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When Callie Pierce was ten, her mother disappeared without a trace. On
the eve of her disappearance twelve years later, the earth seemingly
comes alive. The elements speak to Callie, and that's only the
beginning. Everything she has ever known was a twisted fabrication to
protect her. Now the truth is set free. Callie and her sister are more
powerful than any Faerie ev
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Counted among the fiercest Andarion warriors of all time, Hauk is one of
the five founding members of the Sentella, an organization that has
declared war on The League. They rule the Ichidian universe with an iron
fist and terrify it with an army of well-trained assassins. Hauk’s
enemies are legion, but he fears nothing and no one. He will do whatever
it takes to survive and protect his Se
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"Nearer, My God, to Thee" is a 19th-century Christian hymn by Sarah Flower Adams, based loosely on Genesis 28:11–19, the story of Jacob's dream. Genesis 28:11–12 can be translated as follows: "So he came to a certain place and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. And he took one of the stones of that place and put it at his head, and he lay down in that place to
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In America, in 1770, a well-defined aristocracy held control. As an effect of the Industrial Revolution upon industry and commerce, the Revolutionary War occurred, the colonial aristocracy misjudged the environment, adhered to Great Britain, were exiled, lost their property, and perished. Immediately after the American Revolution and also as a part of the Industrial Revolut
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Long Poems Collection 005: a collection of 10 public-domain poems longer than 5 minutes in length.
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TWO loves had I. Now both are dead, And both are marked by tombstones white. The one stands in the churchyard near, The other hid from mortal sight. The name on one all men may read, And learn
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This beautiful Christmas carol, whose original title is "Cantique de
Noël”, was composed by French composer Adolphe Charles Adam in 1847 to
the poem "Minuit, chrétiens” ("Midnight, Christians”) by Placide
Cappeau, a wine merchant and occasional writer of poetry. It is said
that Cappeau was about to embark upon a business trip to Paris when the
local parish pries
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AFTER everyone had left, It was always so wonderful sitting in the dark theatre with you. There was a mystery about it, As though the echo of many plays Still lingered in the folds of the curtain, 5 While phantom figures crouched low in the chairs, Beating applause with vapor hands. Do you remember how we always sat silently? I would shut my eyes to
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John Ackworth was the pen name of the Rev. Frederick R. Smith, a Methodist minister who was born in Snaith, Yorkshire, but spent much of his career as a circuit preacher in Lancashire. Clog Shop Chronicles was the first and most successful of his works. Set in the fictional 19th-century village of Beckside (said to be somewhere between Manchester and Bolton), the book consi
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Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and scientific method, but are not facts of the author’s contemporary world. The stories often represent philosophical thought experiments presented in entertaining ways. Protagonists typically "think” rather than "shoot” their way out of probl
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