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...In a world torn apart by a ruthless dictator, humanity is enslaved and on the verge of extinction. The governments have fallen. The cities lie in ruin. The only hope is a man who has been in exile for over a year....

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...ON Mike Saxton Copyright © 2010 All rights reserved – Mike Saxton No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means,... ...ecording, taping, or by any information storage retrieval system, without the permission, in writing, from the publisher. Eloquent Books An imprint o... ... the permission, in writing, from the publisher. Eloquent Books An imprint of Strategic Book Group P.O. Box 333 Durham CT 06422 www.StrategicBookGroup... ...ham CT 06422 www.StrategicBookGroup.com ISBN: 978-1-60911-286-8 Printed in the United States of America Book Design: Rolando F. Santos This book is d... ...sible. Thank you all from the botom of my heart. v Prologue F or years, people talked about various ways that the world would end - plague, foods,... ...with strife. It began on May 7 th , a day that began like any other day. People around the world went about their typical routines. Soon they found... ...r pointed in his immediate direction. Another accurate re- 3 7 Scorpions: Rebellion port was his speed and dexterity; he moved like a cat. He charged... ...this environment,” Talbot stated. “My husband isn’t a junkie. He liked his whiskey a bit but nothing like this. He wouldn’t do it, especially with th... ...inutes. My Seekers here will bring you to your aircraf. And there is some whiskey on board; I would suggest you have a litle. Calm your nerves. I do...

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... --Steven Sills "So he spoke, and the bright-eyed goddess, Athene, was pleased that she was the god he prayed... ... goddess, Athene, was pleased that she was the god he prayed to before all the others. She put strength in his shoulders and knees, and set in his he... ...e put strength in his shoulders and knees, and set in his heart the daring of a mosquito, which, though constantly brushed away from a man's skin, sti... ...ushed away from a man's skin, still insists on biting him for the pleasure of human blood." --The Iliad Homer Book I: P... ...it; although from it, despite its limitations, he was always introduced to people so different than he was. They were the favored ones whose ideas we... ...icemen, who could easily be bribed, were never to be trusted. The favored people did not have everyday to roam the streets like homeless but highly m... ...ke a tiny bit of money they always hoped would make them filthy rich. The rebellion against her family and sexual felicity with his large genitalia h... ...hly but spit out most. It was followed by a sip of watery and caffeinated whiskey that had been diluted and adulterated in cola. Normally such open l... ...his day it was overlooked. While the brothers were given a second shot of whiskey again diluted in cola, new customers came to the woman anxiously. ...

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...gence officer, who handles elite politicians and celebrities cover up their misdeeds and embarrassing situations, now finds himself trying to unravel the mystery that could change the world and the future of the international space station. ...

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...Weaving international intrigue with a high-level murder case, The Mystery of Jamieson Stone will leave you on the edge of your seat. When the world’s most famous television news anchor, Jamieson Stone, apparently commits suicide on live international television, Stone’s widow hires ...

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... - J.Cross/Stone 2 THE MYSTERY OF JAMIESON STONE A Novel by Jonathan Cross ... ... - J.Cross/Stone 2 THE MYSTERY OF JAMIESON STONE A Novel by Jonathan Cross ... ... - J.Cross/Stone 3 CHAPTER 1 WASHINGTON, D.C. The studios of WNN (Worldwide News Network) were as hectic ... ...ross/Stone 3 CHAPTER 1 WASHINGTON, D.C. The studios of WNN (Worldwide News Network) were as hectic as usual. Pr... ...nager, shouted at everyone within earshot, commanding the floor like a general. “Let’s go people! Twenty minutes to airtime.” Simmons had been with ... ...most ready,” she said and walked away. Jamieson Stone sat there watching at least fifty people preparing for his nightly news cast, plus another t... ... from natural disasters, to famine, plagues, and nuclear obliteration. We are a planet of rebellion with nations whose only concerns are their own i... ... all.” “Would you like one?” “I enjoy a good cigar.” “Good. How about a little Irish Whiskey to go with it?” “A little scotch would be nice, i... ...irst, a few personal questions, if you don’t mind?” “Not at all.” Ramsey sipped on his whiskey. “You knew General Radcliff, didn’t you?” “I met ...

