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Twenty:Three is a collection of poetry through which author Kendyl Rose transformed her thoughts into words. A journey through time, it explores the fluidity of mindset and emotions.
Raw, emotional and touching, Twenty:Three will speak to anyone who has suffered through life, love and loss and emerged battered, bruised, but ultimately better than before.
2) Twenty Three
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The story begins in galactic times when artificial intelligence has conquered humans on the planet Rump. 23 fights to stay alive as man has been reduced to five hundred by Emperor Fang Hola on the supercontinent Uno. He makes his way across the land, arduously fighting wild beast, entities from another dimension, gangs, stranger things, and Emperor Fang Hola with his dark faction. 23 finds a renewed opportunity at life when he is found by a mysterious...
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A young boy shares a little house in Beijing with 23 cats. His friend comes to visit, but the two of them can't sit down, can't study, and can't even eat dinner together because of all the cats. What to do? The answer, which involves a very large dog, will surprise and delight you.
This wonderful little tale is for beginning Chinese students of all ages. Its tiny vocabulary of just 101 words is taken from the HSK1 list of words used to teach beginning...
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Twenty Three Years of Lesson is the first book of the seven 'Twenty Something Chronicles' series.' "No more wondering if you can make a better future tomorrow, start now." Life has a funny way of reminding you of what is essential and what isn't. I couldn't wait one more moment sulking about what could have been; I had to look towards the future. Allow journaling to be your therapy, ask yourself your most in-depth questions and find your answer and...
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"In the heart of Trenton, N.J., a killer is out to make sure someone gets his just desserts. Larry Virgil skipped out on his latest court date after he was arrested for hijacking an eighteen-wheeler full of premium bourbon. Fortunately for bounty hunter Stephanie Plum, Larry is just stupid enough to attempt almost the exact same crime again. Only this time he flees the scene, leaving behind a freezer truck loaded with Bogart ice cream and a dead body--frozen...
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"It's the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend, May 23rd, and the small town of Promise Falls, New York, has found itself in the midst of a full-blown catastrophe. Hundreds of people are going to the hospital with similar flu-like symptoms--and dozens have died. Investigators quickly zero in on the water supply. But the question for many, including private investigator Cal Weaver, remains: Who would benefit from a mass poisoning of this town? Meanwhile,...
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"Walk in the Light and Twenty-Three Tales" is a collection of religious tales and parables by the famed Russian author Leo Tolstoy, regarded by many as one of the world's greatest authors. In addition to his most well-known novels "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina," which are regarded as the epitomes of realist fiction, Tolstoy was also a prolific writer of short stories and non-fiction. In the middle of his life, the author underwent a profound...
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An American soldier in Iraq discovers there is more than one enemy in combat. Faced with battling boredom, loneliness and a set of rules that do not make sense anywhere else, one soldier struggles to serve their time and return home.
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A middle aged, middle-class couple are spending a holiday in Cornwall. The husband wakes on the beach after lunch, to find his wife has, disappeared. It is totally out of character and, for a while, he is puzzled, but not too worried. This is the beginning of twenty-three days of torment and fear for him as he involves the police and tries to discover exactly what has happened to his staid, schoolmistress’s wife.
It is also the beginning of twenty-three...
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Layne Prescott meets a strange man in a Shanghai airport and ends up carrying a mysterious briefcase with an attached wrist shackle home with him. Once back in his hometown, Layne's world spirals out of control. Each day at precisely 11:23, the small town erupts into violent chaos. Surrounded by a strict military quarantine, Layne and his friends wait with dread as the clock ticks downward.
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Through poignant, heart-warming images of an urban African-American family, children experience the comfort and encouragement this favorite psalm still offers - the powerful message that they can rely on the Lord as they thread their way through the risk-filled maze of daily life in the city.
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The two renegade roustabouts from California, long-haired motorcyclists simply in search of adventure, were not initially well liked as they traversed the other states of the West during the summer of 1971. That meant that every new day they had to prove themselves anew to each new boss, as they worked a variety of odd jobs, to buy food, and to survive. All those efforts brought to them resilience, speed, grit, and the ability to pivot quickly when...
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Ranging from the dawn of Italian opera through the late 19th century, this rich selection of soprano-range arias includes works by Caccini, Rameau, Mozart, Beethoven, Rossini, Verdi, Bizet, and many others. Lyrics appear in the original languages, with English translations in back. Includes a scholarly introduction by musicologist H. E. Krehbiel and a new Preface by Roelof Oostwoud.
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The Ashes of Around Twenty-Three Strangers is a Tor.com original science fiction story from Jeremy Packert Burke.
The world doesn't make sense. All rain has moved indoors-wrecking houses from the inside out while the skies remain cloudless. With ever greater devotion, people worship giant, inert, humanoid bodies as gods as civilization falls apart.
Lucy has never been religious, but her brother becomes more and more sucked into the church. She has...
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My story is of the inherent drama and humor that is common to military service wherever it occurs. I am not a hero, but I have been honored to know and serve with many heroes. My story captures the dynamic that exists whenever men and women work together to accomplish a mission and achieve a preparedness that conditions them to serve in any location and perform any duty in defense of the United States of America. My associations range from battle-hardened...
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The practice of Christianity is going through a transition that is deeper than the Reformation. The Thinking Christian explores two main questions: (1) What is "religion" as a general social process that can link humans to Profound Reality, and (2) what is a meaningful and appropriate mode of Christian theologizing, communal life, and mission to this planet for a viable and vital next Christian practice? These are profound probes, and they are communal...
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When Geronimo and his warriors surrendered to the U.S. Army, General Miles made a number of promises for the surrender terms that were in fact false. Geromino: Prisoner of Lies provides insights into how Chiricahua prisoners of war lived while held in captivity by the United States Army in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as seen through the eyes of their war leader Geronimo. The indignities and lies they suffered, and how they maintained...
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Republished for a new century and featuring an afterword by Father James Martin, SJ, the classic memoir of an American-born Jesuit priest imprisoned for fifteen years in a Soviet gulag during the height of the Cold War-a poignant and spiritually uplifting story of extraordinary faith and fortitude as indelible as Unbroken. Foreword by Daniel L. Flaherty.
While ministering in Eastern Europe during World War II, Polish-American priest Walter Ciszek,...
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An ominous dark cloud looms over America. America's decline has finally reached a breaking-point. Few options remain to correct decades of national failure. A world-unified government is one option. A secret committee still has hope for a return to what America was before secular humanism was the prevalent religion and progressivism controlled the government.
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During the summer of 1864 a Union column, commanded by Maj. Gen. Andrew Jackson Smith, set out from Tennessee with a goal that had proven impossible in all prior attempts-to find and defeat the cavalry under the command of Confederate major general Nathan Bedford Forrest. Forrest's cavalry was the greatest threat to the long supply line feeding Sherman's armies as they advanced on Atlanta. Smith marched at the head of his 'gorillas,' veteran soldiers...