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Jewish Spnsh Inq to Israel. The Books of Rachel is a fictional microcosm of years of Jewish history. Since the 15th century, in the Cuheno family, the first daughter born to the family is given the name Rachel and a heritage of faith and courage as precious as the family diamond. A saga sweeping from the Spanish Inquisition to the birth of a Jewish homeland.

Born with the same name, this title grabbed my attention years ago when I read the book at the time it had its original cover art. I love this book and claimed it as one of my favorites after recently re-reading it once again. The author, Joel Gross, spent over a year on the research to write this book, and it definitely shows in the knowledge of the Jewish traditions, persecutions and people of each era he writes about. With tremendous detail, it seems as if Mr.

Gross actually lived the lives of each of his characters as well. The vivid prose is sometimes poetic, making the realistic feelings of each character come to life. As is tradition, she is to be given her birthright, the year old, carat white Cuheno diamond, also known as the Rachel diamond, for it once belonged to her family's Rachels, generations before her. Like the diamond of her namesake, each Rachel is unique, fierce with the fire of conviction and proud of her heritage, possessing the dignity of royalty and the courage of a heroine. Part One takes place in Spain during where Rachel Cuheno lives with her family in an esteemed and noble position under protection of the royal court of King Ferdinand, and where she dies during the reign of tortures of the Jewish people and others during the Spanish Inquisition.

It is during this time that her brother cut the Cuheno diamond, meant to be hers before her death and later passed to another Rachel born to the male side of the Cuheno family after the prior Rachel had deceased. Part Two is set in Venice in where Rachel lives in the Jewish ghetto but through her sister, living as a courtesan in a palace, Rachel fatefully meets a travelling cousin possessing her diamond and joins the wealthy diamond business in Amsterdam.

Part Three is the account of the enlightened, wealthy, admired, brilliant, renegade Rachel of Berlin in who gave up all privilege of the married lifestyle between the two famed diamond empires for the passionate love that matched her own in another man of unique genius, In Part Four, set in Jerusalem, Rachel from France, gives up her privileged lifestyle to dedicate herself to the dreams of her people.

Against the wishes of her parents, Rachel travels to Jerusalem and finds her life's purpose there, helping the Jewish settlers make a life for themselves by learning the craft of diamond cutting and becoming a part of her family's business. Part Five - Kent, England, - tells of the outspoken, spontaneous Rachel, also born to wealth's privilege who regardless, finds herself a target of anit-Semitism as the Nazi's tentacles reach England. At age 19, Rachel goes to Germany to try to ransom out lives of as many Jewish people as she can with her family's money but is sent to a concentration camp and does not survive.

The Epilogue continues where the Prologue began - with the modern-day Rachel receiving the Cuheno diamond from her father - and as with all of the other parts of this outstanding book, I didn't want it to close. How Huge the night? Fifteen-year-old Julien Losier just wants to fit in. But after his family moves to a small village in central France in hopes of outrunning the Nazis, he is suddenly faced with bigger challenges than the taunting of local teens. Take your brother and leave Austria.

Tell no one you are Jews. Alone and on the run, she arrives in Tanieux, France, dangerously ill and in despair. Thrown together by the chaos of war, Julien begins to feel the terrible weight of the looming conflict and Nina fights to survive. As France falls to the Nazis, Julien struggles with doing what is right, even if it is not enough—and wonders whether or not he really can save Nina from almost certain death.

This Jewish Frankenstein was not supposed to have feelings that could get in the way of his lethal obligations. Yet he seems to have fallen for Rahel, the beautiful daughter of the most obscure rabbi in the Prague Ghetto. This combustible combination ignites in a holy fire crackling with divine sparks. The Witch of Prague. The witch Unorna pursues true love. While she is being pursued by Israel Kafka who is madly in love with her, Unorna falls madly in love with ""The Wanderer,"" who goes about the world in search of his long lost love, Beatrice.

