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... fame and riches as a popular author, and finds true love and happiness with wealthy entrepreneur, Jake Edmonds. Then cancer strikes. Lacey is afraid of the pain and indignity she thinks is coming and wants to die. Her beloved daughter, Jana, will help her. But her doctor does not approve. To complicate matters, Jana and the doctor are in love. Will Lacey get her wish?...

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...1 A COURAGEOUS BATTLE A Courageous Battle Susan Bracken 2 SUSAN BRACKEN Copyright © 2010 Susan Bracken. All r... ...SUSAN BRACKEN Copyright © 2010 Susan Bracken. All rights reserved. No part of this print publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, ... ..., mechanical, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the author. ISBN: 978-0-9864879-1-0 The first part of this book (excludi... ...9864879-1-0 The first part of this book (excluding the Appendix) is a work of fiction. Names, characters and events are a product of the author’s imag... ...ces, London, ON; www.ardith.ca Printed and bound in Canada 3 A COURAGEOUS BATTLE CHAPTER 1 LACEY WILSON had given up trying to make friends. No one l... ...ore going in. Lacey applauded and they all looked her way. 5 A COURAGEOUS BATTLE “Can I play?” she asked tentatively. “Get lost, you little shit,” Ro... ... as if a weight she had carried for years was suddenly gone. I am not even forty yet. A lot of life is still ahead of me – maybe forty more good years... ...ey’s heart sank. “How much money can I have now?” She didn’t like to be so forthright, especially as this woman made her feel so untutored, but worry ... ... COURAGEOUS BATTLE Something drew him to Lacey. He could sense her discom- fort, and felt an urge to help her, to protect her. He pulled out a chair a...

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...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: ...

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...COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett acco... ...s, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time int... ... allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus;... ...I felt that the war was forever between us and I hated those years, those battles, the lines on his face. My hate was there, between us. Then, then,... ...ne or in knots of two or three, feeling separate. How does one forget the battlefield? I heard the burr of ancient Egyptian. Persian was spoken by me... ... even as it happened. We tossed our blankets on the sand, dashed back and forth to the water’s edge, splashed each other, then arranged ourselves in... ...ushing, our hair streaming around us—a gull on the shore padding back and forth, scolding. Atthis won, but Anaktoria had the loveliest breasts, so r... ... and he changed the subject as quickly as a man might draw a sword during battle. “I never thought I’d be blind. I never memorized any faces. My hom... ...as under attack for opposing the aristocrats.” Round and round, back and forth, we talked: what might have been, what should have been: “If he had...

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The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.

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...no other than a familiar and private end: I have no respect or consideration at all, either to thy service, or to my glory: my forces are not capable of any such desseigne. I have vowed the same to the particular commodity of my kinsfolk and friends: to the end, that losing me (which they are likely to do ere long), they may therein find some lineaments of my conditions a...

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...They have a secret, unperceived and delicate beauty; he had neede of a cleere, farreseeing and true-discerning sight that should rightly discover this secret light. Is not ingenuity (according to us) cosin germaine unto sottishnesse, and a quality of reproach? Socrates maketh his soule ...

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...e University, Wisconsin. It is in the public domain. "Florio's Translation of Montaigne's Essays was first published in 1603. In 'The World's Classic... ...al material was supplied by R.S. Bear from the Everyman's Library edition of 1910. Content unique to this presentation is copyright © 1999 The Univer... ...10. Content unique to this presentation is copyright © 1999 The University of Oregon. For nonprofit and educational uses only. Send comments and corr... ... true faile it V. Whether the Captaine of a Place Besieged ought to sallie forth to Parlie VI. That the Houre of Parlies is dangerous VII. That our ... ...ne's Essays XXXII. To avoid Voluptuousnesse in regard of Life XXXIII. That Fortune is oftentimes met withall in pursuit of Reason XXXIV. Of a Defect i... ... tongue (though many-times with a jerke of the French Iargon) wouldset it forth to the best service I might; and to better I might not, then You tha... ...t them to manage Armies? to levie Armies, to marshall men, and to deliver battles? And that which strict-searching Philosophie could never perswade t... ..., saith to have certainly knowne, that in Domitians time the newes of the battle lost by Antonius in Germany many daies journeies thence, was publis... ...t alwaies bareheaded. The like is reported of the Emperor Severus. In the battles that past betweene the Ægyptians and the Persians, Herodotus saith...

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...e ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinat...

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...Most readers of this book will have had some type of religious instruction. Whether as children we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live...

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...on Published by the Author York, Western Australia 2006 The first edition of this book was published under the title The Mystical Chorus by Millenniu... ...lished under the title The Mystical Chorus by Millennium Books [an imprint of E.J. Dwyer (Australia) Pty. Ltd.] in 1995. This second edition, with tex... ...ations, and new index, is published by the Author, Donald Broadribb, owner of the publication rights. Copyright © 1995 and 2006 by Donald Broadribb. T... ...Unfortunately the earliest of them appear to date back only some twenty to forty thousand years, a brief period if we 7. From Mary Webb, Precious Bane... ... in Cyril Aldred, Thames and Hudson, London, 1968; Henri Frank- fort, Harper Torchbooks, New York, 1948; A.H. Ga... ...opment of ancient Hebrew religion see Helmer Ringgren, Israelite Religion, Fortress Press, Philadelphia, 1966. German original, 1963. 14. For a detail... ...vely called the Devil, who coexists with God in an uneasy state of eternal battle. To understand the background of this doctrine and the way it develo... ...e to be spelled Zoroaster. Zarathustra’s revelations focused on an eternal battle between two Gods, Ahura Mazda (the God of Light, the Good God) and A... ...tion with their land, shown when they recently fought and won a long court battle against the state government to prevent commercial development of a ...

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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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...RNE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620 1808 ... ...m New England History, 1620 1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne 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... ...iron too. Still, however, he spoke kindly to the lady, and then has tened forth to till his cornfield and set out fruit trees, or to bargain with the... ...rgain with the Indians for furs, or perchance to oversee the building of a fort. Also, being a magistrate, he had often to punish some idler or evil d... ...wer; but when Grandfather ceased to speak, the sunshine of her smile broke forth again. “Oh, the lady must have been so glad to get to heaven!” exclai... ... “I do wish, Grandfather,” cried Charley, “you would tell us all about the battles in King Philip’s War.” “Oh no!” exclaimed Clara. “Who wants to hear... ..., Charley,” replied Grandfather, “I have no time to spare in talking about battles. You must be content with knowing that it was the bloodiest war tha... ...e renowned Duke of Marlborough’s army, and had fought in some of the great battles in Flanders.” “Now I hope,” said Charley, “we shall hear of his doi...