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...to win his heart in the most embarrassing ways. A family tragedy turns her life upside down and her little farm into spook central. Learn the secrets of the after life; you too may have many freeloaders at your address and not all were once human. Australian author Christine Jones writes for many genres from science fiction fantasy to humor. Though the characters in this b...

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...ooks.net Copyright © 2007 by Christine Jones. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means,... ...m, without permission in writing from the copyright owner. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product... ...f fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance ... ...self-gain and when it comes to money, he has deep pockets with very short arms. I tried to warn him about taking a position in the firm, but he would... ...took a beating that night. Cushions bulged ready to spew stuffing with my arms crushing the colourful patterns with emotion. To side track myself, I... ...or a response. We get one, but not what we expect. Michael wraps his manly arms around me, drawing my head to his chest. This part of the dream I lik... ...My voice sent this four eyed, poor excuse for a man squirming amongst the coats. “Leave your raincoat and gumboots behind? Come on, speak up you mis... .... I’m imagining an ambulance parked at my back door, men in little, white coats chasing me around the paddocks with a straight jacket. It’s all very...

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...Thrilling narratives of voyages, discoveries, adventures, battles, darings and sufferings of the heroic characters, bold explorers and dauntless spirits who have made ocean history and established christian supremacy over the most savage lands of...

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...The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- The first boats -- ...

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... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russ... ..." "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia and Siberia," etc. A RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made ... ...NDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made by Europeans to the Wild Races of the World; FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF ADVANCING CIVILIZATION FROM T... ...ttack by the natives -- Cannibalism -- Departure from New Zealand -- Among the Australians -- Australian Boomerang throwers - - Game found in Australi... ...ia -- Timidity of the natives -- An accident to the ship -- Curious customs -- Australian lance throwers -- A surprising thing seen on the New Guinea ... ...7 An attack by the natives................................................ 439 Australian Boomerang dancers.............................................. ...hey had seen on shore. But towards evening the German returned, bearing in his arms a great quantity of grapes, a fruit which was quite familiar to hi... ...nidad, Cortez collected a large quantity of military supplies, provided padded coats for some and armor for others of his soldiers, and set them throu... ...herein the ends of logs painted black to represent guns, put a large number of coats and hats: on sticks just inside the bulwarks to convey the impres...

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...humanity into the perfected and defective. Dictated by science and technology, the search for immortality near destroyed the human race. What remains of mankind, struggles to survive in barbaric clans suppressed by Masters and false doctrine. Known as Project Noah, an underground community seeks to restore civilization by rehabilitating those snatched from the surface. An ...

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...n e s 1 Copyright © 2007 by Christine Jones. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means,... ...em, without permission in writing from the copyright owner. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product... ...f fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance ... ...They’d eat us alive if they had the chance, but we welcome them with open arms. Come in, join the family, we’ll feed yah and…" Roxanne went silent, ... ... the light tower." The man acknowledged Shaun with a nod of understanding. Australian Communications, Aus Com, the eyes and ears of the world. Floor ... ...joined the three at the top of the stairs. "Any second now." Kurt’s rugged Australian features were tense. "Let's hope it worked." Shaun's hand reste... ...iled from the work bot behind the white marble topped counter. "Welcome to Australian Communications. Please state your name and position clearly for... ...th the stairwell warmed by air conditioning and the added weight of heavy coats and backpacks, the two men were sweaty and uncomfortable. Kurt and B... ...irts soaked in sweat, the two men took a breather, having discarded their coats ten flights back. They knew it wasn’t just them, as it was getting h...