Unorna is not able to make the Wandered fall in love with her without making many attempts at casting spells on him and plotting against anyone who comes in her way. Can her hypnotic powers succeed, and can she free herself from her agony through the purity of her love? Down the street are her zaydie grandfather , who has a meaningful story for every occasion, and her bubbie grandmother , who enjoys remembering what it was like to be an adolescent. Many Christians in Dynow turn a blind eye as Jews are shot to death and buried, or burned alive in the synagogues.

After being exiled, Claire reunites with her father and her zaydie in eastern Poland, and eventually she and her family must choose whether to become Russian citizens. Through it all, Claire sustains the belief that safety and happiness are tied to passage to Palestine. In spite of her tender years, she is often vocally at odds with those around her, as she intuits that life has changed fundamentally and possibly irrevocably, as she learns to navigate new worlds with new rules. At the core is a basic survival instinct—like choosing boots over food in Siberia—even as she longs for a return to normalcy.

Life lessons include poverty, benefiting from the black market, and learning who among many strangers can be trusted. The pacing, though not brisk, is steady, as is interest in the fates of Claire and her family as they attempt to keep the Jewish soul alive in emaciated bodies. Along the way, there are touching moments of first love, jealousy and sexual attraction, juxtaposed with displacement, nonstop hunger and disease.

The circle of sorcerers? When Laedron Telpist's sorcery training is interrupted by a knock on the door, what once seemed a proper profession must now be hidden. In a world where priests and mages vie for the limitless power of the elements and a new Grand Vicar has sworn death to all sorcerers, Laedron is tossed into a nightmare which would see his destruction at every turn. From the home shores in western Sorbia, through the Cael'Brilland heartlands, and even across the seas to the great city of Azura, Laedron finds himself embracing old friends, consorting with unlikely allies, and confronting potent enemies.

As he struggles to train himself in spellcraft, Laedron must face that he lives in a time when the utterance of a simple spell could be the signature on his death warrant. The Hawk and his Boy an excellent read It is thefirst book of the: Child of the ghosts. When her life is torn apart by sorcery and murder, young Caina Amalas joins the mysterious Ghosts, the legendary spies and assassins of the Emperor of Nighmar. She learns the secrets of disguise and stealth, of assassination and infiltration.

But even that might not be enough to save her. For the evil that destroyed her family seeks to devour the entire world Twice upon a soul. Taylor knew better then to believe in Mattie's magic, her tales of reincarnation or any of her best friend's other little crazy ways of pushing her upper class parent's buttons But unfortunately, Mattie's hocus pocus might be the only way Taylor is going to be able to figure out exactly what to do with this rather persistent spirit of an ancient Scottish warrior.

A very sexy Scottish warrior who insists on nosing his way into Taylor's present Caina Amalas kills her mother at the tender age of eight after she casts a necromancy spell which completely wipes the minds of everyone in Caina's home, including her father. He had been a kind, loving, gentle man who spent countless hours teaching her. When the necromancer, Maglarion took her captive, he used her blood to power some of his spells, and killed her father in front of her. Weeks later, she manages to escape her cell, get the keys to the dungeon off the dead guard, and frees herself.

Naked and armed with only a rusty pin from the hinge of her cell door, she tries to defend herself from the only two people alive in the fortress. They introduce themselves as Ghosts, and offer to find her somewhere for her to go in safety. Along the way, she decides she wants to kill the necromancers, and anyone involved with them. She then becomes A Child of the Ghosts.

The Ghosts are the eyes and ears of the Emperor. They are also assassins and spies, taking care of rogue necromancers, sorcerers, and enemies of the State who pose major political problems for the Emperor. The Ghosts' training takes years, and they become formidable weapons. Spoken of only in whispers, the majority of the populace don't believe they even exist, and Caina is about to become one.

This book is phenomenal! This fantasy novel is fare to be savored and enjoyed! The cast of characters is wide enough to be quite fascinating, but not so many that one gets lost keeping track of them. Moeller's world-building is as good as many world famous fantasy writers. His heroine has so much strength for one so young, and the driving need to punish the one responsible for the death of her beloved father.

