minutes“69”Orcas in Plastic BagsUnbearable HoneyPeach Flavoured Ice TeaAftermath of Paris#SavePoint, A Full CircleOf boxes of chocolates and jars of jalapeñosFallout 4, an author's baneSköll (For a Fantasy Novel)#IStandWithStarkeyWhere are you dogmeat?When snow and rain fall#Freedom of TweetsFeminists and Daleks, kindred spiritsYar-harDead or Alive, a volleyball gameTwenty-eight wordsAt the 'end' of Fallout 4 (Spoilers, duh.)Just DanceFallout 4 - Road GogglesShe cannot ride a bicycleRealistic Fish Pencil CaseMidnight Cleaning“On the right side of history”Twitter's CensorshipSay it againLove of All ThingsDie Clara Die, on Doctor WhoThe Modern News of the Political LeftDecember RainsThat Malaysian Prime MinisterAnd a fourth hundred Views: 770
"The Master Game" is a roller-coaster intellectual journey through the back streets and rat runs of history to uncover the traces in architecture and monuments of a secret religion that has shaped the world.
Pivotal historical events and processes, not least the Renaissance, the birth of scientific rationalism, and the French and American revolutions, are radically re-evaluated in the light of new investigative evidence presented in "The Master Game." Even the belief that the United States has a "global mission," so obvious today, may ultimately prove to be less the result of a short-term reaction to terrorism than the inevitable working out of a covert plan originally set in motion almost two thousand years ago.
"The Master Game" refers to a scheme or "game" played on the world stage to bring about a world order governed by a lofty goal which, today, we term the "Masonic Ideal." "The Master Game" traces the origins of this game of symbols and words and talismans from ancient Egypt all the way to modern times, and places it squarely on the elitist Scottish Rite Freemasonry, headquartered in Washington, DC, and ruled by a secretive and powerful brotherhood of men who have attained the thirty-third degree. "The Master Game" exposes this world order's true purpose and, more importantly, shows how it has affected the United States of America and badly backfired on 9/11.
The book is adapted and expanded from the authors' earlier, out-of-print book "Talisman."
Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval are the best-selling authors of such groundbreaking books as "Fingerprints of the Gods" (Hancock) and "The Orion Mystery" (Bauval). Views: 767
Be careful what you tell your kids to get them to go to sleep; it might just turn out to be true.A father tells his two young daughters that a horrible monster will come out of the closet and eat them if they don't go to sleep. He thinks he made it up; but did he? Views: 766
A small collection of essays and journalism, On Literature explores the creative life, from poets waxing lyrical to poets getting down right political. Some crucial excursions with the muse are explored in the 'pages' of this book, so dip inside and be inspired, there's more to literary living than you might think.Men's literary short fiction by Hosho McCreeshIn “Taco Fairy” we wonder what will $2 get you at a nearby tacqueria? Answer: A world of stupid trouble.“Say, What Ever Happened To Vidal Sassoon?" explores the sexual politics of business trips, and free hotel shampoo.*Mentioned in TORO Magazine (Canada) Views: 765
One of the most provocative and original voices in contemporary literature, Chinua Achebe here considers the place of literature and art in our society in a collection of essays spanning his best writing and lectures from the last twenty-three years. For Achebe, overcoming goes hand in hand with eradicating the destructive effects of racism and injustice in Western society. He reveals the impediments that still stand in the way of open, equal dialogue between Africans and Europeans, between blacks and whites, but also instills us with hope that they will soon be overcome.From the Trade Paperback edition. Views: 764
Bitcoin is rapidly transforming the financial landscape with a peer-to-peer solution for wealth transfer. It has already shown the capacity to absorb tremendous resources and withstand crisis sell-offs. Read this short ebook to understand why you should invest in this revolutionary computer art meets cryptography concept.I came late to Bitcoin and have zero understanding of the technical complexities of cryptography, but I do realize Bitcoin is open source and completely transparent and completely non-predatory in design, a real departure from our banking industry. Any assets moved into Bitcoin virtually disappear from the public record at this point and do not become taxable events until they are brought back into the system. Bitcoin has numerous benefits to offer and represents a real threat to our current corrupt money system. The media has been relentlessly negative on bitcoins for a reason: they threaten the status quo. This text serves as a manifesto for the rise of a Bitcoin nation. Views: 763
