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...ar to one on which Hawthorne himself lived in 1841. These communes arose out of the pressures on society and the individual brought by the Industrial Revolution. Some were organized around religious philosophies, some were secular. Among the secularists, the Transcendental movement mentioned in the novel espoused the idea that the individual's intuition, rather than religi...

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...ng historical adventure depicts the last stand of the Gordons - God's outlaws - fighting for their Catholic Faith in the early days of the Protestant Revolution in seventeenth-century Scotland. Written for the children but enjoyed by young and old alike, this intriguing novel is filled with courageous heroes, cowardly villains, secrets and even secret passages! (Summary by...

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...but is indecisive about proposing marriage, and then renounces his love in order to pursue occult study. The story develops in the days of the French Revolution in 1789. Zanoni has lived since the Chaldean civilization. His master Mejnor warns him against a love affair but Zanoni does not heed. He finally marries Viola and they have a child. As Zanoni experiences an increa...

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... A revolution replaces the Queensland government with a coalition of religious fundamentalists who have strong ideas on how their subjects ought to live, and how to enforce compliance with their draconian laws. Readers have ...

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...rty minutes of well-meaning but dire prophesies about the abduction, rape and murder that awaited Fidel if he persisted in trusting strangers in this day and age. It was different when they were young—everyone was honest and reliable and young people were safe and… Predictably perhaps, their predictions of impending doom calmed Fidel’s nerves. Old people were always exag...

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...o author Cecil Murphey, for his generous support of this project. Note Each day I receive devotional writings by e-mail, and read them on desk and wa... ..., and read them on desk and wall calendars. I often wonder how to apply that day’s “lesson” to my writing, and how to share my own favorite verses wit... ...this. I’ve been amazed at what I’ve learned by getting the “big picture.” On Day 17, I was struck by Judges 3:1-2. I felt like the Lord was telling me... ...y God works the way he does, but I am learning to trust His guiding hand one day at a time, as I embrace the things that are His desires for my life. ... ... exhortation “Just write,” so I spent many days confused and frustrated. One day I opened my Bible, determined to be in God’s word. I didn’t know wher... ...ific kingdom. This continued into the 16th century, but when the ‘scientific revolution’ fully flowered, all these kingdoms lost their true King. In m... ...heryl Anderson Davis, born in Atlanta, adds local flavor to her stories. Her Revolutionary War novel, HOPE IS CONSTANT, won Treble Heart Books Best Hi...

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...before he died he managed to botch up two physiological horrors. Then one day they found him dead in the laboratory. And that's his whole story. HE... ...sand Robots, and not one woman. We talk about nothing but the factory all day, every day. It's just as if we were under a curse, Miss Glory. HELENA ... ...cost ten thousand. Five years ago we used to buy the clothes for them. To-day we have our own weaving mill, and now we even export cloth five times ... ...ay since you came here. R. U. R. II-35 NANA (cont'd) HELENA Ten years? To-day!–– Why!–– They embrace. NANA I'm off. (Exits lower door, left) HELENA F... ...a. (Exit NANA. HELENA goes to telephone) Hello, Dr. Gall, please. Oh, good-day, Doctor. Yes, it's Helena. Thanks for your lovely present. Could you c... ... the Robots throughout the world." HELENA I read that. DOMIN That means a revolution. A revolution of all the Robots in the world. HALLEMEIER By Jov... ...n forbid. DOMIN You mustn't be worried with such things. HELENA But if the revolution had spread as far as here? DOMIN You wouldn't know anything abou...

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... the multicolored mash. It was almost time. In Israel, the Holocaust Memorial Day opens with a wailing siren, followed by two minutes of conte... ... I woke up even more exhausted. Whatever had to be done will have to wait another day. I couldn’t stay here. I had to get away and put some thinkin... ...don’t look too good”. “I don’t feel too good” – I obliged him – “It’s been a long day.” “And now it’s going to be a long night” – Eddy gave me h... ... – I translated. That did the trick. Chapter the Second The Interview A day later, in my ruined flat, head still pulsating, I reached an ... ...e scribbles something in a pad and then looks up: “Well, go on, I haven’t got all day!” A sudden gust from the ventilation shaft ruffles the pag... ...l of Europe. Hitler said: ‘The discovery of the Jewish virus is one of the greatest revolutions that have taken place in the world. The battle in wh...

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...handsome man, fair-skinned and sapphire-eyed. "A movie star" – they gasped behind his back. Day in and day out, he impelled his rickety pushcart to ... ...ve and made her his only world. This woman sat by his side, adjacent to his azure pushcart, day in and day out. She said nothing and he remained mut... ...ving. One silent morning, she clung to her sheets and wouldn't rise and accompany him. That day, grey and defeated, my grandpa ploughed the pavement... ... berth with pillows piled high, staring at him through narrow cracks of oozing sanity. One day, my grandpa, returning in the evening, left his cart ... ... the garden the worm-infested, rotting relic and the putrid sheet concealing it. The next day, it was hauled by sturdy garbage collectors into a t... ...er the crowd but everything is frozen and no one cheers like in the movies about the French revolution. Everyone gapes at this kid's lips through wh...

