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...Morgan Gable first falls for Daniel Connolly, a popular Irish tenor, when she hears him sing. Starstruck, she is consumed by thoughts of love with the handsome troubadour. Real life intrudes and Morgan must put aside her own dreams for awhile. Five years later, she and her troubadour meet again, AND fate hands her the chance to make her every wish come true...

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...936000-02-4 ISBN 13: 978-1-936000-02-9 Published in the United States of America Publish Date: March 29, 2009 Editor-In-Chief: Gail R. ... ...y Desert Breeze Publishing, Inc © 2009 All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any elec... ...rding or by any information retrieval and storage system without permission of the publisher. Names, characters and incidents depicted in this ... ... whose golden voice charmed the birds from the sky, and the beasts from the forests. Flowers and trees bowed to his mastery. Even the wind no longe... ... barren. The tapestry bed covers she remembered were replaced with a plain ivory counterpane. But none of that comforted her. “What did he do wit... ...ey took was headed to Galway?” “I did. But the place we seek is along the coast partway between. We’re safer landing at Cork. I have family ther...

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...In Sappho’s Journal, the author brings the famous Greek poet Sappho back to life in a finely crafted novel that reveals her sense of beauty, her loves, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a careful study of ancient Greece and Sappho’s surviving fragments of poetry, Bartlett recreates Sappho in a lyrical account of the life, passion, fears, a...

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...poet Sappho back to life in a finely crafted novel that reveals her sense of beauty, her loves, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a carefu... ...ty, her loves, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a careful study of ancient Greece and Sappho’s surviving fragments of poetry, Bartlett re... ...ving fragments of poetry, Bartlett recreates Sappho in a lyrical account of the life, passion, fears, and faith of this remarkable woman whose inti... ... stories. Loves laughter. Mimics. Is made jealous easily. Speaks slowly...ivory- skinned. Gyrinno—the daughter of a wine merchant, can outdrink most... ...out his doll, that SAPPHO’S JOURNAL 27 bull-leaping doll of Cretan ivory, brightly painted! But his apartment was simple, tastefully furnishe... ...h like him. I remember his face, the candid eyes and lips. I remember the ivory gleam of his body. Ah, if he were here... How am I to forbid Kleis? ... ... the submerged city. “You mean Helike?” he asked. “A quake tore apart the coast and it went un- der,” he said, and described something of what I had ... ...garies, war music, sea songs, fragments of a day I can never know. A bat coasts through my open windows. Is there a better hour than dusk? I feel ... ...nship with Phaon affords discovery, Sumerian lassi- tude, great rivers and forests, prowling sand, the bay and its currents, the hull dipping, the ro...

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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;... ... stories. Loves laughter. Mimics. Is made jealous easily. Speaks slowly...ivory- skinned. Gyrinno—the daughter of a wine merchant, can outdrink most... ...out his doll, that SAPPHO’S JOURNAL 31 bull-leaping doll of Cretan ivory, brightly painted! But his apartment was simple, tastefully furnishe... ...h like him. I remember his face, the candid eyes and lips. I remember the ivory gleam of his body. Ah, if he were here... How am I to forbid Kleis? ... ... the submerged city. “You mean Helike?” he asked. “A quake tore apart the coast and it went un- der,” he said, and described something of what I had ... ...garies, war music, sea songs, fragments of a day I can never know. A bat coasts through my open windows. Is there a better hour than dusk? I feel ... ...nship with Phaon affords discovery, Sumerian lassi- tude, great rivers and forests, prowling sand, the bay and its currents, the hull dipping, the ro...

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...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books....

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... listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of crafts. -- 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues?-Did a freshwater lake com...

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...Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within m... ...L For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparable love, care, feeding... ...ove, care, feeding, fun, and friendship. Also for her perceptive editing of my copy over many decades, especially during the writing of this book.... ...ieving that our apelike ancestors did the following:  Moved out of the forests onto Africa‘s grassy plains (savannahs).  Learned to stand uprigh... ...ving lived primarily on aquatic animals and plants from shallow fresh and coastal waters. Dr. Crawford also notes that the famed prehistoric fem... ...ld the cedars to King Solomon (1011–931 BC). Their homeland lay along the coastal regions known today as Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and the Palestinian... ...man and beast The Pacific Ocean‘s moisture-bearing winds water the lush coastal plains of Asia‘s agrarian civilizations. North of the 45-degree pa... ...on a major communications revolution. Eisenstein, moreover, decries an ivory-tower tendency in recent times to chop studies of printing into smal... ...t by 1400, they were at constant risk of their lives. So they hid in deep forests, dells, and mountains and trekked from town to town, receiving foo...

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...In the late 21st century on Earth, new technology allowed man to create machines merged with the body of their fallen comrades of war. These ?manchines? fought and won the war for the West. Discarded, the manchines learned of their worth and fought back for their own freedom, destroying half of the population of mankind. Now,...

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...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects a...

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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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...ter and imitate any object, and should propose to make a public display of his talents and his productions, we shall pay him reverence as a ... ... with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating poet and le... ...s fascinating poet and legend-writer, who will imitate for us the style of the virtuous man." Plato (Republic) Chapter One At Toksugum Pala... ... remembered the few times that her father took her to a beach along the East Coast and the myriad times when he took her to the beaches in Turkey. She... ...ll amusement park on the outskirts of Rome. After Ferris wheel and a roller coaster rides she and they were addicted to motion and so they went on th... ... that she was a profanity policewoman ready to strike you with her bottle of Ivory dish soap. Am I right? To say 'Would' you would need to know about... ...son; and no, IﾁOm not telling it." "Scared that Mom might come over with the Ivory soap once again, eh?" "Maybe." "Please get that smoking turd out of... ... spat. Then to soften his austerity he added, "Remember there's a bottle of Ivory Soap in here to wash out your mouth. You know, if there weren't tw... ...y of the honeymoon in a rented car going up snowy, mountainous hills through forests of dangling icicles as thick as stalactites and as lush as its lo...

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...le, standing on steep rocks above the North Sea, was not only inaccessible on that side, but from its donjon tower commanded a magnificent view, both of the expanse of waves, taking purple tints from the shadows of the clouds, with here and there a sail fleeting before the wind, and of the rugged headlands of the coast, point beyond point, the nearer distinct, and showing ...

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...h doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several States on the two c...

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