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WHEN JOHN MASON JUNIOR IS INFORMED THAT HE HAS BEEN SELECTED AS THE NEW PLANETARY PRESIDENT HE IS INDIGNANT AS HE REALISES THAT HE HAS BEEN A PAWN OF THE WORLD COALITION GOVERNMENT EVER SINCE HE BEGAN MAKING CHANGES AND ESTABLISHING A NEW UNDERGROUND SOCIETY THAT HAS THRIVED AND GROWN UNDER HIS CAPABLE SUPERVISION. NOW, AT SIXTY THREE, HE IS FACED WITH SOME OF THE GREATEST CHALLENGES OF HIS LIFE. HE CAN FINALIZE THE INVESTIGATION INTO THE ETERNITY CLINICS THAT HAVE BEEN SO MUCH A PART OF THE DEATH ORDER CULTURE ON THERA FOR THE PAST TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS AND DICOVER THEIR TERRIBLE SECRET. DISCOVERING THE COLONISTS ORIGINAL CHARTER HE DECIDES THAT FUTURE LAWS WILL BE ESTABLISHED ON THE PRINCIPLES OF THAT CHARTER. BASING HIS FIRST EXECUTIVE ORDER ON THE SEVENTH PRINCIPLE IN THE CHARTER, JUNIOR ABOLISHES THE CLASS DISTINCTIONS LAW THAT HAS SEPARATED EXECUTIVES AND WORKERS FOR SO MANY CENTURIES. REVIVING THE SCIENCES THAT WILL ALLOW THERANS TO VENTURE OUT INTO SPACE, JUNIOR STARTS SETTING UP VARIOUS NEW GOVERNMENT MINISTRIES AND APPOINTING FORMER WORKERS AS GOVERNMENT MINISTERS. HOWEVER, JUNIOR FACES HIS GREATEST CHALLENGE EVER WHEN HE IS ATTACKED AND STABBED BY AN ASSASSIN.
THE PLANET THERA is so severly overpopulatd the World Coalition Government has decreed that the older generation must accept voluntary euthanasia at the purpose-built eternity clinics. They suggest those past childbearing age be the ones to make the supreme sacrifice in favour of the younger generation. Every person is issued with a Death Order, but the time and the selection of clinic is left to the individuals own choice and discretionwithin reason. Special eternity trains are provided to carry each citizen to their final destination where clinic staff will assist them to obtain everlasting sleep. Once the ticket to eternity has been issued, there is no going back. Nobody seems to know wha...
"When Ben loses Raf, his favorite stuffed toy, he is inconsolable. But a few days later, Ben receives a postcard--from Raf! Raf writes about how he got lost and was found...Will Raf really return to Ben? Will Ben still recognize him? And will he make it home in time for Ben's birthday?"--P. [4] of cover.
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Het levensverhaal van Anna Anderson ( -1983), die altijd beweerd heeft Anastasia Nikolajevna Romanova (1901-1918?), de vierde dochter van de laatste Russische tsaar, te zijn.
Life of the Russian poet who withstood Stalinism and became an inspiration to millions Anna Akhmatova is recognised as one of the greatest poets of Russian literature, an iconic figure who gave voice to the suffering of the Russian people during the brutal years of Stalin's Terror. Akhmatova began writing at a time when 'to think of a woman as a poet was absurd' but her genius soared above any such category. Hailed as a great beauty, she married three times yet her personal life was shot through with tragedy and her only son and third husband were held captive in the Gulags. Through illness, poverty and repression she maintained her resistance to the regime, with a dignity and composure that led her to be dubbed 'Anna of all the Russias'.
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