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...arents from South Ealing Comprehensive School in West London. They had been on a day trip to St Paul’s Cathedral and the Imperial War Museum. There... ...e traditional way.” “Well then why don’t you, instead of dribbling over her all day?” Nina snapped, and returned to reading her magazine. “Well per... ...en one that rotten. He cast a quick look at the clock: 19:28. It had been a long day. He had arrived at South Ealing Comprehensive’s playground near... ...ton vent of venom. It was Mum, saying that she hoped they had both enjoyed their day, and that she was preparing chicken pie for dinner. Sam looked ... ...and looking around her as they entered the room. It was a hot, glorious summer’s day and Yvonne Blake couldn’t help but reflect on how her children ... ...f this book series and made me realise what could be achieved in the epublishing revolution. Also, in that respect, thanks to Derek and Lindsay Poll...

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...m ... and Ifreet. Desert Dreams by Gracie C. McKeever 8 CHAPTER 1 Present Day America Mount Vernon, New York Therese turned into her husband's body, ... ...s thoughts all these years. What had been sleeping and living between them day and night. Your fault, girl. Your job. Your fault. "Terre..." "My job i... ...unter, took the wooden stool facing her. "Just thought you should get your day off to a good, healthy start is all." He shrugged, digging into his pan... ... feed. Desperately. Desert Dreams by Gracie C. McKeever 21 CHAPTER 2 Game day. Therese felt as if she had been waiting her whole life for this moment... ...thousand books, periodicals and other media relating to Islam. On a normal day, the institute boasted healthy traffic, a wide variety of visitors—stud... ...plots have you been up to in my absence?" "Oh, the usual. World dominance, revolution, anarchy..." She giggled, playfully slapped one of his arms. "Tr...

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... Web of Life, they believe, is the symbiotic connection that exists between all living things on Earth; the sacred balance of life. Upon the next day's passing, Seattle signs the Port Eliot treaty relinquishing ownership of Suquamish ancestral lands to the United States government in favor of a small reservation to the North. He sees that a war would ultimately prove f...

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...ago had been fashioned into a fishing pole. He had been sitting for most of the day on a flat boulder along the bank ofthe river. A thin rawhide str... ...nts of the river trying to entice the cun­ ning silver fish. But for most of the day the old man's thoughts were on tomorrow: a day he feared, but kn... ...them. And it was, then, that a special bond between them was created. From that day on his grandfather spent every spare moment with him. His grandf... ...ng how special he was, and that only a few had ever been given this gift. One day as they sat at the river's edge his grandfather told him that he... ...eagle, even the buffalo that roamed east of the forest on the great plains. One day he would be Chief, and he would be called upon by the Great Spir... ..., multi­ leveled organization, that dealt with everything from racketeer­ ing to revolution. Robert Brent knew the FBI inside and out. His best frien...

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... Book I Childhood 1768-1777 Book II Boyhood 1777-1784 Book III Adolescence, Combourg 1784-1786 Book IV Regiment, Court, Paris 1786-1789 Book V Revolution 1789-1791 Book VI To America 1791 Book VII Travels in New York State 1791 Book VIII Kentucky, Virginia, Return to France 1791-1792 Book IX With the Army of the Princes 1792 Book X Exile in England 1793-1797...

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...he Path The Pine Being Pine Spirit’s A Bird Of Bronze Say It Plainly, Not Grandly Not Quite As You Think Two Sighs For Cold Mountain A Borrowed Day Native Land The Idea Of Cold Widening Aware The Miracle Of Flesh And Bone Speaking Of The Loved One Glitter Of Language Mountain Meeting Musing The Great Pond The Ghost Tree News About The Sky Severance Cros...

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..." "Thou hast a lap full of seed..." In a Mirtle Shade To Nobodaddy "Are not the joys of morning sweeter..." The Wild Flowers Song To My Mirtle Day The Fairy Motto to the Songs of Innocence and of Experience "Let the Brothels of Paris be opened..." "A fairy skipd upon my knee..." To Mrs Ann Flaxman "My Spectre around me night & day..." "Beneath the white thorn...

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... “For just about a month.” “Group of soldiers came through the area I was working in. Guess they figured me for a spy.” “Well, that was not a good day!” “No, it was not.” “You speak Lao, I take it.” “I speak Lao Hmong,” the priest answered. “As I’m sure you know, there are a whole slew of Lao dialects. In most of the others, I can stumble around.” “How about this on...

