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Everything we are aware of has already happened. Everything we think of as facts are predictions. The solidity of chairs is a prediction about what will happen if we sit on them. The fact that they rarely let us down is reassuring but not a basis for realism.This is important because our sense of being alive is all about the space between glimpses of what just happened and predictions about what these glimpses portend. This is one reason I hope to persuade you that we need a diaspora from urban circumstances. Our glimpses of what just happened are becoming too narrow to sustain a sense of ourselves and one another. There are political and economic benefits to be gleaned as well. Most of what follows deals with them. These benefits are trivial compared to not subsiding into primitive lives, no matter how well-appointed they become.

The last we saw of Jimmie Mayfield, dear readers, he stood in a public restroom clutching a lottery ticket worth five hundred and twelve million dollars. Famous for being able to accomplish nothing at all with nothing, what new levels will Jimmie aspire to now that he's rich? A humorous coming of age tale with political undertones, Jimmie embarks on his wildest adventures yet.

1939. Laura Lake, a former U.S. Marine turned American Intelligence agent, is duped by her German fiancé and a German Commandant to spy for Germany's Third Reich. Later, instead of keeping his promise to help Laura locate her missing fiancé, the Commandant has her carted off with Jews to Dachau prison camp. Employing her military skills and training, Laura escapes from the train. And learns about her fiancé's deception. Dodging German agents, Laura embarks on a three-fold mission -to kill the Commandant for double-crossing her; to find and have her fiancé sent to Nuremberg for trial for the imprisonment and deaths of Jews; and to inherit his secret Swiss bank account for betraying her.

Many times when children feel anything other than a positive emotion, they're told to "suck it up" and "get over it". This book shows children that it's OK to feel sad, happy, angry, and anxious. It shows them that no matter what they feel, they are human.

The only thing unusual about Mikko's bus ride from school that day was that he hadn't served a detention, as he normally did. Then, the extraordinary happened. The familiar yellow school bus dissolved into a luxurious railroad car and Mikko found himself transported to a strange place, where time flowed backwards - and nothing was as it seemed. Just who was Mr. Vallance, the brown-cloaked man from the train station, and why did he entrust Mikko with a precious sapphire - a magical stone that instantly had the evil Chief Chambers chasing him down? Launched on a treacherous race for survival, Mikko had just days to unlock the secrets of the stone... or risk unleashing an ancient curse. His quest would not be easy, but, it was a matter of life and death.

Something strange is happening inside the old O'Malley factory! There's a new owner in town, and word is he's the greatest pasta maker in the whole world. But his factory is not open to the public; only to five lucky children who find a silver ticket inside a spaghetti package. The lucky children are: Scarlett Sunshine, a mean little brat who once won a beauty contest; Buster Butterworth, a rather hefty boy with an appetite for doughnuts; Robert Rich, a spoiled little twerp who thinks he knows everything; Wendy Wu, a fast-fingered gamer with very little patience; and Paolo Piccolo, a kind-hearted little boy who has never eaten a single string of pasta in his entire life, and who is in for one tasty adventure!

People have been disappearing all across the State with no apparent connection to one another. Police are baffled and struggling to determine if the disappearances are connected or are simply isolated incidents. There are no bodies or evidence- only abandoned vehicles and missing persons reports. Meanwhile, Alex Sanders is battling his own demons... Almost a year after surviving a horrific weekend held captive by his former best friend, Marc, Alex is now a freshman at the University of Tennessee. Desperately trying to start over, he is consumed with depression, anxiety, and guilt for the murder that he helped cover up. Always fearful of being discovered, Alex can't help but wonder, is Marc still secretly watching him? Could Marc's obsession with him have something to do with the current flood of disappearances across the State? All things seem to lead back to that fateful weekend... the one that started with murder ... and ended in betrayal. Warning: This book contains scenes which may be considered triggering events for some involving extreme violence, murder, kidnapping, and torture.

The nexus begins to tangle, putting the lives of all of humanity in check. The ending to The Last Winter trilogy will put our heroes in a situation where all their feelings will be tested, thus defining their fates.

Benz, a Dobermann puppy, is rescued by a foreign scientist working in a Joint Venture with Cuba in the late 1990s. Being accused of being a dangerous dog by his Cuban military boss, Benz escapes execution by joining a team of Cuban scientists and speleologists in the capacity of Ore Search Dog.Risking his life by diving into lakes of dangerous caves of Cabo San Antonio located in the Peninsula of Guanahacabibes, the westernmost point of the island of Cuba, he assists in the search for the lost valuable treasures of The Cathedral of San Ildefonso of Merida.Benz recorded his adventures in caves and love affair with a local mongrel dog using a Brain Clone Helmet, containing the Brain-Computer interface specially developed for him by young Cuban engineers and programmers. This unique Helmet discriminates minor neural electrical signals in his brain and decodes his information.Based on actual events but told in the most sardonic and simple language of a Dobermann dog, this story is about the hypocrisy of the Cuban communist system in abusing and oppressing ordinary Cubans in the post-revolutionary period. It is a political satire about contemporary Cuba with an anthropomorphic touch.

If Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Who had a teenage daughter, you'd end up with Marisol and the Book of Doors.Thirteen year old Marisol Lee wants to become a detective, not a thief. But when she impulsively steals a rare book from the mysterious man in black, her friend and mentor, the bookseller Mrs. Henley goes missing. Marisol feels responsible for the disappearance and decides to compete with the police detectives assigned to solving the case. Along the way, she travels into the magical world of books themselves - where she'll gather clues scattered throughout a host of traditional literary genres. And, the more that Marisol learns about the world of books - the more she realizes what's truly at stake. Plus there's fairies, I mean pixies.

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