This novel had me hooked from the very first pages. The pace is relentless and riveting. I finished this book in less than a day I simply devoured it. I cannot rate this book high enough, and if six stars were available, I would award them. If you love fantasy, do not miss this book. Very, very highly recommended!

I eagerly await reading the rest of the series. A Veil Recipe 3 clueless college students 1 magical dimension 1 Warrior Princess A pinch of danger Take three clueless college students, mix in a tobacco field. Combine one magical dimension and stir in a defiant Warrior Princess. Throw in a pinch of danger and slow cook until steaming. Invite five angry deities. Open and serve your new heap of trouble. It's staying alive afterwards that is difficult.

Catrina finds herself in hell, fighting demons for her sustenance and only solving the riddle of her half-remembered past existence will allow her to escape. Short story by award winning author. Dreams unleashed Shitkicker Fantasy. Synopsis of The Prophecies Trilogy: It's the near future, and society is government controlled.

Technology tracks everyone, and personal privacy does not exist. The hope for freedom lies in the operations of an underground organization, GOG, which fights against worldwide oppression. Their most powerful weapon is Ann Torgeson, a paranormally-gifted operative. When her powers release the seal of The Prophecies, she becomes a weapon against the government, which relentlessly pursues her. John Casey was ten years old when his mother was murdered…and ten when his father hid the truth from him. Without that knowledge, he has no idea of the enemies that lie in wait.

Now grown up, John lives a solitary life, in a world enslaved by ignorance and superstition, when anyone unusual is treated with distrust and even killed…and John has some very unusual gifts. That is, until he meets Jane, who lives in the bleak, imprisoned town of Marysvale. Life outside the safety of the town walls means certain death from the brutal monsters that hunt there. However, life inside, under the rule of a tyrannical leader, means no life at all. As the love between John and Jane grows, the dangers of Marysvale unfold; and for the first time in his life, John discovers that there is something worth dying for.

The Siege of Alcaldera. Lord Bolton is dead. The undead sorceress, Lady Liliana of Alcaldera, killed him in the night and stole his throne. Now it is up to an army of holy knights to destroy Liliana and all her works. They are led by Sir William Lancely, a man haunted by the demons of the past and obsessed with finding redemption for his greatest sin. Yet not all is as simple as it seems, and both Liliana and William will be pushed to their very limits as the siege of Alcaldera explodes with brutal force.

Only one can survive. What do you do when you have accused the woman you love of necromancy? Roger Draper suspects that a necromancer is at work in a small medieval English town. But rather than uncovering foul magical deeds he manages to implicate the women he desires in accusations of witchcraft. With only the town drunk to help him, Roger must untangle the mess he has created. Be prepared for a heady concoction of gritty medieval life, humour and magic. Romance Maddie Chester is determined to leave her hometown of Gansett Island, a place that has brought her only bad memories and ugly rumors.

When Mac accidentally sends Maddie flying over the handlebars, badly injuring her, he moves in to nurse her back to health and help care for her young son. Over and over again. So when business forces him to fly to China, he decides to take her with him, but on his terms. Abby has always been the responsible one. With no time to explain her actions, Abby must either influence the outcome of his latest venture and save his company or accept her role as his mistress and leave his fate to chance.

Does she love him enough to risk losing him for good? As pretense becomes painfully real, Nicole will have to choose between Stephan or the family he is driven to destroy. And the end of the world. There are nineteen provinces in the Land held aloft by nineteen pillars. Above the earth there is sky, and nobody knows what goes below except the Nineteen Dragons. That is all you need to know, but that is not all there is to be known. The Device has been stolen and the godlike Dragons have been rendered mortal. Someone is murdering them one by one, and each death brings the world closer to its end.

