"The Franciscan Conspiracy," a history mystery set in medieval Italy, has been published in 16 languages and has been a top-10 bestseller in Brazil (for five months) and throughout Europe. On his death, Fra Leo, the closest companion of Francis of Assisi during the saint's life, leaves a cryptic message for a younger friar. He launches the young hermit Fra Conrad into a labyrinth whose every passage confronts his deepest fears—there to make sense of the bizarre and puzzling events that fol...

"An intriguing narrative . . . A complementary blend of scripture, ancient legends, history, and archaeology, it will stir your curiosity." —Lorraine Evans, Egyptologist and author of Burying the DeadIn this groundbreaking work, the authors reexamine humanity's most enduring account of bondage, emancipation, and freedom. The Great Exodus is the story of how one man, empowered by divine epiphany, brought the mighty ancient kingdom of Egypt to its kn...

Post-apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction, science fantasy or horror fiction literature in which the Earth's technological civilization is collapsing or has collapsed. This Golden Deer Classics anthology contains the following classic post-apocalyptic works: - The Last Man by Mary Shelley - After London by John Richard Jefferies - The Time Machine by H. G. Wells - The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells - The Scarlet Plague by Jack London

Dr. Rout Logger, a fictional management professor and consultant, secures funding for a unique democratic dialogue experiment held monthly in rotating U.S. cities from October 2019 to March 2020. Each session gathers forty randomly selected, demographically diverse citizens to engage in rational, Adult ego state discussions about global human challenges.Meetings begin with a copper rooster spinner, "the Truther rooster," which randomly designates a "Leader of the Moment" to answer ...

"No one has done better in conveying Lao Tsu's simple and laconic style of writing, so as to produce an English version almost as suggestive of the many meanings intended. This is a most useful, as well as beautiful, volume—and what it has to say is exactly what the world, in its present state, needs to hear." - Alan WattsRELIGION/ EASTERN STUDIESThis translation of the Chinese classic, which was first published twenty-five years ago, has sold more copies than any of the ot...

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EARLY ENGLAND 449-1071 AUTHORITIES FOR BOOK I 449-1071 For the conquest of Britain by the English our authorities are scant and imperfect. The only extant British account is the "Epistola" of Gildas, a work written probably about A.D. 560. The style of Gildas is diffuse and inflated, but his book is of great value in the light it throws on the state of the island at that time, and above all as the one record of the conquest which we have from the side of the conquered. The English conquero...

Miss Hayes, a teacher in her fifties has been alone for a lot of years when she meets an adult student called David and introduces him to a world of sexuality he didn’t know existed.

After some sudden and unspecified catastrophe has depopulated England, the countryside reverts to nature, and the few survivors to a quasi-medieval way of life. Beginning with a loving description of nature reclaiming England -- fields becoming overrun by forest, domesticated animals running wild, roads and towns becoming overgrown, the hated London reverting to lake and poisonous swampland -- the rest of the story is an adventure set many years later in the wild landscape.John Ric...

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For the conquest of Britain by the English our authorities are scant and imperfect. The only extant British account is the Epistola of Gildas, a work written probably about A.D. 560. The style of Gildas is diffuse and inflated, but his book is of great value in the light it throws on the state of the island at that time, and above all as the one record of the conquest which we have from the side of the conquered