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Wisdom and the meaning of living a life through wise words, wonderings, and common sense for the sane mind in an insane world wrought with all manner of injustices, wars, social upheavals, and the need for common sense where there is none.

Why did the Anunnaki come here? Did they create human hybrids? What is their plan for Earth? And for us, the human hybrids? Why did some like the original humans (Bigfoot) resist? Will we survive; what is yet to come? Those who look for the truth already know; those who fail to search are lost; but those with an open mind will soon come to know The Descendants of Man.

The reenactment of the iconic battle of the American Civil War, the Battle of Gettysburg, is in its second day, and the paramedics at Aid Station Three have seen their share of cuts and scrapes and heat exhaustion. With 20 minutes until the start of the next battle scenario, Eric, the senior EMT, sends the minor injury cases on their way. Suddenly, a cannon shot booms, followed by more in quick succession, followed by thunder. Has the battle started early? Strangely, it sounds more like the sounds of battle are coming from the actual site of the Battle of Gettysburg.

In Paris, two bodies have been found floating in the river. Side-by-side, the two friends are photographed smiling up into the heavens as if this had been nothing more than another Saturday spent happily fishing. Later, a third unclaimed body will turn up at the morgue. When the fourth appears, it is time for Paris sleuths Mrs. Duchesney and Louie Bertrand to get involved.

In Paris, there were simply too many beautiful women hiding too many secrets, and this case was becoming too personal and too intriguing for Mrs. Duchesney to solve on her own. There was only one name on the engraved invitation: Louie Arnaud Bertrand, making it perfectly clear that Mrs. Duchesney was not welcome at Chateau de Robinesque-Roussel. Investigating the very delicate nature of this mystery would become her sleuthing partner Louie's first solo assignment.

Carlos has spent 13 years living in Australia, eight of them as a serving officer with the New South Wales Police. But when he kills a man in the line of duty, Carlos’ life begins to unravel. His wife is subsequently murdered in mysterious circumstances, and Carlos is dismissed from the force. A devastated Carlos returns home to his Christchurch whānau and takes up a job as a private detective.

This book reveals a recipe of seduction applicable to ALL of approximately 10 million women born on July 6 of common years (or July 5 of leap years) and provides details about their sexual factors: behavior, preferences, desires, fantasies, dislikes; frequency of sexual activity, potency, preferred positions, attitude towards monogamy and polygamy, sexual orientation, etc. Note that the recipe is will work only on people of sex and date of birth specified above.

There is no other element found in nature that has given so much, been so venerated and yet, at the same time, so distrusted as that of the cannabis plant. And like its species cousin, hemp, cannabis is a plant that has been at the center of civilization for thousands of years and only since the past century given way to crime, corruption, corporate greed, and unjust state law.

This story is based on true events that happened in two French prisons between June 2000 and July 2002. It is a story of events that became surreal, frightening, and funny, with an insight into the French justice system. A foolish person duped into the world of a small drug smuggling empire, with saddening consequences.

In a loft in the 18th Arrondissment near Montmartre, Jamie Litton has become intoxicated with his life as a member of Parisian Cafe Society. A group of artists, musicians, and poets unconditionally embrace their newest member, not knowing that this somewhat eccentric man hides a dangerous secret. His best friend Ben Foulof, a missing journalist, is on the run from a powerful news organization that wants its rogue agent back - dead or alive.

Ian Miller is one of the most well-kent faces in the west of Scotland. A man of the cloth. An entertainer. A man who welcomed all denominations, anytime. A man who has married, christened, and buried the great, the good, and the lowly with equal gravitas and humanity. This is his life-story so far. In Habbie to Jeely-Eater, we find out about the man behind the scenes.

The agency never admitted its mistakes. It simply deleted them. After Ben disappeared from his assignment in the Middle East, his status was changed to IDX and the fix was ordered. His cover as an international journalist had given him access to the world and to almost everyone in it. This was, perhaps, their greatest fear. Ben Foulof was one of a rare breed of journalists who wrote only the truth. - Jamie Litton discovers that the worst thing anyone can say to his best friend is never change.

Today I spoke with a dead woman. Or rather, she spoke to me and I listened. To be more specific, today a dead woman spoke to me, through a medium of sorts. Not a psychic. The woman who brought the dead woman to life, was an actress. Not just any actress, but a magnificently talented one. Perhaps I should explain….

The rich are not like us. When it rains, they simply fly away, taking their secrets with them. On the Cote d'Azur, a missing journalist becomes an insider, offering his best friend a very special invitation to leave Paris for a masquerade ball at the Darimus Mansion in Antibes. New Year's Eve on the French Riviera? In the company of the rich and royal? How could Jamie Litton say no? It is more than this mystery writer could imagine. And as Ben Foulof has planned, more than his enemies had expected.

The characters in Mary Miller's debut short story collection, Big World, are at once autonomous and lonesome, possessing both a longing to connect with those around them and a cynicism. Her writing is unapologetically honest and efficient, and the gut-wrenching directness of her prose is reminiscent of Mary Gaitskill and Courtney Eldridge - if Gaitskill's and Eldridge's stories were set in the South and reeked of spilled beer and cigarette smoke.

Ignoring his best friend's warning to stay out of Paris, mystery writer Jamie Litton leaves the Cote d'Azur and returns to Paris to investigate yet another unexpected death and the mystery evolving at Maxmillian's apartment. While Jamie is in Paris, learning the secrets of his eclectic Cafe Society, his best friend Ben Foulof goes it alone in South America to investigate rumors still clouding a murder discovered in the Paris antique store L'Indice.

What can a man expect from his Creator after losing his wife to a long, debilitating illness, then agonizing over raising two daughters on his own? Being challenged to pursue a new career path, not once, not twice but three times early in his adult life can also create anxiety about the future. Patrik Veillein, as a newly-married young man (with a dutiful but recalcitrant wife in tow), turns away from the comforts of small town life to help his uncle manage a road-side inn many miles away.

Chaplains of ANZAC: New Zealand's Fallen Chaplains of the Great War tells the story of seven New Zealand Expeditionary Force chaplains who served and died during the Great War. The beautiful collection of stories in this book tell the oft-overlooked tales of the chaplains who left New Zealand and served their god, king and country on foreign fields of battle. In all, over 140 chaplains served as part of the NZEF. This book contains the stories of seven of those who paid the ultimate sacrifice.

A murder has been committed in Paris in an antique store named L' Indice. The store's strange history of unsolved murders and robberies began long before the WWII rumors of masterpieces stolen from castles on the Rhine. Jamie Litton, whose mystery writer's imagination won't let dead men, or secrets, rest in peace, moves in upstairs with hopes of discovering the truth for his next best seller.

Jacob Madigan was in a bind. Stranded in the Canadian wilderness and desperate to escape the cold, he tries to hustle a sweet old married couple into giving him shelter for the night. However, Silas and Arthur have plans of their own, and the young drifter finds himself outmaneuvered and taken down a path he never knew existed. The Initiate tells the story of an elder concerned about the future, a youth on the run from his past, and a man in the middle struggling to find where he stands.