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...rean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca New York who manifests a more open and less asphyxiating rebellion against society...

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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 ... ...owning him with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating ... ... 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... ...re and less fascinating poet and legend-writer, who will imitate for us the style of the virtuous man." Plato (Republic) Chapter One At Tok... ...ephone clicked off. Sang Huin felt hurt. He felt a morbid clarity behind how people always left his life. He thought about what he "knew" of this Chin... ...ing only in personal interactions? Was he nothing but the composite of other people's impressions of him? These impressions--these judgments-- could n... ...when she rarely returned on brief visits she was as obdurate as a Nazi. Her rebellion had not been a disgorging of the pacifier, like Nathaniel, but ... ... performances had more reality and substance. Also, such planned and subtle rebellions never brought emotional counterattacks to make one feel guilty... ...e door. "Come in, Miss Kennedy Smith. Sit down over there while I pour you whiskey and cola without the whiskey." She had to admit to herself that s...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ht January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and ... ...e various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is used to describe two complimentar... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ...0 The Reason for the Human Sense of Pure Wonder Pg 1814 David Icke’s Lizard People explained Pg 1815 Secret Hidden Dynamics of The Realm of the U... ... was subtle: a slight miscalculation, but devastating in its ramifications. People didn’t realize that the slight curve of sunlight detected was o... ...ay can get his power-fix by ordering people around, and drink expensive Scotch Whiskey to get his alcohol-fix, and criticize his maid servant for not... ...ia, Nigeria. The Germans tested their own new-fangled weapons in the Spanish rebellion. Because then Spain was the poorest and most defenseless cou... ...e would have become a public martyr. He would have become a public symbol of rebellion against the oppression of the rich and powerful. Now we can...

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...This experimental literary novel seeks to probe the mind of Kenyon, an isolated invalid in her home, as she goes through morphine induced sleep and lucid wakefulness, and in both seeking meaning for her life and to be reconciled to her estranged marriage...

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...The Unfettered Life of Kenyon of New Orleans By Steven David Justin Sills "My work is not a piece of writ... ...ven David Justin Sills "My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the taste of an immediate public, but was done to last forever" --Thucydide... ...Justin Sills "My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the taste of an immediate public, but was done to last forever" --Thucydides Part I K... ...be had in a long morphine induced sleep where dreams were as uneventful as the idealized restfulness of death; but though privileged enough to be imp... ...ering misconception of permanence, but the homeless had no such illusion. People such as that were as dust that blew askance from the automated brush... ...nce was substance the policemen thought. Having a matrix of these homeless people, these homelessers abound, was even worse than having to put up wit... ...ll other cells that only had only collective but not individual merit, a rebellion against the dark, making the dark darker, more stygian, than it h... ...termine. A voice of God, you say—very well; but if you give me a shot of whiskey, I am certain I would hear more of God’s opinions than God ever opi... ... what one would be like. Daughter of a slap happy indigenous wench with a whiskey bottle in one hand and a whip in the other... stepfather, another C...

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...This is the continuation of Nawin's story. Now a famous prostitute painter suffering a midlife crisis, he abandons supercilious makings of wealth for a train trip ride to Laos where he repudiates and ventures onto something new...

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...is By Steven Sills 1 He assumed that in being exhausted from sporadic fits of sleep and wakeful spans of dull, hypnagogic thoughts matching the inerti... ...adic fits of sleep and wakeful spans of dull, hypnagogic thoughts matching the inertia of his confinement he would finally become ensconced there, in ... ... sleep and wakeful spans of dull, hypnagogic thoughts matching the inertia of his confinement he would finally become ensconced there, in this train j... ...in jostling him around, and at last fall asleep. This was his hope; but in the meantime there was a languid battle with insomnia and inordinate time t... ...n of such comfort to them as teenagers. Back then, before finding the dead people and each other, each of them had been wandering respectively through... ...orm no more nebulous than that which he felt instantly at taking a shot of whiskey or when spinning one of his madonnas on a dance floor. It was merel... ...re it belongs out of the corners. This was his response to silence. - Why, people ask me are we, I, an archaeological anthropologist and you, a playbo... ...appear half that age was absurd. An earring in a young man was a symbol of rebellion against the world, and an expression of latent homosexual impulse... ...said, "Drink, you are on vacation. Loosen up" and so he drank two shots of whiskey that appeared in tandem before him. As both head and body heated up...