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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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...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... ... and headed across the driveway. LACEY PULLED him inside and fell into his arms as soon as she opened the door. She sobbed and clung to him. Roger awk... ...the children, again. Her shoulders shaking, Lacey put her head down on her arms and sobbed. I am such a fool. Why do I put up with it? I wish he would... ...h canopies of brilliant red, yel- low and gold trees, ablaze in their fall coats. “This is so amazing!” Lacey blurted out. Jake was pleased with her r... ...She followed Scott on shaky legs to the front door where a maid took their coats and welcomed Scott with a fond smile. They entered a marble foyer dom... ... me into believing he had depression? “Anyhow, I stayed. I got a job at an Australian government high school. They’re crazy about sports over there, s... ... receive physician assisted dying, if this is their persistent wish. South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society, Kent Town, S.A., Australia, 61-8-8...

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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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...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 188-222 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics P...

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... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ...not? Preface The Basic Elements of Human Understanding are: ... ...living inside Nature… comfortably warm, and perfectly at home in our own furry coats that kept us warm all the time. Instead of using each other for... ...t romantic thing in the world is to walk along a sand-covered beach. Why the Australian aborigines coming out of Africa walked 20,000 miles along t... ...d there. And did not come out for 75,000 years. They still do not come out. Australian aborigines have no interest in the rest of the world. This... ...the way during the migration process… and those that never left Africa and the Australian aborigines; all the rest of us can trace our ethnic roots b... ...llion years ago. That six million-year-old legacy of us losing our warm fur coats forced us to define love by closeness to each other. Other anim... ...ss to each other. Other animals, who are perfectly warm inside their own fur coats no matter how cold the weather gets, do not have this definition...

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...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic C... ...lotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by ... ...ry Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... said (I know not how truly), has a pattern of its own; so they wear their coats- of-arms on their faces, that is all. The young Christian na- tives a... ... had his head under water, too, for a time. Instanter Bishop and I had our coats off, my trousers were rolled over my knees, and in we rushed to the h... ...s. There is a botanical garden here with a very good collection of all the Australian trees and shrubs, and with many New Zealand and many semi-tropi-... ...Your affectionate cousin, ‘J. C. Patteson.’ This meeting was called by the Australian Board of Mis- sions to receive information or propositions conce... ...ions to receive information or propositions concerning the missions to the Australians and Melanesians. Bishop Barker of Sydney was in the chair, and ... ...d all looked happy, clean, and healthy. The girls wear their native petti- coats of cocoa-nut leaves, with a calico body. Boys wear trou- sers, and so...

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..... 9 MY HEART, WHEN FIRST THE BLACK-BIRD SINGS ......................................................................................... 10 I DREAMED OF FOREST ALLEYS FAIR ................................................................................................................ 10 ST. MARTIN?S SUMMER ......................................................................

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...blication New Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson (1918 ed.) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... to me of reason now? It would be more delight To have died in Cleopatra’s arms Than be alive to-night. I KNOW NOT HOW, BUT AS I COUNT I know not how,... ...ll plant his foot: 47 New Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson (1918) A God in arms shall stand, And seeing wide and far The green and golden earth, The k... ...son (1918) TO MISS CORNISH They tell me, lady, that to-day On that unknown Australian strand – Some time ago, so far away – Another lady joined the ba... ... the bour-tree blooms! Wi’ swords and guns they wanton there, Wi’ red, red coats and braw, braw plumes. But I gaed wi’ my gowden hair, And O! sae bonn... ...e hempie lass, In the sand and the bent grass, Or took and kilted my small coats To play in the beached fisher-boats. I waded deep and I ran fast, I w...

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...A Journey to the Interior of the Earth By Jules Verne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publica... ...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...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... ... I led him to his destruction.” Having formed this resolution, I folded my arms and waited. But I had not reckoned upon one little incident which turn... ...etrothed; and when you come back I will be your wife.” I pressed her in my arms and took my place in the car- riage. Martha and the young girl, standi... ...rood within the body of the spheroid. Its action was felt to the very last coats of the ter- restrial crust; the plants, unacquainted with the benefic... ...n I came to myself, I was stretched in half darkness, cov- ered with thick coats and blankets. My uncle was watching over me, to discover the least si... ... surface of the globe. The oak and the palm were growing side by side, the Australian eucalyptus leaned against the Norwegian pine, the birch-tree of ... ...run- ning into the mould. Gradually we had been obliged to throw aside our coats and waistcoats, the. lightest covering became uncomfortable and even ...

