The Afterlife really does exist. There is a tremendous amount of evidence proving that it is so. Some of the more convincing evidence comes from the Scole experiments, proxy sittings, and solid materializations. All of this evidence proves that the personality lives on and that when we die we will meet our loved ones again. There is No Death. I am standing on the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of bea...

He smiled to himself, taking a slow sip of the Scotch. God must really love him, he thought. How else could he explain it? All the lies, the scams, the sins, and he was still here. Successful. Respected. Untouchable.Maybe, he reasoned, God had forgiven him. Maybe all this was divine favour, proof of grace, not guilt.The moment was almost holy.Ex-convict Elijah “Eli” Penn is not a man you would expect to find preaching salvation behind a pulpit. Newly released from p...

Master British English - Speak Naturally, Understand Deeply, and Embrace the CultureKeen to sound like a true Brit? Whether you're a language enthusiast, traveller, or professional looking to refine your UK English, this guide is your ideal companion for mastering the real British experience - one word, phrase, and cultural insight at a time.Inside "Mastering UK English: A Complete Guide to British Vocabulary, Grammar & Culture",...

What makes Mozart's music so great? Why does a minor chord sound sad and a major chord sound happy? What's the difference between opera and operetta? From Bach to Bernstein, this definitive e-guide offers a complete survey of the history of classical music.Whether you already love classical music or you're just beginning to explore it, The Complete Classical Music Guide invites you to discover the spirituality of Byrd's masses, the awesome power of Handel'...

At Castle Perilous, a magical party ends in murder and the hunt begins for whodunit in this "fast-moving and funny" fantasy novel (Barbara Paul, author of Kill Fee).Partying to death? A parlous party at the Castle Perilous comes to a dead halt when the body of viscount Oren is discovered and foul play is suspected. But who is the killer? And where is the murder weapon? The rambunctious revelers at Castle P. join in a treacherous treasure hunt for party fav...

When the king of a magical castle ventures into the realm of the dead, creatures of all kinds vie for the throne in the sequel to Castle Perilous.Who will claim the throne now that Lord Incarnadine, King of the Realms Perilous, is dead? Under a mysterious spell cast by a mischief-maker, all of Castle Perilous's 144,000 creatures of curiosity clamor for the crown. Outside of the castle's coveting fray, Gene flies off with an adventurous Amazon in supernatur...

Welcome to the wild and wacky alternate worlds fantasy series. "I've enjoyed every book DeChancie has written!” (Steven Brust, New York Times bestselling author).Imagine life in an ironically magical world where 144,000 doors separate fiction from reality. A place that can hypnotize even the most grounded philosophy major and deliver a fantastical rhyme to his reason. A place where a best buddy resembles a shaggy carpet, and adventures surpass a boy's drea...

Cobb finds it difficult to go on. Though he finally brought an end to Kyle, he also lost the meaning to his life. He returns to his university lecturing 'to keep his head on straight' but allows himself to dwell in the past, a time when every day brought new miracles. Now, there could be no more miracles - or could there? Trouble has a way of finding Cobb and it is a strange route he follows, and a number of attempts on his life, before he realizes what is going on. I hope that you have re...

Saddam Hussein sought great power and prestige in the Middle East. He had been secretly researching and developing nuclear weapons for years and he was determined to use them against Israel. He started his Middle East expansion in 1990 when he invaded Kuwait. It was obvious that Saudi Arabia would be his next target. However Saudi Arabia called in their old American and British friends who, with modern weaponry put the Iraqi military and National Guard into an embarrassing and bloody retre...

This volume brings together a selection of lectures and essays in which J.A. Burrow discusses the work of English poets of the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries: Chaucer, Gower, Langland, and Hoccleve, as well as the anonymous authors of Pearl, Saint Erkenwald, and a pair of metrical romances. Six of the pieces address general issues, with some reference to French and Italian writings ('Autobiographical Poetry in the Middle Ages', for example, or 'The Poet and the Book'); but m...

The compilation Fortunes Stabilnes, the English poetry Charles d'Orléans wrote in the course of his twenty-five year captivity in England after Agincourt, requires a larger lens than that of Chaucerianism, through which ithas most often been viewed. A fresh view from another perspective, one that attends to form and style, as well as to the poet's French traditions, reveals a more conceptually complex and innovative kind of poetry than we have seenuntil now.The essays colle...

The classic tale of the thief with a heart of gold, adapted for young readers.He robbed from the rich and gave to the poor, and had escapades enough to please any adventure-loving child. Now even the youngest readers can have the chance to enter Sherwood Forest with Robins band of merry men, and meet such unforgettable characters as Friar Tuck, Little John, Allan-a-Dale, the nasty Sheriff of Nottingham, and wicked King John. Every moment of the story is filled with...