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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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...cott ISBN 10: 1-936000-02-4 ISBN 13: 978-1-936000-02-9 Published in the United States of America Publish Date: March 29, 2009 Editor-I... ...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... ...ng or by any information retrieval and storage system without permission of the publisher. Names, characters and incidents depicted in this boo... ...n thunderous bursts filling the air of the tiny room with the sour smell of whiskey. The trousers that had caused his disgrace were still bunched a... ...still been potent enough poison to make him seek the less painful toxins in whiskey. Stuck in the mirror frame where he’d left it, it dared Morgan t... ...name of Anthony Comstock is not one that is easily sullied. My war against people of your ilk is well-known. You are merely a minor skirmish.” Co... ... “We could go to court, if we had the time. We could pay off all the right people, if we had the money. But there is a faster, cheaper way, Danny,... ...attention of the audience as he whipped the Sons of Liberty into a fever of rebellion. Gathering the cloak that concealed her costume around her, M...

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...Introduction: Immediately after Lincoln?s re-election to the Presidency, in an off-hand speech, delivered in response to a serenade by some of his admirers on the evening of November 10, 1864, he spoke as follows: ?It has long been a grave question whether any government not too st...

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...he Air by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...blished in the Fall of that year. At that time the aeroplane was, for most people, merely a rumour and the “Sausage” held the air. The con- temporary ... ...t hardly my idea of a lady—flying about in the air, and throwing gravel at people. It ain’t what I been accus- tomed to consider ladylike, whether or ... ... of the flying-machine at last with ach- ing arms and in a state of gloomy rebellion. “Brasted cheek!” he said. “One’d think I was one of ‘is beastly ... ...ent of material application; it had no relation to the occasional finds of whiskey and wine in Londoners’ cellars that gave Bun Hill its only holidays...

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...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and...

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...fe on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ..., for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...psed since the river took its place in history. The belief of the scientific people is, that the mouth used to be at Baton Rouge, where the hills ceas... ...d fifty years there had been white settlements on our Atlantic coasts. These people were in intimate communication with the Indians: in the south the ... ...and blankets to them for a consideration, and throwing in civili zation and whiskey, ‘for lagniappe;’ and in Canada the French were schooling them in... ...re there for a spree, maybe, or any way they would send boats ashore to buy whiskey or fresh meat or something. Jim had a wonderful level head, for a... ...re we got all our plans to our notion; we then de termined to undertake the rebellion at every hazard, and make as many friends as we could for that ...

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...ught us? We oughtn?t to have it, you know,? said Maisie. ?Beat me, and lock you up in your bedroom,? Dick answered, without hesitation. ?Have you got the cartridges?? ?Yes; they?re in my pocket, but they are joggling horribly. Do pin-fire cartridges go off of their own accord?? ?Don?t know. Take the revolver, if you are afraid, and let me carry them.? ?I?m not afraid.? Mai...

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...WHAT IS MAN? WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) What Is Man and Other ... ...Man and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...g. He correctly observed, and he marvelously painted. He exactly portrayed people whom God had cre ated; but he created none himself. Let us spare h... ...orm it. Mark T wain 19 O.M. But there is here and there a man who would. People, for instance, like the man who lost his life trying to save the chi... ... Sir John Lubbock took ants from two different nests, made them drunk with whiskey and laid them, unconscious, by one of the nests, near some water. A... ...thday was November 1883. He was once a Pope. He lived at the time of the Rebellion of Worms. Julius Caesar is noted for his famous telegram dispatch... ... and hopefully trying to re form our drunken old alphabet by reducing his whiskey. W ell, it will improve him. When they get through and have re Ma...