Unless the the Device is somehow restored to its deceased owner, the Dragons are doomed to destruction--and the human world will go with them. Little Jamie lives with his family in an eerily perfect environment, entertained by characters from literature, sung to sleep at night by the Woman in the Moon. One journey for freedom. She had been an orphan since birth, abandoned at the gates in a bread box by a woman she refused to call mother. Clarinbridge was her home; the other children were her dysfunctional family. With the power that burns inside her, she rebels against the system, chased to the ends of Underland, with a help of a boy known as the Swordsman.

In her quest to become the next Bloomfire. World where powerful Beings from Ancient Civilizations rule. Long ago, in an almost forgotten Realm, a race of fallen Angles clash with a ruling house of Angels. Their battle changed events in the Ancient World and the New World forever.

A Realm where a year can last centuries and an Ancient magical people still rule, even the immortals face danger.

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Trapped between the old world and the new is Grace, a girl cursed with horrific visions and memories from a past she does not understand. Over the centuries, from the time before time, the Grigori were called many things. In Greece, they called them, Vrykolakas. In earlier times, there were others. Other blood-sucking demons, that preyed on the innocent.

Memories of the Curlew'. In the new world, they would go by another name. At her birth in , the famous Druidic bard Meilyr predicted she would become a great leader of the Welsh. Married to the young Prince of Deheubarth, she supported his mission to build a new Welsh army, while raising a young family in the extreme conditions of life in the mountains. The military struggle was mirrored by personal conflicts, with Gwenllian emerging as a true Welsh heroine.

Her story is one of passion, courage and honour, and gives a fascinationg insight into Welsh life at this turbulent time. Dark visions haunt the half-faerie Melia, but try as she might, she cannot chase away the images of destruction that are linked to her father's ambitions. Looking for a way to stop him and the visions, she visits the Illustrator and is given a strange mark meant to bring her help.

Before it arrives, a tragic accident occurs and a family's dark legacy is revealed. A small force of peasants from the forest regions surrounding Lake Lucerne, rise up against their Austrian overlords in the 14th century. Outnumbered seven-to-one by the battle-hardened Habsburg army, they have little hope. A daring moonlight raid leaves the outlaw Noll Melchthal in possession of an Austrian fortress. In the north, an outraged Leopold of Habsburg assembles the ultimate punitive force: Noll's rebel army of boys and old men, numbering less than a thousand, have few swords, and even less armor.

But he has two things that Leopold does not: The forests can protect them no longer. It is time to make a stand. Shadowbloom Rhyme of the Willow. Fantasy When Axton and Aniva Rhyme were three years old, their parents disappeared. There were no letters, no bodies, no explanations of any kind - they had just vanished. All that remained was their car: Now, thirteen years have passed, and with the appearance of a woman with lime-green eyes and emerald vines for hair, Axton and Aniva are drawn back to that same willow. A place awaits them through a veil of foliage, full of plant wonders unlike anything they have ever imagined.

The twins will find a Garden full of thought-carrying Linkroots, bone-crushing Tanglervines, spore-filled Pumpershrooms, and berries from crimson Bloodvines. Berries that will change a human into a fearsome Wild with just a single drop of juice. For updates and more information on the Rhyme of the Willow books, visit rhymeofthewillow. The last time she checked, Mia Carrington was pretty sure that she was a normal girl with a completely ordinary life.

This short collection unleashes seven previously published tales including Writers of the Future award winner, Brother, Can You Spare the Time? The Grimm Diaries Prequels volume 1- 6: I like to think of them as poisoned apples. Once you taste them, you will never see fairy tales in the same light again.

This Grimm Diaries Prequels are a number of short books in the form of epistolary diary entries. The diaries are more of teasers for the upcoming series: The Grimm Diaries, allowing you to get a glimpse of what to expect of the series. The Grimm Diaries are pages written in a Book of Sand, where each fairy tale character confessed the true stories once altered by the Brothers Grimm two centuries ago.

