“From the closed gardenWhere our feet paceBack and forth each day,This gladiolus white…”HILDA DOOLITTLE (1886–1961) was an American poet, novelist, and playwright known for her association with the illustrious Ezra Pound. She published under the pen name of H.D. She became a patient of Sigmund Freud to better express her bisexuality. Doolittle married once to the poet Richard Aldington, and undertook relationships with both women and m...

A science fiction thriller! The five known worlds are headed for war. A Dictator has placed mind control crystals in the hands of leaders on all five worlds. The crystals play music and create pleasure in the listener while allowing their minds to be influenced by him. They have advanced crystal technology that allows interplanetary travel through portals that exist on each planet.A young, orphaned, earthman finds himself drug into an interplanetary battle and the ...

This book is a collection of fascinating short stories, photos, and documents furnished by the heroic and courageous men that served as air or ground crew members in Vietnam. The chopper units were located throughout Vietnam. During the course of the war, we lost at least 5,139 helicopter air crew members and at least 588 ground support crew members. In fact, the true number of helicopter air and ground crew members killed or missing in action will probably never be known. Those crew membe...

Reverie and Dread are pulled into a relationship where attraction and danger are impossible to separate. Told through alternating points of view, their connection deepens as secrets, fear, loyalty, and obsession push them toward increasingly difficult choices.Against a tense and psychologically charged backdrop, My Dreadful Darling explores trust, vulnerability, power, trauma, and the risks of believing someone when desire and danger begin to look the same.

An ancient dragon nears the end of hope after ten thousand years of slavery at the hands of elves. After her latest master dies, she prepares to receive a new master, expecting yet another in a long line of cruel owners. However, she soon realizes that her new master is like none she has known before.

"Navigates the untamed wilderness of teenage girlhood with fierce honesty." —Joy McCullough, New York Times best-selling author of Blood Water Paint"Explores the wild—in our hearts and in nature, deftly excavating joy hidden beneath the rubble of grief.” —Rebekah Faubion, author of Lost Girls of Hollow LakeReeling from the death of their best friend, two girls hike the Pacific Crest Trail in her honor in t...

Henrietta Dorothy Huskisson was born in January 1851 in Gillingham, Kent.Little reliable information on her life is available and almost nothing on her early life.The first concrete information concerns her marriage at age 18 to the solicitor Isaac Edward Everett.It was only at the age of 44 that she began her literary career under the pseudonym of Theo Douglas, a popular device in a society that still frowned upon women writing for income.During her lifetim...

Mrs Henrietta Dorothy Everett (1851-1923) was one of the most renowned Victorian horror writers, often publishing her spine-tingling tales under the pen name Theo Douglas. The Death Mask is one of the weirdest and most chilling of her short stories. It tells the tale of a widower who had made a peculiar promise to his late wife on her deathbed. At face value it had seemed such a simple thing... just to cover the dead woman's face with a particular cloth. But the events which follow this ac...

Besides the mortality rate the value of an operative procedure is measured against the incidence and the degree of undesirable postoperative sequelae. In the surgical treatment of gastroduo denal ulcerations vagotomy is now competing with the success fully established resection therapy. Since this latter method has been further developed during the last years and late results are rare, a comparison between both types of operation is difficult. Meritoriously, the authors have tried to perfo...

First published in 1959, Our Experience of God examines the relationship between philosophy and religion. The author argues that, we cannot construct a religion for ourselves out of merely philosophical elements, and that the attempt to provide some philosophical or similar substitute for religion, as it normally presents itself, is misconceived. It brings themes like religion and belief; belief and mystery; religion and transcendence; history and dogma; material factors in religi...

Originally published in 1951, this book discusses morality and religion , with special attention being paid to the theologian Emil Brunner. It critically examines the state of ethical thinking in the first half of the twentieth century and examines the question of freedom and guilt particularly in relation to psychological theories. The issue of collective guilt is also subjected to close analysis. The problem of our knowledge of God is also discussed with the focus on mysticism and revela...

The North of England, 1831.In the shadows of Ulverston, the Reformer's rebellion is stirring. The classes are at war as Beatrice tries to defy them all for love and freedom. Unaware how embedded the Ropewalk and Lightfoot family are and how her actions could bring it all crumbling down.During a time of social unrest, Beatrice Lightfoot wants nothing more than to escape her family's chaos and start a new life. The May Day dance is fast approaching, where for...