Lilith: Once upon a time, before a time the mighty Tetragrammaton created three beings. The first being was the amorphous Spirit, the second was a female entity named Lilith, and the third being was a male named Metatron. Eons afterward, Lilith and Metatron decided to create third dimensional beings of themselves and so they created humanity in their own image, male and female; in the image of themselves, they created them. Metatron named the man Adam and Lilith named the woman Eve. Since the Spirit is amorphous it granted humankind a unique element called a Soul, but when the Spirit granted humankind its Soul, the first gust was inserted into the man, and then the woman received the secondary breeze. As a result, the man possessed a minor advantage over the woman. Lilith was not at all pleased with this end result, she set out to vindicate her cause on her own and so she seek out the assistance of her most prominent creation, a flamboyant Seraph that goes by the name of Lucifer. Blinded by lust, Lucifer conjured a most devilish scheme, to take over Heaven.

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The Fourth Lost Tale of Mercia: Athelward the Historian: Lord Athelward, an ealdorman who also wants to write history, finds his peace of mind disturbed when a strange woman named Golde and her young son Eadric show up on his doorstep with a ridiculous proposal.

Date Added: 10/27/2010 10:23:23 PM | Visits: 32629

The Blood-stained Belt: From poverty and lives as shepherd boys, hating the way that their country is ransacked by enemies, Jina and Sharma become soldiers, learn their trades, progress up the ranks, defeat the enemies and rise to power. However, what seems to be a triumph slides in to tragedy.

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Walk In The Light: Long hailed as one of the western world�s greatest writers, Leo Tolstoy is best known for his epic War and Peace and his novel Anna Karenina. Yet the undiminished popularity of his shorter works � including the two dozen collected here � attests to his equal prowess as a master of the short story. Uncluttered by the complexities of plot and character that daunt so many readers of the longer Russian masterpieces, Tolstoy�s tales illumine eternal truths with forceful brevity. While inspired by a sense of spiritual certainty, their narrative quality, subtle humor, and visionary power lift them far above the common run of religious� literature. Moralists purport to tell us what our lives should mean, and how we should live them. Tolstoy, on the other hand, has an uncanny gift for simply conveying what it means to be truly alive.

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Kerens-h-tein: The omission of a single character in the surname of her forbearers provokes transatlantic yearnings in already restless language teacher Sharon Kerenstein. It presents a modern tale of trying to juxtapose a need for making sense of the past with the inevitable yearning for a better future. Are we doomed to merely become the fruit of those who preceded us, or do we have at hand the capability of shaping our own destiny? Is it indeed true that we are nothing more than the sum of those people, places and events which have shaped our past, far removed from any chance for betterment in real time? Reveries and experimental syntax abound as we follow Sharon on a journey filled with surprise and unexpected self-discovery.

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Two-Lane (Repaved Edition): Jack is a self-made man, living life by his own rules. When a day trip out of Las Vegas with his wife takes a turn for the worse, he is sure that he has the ability to get them home. But he drove into something he never bargained for. When rescue comes in the form of a desert hermit, hope begins to fade as the couple come to realize that the nomad has no intention of letting them leave.

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The Leaching of Ian Burns: In The Leaching of IAN BURNS, a cantankerous, no-nonsense old man arrives in heaven after dying in a fire. Ian manages to cope with the death of a saintly acquaintance (a death for which he feels partly responsible), by tolerating the least amount of introspection possible. The arrival and rapid departure of his estranged son is too painful for him to accept, however, and his headstrong personality takes over as he resolves to find out where his son has gone.

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The Sunflower that Roared: Sarah has a very sunny nature. That is why her mother calls her her little sunflower. But even sunflowers get grumpy when no one listens to them. A picture book to read with your 3-5 year old, especially if you like sunflowers-like Van Gogh and William Blake did! It will also make a delightful addition to the learning experience about growing a plant from seed, as done in kindergarten, and can be read on line or on your phone/ipad with Stanza too.

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A Gentleman of Weight: This is a short mystery novel set in the maelstrom that was Berlin in the 1920′s.

The war to end all wars left no one untouched. Every man who fought the mud and the horror that was trench warfare became a casualty and a stranger to those that knew him before, The peace in Germany was marred with riots, assassinations and civil unrest. Berlin of the 1920′s was not a good time to be a German but it was an interesting time to be a foreign correspondent. The beleaguered Weimar Republic reeled under the constraints of the Treaty of Versailles and old scores were settled.

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The Pigeon: As late as 1960 there were still groups of Australian Aborigines, colloquially called Myalls, living through the interior of Australia in the traditional life style of nomadic hunter-gatherers. Some of their children had never seen a European and were unaware that a different world existed beyond the confines of their own existence.

Date Added: 10/27/2010 7:20:12 AM | Visits: 34126