To keep the truth about fairy tales hidden, the Brothers Grimm buried the characters in their dreams to never wake up again. They intend to tell the truth about really happened, and about an untold cosmic conflict between fairy tale characters. List of the available Grimm Diaries Prequels: This is Part 12 of 13 of Guardians of Suncast Dale. Each part will be released for free every Thursday through Monday, and all are available now to be borrowed or purchased.

You only get that epilogue when you purchase the book. What is Guardians of Suncast Dale about? Dathanial Hawke came to Suncast Dale to find out why apparitions of the Guardians, killed forty years ago, were popping up all over the place. That's what Dathanial does, he investigates phenomenon related to heroes and writes about them. He's not supposed to get involved. Instead, Dathanial finds himself in one of the biggest hero stories anyone has ever seen, and not everyone is happy with his involvement.

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Whether it's the local military wanting to use these hauntings to take over, the local bandits who use these ghosts as cover, or assassins who want him dead because someone paid them a lot of money, Dathanial can't catch a break. His support team isn't exactly stellar, either. He's got a young man who writes fanfiction about the Guardians when he's not dressing up like one of them. A ninety-year old amnesiac who has no problem throwing him into lethal situations.

A beautiful woman who can't decide if she wants to kiss or kill Dathanial. And a crazy woman who lives in a wall. If Dathanial was smart, he'd just go home. Instead, he decides to get to the bottom of this mystery, and when he does, he realizes that there's a lot more at stake than Suncast Dale. The Guardians died to protect a dangerous secret, one that could destroy the world.

Because it's too much to ask that it's not a deadly secret that could destroy the world. But the Guardians weren't the only ones with secrets. Dathanial must confront what he's tried to keep buried, because if he doesn't, then this hero story will not have a happy ending. Guardians of Suncast Dale is an engaging mystery set in a rich fantasy universe.

With entertaining characters, a sharp sense of humor, and unexpected twists, this book is sure to entertain. What's coming with them? When ghostly apparitions of long-dead heroes plague the land of Suncast Dale, the people need help. They want a hero, but all they get is Dathanial Hawke, a literature teacher at Briarthorn Academy.

However, Dathanial does know hero stories,. As he works to solve the mystery of these apparitions and digs into history of these heroes, The Guardians, he learns that they had a lot of secrets. The more he finds out, the more danger he finds himself in. Someone wants this story to reach its terrible end, and Dathanial is the only one who can stop it. This full book also contains the exclusive epilogue "Agatha's Story," a story about what happened to Agatha Siller after the events in the prologue. This epilogue is only available in this full version. A mysterious new creature has recently begun appearing in the skies above Azuraan.

Dubbed the Color Dragon, the strange beast has thoroughly befuddled the city—no one knows where it came from, or what it wants, or where it disappears to when it's not soaring majestically above Azuraan's tallest towers. Sho-Sho especially is obsessed with the Dragon In their search for the Dragon they encounter an aspiring aviator, a beautiful dancer, a vicious werewolf, several talkative swords Wren has trained for war since she was a child, but a secret bond with the enemy leads her to question everything she's ever known.

Cast out by her family as a traitor, the fiery, alchemy wielding shape-shifter finds refuge in the arms of Ville, the raven-winged leader of the enemy clan. The two star-crossed lovers discover that the world they know is built on lies meant to fuel the war that has raged between the two clans for years. Armed with alchemy, attitude, and a six-shooter, Wren sets out on a journey of love, loss, and redemption that will change the world. It has crossover potential, with appeal to mature young adult and adult audiences and is a perfect blend of romance, fantasy, and paranormal.

Seventeen-year old princess, Clara Williamson, lives an old-fashioned existence in a biosphere of the future. When her sadistic mother, Queen Ada, betroths her to an abusive prince of a neighboring sphere, Clara determines to escape Outside where savages roam free. Clara escapes tyranny only to discover the savages are not the only people who survived the cataclysmic events of one hundred forty years prior. Once Outside, Clara finds herself trapped, unable to return to the abusive life of the sphere while facing certain danger Outside.

