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In 400 BC while SOCRATES the Greek philosopher who shaped Western philosophy and his student PLATO stroll through an enchanted fortress they encounter an extraordinary Being who possesses the key to immortality. Over 2000 years later SOCRATO SCHAPIRELLI a direct descendant of Socrates uncovers a secret competition in Boston whereby 3 courageous contestants, psychiatrist LUKE TALBOT, ophthalmologist MARNI RIVERS and performance artist JAMIE DAWNE vie to be chosen as The One. The victor will achieve the gift of immortality. To the ruthless scientist MARGOT PAYNE, head of the most powerful dynasty in America, her son JONATHAN and her daughter TARA, conquerors who will stop at nothing, the key i...
WARNING: ADULT CONTENT This book contains dialog that includes, explicit sex, graphic violence, drug abuse, and mathematics. It is not intended for, and should not be distributed to, any person, or persons, under 21 years of age. Graphic sex, gratuitous violence, copious amounts of drugs, Murder, Mayhem, Fraud and Identity theft. Hey... it's just another typical day on the darknet. The dark hero has to convince himself that he is a dark knight fighting for a greater good in order to justify his actions. His fatal flaw is that everything he touches turns into complete and utter darkness.
The 'Acts of Oblivion' were a series of seventeenth-century laws enacted by both Parliamentarian and Royalist factions. Whatever their ends — pardoning revolutionary deeds, or expunging revolutionary speech from the record — they forced the people to forget. Against such injunctions, Paul Batchelor's poems rebel. This long-awaited second collection, The Acts of Oblivion, listens in on some of England's lost futures, such as those offered by radical but sidelined figures in the English Civil War, or by the deliberately destroyed mining communities of North East England, remembered here with bitter, illuminating force. The book also collects the acclaimed individual poems 'Brother Coal' an...
In the early life of the beautiful warrior queen Zenobia, she had an early teenage marriage to an unknown boy. She later unexplainably protected and befriended a handsome, popular Christian bishop in Antioch, Paul of Samosata, known as possibly the greatest Christian heretic in the ancient world. Their love affair and the dramatic consequences are imagined in this fictional romance of adventure and love. One of the most beautiful and educated women of her time, Zenobia was a woman who conquered Egypt and challenged the Roman Emperor Aurelian for control of the ancient world. She gave her heart to a teenager in a doomed elopement. Later forced to marry the powerful prince of Palmyra, Zenobia could never leave the tragic love of her youth until death parted them on the banks of the Euphrates.
“I owe Alaska. It gave me everything I have.” Says Sidney Huntington, son of an Athapaskan mother and white trader/trapper father. Growing up on the Koyukuk River in Alaska’s harsh Interior, that “everything” spans 78 years of tragedies and adventures. When his mother died suddenly, 5-year-old Huntington protected and cared for his younger brother and sister during two weeks of isolation. Later, as a teenager, he plied the wilderness traplines with his father, nearly freezing to death several times. One spring, he watched an ice-filled breakup flood sweep his family’s cabin and belongings away. These and many other episodes are the compelling background for the story of a man who learned the lessons of a land and culture, lessons that enabled him to prosper as trapper, boat builder, and fisherman. This is more than one man's incredible tale of hardship and success in Alaska. It is also a tribute to the Athapaskan traditions and spiritual beliefs that enabled him and his ancestors to survive. His story, simply told, is a testament to the durability of Alaska's wild lands and to the strength of the people who inhabit them.
One hundred twenty-six million American citizens have stated they believe Jesus will return to this earth by 2050. Most of them await his arrival with mental pictures and images obtained from the blockbuster Left Behind series of books of LaHaye and Jenkins, or Hal Lindsey's portrayals in his book The Late Great Planet Earth. Both books are fictional images of the end of the world created from the nightmarish and ghoulish descriptions of the author of the book of Revelation who wrote of events he believed were to occur in the Roman world before the return of Jesus. It was to be a time of unimaginable horrors to come upon the world. We read daily of alleged apocalyptic signs occurring now whi...
Die Studie nimmt die bisherige Diskussion der Konversion in der Antike neu auf durch eine Verknüpfung von klassischen, epigraphischen und biblischen Quellen mit einer sozialwissenschaftlichen Methodologie. Der Autor hinterfragt dabei die bisher vorausgesetzte psychologische Kontinuität zwischen antiken und modernen Menschen und bietet statt dessen ein Modell, welches an den Denkvoraussetzungen der Antike selbst gebildet wurde. Die griechisch-römischen und mediterranen Religionen und Philosophien - also auch das hellenistische Judentum und das Christentum - orientierten sich an den Modellen von Patronat und Loyalität. Das Verständnis der antiken Konversion muss also hier ansetzen. In diesem Zusammenhang wird auch die "Bekehrung" des Paulus neu gedeutet.
Enjoy this clean, small town romance by award winning and bestselling author, Lucinda Race. Dani's plan of hiding in plain sight may not have been the best idea. In the two years that Dani Michaels has lived in Loudon, she's never told her friends at What's Perkin' she moved there to escape an abusive boyfriend. However, when she receives a note that says cryptically "looking forward to seeing you again," she realizes that it's finally time share her secret and ask for help. Ellie McKenna immediately enlists her Loudon policeman fiancé and his handsome partner, Paul Greene, for help protecting Dani. As Dani continues to be threatened, they discover some disturbing facts about her stalker. Paul is attracted to Dani from the beginning, but with her ex in the mix, he knows he'll have to tread carefully. There are certainly sparks flying between them, but Dani has been burned by love in the past. As danger threatens, can Paul persuade her to trust him? Magic in the Rain is the seventh novel in the McKenna Family Romance Series, although each book can be read as standalone. A clean romantic story with a guaranteed happily ever after. Happy reading!
Named Best Mystery Thriller in the 2021 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards "Part mystery; part quirky, darkly funny, mayhem-filled thriller; and part meditation on what it means to 'own' land, artifacts, and the narrative of history in the West . . . A fast-paced, highly entertaining hybrid of Tony Hillerman and Edward Abbey." --Kirkus Reviews Anthropologist Sophia Shepard is researching the impact of tourism on cultural sites in a remote national monument on the Utah-Arizona border when she crosses paths with two small-time criminals. The Ashdown brothers were hired to steal maps from a "collector" of Native American artifacts, but their ineptitude has alerted the local sheriff to their presence. Their employer, a former lobbyist seeking lucrative monument land that may soon be open to energy exploration, sends a fixer to clean up their mess. Suddenly, Sophia must put her theories to the test in the real world, and the stakes are higher than she could have ever imagined. What begins as a madcap caper across the RV-strewn vacation lands of southern Utah becomes a meditation on mythology, authenticity, the ethics of preservation, and one nagging question: Who owns the past?