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...o replace departing VISTA Stan Yeshe 34. Steward bids Yeshe goodbye and ventures out into the community 35. Brandt picks up Mary Kass for her three-day visit 36. Matt and Mary sleep together without sex, travel to Bourne’s 37.Matt and Mary listen as Hattie Beecher defends Appalachian traditions 38. Matt and Mary part, professing their love for one another 39. Combat ...

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...e Owl Cries and Adiós Mi México, historical novels set during the Mexican Revolution of 1910 and descrip- tive of hacienda life, Forward, Children!, ... ...had lived! Now he was walking...running... I felt such joy, such joy, all day. I couldn’t eat when I sat at the table at Peter’s; his mother scolded... ...d one of them was the wedding at Cana. What a pleasant stroll it was, the day temperate, the path climbing gradually above palm trees of the valley,... ...ring toward the guests at their outdoor tables. Certainly it was Miriam’s day. I thought of our friendship through the years and I decided to change... ...d where men were dismantling a tent; behind a stick fence donkeys brayed; day was closing behind its fence of clouds; I felt that the men dismantlin... ... asking for help. They lived with Gabra nomads—borrowing a white camel, a day or two. Father says “she was a real princess on that camel!” They hid ...

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...e Owl Cries and Adiós Mi México, historical novels set during the Mexican Revolution of 1910 and descrip- tive of hacienda life, Forward, Children!, ... ...omen’s skirts wet with dew, the grapes mottled with damp. Clouds made the day cool. Someone toyed with a flute, the men treading, emptying husks ove... ...r never end? P Fog, as grey as a shepherd’s cloak, ruffled the bay for a day and a night. Then, stabbing us, came clarity, and inside that clarity,... ...omeward from earth’s far end,” on the shield of blindness. I saw him next day and the next, but he seemed strange, withdrawn. I found two of his ser... ...r legs, running, dashing in and out of shallows, finding periwinkles, the day even-tempered, goats nibbling at wild celery, their bells lazy, a fish... ...lack, re- proaches me. I want to cry: but I didn’t blind you! The other day in the library, he said: “I wanted to write something great... During ...

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...t per year, even though we still have heavy monsoons. ―The Green Revolution of a few years ago has turned brown. Mouths are multiplying fas... ...r. This is much less than most farmers worldwide receive. ―The Green Revolution introduced high-yielding varieties of rice and wheat, expanded ... ...ny people in the world have access to only a total of a gallon of water a day. Americans use three gallons just to flush a toilet. Add in drinking an... ...erty was down by half from 1981 to 2001, from 40% making under a dollar a day in 1981 to 21% making a dollar a day in 2001. But the world population... ...ld had increased by over 100% so the total number earning under a dollar a day in 1981 was the same as in 2001, about 800 million, but their purchasi... ...on people were no longer in extreme poverty, earning less than a dollar a day. But outside of China there was an increase of 300 million in poverty.... ...se most Indians are rural and still live in poverty, at a dollar or two a day. But the top end of the monetary mountain has its share of billionaire... ... feed or educate them. ―Both countries have had what we call ‗rice revolutions‘. We have had to call out our army and police to protect the m...

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...t itself. She thought of home, remembered why she was here. Today was Meat Day and her family table was bare of flesh. It was her turn to dress in ... ... sat empty beside her family's shrine of ancestral keepsakes. On any other day her mouth would have watered. If it had today, she told no one. She... ...hing. He turned then. Over the tangle of bushes and tree limbs wavy in the day's growing heat, their eyes met. His bare chest glistened with sweat. ... ... to home and family. 4 Elissa Malcohn Deviations: Covenant On this Meat Day she was not the first Masari to return with prey, but neither was sh... ...ould be salt-cured and delivered to the needy Masari of Crossroads. On her Day of Atonement, three sunrises after Meat Day, she would transfer Ulik... ...h. They circled the hulking granite hall, their orbit tightening with each revolution. The marble façade loomed. The soles of their sandals burned. ... ...to turn one gear and the next, and the next. Teeth interlocked. Metal spun, revolutions quickening, before the wagon's large wooden wheels at last b...

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...as Christmas Eve, every click of the air conditioner turning on in the hot day or the furnace at night, every flight of the pigeons from the nest beh... ...xpectation. As one of her more substantive acts of each part of late day, Kenyon would always get into the wheelchair and mist her fern; and as... ...brother, Scoliosis. Before he began to hobble – the reason he stumbled one day and lost his life in that hit and run accident - he was quite vibrant ... ...ly numb, the homeless had neither routine nor interaction for most of the day, the meanderings of ants moving seriatim imbued more sanity, and she w... ...d insemination? Wasn’t there a time that she believed at any moment of any day the monster man would repent of accosting her sexually, or that his cl... ...m the planet, almost all of them entirely forgotten within a few scores of revolutions around the sun; but to exist and for a time to thrive as thoug... ...hs far away from sheltered shores, she longed for thirty or more backward revolutions of the sun. Such a time would have found her dressed in her fin...