This book concentrates on the period of his life from the publication of his first novel, Black Rock, to the events he went through at Regina Trench during the First World War. Using the theories of Carl Jung an understanding of who Ralph Connor was is reached.

Years, Fears, and Running Gears, Volume II, with Retirement Year is a collection of columns and essays previously published in newspapers, along with a few story adaptations recorded by the author for Tales From the South and National Public Radio.

Writing for and about women, the author shares what's on her mind, what's bothering her, what makes her happy, and what's dear to her heart. When the first two collections of her columns were published, she was surprised at the number of men who told her they enjoyed her writing. Now she hopes the Baby Boomer Generation will choose to give her book to friends and family, for not only has Patsy written about personal fears, but common life shared by women (and men) everywhere.

She says, "Some days I write about important matters, other times, I battle some of the silly fears that fill our hours, days, and years. Actually my columns are a cross between a diary and a journal. I bear my soul in an essay of personal thoughts, when I wouldn't dare let anyone read my diary. And I certainly don't have time to write in a journal!"

And the gears - Oh what gears! Women, especially, shift gears so often that it's a wonder they have any left.

As Patsy has now shifted into her retirement years, her shared daily doings will give you food for thought.

She says, "Actually, I'm semi-retired (still writing). But I've been away from the day job long enough to tell you this for sure - life doesn't slow down one bit when you take the plunge.

Maybe it's because I now realize that no matter how long life is, it's never long enough."

You may relate, you may laugh, you may cry. Patsy hopes her readers will understand, and enjoy the read. You are invited to join in as women everywhere face their...

YEARS, FEARS AND RUNNING GEARS

Everyman's Guide to the Mysteries of Agatha Christie is a reference book covering Christie's 238 stories. It provides data never before published about both important and trivial facts. Dedications, time periods, and locations have been laboriously researched, and provided with "time warp" explanations. Even trivial data such as newspapers (100 in all), pubs (95) and automobiles (136) are shown as well as each story in which they are listed. English sayings totalling 259 are shown with the book(s) in which they appear, including a brief explanation of their meaning.

Yet Guide is much more than a list of facts. It is an informative reference book about Christie's writings. As well, different perspectives on many of the perplexing mysteries within her mysteries are provided.

Finally, Guide is not an alphabetical list of stories or characters. Instead, it lists many entrancing "errors" of sketches and text with comments explaining where possible the reasons for their existence. Most importantly, "Guide" does not betray any book's endings nor the identity of the villain, a rule that genuine Christie devotees always try to uphold.

Shakespeare's Queens (of England) looks at how William Shakespeare documented the lives of a number of England's Queens in his history plays - from the cycle of Richard II through to Richard III together with the lesser known King John and King Henry VIII. The Queens detailed within the book are Eleanor of Aquitaine (wife of King Henry II), Isabel (second wife of King Richard II), Katherine de Valois (wife of King Henry V), Margaret of Anjou (wife of King Henry VI), Elizabeth Woodville (wife of King Edward IV), Anne Neville (wife of King Richard III) and Katherine of Aragon (first wife of King Henry VIII). Shakespeare's Queens (of England) aims to discover just how close to historical truth Shakespeare was when writing about England's Queens in his history plays and how much dramatic licence he employed with this in-depth look at the appropriate plays. Biographies of each of the queens concerned are also included together with notes on past Shakespearean productions. Contemporary sources together with modern literary criticism have been drawn upon to investigate the fact behind the drama. This book should appeal to both students and the general reader alike whether they are interested in Shakespeare, literature or history.

Several months after the Iraqi war (2003) was officially declared to be over I still awoke in the middle of the night being disturbed by visual images of the war (past and on-going). After several nights of interrupted sleep, I got out of bed at 2 am one night and started scribbling my feelings about the war - marking the birth of this epic poem. I realized then (August, 2003) that in one way or another I had fallen victim of this war. Writing my feeling, and to some extent expressing my thoughts about the war (as contained in these pages), was my way of healing and coming to terms with what had happened previously- and what was continuing to happen.

At the same time, I realized that the unsanctioned (and often-times uncensored) visual images of the war, which were splashed world-wide in people's living rooms may, as well, have adversely affected other viewers in many countries. I hope, therefore, that by going through these pages others, like me, will experience a therapeutic feeling - leading to a healing effect.

Billions of years passed in the formation of the earth. Billions more passed before man rose to his present state, with probably five catastrophic events along the way. Early man was limited to his instincts for survival; the environment was hostile; tools were primitive; communications were limited, and life span was short. Even in the earliest days, mans desire for knowledge and life improvements was there. As difficult as it was, man spread out across the earth. In the last 2000 years, the world population has increased almost 70 fold.

Today our population is doubling every 50 years. Demand is growing for everything that improves life quality. With this high demand, we are depleting our natural resources and polluting our environment at an unacceptable rate. Fossil fuel sources for energy will be seriously low within 5-10 generations. Alternate non-carbon energy sources, however, will be developed that will produce a major fraction of our electricity and significantly reduce carbon dioxide air pollution. While these will be developed, the cost and human effort will be enormous. The problems of water pollution, and forest difficult future problem will be the development of a renewable alternative for the 50 million barrels a day of oil used to make plastics, rubber, fertilizers, lubricants, soaps, drugs, roofing and road materials, etc..., as well as a liquid fuel for non-electric applications requiring energy. Broad international cooperation will be required for success in this undertaking.