Can Clara find love and freedom with the peril that threatens to consume her? The Caldecott Chronicles No. Steampunk Caldecott Estate, the ancestral home of the 32nd Earl of Rothshire, is besieged. But many of them will not make it that far as the 32nd Earl has two things in their way: A prised Purdey shotgun and an accomplice named, Saffy. Saffy is a young and simple girl from the local village.

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This is the first of five books that centers on Lady C. They Gypsy's leader with a secret no one must ever know about. However, when he joins the mission to capture an evil sultan, she cannot deny the feelings of love and lust. But, no matter how good the sex is between them, Constance and Colin butt heads over who is in charge of the mission to capture the sultan Khalid Bin Bargash. Can Colin win over her heart, and can Constance teach Colin who is boss? Imagine an alternate universe where tinkerers and dreamers craft and re-craft a world of automatons, clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that never were.

Where scientists and schoolgirls, fair folk and Romans, intergalactic bandits, utopian revolutionaries, and intrepid orphans solve crimes, escape from monstrous predicaments, consult oracles, and hover over volcanoes in steam-powered airships. Get a preview of the anthology by sampling one of these inventive tales for free Cory Doctorow's Clockwork Fagin, in which orphans use the puppet of a dead man to take control of their lives.

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Anowarakowa, the New World, has been at peace for a century. The shadow of slavery hangs over New France. The man called Thunder arrives to avert a war he fears may erupt. Little does he know the war began long ago in the hearts of the noirs that work the land. Trapped between the justice of the oppressed and the whims of a dangerous ally, Thunder and his teenage companions struggle to do what's right for themselves and for the Nations.

A real treat with the feel of a fable, The Iron Horse Tinker is a must for steampunk fans. Stonewall Jackson survived Chancellorsville. The American Civil War has raged for nearly two decades, driving technology in strange and terrible directions. Combat dirigibles skulk across the sky and armored vehicles crawl along the land.

Military scientists twist the laws of man and nature, and barter their souls for weapons powered by light, fire, and steam. But life struggles forward for soldiers and ordinary citizens. The fractured nation is dotted with stricken towns and epic scenes of devastation—some manmade, and some more mysterious. In the western territories cities are swallowed by gas and walled away to rot while the frontiers are strip-mined for resources. On the borders between North and South, spies scour and scheme, and smugglers build economies more stable than their governments.

This is the Clockwork Century. It is dark here, and different. A preternaturally talented boy fights evil in the Dakota Territory in this thrilling tale of boy against evil. Maxwell Beck is no average boy. Not only does Max learn the shocking truth about his birth, he also learns about an ominous past that seems linked to his future.

Max rushes his dying pa to Deadwood. After Max prevents an outlaw from shooting his uncle in the back, Turtle grudgingly takes Max in with the understanding that Max must not use or put any of his special skills on display. But when an outlaw gang savagely attacks Turtle and threatens to strip Max of all he holds dear, he must break his promise to his uncle and stop the outlaws by whatever means necessary.

Whoever killed Shiloh Merkin hated her and wanted her dead. What happened to the petroglyph of the bluejay shaman? Alix follows a trail of sex, moonlit rituals, and legendary artifacts as another murder leads her to a chilling confrontation with the killer. In this first novel of the Jackson Hole series about Alix Thorssen, Lise McClendon weaves a gripping tale of suspense, blending Indian lore, the timeless clash of western values, and the magnificent landscape of the Rockies. Wildcat Kitty and The Cyclone Kid. A band of wild west "good" outlaws known as the Wildcat Gang are led by unlikely leaders; a young girl and her grandpa.

