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In the near future of Robert Charles Wilson's Last Year, the technology exists to open doorways into the past - but not our past, not exactly. Each "past" is effectively an alternate world, identical to ours but only up to the date on which we access it. And a given "past" can be reached only once. After a passageway is open, it's the only road to that particular past; once closed, it can't be reopened.

Cassie Klyne, 19 years old, lives in the United States in the year 2015 - but it's not our United States, and it's not our 2015. Cassies world has been at peace since the Great Armistice of 1918. There was no World War II, no Great Depression. Poverty is declining, prosperity is increasing everywhere; social instability is rare. But Cassie knows the world isn't what it seems. Her parents were part of a group who gradually discovered the awful truth: That for decades - back to the dawn of radio communications - human progress has been interfered with, made more peaceful and benign, by an extraterrestrial entity.

A chill inducing and masterful collection of vampire tales, culled from the dark recesses of the nefarious and world renowned Vampires Archives. Coffins, the third volume in the mass market series, contains some of the best of the best of vampire fiction. Including Harlan Ellison, Robert Bloch, Edgar Allan Poe, and F. Paul Wilson, it takes its listeners deep inside the crypts of the living dead, in all their supernatural splendor.

Four kids decide to start a clubhouse in an old abandoned office at the edge of town. Little did they know that it really was the old office of Scrooge and Marley and now Marley has come back with lessons for them all. They just have to find out what it is that he's trying to teach them....

Proactive tax planning for 2025 and beyond. This book is for business owners who would like to better protect what they have created, pay less tax, increase cash flow and enjoy more life. A lot of tax professionals are compliance focused rather than planning focused. As such they may not be looking at ways to improve your future but rather focused on accounting for the past. As an entrepreneur you are always focused on the future and looking to optimize your business and its value.

Börse für Einsteiger - Wie auch Sie endlich Ihren Weg zu Reichtum und finanzieller Unabhängigkeit starten Möchten Sie ohne viel Aufwand und mit wenig Risiko am Börsenmarkt handeln und investieren und dabei wie von selbst ein Vermögen aufbauen? Wollen Sie mit Aktienhandel erfolgreich werden, hatten aber bisher zu viel Angst vor Verlusten? Würden Sie gerne schnell und einfach finanzielle Freiheit erlangen und schon bald ein erfülltes Leben führen, bei dem Sie sich keine Gedanken mehr über Geld machen müssen? Dann ist dieser Ratgeber genau das, was Sie gesucht haben.

Get ready for a wild ride through an alternate universe of music in Rock & Roll Nightmares: Parallel Lines. These short stories, written by award-winning and bestselling authors, cover everything from hilarious antics to deep reflections, all set in a music world that's not quite what you remember. What ties them together? Each tale takes a real rock star's story and spins it in a whole new direction.

When Art Gibson's collie, Ginger, goes out of control, barking and digging at Dead Man's Hill, Art makes a chilling discovery: someone is trapped inside. Alive. Once rescued, the man himself is even stranger. Naked and unable to speak, he is taken to the hospital. As he recovers from an unknown shock, the fate of an entire universe is at stake.

Richard Strange's 'A Mighty Big If' event at The Crypt, St Martin in the Fields, London. Writer and adventurer Richard regularly staged entertaining and illuminating conversations with major cultural figures. Robert talks to Richard Strange, offering a rare and personal insight into to his exceptional life.

Jenny’s life shattered within the grip of the Second Alliance. She had no choice but to flee the occupation of River’s Edge. After the escape, Jenny and her friends find refuge with another community - one just outside the influence of the Second Alliance. With a fresh start, she finally discovers her purpose in the world after the apocalypse. But not everything is as it seems. Unknown to Jenny, dark promises have been made that threaten her freedom. Will she uncover the plot in time to save herself? To save her friends? Or will she meet the same fate as others before her?

Belfast, début des années 1990. La ville vit au rythme des slogans de haine tracés sur les murs de briques, des bombes, des assassinats. Pourtant, au cœur de l'incendie, le quotidien s'obstine. Ici, on a appris à faire abstraction. Alors comme partout quand on a vingt, trente ans, on trafique la misère, on tombe amoureux, on s'oublie, on boit beaucoup, on se charrie, on retombe amoureux et on s'invente d'autres vies.

In our rapidly-changing world of "social media", everyday people are more and more able to sort themselves into social groups based on finer and finer criteria. In the near future of Robert Charles Wilson's The Affinities, this process is supercharged by new analytic technologies - genetic, brain-mapping, behavioral.

The epic climax of the Magic Time saga finds former lawyer turned visionary leader Cal Griffin continuing his quest across the changed face of America, where machines no longer run and magic holds sway. Accompanied by his loyal band of followers, fierce warrior Colleen Brooks, expatriate Russian physician Doc Lysenko, and bipolar street wizard Herman "Goldie" Goldman, Cal follows a trail of clues he hopes will lead him to the Source of the Change that overthrew the world.

The long-awaited memoir by the late, much-lauded theater and visual artist Robert Wilson Robert Wilson was a driving force in the avant-garde art and theater worlds for half a century: He was the creative mind behind the seminal Einstein on the Beach (1976), among dozens of other original works...

During the five full years of his presidency (1964 - 1968), Lyndon Johnson initiated a breathtaking array of domestic policies and programs, including such landmarks as the Civil Rights Act, Head Start, Food Stamps, Medicare and Medicaid, the Immigration Reform Act, the Water Quality Act, the Voting Rights Act, Social Security reform, and Fair Housing.

The future of experience is digital...even in death. No one knows this better than Ray Garret. In a world where the human brain can connect directly to the Internet, human beings become the target of a mass-murdering computer virus. Ray's an Antivii agent in charge of tracking down the source of digi-human viruses. When a recorded experience from his dead wife is left for him, Ray has no choice but to play the file, changing his life forever.

Robert Dick Wilson firmly believed—and still believes passionately—that the textual and historical controversies surrounding the Bible should be grounded in objective, clearly established facts rather than subjective opinions. He dedicated himself to this mission, undertaking exhaustive and meticulous work to achieve his goal. Join us as we explore his unwavering commitment to scholarly rigor. - Summary by Philip E. Howard

“Robert Wilson’s Barnum, the first full-dress biography in twenty years, eschews clichés for a more nuanced story…It is a life for our times, and the biography Barnum deserves.” —The Wall Street Journal P.T. Barnum is the greatest showman the world has ever seen. As a creator of the...

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Listen to My Wisdom Breathes without trying to know what you’re hearing to allow yourself the freedom to go on a journey of imaginative enlightenment that opens your adventurer’s eyes to having fun. My Wisdom Breathes is written in the first person with minimal punctuation, politically incorrect and grammatically improper, and written to discharge and soar you out of your past to experience your nu now. This is a book written to be carried with you wherever you go, and when you are experiencing a bad day, you can start at any time and expand out of your bad day.