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...Excerpt: Landfall and departure mark the rhythmical swing of a seaman?s life and of a ship?s career. From land to land is the most concise definition of a ship?s earthly fate. A ?Departure? is not what a vain people of landsmen may think. The term ?Landfall? is more easily understoo...

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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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...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANIEL HAWTHO... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 42 The Whiteness of the Whale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 43 Hark! . . . . .... ... 54 The Town Ho’s Story(As told at the Golden Inn.) . . . . . . . . 237 55 Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 56 Of... ...d in rolled a wild set of mariners enough. Enveloped in their shaggy watch coats, and with their heads muffled in woollen comforters, all bedarned and ... ... he continued the business of undressing, and at last showed his chest and arms. As I live, these covered parts of him were checkered with the same sq... ... amazement, contented himself with restricting his ablutions to his chest, arms, and hands. He then donned his waistcoat, and taking up a piece of har... ...rue mother of that now mighty colony. Moreover, in the infancy of the first Australian settlement, the emigrants were several times saved from starvati... ... comfortable seat, with a locker underneath for umbrellas, comforters, and coats. In front is a leather rack, in which to keep your speaking trumpet, ... ...eling, now, when a black boy’s host to white men with gold lace upon their coats! — Monsieurs, have ye seen one Pip? — a little negro lad, five feet hi...

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...AGLE by Charles Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...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... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin, the Pennsylvania State University, Electro... ...etiring tide, these animals were not easily caught. By means of their long arms and suckers, they could drag their bodies into very narrow crevices; a... ...hat on several occasions he has known it eat its way, not only through the coats 20 The V oyage of the Beagle of the stomach, but through the sides o... ...only fact which I know analogous to it, is the habit of that extraordinary Australian bird, the Calodera maculata, which makes an elegant vaulted pass... ...most in the same words, of the same ludicrous habit among the Caffres; the Australians, likewise, have long been notorious for being able to imitate a... ...ng to almost every object, one after the other, even to the buttons on our coats, and saying their favourite word in as many intonations as possible, ... ...ethod of climbing trees, of tracking animals, and of hunting. Although the Australian may be superior in acquire- ments, it by no means follows that h...

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...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and powe...

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...Contents LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 T...

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...Excerpt: The least that Findlayson, of the Public Works Department, expected was a C.I.E.; he dreamed of a C.S.I.: indeed, his friends told him that he deserved more. For three years he had endured heat and cold, disappointment, discomfort, danger, and disease,...

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.................... 34 THE SHIP THAT FOUND HERSELF......................................................................................... 53 THE TOMB OF HIS ANCESTORS ............................................................................................ 68 THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP SEA ........................................................................................

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....................................................................................................................... 212 CHAPTER XV: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK ................................................................. 243 CHAPTER XVI: BOSTON..................................................................................................................

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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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...onge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Clever Woman of the Family by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...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... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Clever Woman of the Family by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Ele... ...l hurry to the drawing-room, and tear open the black-edged letter with the Australian stamp. “All is right, mamma. She has been very ill, but is fast ... ... in an endless stream, till at last a sleeping baby was brought out in the arms of a nurse. “Good-bye. Thank you, oh, thank you. Y ou will come soon. ... ...rbockers, a pair in petticoats, a pair in pelisses, be- sides the thing in arms. When the fly had been nearly crammed, the two knickerbockers and one ... ...r. “Nests are made to be taken,” said Francis. “I’ve got an egg of all the Australian birds the Major could get me,” said Conrade, “and I mean to have... ...I always meant that for Ermine. I think she must have the emu’s egg set in Australian gold.” “If she were to be induced by the bribe,” said Colonel Ke... ...he did not see anything near, only quite far away. And I sup- pose Russian coats must be made of some sort of sheep that eats tobacco.” “August 3d, 10...