They ride thrilling trails of adventure throughout the west seeking justice. With his mission complete, he finds no satisfaction in what he has done. His family is still gone. He is alone and haunted by the violence and killing he has left behind him. Amanda Kane has always had visions of the man she's destined to marry--a cowboy who will help her save her ranch. But Hawk is no ordinary cowboy. He carries a powerful secret. A secret that leads to betrayal. Watch for book two, Dark Warrior: Kid and Dark Gunman: Jake to be released in ! Highlighted Passages of this book by Kindle users.

Not so lucky if he came to crush her. And a woman might only learn the truth of it--when he walked out of her life. And he alone could raise her up. This is what Daniel Tallon finds when he enlists and tries to hide in the khaki anonymity of the army. He soon realises that this is the start of his real problems. Now he faces the bullying attention of a corrupt Regimental Sergeant Major and is led into a situation where the only way out is to go up against a champion army boxer. A boxer with the reputation of a brutal style and the frame to regularly dish out something only just short of murder.

Then, sent on Foreign Service to the India of the Raj, the challenges and action increase their draw upon him. Now on that vast subcontinent of unfamiliar sights and customs it is quicker wits as well as physical endurance that are demanded. And in the background to all of this are the unlikely concerns of his former aristocratic employer.

Keverne something to hide, and is there a connection to a Maharajah who goes to great trouble to contrive a meeting with Tallon? Throughout these trials Tallon collects some friends as interesting, and often as dangerous, as his enemies. Tony Waterfall has become an expert at gracing the masses with his penchant for descriptive writing and haunting stories. Wielding the English language like a Knight would wield a sword, Tony Waterfall captures the imagination and takes it to another place; a place of his creation.

His short stories are full of imagery, thought provoking nuances, and exceptional writing. Each story has its own meaning that can be taken in different ways by different people. Extraordinarily detailed descriptions of each scene give the sensation of actually being present as an unseen third party in these stories.

Tony Waterfall has a true gift with words and a keen understanding of how to use them. His Another Ordinary Day audio-book is by far one of the best spoken word albums in existence. He allows us to vacate the lives we currently inhabit and journey, however briefly, into another. Eric's dreams were shattered when his wife was taken from him by a reckless driver on a snowy Alaskan road. All that remained was his newborn daughter, Jessica.

Uprooting to provide a safer life for his child, Eric moved back home to northern Michigan. Thirteen years later with Jessica raising the bar in everything she does, darkness returns to the Baxter's life in the form of a crazed gunman. Surviving the assassin and seeking answers, Eric has to dig into the secrets of an unbelievable past hidden between the pages of history. Statistics show that a 17 year old driver with a P1 license is four times more likely to be involved in a fatal crash than a driver over 26 years.

Driving at night, with friends, significantly increases the risk. He was critically injured and snatched from the jaws of death by paramedics and medical experts. He beat The P Plate Factor. Skip Taylor, a lost soul living on the dangerous streets of Atlanta, discovers that in another life he was a writer, and now someone is publishing his work as their own.

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Determined to stop the theft of his life's work, Skip treks to the thief's isolated island mansion intent on murder, but then finds himself caught up in an even bigger adventure. Science or something else. Does time exist, or do we make it up? Everyone is aware of time, but what is it?

As time goes into infinity, consciousnes becomes eternal. Why is this such a mystery? Because time has a hidden dimension. The projections of science, like digital technology, are happening so fast you can barely keep up. Rather than be dazzled or daunted by new horizons, one must start thinking what it is possible to think.

The hidden dimension of time opens into critical and physical, multiple and alternate worlds. Do we dare to go there? And what happens if we do not? What if we were the creators of the reality we live in? What if we found that this life was just a dream and every dream another mirror of ourselves? The protagonists of this novel, a physician and a homeless man, are dreamers of a new reality.

They overcome their deepest fears as they break through customs, give up safety, lose themselves - and thus get in touch with a deeper sense of self. They dare to escape from the madness of normality in order to enter a new world. Yet, as much as they already live on the new earth, it is the old earth they encounter, the individual and collective madness of a doomed world that they must deal with.