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...onic Classics Series Publication Summer by Edith Wharton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is fur... ...c Classics Series Publication Summer by Edith Wharton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnis... ...y. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ed a little, and the shrinking that some- times came over her when she saw people with holiday faces made her draw back into the house and pretend to ... ...r in a familiar place. What, she won- dered, did North Dormer look like to people from other parts of the world? She herself had lived there since the... ...acted from his overcoat pocket the key of the cupboard where the bottle of whiskey was kept. She was awakened by a rattling at her door and jumped out... ...ck with a broken tea-cup which she offered to Charity. It was half full of whiskey, and Charity shook her head; but Harney took the cup and put his li... ... sur- reptitious interference of Mr. Royall’s. All her old resentments and rebellions flamed up, confusedly mingled with the yearning roused by Harney...

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...ssics Series Publication enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris is a publication of the... ...on enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...kable lift about it that argued education, not only of himself, but of his people before him. The impression conveyed by his mouth and chin was that o... ... be of the West, that world’s frontier of Romance, where a new race, a new people—hardy, brave, and passionate—were building an empire; where the tumu... ... a spongebag. Would Magnus and Harran get down and have a drink? There was whiskey somewhere about. Magnus, however, declined. He stated his errand, a... ... 63 Frank Norris the dining-room of the house, he mixed himself a drink of whiskey and soda and swallowed it in three great gulps. He told himself tha... ...ocable; the 116 The Octopus spasm of revolt under the sting of death, the rebellion of the soul at the victory of the grave. “He can give her back to...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. It had just struck nine from the cuckoo clock that hung over the mantelpiece in the dining-room, when Victorine brought in the halved watermelon and set it in front of Mr. Bessemer?s plate. Then she went down to the front door for the damp, twisted roll ...

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...ctronic Classics Series Publication Blix by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Docu- ment file is furn... ...onic Classics Series Publication Blix by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Docu- ment file is furnish... ...ty. This Portable Docu- ment file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... in Chicago; “but,” he always added, “I couldn’t help that, you know.” His people had come West in the early eighties, just in time to bury the father... ...lored globe of the little brass chandelier. The parlor was a small affair, peopled by a family of chairs and sofas robed in white drugget. A gold-and-... ...urn such time-worn, time-hon- ored customs as that? Why, this is a regular rebellion.” “No, sire,” quoted Travis, trying not to laugh, “it is a revolu... ... that when she sank she had aboard of her a cargo of five hundred cases of whiskey, prime stuff, seven thousand quart bottles, sealed up tight as drum... ..., sir; they’re right next to them- selves! They figure this way. This here whiskey’s been kept fifty years without being moved. Now, what do you suppo...

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...Excerpt: Chapter I; I SCARCELY know where to begin, though I sometimes facetiously place the cause of it all to Charley Furuseth?s credit. He kept a summer cottage in Mill Valley, under the shadow of Mount Tamalpais, and never occupied it except when he loafed through the winter months and read Nietzsche and Scho...

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...ter XXVIII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 ii The Sea Wolf Chapter XXIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... ...Chapter I I SCARCELY know where to begin, though I sometimes facetiously place the cause of it all to Charley Furuseth’s credit. He kept a summer cott... ...I SCARCELY know where to begin, though I sometimes facetiously place the cause of it all to Charley Furuseth’s credit. He kept a summer cottage in Mil... ...y Furuseth’s credit. He kept a summer cottage in Mill Valley, under the shadow of Mount Tamalpais, and never occupied it except when he loafed through... ... The peculiar knowledge of the pilot and captain sufficed for many thousands of people who knew no more of the sea and navigation than I knew. On the o... ...e cold that was most distressing. I felt that could survive but a few minutes. People were struggling and floundering in the water about me. I could he... ...en ordered, as they took seats at the table. “And bring out the cigars and the whiskey you’ll find in my berth.” I returned with the articles in time t... ...ds for me to bring the tumblers. These he filled two thirds full with undiluted whiskey — “a gentleman’s drink,” quoth Thomas Mugridge, — and they clin... ... over single stanzas, and I found him reading into them a wail of regret and a rebellion which, for the life of me, I could not discover myself. Possi...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. A South Sea Bridal. I saw that island first when it was neither night nor morning. The moon was to the west, setting, but still broad and bright. To the east, and right amidships of the dawn, which was all pink, the daystar sparkled like a diamond. The land breeze blew in our faces, and smelt strong of wild...

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...Contents THE BEACH OF FALESA............................................ 4 THE BOTTLE IMP...................................................... 68 THE ISLE OF VOICES............................................... 95...

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