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...ICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells 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... ...as a serial in 1908 and it was published in the Fall of that year. At that time the aeroplane was, for most people, merely a rumour and the “Sausage” ... ...ylike, whether or no.” Mr. Stringer nodded his head approvingly, and for a time they continued to regard the swelling bulks with expressions that had ... ...g to be caught-napping this time.” Bert’s incredulity was shaken. He asked questions- and the soldier expanded. “I tell you they got nearly a square m... ...om any further risk of leak- age. He faced the British public now with the question whether they wanted his secret or not; he was, he said per- petual... ... ULTIMATUM. BRITAIN MUST FIGHT. OUR INFATUATED WAR OFFICE STILL REFUSES TO LISTEN TO MR. BUTTERIDGE. GREAT MONO-RAIL DISASTER AT TIMBUCTOO. or this:— ... ...rovidential. Last grace of Heaven. Like a sign. Hullo!” He stood still and listened. Outside there was a going to and fro of feet, a sound of distant ... ...t any sort of scheme manifested itself between those nearer, more striking episodes. 173 H G Wells The mass of the airships that eddied remotely abov...

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...When newbie slayer Savannah Marshall lands her first assignment, she doesn't plan on meeting the vamp of her dreams. Staking Donatello Ravell might not have been the best way to start a relationship but it sure gets her in more trouble than she bargained for. With two days to stop an insane vampire from starting a war between...

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...: 1-936000-00-8 ISBN 13: 978-1-936000-00-5 Published in the United States of America Publish Date: March 29, 2009 Editor-In-Chief: Gail R. De... ...t by Desert Breeze Publishing, Inc © 2009 All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any ele... ...shoved a sizable stake through my heart!” I found this to be a most peculiar question since I had — in fact — just slammed that sucker home. Perhap... ...ps I’d located the only halfwit Vampire in town to go up against for my first time as an officially sanctioned Slayer of the Holy Order of St. Vlad. ... ...blow that out of the water but I didn’t want to focus on that aspect. It was time to focus on the important issue. I’d just taken down a flipping V... ...virtue of two stakes in the heart were better than one to anyone who cared to listen. Or, were trapped by the confines of a legally binding birth c... ...anted to, because I wouldn’t be anybody’s second choice. Suddenly, a bigger question occurred to me. As a Slayer with a wounded and dying Vampire ... ...book artist, not a hunter.” “Sorry, but he sure looked like a cop on the few episodes I’ve seen.” I was usually pretty accurate when it came to TV t... ...could to do was not find ourselves in these situations. Obviously, I hadn’t listened closely enough. Well, seeing as how I planned to kill him anyw...

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...t when it comes to brandy and peppersauce and?--?Dump it in. Who?s making this punch, anyway?? And Malemute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. ?By the time you?ve been in this country as long as I have, my son, and lived on rabbit tracks and salmon-belly, you?ll learn that Christmas comes only once per annum. And a Christmas without punch is sinking a hole...

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...Table of Contents: To the Man on Trail, 1 -- The White Silence, 12 -- In a Far Country, 24 -- The Wisdom of the Trail, 44 -- An Odyssey of the North, 53 -- The Law of Life, 90 -- The God of His Fathers, 99 -- The League of the Old ...

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...2 In a Far Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 The Wisdom of the Trail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 An Odyssey of the N... ... . . 44 An Odyssey of the North . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 The Law of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 The God of His... ...y?” And Male mute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. “By the time you ’ve been in this country as long as I have, my son, and lived ... ... because of a glori ous ferment of sugar and sour dough. That was before your time,” Malemute Kid said as he turned to Stanley Prince, a young mining... ...ares for his dogs and then himself,” whispered Malemute Kid to Prince, as they listened to the snapping jaws and 4 JACK LONDON the wolfish snarls and ... ...er encountered wooden faces on every hand. Striding over to Prince, he put the question to him. Though it hurt him, gazing into the frank, earnest fac... ...ight on the end of a quickly extempo rized handspike, easing the pressure and listening to her husband’s groans, while Malemute Kid attacked the tree... ..., made disastrous inroads upon it. The first words they had were over the sugar question. And it is a really serious thing when two men, wholly depende... ...st, whose very resting places were unremembered. They did not count; they were episodes. They had passed away like clouds from a summer sky. He also w...

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...ion War and Peace – Epilogues One and Two by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. 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... ...motionless, the movement of humanity went on as unceasingly as the flow of time. V arious groups of people formed and dissolved, the coming formation ... ... or to reaction. According to their accounts a reaction took place at that time in Russia also, and the chief culprit was Alexander I, the same man wh... ...d of talking of what did not interest her, and her mind was so full of the question why she alone was granted so little happiness in life, that in a f... ...dishonesty and various irregularities. Nicholas went out into the porch to question him, and immediately after the elder had given a few replies the s... ... breathing, every slightest tone of which was familiar to his wife. As she listened to it she saw before her his smooth handsome fore- head, his musta... ... presence now that they had made it up. He did not ask if she was ready to listen to him. He did not care. A thought had occurred to him and so it bel... ...dy of the movement of the nations and of humanity and not the narration of episodes in the lives of individuals, it too, setting aside the conception ...

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...Table of Contents IN THE HOTEL 8 LOOKING FOR HAPPINESS 10 WE MUST THINK MORE DEEPLY—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING 20 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS 24 -- THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR VALUES -- 24 SELF-CENTEREDASSUMPTIONS 32 GODBASEDASSUMPTIONS 41 C...

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.......... 32 STEPHEN CRANE?A NOTE WITHOUT DATES?1919 ......................................................................................... 46 TALES OF THE SEA?1898 ....................................................................................................................................... 49 AN OBSERVER IN MALAYA?1898...............................................

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...S PUBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. 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... ...elf—I cannot say, and, frankly, I have not allowed my mind to dwell on the question. I was afraid of thinking myself into a mood that would hurt my fe... ...ing from the year ’98 to the year ’20, a thin array (for such a stretch of time) of really innocent attitudes: Conrad literary, Conrad political, Conr... ...I believe suffi- ciently in human sympathies to imagine that very few will question their sincerity. Whatever delu- sions I may have suffered from I h... ...l nature of the situa- tion, was shaped by the actual circumstances of the time. The time was about a month before the entrance of Roumania into the w... ...born, and he wrote as well as any novelist of his time. If he pitches upon episodes redounding to the glory of the young republic, surely England has ... ...alto- gether an outcast. Little girls seem to like him. One of them, after listening to some of his tales, remarked to her mother, “Wouldn’t it be lov... ...e by one the thunderbolts of their Jupiter. They have removed war from the list of Heaven-sent visitations that could only be prayed against; they hav...

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...Excerpt: William Makepeace Thackeray was born at Calcutta, July 18, 1811, the only child of Richmond and Anne Thackeray. He received the main part of his education at the Charterhouse, as we know to our profit. Thence he passed to Cambridge, remaining there from February 1829 to sometime in 1830. To judge by quot...

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...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDAT...

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...Contents THE GENIUS AND POETRY OF POPE........................................................................................ 7 MORAL ESSAYS .....................................................................................................................

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...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was ...

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