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The Heart Broken by Dana Brown
Spring, 1849 was a devastating time for Big Spring, Kentucky as a tornado nearly leveled it. For the families living in and around the area, lives were altered and nearly destroyed by the destructive winds.
For the Gray family, the tornado wreaked havoc for them and their loved..
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The Heart's Desire by Dana Brown
This is an excerpt from Chapter One of my book, "The Heart's Desire". It is the first in a series that will chronicle the lives of the Gray family and their descendants...
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THE HISTORY OF MANKIND ? by Tom poesyco.th@gmail.com
CAUTION: THIS IS A MUCH-NEGLECTED RE-POST!
Perzactly 2 years ago, t'was posted, and per the fictitious STATS here at AD - was perused by 2,085 people - but ALAS only 2 reviews!
Did it Suck that bad? I just re-read the entire thing, got a giggle or two, and thought: "What the F..
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The Host and the Storyteller by Emile Tubiana
Old days atmosphere before the apperance of the television...
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The Hunter's Soul by Mr. Ed
In the northland, lived a hunter...
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The Jesus Nut by Paul Barcelo
Part of a mission of an experienced Huey pilot to be used in the sequels to The Sweet War Man, published Feb, 2009..
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The King's Man by Hazel Statham
The story of a young soldier in Wellington's army and the ravages wreaked on his life by the Battle of Waterloo. However, when he is offered the post of estate manager for his former major, life is once more sweet...
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The Last of the Battle Letters by J Michael Kearney
A series of exchanges from the last battle of the Civil War...
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The Last Picnic With Greta by Darlene Caban
A concentration camp guard resists becoming inhuman...
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The Last Renaissance Man: chapter 6, second half by Michael Guy
For the few who may have read excerpt: Chapter 6, first half, here's the rest including the Quatrain predicting Sir Henry's fate predicted by Nicholas Culpeper (written by the author of course) One or two more experpts then that's it, if you're not interested by then you'll never buy this book; BUT,..
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The Last Renaissance Man: Chapter 6: first half by Michael Guy
The first half of chapter 6 from my novel, where the protagonist, Sir Henry, has seemingly lost all, his health from grief over losing his Patroness Queen to small pox, for which he composed the funeral music. His income is now miserable, he is at odds with his wife over all, and now after passing o..
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The Last Renaissance Man: chapter 7 excerpt by Michael Guy
continuing with some excerpts leading up to the release of my own webiste: www.theLastRenaissanceMan.net in a few weeks (this site will also feature my music). This is from Chapter 7: "St. Michael's Flower" For those following the story: Sir Henry finally gets off on a holiday still suffering from g..
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The Last Renaissance Man: chapter 7, the rest of it! by Michael Guy
For Ron Hull: (most probably!) Hey, I'm reading "Alone?" over Christmas, since I'm broke I can't buy books anyway. Actually I would have bought a few Dover books. No AD writer's stuff, I did that already. Most are not half as professional as your PDF's. Your stuff deserves to STAY IN PRINT. It is so..
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The Last Renaissance Man: chapter: ‘A million suns, a thousand earths’ by Michael Guy
Based on the true history of the death of philosopher, Giordano Bruno by burning at the stake in Rome by the Church in 1700; he believed in the possibility of other inhabited planets like ours and wrote about it!..
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The Last Renaissance Man: Excerpt from Narrative by Michael Guy
This excerpt is from the Narrative placed before Chapter Six when the protagonist, Sir Henry, seems to be at the end of this Theater Career in London, Spring of 1695. He is rundown, broke and fearing a new outbreat of Plague in town. It incorporates an excerpt of Sir Henry telling of the 1665-66 Bla..
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The Last Renaissance Man: excerpt: Her Evil Charms by Michael Guy
Another excerpt from my novel: The Last Renaissance Man: end of Chapter 3 to Chapter 4. It gives a little peek inside the alcohol and nightmare induced visions of our composer, Sir Henry, (the protagonist) and foreshadows the parallel plot idea based on Shakespeare's The Tempest. Sir Henry has a vi..
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The Last Summer by Valerie Amor
Did the Antedeluvians believe that there would be a flood which would destroy their world? This is an excerpted chapter from my book "No Greater Love"...
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The Legend of Jim Dandy (screenplay) by Mikal-Ace Ngubani
Story of hip, intelligent but radical African slave escapee who tours the north and southern areas meeting major black figures along the way. ..
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The Lost Book Of The Pharaoh Mar-Kont-His by Mark Carroll
(This text has recently been unearthed in Ainrofilac, Egypt. It was preserved in a tomb hidden under the great tree of Egdelwonk. This story has been translated using great care and expertise of the scribe Yrotsih.)
I am very interested in feedback from readers so I can fine tune this piece..
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The Luck of Fifica Faa by Eileen Granfors
An excerpt from Sydney's Story, a prequel to A Tale of Two Cities. Sydney went to law school in Paris, and thus, a Parisian setting...