It is the challenge of all mystics of our times: Not to get caught in the nightmare but to remember the world is all nothing but a dream. Thus bring the world home. If you have any interest in spirituality and mysticism, or in integral philosophy or the evolution of human consciousness, then this book would interest you. It is a book of spiritual practice and practical philosophy. It is the experiment to live through a deeper, a higher self. It is the experiment to move truth from the head into the heart. Once you arrive there, an entirely new game begins…. It was just another ordinary day, in the ordinary life of school boy Dylan Jones.

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But the strange happenings on that day would begin a chain of events that, in later years, will see him on a journey into the spirit world, following a meeting with a girl from another time, who helps him stop the destruction of two worlds This book is a fantastic story for teens and adults alike.

Inspector Stanley Mole doesn't mind a hard case, but things have gotten out of hand. There's a killer who escapes to a parallel universe, a 20, year old murder, a witness to her own death, a toddler assassin, subatomic-particle sniffing butterflies, and much, much more. This time it's not just his reputation that's on the line.

This time it's more than personal. The weapons of this war are not nuclear missiles, but a far more deadly weapon. But without the help of capitalist Anton Zelman their plot will fail. Anton's help comes at a price. But who will pay? She's not of his class, not of his religion, and not in his plans. Passengers swarm the bustling quay, anxiously awaiting their call to a new beginning. On the cusp of womanhood, the wealthy Elisabeth Hale stands among them, as does David Graham, a Scot apprenticed to a Philadelphia printer, and Liam Brock, an orphaned Scot with a dubious past and a keen eye to his future.

Join them on their journey. Hell Around the Horn. Hell Around the Horn is a nautical thriller set in the last days of the great age of sail. Before they reach the Southern Ocean, the cargo catches fire, the mate threatens mutiny and one of the crew may be going mad, yet the greatest challenge will prove to be surviving the vicious westerly winds and mountainous seas of the worst Cape Horn winter in memory. Based on an actual voyage, Hell Around the Horn is a story of survival and the human spirit against overwhelming odds. Praise for Hell Around the Horn: Rick Spilman brings alive the rough and tumble world of the windjammer with authentic and well-chosen detail, in a voice that is at once historically authentic, yet fresh as a salty gale.

One hand for yourself and one for the ship on this fast-paced and gripping ride. Battling against endless contrary gales, constantly struck with disaster and tragedy, the crew of the Lady Rebecca encountered the same privations that hundreds of unsung sailors endured. As well as a story that grips with gathering tension, this book memorializes the gallant windjammer sailors of a largely forgotten era — Joan Druett, award winning nautical historian, novelist and author of Tupaia A much neglected period of sailing history is brought to life by Spilman's fast-moving narrative and apt use of fact and detail.

The murder of a United States congressman's son sends Inspector Simon Wolfe of the San Francisco Police Department on a pursuit in which he is blackmailed with his past as an Israeli assassin. When Inspector Wolfe falls in love with the dead boy's psychiatrist and must protect her from a rogue Nazi operative, he is forced to come to terms with his uncompromising notions of justice that were formed when he was a prisoner in Theresienstadt and Auschwitz.

This gripping tale of murder and deceit interweaves history and mystery against the charged and colorful background of Berkeley in the 's. Wolfe is a difficult and sympathetic character who relentlessly pursues the truth in a time of desperate optimism. This is more than just a story of good versus evil; it satisfies the genre and then slips its boundaries to provide readers with a deeper understanding of the the law and the pitfalls of love.

The first-person narrative voice with its world-weary tone is masterfully rendered When a congressman's son is murdered, Wolfe's attempts to solve the crime are inhibited by the police and the congressman as he is blackmailed about his past. He is further compromised by his feelings for the murder victim's psychiatrist, who is a child of Holocaust survivors herself. Wolfe is a sympathetic character, though he is a loner with unshakable opinions. Wolfe's insistence on following through with this case leads the reader to explore the ideas of political corruption, revenge, justice, and survival.

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