This is a correspondence between Shirley, a single British Lesbian, living in Spain and Sylvia, (known always as “Pipsi”) a married woman and mother of two college-age sons, living in Long Island, NY.

Selections from their letters and audio cassette tapes exchanged between August 1971 and June 1972 show their growing affection and love before ever having met! Unlike today where instant communication is available to us worldwide in the form of email., Ipods and cell phones, telephone access was very limited in many parts of Spain in 1971 and 1972. Communication was limited to postal services. (The original correspondence, when copied, consists of at least 1200, singles spaced typed pages! they kept the postal services on each side of the Atlantic in business!)

This correspondence led to a life – change for them both.

Shirley and Pipsi...In Their Own Words is nominated and became a finalist in two categories in the Golden Crown Literary Society's Fifth Annual Rewards Ceremony held in Orlando Florida in July 2009.

Emily Dickinson, at an early age, became enlightened. Ego-transcendence awakened her to the Higher Self, unleashing a torrent of creative energy that sustained her for 35 years, producing hundreds of poems dealing with the phenomena of cosmic awareness. This also made her a heretic, for she (like the Buddhists) recognizes no creator god, much less a deathless ego-self in the form of a soul; hence the secrecy of her poetic enterprise. Over the years she made booklets of her poems and stashed them away, to be discovered posthumously.

Dickinson's worldview was first described by the Buddha, and has been examined at length in countless Buddhist commentaries, which makes the dharma accessible to rational understanding. This provides the cognitive framework of Emily Dickinson: Accidental Buddhist. It consists of lucid close readings demystifying man of Dickinson's most "enigmatic" poems.

The author, RC Allen, is a retired humanities professor, and a veteran student of the Spanish transcendentalist poets. His experience and familiarity with archetypal discourse are now devoted to the Dickinson oeuvre. His previous book, Solitary Prowess: The Transcendentalist Poetry of Emily Dickinson (Saru Press International), appeared in 2005.

A collection of anecdotes about the social, psychology and cultural adjustments demanded, when faced with the task of containing humans in cages. It attempts to portray how virtue and corruption in people ebbs and flows, depending on the pressure and demands of circumstance.

A scholarly dissertation which links Shakespeare to colonization and political developments of his period. Whether you are a Shakespeare fan, interested in the colonization of Virginia or of America, a Virginian or just an avid reader, this book will fascinate you. If you are not into high-flown subjects. This is where to begin!

This book is in three parts: The Prologue relates three Shakespeare plays – The Merchant of Venice, Macbeth and, at greater length, Othello, to the Scriptures. It claims that the textual evidence shows Othello to be Shakespeare’s own great Mystery play.

The main section is a scene-by-scene commentary on Othello. It presents the drama as an unfolding prophecy accompanying the Judaeo- Christian story from Genesis to Revelation.

The third part –Epilogue- uncovers in the light of the Book of Revelation a Code within the English alphabet itself that in turn yields up the identity behind the poems and plays ascribed to William Shakespeare.

This book is devoted to the veiled message transmitted in the works of famous authors over a period of centuries. Esoteric literature is the massive body of Western and other writings containing a philosophical "contraband"-ever the same under a deceptive variety of surfaces or veils. In the words of Marcel Proust, "the great writers have never done but one work."

Alfred de Vigny- a nineteenth century poet, novelist and playwright- belongs to the literary brotherhood involved in the transmission of the concealed message. Rabelais, Voltiare, Anatole France, Ibsen and Proust are only a few of his fellow-smugglers. English and American literatures have their share of such writers. So does the literary heritage of other European nations and of Latin America. This book contains a glossary of major key-words of the verbal "algebra" used by esoteric writers. Sensitive readers are encouraged to read the biography and the glossary first and the poetry of Vigny next. This will enable some of them to discover by and for themselves the full beauty and depth of the texts.

Extraordinary findings await the esoteric readers of the literary production of Vigny. There are hints of the greatness of Atlantis. There is a vast panorama of Time and Space. There are suggestions of a startling view of the inner structure of planet Earth, a view that is also reflected in the various utopias of classical authors.

Last but not least, there is the generally unsuspected, radiant reality of the works and the life of Vigny.

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If we assume that God exists, what path do you think will lead straight to Salvation?

In this hilarious, tongue-in-cheek novel set in Elkford, British Columbia, Mrs. Anand believes that not eating cows is the answer. For this reason, she hates Jesse, the red-haired cow eater who married her talentless writer son, Ravi.

Mrs. Hicks, a legalist, is convinced that Salvation only comes to those who are born-agains. And that Jesus hates lesbians. What Mrs. Hicks does not know is that her only daughter, Elisha, is a full-blown lesbian, her son, a porn addict, and her husband, an adulterous man.

Elisha, who is in love with the half Jamaican single mother wonders how exactly born-again lesbians find Salvation. She wonders if the mysterious stranger who wears a top hat and carries a garbage bag full of only-God-knows-what knows the answer to this eternal quest that plagues our characters' everyday existence.

Rich with a multicultural cast, irreverent humor, and a twist of magic, Rajni Mala Khelawan weaves a tale of ordinary people seeking to end the blindness that corrupts their lives.