Sulon the Mouse with His Tail Too Long


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This story came about one winter evening while I was watching television in my living room in our gray stone house in King George County Virginia. Suddenly a little tiny gray mouse with an exceptionally long tail flew around the edge of the entry way into our living room. He ran like wind along the base board of the room and down into our heating registers and into the heating ducks of our home. I don't believe I have ever seen a mouse with such a long tail. I tried to catch him but was unable to because he was so tiny in his body and lightweight that he could run like the wind with his long, long tail swishing back and forth and from side to side as he ran. This inspired me to make up this story about Sulon the Mouse with His Tail Too Long. I believe this story will be enjoyed by both parents and children and grandparents alike, who will read this book for themselves or to their children or grandchildren. It also teaches us not to be so cruel to others as we never know when their kind behavior is worth more than all our cruel behavior could ever be. Remember in the Bible: Hebrew 13:12, "Let brotherly love continue. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angles unaware."




Standing Wave


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What was the light that mazed every mind's eye? What has brought a flying mountain top home from the stars, and sent investigators into the orbital habitats floating above Earth? How is this connected to a "living fossil" fungus--or to a dead madman--or to the fate of the planet? Whoever discovers the answers to these questions--FIRST!--will decide the ultimate fate of the Earth--and all humanity! An imaginative tour de force.




Johnson's Universal Cyclopædia


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The Universal Cyclopaedia


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Haunted


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Haunted is a novel made up of twenty-three horrifying, hilarious, and stomach-churning stories. They’re told by people who have answered an ad for a writer’s retreat and unwittingly joined a “Survivor”-like scenario where the host withholds heat, power, and food. As the storytellers grow more desperate, their tales become more extreme, and they ruthlessly plot to make themselves the hero of the reality show that will surely be made from their plight. This is one of the most disturbing and outrageous books you’ll ever read, one that could only come from the mind of Chuck Palahniuk.







LIFE


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LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.




Live to Fly Another Day (A Travel Adventure Set in England)


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FROM USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR ELIZA WATSON! What’s a girl to do when her dreams go down the loo? Caity Shaw has finally found her place in the world when she moves to her grandmother’s homeland, Ireland. A new full-time event planner job, a steady paycheck, and less travel are providing her a more stable and balanced lifestyle. She is able to focus on nurturing her relationships with family, friends, and Declan—who has taught her to once again believe in love and herself. Caity’s lack of meeting planning experience and having to run off to England to visit an ill newfound rellie soon jeopardize her job. And when she uncovers this rellie’s mysterious life, her entire family must come to his aid and Caity’s personal life turns upside down. Despite her growing client list and passion for genealogy research, Caity feels inept after she fails to trace even one of her clients’ ancestry lines. Then Caity faces her biggest research challenge to date. She’s unable to locate her grandmother’s birth record. Without it, Caity will not be able to obtain citizenship and remain in Ireland. If she is forced to leave Ireland, she fears she’ll lose everything she’s worked so hard to attain—her sense of identity, direction, and belonging, and most importantly, her relationship with Declan. Customers also read: Jenny Colgan, Marian Keyes, Sophie Kinsella, Cecelia Ahern, Jill Mansell, Jane Green, Emily Giffin, Jennifer Weiner, Lindsey Kelk, Meg Cabot, Paige Toon, Melissa Hill, Lauren Weisberger, Helen Fielding, Milly Johnson, Sinead Moriarty, Sheila O'Flanagan, Jane Porter, Adele Parks, Katie Fforde Topics: Fiction Set in England, Fiction Set in Ireland, Sisterhood Fiction, Family History, Ancestry, Event Planner, Self-Discovery Women's Fiction, Women's Travel Adventures, International Women's Fiction, Women's Travel Fiction, Single Women's Fiction, Empowered Women's Fiction, Chick Lit, British Chick Lit, Beach Read, Heartwarming Fiction, Humorous Fiction, Funny Beach Read, Women Travel the World, Fiction Set in Europe




LIFE


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LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.




Memo for Nemo


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A cultural history of living in the undersea, both fictional and real, from Jules Verne’s Captain Nemo to NASA’s ECC02 project. In Memo for Nemo, William Firebrace investigates human inhabitation of the undersea, both fictional and real. Beginning with Jules Verne’s Captain Nemo—an undersea Renaissance man with a library of 12,000 volumes on his submarine—and proceeding through aquariums, undersea photography, artificial seas on land, nuclear-powered submarines, undersea film epics, giant squid, and NASA satellites, Firebrace examines the undersea as a zone created by exploration and invention. Throughout, the history of undersea life is accompanied by an imagined undersea, envisioned by cultural figures ranging from Verne and Herman Melville to Orson Welles and Jimi Hendrix. Firebrace takes readers though the enormous sequence of rooms (impossible in real life) in Nemo’s submarine, recounts the competition among nineteenth-century cities to build the most spectacular aquatic world, and explains the workings of the bathysphere—an early underwater vessel modeled on a hot-air balloon. He considers the aquarium’s function in films as a sort of viewing lens, describes the chlorine-proof artificial sea life seen by passengers on the submarine ride at Disneyland, and reports that Jacques Cousteau’s famous underwater documentaries were in fact highly staged. The oceans of today are not those imagined by Verne; they are changing from both natural processes and human influence. Memo for Nemo documents the power of the undersea in both art and life.