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The man and the Witches by Emily Tarantino
This was something I wrote for Vocabulary, in English class. we were supposed to write sentences using a certain number of words from the list...this counts as sentences, right? ..
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  The Man Who Could Not Die by Theodore Nottingham
A mysterious stranger appears in a lost corner of the southwest in the year 1908. He carries with him a terrible secret that has been eating at him for over forty years...
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The Man With The Yellow Face. (Yellow Fever) (Part One) by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
A man infected with yellow fever alarms citizenry...
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The Man With The Yellow Face. (Yellow Fever) (Part Two) by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
A woman in 1700's Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is worried: her husband has fallen ill with the fever that's gripped their city.
Image of hot summery skies (c) 2011, by Karla Dorman...
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The Moment by Andrew Toynbee
A young man, far from home for the first time in his life tries to find the courage to appear - and entertain - in public for the first time ever...
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The Mummies of Kentucky by John Braswell/Kawheeta
There have been a number of mummies discovered in the Mammoth Cave. Who were they?..
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The Musical Child by Juliet Waldron
Excerpt from "Mozart's Wife." A musician's small son is rather unceremoniously left with the Mozart's...
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The Need Was Great Upon Him an excerpt. by Linda Newton Perry
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The New Jerusalem - Chapter 3 - by Tom poesyco.th@gmail.com
As I am trying an experiment, and writing this in segments, i need some feedback!
Intro - and Chapters 1 & 2 were previously posted, back in October, 2007 - but no one has commented.
Is this simply because no one visits the BOOKS section? I suspect so - so now will PASTE both 3 & 4..
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The New Jerusalem - Chapter 4 - by Tom poesyco.th@gmail.com
OOPS! I forgot that I copied the beginning - Intro - Chaps 1 &2 into SHORT STORIES, back in November.
Had a few hits there, and am now moving Chaps. 3 & 4 here also, will then go delete in the BOOKS section!
Thank each and every one who has helped! ..
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The Orphan's Story by Juliet Waldron
For my favorite "Founder's" birthday, I decided to add an excerpt from my novel about Alexander Hamilton., beginning with the burial of his mother. A boy of eleven, impoverished and alone, he must begin to earn a living...
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The Parish Counsellor by Simon Bever
When two apparently unrelated events occur in history, the temptation to join them together can be too much. January 1916, WW1 tanks are first tested - September of the same year saw a huge Zeppelin raid intended for London fly in across the North Sea...
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The PATH by Barbara Deming
A child follows the Underground Railroad with signals from quilts hung along the way...
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The Price of Freedom by S. Beres
What happens to a gem of great worth as it travels through time? Maybe it becomes worth even more...
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The Purple Death: The Great 'Flu Outbreak Of 1918. (Part One) by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
A mother fears for her very family when a severe flu outbreak ensues. Later her very worst fears come true when two of her children die from this virulent strain of flu...
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The Purple Death: The Great Influenza Outbreak of 1918. (Part Two) by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
Sarah continues to worry about her family; she's already lost her two youngest children to the "flu" that's running rampant across a good part of the country...
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The Reluctant Spy Chapoter 13 by Miller Caldwell
Setting off to spy...
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The Rescue by Janet Terry
She vowed to keep herself chaste for the man she loved, but as time passed she returned to her mysterious lover.
font color=666666>Note: Image of King Brit design and copyright 2002
by Gail Ross in collaboration with Janet Sue Terry/font> ..
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The River by BJ Edwards
A secret lurks beneath a river, waiting to avenge an ancient wrong...
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The SACRIFICE by Miller Caldwell
Loving your Enemy...
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The Sea Journal - A Tale of Piracy by Ted Roberts
Here's a story that will eventually end up in a novel. This is a sneak peek into the glorious days of Swashbuckling, and of what it was like to be overtaken by Pirates!..
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The Search For Papa. (Part One) by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
A young boy is scared for his father, who has been taking to parts unknown by Nazi soldiers during World War II, and he fears for his life and the lives of his family as well...
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The Search For Papa. (Part Five) by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
The boy continues to survive and wonder about his family as he whiles his days away at a concentration camp set up by the Nazis in World War II Europe.
Image of clouds (c) 2009, by Karla Dorman...
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The Search For Papa. (Part Four) by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
A child is forced to work from sunup to sundown with very little food to eat or water to drink; he is worried about his family and little brother, but most of all, his father, who has been missing for over a week now...
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The Search For Papa. (Part Three) by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
A Jewish child and his mother search for their missing family member in World War II, both hoping that they won't be captured by the Nazis...
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The Sharecropper's Son by Janna Hill
All eyes were on Wall Street, but truth be told, the market crash paled in comparison to the Navarro County drought.
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The Shower 2 Plus by Mark Lichterman
I think she’ll do it. Marsha thought, After all, keeping my mouth shut all those years has got to be good for something! And to her way of thinking, in a very small way it had, because.....
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The Spider's Web Part 01 by Emile Tubiana
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The Spider's Web Part 02 by Emile Tubiana
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The Spider's Web Part 03 by Emile Tubiana
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